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by woodman 11y ago
I was actually kind of close to that, the incident got added to the long list of examples provided to the enlisted. It is incredibly stressful for a PFC when he has to ruin an officer's day, knowing that they'll not be thrown und
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by woodman 11y ago
Like most things, it depends. In the USMC infantry the general orders are pretty relevant to daily activity (all the way up to Sgt), so practical application reinforces the learning. I can still rattle off the definition and justification
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by woodman 11y ago
> ...where we need true/false answer rather than Unknown. If you've set things up with that sort of constraint, then you've set yourself up for failure - Gödel's incompleteness theorems [0]. I think OWA is the only w
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by woodman 11y ago
> You can't assume automated systems will behave "reasonably". Well, automated systems constructed by people - as ontology construction and semantic reasoner writing is primarily a human activity (... yeah I see it). It w
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by woodman 11y ago
That essay isn't very convincing. All of his examples of logical failures would only work with the most poorly defined ontology and the most brain dead reasoner, which is probably why he described everything using the term "syllo
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by woodman 11y ago
Without even considering our present situation from a moral perspective, but simply acknowledging the pattern you just pointed out, it is obvious that there is a deep systemic flaw. Of course there is the very old argument of the apologist
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by woodman 11y ago
> ... you can comfortably assume its probably encrypted. Or compressed, so you'd need to be able to detect every compression format ever created. I imagine that any time somebody serializes a succinct data structure [0], you'r
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by woodman 11y ago
It isn't trivial actually. Detection would be a multipass process, the first pass would be a measurement of entropy, which would also flag compressed data (which would be very common). The second pass being magic number detection (fi
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by woodman 11y ago
Hear-hear. Aside from a big directory of ascii text files, I can't think of a more future proof method of storage. So sqlite has that going for it, in addition to the extension API - which is awesome. I recently had to write some in
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by woodman 11y ago
From what I've seen, the government has generally avoided engaging with folks in the Sovereign Citizen camp. And with that in mind, I agree with you - they'll do the same thing with this. As long as 99% of people comply, why wou
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by woodman 11y ago
First I'd consider it from the angle of legislator intent, instead of attributing compulsion to an abstract concept (law). The question is then much closer to reality: "Am I behaving in a way that pleases the legislators?"
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by woodman 11y ago
Yes, a US soldier was blinded by an Iraqi in Desert Strom [0]. The article doesn't cover it, but as I remember it, the laser was part of a tank laser range finding system - not a purpose build blinding device (the Chinese were openly
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by woodman 11y ago
As someone who has ADD: yes, font lingo. It has to do with render alignment and the fact that pixels aren't round. It is amazing the level of complexity underlying font rendering, look at the internals for lcd filter weights some tim
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by woodman 11y ago
> As you say, upscaling is lossy (de)compression As are eye witness accounts, which have been demonstrated to be pretty useless. As are fingerprints, a tiny sliver of (maybe?[0]) uniquely identifiable information. As are autopsies, where
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by woodman 11y ago
The "manual guidance in between" is where CSI is so incredibly screwed up though (toolmark and fingerprint examiners, polygraph operators, etc). The only criminal science that is actually reliable has cut humans out of the loop (
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by woodman 11y ago
This upscaling can be considered a form of lossy compression. The pixelated images, while ugly, contain more information - the process cannot be reversed due to this loss of information. > You also wouldn't want to use this to guid
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by woodman 11y ago
Proof of work. Every email the spammer sends out would need to be properly encrypted (or else the target wouldn't see your ads). This would actually put a lot of control in the hands of the user - set the amount of work required to m
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by woodman 12y ago
> Apply for a job and change it from within. That is a nice thought, but it doesn't really work that way. Most organizations don't have the flexibility required to make that a possibility (due to constraints of mission and eff
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by woodman 12y ago
I'm surprised to hear that this is a problem for the Navy, because it certainly wasn't a problem in the Marine Corps (a department of the Navy). Table top exercises were pushed all the way down to the lowest level in the infantry
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by woodman 12y ago
This is such a horrible idea, I don't even know where to start. I'm not even worried about the long term consequences of this service, it is going to fail gloriously. How do I know this? Because it has has happened so many time
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by woodman 12y ago
Can you give an example of a config file being used for what you're describing? Because I've always written software to treat config files like #defines that don't need a recompile, and maybe setup a variable number of stric
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by woodman 12y ago
> Couching this in difficulties on the developers part is not a long term viable complaint. Maybe if IE was the only browser available on Windows, but it isn't. "Developers, developers, developers, developers." - Steve Bal
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by woodman 12y ago
Are you really looking to get into it with lists about which sock puppet espouses which form of oppression? Sorry, not interested.
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by woodman 12y ago
Yeah, because conservatives love the expansion of government oversight... Both political ideologies, liberal and conservative, want to control you - so lets not pretend that isn't the case.
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by woodman 12y ago
Don't? This is the wrong layer to apply the fix. Also, this method of spidering/cataloging would only prevent the most naively implemented worm from propagating.
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by woodman 12y ago
http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Skype-with-care-M...
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by woodman 12y ago
> That's exactly the kind of thinking that leads to global nuclear annihilation ... That is the kind of thinking that ends wars. Compare the results of this method in WWII to the results of modern warfare, where force is much more
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by woodman 12y ago
> The only justification for the fire bombings and nuclear bombings that has any possible merit is that they were necessary to end the war. That doesn't work in real life. In order to know what level of force is necessary, one has
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by woodman 12y ago
I admit that I don't know a great deal about the Soviet angle, but it doesn't seem to logically fit. By that I mean: why would the Japanese be more afraid of a Soviet invasion than an American invasion? I know that Japanese sold
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by woodman 12y ago
> So the US killed 500,000 civilians because they didn't weren't willing to negotiate That is debatable, but not by you, as you seem to be missing the point. Negotiating with irrational actors is risky - burning them to death,

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