Yes, that's a good answer, except that it completely ignores the facts that 1. People have turned in fake results 2. People have deliberately tried to screw up their database and server 3. There are apparently security holes in the client which would have been noticed much sooner if the code was open.
wouldn't it make sense to at least allow people to know what they're running?
I'm not saying that open source is the best solution in all circumstances, but when you're asking people to run your code it seems that the least you could do would be to provide them with the source code.
It's really just a matter of handing out free shares, but there's some reason why they can't do that; so they work around the issue by handing out "options" instead.
However surely much of the same information could be found by people digging through your garbage, following you home from work etc...... or by reading your blog. Sometimes I wonder if the ideal of blogging was initiated as a government attempt to get people used to giving details of their personal life to absolute strangers.
It's pretty easy to explain: They were exercising options. If they were buying the stock on the open market then it would look bad; but they weren't. The timing is both irrelevant and coincidental; it looks to me like the options were exercised as soon as they vested.
After 9/11, Bush made two statements: 1. "Terrorists hate America because America is a land of freedom and opportunity." 2. "We intend to attack the root causes of terrorism."
Sounds like everything is going according to plan.
Cable's such a great solution...it's big, thick, has high potential and is well insulated. It's got less noise than power lines and better range then telephone while being less expensive than copper.
Eh? I don't know about you, but the coax which comes through my wall is copper.
That seems to be a huge disadvantage because it will use a lot more cable bandwidth transfering the content for a single viewer.
There certainly is a disadvantage in terms of bandwidth, but there is an advantage in terms of storage -- by storing everything centrally, they only need to keep one copy of each program instead of having millions of copies spread around the network. (Ok, they'd actually have more than one copy, but it would still be far less than the millions otherwise needed.)
This also means that people wouldn't need to program in advance what they wanted to record, since AOL could proactively store everything.
It can produce a different result. For example, if
11 people vote A,B,C, 10 people vote B,C,A, and 9 people vote C,A,B, then A beats B (20-10), B beats C (21-9), and C beats A (19-11), resulting in a deadlock.
Single Transferable Vote would give First round: A-11 B-10 C-9 Second round: A-20 B-10, resulting in A winning.
However, as with almost all cases where vote counting methods give different results, such a set of votes would be very unlikely to actually happen; in practice you'll almost always end up with the same result regardless of how you count the votes.
ITYM 10 thousand years of human civilization. Humans may have existed for longer than that (depending upon exactly how you define "human") but cities certainly didn't.
When porting pf was first proposed on the FreeBSD mailing lists, the general opinion was that it would be a Bad Idea. pf may be great, but having two firewalls built into FreeBSD has caused much confusion in the past.
Remember, perfection comes not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
All of those have vaccines for them. So would it be possible to prepare a vaccine for this virus, too?
Probably... if you're willing to wait 3 or 4 months. Even without the usual extensive testing, producing vaccines against new viruses is very time consuming.
Every time someone asks about dropping Sendmail or Bind from the base system, discussion on the FreeBSD lists ends up with the following: If you go ahead and work out how to packagize "base", we'll probably end up doing it.
I think starting with this "miniBSD" and adding everything else back in might be the right way to do it.
Going to war may boost the stock markets; but it is generally not good news for the currency when you have people wondering if the government is going to devalue its currency in order to pay for the war.
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10 PB/year = 10^16 B/year = 2.74x10^13 B/day = 1.14x10^12 B/hour = 317 MB/s.
You're off by a factor of 1000.
No, you've got is wrong: They're trying to understand the questions, not the answers.
Yes, that's a good answer, except that it completely ignores the facts that
1. People have turned in fake results
2. People have deliberately tried to screw up their database and server
3. There are apparently security holes in the client which would have been noticed much sooner if the code was open.
wouldn't it make sense to at least allow people to know what they're running?
I'm not saying that open source is the best solution in all circumstances, but when you're asking people to run your code it seems that the least you could do would be to provide them with the source code.
If you run tcpdump on one of these, what does it do in reaction to the Evil bit?
step one is haiku
step two is many lawyers
step three is profit.
It's really just a matter of handing out free shares, but there's some reason why they can't do that; so they work around the issue by handing out "options" instead.
However surely much of the same information could be found by people digging through your garbage, following you home from work etc... ... or by reading your blog. Sometimes I wonder if the ideal of blogging was initiated as a government attempt to get people used to giving details of their personal life to absolute strangers.
A: Obviously, are we there yet?
Shouldn't that be:
A: Daddy, it's "quid-pro-quo", not "quid-pro-go"!
It's pretty easy to explain: They were exercising options. If they were buying the stock on the open market then it would look bad; but they weren't. The timing is both irrelevant and coincidental; it looks to me like the options were exercised as soon as they vested.
Ask Bush, not me; I was only quoting him. ;)
After 9/11, Bush made two statements:
1. "Terrorists hate America because America is a land of freedom and opportunity."
2. "We intend to attack the root causes of terrorism."
Sounds like everything is going according to plan.
Well, of course. FreeBSD supported the Evil bit the day the RFC was released.
Cable's such a great solution...it's big, thick, has high potential and is well insulated. It's got less noise than power lines and better range then telephone while being less expensive than copper.
Eh? I don't know about you, but the coax which comes through my wall is copper.
That seems to be a huge disadvantage because it will use a lot more cable bandwidth transfering the content for a single viewer.
There certainly is a disadvantage in terms of bandwidth, but there is an advantage in terms of storage -- by storing everything centrally, they only need to keep one copy of each program instead of having millions of copies spread around the network. (Ok, they'd actually have more than one copy, but it would still be far less than the millions otherwise needed.)
This also means that people wouldn't need to program in advance what they wanted to record, since AOL could proactively store everything.
It can produce a different result. For example, if
11 people vote A,B,C,
10 people vote B,C,A, and
9 people vote C,A,B, then
A beats B (20-10),
B beats C (21-9), and
C beats A (19-11), resulting in a deadlock.
Single Transferable Vote would give
First round: A-11 B-10 C-9
Second round: A-20 B-10, resulting in A winning.
However, as with almost all cases where vote counting methods give different results, such a set of votes would be very unlikely to actually happen; in practice you'll almost always end up with the same result regardless of how you count the votes.
ITYM 10 thousand years of human civilization. Humans may have existed for longer than that (depending upon exactly how you define "human") but cities certainly didn't.
Can we put George Bush onto a Restricted list? He certainly portrays war as the only way to resolve conflicts.
If all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.
Similarly, if all you have is *three* hammers, everything still looks like a nail.
When porting pf was first proposed on the FreeBSD mailing lists, the general opinion was that it would be a Bad Idea. pf may be great, but having two firewalls built into FreeBSD has caused much confusion in the past.
Remember, perfection comes not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
No, it's ln(8)/ln(10) = 0.903... of an order of magnitude. ;)
All of those have vaccines for them. So would it be possible to prepare a vaccine for this virus, too?
Probably... if you're willing to wait 3 or 4 months. Even without the usual extensive testing, producing vaccines against new viruses is very time consuming.
Every time someone asks about dropping Sendmail or Bind from the base system, discussion on the FreeBSD lists ends up with the following: If you go ahead and work out how to packagize "base", we'll probably end up doing it.
I think starting with this "miniBSD" and adding everything else back in might be the right way to do it.
Going to war may boost the stock markets; but it is generally not good news for the currency when you have people wondering if the government is going to devalue its currency in order to pay for the war.
Odd that the Canandian Dollar recently rose in value to 1.48 CND = 1 USD
Not really. Canada:
1. Is running a budget surplus,
2. Has the strongest economy in the G8, and
3. Isn't going to war with Iraq.