It would be wasted. That's what always happens to excess capacity. ( Hmm, I don't know if I might be interested in the entire contents of your storage thingy, so I'll just copy it onto mine in it's entirety. ) Of course you've copied many other people's thingies, onto yours and they've copied each other's and through six degrees of separation there's a copy of my thingy of a few versions ago already on your thingie that I've just recopied onto mine. I could clean it out, but I won't because it's more work than it's worth since I have excess capacity.
I seriously thought about ssding it this time around when purchasing a laptop. I just couldn't quantify the supposed advantages in power use of SSD over a HD. Still, SSD may have other advantages in random access situations. It would have been nice to try.
Anyway, I'm thinking of putting my whole installation on a 16 GB usb keychain thingie, and using the hard drive for archival purposes. Maybe I can just shut the HD off when not in use. Still, those aren't very big. There'd be a lot of writing going on for just 16 GBs.. Maybe it would die quick. Still, maybe 128 gigs will be cheap soon..
I shut off as much software battery life management crap as I can, and configure it in the BIOS. It may not be as good as software management can be ( at least I've heard ) but it's good enough for me, and works pretty reliably as long as there is not software to screw it up for me. Most of the time, I carry my laptop with me, and use it plugged in at a desk with the power adapter supplying unlimited juice, so I keep the BIOS configured for maximum power use / maximum performance ( kinda like a Hummer ). On those rare occasions when I actually want to use the battery for anything other than being a built in UPS, I might stop to temporarily reconfigure the BIOS. Of the rare times when I want to use my laptop on my lap disconnected from power, 60% of those are for under an hour at a time. So only 40% of almost never do I give a darn about battery life. At other times, my laptop is really a portable desktop computer with built in UPS.
Copyright doesn't give you the right to limit how others may quote you. Even if an author hates the KKK, the KKK can quote something they wrote in order make their case.
Who cares? If my brain is so royally fubar that there is a doubt as to whether I am in a vegitative state, I want to die. ESPECIALLY if there's some consiousness in there.
Expanding bullets such as used by police ( at least I'd want them if I were a cop ) don't have THAT much penetrating power. If they hit a few layers of sheet rock, they are going to be nothing but bits of flat lead. They aren't going to penetrate a brick building and kill anyone inside. So if there is a brick wall behind the bad guys a little covering fire is going to be pretty harmless. After going through a sheet rock or wooden wall, the bullet may still be lethal, but it's effective lethal RANGE is going to be much less than it was out of the barrel.
Yeah, bits of text, seems to me like excerpts. It's like google is generating an admittedly badly organized ( what do you want from ai? ) essay in response to a query. That essay is the search results and text excerpts. These are clearly referenced as being quoted and like you said, more than a bibliography is given, frikken links to buy the stuff is given. It would seem to me to clearly fall under fair use.
For the price of the space shittle program we could have bought a bunch of Hubble Space Telescopes. If half of them didn't work, we'd still be way ahead of the game.
Yes. Constellation wasn't just the moon. It was the next generation of NASA rockets for human spaceflight. If Constellation is cancelled, this isn't just the end of the moon. It's the end of Mars too. Hell, it's the end of America's manned spaceflight program in general.
Thank goodness!
Now NASA has already taken a cut and it was nothing important. That which was worthwhile about NASA remains unscathed.
And if NASA's budget should ever INCREASE, then ALL the funds can go to worthwhile projects and not be wasted on manned spacefl-- I mean pork.
Filing something means every citizen has to look at what taxes they are paying. There's some educational value to filing something, but there's no reason it can't be prefilled. Seriously, the IRS ought to have a website where you can fill everything online ( with most of it pre-filled unless you want to change something ).
I think the idea was to let private companies compete for the electronic UI, but it's really more confusing. Just provide one UI and everyone learns how to do it. It's really more confusing to answer a bunch of questions from some private company trying to make things simple for me and wonder what implications my answers are going to have on the 1040 that gets generated/submitted than to understand the questions written on the 1040 itself - especially since I'm responsible for submitting a correctly filled out 1040 regardless of how it was filled out.
To be a responsible filer, I'd really have to take that 1040, and check it against the IRS's explanations for each field myself since I am legally responsible for having interpreted the IRS's explanations correctly. This is more work since I have both answered the questions the software has asked me and now am now double checking against the 1040's explanations.
I use tax filing software because I use my Dad's copy which I don't pay for, and it gets me my return quicker. But it is ADDED HASSLE AND WORRY, not a time or cost savings.
The IRS should run it's own web based automated tax return system, and it should put ALL the forms on there in a way that it is possible to fill them out online. Start with the most common forms and continue so that all forms are available.
It's really arts and crafts. Beautiful, and requiring lots of skill and patience. Probably not scientifically novel in any way, but certainly worthwhile.
I remember loving Destiny of an Emporer on NES 1, but played it in emulation a while back, and couldn't for the life of me remember what the attraction could have been.
I don't have a problem, when the title of the article specifies Correlation found. The problem is when people start conflating that with causation and then continue arguing as if causation has been shown.
Correlation is useful knowledge. Correlation tells you the way things are. If X is correlated with Y, and I want to find X, I should look where there is Y and vice versa. Like a map, correlation tells you *where/when* to look for things.
Causation is about WHY things are the way they are. I.E. X is so beCAUSE of Y. Knowledge of causation tells you *how* to change/produce things. If X is caused by Y, then if I want X I could produce X by producing Y.
Yeah, I'd prefer a cannon too. I remember reading in a magazine ( maybe Popular Mechanics? ) way back when about some Nazi Death Machines that were supposedly in the works near the end of WWII. They had a machine that worked on natural gas being exploded in a pipe that sounds substantially identical to this. The idea was to repel enemy troops trying to charge. It was one of those things that was just not practical on the battlefield, and never used.
Yes, good encryption can protect your data from brute force attacks, but ultimately, the government can stop you from encrypting your data at all with an act requiring data not be encrypted. The fourth ammendment protects your data from being snooped by the government more than any encryption because it would require passing a constitutional ammendment to overturn, or a series of court rulings that would set precedent for the 4th being interpreted extremely narrowly.
Of encryption and the 4th ammendment, the 4th ammendment is the strongest protection for your ability to keep your data private from the government.
I wouldn't worrry about very processed corn products like sugar/corn syrup/corn starch. Because they have been processed, they are relatively pure extracts of the corn which should not differ from the same substance extracted from any other corn. It's the more chemically complex components of the corn that might differ substantially.
I thought the corn was bred to be roundup ready. Roundup is an herbicide that kills plants including corn. However roundup ready corn is immune to the effects of roundup. So the farmer can spray the field with roundup, and thereby kill all weeds but leave the corn undamaged. It's so much easier than pulling weeds by hand.
Um, yes you can make a nontoxic species toxic by breeding. I'm thinking of the case of the insecitcide averse organic farmer who selected the best least insect damaged zucchinis each year for replanting until one year he had a quite pristine looking zuchinni crop. Except that when he ate them, they proved toxic. He'd been effectively breeding for insect resistance which meant breeding for higher and higher quantities of a toxin naturally present in zuchinni. Eventually it reached levels toxic to humans.
I think their bet may have been that they would just comply with all chinese law, and censor what they were told to, and that the chinese would see that the product - an indexed web was worth more than the 'gains' to be had by damaging the chinese search engine by censoring it excessively. They bet that the indexing was robust enough that the chinese themselves would be more imaginative in finding ways to search for stuff than the chinese censors were at censoring it, and that the information they made searchable would therefore create more good in china than evil and that that would be recognized outside china enough that doing business with china would not effect it's do no evil image. China IS a valuable market.
But imagine what would happen if chinese dissidents were prosecuted because google DID put up with being hacked by the chinese government just to remain in china so as to make a buck? That would totally trash the do no evil image it wants to maintain. They would have betrayed their chinese customers just to make a buck.
Central to any new businesses google hopes to grow is the idea that customers can trust google an amoral corporation like any other not to fuck them over. Google doesn't fuck their customers over by altering search results in hidden ways for money. This was huge in causing masses of people to use the google search engine exclusively.
Cloud Computing for google means customers trusting google with their data. Whoever has your data, potentially has huge power over you. Google is betting that their competitors will use the power cloud computing gives them over their customers to screw their customers so royally that they will be driven into the arms of do no evil google as happened with search. Computers offer so many ways to screw people that it's refreshing not to be screwed. Where do you go to be treated fairly? If google keeps it's do no evil image, then that is google. More than search technology itself, 'do no evil' built google.
Of course absolute power corrupts absolutely. Giving your data to anyone in such a way that you need to go through them to access it is a bad idea in the long run, but this won't happen for a long time or maybe never if customers demand that the data is kept in an open format. Google seems to be more willing to do this than many others.
Betraying the trust of their chinese customers by allowing the chinese government to hack their accounts undermines the most valuable thing google has - it's reputation. I think that is why despite china being a valuable market with extremely promising potential, that google found it not worth it to stay.
Of course google is not evil for running a search engine in china if local chinese are not evil for doing the same. However being wholely contained in china means that the chinese government has total power over you - including your reputation. Google's global presence however means that it's actions in china have the potential to affect it's reputation worldwide it won't expose it's reputation to potential damage by the PRC government sponsored hackers.
Seriously, I don't fault the PRC for cracking down on bribing. It's impossible to do business in china without bribing because they haven't been aggressive enough in punishing those who bribe, instead concentrating all their effort on punishing those who accept bribes. Kudos to china for cracking down on those who bribe.
No, for one thing no imaginative ways of reading such as skipping every third letter or reading in a diagonal or box shape is needed. It's just snippets that match snippets in viruses. In fact you can download many deadly viruses and look at their sequences. They are very similar to each other, even very different species of viruses. You don't need fancy statistics or algorithms. You can see it with the naked eye so to speak.
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It would be wasted. That's what always happens to excess capacity. ( Hmm, I don't know if I might be interested in the entire contents of your storage thingy, so I'll just copy it onto mine in it's entirety. ) Of course you've copied many other people's thingies, onto yours and they've copied each other's and through six degrees of separation there's a copy of my thingy of a few versions ago already on your thingie that I've just recopied onto mine. I could clean it out, but I won't because it's more work than it's worth since I have excess capacity.
I seriously thought about ssding it this time around when purchasing a laptop. I just couldn't quantify the supposed advantages in power use of SSD over a HD. Still, SSD may have other advantages in random access situations. It would have been nice to try.
Anyway, I'm thinking of putting my whole installation on a 16 GB usb keychain thingie, and using the hard drive for archival purposes. Maybe I can just shut the HD off when not in use. Still, those aren't very big. There'd be a lot of writing going on for just 16 GBs.. Maybe it would die quick. Still, maybe 128 gigs will be cheap soon..
I shut off as much software battery life management crap as I can, and configure it in the BIOS. It may not be as good as software management can be ( at least I've heard ) but it's good enough for me, and works pretty reliably as long as there is not software to screw it up for me. Most of the time, I carry my laptop with me, and use it plugged in at a desk with the power adapter supplying unlimited juice, so I keep the BIOS configured for maximum power use / maximum performance ( kinda like a Hummer ). On those rare occasions when I actually want to use the battery for anything other than being a built in UPS, I might stop to temporarily reconfigure the BIOS. Of the rare times when I want to use my laptop on my lap disconnected from power, 60% of those are for under an hour at a time. So only 40% of almost never do I give a darn about battery life. At other times, my laptop is really a portable desktop computer with built in UPS.
Copyright doesn't give you the right to limit how others may quote you. Even if an author hates the KKK, the KKK can quote something they wrote in order make their case.
Who cares? If my brain is so royally fubar that there is a doubt as to whether I am in a vegitative state, I want to die. ESPECIALLY if there's some consiousness in there.
Expanding bullets such as used by police ( at least I'd want them if I were a cop ) don't have THAT much penetrating power. If they hit a few layers of sheet rock, they are going to be nothing but bits of flat lead. They aren't going to penetrate a brick building and kill anyone inside. So if there is a brick wall behind the bad guys a little covering fire is going to be pretty harmless. After going through a sheet rock or wooden wall, the bullet may still be lethal, but it's effective lethal RANGE is going to be much less than it was out of the barrel.
Yeah, bits of text, seems to me like excerpts. It's like google is generating an admittedly badly organized ( what do you want from ai? ) essay in response to a query. That essay is the search results and text excerpts. These are clearly referenced as being quoted and like you said, more than a bibliography is given, frikken links to buy the stuff is given. It would seem to me to clearly fall under fair use.
For the price of the space shittle program we could have bought a bunch of Hubble Space Telescopes. If half of them didn't work, we'd still be way ahead of the game.
Thank goodness!
Now NASA has already taken a cut and it was nothing important. That which was worthwhile about NASA remains unscathed.
And if NASA's budget should ever INCREASE, then ALL the funds can go to worthwhile projects and not be wasted on manned spacefl-- I mean pork.
Big rip. Huh huh huh.
Filing something means every citizen has to look at what taxes they are paying. There's some educational value to filing something, but there's no reason it can't be prefilled. Seriously, the IRS ought to have a website where you can fill everything online ( with most of it pre-filled unless you want to change something ).
I think the idea was to let private companies compete for the electronic UI, but it's really more confusing. Just provide one UI and everyone learns how to do it. It's really more confusing to answer a bunch of questions from some private company trying to make things simple for me and wonder what implications my answers are going to have on the 1040 that gets generated/submitted than to understand the questions written on the 1040 itself - especially since I'm responsible for submitting a correctly filled out 1040 regardless of how it was filled out.
To be a responsible filer, I'd really have to take that 1040, and check it against the IRS's explanations for each field myself since I am legally responsible for having interpreted the IRS's explanations correctly. This is more work since I have both answered the questions the software has asked me and now am now double checking against the 1040's explanations.
I use tax filing software because I use my Dad's copy which I don't pay for, and it gets me my return quicker. But it is ADDED HASSLE AND WORRY, not a time or cost savings.
The IRS should run it's own web based automated tax return system, and it should put ALL the forms on there in a way that it is possible to fill them out online. Start with the most common forms and continue so that all forms are available.
It's really arts and crafts. Beautiful, and requiring lots of skill and patience. Probably not scientifically novel in any way, but certainly worthwhile.
I remember loving Destiny of an Emporer on NES 1, but played it in emulation a while back, and couldn't for the life of me remember what the attraction could have been.
I don't have a problem, when the title of the article specifies Correlation found. The problem is when people start conflating that with causation and then continue arguing as if causation has been shown.
Correlation is useful knowledge. Correlation tells you the way things are. If X is correlated with Y, and I want to find X, I should look where there is Y and vice versa. Like a map, correlation tells you *where/when* to look for things.
Causation is about WHY things are the way they are. I.E. X is so beCAUSE of Y. Knowledge of causation tells you *how* to change/produce things. If X is caused by Y, then if I want X I could produce X by producing Y.
Destroying the buggars. Sheesh! What a homophobe.
Yeah, I'd prefer a cannon too. I remember reading in a magazine ( maybe Popular Mechanics? ) way back when about some Nazi Death Machines that were supposedly in the works near the end of WWII. They had a machine that worked on natural gas being exploded in a pipe that sounds substantially identical to this. The idea was to repel enemy troops trying to charge. It was one of those things that was just not practical on the battlefield, and never used.
Of encryption and the 4th ammendment, the 4th ammendment is the strongest protection for your ability to keep your data private from the government.
Well I couldn't find the site I read, but here's some additional info: http://extensionhorticulture.unl.edu/Articles/SJB/zucchini.shtml
I wouldn't worrry about very processed corn products like sugar/corn syrup/corn starch. Because they have been processed, they are relatively pure extracts of the corn which should not differ from the same substance extracted from any other corn. It's the more chemically complex components of the corn that might differ substantially.
I thought the corn was bred to be roundup ready. Roundup is an herbicide that kills plants including corn. However roundup ready corn is immune to the effects of roundup. So the farmer can spray the field with roundup, and thereby kill all weeds but leave the corn undamaged. It's so much easier than pulling weeds by hand.
Um, yes you can make a nontoxic species toxic by breeding. I'm thinking of the case of the insecitcide averse organic farmer who selected the best least insect damaged zucchinis each year for replanting until one year he had a quite pristine looking zuchinni crop. Except that when he ate them, they proved toxic. He'd been effectively breeding for insect resistance which meant breeding for higher and higher quantities of a toxin naturally present in zuchinni. Eventually it reached levels toxic to humans.
I think their bet may have been that they would just comply with all chinese law, and censor what they were told to, and that the chinese would see that the product - an indexed web was worth more than the 'gains' to be had by damaging the chinese search engine by censoring it excessively. They bet that the indexing was robust enough that the chinese themselves would be more imaginative in finding ways to search for stuff than the chinese censors were at censoring it, and that the information they made searchable would therefore create more good in china than evil and that that would be recognized outside china enough that doing business with china would not effect it's do no evil image. China IS a valuable market.
But imagine what would happen if chinese dissidents were prosecuted because google DID put up with being hacked by the chinese government just to remain in china so as to make a buck? That would totally trash the do no evil image it wants to maintain. They would have betrayed their chinese customers just to make a buck.
Central to any new businesses google hopes to grow is the idea that customers can trust google an amoral corporation like any other not to fuck them over. Google doesn't fuck their customers over by altering search results in hidden ways for money. This was huge in causing masses of people to use the google search engine exclusively.
Cloud Computing for google means customers trusting google with their data. Whoever has your data, potentially has huge power over you. Google is betting that their competitors will use the power cloud computing gives them over their customers to screw their customers so royally that they will be driven into the arms of do no evil google as happened with search. Computers offer so many ways to screw people that it's refreshing not to be screwed. Where do you go to be treated fairly? If google keeps it's do no evil image, then that is google. More than search technology itself, 'do no evil' built google.
Of course absolute power corrupts absolutely. Giving your data to anyone in such a way that you need to go through them to access it is a bad idea in the long run, but this won't happen for a long time or maybe never if customers demand that the data is kept in an open format. Google seems to be more willing to do this than many others.
Betraying the trust of their chinese customers by allowing the chinese government to hack their accounts undermines the most valuable thing google has - it's reputation. I think that is why despite china being a valuable market with extremely promising potential, that google found it not worth it to stay.
Of course google is not evil for running a search engine in china if local chinese are not evil for doing the same. However being wholely contained in china means that the chinese government has total power over you - including your reputation. Google's global presence however means that it's actions in china have the potential to affect it's reputation worldwide it won't expose it's reputation to potential damage by the PRC government sponsored hackers.
Seriously, I don't fault the PRC for cracking down on bribing. It's impossible to do business in china without bribing because they haven't been aggressive enough in punishing those who bribe, instead concentrating all their effort on punishing those who accept bribes. Kudos to china for cracking down on those who bribe.
No, for one thing no imaginative ways of reading such as skipping every third letter or reading in a diagonal or box shape is needed. It's just snippets that match snippets in viruses. In fact you can download many deadly viruses and look at their sequences. They are very similar to each other, even very different species of viruses. You don't need fancy statistics or algorithms. You can see it with the naked eye so to speak.
8% is just the amount that isn't so old, mixed and mangled that it can be identified as viral in origin.