China is playing very intelligently. On one hand they want to show that they don't condone North Korea's actions and that they still support the non-proliferation treaty. On the other hand, North Korea is in such a strategic place. It is the only barrier between the US troops in South Korea and China. Obviously China would like to prevent North and South Korea from uniting, and the current situation is a step in the direction that China approves of. On the other hand, while everybody is watching North Korea, China can quietly move its prior claims towards Taiwan.
The Chinese are smart and know that they can crush North Korea if they want to (economically speaking), so they let them loose just as long as they are playing the music that China wants to hear. The rest is just verbiage.
I was ambivalent on this until I read the word "Intercept". So basically this new layer sits between the browser and the Intratubes and rewrites pages according to some predetermined criteria. Now there are two options: either they ship the signatures of new exploits to me (via an update) or the layer is on their side (like a proxy).
In the first case: why not ship the actual updates? Otherwise, how would they guarantee that Grandma will update the signatures? Maybe they will need another layer between the new layer and the Tubes, so that the new new layer will rewrite the pages in case the old new layer is not updated. This is not very sensible...
On the other hand, if they host the layer on their side, clearly I am not interested in sharing this information with MS. Either way, I don't see how it will work.
Only if we are lucky. The way things are going, next thing you know NSA will be keeping track on how often you make love to your girlfriend while Google is showing the relevant condom ads.
I have been using such a service for about 3 years. Works great. One caveat though: the actual limit on the virtual card may be 10% higher than the one that you request. My bank adds it because it thinks that I will forget to add the shipping charge and the number will "bounce". Just something to keep in mind. I am not sure if all banks do it.
Oh, come on. Look at the reflection (upper left corner).
They used a freaking point-and-shoot to take a picture of the beast. The least they could have done is bring out a 1Ds MkII if not a Hassie or a Mamya.
I may be misunderstanding your point, but we currently DO have the ability to capture 12 bits per chanel. Of course, if you are shooting JPEGs then you already limit the bits to 8 per chanel. If shoot RAW the camera stores 12 bits/chanel and if you convert to TIFF it embeds them in 16 bits/chanel for a true 36 bit image (inside 48-bit space).
Going up to 16 would be a nice thing, but as far as I am concerned, 12 is more than enough. Sure, there are situations when I can see posterization or other nasty artifacts that would be ameliorated if I had more information to work with, but these are few and with careful shooting technique could be avoided. On the other hand, what I would like to see is an improvement in the dynamic range (currently 8-9 stops, almost on par with slide film) and in the noise/sensitivity department (currently 3200 ISO on the 20D gives very little noise if exposed properly).
However, personally as a photographer I am quite happy with 8MP and don't really care for more than, say, 20 MP. After that we start hitting the resolution limit of the lenses and going further will be too expensive for little or no benefit.
In fact, that makes me wonder, how do they measure basic attributes like weight, volume, speed over there in space.
It is not a huge mystery. Weight you can measure using inertia or angular acceleration. Measuring volume doesn't require gravity--either calculate it from the dimensions (eg. measuring the volume of a fridge of a microwave) or if it is a tank, you can fill it up with water or a known volume of gas and measure the pressure. Speed is the hardest, because you need a frame of reference. In geostationary orbit you can calculate it based on your height above the surface. If you are travelling from the earth to the moon, you can use radio signal delay to measure linear velocity (same principle as a radar) or Doppler shifts.
I, for one, welcome our oxygen yielding overlords!
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I say good for NASA. They are finally starting to realize that science can be done outside the government laboratories too. An (academic-type) researcher wastes plenty of time begging for money, writing grants and often balancing a teaching load. In industry, on the other hand, you worry less about budgets and more about what you are trying to achieve and how to achieve it. There is a flip side as well--in academia you are free to work on pretty much anything you like, while in industry you work on whatever your manager wants you to work. In the happy case when your interests and the company's interests coincide, you are only limited by your skills and your knowledge.
Space One proved that a competition with a good incentive can produce results faster than state sponsored research. I hope the trend will continue.
This is not what QM says. There are pairs of properties that are linked by Heisenburg's Uncertainty principle. Say, you have a particle that is moving in some direction. If you measure with infinite precision (that is, 100% accuracy) the momentum of the particle, you have exactly zero information about the position. It may be in Zanzibar or on the moon, or right next to you, but you will never know. The same applies for energy and time, and a few other pairs. QM simply says that we may not know everything about any system at the same time.
While I agree with you that the title is convoluted, I disagree that we can predict evolution reliably. As you said, we need access to "life-and-death" variables, but which ones are they? Can we predict the viability of a new strain by looking at the molecular structure? Should we look at it at level of individual atoms? Tissues, organs? Even defining what is alive is near damned impossible.
These issues are not specific only to this type of research. I am a scientist myself (actually, I am from Rice University as well) and we often forget that at best we can do stochastic analysis and give probabilistic predictions. Unfortunately, if Quantum Mechanics gives a correct model of the world, we will never be able to predict anything with 100% certainty even if we hold 100% of the information about the initial state.
Hmm, you have a good point. We don't know about the safety record of the contraption. I am sure somewhere there is a statistic about how many people are injured as a direct result of using a wheel chair. It may turn out that the new thingy is safer, like the airplane is safer than a car, on the average.
I don't know...if a plane crashes, there is high probability that everybody will die. If a car crashes, chances are everybody will survive. Each one has its uses. Nevertheless, I see your point and I agree that we need more info before we can pass a judgement.
When this contraption fails (because it will, inevitably), I don't want to be the one caught under it. A wheelchair may be inconvenient, but at least will not break your neck in case of a mechanical failure. And if the battery goes dead, a wheelchair can be moved using hands or somebody can push it. If this thing looses power, you are pretty much stuck.
He says that such a solution is hard to implement on Cisco, and would be too CPU intensive.
FTFA: "Filtering the D-Link packets requires inspection of fields which are not simple to implement in Cisco routers, and in particular such filtering seems to send all packets on the interface through the CPU instead of fast switching, so ingress filtering the packets at the ingress of AS1835 is totally out of the question."
That, the the priviledge to have your content indexed, searched, and linked to your other Google accounts (gmail, adwords, analytics).
No thanks. I think I will skip on this one.
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Well, you are partly right.
China is playing very intelligently. On one hand they want to show that they don't condone North Korea's actions and that they still support the non-proliferation treaty. On the other hand, North Korea is in such a strategic place. It is the only barrier between the US troops in South Korea and China. Obviously China would like to prevent North and South Korea from uniting, and the current situation is a step in the direction that China approves of. On the other hand, while everybody is watching North Korea, China can quietly move its prior claims towards Taiwan.
The Chinese are smart and know that they can crush North Korea if they want to (economically speaking), so they let them loose just as long as they are playing the music that China wants to hear. The rest is just verbiage.
Me too. It was only one time. It meant nothing to me, I swear!
I only hope that the concerts will not be broadcast from the profiles of 400 million users simultaneously.
Obviously not. Here you have to insert the line breaks yourself.
Now all we need is the default password and somebody who can reprogram it. Imagine: you request a Nokia 3120 and it dispenses a Motorola Razr.
In the first case: why not ship the actual updates? Otherwise, how would they guarantee that Grandma will update the signatures? Maybe they will need another layer between the new layer and the Tubes, so that the new new layer will rewrite the pages in case the old new layer is not updated. This is not very sensible...
On the other hand, if they host the layer on their side, clearly I am not interested in sharing this information with MS. Either way, I don't see how it will work.
On second thought... nevermind.
I have been using such a service for about 3 years. Works great. One caveat though: the actual limit on the virtual card may be 10% higher than the one that you request. My bank adds it because it thinks that I will forget to add the shipping charge and the number will "bounce". Just something to keep in mind. I am not sure if all banks do it.
Did you mean you googled him or you Googled him?
I think you are wrong. There is no such scene in the original Dune or the first two sequels.
Oh, come on. Look at the reflection (upper left corner).
They used a freaking point-and-shoot to take a picture of the beast. The least they could have done is bring out a 1Ds MkII if not a Hassie or a Mamya.
I may be misunderstanding your point, but we currently DO have the ability to capture 12 bits per chanel. Of course, if you are shooting JPEGs then you already limit the bits to 8 per chanel. If shoot RAW the camera stores 12 bits/chanel and if you convert to TIFF it embeds them in 16 bits/chanel for a true 36 bit image (inside 48-bit space).
Going up to 16 would be a nice thing, but as far as I am concerned, 12 is more than enough. Sure, there are situations when I can see posterization or other nasty artifacts that would be ameliorated if I had more information to work with, but these are few and with careful shooting technique could be avoided. On the other hand, what I would like to see is an improvement in the dynamic range (currently 8-9 stops, almost on par with slide film) and in the noise/sensitivity department (currently 3200 ISO on the 20D gives very little noise if exposed properly).
However, personally as a photographer I am quite happy with 8MP and don't really care for more than, say, 20 MP. After that we start hitting the resolution limit of the lenses and going further will be too expensive for little or no benefit.
NetFlix will. For $17.99 a month.
"Honey, I just bought a brand new air conditioning unit for the TV room."
Unfortunately, only works in the winter...
Hahaha, this is awesome ;-).
It is not a huge mystery. Weight you can measure using inertia or angular acceleration. Measuring volume doesn't require gravity--either calculate it from the dimensions (eg. measuring the volume of a fridge of a microwave) or if it is a tank, you can fill it up with water or a known volume of gas and measure the pressure. Speed is the hardest, because you need a frame of reference. In geostationary orbit you can calculate it based on your height above the surface. If you are travelling from the earth to the moon, you can use radio signal delay to measure linear velocity (same principle as a radar) or Doppler shifts.
Space One proved that a competition with a good incentive can produce results faster than state sponsored research. I hope the trend will continue.
This is not what QM says. There are pairs of properties that are linked by Heisenburg's Uncertainty principle. Say, you have a particle that is moving in some direction. If you measure with infinite precision (that is, 100% accuracy) the momentum of the particle, you have exactly zero information about the position. It may be in Zanzibar or on the moon, or right next to you, but you will never know. The same applies for energy and time, and a few other pairs. QM simply says that we may not know everything about any system at the same time.
These issues are not specific only to this type of research. I am a scientist myself (actually, I am from Rice University as well) and we often forget that at best we can do stochastic analysis and give probabilistic predictions. Unfortunately, if Quantum Mechanics gives a correct model of the world, we will never be able to predict anything with 100% certainty even if we hold 100% of the information about the initial state.
I don't know...if a plane crashes, there is high probability that everybody will die. If a car crashes, chances are everybody will survive. Each one has its uses. Nevertheless, I see your point and I agree that we need more info before we can pass a judgement.
When this contraption fails (because it will, inevitably), I don't want to be the one caught under it. A wheelchair may be inconvenient, but at least will not break your neck in case of a mechanical failure. And if the battery goes dead, a wheelchair can be moved using hands or somebody can push it. If this thing looses power, you are pretty much stuck.
Yeah, but the Police were in clear violation of the DMCA ;-).
He says that such a solution is hard to implement on Cisco, and would be too CPU intensive. FTFA: "Filtering the D-Link packets requires inspection of fields which are not simple to implement in Cisco routers, and in particular such filtering seems to send all packets on the interface through the CPU instead of fast switching, so ingress filtering the packets at the ingress of AS1835 is totally out of the question."
This is really funny ;-)!
/ emacs user
That, the the priviledge to have your content indexed, searched, and linked to your other Google accounts (gmail, adwords, analytics). No thanks. I think I will skip on this one.