What is a reputation for if not to withstand claims against it? If a reputation is unable to withstand baseless denounciations, then it wasn't worth a thing to begin with and so no compensation is due for harming it.
If a reputation is harmed because of claims that seem to be based upon evidence, then there are two reputations at stake, namely the claimant and the defendant. Both reputations are in question until the truth of the matter is resolved, which is as it should be. When/if the truth is clear, then the reputation that should be restored will be, and so will the reputation of the liar/idiot be destroyed. As it should be.
There is no need for the courts to intervene. Ever.
If Slander were legalized, then people would be more critical of possibly defamatory statements. They would wonder: Who wants me to believe this, and by following the buck, come to suspect the maker of the statement a being untrustworthy, effectively ending their ability to slander anyone, all without interference by the law.
At some point an average jack-o-lantern with elastics stretched over the hole will sound better than even the best strad. That is because at some point everything that is used will break.
Of course you are absolutely right. I can't believe I did that. Well, being a clutz yes I can. Anyway, it's certainly possible to copyright all 1x1 icons. And since any other icon will be built up of these, maybe there's a way to be a copyright troll after all..
Even in 16 bit color the set of all possible 32x32 icons is 67,108,864 bytes, ( 67 megs )for 32 bit color it's 4,398,046,511,104 or 4 terabytes.
For 64x64 icons in 32 bit color, it's 17,592,186,044,416 bytes, or 17 terabytes.
I am surprised some copyright troll doesn't copyright the set of all 128 x 128 icons at 32 bit color depth ( comprising 70 terabytes ) and then sue everyone who uses a new icon in any product into oblivion. Every possible icon would be contained in one of those copyrighted icons either in whole or in part. It might be worthwhile to copyright commonly used lower color depths as well, though it shouldn't be strictly necessary.
Yes, but if the Windows CE pacemaker keeps someone alive longer than they would be alive without it, then it's still a net gain. Anyway, these things (helpme buttons) don't need to be up 100% of the time. They need to be up 0.0001% of the time, namely when they are needed. So if you need one of these things once every year, and the comodity device is up 99% of the time, then the odds of it being there when you need it every year for sixty eight years is 50%. The odds of it keeping you alive for 10 years are 90%. For someone whose expected lifespan is not much more than that, 90% is pretty good odds, especially if they weren't going to have any recourse to help otherwise.
I don't think you can eat ( drink ) nothing but ensure indefinately and stay healthy can you? Will you get all your fiber and calories as well as vitamins and protein and carbs and fats? It being a liquid I wonder if nothing but ensure would give you the shits.
Think about how many people won't get any such device because the 'medical ones' suck. Maybe a commodity device isn't as reliable ( though that's debatable ) but it's a hell of a lot more reliable than nothing at all. And before you start blaming the sick - well if you needed to be able to communicate that bad then you wouldn't mind carrying a clunky 'I've fallen and I can't get up' button everywhere you go, how is choosing to accept a risk like that different than choosing to eat some greasy pizza rather than 100% dietetic but highly unpalatable human kibble? They don't even make 100% dietetic human kibble, probably because nobody would eat Kibbles and Bits for humans even if it was good for them.
Speaking of which, that might not be a bad idea: Kibbles and Bits for humans. If you eat the measured amount of this per day, and nothing else, and drink nothing but water then you will get very decent nutrition given the current state of medical knowledge. It's dry dog food for people! It might not even taste awful, since it would be full of good stuff. Shit I see a business brewing here... Kibbles and Bits and Soylent Bits! If they could come up with different flavors, without changing the nutritional content then they might have a winner with people who don't want to think about what the hell they are eating, but still want to be healthy.
I'm posting as Anonymous Coward so you won't think I'm lying about my 185 IQ. As Anonymous Coward I have no (obvious) incentive to lie about it. I tested this years ago in kidnergarten, also, they gave me another brand of IQ test a few weeks later and it came out to 165ish.
Anyways, I too have been diagnosed with depression. I think they diagnose everyone with that if they can't come up with something better. Anyways, I don't know if IQ has anything to do with it in my case, because I took some IQ tests online more recently ( as an adult ) and have scored all over the board - 104, 155, 123, 133 ( I made those numbers up, but they are similar to the actual scores which I don't remember - I made up the 185 and 165 too because I don't remember the exact scores but they were thereabouts ).
Point being, IQ scores seem to be fairly unreliable at least in my case, and if they are effected by depression, then depression seems to have in my case driven them lower. If it works the other way with depressiveness being a cause of high IQ, then I must have been really depressed as a kidnerdgartener ( which I totally wasn't ). Maybe it's the world that makes you dumb. Or maybe it's just me that's gotten dumber. Or maybe IQ tests are dumb.
Japan has public health insurance. My Mom, who has US based health insurance happened to get sick while visiting in Japan and they fixed her up in a hospital courtesy of the Japanese taxpayers for free or close to it. She said the care was excellent.
Really? I wondered why since most laptops have myriad settings in their BIOS for power management that they say to turn off BIOS power management when using software power management. I always wondered what exactly was the advantage of using software power management at all. I mean why not turn off software power management and use the BIOS settings exclusively? Are these 'microoptimizations' the reason?
I guess I was used to using computable as my working definition of definable, but as I see in the article, that is nonstandard, and there is a distinction, though if it weren't for Richard's paradox using computable as a definition of definable would be appealing. Oops.
The probability that a specific program will halt is either 0 or 1.
Of course 'will' implies a possible wait of infinite time. Maybe a better way to say this is that the probability that a specific program will halt is either it will or it +++NO CARRIER+++...
'In the abstract' is probably key here. Maybe 'hypothetical number' would be a better tag for Omega? Hypothetical number might aptly describe the other uncomputables too.
Does anyone talk about Chaitin's number or merely things you could do with some number of digits of the probability that a random program would halt? If you had a way to specify that probability, distinguishing it from all other numbers, then it seems to me that you would have a way of computing Omega right there. Raise candidate number X. Are first 1 digits of candidate number X distinguishable from Omega? If yes then switch that (binary) digit to it's opposite. Now you have the first digit of Omega. Rinse and repeat for more digits. This would contradict Omega's being uncomputable, so no such method of distinguishing other numbers from Omega exists.
The probability that a specific program will halt is either 0 or 1. However the probability that a random string will represent a program that halts can only be known by having solved the halting problem. Since you haven't ( and can't ) solve the halting problem, then that probability is hypothetical. Because that probability is strictly hypothetical omega is hypothetical too. You never actually talk about Omega itself, only the things an Omega could do. You never talk about Omega specifically, only hypothetically. Maybe I should have said that you can only talk about uncomputables hypothetically?
At least this is my gut feeling. I'm not an expert. I didn't reply immediately because I wanted to think about it. Still I'm likely wrong.
Pattern could mean anything. One pattern that exists in the digits of Pi is that taken together they approach the ratio of the circumference of a circle to it's diameter to arbitrary precision.
Sometimes I wonder if the populations in developed countries are stable or falling because people in those countries easily find distraction from the biological imperatives that have driven people in the past.
The situation could be very similar to the situation with a certain Austrailian Jewel Beetle, which is in decline because the male of the species prefers discarded brown glass beer bottles to the shiny red female beetles. Could it be that modern life contains distractions equally effective at distracting humans from their biological imperitives ( not just sex )? Maybe all the stuff that seems 'environmentally unfriendly' to animals is equally 'environmentally unfriendly' to humans - even the stuff we crave - maybe especially the stuff we crave. There hasn't been heroin in nature - no crack - no television, not computers, no cheap easy grease fried food etc. What is neglected because these things satisfy our the biochemistry of our brains?
Holy shit. I can hear your voice in your comment. YOU are the comic book geek from The Simpsons.
How about instead of banning words, you learn to do that thing that differentiates humans from computer and learn to understand english with all it's vageries and complexities. Or is that too advanced for a simpleton like you?
It's always a good idea to have lots of laws on the books that everyone is breaking so if you get pissed at someone - ANYONE, then throwing the book at them is a good way to inflict damage/death. It keeps the peasants in line.
Coherent/incoherent. If Plato 'shoved a stake in their heart' ages ago, then they are incoherent upon a deep enough examination, so the religious nutjobs fall squarely in the 'evil' category by the article guy's definition. I doubt there's anybody - even philosophy profs that could confidently claim that they KNOW their belief system is coherent in the face of unlimited introspection. That would mean that actions that people take are either evil or good and which is essentially unknown to the doer. Whether you are truely more evil than good or more good than evil would be a matter of random chance. Are you right or wrong in your beliefs? The more coherent and systematic your beliefs then the more biased towards good or evil your actions are likely to be unless your beliefs about good and evil are utterly unrelated to actual good or evil. It's entirely possible that someone, doing their best to be good could have a stupid little off-by-one error somewhere deep in their 'soul' that anyone could make
which makes all their beliefs utterly wrong and all their actions utterly evil.
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What is a reputation for if not to withstand claims against it? If a reputation is unable to withstand baseless denounciations, then it wasn't worth a thing to begin with and so no compensation is due for harming it.
If a reputation is harmed because of claims that seem to be based upon evidence, then there are two reputations at stake, namely the claimant and the defendant. Both reputations are in question until the truth of the matter is resolved, which is as it should be. When/if the truth is clear, then the reputation that should be restored will be, and so will the reputation of the liar/idiot be destroyed. As it should be.
There is no need for the courts to intervene. Ever.
If Slander were legalized, then people would be more critical of possibly defamatory statements. They would wonder: Who wants me to believe this, and by following the buck, come to suspect the maker of the statement a being untrustworthy, effectively ending their ability to slander anyone, all without interference by the law.
At some point an average jack-o-lantern with elastics stretched over the hole will sound better than even the best strad. That is because at some point everything that is used will break.
Of course you are absolutely right. I can't believe I did that. Well, being a clutz yes I can. Anyway, it's certainly possible to copyright all 1x1 icons. And since any other icon will be built up of these, maybe there's a way to be a copyright troll after all..
Yeah eight by eight icons are 2^(8x8) possibilities not 2x8x8. I am an idiot.
oops. I just made a dumbass mistake. Damn it. I suck.
Even in 16 bit color the set of all possible 32x32 icons is 67,108,864 bytes, ( 67 megs )for 32 bit color it's 4,398,046,511,104 or 4 terabytes.
For 64x64 icons in 32 bit color, it's 17,592,186,044,416 bytes, or 17 terabytes.
I am surprised some copyright troll doesn't copyright the set of all 128 x 128 icons at 32 bit color depth ( comprising 70 terabytes ) and then sue everyone who uses a new icon in any product into oblivion. Every possible icon would be contained in one of those copyrighted icons either in whole or in part. It might be worthwhile to copyright commonly used lower color depths as well, though it shouldn't be strictly necessary.
Yes, but if the Windows CE pacemaker keeps someone alive longer than they would be alive without it, then it's still a net gain. Anyway, these things (helpme buttons) don't need to be up 100% of the time. They need to be up 0.0001% of the time, namely when they are needed. So if you need one of these things once every year, and the comodity device is up 99% of the time, then the odds of it being there when you need it every year for sixty eight years is 50%. The odds of it keeping you alive for 10 years are 90%. For someone whose expected lifespan is not much more than that, 90% is pretty good odds, especially if they weren't going to have any recourse to help otherwise.
I don't think you can eat ( drink ) nothing but ensure indefinately and stay healthy can you? Will you get all your fiber and calories as well as vitamins and protein and carbs and fats? It being a liquid I wonder if nothing but ensure would give you the shits.
Speaking of which, that might not be a bad idea: Kibbles and Bits for humans. If you eat the measured amount of this per day, and nothing else, and drink nothing but water then you will get very decent nutrition given the current state of medical knowledge. It's dry dog food for people! It might not even taste awful, since it would be full of good stuff. Shit I see a business brewing here... Kibbles and Bits and Soylent Bits! If they could come up with different flavors, without changing the nutritional content then they might have a winner with people who don't want to think about what the hell they are eating, but still want to be healthy.
I'd start by making a universe doll and then I'd start sticking pins into it to see if it screams.
I'm posting as Anonymous Coward so you won't think I'm lying about my 185 IQ. As Anonymous Coward I have no (obvious) incentive to lie about it. I tested this years ago in kidnergarten, also, they gave me another brand of IQ test a few weeks later and it came out to 165ish.
Anyways, I too have been diagnosed with depression. I think they diagnose everyone with that if they can't come up with something better. Anyways, I don't know if IQ has anything to do with it in my case, because I took some IQ tests online more recently ( as an adult ) and have scored all over the board - 104, 155, 123, 133 ( I made those numbers up, but they are similar to the actual scores which I don't remember - I made up the 185 and 165 too because I don't remember the exact scores but they were thereabouts ).
Point being, IQ scores seem to be fairly unreliable at least in my case, and if they are effected by depression, then depression seems to have in my case driven them lower. If it works the other way with depressiveness being a cause of high IQ, then I must have been really depressed as a kidnerdgartener ( which I totally wasn't ). Maybe it's the world that makes you dumb. Or maybe it's just me that's gotten dumber. Or maybe IQ tests are dumb.
Mozart Oz. You only have to think about the subtle crap if you're actually using it.
Japan has public health insurance. My Mom, who has US based health insurance happened to get sick while visiting in Japan and they fixed her up in a hospital courtesy of the Japanese taxpayers for free or close to it. She said the care was excellent.
Really? I wondered why since most laptops have myriad settings in their BIOS for power management that they say to turn off BIOS power management when using software power management. I always wondered what exactly was the advantage of using software power management at all. I mean why not turn off software power management and use the BIOS settings exclusively? Are these 'microoptimizations' the reason?
I guess I was used to using computable as my working definition of definable, but as I see in the article, that is nonstandard, and there is a distinction, though if it weren't for Richard's paradox using computable as a definition of definable would be appealing. Oops.
Of course 'will' implies a possible wait of infinite time. Maybe a better way to say this is that the probability that a specific program will halt is either it will or it +++NO CARRIER+++...
'In the abstract' is probably key here. Maybe 'hypothetical number' would be a better tag for Omega? Hypothetical number might aptly describe the other uncomputables too.
Does anyone talk about Chaitin's number or merely things you could do with some number of digits of the probability that a random program would halt? If you had a way to specify that probability, distinguishing it from all other numbers, then it seems to me that you would have a way of computing Omega right there. Raise candidate number X. Are first 1 digits of candidate number X distinguishable from Omega? If yes then switch that (binary) digit to it's opposite. Now you have the first digit of Omega. Rinse and repeat for more digits. This would contradict Omega's being uncomputable, so no such method of distinguishing other numbers from Omega exists.
The probability that a specific program will halt is either 0 or 1. However the probability that a random string will represent a program that halts can only be known by having solved the halting problem. Since you haven't ( and can't ) solve the halting problem, then that probability is hypothetical. Because that probability is strictly hypothetical omega is hypothetical too. You never actually talk about Omega itself, only the things an Omega could do. You never talk about Omega specifically, only hypothetically. Maybe I should have said that you can only talk about uncomputables hypothetically?
At least this is my gut feeling. I'm not an expert. I didn't reply immediately because I wanted to think about it. Still I'm likely wrong.
That we can talk about it at all means pi is a computable number. Most of the reals, being uncomputable can't even be talked about.
Pattern could mean anything. One pattern that exists in the digits of Pi is that taken together they approach the ratio of the circumference of a circle to it's diameter to arbitrary precision.
Sometimes I wonder if the populations in developed countries are stable or falling because people in those countries easily find distraction from the biological imperatives that have driven people in the past.
The situation could be very similar to the situation with a certain Austrailian Jewel Beetle, which is in decline because the male of the species prefers discarded brown glass beer bottles to the shiny red female beetles. Could it be that modern life contains distractions equally effective at distracting humans from their biological imperitives ( not just sex )? Maybe all the stuff that seems 'environmentally unfriendly' to animals is equally 'environmentally unfriendly' to humans - even the stuff we crave - maybe especially the stuff we crave. There hasn't been heroin in nature - no crack - no television, not computers, no cheap easy grease fried food etc. What is neglected because these things satisfy our the biochemistry of our brains?
Holy shit. I can hear your voice in your comment. YOU are the comic book geek from The Simpsons.
How about instead of banning words, you learn to do that thing that differentiates humans from computer and learn to understand english with all it's vageries and complexities. Or is that too advanced for a simpleton like you?
It's always a good idea to have lots of laws on the books that everyone is breaking so if you get pissed at someone - ANYONE, then throwing the book at them is a good way to inflict damage/death. It keeps the peasants in line.
Ha ha.
Good as in good for me. A free lunch. That's what a fish sees in a baited hook.