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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 04 2012 @ 03:53 PM EDT |
This may be or may not be off topic, it depends on your point of view.
I would agree on a point being a zero lenght line. In fact, the measure of a
point is zero. In the same sense, although the lenght of a line exists, nor its
area, and a surface has zero volume. Of course, if we measure a surface, we get
an area.
What? An object is divided by a point? Then that object has dimension one. Also,
if an object is divided by a line, then that object is a surface, since the line
has dimension one, then the surface has dimension two, even if you fold it.
Another idea: the function f(x)=(x^2-4)/(x-2) does not exists in x=2, therefore
is non-continuous. Of course the measure of the discontinuity is zero.
SALUDOS
ALVARO[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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- Zero length - Authored by: PolR on Wednesday, July 04 2012 @ 04:24 PM EDT
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- Zero length - Authored by: PolR on Wednesday, July 04 2012 @ 05:21 PM EDT
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- Zero length - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 05 2012 @ 09:36 AM EDT
- Zero length - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 05 2012 @ 11:31 PM EDT
- But it's degenerate. Posner knew that. - Authored by: Tolerance on Wednesday, July 04 2012 @ 05:26 PM EDT
- It isn't "A" line. - Authored by: jesse on Wednesday, July 04 2012 @ 08:29 PM EDT
- Actually, ... - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 04 2012 @ 09:23 PM EDT
- Actually, ... - Authored by: Nivag on Wednesday, July 04 2012 @ 10:22 PM EDT
- Actually, ... - Authored by: JamesK on Thursday, July 05 2012 @ 08:09 AM EDT
- Hah! - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 05 2012 @ 09:58 AM EDT
- Typo - Authored by: JamesK on Thursday, July 05 2012 @ 11:10 AM EDT
- Typo - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 05 2012 @ 01:02 PM EDT
- Which infinity, old chap? - Authored by: Tolerance on Wednesday, July 04 2012 @ 11:18 PM EDT
- But it's degenerate. Posner knew that. - Authored by: PJ on Wednesday, July 04 2012 @ 09:12 PM EDT
- And it's offensive to people with disabilities - Authored by: SirHumphrey on Thursday, July 05 2012 @ 12:00 AM EDT
- Degenerate circle - Authored by: kattemann on Thursday, July 05 2012 @ 06:02 AM EDT
- Not the same - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, July 06 2012 @ 03:51 PM EDT
- Zero length (and probably not relevant) - Authored by: PTrenholme on Wednesday, July 04 2012 @ 05:32 PM EDT
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- Frank Zappa - Authored by: mexaly on Wednesday, July 04 2012 @ 06:01 PM EDT
- A line, by definition, has infinite length. - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 04 2012 @ 07:51 PM EDT
- Zero length - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 04 2012 @ 09:42 PM EDT
- One of the many reasons why Groklaw is so great! - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 05 2012 @ 07:39 AM EDT
- Zero length - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, July 06 2012 @ 09:49 AM EDT
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- Oh my god! Apple has a patent on the wheel! - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, July 07 2012 @ 08:30 PM EDT
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 04 2012 @ 04:46 PM EDT |
Happy Fourth of July!!!!!
In order to celebrate properly, here is
something to do to
make sure that your freedoms are secured:
From Fox News on June
29th:
“We are now taught in an ‘Active Shooter’ course
that if
we encounter a shooter in a public place we are to
‘run away’ and ‘hide’" union
leader Brandon Judd wrote on
the website of 3,300-member union local. “If we
are cornered
by such a shooter we are to (only as a last resort) become
‘aggressive’ and ‘throw things’ at him or her. We are then
advised to ‘call
law enforcement’ and wait for their arrival
(presumably, while more innocent
victims are slaughtered)."
Pardon my cynicism, or is it just
acknowledgement of
reality?
It makes me think that DHS is affirming their
primary
mission is to harass US citizens in airports, while ignoring
any
threat of any danger.
Do you want safe airports? Let citizens be armed, as
the
Constitution guarantees. That doesn't mean guns. Large
caliber guns are
not safe in
airspace, but a 22 short can do a lot of damage. Hunting
knives,
clubs, even box-cutters can provide
a much needed edge sometimes. I keep
thinking of those brave
men on the flight that crashed in Pennsylvania on 9/11.
What
might they have been able to do if they had been properly
armed? Right
now, we are disarming the very people who have
the most stake in making the
flight safe.
I visited the Iowa County Sheriff's Office today in Marengo,
Iowa. There was a flyer on the wall that showed concealed
weapon permits in
Iowa from 1982 to present. There were just
over 20,000 permits in 1982. Today
there are over 100,000.
Iowa is a very safe place to be. We are tied with Idaho
for
the third-lowest murder rate in the country. The murder rate
has actually
dropped in the last 30 years, although it
doubled in 2008 only, the year almost
the whole state
flooded.
My neighborhood was a Neighborhood Watch Area
decades before
the term was coined. People watch out for each other. If you
want security, know your neighbors, and be considerate of
them.
When we
rely on the government to do our job, we have no
excuse when we lose rights,
and the job doesn't get done.
Again, Happy Fourth of July!!!!
artp,
who REALLY needs to find his password in order to be
free of typing in inane
.sigs.
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- Border Patrol union blasts Homeland Security instructions to 'run away' and 'hide' from gunmen - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 04 2012 @ 08:07 PM EDT
- Border Patrol union blasts Homeland Security instructions to 'run away' and 'hide' from gunmen - Authored by: PJ on Wednesday, July 04 2012 @ 09:15 PM EDT
- Border Patrol union blasts Homeland Security instructions to 'run away' and 'hide' from gunmen - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 04 2012 @ 09:30 PM EDT
- Password Reset - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 05 2012 @ 03:46 AM EDT
- Password Reset - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 05 2012 @ 09:03 PM EDT
- Border Patrol union blasts Homeland Security instructions to 'run away' and 'hide' from gunmen - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 05 2012 @ 05:33 AM EDT
- don't use fox news, go to sources - Authored by: jjs on Thursday, July 05 2012 @ 12:18 PM EDT
- Attack, Counterattack, and Initiative - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 05 2012 @ 04:31 PM EDT
- So to sum up: - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, July 06 2012 @ 11:35 AM EDT
- Not so fast - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, July 06 2012 @ 02:29 PM EDT
- Not so fast - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, July 06 2012 @ 05:02 PM EDT
- So to sum up: - Authored by: jonathon on Friday, July 06 2012 @ 03:18 PM EDT
- So to sum up: - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, July 06 2012 @ 04:59 PM EDT
- So to sum up: - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, July 06 2012 @ 10:34 PM EDT
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 04 2012 @ 05:41 PM EDT |
Click a few keys, exchange a few numbers, and it’s done.
With
just a mobile phone and a registration with Safaricom, Kenya’s mobile service
giant, you can pay for anything in seconds – no cash, no long journeys to towns
to reach a bank, and no long lines when you get there. This is m-Pesa, the
revolutionary approach to banking which is changing economies across Africa.
The service allows customers and businesses to pay for anything without
needing cash, a bank account, or even a permanent address.
Ken Banks, National
Geographic
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and then there's this
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Authored by: betajet on Wednesday, July 04 2012 @ 07:30 PM EDT |
Here's an excerpt from interesting upcoming article in Vanity Fair. Some of the reader comments are fascinating. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: greywolf on Wednesday, July 04 2012 @ 08:37 PM EDT |
http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/7226070/EU-court-OKs-
resale-of-software-licenses
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 04 2012 @ 10:03 PM EDT |
Every once in a while, though, an update comes along that makes you scream in
terror, like the one Cisco just rolled out across their router line, forcing
users to register with Cisco's cloud service or end up with a bricked device.
Big Brother Is Watching YOU [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 05 2012 @ 12:39 AM EDT |
linky
I’m trapped in a bittersweet
mood at the moment. I am thrilled that the N9 has gotten PR 1.3, but I am upset
that the Maemo team is finally leaving. In particular, Sotiris Makyrgiannis, the
head of MeeGo developement. He has been around to assist in, and bring to the
public, devices like the N770, N800, N810, N900 and N9/N950.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 05 2012 @ 03:46 AM EDT |
Link. ; ) [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: JamesK on Thursday, July 05 2012 @ 10:23 AM EDT |
In a cosmic case of
“now-you-see-it, now-you-don’t,” a brilliant disk of dust around a Sun-like star
has suddenly vanished, and the scientists who observed the disappearance aren’t
sure about what happened.
Perhaps someone used a vacuum cleaner.
;-)
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- Mysterious ‘dust disk’ in space suddenly disappears, puzzling scientists - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 05 2012 @ 11:09 AM EDT
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- Like what? - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 05 2012 @ 02:51 PM EDT
- Not likely - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 05 2012 @ 04:21 PM EDT
- A sign of intelligent life.... - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 05 2012 @ 12:09 PM EDT
- Nothing like a Good Mystery... - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 05 2012 @ 03:41 PM EDT
- Mysterious ‘dust disk’ in space suddenly disappears, puzzling scientists - Authored by: Imaginos1892 on Thursday, July 05 2012 @ 04:54 PM EDT
- My theory - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, July 06 2012 @ 04:26 PM EDT
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 05 2012 @ 03:39 PM EDT |
linky
"We've made no such
allegations of infringement against the Nexus 7," Mark Durrant, communications
personnel for Nokia, told the E-Commerce Times. "Nokia has more than 40
licenses, mainly for its standards-essential patent portfolio, including most of
the mobile device manufacturers. Neither Google nor Asus is licensed under our
patent portfolio. Companies who are not yet licensed under our standard
essential patents should simply approach us and sign up for a
license."
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 05 2012 @ 04:29 PM EDT |
f-secure
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 05 2012 @ 05:30 PM EDT |
Matthew Yglesias, an economist with the attention span of a
gnat who usually posts two-paragraph bits of misinformed
drivel (sometimes several a day, so you know he's not
wasting his time doing anything resembling research),
actually wrote a sensible piece about what's wrong with the
US Patent system and why the America Invents Act is not a
solution to the fundamental problem, with particular
reference to software.
http://www.slate.com/articles/business/small_business/2012/0
7/patents_innovation_and_the_america_invents_act_how_a_new_l
aw_encouraging_more_efficient_patent_processing_could_stifle
_american_innovation_.html
Combine this with last week's Dilbert, and all the attention
from Posner's dismissal of the Apple case, and we have some
real progress in terms of consciousness-raising among the
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 05 2012 @ 06:38 PM EDT |
Someone from CERN just posted on Re
ddit that Linux had a role in discovery of Higgs boson.
I don't see any
CERN related things here, so I want to mention how Linux (specifically,
Scientific Linux and Ubuntu) had a vital role in the discovery of the new boson
at CERN. We use it every day in our analyses, together with hosts of open
software, such as ROOT, and it plays a major role in the running of our networks
of computers (in the grid etc.) used for the intensive work in our
calculations.
Yesterday's extremely important discovery has given us new
information about how reality works at a very fundamental level and this is one
physicist throwing Linux some love.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, July 06 2012 @ 07:26 AM EDT |
... the security researchers who initially outed the botnet
are now admitting
that they actually don't know for sure.
Terry Zink, the Microsoft researcher
who originally wrote
the report, now says that he considered that the messages
could have been spoofed, but decided that it simply made
more sense for them
to have come from Android.
Lies and the fools that tell
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