That's not what the study shows, though. What the study shows is that a broad measure of fitness is more significant than any single narrow measure of fitness. This isn't surprising because the broad measure basically includes the narrow measures. That is, the results of the stress test are affected by obesity, smoking status, heart condition, etc. -- JimFive
The issue with the SSN is that with the number, a name, and a birth date you can get a credit card mailed to you. This happens because the credit card issuers make the mistake that if you know those 3 things then you must be that person (and, they have successfully pushed the pain onto the real person by coining the phrase identity theft, instead of what it really is, fraud).
In your country in Europe, what do you need to do to get a credit card? -- JimFive
No one is saying that they can't collect evidence at the crime scene. What they are saying is the police can't invite a witness to the station, give him a cup of coffee, and then compare the prints on the coffee cup to the prints at the crime scene. If they want to collect the prints they have to get a warrant. Likewise, if they want a DNA sample they can't just follow someone around until they leave some behind, they have to get a court order. -- JimFive
i agree with the stories. Not just good and funny stories, though. Tell her every story you can think of about yourself and your life. She's going to be missing a connection with you. Tell her memories about what you did as a kid with your parents, your friends. Tell her about things that you regret and things that you're proud of.
My recollection is that the card issuers were trying to use withholding chip and pin as leverage to move the liability for fraudulent transactions to the customer. However with the high profile exploits at Target (et al?) they agreed to switch to chip and signature with the liability staying between the merchant, the bank, and the card issuer. -- JimFive
Because when you say SCM I'm supposed to know you're not talking about Security Configuration Management, Supply Chain Management or Standard Compliance Management, or Signal Conditioning Modulation, etc. -- JimFive
One of the problems with questions like this, especially out of the blue (that is not as a contextual followup) is that there are many answers depending on the context inside the questioners head. For example: "How does memory work?" Well, do you mean at the physical level? Or from a memory addressing model level, from a C style pointer level, heap vs stack, or just the idea of binary digits?
Likewise with the OP question of "How does public key encryption work?" either the question reduces to the absurdly easy "How do you encrypt a file with PGP?" or it requires a bunch of math that I really don't know. Since I can't believe that someone would ask the first question in an interview for Senior Developer then the answer left is "With a bunch of math I don't know." -- JimFive
I disagree. If that's an acceptable answer then so is "Click the send encrypted email button in the email client." You do have server integrated encryption don't you? Why is the developer/user even concerned about this? If there's a business need for encrypted email then it should be handled by the infrastructure team and (ideally) not rely on the user to know or care about it.
If you're interviewing for a developer and you want to check into generic domain knowledge ask about Source Code Management and dealing with merge conflicts. And, don't use abbreviations. Just because you know what SCM means doesn't mean that the interviewee is going to pull up the correct reference under stress (and yes, interviewing is stressful).
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JimFive
If you would be happy with 'use your public key to send it to you' then it's a perfectly reasonable interview question IMO.
I disagree. If that's an acceptable answer then so is "Click the send encrypted email button in the email client." You do have server integrated encryption don't you? Why is the developer/user even concerned about this? If there's a business need for encrypted email then it should be handled by the infrastructure team and (ideally) not rely on the user to know or care about it.
If you're interviewing for a developer and you want to check into generic domain knowledge ask about Source Code Management and dealing with merge conflicts. And, don't use abbreviations. Just because you know what SCM means doesn't mean that the interviewee is going to pull up the correct reference under stress (and yes, interviewing is stressful).
My understanding of small claims court (I have no direct experience), is that even if you got a judgement, LG wouldn't pay it and you would have no way to collect. -- JimFive
Yes, you can make analogies and thought experiments that can give a contextual meaning to the phrase: "Act as if it were -100K". However, that doesn't make the question "How does matter behave at -100K?" a meaningful question, because -100K is not a meaningful symbol outside of a metaphorical context. Which brings us back to the original point that it is not meaningful to ask questions like "What happened before there was time?" You can ask "what was before the Big Bang?" only if you do not accept the idea that the space-time universe was created with the Big Bang, in which case you'll have to argue with the theoretical support for that idea. -- JimFive
Temperature is a measure of molecular motion. 0 K is the point at which molecular motion stops. So, while you can make comprehensible sentences around the idea of -100K you can't make meaningful sentences about a state in which there is less than 0 molecular motion. The only way that you can make sense of the sentence is by ignoring the meaning of terms within the sentence. -- JimFive
So, I imagine the 3rd party is like a big call center with a bunch of people in it. When you say the activation phrase, "OK TV" it connects your tv to somebody's terminal and they hear you say your commands "Channel 20, volume medium" and they push the remote control buttons on their terminal for you. (You're call may be recorded for quality assurance purposes, and general hilarity). -- JimFive
The guy knowingly created a way for [criminals to do business privately]
Did you know that the US Treasury knowingly creates a mechanism for [criminals] to anonymously exchange goods for value? Should all of their employees be convicted?
Ok, so that's a bit silly, but my point is that creating a system that can be used to facilitate crime isn't necessarily the same thing as committing a crime. In this case it appears that he also used his service to commit crimes which makes it less ambiguous. -- JimFive
You are concerned about your wife's ability to teach your child. Well, what has she taught so far? Can your child read? Add? If not, why does your wife think she's going to be able to teach those things now? If so, then what are you worried about? -- JimFive
Because if I didn't include the period, it would be ambiguous. I know so-called "standard English" doesn't like that.
Actually, standard English is fine with that because the "." character inside your quote is not a period. A period is a specific mark used to indicate the end of a sentence. the dot inside your quote, while it looks like a period is actually a symbol representing the current directory and is not a punctuation mark. Likewise, in your previous example, the period is not part of the quote so it goes outside the quote marks.
The point of punctuation is to reduce ambiguity and usage that achieves that is generally correct. I almost always punctuate outside the quotes when quoting and inside the quotes when writing dialog. -- JimFive
I'm going to slightly disagree about the motivation of drive-by wiki editing. If I'm reading a wikipedia entry and notice a problem (awkward phrasing, incorrect usage, comma usage, etc.) I might fix it, that's kind of the point of a wiki. It isn't, at least in my case, meant to be condescending; it's meant to be helpful.
Also, I've never thought of neither...nor... as archaic it just sounds better to me, so I might fix neither..or if I saw it. -- JimFive
500g jar of tomato pasta sauce ... Is it really so bad in America that its cheaper to buy the unhealthy preprocessed crap than it is to buy actual ingredients
I find it humorous that you think a jar of pasta sauce is anything other than "preprocessed crap". -- JimFive
Competition and/or expanding access would go alot further to bettering the internet than increasing the broadband definition.
This is true, but I suspect that there is some sort of money involved in being classified as "broadband" by the FCC and that money is the reason that Verizon and Cable companies don't want to be defined as not broadband. If that's true, then this is the mechanism that the FCC has to encourage companies to improve their network speeds. -- JimFive
No, "Innocent until proven guilty" also applies in civil trials. "Preponderance of evidence" vs. "Reasonable Doubt" is a statement of what certainty is required to establish that guilt. -- JimFive
Great post and thanks for the explanation. I do have one nitpick, though
(which is what the equation that governs the cosmological expansion of spacetime)
The equation does not govern the expansion, the equation describes or models the expansion. In the same way that the map is not the territory, the math is not the universe.
Eliminate, no. But they could do a lot to alleviate it if they would actually investigate incidents instead of falling back on "zero tolerance" rhetoric that punishes the victim of bullying when they finally lose it and fight back. Additionally, these are minors in a school, they're supposed to monitored most of the time. If long term bullying is happening at the school and the school doesn't know about it then it is probably because they don't want to know. Online bullying within the school could be monitored just as all network communication can be monitored. However, off-site, including off-network, bullying isn't really within the purview of the school and the school can't and shouldn't be trying to get in the middle of it, that's up to the parents and, ultimately, the police depending on the escalation of events. -- JimFive
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I don't know, but I suspect that long term studies use birth date as the participants age changes during the study.
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JimFive
That's not what the study shows, though. What the study shows is that a broad measure of fitness is more significant than any single narrow measure of fitness. This isn't surprising because the broad measure basically includes the narrow measures. That is, the results of the stress test are affected by obesity, smoking status, heart condition, etc.
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JimFive
The issue with the SSN is that with the number, a name, and a birth date you can get a credit card mailed to you. This happens because the credit card issuers make the mistake that if you know those 3 things then you must be that person (and, they have successfully pushed the pain onto the real person by coining the phrase identity theft, instead of what it really is, fraud).
In your country in Europe, what do you need to do to get a credit card?
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JimFive
No one is saying that they can't collect evidence at the crime scene. What they are saying is the police can't invite a witness to the station, give him a cup of coffee, and then compare the prints on the coffee cup to the prints at the crime scene. If they want to collect the prints they have to get a warrant. Likewise, if they want a DNA sample they can't just follow someone around until they leave some behind, they have to get a court order.
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JimFive
Because Electrons also display wave-particle duality.
i agree with the stories. Not just good and funny stories, though. Tell her every story you can think of about yourself and your life. She's going to be missing a connection with you. Tell her memories about what you did as a kid with your parents, your friends. Tell her about things that you regret and things that you're proud of.
My recollection is that the card issuers were trying to use withholding chip and pin as leverage to move the liability for fraudulent transactions to the customer. However with the high profile exploits at Target (et al?) they agreed to switch to chip and signature with the liability staying between the merchant, the bank, and the card issuer.
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JimFive
Because when you say SCM I'm supposed to know you're not talking about Security Configuration Management, Supply Chain Management or Standard Compliance Management, or Signal Conditioning Modulation, etc.
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JimFive
One of the problems with questions like this, especially out of the blue (that is not as a contextual followup) is that there are many answers depending on the context inside the questioners head. For example: "How does memory work?" Well, do you mean at the physical level? Or from a memory addressing model level, from a C style pointer level, heap vs stack, or just the idea of binary digits?
Likewise with the OP question of "How does public key encryption work?" either the question reduces to the absurdly easy "How do you encrypt a file with PGP?" or it requires a bunch of math that I really don't know. Since I can't believe that someone would ask the first question in an interview for Senior Developer then the answer left is "With a bunch of math I don't know."
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JimFive
I disagree. If that's an acceptable answer then so is "Click the send encrypted email button in the email client." You do have server integrated encryption don't you? Why is the developer/user even concerned about this? If there's a business need for encrypted email then it should be handled by the infrastructure team and (ideally) not rely on the user to know or care about it.
If you're interviewing for a developer and you want to check into generic domain knowledge ask about Source Code Management and dealing with merge conflicts. And, don't use abbreviations. Just because you know what SCM means doesn't mean that the interviewee is going to pull up the correct reference under stress (and yes, interviewing is stressful).
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JimFive
If you would be happy with 'use your public key to send it to you' then it's a perfectly reasonable interview question IMO.
I disagree. If that's an acceptable answer then so is "Click the send encrypted email button in the email client." You do have server integrated encryption don't you? Why is the developer/user even concerned about this? If there's a business need for encrypted email then it should be handled by the infrastructure team and (ideally) not rely on the user to know or care about it.
If you're interviewing for a developer and you want to check into generic domain knowledge ask about Source Code Management and dealing with merge conflicts. And, don't use abbreviations. Just because you know what SCM means doesn't mean that the interviewee is going to pull up the correct reference under stress (and yes, interviewing is stressful).
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JimFive
My understanding of small claims court (I have no direct experience), is that even if you got a judgement, LG wouldn't pay it and you would have no way to collect.
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JimFive
Yes, you can make analogies and thought experiments that can give a contextual meaning to the phrase: "Act as if it were -100K". However, that doesn't make the question "How does matter behave at -100K?" a meaningful question, because -100K is not a meaningful symbol outside of a metaphorical context. Which brings us back to the original point that it is not meaningful to ask questions like "What happened before there was time?" You can ask "what was before the Big Bang?" only if you do not accept the idea that the space-time universe was created with the Big Bang, in which case you'll have to argue with the theoretical support for that idea.
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JimFive
Temperature is a measure of molecular motion. 0 K is the point at which molecular motion stops. So, while you can make comprehensible sentences around the idea of -100K you can't make meaningful sentences about a state in which there is less than 0 molecular motion. The only way that you can make sense of the sentence is by ignoring the meaning of terms within the sentence.
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JimFive
Sure, but I think it would be hilarious if the "voice recognition" was just a bunch of people sitting in a call center with headphones.
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JimFive
So, I imagine the 3rd party is like a big call center with a bunch of people in it. When you say the activation phrase, "OK TV" it connects your tv to somebody's terminal and they hear you say your commands "Channel 20, volume medium" and they push the remote control buttons on their terminal for you. (You're call may be recorded for quality assurance purposes, and general hilarity).
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JimFive
The guy knowingly created a way for [criminals to do business privately]
Did you know that the US Treasury knowingly creates a mechanism for [criminals] to anonymously exchange goods for value? Should all of their employees be convicted?
Ok, so that's a bit silly, but my point is that creating a system that can be used to facilitate crime isn't necessarily the same thing as committing a crime. In this case it appears that he also used his service to commit crimes which makes it less ambiguous.
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JimFive
You are concerned about your wife's ability to teach your child. Well, what has she taught so far? Can your child read? Add? If not, why does your wife think she's going to be able to teach those things now? If so, then what are you worried about?
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JimFive
Type "cp -a /etc .".
Because if I didn't include the period, it would be ambiguous. I know so-called "standard English" doesn't like that.
Actually, standard English is fine with that because the "." character inside your quote is not a period. A period is a specific mark used to indicate the end of a sentence. the dot inside your quote, while it looks like a period is actually a symbol representing the current directory and is not a punctuation mark. Likewise, in your previous example, the period is not part of the quote so it goes outside the quote marks.
The point of punctuation is to reduce ambiguity and usage that achieves that is generally correct. I almost always punctuate outside the quotes when quoting and inside the quotes when writing dialog.
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JimFive
I'm going to slightly disagree about the motivation of drive-by wiki editing. If I'm reading a wikipedia entry and notice a problem (awkward phrasing, incorrect usage, comma usage, etc.) I might fix it, that's kind of the point of a wiki. It isn't, at least in my case, meant to be condescending; it's meant to be helpful.
Also, I've never thought of neither...nor... as archaic it just sounds better to me, so I might fix neither..or if I saw it.
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JimFive
500g jar of tomato pasta sauce
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Is it really so bad in America that its cheaper to buy the unhealthy preprocessed crap than it is to buy actual ingredients
I find it humorous that you think a jar of pasta sauce is anything other than "preprocessed crap".
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JimFive
Competition and/or expanding access would go alot further to bettering the internet than increasing the broadband definition.
This is true, but I suspect that there is some sort of money involved in being classified as "broadband" by the FCC and that money is the reason that Verizon and Cable companies don't want to be defined as not broadband. If that's true, then this is the mechanism that the FCC has to encourage companies to improve their network speeds.
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JimFive
No, "Innocent until proven guilty" also applies in civil trials. "Preponderance of evidence" vs. "Reasonable Doubt" is a statement of what certainty is required to establish that guilt.
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JimFive
(which is what the equation that governs the cosmological expansion of spacetime)
The equation does not govern the expansion, the equation describes or models the expansion. In the same way that the map is not the territory, the math is not the universe.
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JimFive
Eliminate, no. But they could do a lot to alleviate it if they would actually investigate incidents instead of falling back on "zero tolerance" rhetoric that punishes the victim of bullying when they finally lose it and fight back. Additionally, these are minors in a school, they're supposed to monitored most of the time. If long term bullying is happening at the school and the school doesn't know about it then it is probably because they don't want to know. Online bullying within the school could be monitored just as all network communication can be monitored. However, off-site, including off-network, bullying isn't really within the purview of the school and the school can't and shouldn't be trying to get in the middle of it, that's up to the parents and, ultimately, the police depending on the escalation of events.
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JimFive