As much as it may astound us, even CIA agents are real people with real feelings and interests. (Well, to the extent that Buffy epsidoe music lyrics can count as a "real interest"...)
That's all very interesting. Someone's probably going to follow up with a mention of some Fourier/Nyquist theorem about the sufficient conditions for reproduction of a sound.
But I'm just hoping someone does the same double blind test, but for wine, so we can get connoisseurs to shut the **** up about the soil quality of where the grapes for their wine were grown...
Yeah, but if you make the source open, and charge for it, and restrict (through the software license) the user from redistributing or modifying, Bruce Perens will bitch that that's not really "open source software". If you explain that "open source" simply means "the source is open", he will claim you're an astroturfing corporate shill.
See, the reason I wanted to figure that out is because I'm interested in nomenclature generally. (Or interface design, even more generally.) I figure every standardized term has to have an opposite.
For example, at my job, I learned that the term for the label on a part on a drawing that gives all of its specifications, is termed the "hard call-out". Well, the first thing I thought was, "well, what would a soft call-out be?" I then found that often there would be a part label that didn't give any information except what you'd need to find the hard call-out. So I suggested that those should be called "soft call-outs". (Unfortunately, decades of aircraft design standards don't get changed because of my clever suggestions, so to have any chance of being understood, I have to call them "part references".) Lazier companies sometimes had even sketchier call-outs, where they'd point to a part and just say its general name, without even a number I could use to look it up elsewhere. I called those "liquid call-outs" and then even vaguer ones would be "vapor call-outs".
Yes, you're right. Legal tender laws are kind of meaningless at this point, for the reason you just cited. After all, it's just as illegal to offer to redeem someone's apples for oranges 1:1, and then refuse to accept apples.
So what's the purpose then? Well, when they were originally passed, the US government was changing the definition of what consituted a "dollar" and therefore, what was a valid means of satisfying contracts. This had the effect of expropriation (someone expecting a note redeemable for a gold got a note redeemable for nothing except what the market might bear) and that respect, I agree it was an injustice.
But now, the dollar has such high liquidity and stability that most people operate in it anyway. Plus, they know what's going on from the beginning, so if they're not comfortable accepting dollars, they can simply arrange contracts that way in advance. Any injustices due to legal tender laws have already happened and people today can easily work around them.
A little common sense would indicate that the default billing option should be an electronic version, with the option of requesting a hard copy of the detailed billing records
LOL! You underestimate the technology aversion of the median AT&T customer. I bet a lot of them still call their salary a "paycheck"...
Hm, if milibits existed, what would they be? Tiny clues to discern whether the bit is 1 or 0? Like, milibit #1 says "1 if milibit 528 is 0, 0 otherwise" and only after collecting all 1000 milibits could you resolve whether the bit is 1 or 0?
I'll leave that to the Claude Shannons of the world...
Given that this supposed to be "science", and publicly-funded at that; and given the policy implications, wouldn't it be reasonable to expect that it should be possible for anyone to download the most state-of-the-art model, with full source code and traceability of all input assumptions, and run it themselves?
I've been campaigning for this for years. Ideally, I'd like to see a true a la carte system that let me pick as many or as few channels as I liked, but I'd accept a 5, 10 or 15 channel plan too.
Yes, and here's what would happen if you got what you're asking for:
1) Cable company transmits to you sufficient data for all channels, but "locks" the ones you didn't pick out. 2) You and others gripe that this is DRM, greedy, &c. 3) Someone starts a website showing how to unlock those channels. 4) Another good deed goes punished.
Oh, and:
tech/history/science/history channels
Don't you mean redundancy/tech/history/science/history/redundancy channels?;-)
Exactly. Scientists shouldn't hold firm to any theories of global climate change until they can *repeatedly* test the impact of human-induced CO2 emissions on *several* copies of the earth.
Hm. All I can say is, those alternate dimensions or universes are going to be PRETTY pissed to find out we've been using THEIR computational resources to crack the encryption on some angsty email a geek sent to the first girl to date him in years.
I think you're right... but that would basically mean that e.g. all forensic software they use must be open source. All DNA programs, image manipulation, etc.
(Okay, okay, technically not all. I would argue that if they use software simply to "filter through garbage", and verify the positives through OSS, they shouldn't have to reveal the source code of the filter. For example, if they have a picture of the perp, and they scan the DMV photo database with facial recognition to check for suspects, and then a human detective looks at the output, judges it to look like the perp, interviews him, and gains probable cause, they shouldn't have to reveal the facial recognition source code, since the only lead it generated was due to the detective's *judgment* that it was a match.)
Do you understand what the Gideon's organization's goal is? Do you understand why it wouldn't make sense for them to charge for the Bibles? Do you understand why it would nevertheless make sense for them to have bake sales to raise funds? Do you understand how that situation is analagous to the ARC and "every home having an emergency kit"?
The Wikipedia article says that physicist David Deutsch says that Shor's Algorithm, which solves an NP-whatever problem in (log n)^3 time, works because it draws computational power from another universe.
Yes, but everyone recognizes that's a big giveaway to farms, including corporate ones. Very few people are dumb emough to think, "omg liek teh farmerzor wud charj 2 much 4 teh food if we didn't have teh subsidiezorz lOl"
I agreeth with your merriment regaurding such tinkery. I myself saweth the play "InfoTrek" about the 21st century, in which a character, upon wishing to lern of a song he herd a few worrdes fromme, simple provided those words to his "computer" and shortly thereafter, generated an image sequence of a bande performing that song! I neerly interrupted the play with my laughter!
Slashdot Mirror
s/of a pity/forseeable
(or do the spaces screw with regex?)
As much as it may astound us, even CIA agents are real people with real feelings and interests. (Well, to the extent that Buffy epsidoe music lyrics can count as a "real interest"...)
Since I haven't been in one...
Isn't this kind of hard to enforce, now that cameras are on every cell phone almost?
In fairness, George Lucas scratching his fully-exposed balls would have been an improvement over the Prequels.
That's all very interesting. Someone's probably going to follow up with a mention of some Fourier/Nyquist theorem about the sufficient conditions for reproduction of a sound.
But I'm just hoping someone does the same double blind test, but for wine, so we can get connoisseurs to shut the **** up about the soil quality of where the grapes for their wine were grown...
Yeah, but if you make the source open, and charge for it, and restrict (through the software license) the user from redistributing or modifying, Bruce Perens will bitch that that's not really "open source software". If you explain that "open source" simply means "the source is open", he will claim you're an astroturfing corporate shill.
That's where I'm confused, I guess.
Oh, glad you liked it! :-)
See, the reason I wanted to figure that out is because I'm interested in nomenclature generally. (Or interface design, even more generally.) I figure every standardized term has to have an opposite.
For example, at my job, I learned that the term for the label on a part on a drawing that gives all of its specifications, is termed the "hard call-out". Well, the first thing I thought was, "well, what would a soft call-out be?" I then found that often there would be a part label that didn't give any information except what you'd need to find the hard call-out. So I suggested that those should be called "soft call-outs". (Unfortunately, decades of aircraft design standards don't get changed because of my clever suggestions, so to have any chance of being understood, I have to call them "part references".) Lazier companies sometimes had even sketchier call-outs, where they'd point to a part and just say its general name, without even a number I could use to look it up elsewhere. I called those "liquid call-outs" and then even vaguer ones would be "vapor call-outs".
Yes, I'm a geek. Aren't we all?
Uh, what? You kind of have to be reaching to see anti-Semitism in it.
Oh, you said *William* Gibson...
Don't know if you're still following this, but...
Yes, you're right. Legal tender laws are kind of meaningless at this point, for the reason you just cited. After all, it's just as illegal to offer to redeem someone's apples for oranges 1:1, and then refuse to accept apples.
So what's the purpose then? Well, when they were originally passed, the US government was changing the definition of what consituted a "dollar" and therefore, what was a valid means of satisfying contracts. This had the effect of expropriation (someone expecting a note redeemable for a gold got a note redeemable for nothing except what the market might bear) and that respect, I agree it was an injustice.
But now, the dollar has such high liquidity and stability that most people operate in it anyway. Plus, they know what's going on from the beginning, so if they're not comfortable accepting dollars, they can simply arrange contracts that way in advance. Any injustices due to legal tender laws have already happened and people today can easily work around them.
And I want to thank you for not helping to turn Slashdot into a free advertising program for Apple.
:-)
Hey, as long as we're hallucinating, I might as well use the opportunity to compliment you
A little common sense would indicate that the default billing option should be an electronic version, with the option of requesting a hard copy of the detailed billing records
LOL! You underestimate the technology aversion of the median AT&T customer. I bet a lot of them still call their salary a "paycheck"...
Hm, if milibits existed, what would they be? Tiny clues to discern whether the bit is 1 or 0? Like, milibit #1 says "1 if milibit 528 is 0, 0 otherwise" and only after collecting all 1000 milibits could you resolve whether the bit is 1 or 0?
I'll leave that to the Claude Shannons of the world...
Whose payday?
How about the paydays of the jobs that have a high correlation with "too fucktarded to set up direct deposit"?
Hey hey hey -- I'm getting another surge of intuition: how about if we check if liquor sales surge on the days welfare checks arrive?
About that...
:-/
Given that this supposed to be "science", and publicly-funded at that; and given the policy implications, wouldn't it be reasonable to expect that it should be possible for anyone to download the most state-of-the-art model, with full source code and traceability of all input assumptions, and run it themselves?
I'm just askin, is all...
LOL Haven't laughed that hard in a while. This alone gets you on the elite "UbuntuDupe Friend" list.
I've been campaigning for this for years. Ideally, I'd like to see a true a la carte system that let me pick as many or as few channels as I liked, but I'd accept a 5, 10 or 15 channel plan too.
y channels? ;-)
Yes, and here's what would happen if you got what you're asking for:
1) Cable company transmits to you sufficient data for all channels, but "locks" the ones you didn't pick out.
2) You and others gripe that this is DRM, greedy, &c.
3) Someone starts a website showing how to unlock those channels.
4) Another good deed goes punished.
Oh, and:
tech/history/science/history channels
Don't you mean redundancy/tech/history/science/history/redundanc
Exactly. Scientists shouldn't hold firm to any theories of global climate change until they can *repeatedly* test the impact of human-induced CO2 emissions on *several* copies of the earth.
Hm. All I can say is, those alternate dimensions or universes are going to be PRETTY pissed to find out we've been using THEIR computational resources to crack the encryption on some angsty email a geek sent to the first girl to date him in years.
Yes, it could cause grave interference with obsolete, decaying businesses' profits.
Seriously, how long until some old monopolist gripes that "omg teh smutty intertubez data cud show up on ur TV by axident lol"
I think you're right... but that would basically mean that e.g. all forensic software they use must be open source. All DNA programs, image manipulation, etc.
(Okay, okay, technically not all. I would argue that if they use software simply to "filter through garbage", and verify the positives through OSS, they shouldn't have to reveal the source code of the filter. For example, if they have a picture of the perp, and they scan the DMV photo database with facial recognition to check for suspects, and then a human detective looks at the output, judges it to look like the perp, interviews him, and gains probable cause, they shouldn't have to reveal the facial recognition source code, since the only lead it generated was due to the detective's *judgment* that it was a match.)
Do you understand what the Gideon's organization's goal is? Do you understand why it wouldn't make sense for them to charge for the Bibles? Do you understand why it would nevertheless make sense for them to have bake sales to raise funds? Do you understand how that situation is analagous to the ARC and "every home having an emergency kit"?
Then what's the problem?
The Wikipedia article says that physicist David Deutsch says that Shor's Algorithm, which solves an NP-whatever problem in (log n)^3 time, works because it draws computational power from another universe.
Crank or no?
Gedankenexperiment: When you want to use German, and can't come up with a reason, Gedankenexperiment is for YOU! (tm)
Yes, but everyone recognizes that's a big giveaway to farms, including corporate ones. Very few people are dumb emough to think, "omg liek teh farmerzor wud charj 2 much 4 teh food if we didn't have teh subsidiezorz lOl"
Very honoroble Locster:
I agreeth with your merriment regaurding such tinkery. I myself saweth the play "InfoTrek" about the 21st century, in which a character, upon wishing to lern of a song he herd a few worrdes fromme, simple provided those words to his "computer" and shortly thereafter, generated an image sequence of a bande performing that song! I neerly interrupted the play with my laughter!