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541.
by sesqu 15y ago
Hunches are/used to be a big part of police work. When you just know they're guilty, you're not going to let them get away with it if there's anything you can do.
542.
by sesqu 15y ago
Right. And how would you characterize the 4-dimensional extension, in terms of the first three? Or do you simply draw the line at two dimensions, figuring that's as much as anyone will ever need?
543.
by sesqu 15y ago
That's not the point. The attack relies on some nonconforming decoders exhibiting a many-to-one mapping of bitstreams to codepoints, changing the semantics of the bistream.
544.
by sesqu 15y ago
I wonder if it would suffice to highlight characters not found in the primary font. I don't know how, exactly, fonts fallthrough, but I doubt most fonts venture outside locales.
545.
by sesqu 15y ago
They've gone back and forth on this. It is a serious security issue, but for people who regularly use non-ascii characters, it's a usability issue. A blacklist might be a usable compromise, but I bet it would feel terribly confusing - in pa
546.
by sesqu 15y ago
On my keyboard, it's '-a, with ' in a place that's easy to hit accidentally, and since it's combining, it doesn't print. I suspect some layouts might have OPTION-a, which would be almost as easy a mistake to make.
547.
by sesqu 15y ago
No, I certainly do mean to regard matrices as a special case of vectors. While it's true that one rarely needs more than 3 dimensions to their array, I see no point in setting an upper limit.
548.
by sesqu 15y ago
3) When an employee of a company publicly defends that company without disclosing their financial interest, I find it difficult to believe it just didn't cross their mind.
549.
by sesqu 15y ago
I'd just like to point out that the application he architechts is for marketing, so it's not exactly unrelated. That said, I don't much mind either way.
550.
by sesqu 15y ago
I don't think you should consider vectors a special case of matrices - that makes tensors difficult to handle. The other way around generalizes better.
551.
by sesqu 15y ago
No, that's exactly what lead to these situations. If you choose the winning tickets first, the player may have access to observed numbers of winners or your potential filler algorithm. That information must be accounted for by the design.
552.
by sesqu 15y ago
It was recently argued that the initial assessment of the severity of the downturn was wildly off (by 4% of GDP), and that led to poor strategy formulation by Washington.
553.
by sesqu 15y ago
I'm under the impression that's not true. Looking at http://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/missions/clementine/images/ I see a smoother surface on the earth side. I also found on the Internet some paired images from different cameras, which of co
554.
by sesqu 15y ago
Sure it does. And since most smart people prefer eating over starving as well, that preference also suggests that you are smart. If you combine these suggestions with an assertion of excluded third, you can say that a preference for eating
555.
by sesqu 15y ago
Yes. "Fail" as a noun is a widespread internet meme, that has shown enough longevity to potentially enter the lexicon permanently. This is language in the making.
556.
by sesqu 15y ago
I do some of my shopping in the corner store, and some in the nearby business cluster that has, among others, 4 supermarkets. I'd guess real estate, loyalty programs and product offerings outweigh proximity, in the case of foodstuffs.
557.
by sesqu 15y ago
China was in the Second World.
558.
by sesqu 15y ago
But that's pretty much only because of the UK. There are a few countries that are supposed to be in the schengen area but aren't, a few countries that got in because it would have been impractical to keep them out, and the EU countries exce
559.
by sesqu 15y ago
There are comments that I feel deserve 5-10 votes, but not 100.
560.
by sesqu 15y ago
No, it cannot.
561.
by sesqu 15y ago
There's more to pseudonyms than legal reasons. What I write on the internet stays there, and I expect people to google my real name, but I do not wish to have all of my lives linked together. For example, if I'd have to use my real name, I
562.
by sesqu 15y ago
I seem to recall a comment somewhere from a Sony employee about how they already have one, it's just that many websites are built by the individual product teams (often marketing).
563.
by sesqu 15y ago
Fair enough. I wasn't entirely satisfied with the word, but it was close enough. I meant that the words you (and others I read before) chose were of the polarizing variety, the kinds that people end up using in mobs. That is to say, instead
564.
by sesqu 15y ago
There is no form of protest that does not affect other people and lost revenue is not damage. Your comment reads very mobbish. You are free to disagree with the opinion of the DDoSers that PayPal punished Wikileaks because of close ties wit
565.
by sesqu 15y ago
The News of the World scandal going on now is, to some extent, about guessing the password. However, they were guessing passwords like 0000, which probably isn't quite what you had in mind.
566.
by sesqu 15y ago
The best thing about public transport in cities is that you don't need parking space. Hunting for parking space can easily take more time than you save by getting directly to your destination, and public parking can be quite expensive. That
567.
by sesqu 15y ago
He sold it a week ago. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230458400457642...
568.
by sesqu 15y ago
Version control over e-mail would hit that 7MB/day limit easily, when dealing with image formats. Makes sense.
569.
by sesqu 15y ago
Okay, I'll try to grasp at my thoughts again. Algebraically, 12 is not the same as 10+2. 12 is an element of, say, ℤ, while 10+2 is one of <+,ℤ²>. To make them interchangeable, we need to establish an equivalence relation. Given tha
570.
by sesqu 15y ago
The two-glyph thing is a matter of description length and parametrization. 10+2 is an expression, whereas 10 is also a constant that is the base of our number system. Thus, 10 carries more meaning than 12, even though both are constant - 10

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