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by simpleTruth 15y ago
If you've got physical access to the machine in the cage you can do anything you want, which includes bypassing BIOS and Bootloader passwords in about 5 minutes. That assumes you have unlimited physical access. 5 minutes per machine * 80
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by simpleTruth 15y ago
It's not a 84K airplane it's a 30k car + (84 - 30)K airplane. I bought a vary nice car even though I only drive ~5K miles a year. I could sell my car and add an extra ~800-1000$ a month to be able to fly on the weekends, but paying ~90K +
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by simpleTruth 15y ago
IMO a reasonable test is: If a patent can be used to sue one company it may be patentable. If it can be used to sue 100 companies working on separate products it's probably obvious. Basically, you can't prove 1 person did not read it. But
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by simpleTruth 15y ago
Or it uses replaceable nozzles which also solves that problem. Anyway, welding robots have been in use for a long time so I expect the basic mechanics to have already been worked out. PS: how much longer it takes might be less important
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by simpleTruth 15y ago
Past performance is no indication of future performance. Looking back, buying Microsoft in 2000 with a P/E of 60 was a stupid thing to do. But, that says nothing about buying it today with a P/E of 10. IMO, Microsoft is a great value pla
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by simpleTruth 15y ago
Talking about Math as a single subject is like talking about Sports. Chess, Boxing, Baseball, Snowboarding, Curling, and Luge may have some things in common. However, suggesting that DiffEq and Fractions are equally meaningless to most peo
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by simpleTruth 15y ago
You missed an important part of that: "Facebook’s closest competitor is Yahoo’s network of sites, which claimed 10.1% of the market. Google, which is still relatively new to the display business, had 2.5%."
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by simpleTruth 15y ago
I brought it up because people actually believe it. As you noticed both resolution and time are important limitations. You don't get to arbitrarily examine things at any resolution or for any length of time. Stick a AI up to a webcam at
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by simpleTruth 15y ago
Science is based on evidence NOT reasoning. Thinking about problems don't provide new information. It's the same basic fallacy as assuming a really really powerful AI could deduce QM from a few minutes of webcam footage.
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by simpleTruth 15y ago
Yea, I was thinking of the whole DC sniper thing. There was a similar indecent at an army base (fort hood), but the random nature of the targets and the length of time between attacks was far more threatening to people. I could see a chang
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by simpleTruth 15y ago
I have no idea how you can measure such things, but several serial killers have terrorized large areas for fairly long periods of time. 9/11 may have been dramatic, but it was over fairly quickly so the terror was short lived, and it als
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by simpleTruth 15y ago
Meaningful amounts of Mater + antimatter produces extreme amounts of radiation, and takes ridiculous amounts of energy to produce. To put things into perspective, 1kg (~2.2lb) of antimater + 1kg of matter = 2* (9×10^16 J/kg) of energy, TNT
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by simpleTruth 15y ago
The general assumption with SSD is you have both a SSD and a traditional HDD. As long as you only have program and temp files on a SSD it's loss can have fairly minimal impact. Especially, if you schedule a full disk backup of your SSD we
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by simpleTruth 15y ago
Just a FYI. I have personally read a lot of negative things about soy heavy diets. Not that I know what I am talking about, but if you do eat a lot of soy it's worth looking into. PS: The human body can cope with horrible diets for reasona
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by simpleTruth 15y ago
Look, all metrics can be gamed. Take an existing project find all the places that link to each section of code and you have some idea how reusable things are. Tell people your doing this ahead of time and you promote spaghetti code. Ask p
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by simpleTruth 15y ago
What your missing is the concept that RGB colors are based not around the physical property's of light but the eyes ability to detect light using Rods and cones. In the real world there is a difference between 390 nm light and 390.00001nm
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by simpleTruth 15y ago
Once you get into the world networks with multiple OC192 connections all it takes is a little math to show Verizon still makes money from most heavy users. The marginal cost of your 5 to 25MB/s slice of bandwidth you use is just not that
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by simpleTruth 15y ago
Which would be rewarded in your situation, building 30 really simple pages by hand or spending 1/2 that much time to code something which generated those pages automatically? Once again, the best programers write as little code as possible
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by simpleTruth 15y ago
International trade tends to drift to the most stable currency's which is why things are moving the the EURO. Then again the EU is the worlds largest economy so there could be some truth in your assumptions.
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by simpleTruth 15y ago
The government breaks up monopolies to lower prices. The government builds new roads to lower transportation costs. NASA spent a less than 1 shuttle mission worth of funding to research scram jets over 7 years. Resulting in the X-43 which h
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by simpleTruth 15y ago
"Pretty sure the highway system does an excellent job already." Have you even been in heavy Traffic congestion? The Texas Transportation Institute estimated that, in 2000, the 75 largest metropolitan areas experienced 3.6 billion vehicle-
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by simpleTruth 15y ago
NASA cost 4.4% of Fed Budget in 1966, that's a LOT of roads. In 2008 it's 0.6% of Fed Budget which is still a lot of roads. But more importantly: The NASA budget is larger than the National Science Foundation budget,[2] but only 61% of
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by simpleTruth 15y ago
Reminds me of a friend of mine doing the same thing for a short project. He did not want to do it, but he did want a new airplane so he quoted a ridiculous price; which they accepted. He once referred to the project as building the airpla
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by simpleTruth 15y ago
The largest and least stable bubbles are often driven by credit but there is a wide range of causes. For example, one of the largest and less talked about bubbles comes from the shift from defined benefit plains to 401k style investing.
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by simpleTruth 15y ago
Sorry, bubbles happen even without government action. Read up on the tulip bubble for a classic one. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania There is also plenty of blame to spread around. EX: Irish http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_
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by simpleTruth 15y ago
I suspect the truth is closer to: "Our goal is for no single employee acting alone is able to access your files. However, there is a procedure where multiple people working in concert can recover your files and provide them to law enforcem
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by simpleTruth 15y ago
People also use depth of field / focal blur to aid depth perception. This is a major reason why the brain has issues with fake 3d using separate images, you want to focus on a part of the image, but things get blurry if you don't focus on
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by simpleTruth 15y ago
The Education and Housing markets are complex systems. The bubble analogy works as a vary simplified analogy to describe how some markets can see sustained prices increases for a while followed by a sudden drop. This works with Housing,
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by simpleTruth 15y ago
Education is not an unstable bubble. Looking at the low and high end of the market there does seem to be an education bubble despite plenty of vary good state schools with reasonable tuition. What people seem to miss is unlike the housing
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by simpleTruth 15y ago
It's an interesting idea, I am simply mentioning the practical limitations. At this point it's a question of how cheaply they can scale it up and how much you can improve the efficiency. Looking at some of their numbers they block ~30+% of

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