What the hell? The test had a sample size of one, just one. Obviously it had no control group to compare it with. It is just an anecdote. Not an experiment, it can not be used to advance any hypothesis. And you find fault with some itsy bitsy thing like throwing it in the freezer? This stupid thing does not deserve a posting in slashdot. May be in some mid-morning talk shows where bored housewives gasp at the idea of not washing jeans for 15 months. It definitely does not deserve your response. And stupidest thing in all this is me taking time to write a reply in the middle of my work day.
When mailing it out, Netflix pays for conveying the DVD from its warehouse to the customer and the return to the warehouse.
When streaming it out, the customer pays for conveying the content by paying the ISP the access fees. Essentially Netflix is just shifting the cost of transmission to the customer that is all. If people pay for the postage Netflix can ship DVDs for 2 cents too.
That strange and exotic metal Cerium, is it at least cheaper than gold? How rare is this? Admittedly it sucks to have our oil stuck under their sand, but trading it for our Cerium stuck in their jungle is not a better solution either.
Often times the people who bitch about taxes are the first one to demand lots of government services. Tea partiers moving around scooters paid for by medicare, railing against government take over of healthcare, people who live on welfare urging people to throw bricks through the windows of congresscritters to protest against taxes, people who demand government clean up the beaches when their free market capitalistic company makes a boo-boo, and demand compensation for profits lost on top of that...
First mention one thing that you benefit that is funded by the government, then offer to give it up, else you are just another selfish fellow shifting costs and burdens to others. There is nothing wrong with that, nor is it illegal, but just stop pretending to be a patriot or a freedom lover.
First of all, no lawyer is going to accept 33% of minimum wage as the contingency fee. So any such punishment would be fought tooth and nail by the ambulance chasers to prevent a precedence. So the counsel to the plaintiff would not seek it.
The victim does not care for the justness of punishment meted out to the perps. They want compensation, only when compensation is impossible they will settle for revenge. So the plaintiff does not seek it either.
The defendant would rather walk away free and let some one else bear the loss. So they will actively collude with the plaintiff in finding grounds for shifting the liability to someone else with deep pockets. So the defendant does not seek it either.
Our legal system is not designed with a Solomon-mode that deliver justice over the objections and obstructions of both the plaintiff and the defendant.
Prions are strange in the sense, they are almost on the dividing line between living and non living. They have no DNA/RNA, no need to breath or even to eat, but they replicate that makes them different from venom and poison. How long do the exist in prion form left to themselves I wonder. Can they exist in some dried powder form forever? Or do they spontaneously disintegrate into constituent compounds?
Leather tanning industry has some really weird mix of chemicals and some of them involve brain matter. Hope the left over prions on the leather jackets degrade or wear off.
The root cause of the problem is that, most port authorities and countries prohibit a merchant marine ship from having arms on board. So cargo ship with machine guns would not be permitted to dock on most harbors and ports in the world. That is the reason for these ships from being armed. These guys are coming up with stupid weapons like water cannons, beamed sound waves, and now lasers, because they would not be called "arms" by the ports.
Simpler solution would be to have a ship or a platform offshore, just on the international waters as close to the port as possible to act as an armory. Cargo ships check in their weapons into the armory, sail into the port, unload, reload, return, pick up their weapons and go their way. Between the armory and the port, a distance of about 10 or 20 miles, the Navy or the Coast Guard of the country should provide escort and patrol services with destroyers and cutters.
That would be a sane and cheap solution understandable to one and all. All the news reports about gizmos like laser beams really have an entirely different purpose. Some company somewhere making a key component of such a system is looking for investment or begging to be sold out. The PR firms step in, come up with such "news" stories and create some media interest. Once the company got bought out or got its investment goals met, these news reports also would melt away like fog.
The Tragedy of the Commons. Also known as the Race to the Bottom.
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These things it very difficult to reproduce the defects. Of course so many of the defects are caused by stupid things like uninitialized memory access, freeing freed memory and such dumb mistakes. And these tools would help you find such bugs quicker and make a more reliable product. But the developers have a strong aversion to tools that break things. The attitude is, "yes, yes, it is really stupid to have used variable xxx without initializing it, but the code does not crash and I install this tool and it crashes the code, so it is the fault of the tool".
And on top of it you make bugs difficult to reproduce, they just hate it. Most people debug by stepping through code and setting break points. If the code path is randomized in anyway these developers get all flustered. None of them would invest in writing sanity check and audit methods.
How are dogs any better? From everything I've seen, they will do whatever gives them the most treats.
Compared to most animals who either run away from humans or try to attack the humans or they ignore the humans, dogs' understanding that "If I do what that human likes I might get a reward" is an intellectual achievement orders of magnitude superior to other species.
My cats look directly and intently at my face every day, and it's obvious from the circumstances that they recognize that a mind with intent is attached to those eyes and they're eager to figure out what that intent might be (and whether it might adversely affect them).
Dogs you mean. No other animal can beat dogs when it comes to reading the human mind. Most animals don't even know to look at where we are pointing at. Dogs have evolved with humans for the last 30,000 years. I posted earlier the theory about dog-human interaction could be the one that led to sedentism that was the precursor to the domestication of plants and agriculture. Someone asked for references. See Nicholas Wade's book "Before the Dawn" for a good over view of "The Great Leap Forward". (But the main thrust of that book was building inheritance trees of the Y Chromosome, the mitochondrial DNA, DNA of the body louse, the tree of languages etc and showing how they all agree with one another and gives us clues about fixing crucial dates before the recorded history. For example lactose tolerance and cattle domestication in west-central Europe about 8000 years ago. Or the correlation between horse based civilizations and Indo-Aryan language family. )
Gone is the days that typical emails would travel from your computer to the other persons directly, or at most via their local ISP.
Emails were going from computer to computer directly? I am not sure you are fully aware of how email is being transmitted. Email always went through buffering and spooling and in the early days it used to be buffered for quite a while. Even today mail travels through many routers and sometimes gets buffered and relayed later as part of traffic management by the backbone providers. And it was always between your mail server and the addressee's mail server. Both sender's and the receiver's computers were considered clients to their respective servers.
Thanks for the citation. The most striking thing about the device is that it is non destructive and is reading one DNA/RNA strand at a time one base pair at a time. When you have that level of non destructive access, we could do manipulation at base pair level. Initial break through would be in cutting out the head or tail of a strand by ramping up the tunneling to cut the strand. Then at some point they could come up with devices to snipe out a section of DNA out or splicing DNA from two different strands. At that point we might see genetic engg snipping out a gene from one organism and insert it into another organism.
OK, Take a Popsicle stick, scrape it inside your cheek and send the DNA sample to them. They will analyze your DNA and tell you the source of the "anxiety about source less news story syndrome". Hurry, if you are the first, they will name the disease after you.
In mathematics the reputation of Wittgenstein or Tractatus would not matter at all. The argument, "A great mind, everyone agreed that the mind was great, said this, so we should give this saying more credence" does not hold water.
In mathematics it is the truthiness of the statement creates "credit" and then we search back in history to find who said it first and then we give the credit to him/her and that is how reputation/respect is created. It flows back in time. Credibility accrues from the statement to the speaker.
In philosophy a bunch of people agree that some one was/is a great philosopher and so they give more value to a statement from such person. The credibility flows from the speaker to the statement.
IA day later he came and shown me how he derived an equation that could simply solve all problems of this type. He also generalised it to allow buffer sizes that were complex numbers. The first part was very useful to me, the second absolutely useless -
The joke is on you pal! I just realized modeling the buffer sizes as complex numbers would reduce it to a function that takes only integer values in real space but is actually "n" times differentiable in complex space. Now I have an intriguing and trivial proof of Fermat's last theorem, just this comment box is a too small to write it down.
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What the hell? The test had a sample size of one, just one. Obviously it had no control group to compare it with. It is just an anecdote. Not an experiment, it can not be used to advance any hypothesis. And you find fault with some itsy bitsy thing like throwing it in the freezer? This stupid thing does not deserve a posting in slashdot. May be in some mid-morning talk shows where bored housewives gasp at the idea of not washing jeans for 15 months. It definitely does not deserve your response. And stupidest thing in all this is me taking time to write a reply in the middle of my work day.
So why don't you just spray it with some deodorant and skip washing?
When streaming it out, the customer pays for conveying the content by paying the ISP the access fees. Essentially Netflix is just shifting the cost of transmission to the customer that is all. If people pay for the postage Netflix can ship DVDs for 2 cents too.
That strange and exotic metal Cerium, is it at least cheaper than gold? How rare is this? Admittedly it sucks to have our oil stuck under their sand, but trading it for our Cerium stuck in their jungle is not a better solution either.
Oh, yeah and all it takes is a stupid cellphone camera to take screen shots of the screen! How is this security hole going to be fixed?
First mention one thing that you benefit that is funded by the government, then offer to give it up, else you are just another selfish fellow shifting costs and burdens to others. There is nothing wrong with that, nor is it illegal, but just stop pretending to be a patriot or a freedom lover.
The victim does not care for the justness of punishment meted out to the perps. They want compensation, only when compensation is impossible they will settle for revenge. So the plaintiff does not seek it either.
The defendant would rather walk away free and let some one else bear the loss. So they will actively collude with the plaintiff in finding grounds for shifting the liability to someone else with deep pockets. So the defendant does not seek it either.
Our legal system is not designed with a Solomon-mode that deliver justice over the objections and obstructions of both the plaintiff and the defendant.
Leather tanning industry has some really weird mix of chemicals and some of them involve brain matter. Hope the left over prions on the leather jackets degrade or wear off.
If not, how long will it be before one is created to document Wikispoofs?
What Verizon promised to give up to get iPhone? Most likely dropping or at least hobbling android. But no one would say how soon or how much.
You are correct. The sentence went through several iterations but ended up malformed. Sorry.
Simpler solution would be to have a ship or a platform offshore, just on the international waters as close to the port as possible to act as an armory. Cargo ships check in their weapons into the armory, sail into the port, unload, reload, return, pick up their weapons and go their way. Between the armory and the port, a distance of about 10 or 20 miles, the Navy or the Coast Guard of the country should provide escort and patrol services with destroyers and cutters.
That would be a sane and cheap solution understandable to one and all. All the news reports about gizmos like laser beams really have an entirely different purpose. Some company somewhere making a key component of such a system is looking for investment or begging to be sold out. The PR firms step in, come up with such "news" stories and create some media interest. Once the company got bought out or got its investment goals met, these news reports also would melt away like fog.
What the Good Lord Algorithmic Efficiency Improvements giveth, the Evil Lord Real-Time-Virus-Scanner taketh away.
The Tragedy of the Commons. Also known as the Race to the Bottom.
And on top of it you make bugs difficult to reproduce, they just hate it. Most people debug by stepping through code and setting break points. If the code path is randomized in anyway these developers get all flustered. None of them would invest in writing sanity check and audit methods.
How are dogs any better? From everything I've seen, they will do whatever gives them the most treats.
Compared to most animals who either run away from humans or try to attack the humans or they ignore the humans, dogs' understanding that "If I do what that human likes I might get a reward" is an intellectual achievement orders of magnitude superior to other species.
My cats look directly and intently at my face every day, and it's obvious from the circumstances that they recognize that a mind with intent is attached to those eyes and they're eager to figure out what that intent might be (and whether it might adversely affect them).
Dogs you mean. No other animal can beat dogs when it comes to reading the human mind. Most animals don't even know to look at where we are pointing at. Dogs have evolved with humans for the last 30,000 years. I posted earlier the theory about dog-human interaction could be the one that led to sedentism that was the precursor to the domestication of plants and agriculture. Someone asked for references. See Nicholas Wade's book "Before the Dawn" for a good over view of "The Great Leap Forward". (But the main thrust of that book was building inheritance trees of the Y Chromosome, the mitochondrial DNA, DNA of the body louse, the tree of languages etc and showing how they all agree with one another and gives us clues about fixing crucial dates before the recorded history. For example lactose tolerance and cattle domestication in west-central Europe about 8000 years ago. Or the correlation between horse based civilizations and Indo-Aryan language family. )
Gone is the days that typical emails would travel from your computer to the other persons directly, or at most via their local ISP.
Emails were going from computer to computer directly? I am not sure you are fully aware of how email is being transmitted. Email always went through buffering and spooling and in the early days it used to be buffered for quite a while. Even today mail travels through many routers and sometimes gets buffered and relayed later as part of traffic management by the backbone providers. And it was always between your mail server and the addressee's mail server. Both sender's and the receiver's computers were considered clients to their respective servers.
Just find the Verizon/ATT/Sprint/ executive with a smug face and a sheepish grin. He did it.
... publish the secret salt bits added to the hash to sign the note digitally and we will be back to square one.
It is scary.
OK, Take a Popsicle stick, scrape it inside your cheek and send the DNA sample to them. They will analyze your DNA and tell you the source of the "anxiety about source less news story syndrome". Hurry, if you are the first, they will name the disease after you.
In mathematics it is the truthiness of the statement creates "credit" and then we search back in history to find who said it first and then we give the credit to him/her and that is how reputation/respect is created. It flows back in time. Credibility accrues from the statement to the speaker.
In philosophy a bunch of people agree that some one was/is a great philosopher and so they give more value to a statement from such person. The credibility flows from the speaker to the statement.
IA day later he came and shown me how he derived an equation that could simply solve all problems of this type. He also generalised it to allow buffer sizes that were complex numbers. The first part was very useful to me, the second absolutely useless -
The joke is on you pal! I just realized modeling the buffer sizes as complex numbers would reduce it to a function that takes only integer values in real space but is actually "n" times differentiable in complex space. Now I have an intriguing and trivial proof of Fermat's last theorem, just this comment box is a too small to write it down.
But it is actually 59. 58 th is the Kindle metal hooks. 59th is slashdot posting 57 lamest moments before the year is complete.