If your random seed really is random, then it's better. But your random source might not be able to provide enough numbers (how often is it sampling the environment?), and according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_random_number_generator it's best to constantly check if the numbers are still random.
"collisions" isn't the problem, it's repeating the sequence. (Ask people to draw random dots on paper and they'll often draw quite an even distribution. That's not random!)
Which countries? (seriously). I'm curious if we're talking levels high enough to alter behavior (which I suspect would be awfully high). The US taxes sugar imports, which is part of why HFCS is used so much.
I found a paper copy of the British Medical Journal, and found this article informative: http://www.bmj.com/content/344/bmj.e2931 but I don't have a subscription (there's a paywall).
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic, but I searched and found this: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4398 "Storing Certificates in the Domain Name System (DNS)"
"Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) says that most (30) of the 43 forces in England and Wales do not understand how to use stop and search powers effectively nor the impact their use has on the communities being policed."
"only 9% of the 1.2m stop-and-searches that take place every year led to an arrest"
"Office figures show that black people are still seven times more likely to be searched on the street than white people."
A different article said black people are three times more likely to be arrested (note: not charged) than white people. I suspect black people carrying small quantities of drugs (or committing other minor offences) are more likely to be arrested than white people, but I don't know. here we are: "Black people are six times more likely to be arrested than white people for drug offences and 11 times more likely to be imprisoned, according to new research claiming to show the racial bias of the criminal justice system." (the figure for the US is three times more likely to be arrested, 10 times more likely to be jailed).
(As long as drug-possession remains a crime, which is a separate topic).
It's closely related. The UK has criminalised several drugs popular among a particular community -- most recently qat. Alcohol, however, continues to cause the most trouble.
You'll have a hard time convincing me, "racial profiling" is automatically a bad thing... If 99% of illegal border-crossers in an area are Latino-looking, then 99% (give or take) of the investigated suspects should also be Latino-looking. Sure, it is not the fault of numerous Latino-looking legal residents and citizens, that they have the same facial features as the illegal ones. But it is not the fault of the law-enforcement either...
I'm not American, don't live there, but a similar thing happens with black teenagers being stopped by the police in London on suspicion of selling drugs. In theory, they're either supposed to stop random people, or have a reasonable suspicion of crime. In practise, black teenagers are many times more likely to have been stopped by the police.
It breeds resentment and distrust of the police. The solution is not to stop lots of people, but to work out better ways of knowing who to stop, and stop fewer people.
I'm not sure it's become a police state -- though there are movements towards that. (There are sometimes movements away from that, e.g. fixing stop-and-search powers.)
Mostly, it's just become a generally crap state. Too many selfish people (including lots of MPs), too much obsession over money. And far too much scapegoating of the EU (if the UK leaves, with no-one to blame I wonder how long it will take before the people realise the problem "Europe", but Britain?).
I was born here, studied CS in London, and now have a job working for a scientific research charity in London (which I very much enjoy). If it wasn't for that I'd have left. As it is, I've decided to leave next Spring or early Summer, when my current project should be completed. Germany or the Netherlands would be my preference (ich spreche ein bischen Deutsch...).
No, just significantly harder to filter effectively. Also, there were a rash of troll accounts with names that looked like the various Slashdot editors, only using accented variants of letters, such as 'tÍmothy'. All those shenanigans added up to where we are today.
So filter usernames and email addresses for ASCII, perhaps filter comments for UTF8 basic type 'Graphic' and \n.
If he's in the Ecuadorian Embassy, then the Swedes have no entry rights unless granted to them by the Ecuadorian ambassador.
That's now -- but they could have questioned him before he fled to the embassy: (Wiki) "Assange voluntarily attended a police station in England on 7 December 2010, and was arrested and taken into custody. After ten days in Wandsworth prison, he was freed on bail with a residence requirement at Ellingham Hall in Norfolk, England, fitted with an electronic tag and ordered to report to police daily."
PS - I know he has lost his Oz citizenship
I didn't know that. Isn't he standing for election in Australia?
but if Sweden were deporting him as a convicted criminal I reckon they would send him there anyway then just let the US intercept him enroute.
Flights normally go via somewhere in Asia. (Though that might not stop the World Police^W^WAmericans.)
9:00 am Eastern what? Eastern Europe doesn't have that much difference with Western Europe.
The other timezone is probably wrong too. 14:00 Dutch time (that's written on the Dutch website) is 13:00 London time, currently Western European Summer Time, and 12:00 UTC (which is Western European Time, i.e. London in the winter).
Editors/submitters: when giving timezones, give UTC, and (if you wish) time local to the event.
I installed TT-RSS yesterday. It was straightforward to install (from the Debian package) and import my existing feeds into.
(It's running on an Odroid-U2, which I'm also pleased with. Using something like 2W, and I've successfully replaced the server running my personal website + backups, which consumed over 100W. The Odroid should pay for itself in power savings within a year.)
Surely it has that low circulation because it's about Boston? (I've not heard of it before -- I've just looked at the website: http://www.bostonglobe.com/ -- and almost all of it's about Boston or Massachusetts). 1.5M out of 6.6M (Massachusetts) isn't so bad.
An example of a newspaper with an "extreme left" viewpoint is The News Line (wiki link so you can see the scanned front page, the website probably isn't very interesting if you're not British). I picked up a copy on a train a while back, and was surprised to read about "Leningrad" in one of the main articles. If supporting immigration as a source of cheap labour (as the Boston Globe seems to) is "extreme left", what do you call a newspaper that calls St Petersburg "Leningrad"?
It focuses on the view of a small portion of inner city liberals and ignores the rest of the nation
Then maybe it's liberal, which is not the same as "extreme left".
Seriously. What information do they have that is at all useful? In the old days we had muckrakers telling us all the awful things our politicians were doing. These days since they're all owned by big corps they don't want to step on any toes. After all, you won't last long if you say bad things about the boss. It feels like all they have left is sports news I can get from the source, some 30 year old comics and classifieds full of H1-B bait:(.
The Guardian has recently expanded (online) to the USA and Australia. I haven't read the US edition until just now, and it looks more international than other US newspaper websites I've seen, but look roughly as international as the normal British edition.
"Offside is a cat game similar to Zen archery, in that it is not what is actually done but the style in which it is achieved that really matters. It consists simply of persistently being on the wrong side of a door, and goes on for as long as human tolerance will stand and then a bit longer." Terry Pratchett, The Unadulterated Cat:
Thank you, I did not know that one could create a config file for redshift. I've been starting with a shell script for my day/night parameters. Tell me, is a positive longitude east or west? I assume that positive latitude is north.
A positive longitude is east of Greenwich, a negative one West.
My -0.1 is roughly the centre of London. The astronomical observatory at Greenwich was built on a hill to the south-east of the City of London, away from the fog and smoke.
If it helps, my config file at ~/.config/redshift.conf is:
; Global settings [redshift] temp-day=6400 temp-night=3900 location-provider=manual
; The location provider and adjustment method settings ; are in their own sections. [manual] lat=51.5 lon=-0.1
(Also, I'm disappointed to see "f.lux is patent pending" at the bottom of their page.)
On Android, I have added a "Night Mode" button. I think this is only possible with Cyanogenmod, and it's an on-off change, rather than the gradual change done with f.lux or redshift.
Children and young adults can be middle class -- it's more about expectations and experiences than income though. For example, a middle class child assumes they will go to university, and probably had regular culturally rich holidays, etc.
After picking, magic mushrooms are often eaten raw or are dried out and stored. Some people use the dried mushrooms to make tea. Most people take between 1-5 grams. People don’t tend to eat fly agaric mushrooms raw as they can make you feel really sick.
Part of it is in our heads. Also, we eat mammals, not creepy-crawlies, because mammals aren't poisonous.
This is incorrect. There are insects that carry disease, but generally most insects are less risky for us to eat -- just think of swine flu, bird flu, mad cow disease, salmonella. We do eat prawns, crabs, etc -- these are pretty much 'sea insects' (and are not considered food in many cultures).
Meat (mammals, birds) is also highly concentrated food.
By weight, insects have much more protein (up to 75%).
Insects are most closely related to crustaceans. I haven't been able to try any larger insects, but I understand (from scientists I work with, who travel to remote places in the jungle and eat food they are offered as a gift) that they're pretty much like prawns, crayfish, crab, etc.
I have eaten tiny insects (waxworms, crickets, and something else I forget) and they tasted of cajun seasoning. This was at the insect museum in New Orleans.
in many cultures, eating shellfish is considered as strange as we think eating insects is.
>This isn't really an Apple problem: everybody uses these companies for manufacturing, it's an industry-wide problem.
Isn't this always the case? Apple is a well-known and envied brand, so they get the blame for something that's a problem with the entire industry.
But Apple's image and brand is of a better, more responsible company -- that's part of the justification for the higher price. "Everyone else does it" might be true, but the statement was "we thought you were better".
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I'm not a cryptographer, but....
If your random seed really is random, then it's better. But your random source might not be able to provide enough numbers (how often is it sampling the environment?), and according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_random_number_generator it's best to constantly check if the numbers are still random.
"collisions" isn't the problem, it's repeating the sequence. (Ask people to draw random dots on paper and they'll often draw quite an even distribution. That's not random!)
There are also uses of random numbers outside cryptography.I came across this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mersenne_twister which is good for some uses, but bad for cryptography.
most countries have taxes on sugar etc.
Which countries? (seriously). I'm curious if we're talking levels high enough to alter behavior (which I suspect would be awfully high). The US taxes sugar imports, which is part of why HFCS is used so much.
Denmark had a fat tax, and proposed a sugar tax, but both were scrapped in 2012. http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/11/denmark-abandons-sugar-and-fat-taxes.html
I found a paper copy of the British Medical Journal, and found this article informative: http://www.bmj.com/content/344/bmj.e2931 but I don't have a subscription (there's a paywall).
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic, but I searched and found this: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4398 "Storing Certificates in the Domain Name System (DNS)"
GPG supports it! http://www.gushi.org/make-dns-cert/HOWTO.html
It works for emails -- alice.example.org is for alice@example.org.
I found this, which I won't bother to rewrite: http://www.theguardian.com/law/2013/jul/09/misue-stop-search-powers
"Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) says that most (30) of the 43 forces in England and Wales do not understand how to use stop and search powers effectively nor the impact their use has on the communities being policed."
"only 9% of the 1.2m stop-and-searches that take place every year led to an arrest"
"Office figures show that black people are still seven times more likely to be searched on the street than white people."
A different article said black people are three times more likely to be arrested (note: not charged) than white people. I suspect black people carrying small quantities of drugs (or committing other minor offences) are more likely to be arrested than white people, but I don't know. here we are: "Black people are six times more likely to be arrested than white people for drug offences and 11 times more likely to be imprisoned, according to new research claiming to show the racial bias of the criminal justice system." (the figure for the US is three times more likely to be arrested, 10 times more likely to be jailed).
(As long as drug-possession remains a crime, which is a separate topic).
It's closely related. The UK has criminalised several drugs popular among a particular community -- most recently qat. Alcohol, however, continues to cause the most trouble.
You'll have a hard time convincing me, "racial profiling" is automatically a bad thing... If 99% of illegal border-crossers in an area are Latino-looking, then 99% (give or take) of the investigated suspects should also be Latino-looking. Sure, it is not the fault of numerous Latino-looking legal residents and citizens, that they have the same facial features as the illegal ones. But it is not the fault of the law-enforcement either...
I'm not American, don't live there, but a similar thing happens with black teenagers being stopped by the police in London on suspicion of selling drugs. In theory, they're either supposed to stop random people, or have a reasonable suspicion of crime. In practise, black teenagers are many times more likely to have been stopped by the police.
It breeds resentment and distrust of the police. The solution is not to stop lots of people, but to work out better ways of knowing who to stop, and stop fewer people.
I'm not sure it's become a police state -- though there are movements towards that. (There are sometimes movements away from that, e.g. fixing stop-and-search powers.)
Mostly, it's just become a generally crap state. Too many selfish people (including lots of MPs), too much obsession over money. And far too much scapegoating of the EU (if the UK leaves, with no-one to blame I wonder how long it will take before the people realise the problem "Europe", but Britain?).
I was born here, studied CS in London, and now have a job working for a scientific research charity in London (which I very much enjoy). If it wasn't for that I'd have left. As it is, I've decided to leave next Spring or early Summer, when my current project should be completed. Germany or the Netherlands would be my preference (ich spreche ein bischen Deutsch...).
You may prefer The Guardian, who have recently launched a US edition: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/09/lavabit-email-edward-snowden-shuts-down
i'm not sure what mentioning the Obama Administration entails -- names?
No, just significantly harder to filter effectively. Also, there were a rash of troll accounts with names that looked like the various Slashdot editors, only using accented variants of letters, such as 'tÍmothy'. All those shenanigans added up to where we are today.
So filter usernames and email addresses for ASCII, perhaps filter comments for UTF8 basic type 'Graphic' and \n.
Problem solved? http://slashdot.jp/ supports Unicode.
If he's in the Ecuadorian Embassy, then the Swedes have no entry rights unless granted to them by the Ecuadorian ambassador.
That's now -- but they could have questioned him before he fled to the embassy: (Wiki) "Assange voluntarily attended a police station in England on 7 December 2010, and was arrested and taken into custody. After ten days in Wandsworth prison, he was freed on bail with a residence requirement at Ellingham Hall in Norfolk, England, fitted with an electronic tag and ordered to report to police daily."
PS - I know he has lost his Oz citizenship
I didn't know that. Isn't he standing for election in Australia?
but if Sweden were deporting him as a convicted criminal I reckon they would send him there anyway then just let the US intercept him enroute.
Flights normally go via somewhere in Asia. (Though that might not stop the World Police^W^WAmericans.)
Scanning 7pt text at 200dpi with consumer level scanner technology and you're complaining about scan errors. Really?
Consumer level? This isn't a home, or even home-office, machine. It's sold on the website under the office section.
9:00 am Eastern what? Eastern Europe doesn't have that much difference with Western Europe.
The other timezone is probably wrong too. 14:00 Dutch time (that's written on the Dutch website) is 13:00 London time, currently Western European Summer Time, and 12:00 UTC (which is Western European Time, i.e. London in the winter).
Editors/submitters: when giving timezones, give UTC, and (if you wish) time local to the event.
I installed TT-RSS yesterday. It was straightforward to install (from the Debian package) and import my existing feeds into.
(It's running on an Odroid-U2, which I'm also pleased with. Using something like 2W, and I've successfully replaced the server running my personal website + backups, which consumed over 100W. The Odroid should pay for itself in power savings within a year.)
Surely it has that low circulation because it's about Boston? (I've not heard of it before -- I've just looked at the website: http://www.bostonglobe.com/ -- and almost all of it's about Boston or Massachusetts). 1.5M out of 6.6M (Massachusetts) isn't so bad.
An example of a newspaper with an "extreme left" viewpoint is The News Line (wiki link so you can see the scanned front page, the website probably isn't very interesting if you're not British). I picked up a copy on a train a while back, and was surprised to read about "Leningrad" in one of the main articles. If supporting immigration as a source of cheap labour (as the Boston Globe seems to) is "extreme left", what do you call a newspaper that calls St Petersburg "Leningrad"?
It focuses on the view of a small portion of inner city liberals and ignores the rest of the nation
Then maybe it's liberal, which is not the same as "extreme left".
Here's an extreme left American newspaper: http://www.revcom.us/revolution/current-en.html
Seriously. What information do they have that is at all useful? In the old days we had muckrakers telling us all the awful things our politicians were doing. These days since they're all owned by big corps they don't want to step on any toes. After all, you won't last long if you say bad things about the boss. It feels like all they have left is sports news I can get from the source, some 30 year old comics and classifieds full of H1-B bait :(.
The Guardian has recently expanded (online) to the USA and Australia. I haven't read the US edition until just now, and it looks more international than other US newspaper websites I've seen, but look roughly as international as the normal British edition.
It is independent, you can see the details of the organisation here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Trust_Limited
(I read it online, and buy a paper copy about every six months.)
Why not just open the blinds before bedtime
But then you can't sleep naked...
Why not? I do, and I rarely close the blinds. With the light off, it's pretty difficult to accidentally see inside a building.
"Offside is a cat game similar to Zen archery, in that it is not what is actually done but the style in which it is achieved that really matters. It consists simply of persistently being on the wrong side of a door, and goes on for as long as human tolerance will stand and then a bit longer."
Terry Pratchett, The Unadulterated Cat:
http://www.e-reading-lib.com/chapter.php/71327/40/Pratchett%2C_Joliffe_-_The_Unadulterated_Cat.html
Thank you, I did not know that one could create a config file for redshift. I've been starting with a shell script for my day/night parameters. Tell me, is a positive longitude east or west? I assume that positive latitude is north.
A positive longitude is east of Greenwich, a negative one West.
My -0.1 is roughly the centre of London. The astronomical observatory at Greenwich was built on a hill to the south-east of the City of London, away from the fog and smoke.
Debian/Ubuntu/etc users could easily install the 'redshift' package: http://jonls.dk/redshift/
If it helps, my config file at ~/.config/redshift.conf is:
; Global settings
[redshift]
temp-day=6400
temp-night=3900
location-provider=manual
; The location provider and adjustment method settings
; are in their own sections.
[manual]
lat=51.5
lon=-0.1
(Also, I'm disappointed to see "f.lux is patent pending" at the bottom of their page.)
On Android, I have added a "Night Mode" button. I think this is only possible with Cyanogenmod, and it's an on-off change, rather than the gradual change done with f.lux or redshift.
Children and young adults can be middle class -- it's more about expectations and experiences than income though. For example, a middle class child assumes they will go to university, and probably had regular culturally rich holidays, etc.
I thought I'd better check my facts -- they were correct, mushrooms are only eaten in Britain.
See the supposedly-impartial government information site: http://www.talktofrank.com/drug/magic-mushrooms
How do people take magic mushrooms?
After picking, magic mushrooms are often eaten raw or are dried out and stored. Some people use the dried mushrooms to make tea. Most people take between 1-5 grams. People don’t tend to eat fly agaric mushrooms raw as they can make you feel really sick.
I'm British, and hadn't heard of smoking 'shrooms. I understand people simply eat "magic mushrooms" though I'm not certain: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_mushrooms
What's the kind of mushroom that's smoked in Texas?
Part of it is in our heads. Also, we eat mammals, not creepy-crawlies, because mammals aren't poisonous.
This is incorrect. There are insects that carry disease, but generally most insects are less risky for us to eat -- just think of swine flu, bird flu, mad cow disease, salmonella. We do eat prawns, crabs, etc -- these are pretty much 'sea insects' (and are not considered food in many cultures).
Meat (mammals, birds) is also highly concentrated food.
By weight, insects have much more protein (up to 75%).
So what do they taste like?
Insects are most closely related to crustaceans. I haven't been able to try any larger insects, but I understand (from scientists I work with, who travel to remote places in the jungle and eat food they are offered as a gift) that they're pretty much like prawns, crayfish, crab, etc.
I have eaten tiny insects (waxworms, crickets, and something else I forget) and they tasted of cajun seasoning. This was at the insect museum in New Orleans.
in many cultures, eating shellfish is considered as strange as we think eating insects is.
There are some good pictures here: http://edibug.wordpress.com/list-of-edible-insects/
To say you couldn't care less is dismissive.
That's exactly the point of the expression as usually used in British English. The thing isn't even worth thinking about.
>This isn't really an Apple problem: everybody uses these companies for manufacturing, it's an industry-wide problem.
Isn't this always the case? Apple is a well-known and envied brand, so they get the blame for something that's a problem with the entire industry.
But Apple's image and brand is of a better, more responsible company -- that's part of the justification for the higher price. "Everyone else does it" might be true, but the statement was "we thought you were better".