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811.
by bloaf 13y ago
"Another possible application of memristors is logic circuits. Memristors can be used in hybrid CMOS-memristor circuits, or as a standalone logic gate. One notable logic application is using memristors in an FPGA, as configurable switc
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by bloaf 13y ago
For an example of just how counter-intuitive infinity is, consider Hilbert's Grand Hotel. If a hotel has a countably infinite number of rooms, all of which are full, the hotel can still house new guests. In fact, it can accept a coun
813.
by bloaf 13y ago
Then please propose the nonviolent solution.
814.
by bloaf 13y ago
If you took the time to think things through, the answer is already contained in my post. The US is not allowed to assassinate any US citizen it wants. If a criminal were hiding in Canada (or any other country with a reliable police force)
815.
by bloaf 13y ago
>Tracking them until they hop on a plane That sort of approach gets tried from time to time (e.g. the ATF's "Fast and Furious" program) but it has problems of its own. What if they never get on a plane? There are US faci
816.
by bloaf 13y ago
Yes. The US government is not in charge of keeping Pakistanis safe, it is in charge of keeping US citizens safe. If the Pakistanis don't like this arrangement, they should deal with the terrorists themselves.
817.
by bloaf 13y ago
Most people I see comfortably opining on drone strikes seem to be doing so without the discomfort of thinking the issue through. My thought process is this: Say the US were to find evidence that a Canadian terrorist group was planning an a
818.
by bloaf 13y ago
Gangs, civilians, and terrorists are not governmental entities and therefore not military. A state-sanctioned terrorist attack would likely be considered a military action by that state. Organized violence against a foreign country by cit
819.
by bloaf 13y ago
The CIA explicitly has no law enforcement capability. Their killing therefore does not represent the enforcement of any law and as such does not require a trial. Their killing is therefore a military action.
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by bloaf 13y ago
Show me a war in which no civilians died. It's easy to use weasel words like "indiscriminate," its hard to be responsible for people's lives. "It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond o
821.
by bloaf 13y ago
The military does not give trials to the people it kills. Drone strikes are a military action.
822.
by bloaf 13y ago
If nothing else, they might be a good audience for Valve's older employees to bounce ideas off of. They could provide information about what teens (a big consumer of Valve's products) want and think are cool.
823.
by bloaf 13y ago
http://www.abelhadigital.com/hostsman A decent hosts file manager.
824.
by bloaf 13y ago
>Science, by comparison, is young. The age of literature makes it static; there is no hurry to participate. I can pursue literature leisurely (and with very little financial investment) over the course of my lifetime. Science, on the o
825.
by bloaf 13y ago
Zotero has a feature which will attempt to read metadata from a PDF and create a bibliographic reference for the PDF. It also has a feature which allows you to rename the PDF based on the bibliographic reference it creates. Using those two
826.
by bloaf 13y ago
Wouldn't that have huge problems with durability? A single scratch could render a lot of data unreadable.
827.
by bloaf 13y ago
Yes, I wonder about that too. Greenwald seems to be very eager to tell us that Snowden has more than has been released. The implication is that the rest of the information is too dangerous to release. Apart from the two immediate question
828.
by bloaf 13y ago
I wonder what I would have done if I were in Snowden's shoes. I've seen something that is personally troubling, ambiguously legal, and possibly abused by analysts without oversight. That something is ostensibly the recording of
829.
by bloaf 13y ago
What if a company told all its customers this: "We only have the capability to record your activity on server X. Currently you are using server Y. Click here to be re-assigned servers." In other words, if such a company got an w
830.
by bloaf 13y ago
Indeed. Consider someone is planning on going to an Occupy Wall Street protest. Say that the government is monitoring that persons emails and finds that the person wrote to a fellow protester: "man, fuck corporations, I can't wa
831.
by bloaf 13y ago
>Why should Mark Zuckerberg, et al., know things about you that the government shouldn't? Zuckerberg can't indict me. I don't pay taxes to Facebook. There are powers that the government has that Facebook does not, and the
832.
by bloaf 13y ago
According to the NY Times >employees whose job it is to comply with FISA requests are not allowed to discuss the details even with others at the company So it is possible that executives are not allowed to know what data their companies
833.
by bloaf 13y ago
I would like this: The only requests for information to which we respond are requests that contain the full name(s) of the people whose data is requested.
834.
by bloaf 13y ago
What is to stop Google from simply giving the FBI the runaround for as long as it takes to get the legality sorted out. They could agree to give them the data and then cite technical difficulties, bureaucratic red tape, and other mistakes
835.
by bloaf 13y ago
I'm going to guess that they are orders of magnitude safer than gas stations. Firstly: no ground pollution. Gas stations are terrible for the land they are built on as they leak lots of organic compounds into the soil. Secondarily: no larg
836.
by bloaf 13y ago
It sounds like the regulators think that manufacturers are eager to sell unsafe self-driving cars to consumers. I highly doubt that is the case. Bad press and reactionary legislation early on in the life of self-driving cars could signifi
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by bloaf 13y ago
"They" refers to google.
838.
by bloaf 13y ago
Sometimes I do it to try and get the program to crash instead of just hang. Software is pretty stable these days, so sometimes it feels good to see a complete crash to the desktop.
839.
by bloaf 13y ago
I'm sitting on a free 25 GB from Microsoft's initial skydrive offering. Google probably won't increase it until there is some sort of challenger out there. As it stands, they are offering more space than all their competitors, so its doub
840.
by bloaf 13y ago
Incidentally, Eve is the source of my favorite overflow bug! By putting a ship into a region of space that reduces the range of its weapons and using various range-debuffs, players were able to decrease the range of certain weapons by enou

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