TPB will get sued in a favorable location for the plaintiff. The plaintiff will use the judgment to go after TPB bank accounts. The back accounts are much harder to hide than the servers because TPB wants to get paid for the ads it displays.
A more accurate, but much less attention grabbing headline would have been "0.15% annual increase in Antarctic Sea continues for 35th year". Given the strong trend, most years would be expected to be "record years".
Large programs usually have large numbers of external dependencies. The external calls are plain as day in the reversed code. Sure the variables may all be named a,b,c... but it really isn't that hard to find the parts you are interested in and figure out what the interfaces are. For his mods he had to figure out which code handled player positions, actions, health and maybe a few other things. I've done it many times and it is WAY easier in Java and.NET with multimegabyte-sized programs than it is with C and multikilobyte-sized monolithic programs where you have no external markers in the assembly as guides.
This is routinely done by Minecraft modders and many others.
“Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.” - Marcus Aurelius
I don't think Mojang has ever been that interested in creating APIs that support the level of moding that has been going on. It's 21k lines of code, if he re-writes Bukkit, it will just be more proprietary Minecraft code and their next release will be delayed 3 months. Meanwhile Wesley Wolfe has effectively made himself unemployable.
It sounds like ATM overhead addresses your issue. However as far as who to talk to, in California measurement enforcement is handled at the county level:
http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/dms/. In Texas this falls to the Department of Agriculture and I'm pretty sure they won't care. http://www.texasagriculture.go...
Exactly! Not only will affected people switch providers, but this will cause participating ISPs to become viewed as unreliable. Unreliable internet has become unacceptable. This may also drive more apartment and condo complexes into the hands of providers like Grande which simply provide bandwidth to the whole building. Its a cheaper solution, but the hassle factor has limited penetration of these types of services. The ISPs would be greatly upping their hassle factor and reducing their competitiveness by participating in this Rightscorp scheme.
Breaches are already reported from the contractor's SSO to the government program office's SSO within 24 hours. Congress' issue is that they don't know what is going on and they decided to meddle in this one particular detail. Contractors absolutely do not attempt to cover this up, getting caught covering something like this up would cause them to immediately loose their funding and the right to bid on future contracts -- effectively a corporate death sentence. SSOs are almost all former soldiers with security backgrounds in the services and operate at the highest levels of integrity. They would absolutely place the country over their employer any day.
FIPS-140 compliance is a given these days. That is not the issue. #1 you pick up an entire another organization that is going to want to participate in the project and perform a security review that may have been skirted if the word encryption was not mentioned. #2 the program office has to transfer funds to pay for this addition to the project instead of paying for more desired features. #3 there is much concern with the security of the encryption keys themselves when you put encryption on a device that is place in harms way. You have to demonstrate that the keys will be protected, they don't tend to care for per-mission keys. #4 as a result encryption winds up adding more weight than just bits because you need various tamper-proof devices. I have seen cases where the most important thing on a deployed device was the encryption key FOB. Which is just nuts I know, but that is the way it is. #5 the test plan grows, the system operation training grows, the documentation grows all adding additional costs to the project.
"They felt that since the Predator video feeds were being transmitted on frequencies that were not publicly known, no access control, encryption or other security mechanisms would be needed. " -- I am sure it wasn't that simple. As soon as you say 'encryption' in the defense world you open a can of worms that can set your project back as much as 2 years. These aren't technical set backs, but rather paperwork and process set backs. They were probably told by their government program manager to not put 'encryption' in their response because they probably didn't want to deal with the additional process burden. You can't do anything in the defense contracting world such as adding a feature like encryption without the government's program manager signing off on it and often find yourself constrained by law from implementing the best possible solution.
Wrong. Microsoft's software documentation is generally excellent. Contributing programmers are 33% or less of Microsoft's empire, in FOSS programmers are 99% of the contributors. Not only is the end user documentation good, but for the devs Microsoft has MSDN, Dev Tech Net and a number of employees paid to pay attention to StackOverflow. Prior to any major software release a team of writers and engineers creates a 300 to 600 page book about the new release full of examples on configuring and coding for the new release. I know people hate paying for software, but sometimes you really do get what you pay for.
In-Q-Tel is just a way for the CIA to get around laws limiting their purchasing powers. They are prohibited from buying services the way they want, so instead they 'invest' in the services they want. What they are supposed to do is define their needs and let people bid on providing those services, but then the CIA executives wouldn't get to hob-nob with VCs and drink champagne on yachts.
They reject most of my theories in their paper, but the don't mention silicon ions as a possible source so I'm going with that. With higher masses and higher charges the silicon ion part of the plasma will be denser and be more affected by the earth's magnetic field at that altitude.
Your hyperbole is irritatingly excessive. The NSA is primarily made up of the same type of people who read Slashdot. They are not only not interested in you, they can't legally do anything with the data that they 'might' have related to you without a warrant. They are large, but not so large that they are not resource constrained. I'm sure if you had it your way, the world's premier spy agency would have no data to work with. Maybe you think you would be safer without the NSA, I disagree.
It is easy! Soooo easy, not quite as easy as File Maker Pro, but way more powerful and with better forms. You will NOT be doing them a favor by leaving them with something new to them that has poorer documentation and no support. Please, please think of the end user. Libre Office's Base's objective is to be like Access and the current version has many of the UI features but you find the term 'script' shockingly absent from the Libre Office documentation. All of the real power that is in Access is COMPLETELY missing from Libre Office Base.
It is worse, because when you try to drive the AT&T Lambo you find that it only drives fast on the AT&T race track, but 99% of the roads you want to drive on are not part of the AT&T race track. AT&T has demonstrated repeatedly that they are not willing to increase their interconnect infrastructure so your Netflix movies will still hiccup even when you have AT&T fiber to your house. Brilliant.
You will have to be a millionaire in order to have anything close to a decent retirement. Even today, In order to retire on $60K a year right now and live another 40 years, you would need in the $1.6M range. People talk about teachers, soldiers and other public servants having low pay, but if you were to value their retirements as annuities you would see that they largely become millionaires when they retire. Being a millionaire isn't what it used to be. Upper middle class will in the near future translate to millionaire.
Exactly. I have night vision goggles that are not cooled. Cooling is all about signal-to-noise, not the inherent sensitivity of the CCD detector. When the body and lenses of your imaging device are giving off infrared radiation at the same frequency that you are trying to image, you have to integrate the target image that much longer to get a clear picture. Swapping the back-plane technology cannot change this. This article is a prime example of academic puffery.
Have you used these algorithms in this application? Apply these algorithms to all the last names in the Social Security death index http://ssdmf.info/download.htm... and evaluate your false positive and false negative stats. You will find that these are not generally helpful. It doesn't matter if an algorithm would have worked in one particular case if 99% of the time the algorithm drives the end user insane with useless results.
I don't think these exchanges are managed quite this simply. They seem to have large numbers of both dollars and bitcoins on-hand and in-process and lots of upset customers. It sounds like they are operating as both bank and exchange -- which is a bad thing.
Any organization that attempts to provide exchange services between 'hard' currencies and an inflating virtual currency is doomed to insolvency in terms of the hard currency. The operations of such an organization will always amount effectively to a Ponzi scheme when viewed from the hard currency point of view. A little thought experiment: an exchange takes in $100 for 100 v-coins valued at $1 each. The v-coin value inflates to $2 and the investors decide to exchange their v-coins back to dollars... how many v-coins can be exchanged before the exchange is insolvent? HALF! DUH! The moment a virtual currency becomes established enough to be treated as a valid investment it is doomed to increase its pace of inflation and then collapse. This can only be avoided if the exchanges charge fees that are greater than the future inflation rate. However if they do this, the virtual currency's advantages will quickly be less than simply trading in the original currency... so what's the point?
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Our University CS departments teach the hatred of Microsoft while the MIS departments teach the love of Microsoft. They are both wrong.
TPB will get sued in a favorable location for the plaintiff. The plaintiff will use the judgment to go after TPB bank accounts. The back accounts are much harder to hide than the servers because TPB wants to get paid for the ads it displays.
The first couple of chapters of this book explain the decision making behind the syntax which really helps. http://www.amazon.com/Windows-...
A more accurate, but much less attention grabbing headline would have been "0.15% annual increase in Antarctic Sea continues for 35th year". Given the strong trend, most years would be expected to be "record years".
When the CIA launches a hellfire in this middle of nowhere, where do you think the information came from?
Good to know at least one federal agency seems to know what it means to execute their mandate.
Large programs usually have large numbers of external dependencies. The external calls are plain as day in the reversed code. Sure the variables may all be named a,b,c... but it really isn't that hard to find the parts you are interested in and figure out what the interfaces are. For his mods he had to figure out which code handled player positions, actions, health and maybe a few other things. I've done it many times and it is WAY easier in Java and .NET with multimegabyte-sized programs than it is with C and multikilobyte-sized monolithic programs where you have no external markers in the assembly as guides.
This is routinely done by Minecraft modders and many others.
“Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.” - Marcus Aurelius
I don't think Mojang has ever been that interested in creating APIs that support the level of moding that has been going on. It's 21k lines of code, if he re-writes Bukkit, it will just be more proprietary Minecraft code and their next release will be delayed 3 months. Meanwhile Wesley Wolfe has effectively made himself unemployable.
It sounds like ATM overhead addresses your issue. However as far as who to talk to, in California measurement enforcement is handled at the county level: http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/dms/. In Texas this falls to the Department of Agriculture and I'm pretty sure they won't care. http://www.texasagriculture.go...
Exactly! Not only will affected people switch providers, but this will cause participating ISPs to become viewed as unreliable. Unreliable internet has become unacceptable. This may also drive more apartment and condo complexes into the hands of providers like Grande which simply provide bandwidth to the whole building. Its a cheaper solution, but the hassle factor has limited penetration of these types of services. The ISPs would be greatly upping their hassle factor and reducing their competitiveness by participating in this Rightscorp scheme.
Breaches are already reported from the contractor's SSO to the government program office's SSO within 24 hours. Congress' issue is that they don't know what is going on and they decided to meddle in this one particular detail. Contractors absolutely do not attempt to cover this up, getting caught covering something like this up would cause them to immediately loose their funding and the right to bid on future contracts -- effectively a corporate death sentence. SSOs are almost all former soldiers with security backgrounds in the services and operate at the highest levels of integrity. They would absolutely place the country over their employer any day.
FIPS-140 compliance is a given these days. That is not the issue. #1 you pick up an entire another organization that is going to want to participate in the project and perform a security review that may have been skirted if the word encryption was not mentioned. #2 the program office has to transfer funds to pay for this addition to the project instead of paying for more desired features. #3 there is much concern with the security of the encryption keys themselves when you put encryption on a device that is place in harms way. You have to demonstrate that the keys will be protected, they don't tend to care for per-mission keys. #4 as a result encryption winds up adding more weight than just bits because you need various tamper-proof devices. I have seen cases where the most important thing on a deployed device was the encryption key FOB. Which is just nuts I know, but that is the way it is. #5 the test plan grows, the system operation training grows, the documentation grows all adding additional costs to the project.
"They felt that since the Predator video feeds were being transmitted on frequencies that were not publicly known, no access control, encryption or other security mechanisms would be needed. " -- I am sure it wasn't that simple. As soon as you say 'encryption' in the defense world you open a can of worms that can set your project back as much as 2 years. These aren't technical set backs, but rather paperwork and process set backs. They were probably told by their government program manager to not put 'encryption' in their response because they probably didn't want to deal with the additional process burden. You can't do anything in the defense contracting world such as adding a feature like encryption without the government's program manager signing off on it and often find yourself constrained by law from implementing the best possible solution.
Wrong. Microsoft's software documentation is generally excellent. Contributing programmers are 33% or less of Microsoft's empire, in FOSS programmers are 99% of the contributors. Not only is the end user documentation good, but for the devs Microsoft has MSDN, Dev Tech Net and a number of employees paid to pay attention to StackOverflow. Prior to any major software release a team of writers and engineers creates a 300 to 600 page book about the new release full of examples on configuring and coding for the new release. I know people hate paying for software, but sometimes you really do get what you pay for.
In-Q-Tel is just a way for the CIA to get around laws limiting their purchasing powers. They are prohibited from buying services the way they want, so instead they 'invest' in the services they want. What they are supposed to do is define their needs and let people bid on providing those services, but then the CIA executives wouldn't get to hob-nob with VCs and drink champagne on yachts.
They reject most of my theories in their paper, but the don't mention silicon ions as a possible source so I'm going with that. With higher masses and higher charges the silicon ion part of the plasma will be denser and be more affected by the earth's magnetic field at that altitude.
Your hyperbole is irritatingly excessive. The NSA is primarily made up of the same type of people who read Slashdot. They are not only not interested in you, they can't legally do anything with the data that they 'might' have related to you without a warrant. They are large, but not so large that they are not resource constrained. I'm sure if you had it your way, the world's premier spy agency would have no data to work with. Maybe you think you would be safer without the NSA, I disagree.
It is easy! Soooo easy, not quite as easy as File Maker Pro, but way more powerful and with better forms. You will NOT be doing them a favor by leaving them with something new to them that has poorer documentation and no support. Please, please think of the end user. Libre Office's Base's objective is to be like Access and the current version has many of the UI features but you find the term 'script' shockingly absent from the Libre Office documentation. All of the real power that is in Access is COMPLETELY missing from Libre Office Base.
It is worse, because when you try to drive the AT&T Lambo you find that it only drives fast on the AT&T race track, but 99% of the roads you want to drive on are not part of the AT&T race track. AT&T has demonstrated repeatedly that they are not willing to increase their interconnect infrastructure so your Netflix movies will still hiccup even when you have AT&T fiber to your house. Brilliant.
You will have to be a millionaire in order to have anything close to a decent retirement. Even today, In order to retire on $60K a year right now and live another 40 years, you would need in the $1.6M range. People talk about teachers, soldiers and other public servants having low pay, but if you were to value their retirements as annuities you would see that they largely become millionaires when they retire. Being a millionaire isn't what it used to be. Upper middle class will in the near future translate to millionaire.
Exactly. I have night vision goggles that are not cooled. Cooling is all about signal-to-noise, not the inherent sensitivity of the CCD detector. When the body and lenses of your imaging device are giving off infrared radiation at the same frequency that you are trying to image, you have to integrate the target image that much longer to get a clear picture. Swapping the back-plane technology cannot change this. This article is a prime example of academic puffery.
Have you used these algorithms in this application? Apply these algorithms to all the last names in the Social Security death index http://ssdmf.info/download.htm... and evaluate your false positive and false negative stats. You will find that these are not generally helpful. It doesn't matter if an algorithm would have worked in one particular case if 99% of the time the algorithm drives the end user insane with useless results.
I don't think these exchanges are managed quite this simply. They seem to have large numbers of both dollars and bitcoins on-hand and in-process and lots of upset customers. It sounds like they are operating as both bank and exchange -- which is a bad thing.
Any organization that attempts to provide exchange services between 'hard' currencies and an inflating virtual currency is doomed to insolvency in terms of the hard currency. The operations of such an organization will always amount effectively to a Ponzi scheme when viewed from the hard currency point of view. A little thought experiment: an exchange takes in $100 for 100 v-coins valued at $1 each. The v-coin value inflates to $2 and the investors decide to exchange their v-coins back to dollars ... how many v-coins can be exchanged before the exchange is insolvent? HALF! DUH! The moment a virtual currency becomes established enough to be treated as a valid investment it is doomed to increase its pace of inflation and then collapse. This can only be avoided if the exchanges charge fees that are greater than the future inflation rate. However if they do this, the virtual currency's advantages will quickly be less than simply trading in the original currency ... so what's the point?