Posts by JeffyPoooh 4286 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Jun 2013
AC wrote "add blocking"
add = addition
ad = advertisement
Tom Scott does a nice video rant about the dangers of electronic voting. One possible upside of e-voting could be that everyone's online e-vote could be weighted down based on, for example, how often they use 'add' to mean 'advertisement', or using the wrong 'there, they're, their' word.
@Flocke Kroes
Your post reads quite similar to the 'logic' of why "rockets cannot possibly work in a vacuum", circa Robert Goddard's time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_H._Goddard#New_York_Times_editorial
@Y'all
Nobody seems to have an issue with 'pressure' from light. But we're all stumped why there could be some infinitesimal force from a microwave horn? None of you ever got the memo about the EM spectrum? If solar flux or "laser" beams can push a light sail (widely accepted, I believe it's been proven), then there should be an infinitesimally small force by the EM emission from a microwave horn. Obviously (Light and microwaves are the same thing. Just different wavelengths.).
I'm not saying anything about the numbers. Just the concept.
...But we're happy to propose 'light sails' and speak about using "laser beams" (sans sharks) to propel little spacecraft towards nearby star systems.
'Yeah, but that's Light and this is Microwaves which are completely different things. Light is photons and microwaves aren't...'
Sigh...
So keep the $190. Spend the $100. Reinstall a clean OS onto the new SSD. Purchase any sort of $10 adapter to interface the HDD to the laptop, use for Backup Images. Use the leftover $80 for a nice dinner.
Win - clean install.
Win - SSD.
Win - Backup HDD.
Win - nice dinner.
Maybe Facebook, YouTube, and the like, have started silently deleting files that nobody would ever notice have gone missing?
Perhaps NetFlix is switching to h.265?
Perhaps the exponential growth of capacity per drive has overtaken the rate of content generation?
Oh, yeah. Windows 8 or higher ...
I've read that he's got a vast archive of as-yet unreleased material. Likely worth hundreds of millions.
According to Wiki, he wasn't presently married and had no surviving children. Who will inherit his wealth and future income?
It's very sad when such talent dies young. Almost by definition, effectively irreplaceable.
Ah, I found it. This is where it all went wrong.
"...we have a responsibility to keep people safe..."
There's no limit to the amount of daft-evil that could be unleashed from this starting point.
"It's for your own protection...", he said, as he herded the last few citizens into their pens, and locked them in. "You'll be safe here. Good night." Then he turned, and walked away. Out into his very lonely and potentially dangerous freedom.
"...what it does to improve boot times..."
It's an indictment of OS designers (if not humanity in general) that anyone can still form the phrase 'improve boot times' in the year 2016. This topic should have optimized into being a complete non-issue at least a decade or two ago.
That it's still being done in such a time-wasteful manner is indicative of something deeply negative.
Root problem is that judges and courts have geographically-based jurisdiction, and of course the Internet isn't geographically-based.
Additionally, in this case, it's this entire united 'states' thingy, where the individual states have far too much power. Them giving up on the Monarchy was a huge mistake.
A solution might be either a court with jurisdiction over the entire (USA) Internet, or a SCOTUS ruling to define the applicable jurisdiction, perhaps based on the address of the server itself.
nautica implied that "...Microsoft has....killed the PC..." ...plus the Penguin icon.
Yes. And given that, it's funny how everyone hasn't immediately switched to Linux.
That in itself should be 'food for thought' for the Linux crowd. As in: What are they still doing wrong?
A veritable surplus of 'case study' topics here.
Mandatory viewing: 'Why Electronic Voting is a BAD Idea'
Crikey. The next Prime Minister of New Zealand will some chap named 'Boaty McBoatface', running for the 'Marblecake Always The Game' Party.
Given that the crackers can crack these sorts of "10^77 years" IT Security thingies in about five weeks, a good quantum computing system should be able to crack it in an hour.
Past time for DARPA to set the rules for a formal competition. Clear away the smoke and mirrors.
Drone hits British Airways plane approaching Heathrow Airport
ratfox "...it would take over 10^77 years..."
10^77 years? WOW. AN AMAZING COINCIDENCE !!! That's EXACTLY how long it'll take to break into the famous iPhone 5C held by the FBI. The one that was cracked a week or two ago...
Jeffy's 10^77 Year IT Security Rule:
All IT Security schemes require exactly 10^77 years to crack, or about five weeks (whichever comes first).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gocwRvLhDf8
He explained how YouTube's 11 characters of 64-space each helps to ensure against the brevity vs. brute force issue.
Same thing. 11 good. 6 not good enough.
Then again, security through obscurity is useless anyway.
@Paul 129 "...an either/or affair."
Offering Somalia as a SF alternative counterexample to exemplify Uber's explicitly professed worldview is sort-of like a 'reductio ad absurdum' rebuttal. I'm holding up Somalia as a mirror to Uber's entire business model. It's not me that's the 'either/or' extremist.
In the context of Uber, the Somalia reference is perfectly fair. Uber explicitly wishes to operate free of any and all government regulation. On this point, they're indisputably extremists. They want extreme freedom. So they should move their HQ to downtown Mogadishu. It's a fair comment on *their* extreme worldview.
Personally, I'm an 'Extremist Moderate' (i.e. not really extremist, except in moderation). By way of evidence, I appear to have invented the concept that the Left/Right Political Spectrum is actually bent into a circle, with indistinguishable L/R (who cares?) extremist spittle-laced loons on the far side. I believe it's a very illuminating idea.
My next project is searching for the third axis of politics, to form a 3D sphere surface, or perhaps it's a 3D spherical volume. I suspect that the 3rd axis of politics will be an up/down intelligence scale where, again, the very clever consolidate into one indistinguishable point at the top, and the very dumb consolidate into another indistinguishable point at the bottom.
Taking it further, perhaps these two Top/Bottom points narrow into thin tubes that join (internally or externally? Not clear...), making (overall) some sort of torus. The extremely clever and the extremely dumb are sometimes indistinguishable. Genius and lunacy are often adjacent.
Anyway, sorry that my 'Somalia' post was too brief, and that it caused confusion about my views.
PS. Did you notice my Somalia post was 'AC' with the Beer Bottle icon? Bug is apparently now fixed, due to responsible disclosure upon discovery.
"If..."?
You know that 'There's an App for that' ?
Scroll through Uber app, select the next rule-breaker. Beckon them over.
Note: The Business Licence obviously needs to include the 'Doing Business As...' field, with the Driver's Uber ID filled in. Then it's trivial to enforce the rules, enforced by reference to the app itself.
"...ensure that new box manufacturers are not able to replace content providers' ads."
The Cable or Satellite TV companies (in Canada) have occasionally done exactly that. That's on top of the Canadian TV channel clumsily replacing ads on the USA originated broadcast.
A third layer of ad replacement would be amusing.
A great loss. Condolences to his family. Too young.
The subtitle of his ebook '...without all the hot air' reminds me of the energy storage concept where the heat generated by compression of air is captured and stored separately. Then upon release of the compressed air, the heat can be reinserted. Increased efficiency overall.
Ref. Lightsail.com
I'm sure that he'd want people to share pointers to such concepts, in case they're useful.
@Richard Tobin
Well spotted. Fantastic example of attentive numeracy. Kudos to you.
Therefore there are some serious Significant Figures mistakes in the data.
"86 tonnes" of cobalt would actually be 'about 190,000 pounds'.
189,544 pounds.of cobalt would require precisely 85.9757 tonnes.
Which is unlikely. Given the context.
"You can't get anything smaller than a Quark..."
Strings (as in 'String Theory', or arguably 'String Theology'), if they exist, are many orders of magnitude smaller than quarks.
Beneath strings are, of course, recursively-supported turtles. So obviously, God programmed the Universe in Logo. Last-Thursdayism is thus constrained to post-1967.
...manufacturing the $2 SOC that'll be the high performance PC embedded right into the HDMI connector.
They'd better focus on self-driving cars, since those will need TFLOPS of processing to deal with the last 5% of the total real world driving problem space. E.g. Russia, India, Bhutan.
The subtle but critical thing that the Arduino folks did was loading the 'Blink' program into the production hardware by default.
Making an LED blink is the PRINT "HELLO WORLD!" of embedded software.
Arranging to have an on-board LED blink upon simply powering up the board, and providing the source code for 'first steps' IDE experimentation, saves at least a day (or perhaps twelve) on the initial learning curve for noobies.
It's very subtle, but hugely important. Whoever thought of doing it is a subtle genius.
"[Arduino] clones are sent free from China, looking at the Intel, I can buy it from mouser for €13.53 but with a shipping charge of €20!"
Organizations like the Raspberry Pi folks, and here Intel, need to ship these gadgets in bulk to somewhere in Asia for distribution, where they can then be shipped anywhere on Earth for a dollar or two.
Please don't ask me why shipping in one direction is nearly free and shipping in the other direction always costs $£€20. I have no idea. It's the exact same people and vehicles, they're just facing in the other direction. This asymmetry in shipping fees only exacerbates the Balance of Trade issue. It'd be well worth looking into this mystery.
cray74 "I wonder how they sort out all the noise?"
There are some very nice audio samples of the raw Advanced LIGO audio signal available on-line. The raw signals are dominated by all sorts of artifacts, such as the 'Violin Mode' oscillation of the suspension strings. They do a lot of filtering with the usual Signal Processing tricks. That's after spending millions on the isolation hardware.
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