He's not necessarily saying that that's his opinion. For instance, the AIDS thing makes sense... out of a more full context. People should be allowed to not realize or ignore larger scope relevant to an argument. Hate speech laws essentially force you to ignore natural scoping of arguments.
For the life of me, "the wagon red" makes a lot less sense than "the red wagon", but I can see how learning one first would make the other seem odd.
I think it's probably more useful to say "the wagon red" because if you think about it like programming, you are specifying the idea from big picture to little picture and in a more specific way. The set of all things wagon is a lot smaller than the set of all things red, so your brain gets its "rendering" instructions in the proper order. Its a wagon that is red, not a red that's a wagon. Of course you could argue the other way around, but I think the required amount of processing would be less in the first case.
lol did anyone actually read this post? It's so full of groupthink with that one misspelling. It's obviously a troll. I'm not sure what kind of response he wanted, but he got a big one xD
If anything, I'm not surprised. Stick around someone long enough and you start to get sick of each other real fast. The fact that the adults have to care for the children and can't walk away makes it that much worse. People are people, I don't care what relationship they have. Some adults are real assholes too and can exploit familial connections in order to get their way at the expense of another.
Just because some people are family don't mean that some of your family isn't psycho either (or can't be driven to that point).
..but..but...think of the poor government agency! How will it generate the same amount of attention if it allows the winners to slip out of the spotlight! After all, there's a reason the lottery is called the stupid tax and publicity like that attracts stupid people.
I don't think people's main problem is the antidepressants, but merely that they are prescribed by doctors on a whim. For people that are simply unable to feel happy, the drugs make sense, but for normal people who might respond to therapy or simply taking initiative in their lives, they get doped up and suddenly feel better without making the substantial changes that would not necessitate the drugs in the first place. I think the reason/. has such an adverse reaction to the drugs is because the over medicated environment feels a lot like big brother saying, "Your life sucks? Keep working pay taxes. Take these pills to make yourself feel better about it." or something like that. It's also that some of those prescriptions come from doctors not taking enough time to fully evaluate and get to know the patient (which is not necessarily the doctor's fault, he's probably shortstaffed).
Well seeing as your natural skin conductance will be somewhere between 2 and 20 megaohms, if you want to raise your body temperature by 1 degree Celsius per second, that'd be 4.186 J/kg/s. Lets assume you're 80 Kg so thats 334.88 Watts. Heat dissipated is V^2/R, so assuming you're about 10 megaohms, you'd need a voltage source of about 18000 VDC arm to arm. Uh, enjoy?
But why would they care about a few scattered cases? I mean seriously. Encryption increases saving and loading times (probably insignificantly but still...). Do they just want to keep even the way the game saves your items and position blackboxed?
Why is superstition a superset of fiction all of a sudden?
Correction: SUBset of all fiction
A superstition is the belief that events are influenced by specific behaviors, without having a causal relationship. (wikipedia)
Superstitions are not provable, so you might as well call it fiction because I can generate any bullshit and say it predicts the future on the same basis. Everyone tells me to accept religion on faith, but the problem is the only reason I have to accept the religion is because other people tell me to. Doesn't that qualify as a superstition especially since the reason they chose to believe it is because other people told them to? I grant that someone could come to a realization by themselves, but it is very improbable that someone completely independent would come to realize the exact body of knowledge that is for instance one of the big three.
Religion does not become superstition unless and until you take the bizarre step of concluding that theology gives you information about physics.
Since we agree on the fact that religions describes things outside of the universe it does not affect physics... unless you start postulating things like miracle healing, god's divine protection, and other things that affect the physical universe. Then you may want to create a comprehensive theory that predicts those actions. Religion attempts to do that while simultaneously telling you you cannot know god's mind. Whee, what usefulness. Things like afterlife are clearly outside the purview of physics, but are these things?
Yes it is, because both are fictions you made up. "What is true?" relies on the same evidence of proof as someone who tells you a bullshit story: Either: "I made it up" or "Someone told me it was true". Something OUTSIDE the universe is BY DEFINITION not observable. If you can't observe it, you can't test it. So it becomes a game of make up a fun story that we'd all like to hear.
GAWD I feel the warm fuzzies tingling up my spine.
The trick is that the tax is usually related to the benefit directly. For instance, gasoline taxes are used to pay for your vaunted highway system.
Water and sanitation are paid for directly (IIRC you pay the water company on a per usage basis even if they are subsidized with income taxes). The thing is is that in this case we have a tax on an item to pay for a right that is still not a right. I'm kind of partial to the canadian viewpoint. If you tax people for copying materials because they will copy music, even the people that don't copy music, then they should all have the right to copy music.
To use a car analogy, imagine if I drove only offroad or on privately owned roads, but my gas was still taxed to pay for the public roads. This is the same situation, only we can't use the public roads now:-/
I foresee private organizations developing well used one time pad systems. Great, more unnecessary overhead for business. Thanks Mr. President for putting the fear of government back into us. PPPBBBBTTTTHHHH:P
That at first seems correct, but according to "A Modern Approach to Quantum Mechanics" by John H. Townsend, chapter 9 Section 3: Translational and Rotational Symmetry in the Two Body Problem: Relative and Center-of-Mass Coordinates:
"The natural coordinates for the two body problem when the Hamiltonian is of the form (9.26)* are relative coordinates r and the center-of-mass coordinates R, not the individual coordinates r_1 and r_2. The corresponding position operators are given by:
r = r_1 - r_2
R = (m_1r1 + m_2r_2)/(m_1+m_2)
END QUOTE (bottom of page 244 for the curious)
*[ H = (p_1)^2/2m_1 + (p_2)^2/2m_2 + V(|r_1+r_2|) H is the hamiltonian, p is the momentum operator for a given particle, m is the mass, r is the position and V is the potential energy function ]
The thing is I am inclined to agree with your assessment. I admit I suck at QM, but I also know that the COM is used in position space as shown by the above quote. Does anyone actually know what's going on?
Actually, you should probably just reverse the spin-spin interaction. The Electron and the Positron are the -->same-- mass so they actually orbit about a point in between them: the system center of mass. This is also true of regular atoms, but the proton is so much more massive that the COM is heavily shifted to the proton side.
Well the thing is that you don't need to find an arbitrary computer on the internet (like the next node wont be a US to Japan datalink), the next node would be something local or very close to that. I don't think we necessarily need to get it to 2ms. I bet if you had it at 4ms. It would just be like a retarded child.
In any case, why not just use college networks in the meantime. THEY are on the INET2 network:D
I'm not so sure. What is the nerve conduction velocity in the brain? If we could match or exceed it in the internet (ie super low ping), maybe each computer need only perform one short operation on each datum.
I think you're concentrating too hard on the implementation. The real system we are talking about is mechanical computation, and electronic computers are only the latest iteration in the series of optimizations.
So basically... the enemy knows the system. How do we beat it?
What if you have a program that looks at a text field and uses that text as a seed to generate the proper password and then replaces the field with the password - in a way that doesn't call a new onfocus or write to the key press stack. What if you implement your own keypress stack and force windows to use it? Is this even possible?
What else you could do is write a program that detects the phone home messages and then you could reverse engineer the way the key logging software operates. Rinse and repeat every week or two or better yet, set up an NPO that constantly works on this problem and releases bulletins on how to protect yourself.
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He's not necessarily saying that that's his opinion. For instance, the AIDS thing makes sense... out of a more full context. People should be allowed to not realize or ignore larger scope relevant to an argument. Hate speech laws essentially force you to ignore natural scoping of arguments.
That's an awesome explanation, I may have to go buy that book.
I think it's probably more useful to say "the wagon red" because if you think about it like programming, you are specifying the idea from big picture to little picture and in a more specific way. The set of all things wagon is a lot smaller than the set of all things red, so your brain gets its "rendering" instructions in the proper order. Its a wagon that is red, not a red that's a wagon. Of course you could argue the other way around, but I think the required amount of processing would be less in the first case.
THANK YOU! I hate the people who tell everyone what's "correct" when something begins to have wide adoption.
lol did anyone actually read this post? It's so full of groupthink with that one misspelling. It's obviously a troll. I'm not sure what kind of response he wanted, but he got a big one xD
If anything, I'm not surprised. Stick around someone long enough and you start to get sick of each other real fast. The fact that the adults have to care for the children and can't walk away makes it that much worse. People are people, I don't care what relationship they have. Some adults are real assholes too and can exploit familial connections in order to get their way at the expense of another. Just because some people are family don't mean that some of your family isn't psycho either (or can't be driven to that point).
..but..but...think of the poor government agency! How will it generate the same amount of attention if it allows the winners to slip out of the spotlight! After all, there's a reason the lottery is called the stupid tax and publicity like that attracts stupid people.
I don't think people's main problem is the antidepressants, but merely that they are prescribed by doctors on a whim. For people that are simply unable to feel happy, the drugs make sense, but for normal people who might respond to therapy or simply taking initiative in their lives, they get doped up and suddenly feel better without making the substantial changes that would not necessitate the drugs in the first place. I think the reason /. has such an adverse reaction to the drugs is because the over medicated environment feels a lot like big brother saying, "Your life sucks? Keep working pay taxes. Take these pills to make yourself feel better about it." or something like that. It's also that some of those prescriptions come from doctors not taking enough time to fully evaluate and get to know the patient (which is not necessarily the doctor's fault, he's probably shortstaffed).
Well seeing as your natural skin conductance will be somewhere between 2 and 20 megaohms, if you want to raise your body temperature by 1 degree Celsius per second, that'd be 4.186 J/kg/s. Lets assume you're 80 Kg so thats 334.88 Watts. Heat dissipated is V^2/R, so assuming you're about 10 megaohms, you'd need a voltage source of about 18000 VDC arm to arm. Uh, enjoy?
But why would they care about a few scattered cases? I mean seriously. Encryption increases saving and loading times (probably insignificantly but still...). Do they just want to keep even the way the game saves your items and position blackboxed?
Why are they encrypting savegame files? I understand maybe a boot sector or even an entire game to prevent copying, but MEMORY CARDS? WTF?
Correction: SUBset of all fiction
A superstition is the belief that events are influenced by specific behaviors, without having a causal relationship. (wikipedia)Superstitions are not provable, so you might as well call it fiction because I can generate any bullshit and say it predicts the future on the same basis. Everyone tells me to accept religion on faith, but the problem is the only reason I have to accept the religion is because other people tell me to. Doesn't that qualify as a superstition especially since the reason they chose to believe it is because other people told them to? I grant that someone could come to a realization by themselves, but it is very improbable that someone completely independent would come to realize the exact body of knowledge that is for instance one of the big three.
Religion does not become superstition unless and until you take the bizarre step of concluding that theology gives you information about physics.Since we agree on the fact that religions describes things outside of the universe it does not affect physics... unless you start postulating things like miracle healing, god's divine protection, and other things that affect the physical universe. Then you may want to create a comprehensive theory that predicts those actions. Religion attempts to do that while simultaneously telling you you cannot know god's mind. Whee, what usefulness. Things like afterlife are clearly outside the purview of physics, but are these things?
Yes it is, because both are fictions you made up. "What is true?" relies on the same evidence of proof as someone who tells you a bullshit story: Either: "I made it up" or "Someone told me it was true". Something OUTSIDE the universe is BY DEFINITION not observable. If you can't observe it, you can't test it. So it becomes a game of make up a fun story that we'd all like to hear. GAWD I feel the warm fuzzies tingling up my spine.
The trick is that the tax is usually related to the benefit directly. For instance, gasoline taxes are used to pay for your vaunted highway system. Water and sanitation are paid for directly (IIRC you pay the water company on a per usage basis even if they are subsidized with income taxes). The thing is is that in this case we have a tax on an item to pay for a right that is still not a right. I'm kind of partial to the canadian viewpoint. If you tax people for copying materials because they will copy music, even the people that don't copy music, then they should all have the right to copy music. To use a car analogy, imagine if I drove only offroad or on privately owned roads, but my gas was still taxed to pay for the public roads. This is the same situation, only we can't use the public roads now :-/
I foresee private organizations developing well used one time pad systems. Great, more unnecessary overhead for business. Thanks Mr. President for putting the fear of government back into us. PPPBBBBTTTTHHHH :P
Obviously you've missed the point. ROT26 is the most remarkable algorithm to date for they are HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT!
It occurs to me that perhaps the equations reduce to zero at some point although I do not see it in the book. Any more ideas?
That at first seems correct, but according to "A Modern Approach to Quantum Mechanics" by John H. Townsend, chapter 9 Section 3: Translational and Rotational Symmetry in the Two Body Problem: Relative and Center-of-Mass Coordinates:
"The natural coordinates for the two body problem when the Hamiltonian is of the form (9.26)* are relative coordinates r and the center-of-mass coordinates R, not the individual coordinates r_1 and r_2. The corresponding position operators are given by:
r = r_1 - r_2
R = (m_1r1 + m_2r_2)/(m_1+m_2)
END QUOTE (bottom of page 244 for the curious)
*[ H = (p_1)^2/2m_1 + (p_2)^2/2m_2 + V(|r_1+r_2|) H is the hamiltonian, p is the momentum operator for a given particle, m is the mass, r is the position and V is the potential energy function ]
The thing is I am inclined to agree with your assessment. I admit I suck at QM, but I also know that the COM is used in position space as shown by the above quote. Does anyone actually know what's going on?
Actually, you should probably just reverse the spin-spin interaction. The Electron and the Positron are the -->same-- mass so they actually orbit about a point in between them: the system center of mass. This is also true of regular atoms, but the proton is so much more massive that the COM is heavily shifted to the proton side.
Well the thing is that you don't need to find an arbitrary computer on the internet (like the next node wont be a US to Japan datalink), the next node would be something local or very close to that. I don't think we necessarily need to get it to 2ms. I bet if you had it at 4ms. It would just be like a retarded child. In any case, why not just use college networks in the meantime. THEY are on the INET2 network :D
I'm not so sure. What is the nerve conduction velocity in the brain? If we could match or exceed it in the internet (ie super low ping), maybe each computer need only perform one short operation on each datum.
I think you're concentrating too hard on the implementation. The real system we are talking about is mechanical computation, and electronic computers are only the latest iteration in the series of optimizations.
Lol, who modded this troll? This is what you'd see if someone was playing an FPS. MOD FUNNY :P
So basically... the enemy knows the system. How do we beat it? What if you have a program that looks at a text field and uses that text as a seed to generate the proper password and then replaces the field with the password - in a way that doesn't call a new onfocus or write to the key press stack. What if you implement your own keypress stack and force windows to use it? Is this even possible?
What else you could do is write a program that detects the phone home messages and then you could reverse engineer the way the key logging software operates. Rinse and repeat every week or two or better yet, set up an NPO that constantly works on this problem and releases bulletins on how to protect yourself.