Why use two separate processes for the two categories of book instead of using the same process for both, especially if this process cuts down on manpower and book damage.
Yes and yes, although only scanning in porn magazines instead of actually using it in the porn itself would be a very unimaginative way to use this technology...
I completely agree. The biggest point people need to take from Schneier is that security is more of a mindset than anything else. If you care about security and you're willing to take a little effort to achieve it, you can (at least until you get humans involved, then there will be a willing idiot almost every time). Encryption is a solved problem, XSS attacks are easily dealt with if you know what you're doing and head the problem off early in development, etc. The biggest thing that would be accomplished is just to get people thinking about it and dealing with it proactively.
Rapid anti-conspiracy nuts are as bad as rabid pro-conspiracy nuts. Both are absolutely delusional about the equally beautiful and grotesque mess that is called humanity.
Not even close sir. Conspiracy theories are such because they have so little evidence to back them up. If there were solid logic or evidence behind the conspiracy theory, it would cease to be a conspiracy theory. The number of conspiracy theories that are proven correct compared to the ones that were proven false are staggeringly small. At least the rabid anti-conspiracy nuts have statistics and logic on their side.
This isn't to say that conspiracies can't be correct or that they shouldn't be investigated, but at some point people need to realize that movies and sensational headlines about conspiracy theories that are proven true are made because they are so rare/unlikely.
They tracked one guy for 65 days but didn't think they had probable cause enough to get a warrant to do so?
Considering how often police will use power without the actual need to do so and how often prosecutors will trump up charges above what the defendant actually did, I'm not surprised by this at all. Police don't see the laws which limit their behavior (including the constitution) so much as rights that they should uphold for the citizens, but roadblocks to doing their job. I would guess that there was some doubt about whether they could get the warrant, but the officers figured that he probably did, so they put the tracker on without a warrant instead of having a judge deny their warrant and then getting in trouble for putting it on anyway. After all, it's better to ask forgiveness than permission, right? This is only one of the most basic rights we possess.
What's really scary is to actually look at Law & Order and other cop shows as if they were real police. If the police perform an illegal search, etc, they're almost always presented as noble heroes for doing so, and if any of their superiors get angry at them it's not because what they did was wrong, but because it broke the rules and the suspect could get off because of it.
The mainstream commentators will never, ever accept video games as a legitimate artistic medium. Ever. Games like "Shadow of the Colossus", "Ico", "Symphony of the Night", "Okami" and others will never be accepted by artistic communities or by the mainstream...Video game developers are much closer to the true artists of old than all the talentless hacks that call themselves artists nowadays
Perhaps we should wait a few hundred years and see if there are "Video Game History" classes that will examine the evolution of the games as an art form. People who have played the games you've mentioned tend to think of them as an art form, as the sort of thing that evokes emotion when you're playing it instead of simply entertaining you. The people who don't acknowledge them as such are those who haven't played them. But that population is shrinking, and in another generation people will widely accept that video games are an art form.
Can you even imagine having this discussion five years ago? Games as an art form would have been laughed at, and now there are several well written articles on the subject every year. We've already come a long way as a society in accepting games as art, give it another two decades and they'll almost certainly be accepted by society as a whole.
Really? Whenever I mention C# around programmers they can't stop telling me how much they love it. It's almost creepy, especially considering our company uses a completely open source production environment.
I haven't seen may apps that properly use OO as to do so requires management oversight, in which usually doen't know about OO anyways.
I've seen a lot of apps that properly use OO, but they were all written within the past 3 or so years. Anything older than that doesn't use OO or uses it badly. It seems like legacy code (the great bane of all programmers) keeps most projects from being strictly OO, and most programmers didn't master it until a few years ago anyway. Of course, I'm in web development, so YMMV.
Probably the answer is "Because they can" and they see a business in locking in people into their environment.
Because they want to add to the.NET suite with a forward-thinking language. Like it or not,.NET is big for Microsoft, and giving people who use it more tools will only help their position. How you feel about that, of course, depends on how you feel about.NET and Microsoft.
other than the word "force", I agree with your assessment. the problem is that most corporations have images and licenses which will allow them to use XP for many, many years to come. Those old machines will still be able to run.
What they've done is enticed the corporations to upgrade. Getting intel? Your tech guy will tell you that you have to buy higher on the list than you normally do to use win7 fully.
If this is intentional (no evidence either way, there seems to be decent reasoning from both corporations that indicate it could be coincidence), then they're gambling that corporate customers won't take this opportunity to use AMD chips (which are cheaper and now more functional) or switch to another OS altogether.
Meaning, we can get back to using farmland for growing food, and stop with this silly "let's raid the kitchen cupboard to feed our guzzling SUVs!" craze that's been on for the last few years.
For long term, sustainable energy near today's technological level, it would include both fixes. The biomass gives us the ability to create energy whenever we need it, solar panels provide electricity for the peak times of the day. Solar can't do it alone because of the problem of electricity efficiently; biomass gives us the ability to store chemical energy very easily. Neither one alone is the "one true solution". False dichotomies help no one.
Yeah, I think they're confused. The idea with warp was contracting the space in the immediate area into a fraction of what it was before, so that your speed relative to the space that your in is still under the speed of light but the apparent speed from outside the bubble was much higher. It relies on being able to contract space the same way that energy and matter expand space. Nobody really knows whether that's possible or not, but most scientists are betting against it according to the current laws.
However, I'm not certain that we won't find SOME loophole in the faster-than-light problem; like they point out, there's already one loophole in what we believe happened during the period of rapid expansion, why can't there be another one?
What are the chances that corporations and greed are more pliable than the laws of physics? I'm pretty sure you can get good odds for that if you can find a bookie that understands the question and stops laughing long enough to take your money.
they'd still charge you for the textbooks AND you won't be able to lend them (you can't lend just one of your books, you'd have to lend them all, and that usually doesn't work) AND you won't be able to resell them at the end of the semester.
Set the price point just above the difference in cost and resale value. The students were going to lose almost that much anyway, but now they get to keep the textbook and they don't have to carry them around with them everywhere. It would be convincing enough to get a small market at the very least. Pushing it forward, Amazon could easily make a program where you can "sell back" the book, making it so that the kindle deletes the book and you can't download it anymore.
give me an oil and shock resistant one this size and it means the mechanic has a reference at his fingertips...
No it doesn't. Just from playing Warhammer I know that electronic versions of books aren't as useful when you need a quick reference as a hard copy is. The mechanic will know where in the manual he needs to flip and be able to find the page within 2 seconds. The kindle would require him to go back to the index, find the entry, then flip to the entry and scan down the page using the kindle's controls until he finds what he's looking for. Skimming through the kindle isn't really easy either compared to skimming through a book.
For textbooks (I'm out of college, so it's been a while), I'm on the fence. I could see it being useful and a hell of a lot lighter, but on the other hand you don't have the ability to flip through. I think in this case the positives would outweigh the negatives.
Overall, I think the Kindle's a fantastic device, but not as useful as people seem to think when needing to jump to different sections quickly and easily.
I'm not saying that "free" is able to overcome quality. I'm saying that if quality is equal, free can be the deciding factor. I agree that photoshop is worth paying for and I agree that windows is worth paying for. But, if they can reach the same or very nearly the same quality/feature level, then price can certainly be a deciding factor.
$100 that would have otherwise paid for Windows. Also, the ability to install applications over the internet without putting in any CDs or paying any money.
The price would be sufficient if everything else were equal. The problem is that not everything else is equal. Also, the command line tools and the easy installer are enough to make me miss Ubuntu sometimes.
The biggest problems are still that Linux is hard on the things that Windows has made easy. Plug and play, driver support, and everything else that makes it so much easier to plug new hardware into a windows machine are all lacking on Linux boxes. Network and wireless configuration are all easier on Windows as well. Dual monitor support is a breeze in windows, much harder in Linux. If Ubuntu made the basic configuration and administration as easy as it is on Windows, I would recommend Ubuntu to my family in a heartbeat; as it is, they'd need my help for too many things that they can do themselves on Windows.
If we can slow the spread, then the more virulent mutations will burn themselves out and we'll be left with a strain that is, for all intents and purposes, just the same as the moderate ones we get. The ability to spread easily from one person to another is one of the things that makes flus become more lethal (packing hundreds of chickens together in an enclosed space, battlefield hospitals, etc). So, slowing it down absolutely helps in the long run.
Can the hospital employees and management who failed to provide safe equipment be sued/charged? Using windows (or any other full OS) on medical equipment is a recipe for disaster.
A better question is whether or not it's a good idea to have the damn thing hooked up to the internet so it could *get* Conficker in the first place! Well, actually, that's not a question, since its obvious...
The computers that were infected weren't hooked to the internet, they were hooked to a network that was hooked to the internet. The other equipment was probably either connected to an infected computer at some point, hooked into the same network, or some combination of similar things.
Seems to me that equipment of this type should be running on software that's been written from the ground up to be secure and crash-proof. Using any out-of-the-box software is asking for trouble since you can't control the code and it's going to provide features that the equipment doesn't need. Any of those unnecessary features could easily cause crashes or security concerns. The equipment should only accept input that's exactly what it's expecting and reject anything else.
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Why use two separate processes for the two categories of book instead of using the same process for both, especially if this process cuts down on manpower and book damage.
Yes and yes, although only scanning in porn magazines instead of actually using it in the porn itself would be a very unimaginative way to use this technology...
probably
We need someone to do penetration testing with a white hat on.
Can I use my wizard hat and robe instead?
I completely agree. The biggest point people need to take from Schneier is that security is more of a mindset than anything else. If you care about security and you're willing to take a little effort to achieve it, you can (at least until you get humans involved, then there will be a willing idiot almost every time). Encryption is a solved problem, XSS attacks are easily dealt with if you know what you're doing and head the problem off early in development, etc. The biggest thing that would be accomplished is just to get people thinking about it and dealing with it proactively.
Rapid anti-conspiracy nuts are as bad as rabid pro-conspiracy nuts. Both are absolutely delusional about the equally beautiful and grotesque mess that is called humanity.
Not even close sir. Conspiracy theories are such because they have so little evidence to back them up. If there were solid logic or evidence behind the conspiracy theory, it would cease to be a conspiracy theory. The number of conspiracy theories that are proven correct compared to the ones that were proven false are staggeringly small. At least the rabid anti-conspiracy nuts have statistics and logic on their side.
This isn't to say that conspiracies can't be correct or that they shouldn't be investigated, but at some point people need to realize that movies and sensational headlines about conspiracy theories that are proven true are made because they are so rare/unlikely.
They tracked one guy for 65 days but didn't think they had probable cause enough to get a warrant to do so?
Considering how often police will use power without the actual need to do so and how often prosecutors will trump up charges above what the defendant actually did, I'm not surprised by this at all. Police don't see the laws which limit their behavior (including the constitution) so much as rights that they should uphold for the citizens, but roadblocks to doing their job. I would guess that there was some doubt about whether they could get the warrant, but the officers figured that he probably did, so they put the tracker on without a warrant instead of having a judge deny their warrant and then getting in trouble for putting it on anyway. After all, it's better to ask forgiveness than permission, right? This is only one of the most basic rights we possess.
What's really scary is to actually look at Law & Order and other cop shows as if they were real police. If the police perform an illegal search, etc, they're almost always presented as noble heroes for doing so, and if any of their superiors get angry at them it's not because what they did was wrong, but because it broke the rules and the suspect could get off because of it.
The mainstream commentators will never, ever accept video games as a legitimate artistic medium. Ever. Games like "Shadow of the Colossus", "Ico", "Symphony of the Night", "Okami" and others will never be accepted by artistic communities or by the mainstream...Video game developers are much closer to the true artists of old than all the talentless hacks that call themselves artists nowadays
Perhaps we should wait a few hundred years and see if there are "Video Game History" classes that will examine the evolution of the games as an art form. People who have played the games you've mentioned tend to think of them as an art form, as the sort of thing that evokes emotion when you're playing it instead of simply entertaining you. The people who don't acknowledge them as such are those who haven't played them. But that population is shrinking, and in another generation people will widely accept that video games are an art form.
Can you even imagine having this discussion five years ago? Games as an art form would have been laughed at, and now there are several well written articles on the subject every year. We've already come a long way as a society in accepting games as art, give it another two decades and they'll almost certainly be accepted by society as a whole.
While I am actual surprised that C# caught on
Really? Whenever I mention C# around programmers they can't stop telling me how much they love it. It's almost creepy, especially considering our company uses a completely open source production environment.
I haven't seen may apps that properly use OO as to do so requires management oversight, in which usually doen't know about OO anyways.
I've seen a lot of apps that properly use OO, but they were all written within the past 3 or so years. Anything older than that doesn't use OO or uses it badly. It seems like legacy code (the great bane of all programmers) keeps most projects from being strictly OO, and most programmers didn't master it until a few years ago anyway. Of course, I'm in web development, so YMMV.
Probably the answer is "Because they can" and they see a business in locking in people into their environment.
Because they want to add to the .NET suite with a forward-thinking language. Like it or not, .NET is big for Microsoft, and giving people who use it more tools will only help their position. How you feel about that, of course, depends on how you feel about .NET and Microsoft.
other than the word "force", I agree with your assessment. the problem is that most corporations have images and licenses which will allow them to use XP for many, many years to come. Those old machines will still be able to run.
What they've done is enticed the corporations to upgrade. Getting intel? Your tech guy will tell you that you have to buy higher on the list than you normally do to use win7 fully.
If this is intentional (no evidence either way, there seems to be decent reasoning from both corporations that indicate it could be coincidence), then they're gambling that corporate customers won't take this opportunity to use AMD chips (which are cheaper and now more functional) or switch to another OS altogether.
Meaning, we can get back to using farmland for growing food, and stop with this silly "let's raid the kitchen cupboard to feed our guzzling SUVs!" craze that's been on for the last few years.
For long term, sustainable energy near today's technological level, it would include both fixes. The biomass gives us the ability to create energy whenever we need it, solar panels provide electricity for the peak times of the day. Solar can't do it alone because of the problem of electricity efficiently; biomass gives us the ability to store chemical energy very easily. Neither one alone is the "one true solution". False dichotomies help no one.
Yeah, I think they're confused. The idea with warp was contracting the space in the immediate area into a fraction of what it was before, so that your speed relative to the space that your in is still under the speed of light but the apparent speed from outside the bubble was much higher. It relies on being able to contract space the same way that energy and matter expand space. Nobody really knows whether that's possible or not, but most scientists are betting against it according to the current laws.
However, I'm not certain that we won't find SOME loophole in the faster-than-light problem; like they point out, there's already one loophole in what we believe happened during the period of rapid expansion, why can't there be another one?
What are the chances that corporations and greed are more pliable than the laws of physics? I'm pretty sure you can get good odds for that if you can find a bookie that understands the question and stops laughing long enough to take your money.
they'd still charge you for the textbooks AND you won't be able to lend them (you can't lend just one of your books, you'd have to lend them all, and that usually doesn't work) AND you won't be able to resell them at the end of the semester.
Set the price point just above the difference in cost and resale value. The students were going to lose almost that much anyway, but now they get to keep the textbook and they don't have to carry them around with them everywhere. It would be convincing enough to get a small market at the very least. Pushing it forward, Amazon could easily make a program where you can "sell back" the book, making it so that the kindle deletes the book and you can't download it anymore.
give me an oil and shock resistant one this size and it means the mechanic has a reference at his fingertips...
No it doesn't. Just from playing Warhammer I know that electronic versions of books aren't as useful when you need a quick reference as a hard copy is. The mechanic will know where in the manual he needs to flip and be able to find the page within 2 seconds. The kindle would require him to go back to the index, find the entry, then flip to the entry and scan down the page using the kindle's controls until he finds what he's looking for. Skimming through the kindle isn't really easy either compared to skimming through a book.
For textbooks (I'm out of college, so it's been a while), I'm on the fence. I could see it being useful and a hell of a lot lighter, but on the other hand you don't have the ability to flip through. I think in this case the positives would outweigh the negatives.
Overall, I think the Kindle's a fantastic device, but not as useful as people seem to think when needing to jump to different sections quickly and easily.
Yeah, my off by 0000000000001 error seriously fucked up our program. Nearly got fired over it.
I'm not saying that "free" is able to overcome quality. I'm saying that if quality is equal, free can be the deciding factor. I agree that photoshop is worth paying for and I agree that windows is worth paying for. But, if they can reach the same or very nearly the same quality/feature level, then price can certainly be a deciding factor.
$100 that would have otherwise paid for Windows. Also, the ability to install applications over the internet without putting in any CDs or paying any money.
The price would be sufficient if everything else were equal. The problem is that not everything else is equal. Also, the command line tools and the easy installer are enough to make me miss Ubuntu sometimes.
The biggest problems are still that Linux is hard on the things that Windows has made easy. Plug and play, driver support, and everything else that makes it so much easier to plug new hardware into a windows machine are all lacking on Linux boxes. Network and wireless configuration are all easier on Windows as well. Dual monitor support is a breeze in windows, much harder in Linux. If Ubuntu made the basic configuration and administration as easy as it is on Windows, I would recommend Ubuntu to my family in a heartbeat; as it is, they'd need my help for too many things that they can do themselves on Windows.
If we can slow the spread, then the more virulent mutations will burn themselves out and we'll be left with a strain that is, for all intents and purposes, just the same as the moderate ones we get. The ability to spread easily from one person to another is one of the things that makes flus become more lethal (packing hundreds of chickens together in an enclosed space, battlefield hospitals, etc). So, slowing it down absolutely helps in the long run.
What about those who entered legally and are US citizens?
the origin of the flu is turning out to be from the United States
[citation needed]
Can the hospital employees and management who failed to provide safe equipment be sued/charged? Using windows (or any other full OS) on medical equipment is a recipe for disaster.
A better question is whether or not it's a good idea to have the damn thing hooked up to the internet so it could *get* Conficker in the first place! Well, actually, that's not a question, since its obvious...
The computers that were infected weren't hooked to the internet, they were hooked to a network that was hooked to the internet. The other equipment was probably either connected to an infected computer at some point, hooked into the same network, or some combination of similar things.
Seems to me that equipment of this type should be running on software that's been written from the ground up to be secure and crash-proof. Using any out-of-the-box software is asking for trouble since you can't control the code and it's going to provide features that the equipment doesn't need. Any of those unnecessary features could easily cause crashes or security concerns. The equipment should only accept input that's exactly what it's expecting and reject anything else.