No they aren't. But internet marketers and other seo-people will to try and push their sites to the top. Then they will also try and enlist ordinary users help by placing +1 buttons on their pages and some will even go so far as to incentivise users for clicking on the buttons. Or having stupid interstitial pages with +1 buttons on them that users have to click to get to the real content.
Hah requirement analysis! Aka doing a lot of mind numbing paper work that if you are lucky the engineers are able to ignore and still produce a quality product. Or, if you're not so lucky, have to follow it because clueless managers don't know how software design works resulting in releasing something which is a veritable disaster. People are notoriously bad at reasoning about abstract things, especially if they don't have the technical know-how on how those things really work, which is why "requirement analysis" is a waste of time.
Doesn't matter who started it. It wasn't the Palestinians but they were the ones who had to pay the price of the war. The general notion that all Arabs are the same and that the conflcit is Jews vs Arabs is wrong. The only people who have treated the Palestinians worse than the Israelis are their Arab neighbours.
They had to rely on someone. If you want to renovate your bathroom and you don't know how, then you have to rely on a craftsman to do a proper job. If you are an ISP which provides backup services and you don't do any, you're not doing your job. The whole point of a specialized economy is that you shouldn't have to be an expert on everything to get any job done. Most people are not, and should not have to be, experts on all the technical and procedural problems which you need to understand to run a proper backup scheme (of which there are many).
That's great that he is getting punished for the theft. Poker chips have a real value on the sites that are employing them. But what about those poker sites that ban accounts and refuse to pay their owner for vague or no reasons at all? Lots of people have had their money stolen for suspected collusion or for playing in a pattern similar to a poker bot.
There was nothing wrong with the Chernobyl reactor nor with the people that ran the reactor. What happened was that the higher ups in the Soviet system, those with no clue whatsoever, had ordered a very dangerous experiment to be conducted at the plant. This experiment was running late which triggered a lot of human errors and together with some unfortunate events caused the catastrophe. The nuclear engineers working at the plant knew how dangerous the experiment was and what the risks were but proceeded with it. If they had refused, it would have been a good way to end their careers and possibly been transferred to Siberia.
The exact same thing can happen again, like it did with BP:s oil spill and their infallible blow out preventor. It's not about technology but about human factors. Mistakes do happen because time schedules are still stressed, idiots with no contact with the people on the ground are still the ones doing the decisions and it's still much safer to do what your boss says than to be adamant about following safety regulations.
That's the reason why nuclear energy is cheap. Because the plants are old and their construction costs have been fully amortized. Alternative energy wouldn't be so alternative anymore if only recently constructed nuclear plants were allowed to operate.
Exactly which nuclear energy safety standards did this reactor violate? Most reactors in the world are from the 70-ies or older. Not because of evil hippies, but because it is extremely expensive to rebuild nuclear power plants once every 20 years because of stricter regulations. Alternative energy wouldn't be so alternative anymore if the real cost of nuclear energy wasn't hidden away from the public through lax regulations, tax subsidies and insurance waivers.
When I want stability, I use Firefox. Flash also works much better with that browser even though flash always is a hassle on a 64bit os. Chrome on the other hand, smokes Firefix out of the water when it comes to raw speed.
What you are talkinga bout is what is called the rake or vig in poker and gambling terms respectively. The rake has decreased drastically in poker and it sure isn't caused by the influx of poker bots. The reason for the decrease is online poker which makes it much cheaper to host poker games than in real life, similar to how e-trading made trading cheaper. Just as with poker, taking a rake on buying and selling stocks is a hugely profitable business which is why the stiff competition has driven prices down.
The term Windows certainly is generic in most contexts. You cant trademark the term "windows factory", "window repair shop" nor "windowing toolkit". Windows is only trademarked for the os market. The question is whether the term "app store" is generic in the context of software repositories.
DNS is a trade-off: network-wide consistency for autonomy. With DNS, you have to ask somebody how to get to http://slashdot.org/ [slashdot.org]. That somebody should be someone you trust. But for now, there's only one "someone". If there were multiple "someone"s, the net would fragment, and that's inconvenient. So there'd be a meta-somebody who can bring all the fragmented parts together, like a super-DNS that points to all the individual DNS roots. But that just recreates the "authoritarian DNS system" problem, one level higher.
It is not either or. Theoretically you could resolve addresses by asking a number of different independent name servers and go with the majority opinion. Similar to how ntp works. It would make name resolving a much more complicated process, but is is a logical solution if (or rather when) governments starts interfering with the root dns server.
Since almost all pension funds around the world are floated on the stock market and in various other derivates, it is not only the fools that will lose their money. Executives appointed by the government to "manage" my money have decided to gamble it away at their leasure and there is absolutely nothing I can do about it.
I can understand that they would not want to use Linux if they have to write printer drivers for it! But in my experience, network printers work out of the box with Linux both for duplex and four-color printing. What kind of special printing requirements would the German Foreign Office have where the regular printing setup isn't good enough? Does Windows come with specialized printing drivers?
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That's exactly what Python did and does, where appropriate. Where it isn't, such as the changed meaning of string literals (they are all unicode now) or the division operator, the breakage is hard. There is no way around that if you want to modernize the language. C# did it too, Java did not. Which is why generics in Java are half-assed and why there are a lot of quirks in the language that traces their roots back to version 1.1 or earlier.
In this case, they didn't just move from Windows to Linux, they also changed the development environment from C# to C++ which definitely is a huge downgrade. They are trading a higher-level language with (builtin) garbage collection, huge standard library, runtime protection, linq and runtime protections for one which hasn't with the only advantage that C++ _may_ be 2-3% faster for some tasks.
not leaving a party by yourself is the much more obvious step
Just where the fuck do you live that it's acceptable that someone can't leave a party alone?
Don't misunderstand, if a woman's leaving a party late at night I'll check that she's able to get home safely. Telling me she's getting into her car outside and driving home would however qualify.
Maybe you missed the part of the article where it said she had three drinks, felt nauseaus, then decided to get into her car and drive home? That's hardly a safe way to get home, neither for her, pedestrians in her way nor other drivers who'll have to watch out for drunkards on the roads.
Here is how you do the "replace every third character unless it is followed by 4" using python:
d = open('infile.txt', 'rb').read()
d = ''.join(('R' if (idx % 3 == 0 and ch1 != '4') else ch) for (idx, (ch, ch1)) in enumerate(map(None, d, d[1:])))
open('outfile.txt', 'rb').write(d)
I doubt you can write that as succintly using regexps. To bad slashdot fucked the code up.
Because, as described in TFA, the method used to exploit BGP is totally different from previous known methods. This one is about DDoS-ing a single high-traffic link between two routes so that neighbouring routers will send BGP updates telling listening parties to route their traffic elsewhere. The DDoS-ing would then stop, traffic resume on the link and new BGP updates being sent. Then another DDoS on the same link and so on. Eventually the amount of BGP updates would build up a huge backlog overloading every router in the world.
The attack is possible in theory. In reality, you would need a huge botnet concentrating on a single vulnerable link to be able to pull off the attack. Generally high traffic links are also high capacity links, so the botnets size would have to be gigantic to disrupt a major link.
Actually, most laws that forbid civil liberties are based on third person effects. For example: *I* haven't been too adversely affected by violent media, but other less educated and less mature people are. Why else is there an epidemic in violence?
You're a retarded asshole. School is a completely different situation than any other in the world. Kids are forced to go to school, they are forced to put up with their classmates and their teachers. A kid can't just decide not to go to school or even to transfer to another class if the teacher is a jerk. If the teacher insults him, he can't even shoot back because that would jeopardize his grades which could have severe repercussions for his future career.
You don't need a tinfoil hat. Pure old greed will do just fine. Sad really because Huffington Post was one of the few worthwhile who reported real news instead of Brittney Spears gossip.
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No they aren't. But internet marketers and other seo-people will to try and push their sites to the top. Then they will also try and enlist ordinary users help by placing +1 buttons on their pages and some will even go so far as to incentivise users for clicking on the buttons. Or having stupid interstitial pages with +1 buttons on them that users have to click to get to the real content.
Hah requirement analysis! Aka doing a lot of mind numbing paper work that if you are lucky the engineers are able to ignore and still produce a quality product. Or, if you're not so lucky, have to follow it because clueless managers don't know how software design works resulting in releasing something which is a veritable disaster. People are notoriously bad at reasoning about abstract things, especially if they don't have the technical know-how on how those things really work, which is why "requirement analysis" is a waste of time.
Doesn't matter who started it. It wasn't the Palestinians but they were the ones who had to pay the price of the war. The general notion that all Arabs are the same and that the conflcit is Jews vs Arabs is wrong. The only people who have treated the Palestinians worse than the Israelis are their Arab neighbours.
They had to rely on someone. If you want to renovate your bathroom and you don't know how, then you have to rely on a craftsman to do a proper job. If you are an ISP which provides backup services and you don't do any, you're not doing your job. The whole point of a specialized economy is that you shouldn't have to be an expert on everything to get any job done. Most people are not, and should not have to be, experts on all the technical and procedural problems which you need to understand to run a proper backup scheme (of which there are many).
That's great that he is getting punished for the theft. Poker chips have a real value on the sites that are employing them. But what about those poker sites that ban accounts and refuse to pay their owner for vague or no reasons at all? Lots of people have had their money stolen for suspected collusion or for playing in a pattern similar to a poker bot.
There was nothing wrong with the Chernobyl reactor nor with the people that ran the reactor. What happened was that the higher ups in the Soviet system, those with no clue whatsoever, had ordered a very dangerous experiment to be conducted at the plant. This experiment was running late which triggered a lot of human errors and together with some unfortunate events caused the catastrophe. The nuclear engineers working at the plant knew how dangerous the experiment was and what the risks were but proceeded with it. If they had refused, it would have been a good way to end their careers and possibly been transferred to Siberia.
The exact same thing can happen again, like it did with BP:s oil spill and their infallible blow out preventor. It's not about technology but about human factors. Mistakes do happen because time schedules are still stressed, idiots with no contact with the people on the ground are still the ones doing the decisions and it's still much safer to do what your boss says than to be adamant about following safety regulations.
That's the reason why nuclear energy is cheap. Because the plants are old and their construction costs have been fully amortized. Alternative energy wouldn't be so alternative anymore if only recently constructed nuclear plants were allowed to operate.
Exactly which nuclear energy safety standards did this reactor violate? Most reactors in the world are from the 70-ies or older. Not because of evil hippies, but because it is extremely expensive to rebuild nuclear power plants once every 20 years because of stricter regulations. Alternative energy wouldn't be so alternative anymore if the real cost of nuclear energy wasn't hidden away from the public through lax regulations, tax subsidies and insurance waivers.
When I want stability, I use Firefox. Flash also works much better with that browser even though flash always is a hassle on a 64bit os. Chrome on the other hand, smokes Firefix out of the water when it comes to raw speed.
What you are talkinga bout is what is called the rake or vig in poker and gambling terms respectively. The rake has decreased drastically in poker and it sure isn't caused by the influx of poker bots. The reason for the decrease is online poker which makes it much cheaper to host poker games than in real life, similar to how e-trading made trading cheaper. Just as with poker, taking a rake on buying and selling stocks is a hugely profitable business which is why the stiff competition has driven prices down.
The term Windows certainly is generic in most contexts. You cant trademark the term "windows factory", "window repair shop" nor "windowing toolkit". Windows is only trademarked for the os market. The question is whether the term "app store" is generic in the context of software repositories.
DNS is a trade-off: network-wide consistency for autonomy. With DNS, you have to ask somebody how to get to http://slashdot.org/ [slashdot.org]. That somebody should be someone you trust. But for now, there's only one "someone". If there were multiple "someone"s, the net would fragment, and that's inconvenient. So there'd be a meta-somebody who can bring all the fragmented parts together, like a super-DNS that points to all the individual DNS roots. But that just recreates the "authoritarian DNS system" problem, one level higher.
It is not either or. Theoretically you could resolve addresses by asking a number of different independent name servers and go with the majority opinion. Similar to how ntp works. It would make name resolving a much more complicated process, but is is a logical solution if (or rather when) governments starts interfering with the root dns server.
Since almost all pension funds around the world are floated on the stock market and in various other derivates, it is not only the fools that will lose their money. Executives appointed by the government to "manage" my money have decided to gamble it away at their leasure and there is absolutely nothing I can do about it.
Slashdot ates my comment and that sucked!!!
I can understand that they would not want to use Linux if they have to write printer drivers for it! But in my experience, network printers work out of the box with Linux both for duplex and four-color printing. What kind of special printing requirements would the German Foreign Office have where the regular printing setup isn't good enough? Does Windows come with specialized printing drivers?
That's exactly what Python did and does, where appropriate. Where it isn't, such as the changed meaning of string literals (they are all unicode now) or the division operator, the breakage is hard. There is no way around that if you want to modernize the language. C# did it too, Java did not. Which is why generics in Java are half-assed and why there are a lot of quirks in the language that traces their roots back to version 1.1 or earlier.
In this case, they didn't just move from Windows to Linux, they also changed the development environment from C# to C++ which definitely is a huge downgrade. They are trading a higher-level language with (builtin) garbage collection, huge standard library, runtime protection, linq and runtime protections for one which hasn't with the only advantage that C++ _may_ be 2-3% faster for some tasks.
not leaving a party by yourself is the much more obvious step Just where the fuck do you live that it's acceptable that someone can't leave a party alone? Don't misunderstand, if a woman's leaving a party late at night I'll check that she's able to get home safely. Telling me she's getting into her car outside and driving home would however qualify.
Maybe you missed the part of the article where it said she had three drinks, felt nauseaus, then decided to get into her car and drive home? That's hardly a safe way to get home, neither for her, pedestrians in her way nor other drivers who'll have to watch out for drunkards on the roads.
Thanks for trying, but that regexp is not even close to working: re.sub(r'(.{3})A', r'\1B', 'abcdefgh') => 'abcdefgh'. Try harder.
Here is how you do the "replace every third character unless it is followed by 4" using python: d = open('infile.txt', 'rb').read() d = ''.join(('R' if (idx % 3 == 0 and ch1 != '4') else ch) for (idx, (ch, ch1)) in enumerate(map(None, d, d[1:]))) open('outfile.txt', 'rb').write(d) I doubt you can write that as succintly using regexps. To bad slashdot fucked the code up.
Because, as described in TFA, the method used to exploit BGP is totally different from previous known methods. This one is about DDoS-ing a single high-traffic link between two routes so that neighbouring routers will send BGP updates telling listening parties to route their traffic elsewhere. The DDoS-ing would then stop, traffic resume on the link and new BGP updates being sent. Then another DDoS on the same link and so on. Eventually the amount of BGP updates would build up a huge backlog overloading every router in the world.
The attack is possible in theory. In reality, you would need a huge botnet concentrating on a single vulnerable link to be able to pull off the attack. Generally high traffic links are also high capacity links, so the botnets size would have to be gigantic to disrupt a major link.
Actually, most laws that forbid civil liberties are based on third person effects. For example: *I* haven't been too adversely affected by violent media, but other less educated and less mature people are. Why else is there an epidemic in violence?
There isn't.
You're a retarded asshole. School is a completely different situation than any other in the world. Kids are forced to go to school, they are forced to put up with their classmates and their teachers. A kid can't just decide not to go to school or even to transfer to another class if the teacher is a jerk. If the teacher insults him, he can't even shoot back because that would jeopardize his grades which could have severe repercussions for his future career.
Come on. The icon is retarded and it was several years ago since Gates was with MS.
You don't need a tinfoil hat. Pure old greed will do just fine. Sad really because Huffington Post was one of the few worthwhile who reported real news instead of Brittney Spears gossip.