I'm curious as to whether it happens in US as well. One of my Arab friends was strip searched at an airport and he was adamant that they did so only because of his Arab name and appearance.
The Israel's airport security model is very effective. But it is very difficult to follow in the US. You can google for a number of sources such as this. Excerpt:
While American and European security procedures rely mainly on technological solutions for screening luggage and passengers, Israel’s security philosophy is based on a mix of advanced detection devices and personal interaction with the passengers.The multi-layer system begins outside Israel’s biggest port of entry — Ben Gurion airport. Cars approaching the terminal are stopped by guards and asked one or two questions, usually about where they are coming from or what is the purpose of their visit. A nervous response, or one revealing an Arab accent, could trigger further scrutiny even before entering the airport.
When walking into the terminal, visitors pass by another set of security agents searching for passengers behaving suspiciously. The next stop for human evaluation is before the check-in counter, where passengers are required to show their travel documents and answer a series of seemingly standard questions from trained security personnel. (Did you pack your bags by yourself? How long did you spend in Israel? What was the purpose of your visit?) Screeners are interested more in the tone and body language than in the content of passengers’ replies.
This is also the point where profiling takes place: While most Jewish Israeli citizens will be waved through after the brief conversation, others, mainly Israeli Arabs and non-Jewish visitors, will be taken aside for lengthy questioning and a thorough luggage and physical check.
Can someone give me a good reason to use Thunderbird or any other mail client. I haven't felt the need for it ever since gmail arrived. I can access it from any machine, mobile or tablet. Attachments are becoming easier, yadda yadda. I genuinely trying to figure out when I would want to use a mail client. Maybe in an office environment where I would not like to forward emails to gmail?
I am a novice level programmer in C++/Python and I thought I could benefit from this book. But the exercises seem to be ridiculously simple and it seems a book only suited for someone with zero or negligible programming background.
There was a thread on reddit where the owner of videobox.com (a porn site) answered any questions asked. While he says that the porn industry is sort of in decline in the sense, less and less people are paying for porn. His guess was that eventually all porn will be free and the industry will make money from "adult social interaction" which will still be paid.
Wait.. isn't MapReduce just a framework and Hadoop one of its open source implementation? How is the former a 'creaking dinosaur' as compared to the latter?
Do you _need_ a BA in English for that? I have one Bachelors and two Masters degrees in engineering/math related fields. I like soccer and I like writing. I wrote in depth soccer reviews and analysis for a popular soccer website for two years. I'm pretty sure I can be a technical writer or a secretary as competent as a major in BA.
But I can also write code for sophisticated data analysis on multicore systems - and that pays many many times the above.
I think the language Chapel being developed by Cray is taking concrete steps to make Parallel Programming easier. It is very similar in syntax to C++ and even supports some higher level constructs.
This looks like an advertisement for Chapel but I have no relation to Cray. Having taken a graduate parallel programming course, I cannot agree more with the statement that "Parallel Programming is difficult". I struggled a lot with pthreads and MPI before doing the final assignment in Chapel which was a pleasant surprise. The difference between serial and parallel code was FIVE characters only - and it gave a near linear speedup on three different machines.
First I studied they were particles, then I studied they are actually mixture of waves and particles. Then I studied you cannot actually pinpoint it at all, and all you can know is probability density of its existence in space. Now, I read that they are extremely round.
My mind is full of fuck.
You're not qualified to write the response to that response to that response if you think that the response to that response is so grammatically incorrect as to invalidate his qualifications to make that response to the response in the first place.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Punctuation
Line starts getting blurrier here. Is Glenn Beck a troll or states unpopular truth? For me, it's the former and his opinions do not add to any kind of quality discussion.
Expressing a conservative opinion is difficult Slashdot as well. But I agree that the system here is far better than anywhere else, like Reddit - where karma whoring is rampant and good discussion is often subdued under "funny" comments. Don't even get me started on the lame memes generated over there.
I, personally, like the ribbon interface since it makes things finding so easy. I rely on Office only when I need to and so I don't need to know what lies where in the myriad of Menu Bar.
I'm sure the book 'Outliers' by Malcolm Gladwell will be mentioned somewhere above. What he argues is that IQ measures analytical intelligence and not practical intelligence. They are like orthogonal axes. In order to succeed in society, you need to have a combination of both. An above-average intelligence (~120 IQ) coupled with high practical intelligence is the common denominator of successful people.
> comparing advertising with fatal virus like AIDS
> saying advertising is bullshit
Nice comeback there. Replace the words about "advertising" with "buildings" and you get a free anti-construction rant.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm curious as to whether it happens in US as well. One of my Arab friends was strip searched at an airport and he was adamant that they did so only because of his Arab name and appearance.
The Israel's airport security model is very effective. But it is very difficult to follow in the US. You can google for a number of sources such as this. Excerpt:
While American and European security procedures rely mainly on technological solutions for screening luggage and passengers, Israel’s security philosophy is based on a mix of advanced detection devices and personal interaction with the passengers.The multi-layer system begins outside Israel’s biggest port of entry — Ben Gurion airport. Cars approaching the terminal are stopped by guards and asked one or two questions, usually about where they are coming from or what is the purpose of their visit. A nervous response, or one revealing an Arab accent, could trigger further scrutiny even before entering the airport.
When walking into the terminal, visitors pass by another set of security agents searching for passengers behaving suspiciously. The next stop for human evaluation is before the check-in counter, where passengers are required to show their travel documents and answer a series of seemingly standard questions from trained security personnel. (Did you pack your bags by yourself? How long did you spend in Israel? What was the purpose of your visit?) Screeners are interested more in the tone and body language than in the content of passengers’ replies.
This is also the point where profiling takes place: While most Jewish Israeli citizens will be waved through after the brief conversation, others, mainly Israeli Arabs and non-Jewish visitors, will be taken aside for lengthy questioning and a thorough luggage and physical check.
Login required for what? Certainly not for reading the article.
Can someone give me a good reason to use Thunderbird or any other mail client. I haven't felt the need for it ever since gmail arrived. I can access it from any machine, mobile or tablet. Attachments are becoming easier, yadda yadda. I genuinely trying to figure out when I would want to use a mail client. Maybe in an office environment where I would not like to forward emails to gmail?
My bad. I never thought Slashdot could run a story on a programming book that I find it easy!
I am a novice level programmer in C++/Python and I thought I could benefit from this book. But the exercises seem to be ridiculously simple and it seems a book only suited for someone with zero or negligible programming background.
Out of curiosity, where did you try to find the send the coding offshore? India?
I'm pretty sure you'll be able to control when to contribute CPU cycles and when not.
There was a thread on reddit where the owner of videobox.com (a porn site) answered any questions asked. While he says that the porn industry is sort of in decline in the sense, less and less people are paying for porn. His guess was that eventually all porn will be free and the industry will make money from "adult social interaction" which will still be paid.
Wait.. isn't MapReduce just a framework and Hadoop one of its open source implementation? How is the former a 'creaking dinosaur' as compared to the latter?
I had heard of this as well and apparently it's just a myth and not true: http://www.snopes.com/science/nobel.asp
Do you _need_ a BA in English for that? I have one Bachelors and two Masters degrees in engineering/math related fields. I like soccer and I like writing. I wrote in depth soccer reviews and analysis for a popular soccer website for two years. I'm pretty sure I can be a technical writer or a secretary as competent as a major in BA.
But I can also write code for sophisticated data analysis on multicore systems - and that pays many many times the above.
I think the language Chapel being developed by Cray is taking concrete steps to make Parallel Programming easier. It is very similar in syntax to C++ and even supports some higher level constructs.
This looks like an advertisement for Chapel but I have no relation to Cray. Having taken a graduate parallel programming course, I cannot agree more with the statement that "Parallel Programming is difficult". I struggled a lot with pthreads and MPI before doing the final assignment in Chapel which was a pleasant surprise. The difference between serial and parallel code was FIVE characters only - and it gave a near linear speedup on three different machines.
First I studied they were particles, then I studied they are actually mixture of waves and particles. Then I studied you cannot actually pinpoint it at all, and all you can know is probability density of its existence in space. Now, I read that they are extremely round.
My mind is full of fuck.
If I were writing algorithms and implementing statistical methodologies that you mention, I wouldn't let anyone know about it..
Why do you assume they have not taken these problems/limitations into account?
You're not qualified to write the response to that response to that response if you think that the response to that response is so grammatically incorrect as to invalidate his qualifications to make that response to the response in the first place.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Punctuation
Line starts getting blurrier here. Is Glenn Beck a troll or states unpopular truth? For me, it's the former and his opinions do not add to any kind of quality discussion.
Expressing a conservative opinion is difficult Slashdot as well. But I agree that the system here is far better than anywhere else, like Reddit - where karma whoring is rampant and good discussion is often subdued under "funny" comments. Don't even get me started on the lame memes generated over there.
Setting up a distribution system as good as Netflix and delivering content at such low price is NOT easy.
I, personally, like the ribbon interface since it makes things finding so easy. I rely on Office only when I need to and so I don't need to know what lies where in the myriad of Menu Bar.
If I were the algorithm writer, I would set a lower limit on the price, but no higher limit...
I'm sure the book 'Outliers' by Malcolm Gladwell will be mentioned somewhere above. What he argues is that IQ measures analytical intelligence and not practical intelligence. They are like orthogonal axes. In order to succeed in society, you need to have a combination of both. An above-average intelligence (~120 IQ) coupled with high practical intelligence is the common denominator of successful people.
You mean "Agile Development" in "The Cloud". Sounds badass. Off I go to buy the book!
> comparing advertising with fatal virus like AIDS > saying advertising is bullshit Nice comeback there. Replace the words about "advertising" with "buildings" and you get a free anti-construction rant.