Random Thoughts Part 5: Time to Split Again

[WWGD]

Halleluja! I'm not the only person on the planet who thinks a phone has to receive and make phone-calls - fullstop.

It's more of a matter of being able to pay for it. It is a useful tool in many respects; e.g., if you end up lost in the middle of nowhere.
Also, since I work at what is considered a technology job, it does not look good that I don't keep up with some recent technology.

 

[WWGD]

I got this message when trying to access PF in the morning:

500 server error...

Then a message stating the servers in the site are proudly run by company x...

 

[rootone]

Yes the server was down for a while, there's another thread about it somewhere, and some mention of hackers was made.
Afaik everything is sorted out now, but strange that PF might be targeted by hackers, I mean why would anyone want to?

 

[WWGD]

Yes the server was down for a while, there's another thread about it somewhere, and some mention of hackers was made.
Afaik everything is sorted out now, but strange that PF might be targeted by hackers, I mean why would anyone want to?

My point was that the company was announcing its pride next to a statement attesting to an error it just made.

 

[rootone]

The company most probably is just a server farm or an agent for one, not itself responsible for traffic going to or from a particular site which they host.

 

[fresh_42]

My point was that the company was announcing its pride next to a statement attesting to an error it just made.

Yes, that was a good one. I laughed, too. The more because the server as a machine was up!

Edit: Btw, what's the intersection of NYC and the middle of nowhere and the complement of cabs?

 

[Psinter]

I got this message when trying to access PF in the morning:

500 server error...

Then a message stating the servers in the site are proudly run by company x...

Yes the server was down for a while, there's another thread about it somewhere, and some mention of hackers was made.
Afaik everything is sorted out now, but strange that PF might be targeted by hackers, I mean why would anyone want to?

I am very sorry guys, but I have to correct. I saw the error and the server is not run by company x. Just the software that generated the error. And there was no mention of hackers anywhere. It's all here: https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/pf-down-for-a-long-time-what-happened.859584

AND I want some chocolate if you don't mind.

 

[WWGD]

Edit: Btw, what's the intersection of NYC and the middle of nowhere and the complement of cabs?

?

 

[fresh_42]

?

NYC is written on your missing avatar, middle of nowhere is where you feared to be without internet and cabs must not be around because they could help you to get away from nowhere. I'm just wondering where such a place could be.

 

[WWGD]

NYC is written on your missing avatar, middle of nowhere is where you feared to be without internet and cabs must not be around because they could help you to get away from nowhere. I'm just wondering where such a place could be.

Maybe Staten Island? And I may travel out at some point, outside of the city.

 

[zoobyshoe]

I am very sorry guys, but I have to correct. I saw the error and the server is not run by company x. Just the software that generated the error. And there was no mention of hackers anywhere.

Here's the hacker mention:
https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/greg-bernhardt.859732/
I found this thread creepy, and wonder what the hell kind of PM Rosenberry received. It certainly beats the Two Towers conspiracy.

 

[fresh_42]

Here's the hacker mention:
https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/greg-bernhardt.859732/
I found this thread creepy, and wonder what the hell kind of PM Rosenberry received. It certainly beats the Two Towers conspiracy.

I assume it wasn't a PM. The weird messages were in the Alerts list as new threads, six identical I think which have been quickly deleted.
I was simply thinking what kind of idiot this must have been. You could see from the title that it was pure crap.

 

[zoobyshoe]

I assume it wasn't a PM. The weird messages were in the Alerts list as new threads, six identical I think which have been quickly deleted.
I was simply thinking what kind of idiot this must have been. You could see from the title that it was pure crap.

Ah! I misunderstood it to have been an alert about a PM because Berkeman asked to be included in the conversation to nab the perp.

 

[fresh_42]

Ah! I misunderstood it to have been an alert about a PM because Berkeman asked to be included in the conversation to nab the perp.

Yes, he said PM but I don't think it was because I had those 6 similar ones in the Alert list at the time.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Yes, he said PM but I don't think it was because I had those 6 similar ones in the Alert list at the time.

OK. Anyway, Berkeman said they were dealing with hackers, so that's where that came from.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Tomorrow's LEAP DAY!

 

[WWGD]

Tomorrow's LEAP DAY!

Isn't there one every date that is divisible by 16, or is it every 4 years? Never mind, it is every 4 years.

 

[Psinter]

Tomorrow's LEAP DAY!

What is that?

 

[Ibix]

What is that?

The "extra" day in a leap year. An informal term, I think.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Babies born on Feb. 29th will not have their first birthday for four years.

 

[Sophia]

I ve just learned a new term "to be a shepard of cats". Used by a local politician who doesn't want to lead a coalition of uncontrollable and always arguing parties as a potential prime minister.
Just imagine trying to control a group of cats! That would be a great meme. :-D

 

[Psinter]

The "extra" day in a leap year. An informal term, I think.

Thanks.
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As a side random thought, sometimes I feel the emoticons here are not enough to express my feelings. So I made one. Behold my very own artistic creation! The (-.-) emoticon:

Emoticon made 100% by me! You can use it in the forum. The link is: http://imgur.com/NEkgYws

...Yeah, I should probably stick to computers and programming...

 

[Silicon Waffle]

...
...Yeah, I should probably stick to computers and programming...

Noo, everyone I think should be learning about the art of web surfing. You too. Only magicians know how.

 

[Psinter]

Someone please say something so I can use my emoticon like this:

The other day we were talking about the Almighty Leader of the Rings weren't we?

 

[Sophia]

Someone please say something so I can use my emoticon like this:

OK psinter, what do you look like when you mediate?

 

[Psinter]

OK psinter, what do you look like when you mediate?

 

[Sophia]

you're the Lord of the Meditation

 

[Psinter]

you're the Lord of the Meditation

 

[WWGD]

Will we eventually run out of faces in our world population? I mean, consider two faces equal if individual eye, mouth, width etc. dimensions are each within, say, 1/4' of each other or less. We are 7 billion now, will the faces start eventually repeating?

 

[Silicon Waffle]

Will we eventually run out of faces in our world population? I mean, consider two faces equal if individual eye, mouth, width etc. dimensions are each within, say, 1/4' of each other or less. We are 7 billion now, will the faces start eventually repeating?

A set of conditions to detect how both faces are equal will always be established in advance but to process a large of data input seems in-feasible so feature extraction i.e KPCA linearization is probably the way to go.