Irrelevant. Try to imagine the thief explaining the same concept to a cop. Think he'll get half the jail time? No. Claims adjusters and cops have different remits.
It's hardly an either-or question. If you leave your door unlocked and get robbed, you are negligent. The thief is still at fault for the crime, though.
Shared responsibility, what a concept. Take appropriate precautions, and don't be an asshat.
The summary describes the test and gives the results. I didn't see any strong value judgment in there, and I certainly didn't see any 'reward' (whatever that would be) for 'low-grade brains'.
A study found that there is a positive correlation between larger brains and distraction. Take from that what you will.
All the theoretical problems have been worked out, we're sure to all have fusion generators soon. All that's left are the engineering problems. Then the business problems.
I don't like to confuse Bush's idiotic wars with Bin Laden's criminality.
Bush was a fool who wasted blood and treasure, as they like to say.
September 11th was a massive crime and it is a huge relief to see justice done. I'd have preferred an arrest & trial but what's happened will have to do.
I was against/uneasy about the war in Afghanistan and completely against the war in Iraq, but I was always for a police / sf action against the Al Qaeda criminals.
Bin Laden got what he deserved.
Obama focused on the real problem and got results. Good for him.
After waiting minutes for an answer, I decided to RTFA and, well, there is a reason (or at least a good excuse)
one application for computing the digits of Pi is to test the integrity of computer hardware and software, which is a focus of Baileyâ(TM)s research at Berkeley Lab. âoeIf two separate computations of digits of Pi, say using different algorithms, are in agreement except perhaps for a few trailing digits at the end, then almost certainly both computers performed trillions of operations flawlessy"
why the fuck anyone cares about a number this long
Seriously, does anyone have an answer for this? Unless they're waiting to see if the digits start repeating themselves, I don't get why anyone would need a value of pi to be so precise.
Personally, I've assumed that the stupidly-precise values of pi were calculated out of pure obsessiveness and, perhaps, a desire for fame (of a kind).
But if they're using months of time on a very expensive, very new, publicly-funded supercomputer to calculate the value, then there's _got_ to be a reason. Right?
They're only being discarded because they've started to fail. So giving them away would be a bit of a dick move, regardless of whether it's a privacy threat or not.
As for the shredding, my bet would be that they're just following a data-destruction spec from 10-20 years ago, when wiping really wasn't a surefire way to destroy data.
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I remember seeing this guy in Cringley's Triumph of the Nerds 2.0. I seem to remember his Xanadu system failing because it is exceedingly difficult to use in practice, however useful it sound in theory.
Can one of the greybeards here enlighten me as to what, exactly, Xanadu was?
"Using "fake" numbers is shooting yourself in the foot, because students eventually learn that all numbers on their tests are setup so that they'll never get decimals, huge fractions, or whatever."
Then save the 'nice' setup numbers for the tests and solve more difficult problems during class time. Graphing calculators _are_ a crutch and, I'd argue, serve more to distract the student than to help the student.
Voyager went back into space but dumped all sense of ethics at the spaceport. Kirk would never have stood for it. Janeway did anything to get home, including mass genocide. Star Trek, how far can you fall.
Examples please? my knowledge of Voyager isn't encyclopedic, but I've seen most of the episodes and seem to remember that Janeway _always_ rejects quick ways of getting home if it means breaking ethical codes. Hell, that's the main tension of the entire series: how to deal with the problem of being so far from home while still maintaining the core of ethics that makes one human (or vulcan, or whatever).
They didn't say "this car ran out of charge", but they showed the car stopping on the track, accompanied by the sound of the engine dying... they heavily implied it and it is disingenuous and weasely to pretend they didn't mean to show the car running out of charge.
Well it started when the US was founded, I would imagine. I was pretty uncomfortable at the hatred shown towards Clinton in the 90s. I noticed & didn't like the comparisons of Bush to Hitler and Bush republicans to nazis.
The root problem seems to be the fact that a lot of people on both sides talk past each other, don't trust each other, don't follow the wikipedia 'presume good intentions' rule any more. That's a collective problem that will eventually need to be solved. That doesn't change the fact that, since Obama was elected, the bulk of the crazy paranoid tripe has come from the tea party fringe, and a lot of that has (a) been broadcast on network tv or said by mainstream politicians (Palin), and (b) this time the tone (to me at least) seems more threatening, what with the crosshairs and urges for america to 'rearm'.
In principle I agree with you, but the thing is that a lot of people saw this sort of thing coming. There has been a lot of commentary and, at least in my own discussions, worry, about the winking incitement to violence that has been broadcast since Obama was elected.
I do feel sad when I hear of a politician being attacked this way - not just sad, but a mixture of melancholy, pessimism, pity, and a kind of sorrow for a person - a civilian - who put themselves in danger to work in public service.
But I also feel anger, anger at the unchecked, inconsiderate, dangerous, anti-social rhetoric that I've endured for the past two years, and quite likely played a part in this attack.
If the attacker turns out to be a tea party paranoid type, then I honestly believe people like Beck hold indirect responsibility for the attack. Incitement to rioting is a crime; so, in a (non-legal) way, is the winking threats and paranoia that's been on the airwaves for too long.
Sanger also left Wikipedia in 2002 and regularly wrote articles discussing why Wikipedia doesn't work. At least Wales bothered to stick around and have some faith.
Which does nothing to change the fact that Sanger is the co-founder and Wales is the co-founder. These are facts that cannot be changed by their actions before or after the fact.
Wait, does this mean that every time says "only complete nerds speak the klingon language.'", I can correct them by saying "actually, it's 'thlngan Hol'"? Fantastic!
I am not an astrophysicist, so I don't understand the subtelties of this, but it should be noted that NASA press release says the probe has measured a solar wind decline, not that the probe is beyond the solar wind. Specifically, it says the solar wind has 'no outward motion'. The probe's environment is still dominated by the solar wind because it is still in the heliosphere, or, as NASA says, 'Crossing into interstellar space would mean a sudden drop in the density of hot particles and an increase in the density of cold particles.'
Now hurtling toward interstellar space some 17.4 billion kilometers (10.8 billion miles) from the sun, Voyager 1 has crossed into an area where the velocity of the hot ionized gas, or plasma, emanating directly outward from the sun has slowed to zero. Scientists suspect the solar wind has been turned sideways by the pressure from the interstellar wind in the region between stars.
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Scientists believe Voyager 1 has not crossed the heliosheath into interstellar space. Crossing into interstellar space would mean a sudden drop in the density of hot particles and an increase in the density of cold particles. Scientists are putting the data into their models of the heliosphere's structure and should be able to better estimate when Voyager 1 will reach interstellar space. Researchers currently estimate Voyager 1 will cross that frontier in about four years.
IMHO this is the consequence of turning the peace prize into a political too. Kissinger? Arafat? Bad enough to have warmongers who happened to make peace. But the Obama prize was the worst. I like Obama myself, but he did _nothing_, good or bad, to deserve that prize. It completely discredited the institution. At this point I wouldn't be too sorry to see it go.
Your post reads like a 'back in my day' followed by a 'kids these days'.
You were not deprived in the least if you lived in a two-car home where your parents made you wear a sweater in the winter. None of this is uncommon today.
There are some things today that may be different than yesterday - cultural acceptance of debt is the big one, in my mind. But the ins and outs are complicated, much more so than your sour kveltching.
All that said, to go back to the point, the middle class (and the poor) really had the brown end of the stick for the past while. It turns out that the medina household income (warning: xls) has been mostly stagnent for the middle class, but rising for the rich. In adjusted 2009 dollars, incomes for the following years were
So the poor are making the same now as they did in 1979, while the rich are making almost twice as much. (The income disparity gets much worse as you look at a smaller slice of the rich). The middle, meanwhile, is making about the same they made when the berlin wall fell.
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Irrelevant. Try to imagine the thief explaining the same concept to a cop. Think he'll get half the jail time? No. Claims adjusters and cops have different remits.
It's hardly an either-or question. If you leave your door unlocked and get robbed, you are negligent. The thief is still at fault for the crime, though.
Shared responsibility, what a concept. Take appropriate precautions, and don't be an asshat.
I don't really follow your reasoning.
The summary describes the test and gives the results. I didn't see any strong value judgment in there, and I certainly didn't see any 'reward' (whatever that would be) for 'low-grade brains'.
A study found that there is a positive correlation between larger brains and distraction. Take from that what you will.
All the theoretical problems have been worked out, we're sure to all have fusion generators soon. All that's left are the engineering problems. Then the business problems.
Easy, right?
Sorry, the above post ("I don't like to confuse the two...") is mine, I just wasn't signed in at the time of posting.
I don't like to confuse Bush's idiotic wars with Bin Laden's criminality.
Bush was a fool who wasted blood and treasure, as they like to say.
September 11th was a massive crime and it is a huge relief to see justice done. I'd have preferred an arrest & trial but what's happened will have to do.
I was against/uneasy about the war in Afghanistan and completely against the war in Iraq, but I was always for a police / sf action against the Al Qaeda criminals.
Bin Laden got what he deserved.
Obama focused on the real problem and got results. Good for him.
After waiting minutes for an answer, I decided to RTFA and, well, there is a reason (or at least a good excuse)
one application for computing the digits of Pi is to test the integrity of computer hardware and software, which is a focus of Baileyâ(TM)s research at Berkeley Lab. âoeIf two separate computations of digits of Pi, say using different algorithms, are in agreement except perhaps for a few trailing digits at the end, then almost certainly both computers performed trillions of operations flawlessy"
why the fuck anyone cares about a number this long
Seriously, does anyone have an answer for this? Unless they're waiting to see if the digits start repeating themselves, I don't get why anyone would need a value of pi to be so precise.
Personally, I've assumed that the stupidly-precise values of pi were calculated out of pure obsessiveness and, perhaps, a desire for fame (of a kind).
But if they're using months of time on a very expensive, very new, publicly-funded supercomputer to calculate the value, then there's _got_ to be a reason. Right?
They're only being discarded because they've started to fail. So giving them away would be a bit of a dick move, regardless of whether it's a privacy threat or not.
As for the shredding, my bet would be that they're just following a data-destruction spec from 10-20 years ago, when wiping really wasn't a surefire way to destroy data.
From TFPDF linked in TFA on TFFH website:
I remember seeing this guy in Cringley's Triumph of the Nerds 2.0. I seem to remember his Xanadu system failing because it is exceedingly difficult to use in practice, however useful it sound in theory.
Can one of the greybeards here enlighten me as to what, exactly, Xanadu was?
"Using "fake" numbers is shooting yourself in the foot, because students eventually learn that all numbers on their tests are setup so that they'll never get decimals, huge fractions, or whatever."
Then save the 'nice' setup numbers for the tests and solve more difficult problems during class time. Graphing calculators _are_ a crutch and, I'd argue, serve more to distract the student than to help the student.
Voyager went back into space but dumped all sense of ethics at the spaceport. Kirk would never have stood for it. Janeway did anything to get home, including mass genocide. Star Trek, how far can you fall.
Examples please? my knowledge of Voyager isn't encyclopedic, but I've seen most of the episodes and seem to remember that Janeway _always_ rejects quick ways of getting home if it means breaking ethical codes. Hell, that's the main tension of the entire series: how to deal with the problem of being so far from home while still maintaining the core of ethics that makes one human (or vulcan, or whatever).
There's always money in the banana stand ;)
They didn't say "this car ran out of charge", but they showed the car stopping on the track, accompanied by the sound of the engine dying... they heavily implied it and it is disingenuous and weasely to pretend they didn't mean to show the car running out of charge.
Well it started when the US was founded, I would imagine. I was pretty uncomfortable at the hatred shown towards Clinton in the 90s. I noticed & didn't like the comparisons of Bush to Hitler and Bush republicans to nazis.
The root problem seems to be the fact that a lot of people on both sides talk past each other, don't trust each other, don't follow the wikipedia 'presume good intentions' rule any more. That's a collective problem that will eventually need to be solved. That doesn't change the fact that, since Obama was elected, the bulk of the crazy paranoid tripe has come from the tea party fringe, and a lot of that has (a) been broadcast on network tv or said by mainstream politicians (Palin), and (b) this time the tone (to me at least) seems more threatening, what with the crosshairs and urges for america to 'rearm'.
In principle I agree with you, but the thing is that a lot of people saw this sort of thing coming. There has been a lot of commentary and, at least in my own discussions, worry, about the winking incitement to violence that has been broadcast since Obama was elected.
I do feel sad when I hear of a politician being attacked this way - not just sad, but a mixture of melancholy, pessimism, pity, and a kind of sorrow for a person - a civilian - who put themselves in danger to work in public service.
But I also feel anger, anger at the unchecked, inconsiderate, dangerous, anti-social rhetoric that I've endured for the past two years, and quite likely played a part in this attack.
If the attacker turns out to be a tea party paranoid type, then I honestly believe people like Beck hold indirect responsibility for the attack. Incitement to rioting is a crime; so, in a (non-legal) way, is the winking threats and paranoia that's been on the airwaves for too long.
Sanger also left Wikipedia in 2002 and regularly wrote articles discussing why Wikipedia doesn't work. At least Wales bothered to stick around and have some faith.
Which does nothing to change the fact that Sanger is the co-founder and Wales is the co-founder. These are facts that cannot be changed by their actions before or after the fact.
in thIngan Hol, the language of the Klingon race
Wait, does this mean that every time says "only complete nerds speak the klingon language.'", I can correct them by saying "actually, it's 'thlngan Hol'"? Fantastic!
A personal appeal to Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales (Dear Jimmy: fuck off.)
Also, was I the only one to notice that Jimbo is calling himself the Founder (ie not Co-Founder) in his Personal / Urgent appeals?
I am not an astrophysicist, so I don't understand the subtelties of this, but it should be noted that NASA press release says the probe has measured a solar wind decline, not that the probe is beyond the solar wind. Specifically, it says the solar wind has 'no outward motion'. The probe's environment is still dominated by the solar wind because it is still in the heliosphere, or, as NASA says, 'Crossing into interstellar space would mean a sudden drop in the density of hot particles and an increase in the density of cold particles.'
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/voyager/voyager20101213.html
Now hurtling toward interstellar space some 17.4 billion kilometers (10.8 billion miles) from the sun, Voyager 1 has crossed into an area where the velocity of the hot ionized gas, or plasma, emanating directly outward from the sun has slowed to zero. Scientists suspect the solar wind has been turned sideways by the pressure from the interstellar wind in the region between stars.
...
Scientists believe Voyager 1 has not crossed the heliosheath into interstellar space. Crossing into interstellar space would mean a sudden drop in the density of hot particles and an increase in the density of cold particles. Scientists are putting the data into their models of the heliosphere's structure and should be able to better estimate when Voyager 1 will reach interstellar space. Researchers currently estimate Voyager 1 will cross that frontier in about four years.
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IMHO this is the consequence of turning the peace prize into a political too. Kissinger? Arafat? Bad enough to have warmongers who happened to make peace. But the Obama prize was the worst. I like Obama myself, but he did _nothing_, good or bad, to deserve that prize. It completely discredited the institution. At this point I wouldn't be too sorry to see it go.
Your post reads like a 'back in my day' followed by a 'kids these days'.
You were not deprived in the least if you lived in a two-car home where your parents made you wear a sweater in the winter. None of this is uncommon today.
There are some things today that may be different than yesterday - cultural acceptance of debt is the big one, in my mind. But the ins and outs are complicated, much more so than your sour kveltching.
All that said, to go back to the point, the middle class (and the poor) really had the brown end of the stick for the past while. It turns out that the medina household income (warning: xls) has been mostly stagnent for the middle class, but rising for the rich. In adjusted 2009 dollars, incomes for the following years were
So the poor are making the same now as they did in 1979, while the rich are making almost twice as much. (The income disparity gets much worse as you look at a smaller slice of the rich). The middle, meanwhile, is making about the same they made when the berlin wall fell.