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961.
by SolarNet 13y ago
This (seconds being a universal unit of time regardless of planet lived on) is exactly the situation described in Vernor Vinge's (a CS professor) "A Deepness in the Sky".
962.
by SolarNet 13y ago
This seems to remind me of the SHE from Vernor Vinge's Rainbows End. Obviously we are a ways away from that, but this is an interesting step in that direction.
963.
by SolarNet 13y ago
The government* is also trying to kill USPS by placing unreasonable pension requirements on it. Sort of hard to justify that when you actually start needing it to fight crime. *The people elected to run it.
964.
by SolarNet 13y ago
Your argument assumes that individual bitcoins exist... Bitcoin ties a number to a script. By providing a cryptographic key for that script you can add that number with some other numbers from other scripts and then divide that value into n
965.
by SolarNet 13y ago
In this case it looks like you could have a great view.
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by SolarNet 13y ago
But in this case the you that's worried about security is the social security administration for the state. The real problem with the argument is that it's hard for people to set up their own secure mail servers, but organizations
967.
by SolarNet 13y ago
First, where is your evidence of this opinion, I provided links to two sources describing the modern state of Executive powers and you basically call me naive without specifically refuting my evidence or points. Second, the ACA (AKA Obamaca
968.
by SolarNet 13y ago
If they were legal at the time, then no, he was doing his job, congress would be responsible. To clarify, PRISM and related programs are completely legal via the FISA bill ( http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/110
969.
by SolarNet 13y ago
Not since nixon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Budget_and_Impoun... Also, he must execute the law faithfully, if the Congress gives him the power to use secret courts to wire-tap people he is expected to u
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by SolarNet 13y ago
I hope people, and indeed the senator, realizes that the people he is talking about are senators and congressmen, not the president who did his duty and executed the 20 million dollar PRISM budget forced on him by congress.
971.
by SolarNet 13y ago
Many early employees are truly better called founders, just ones that didn't officially work at the company until after it's founding. He could have been moonlighting for them, he may have helped come up with the original idea, or work with
972.
by SolarNet 13y ago
Don't forget 4) they can leave the market. It's not something they are forced to do in anyway, it is a voluntary choice to continue serving that market.
973.
by SolarNet 13y ago
Someone mentioned this somewhere else, but the beauty for print news organizations is that they can print the address physically in their paper.
974.
by SolarNet 13y ago
Notch does pretty well at attracting viewers when he codes live.
975.
by SolarNet 13y ago
Bitcoin is decentralized, no one can reissue bit coins because no one runs bitcoin. If he lost his private keys (his "wallet") than he looses all of the coins associated with it.
976.
by SolarNet 14y ago
I know it's a joke, but why are languages so damn stuck on syntax. Why can't it be a one line change for person A to have () and person B to have [] (and person C have <>, or {}), and then have tools which automatically translate be
977.
by SolarNet 14y ago
Maybe they ran out of non-gibberish readable things to OCR?
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by SolarNet 14y ago
Wow, bbc is really hard up for news huh? I really loved this quote: '"... it's the typical height at which people ski in the Alps," Ian Johnston says (though many skiers also ski at lower altitudes).' Really? I would never have guessed...
979.
by SolarNet 14y ago
At my university our machines are dual booted with unix, users, students, will swap between them as needed. Causing booting to be a rather common occurrence.
980.
by SolarNet 14y ago
I sort of wish the news reporter would do their own damn job and ask a security consultant.
981.
by SolarNet 14y ago
Because the current legal environment the site's legal status is ambiguous. (And hence could be (and likely is in this case) illegal) Model release forms (if those are what they sound like) unambiguously state that what is going on is agree
982.
by SolarNet 14y ago
I realize how this violates relativity, but I don't understand your counter example (if it was one?) because I wasn't talking about absolute time frames, I'm talking about going forward in time when going FTL. And at no point in my example
983.
by SolarNet 14y ago
This is why I hate all modern programming languages (I'm actually writing an article on that >.>). The conclusion to this article is the same as many others. Programming language feature X is better in situation A and Programming la
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by SolarNet 14y ago
But is it really important that it looks like you arrived after you left? Can't we just know that the light from one thing took longer to reach us than the other so what we are seeing is just an artifact of FTL. Can that prevent causality?
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by SolarNet 14y ago
That depends on what the outside of a warp bubble looks like. Since it's bending space all over the place, it may not be observable from outside.
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by SolarNet 14y ago
So This may not be an FTL drive, but the way I always sort of pictured it is that the FTL moves you forward in time to the relative observer (so if you move distance x you move (c/x)^-1 forward in time). So if you send an FTL courier (assum
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by SolarNet 14y ago
I think it has to do with Microsoft's recent social kick (everyone is on that kick lately >.>) and it also uses the visual style from IE's recent ads. (Like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFE4rkSaKOY )
988.
by SolarNet 14y ago
Of course with a little makeup and hair styling you can prevent facial recognition software: http://cvdazzle.com/ I bet we will be seeing some interesting hairstyles, like those above, in counter culture after facial recognition software
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The Pi Manifesto - No, really, pi is right(thepimanifesto.com)
1 points by SolarNet 15y ago|0 comments
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by SolarNet 15y ago
On average I will make more money than any other 4 year degree at my school (According to our schools alum association). I am part of a profession that has created a significant amount of recent world wide change, like Facebook, Twitter, Go

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