Actually measuring them accurately is a challenge, although no one in the physics community really expects the answer to be "they fall up" at this point. It would be a huge upset if they did.
There's a (possibly apocryphal) story about a physics professor. Whenever he dropped his chalk, writing equations on the board, he would look upwards. When one of the students finally asked him why he did this, he replied, "If one day it fell upwards, I wouldn't want to miss it."
Yes, the whole 'if we ignore the law, it will go away thing' was a bit stupid. The ICO may have more important things to deal with than every mop-and-pop website that uses cookies not complying on day 1. However, the UK is not Europe and just because the UK regulator isn't particularly keen on enforcement, it doesn't mean that it won't be enforced it other countries. And if you are Google, you have competitors queuing up to make complaints.
Can someone please explain to me why this can't be used for instantaneous communication purposes?
QE is rather like being married. You know that whatever you decide, your partner will want to do the opposite. However, no actual communication is involved.
Of course lets not forget the dark side of big data, the NSA and FBI can use the vast volume of data they collect to create statistical profiles of the average American. Any American outside the average is obviously going to be a target for additional investigation.
The Serious Fraud Office are themselves Autonomy customers, so at the moment they are scratching their heads wondering whether they can conduct the investigation ithout a conflct of interest.
4 and a half, if you count the beta of Chrome, which I personally wouldn't consider a fair comparison. But if you're being sloppy about timings, you can be about other things. Hell, does Chome even have per-tab private browsing now, let alone in 2008?
Sure it could. If it is (mis)configured to allow a zone transfer, you could have a bot net send it zone transfer requests for your own domain with the source ip address spoofed to be your target. A little more complex setup than a recursive request, but you still some get good amplification.
You're less likely to do this by accident. Besides, a spoofed zone transfer will almost always fail on the TCP three-way handshake step.
If the police already have what authority they need for a raid
That's a big assumption. Cyberbunker give the date of the last raid as 'April', so unless they've lost track of time in that bunker of those, presumably unrelated to the current situation.
Still not sure why authorities didn't break out the fiber seeking backhoe to solve this problem if that company is legitimately holed up in what sounds like a minor siege.
The evidence linking them to the attack is only circumstantial. Maybe they are responsible for the attack, maybe it was one of their clients. Either way, breaking the fiber won't make any difference.
anyone on the other side of the pond know if this is a real attempt to push OSS software or if it's just another attempt to get discounted Microsoft software?
It's mostly not about Microsoft. It's about trying not to roll everything up into one huge 'too bug to fail' IT project, and having a choice of the same few firms to contract out to. It's having something of value delivered even if the main contactor walks away halfway through the contract. Open source is one facet but it's as much about agile development as it is about FOSS.
Having flicked through it, it's actual quite well written. Government moves slowly though, so be prepared for reversals. Actually, I think we already had a 'government breaks open-source IT promise story.'
If you're cynical: the thing it's really about is not having the National Audit Office deliver another damning report about wasted public money on poorly managed IT Projects, while the current government is in power. And really, the best answer, "how do I prevent a huge IT project failing?" is "don't have any huge IT projects." For once, I think trying to prevent government being embarassed is actuallygoing in the same direction as the public interest.
Too bad they made all the money from the idiots who pre-ordered. Never-ever-ever-ever pre-order a game, unless you don't mind getting literally nothing in return. Uninformed markets are broken markets.
However, paying for a game on Kickstarter before the development has even started is totally awesome!
(B) opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes the course of justice under those laws.
That one worries me the most as its very vague and the terms obstructing and impeding can be interpreted any number of ways. Simply talking out against say a trial could be considered impeding justice, and by doing so the government can now use military force against you.
You aren't parsing it correctly. You need (1A || 1B) && (2A || 2B).
Marriage is a societal recognition of the biological relationship which creates the next generation. It is a means of us formally defining extra rights, responsibilities (and so on) to these couplings, that are appropriate for families, and not individuals. It has nothing to do with companionship, love or similar (except insofar as they happen to result in these relationships).
So, you would ban over 50's from getting married - there's no point, right?
The way to win would have been to hire or use a CCDA or CCDP certified consultant. The design associate/professional track is for consulting on Cisco networking device options, feature sets and port density.
No, the way to win would have been to conduct a proper tender exercise. Write a specification, and hire an independent consultant to help review bids against it, if you aren't smart enough to do that in house.
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It's been in Firefox for ages though.
...and you get to be trained in Photoshop too.
Remember IE 6 was lean mean and standards compliant compared to the god awefull netscape 10 years ago too.
That's IE 6 great claim to fame. Compared to the bloated corpse of Netscape 4, it looked quite good.
Dear FreeTards,
You missed the 'greater of' part. That will be $50 000 you owe us.
BT.
Actually measuring them accurately is a challenge, although no one in the physics community really expects the answer to be "they fall up" at this point. It would be a huge upset if they did.
There's a (possibly apocryphal) story about a physics professor. Whenever he dropped his chalk, writing equations on the board, he would look upwards. When one of the students finally asked him why he did this, he replied, "If one day it fell upwards, I wouldn't want to miss it."
i had to name mine Lamar, just wouldn't be right otherwise
Lamarr. FTFY ;)
There already is one. It's called EDS.
Was, you mean. It's part of HP now. I don't know what IBM wants to be, but it's sure as hell ain't HP.
Yes, the whole 'if we ignore the law, it will go away thing' was a bit stupid. The ICO may have more important things to deal with than every mop-and-pop website that uses cookies not complying on day 1. However, the UK is not Europe and just because the UK regulator isn't particularly keen on enforcement, it doesn't mean that it won't be enforced it other countries. And if you are Google, you have competitors queuing up to make complaints.
Can someone please explain to me why this can't be used for instantaneous communication purposes?
QE is rather like being married. You know that whatever you decide, your partner will want to do the opposite. However, no actual communication is involved.
Report from BBC news: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22028738
Of course lets not forget the dark side of big data, the NSA and FBI can use the vast volume of data they collect to create statistical profiles of the average American. Any American outside the average is obviously going to be a target for additional investigation.
The Serious Fraud Office are themselves Autonomy customers, so at the moment they are scratching their heads wondering whether they can conduct the investigation ithout a conflct of interest.
4 and a half, if you count the beta of Chrome, which I personally wouldn't consider a fair comparison. But if you're being sloppy about timings, you can be about other things. Hell, does Chome even have per-tab private browsing now, let alone in 2008?
Chrome had it for 5 years now...
Nice troll, but as Chrome didn't exist 5 years ago, somewhat implausible.
Sure it could. If it is (mis)configured to allow a zone transfer, you could have a bot net send it zone transfer requests for your own domain with the source ip address spoofed to be your target. A little more complex setup than a recursive request, but you still some get good amplification.
You're less likely to do this by accident. Besides, a spoofed zone transfer will almost always fail on the TCP three-way handshake step.
It's the book that covers the single longest historical period in the Bible - around 2,000 years or so.
Give or take a few billion...
If the police already have what authority they need for a raid
That's a big assumption. Cyberbunker give the date of the last raid as 'April', so unless they've lost track of time in that bunker of those, presumably unrelated to the current situation.
Still not sure why authorities didn't break out the fiber seeking backhoe to solve this problem if that company is legitimately holed up in what sounds like a minor siege.
The evidence linking them to the attack is only circumstantial. Maybe they are responsible for the attack, maybe it was one of their clients. Either way, breaking the fiber won't make any difference.
That's pretty amazing, James Randi points out their incompetence good and proper, and that video is from 2010!
That was just after he (Jim McCormick) was arrested, so that part isn't so amazing. However, Randi was on the case well before then.
The device referrred to in the Wikipedia article is the one we are talking about here.
"In March of 2013, James McCormick went on trial in the UK on fraud charges".
Women are cold, heartless and have been known to kill their own children. This is very rare in men. I don't find feminists surprising at all.
I call bullshit on this:
Of all children under age 5 murdered from 1980 through 2008
* 63% were killed by a parent--33% were killed by their
fathers and 30% were killed by their mothers.
anyone on the other side of the pond know if this is a real attempt to push OSS software or if it's just another attempt to get discounted Microsoft software?
It's mostly not about Microsoft. It's about trying not to roll everything up into one huge 'too bug to fail' IT project, and having a choice of the same few firms to contract out to. It's having something of value delivered even if the main contactor walks away halfway through the contract. Open source is one facet but it's as much about agile development as it is about FOSS.
Having flicked through it, it's actual quite well written. Government moves slowly though, so be prepared for reversals. Actually, I think we already had a 'government breaks open-source IT promise story.'
If you're cynical: the thing it's really about is not having the National Audit Office deliver another damning report about wasted public money on poorly managed IT Projects, while the current government is in power. And really, the best answer, "how do I prevent a huge IT project failing?" is "don't have any huge IT projects." For once, I think trying to prevent government being embarassed is actuallygoing in the same direction as the public interest.
Too bad they made all the money from the idiots who pre-ordered. Never-ever-ever-ever pre-order a game, unless you don't mind getting literally nothing in return. Uninformed markets are broken markets.
However, paying for a game on Kickstarter before the development has even started is totally awesome!
(B) opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes the course of justice under those laws.
That one worries me the most as its very vague and the terms obstructing and impeding can be interpreted any number of ways. Simply talking out against say a trial could be considered impeding justice, and by doing so the government can now use military force against you.
You aren't parsing it correctly. You need (1A || 1B) && (2A || 2B).
Marriage is a societal recognition of the biological relationship which creates the next generation. It is a means of us formally defining extra rights, responsibilities (and so on) to these couplings, that are appropriate for families, and not individuals. It has nothing to do with companionship, love or similar (except insofar as they happen to result in these relationships).
So, you would ban over 50's from getting married - there's no point, right?
The way to win would have been to hire or use a CCDA or CCDP certified consultant. The design associate/professional track is for consulting on Cisco networking device options, feature sets and port density.
No, the way to win would have been to conduct a proper tender exercise. Write a specification, and hire an independent consultant to help review bids against it, if you aren't smart enough to do that in house.