It is very likely that programming skill (if such a thing actually exists in a measurable sense) is normally distributed. What looks like a bimodal distribution is really just an effect of current employment practices by Google/Facebook/etc. There are people who are "good enough" (measured very poorly by a job interview) to work at one of these "top" firms that pay really well, and everyone else simply isn't good enough. The difference in actual skill between a person who is "good enough" and one who is "not good enough" is very small.
On the subject of math, I don't buy the story of the developer. Each packet equals a shot and weighs one ounce. So he could have solve his problem just as well by carrying tequila (one shot weighs one ounce) with him on his hike.
This may not what you are looking for, but the Bitnami stack is pretty good. You basically install a core module and then you can install other things as "apps" that may depend on each other. You can also just start with a VM image, which will save you even more configuration time.
Dual-use technologies work both ways, smarty-pants: if you break the algorithm, it's broken for the good guys, too, and the bad guys pwn everyone who thinks they are safe.
The cleverness of Dual_EC_DRBG is that it really is broken in a limited way. It produces numbers that are random to everyone who doesn't know the seed or a particular private key, which we assume only the NSA has. It's just as secure as using any "good" random number generator and then sending the seed to the NSA using public key encryption.
The amount of extra fuel required to do this is pretty trivial. The atmosphere does most of the work of slowing down the first stage, and it will be very light (because the payload and almost all of the fuel is gone) when you are trying to land it. The value of recovering the first stage greatly exceeds the slight cost of carrying a little extra fuel weight.
What actually happened is that there was something that you really wanted to believe, and you carefully filtered and interpreted information until you had constructed enough of an argument to convince yourself. Since I have no desire to believe in the Resurrection, I conclude that the things you describe don't come close to "proof" (in either the logical or the scientific sense).
And this all has nothing to do with IQ, it is something that all people do. The best we can hope for is to try to be aware of it in ourselves and others. For more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C....
The poll that you supplied supports GP's argument. From the data, 40% of people change religion after birth, but over half of that is caused by people switching "within the same tradition" (e.g. changing from Baptist to Methodist or Agnostic to Atheist), and most of the rest is people leaving the church altogether. Only 4% of people in the survey were raised outside of religion and later joined a religion. So of all religious people in the survey, 96% got there by being born, and the other 4% were raised non-religious and then later became affiliated with a religion. By any reasonable definition, 96% is a "vast majority".
As to your anecdote, some denominations (e.g. Charismatic) cater to the "born again" crowd and so will be composed of a lot of converts, which others (Catholic, Episcopal) are composed almost entirely of people who were born or married into the faith.
Providing the console you were using was set as one of your primary consoles, then downloaded games (including PS+ games) were also fine all day.
Not completely. I tried to play a PS+ game that I haven't played in a couple of months. It turns out is was "expired" and it needed to be reactivated by talking to PSN. The activation service was offline, so no dice. This was on a PS3.
Except this isn't "I forgot to turn off the coffee maker and my coffee burned" territory. It is closer to "I forgot to de-ice the Pitot tubes and a plane full of people crashed." Companies have figure out how to manage stuff like this when it is important enough (process, checklists, redundancy, etc), Sony just failed to do so.
I object to the phrase word "Man in the Middle Attack" because that phrase has a very specific meaning. This is not a MITM attack -- at least not a successful one. The submission suggests that the corporation is exploiting some security vulnerability, when really it is just using trust in a completely appropriate* way.
*Note that all of my comments are about computer security, not acceptable corporate behavior. Whether this is a case of corporate douchebaggery is a separate issue. I didn't comment on that part of the issue because it doesn't interest me.
This is not a MITM attack -- it is a trusted proxy. The employees all trust the proxy, so everything works as it should. You don't trust the proxy, so you get a certificate validation error, so everything works as it should.
The problem is that people entering college now are too young to remember when they were first exposed to computers because computers are everywhere and they've had them all their life. I remember being excited about my family's first computer (and IBM PC XT) and wondering how it works, but that was because I was 9 at the time. Computers are so commonplace today, and many are not even recognizable as computers, that we shouldn't expect kids to have an immediate sense of wonder about them.
Another issue is that young people probably see computers and software as these mystical things that are handed down to us from large, powerful companies like Apple and EA. So they may need to be informed that it is within their means to tinker with software and build things on their own.
Atheism is a luxury that prisoners cannot afford. They are in an unpleasant situation and thus they are more likely to require the comfort of religion.
Blank display is a term used in avionics to describe a condition in which a display is blank. This condition could could be caused by any number of things, including failure of the computer that is driving the display. It's not necessarily "momentary."
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It is very likely that programming skill (if such a thing actually exists in a measurable sense) is normally distributed. What looks like a bimodal distribution is really just an effect of current employment practices by Google/Facebook/etc. There are people who are "good enough" (measured very poorly by a job interview) to work at one of these "top" firms that pay really well, and everyone else simply isn't good enough. The difference in actual skill between a person who is "good enough" and one who is "not good enough" is very small.
That's funny. You understand that computers are currently in charge of the global financial system, right?
On the subject of math, I don't buy the story of the developer. Each packet equals a shot and weighs one ounce. So he could have solve his problem just as well by carrying tequila (one shot weighs one ounce) with him on his hike.
Yeah, but it will be a lot easier once we have replaced ourselves with robots. We might as well just wait and explore the universe after that happens.
This may not what you are looking for, but the Bitnami stack is pretty good. You basically install a core module and then you can install other things as "apps" that may depend on each other. You can also just start with a VM image, which will save you even more configuration time.
Dual-use technologies work both ways, smarty-pants: if you break the algorithm, it's broken for the good guys, too, and the bad guys pwn everyone who thinks they are safe.
The cleverness of Dual_EC_DRBG is that it really is broken in a limited way. It produces numbers that are random to everyone who doesn't know the seed or a particular private key, which we assume only the NSA has. It's just as secure as using any "good" random number generator and then sending the seed to the NSA using public key encryption.
We need real laptops which can at least run prime calculation at advertised turbo boost speed, full cores/threads for an entire day.
What the hell are you trying to do with these things? Is the NSA starting up a mobile service now?
The amount of extra fuel required to do this is pretty trivial. The atmosphere does most of the work of slowing down the first stage, and it will be very light (because the payload and almost all of the fuel is gone) when you are trying to land it. The value of recovering the first stage greatly exceeds the slight cost of carrying a little extra fuel weight.
You have a bug in your parser.
What actually happened is that there was something that you really wanted to believe, and you carefully filtered and interpreted information until you had constructed enough of an argument to convince yourself. Since I have no desire to believe in the Resurrection, I conclude that the things you describe don't come close to "proof" (in either the logical or the scientific sense).
And this all has nothing to do with IQ, it is something that all people do. The best we can hope for is to try to be aware of it in ourselves and others. For more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C....
You have a source for that?
The poll that you supplied supports GP's argument. From the data, 40% of people change religion after birth, but over half of that is caused by people switching "within the same tradition" (e.g. changing from Baptist to Methodist or Agnostic to Atheist), and most of the rest is people leaving the church altogether. Only 4% of people in the survey were raised outside of religion and later joined a religion. So of all religious people in the survey, 96% got there by being born, and the other 4% were raised non-religious and then later became affiliated with a religion. By any reasonable definition, 96% is a "vast majority".
As to your anecdote, some denominations (e.g. Charismatic) cater to the "born again" crowd and so will be composed of a lot of converts, which others (Catholic, Episcopal) are composed almost entirely of people who were born or married into the faith.
Providing the console you were using was set as one of your primary consoles, then downloaded games (including PS+ games) were also fine all day.
Not completely. I tried to play a PS+ game that I haven't played in a couple of months. It turns out is was "expired" and it needed to be reactivated by talking to PSN. The activation service was offline, so no dice. This was on a PS3.
Agreed. This shit is just nerd clickbait.
Currently the Irish navy has deployed one vessel to maintain a 2 mile exclusion zone around the island.
I hope, for all our sakes, that the U.S. military does the same thing around movie theaters after the film is released.
Except this isn't "I forgot to turn off the coffee maker and my coffee burned" territory. It is closer to "I forgot to de-ice the Pitot tubes and a plane full of people crashed." Companies have figure out how to manage stuff like this when it is important enough (process, checklists, redundancy, etc), Sony just failed to do so.
I object to the phrase word "Man in the Middle Attack" because that phrase has a very specific meaning. This is not a MITM attack -- at least not a successful one. The submission suggests that the corporation is exploiting some security vulnerability, when really it is just using trust in a completely appropriate* way.
*Note that all of my comments are about computer security, not acceptable corporate behavior. Whether this is a case of corporate douchebaggery is a separate issue. I didn't comment on that part of the issue because it doesn't interest me.
This is not a MITM attack -- it is a trusted proxy. The employees all trust the proxy, so everything works as it should. You don't trust the proxy, so you get a certificate validation error, so everything works as it should.
Students would not learn enough higher math, algorithms, and data structures to be viable employees when their industry changes every five years
The problem is that people entering college now are too young to remember when they were first exposed to computers because computers are everywhere and they've had them all their life. I remember being excited about my family's first computer (and IBM PC XT) and wondering how it works, but that was because I was 9 at the time. Computers are so commonplace today, and many are not even recognizable as computers, that we shouldn't expect kids to have an immediate sense of wonder about them.
Another issue is that young people probably see computers and software as these mystical things that are handed down to us from large, powerful companies like Apple and EA. So they may need to be informed that it is within their means to tinker with software and build things on their own.
Self-driving cars hold a lot of promise, but I think it will always be better to deliver your children in a hospital.
Atheism is a luxury that prisoners cannot afford. They are in an unpleasant situation and thus they are more likely to require the comfort of religion.
"Higher intensity means more data, and more data means more science!"
The glasses don't do anything about the plot or the characters, which are already 2-dimensional.
Blank display is a term used in avionics to describe a condition in which a display is blank. This condition could could be caused by any number of things, including failure of the computer that is driving the display. It's not necessarily "momentary."
I prefer the real deal.
I do too! But I don't live in New Jersey, so I have to watch them on TV.