Stereotypes are a crude biologically-formed statistical analysis, stored in cultural memory and transmitted through oral and theatrical tradition.
These systems will use a highly-refined statistical analysis, stored in The Cloud and transmitted through wired and wireless networks.
Both will ultimately determine that people who have spent time in Australia are more likely to buy iocaine powder than a Sicilian. The latter system will just be able to tell you exactly how much more likely.
Many jurisdictions actually have laws against such deceptive pricing practices, with varying requirements to be met.
The point of a discount is to be the tie-breaking factor in whether or not to buy a product of a particular brand. The seller loses some profit, perhaps even all profit, but gains a sale and may even make his competitor lose one. It can provide an opportunity to prove that one product is as good or better than an alternative, thus winning market share.
It is important to remember your own intent at all times. If you plan on buying a Brand X widget, a discount on Brand Y widgets don't matter, but a discount on Brand X only helps you. If, however, you were shopping for a widget with no brand loyalty, the discount may be enough to redirect your dollars, with both you and the discounted brand benefiting. The only way you lose with a discount is if, as you pointed out, you buy more than you otherwise would have. That's a bad idea regardless of discounts.
It would assist in a vandalism charge, just like it would if you used it on the cash registers, in-store speaker system, or vending machines. With the closed-circuit surveillance the stores already have for shoplifting, the trial would be speedy, and you'd likely be found liable for the replacement cost of the device, plus penalties.
But hey, at least you'd have given a clear message to the store manager: You're a psychopath who carries a taser to intentionally damage someone else's property at the slightest provocation. That was the message you wanted to send, right?
Not sure why it does that but it seems that I'm not the only one.
[citation needed]
In two decades of being a techie, I've never heard of a "boot file", let alone one that got "deleted" by a Linux installation. Sure, there's the MBR and several configuration files, but Ubuntu has always been excellent at configuring dual-booting right out of the box. Of course, even if you do screw it up somehow by hand, there are plenty of forum posts and helpful users out there, ready and willing to walk you through the very short repair process.
cases have been ruled previously that claim "you can't repeal this law".
[citation needed]
The legislature handles repealing laws, and the legislative branch isn't subject to precedent from the judicial branch at all.
What you seem to be confusing it with is a judge finding a law unconstitutional, which is a totally different matter from repeal. A judge may indeed choose to rule on whether a law is itself wrong, but that is a separate matter from the "merits of the case". Depending on the jurisdiction, it sometimes can only happen in the appellate court, which is restricted to matters of procedure, rather than evidence. The trial court answers the question "Did the events happen like the prosecutor says they did?" and the appellate court settle the matter of "should this instance be exempt?".
This means that you can argue that you should be exempt because the law is wrong, and the court could agree. On the other hand, the court could have, for example, already examined the law and found it to be right. Regardless of your particular case, the problem isn't likely the law itself, so there's no reason to waste the court's time with yet another mundane example of the same reiterated redundancy. Your parents lied; you're not special.
In contrast, the legislature can repeal a law for any reason or none, at any time. They wrote the law in the first place. Perhaps society's expectations have changed, or some case has illustrated a need for a new codified exception, or the law was broken to begin with (as with the USA PATRIOT Act) and the full ramifications weren't understood when it was rushed through.
HFT doesn't take an hour to move 1%. I've worked in a financial firm, in the trading department. What takes an hour is for the head advisor to misunderstand something, make a (snap) decision, and pass it to the account managers, who count up how much of the investment to trade, and pass the numbers on to the trading desk, who calls in the trade, and it's done a few milliseconds later.
Seeing that much money move at once is what triggers the HFT algorithms, which will then buy and sell the commodity across different markets. The price will fluctuate a little as the HFT algorithms jump around waiting for the big rush of traders, but when it doesn't come, they move on elsewhere.
Without an actual war, it's unlikely very many investors would rush to buy oil, so the HFT algorithms would just increase the trade volume, but wouldn't move the price very much at all.
One of the first should be the ruling that allowed case law to take precedence over legal matters.
Case law is what determines the current valid meaning of the written laws, as precedent. Get rid of case law, and all the clarity of modern law disappears. Goodbye, privacy. Free speech? Well that still probably applies to things you say, but nothing written online... or maybe it's just going to cover the use of your wine press. After all, it was Supreme Court cases that established our current interpretations of these basic laws. "Freedom of speech, or of the press", as written, really only covered printed documents and verbal speech, and the "unreasonable searches" in the Fourth Amendment meant physically going through a person's personal effects.
Without the baseline of case law, the vague written law is no help in determining what's legal or not. You could be arrested for anything, and it must go to court for a judge to decide. Older similar cases can't be used as precedent, so the prosecutor could argue any crazy theory he wants, and know that he'll be able to at least present evidence... but evidence standards are based in case law, too, so the judge has no reason to reject evidence that, for example, showed up at the police station's door with a note saying it came from your car. Let's hope the jury is on your side, but since you're defending yourself against someone who's well-trained in the art of convincing people to believe a story (because, without case law, that's the prosecutor's whole job), your acquittal is unlikely.
Sure, getting rid of case law would make the written law easier to understand, but practically useless.
For electroshock, a stunt plane. It's built for one specific rare job, which it does pretty decently, but it's absolutely the wrong tool for every other job. In fact, treating it as the solution to everything will have disastrous, if not lethal, results.
For phrenology, the Spruce Goose. It made it big, but was utterly unsuccessful, and existed solely on the hope that it would work.
Researchers have been responsibly reporting vulnerabilities for decades, usually out of an altruistic desire to make the world a little safer. The extra cash is just a token of appreciation, not a work-for-hire deal. Heck, a lot of researchers are already getting paid on salary to do the work that leads them to the bugs.
The point was to list decent halfway-decent scripting languages.
Powershell is a batch file on steroids. It is good for automating system administration in a known environment, but not much else. While many Microsoft products do offer modules, there's still a lot of (especially older) ones that don't. Also, since much of the existing API is a direct port from Windows' internal structure, many of the designs are non-intuitive, like having IP addresses almost completely separate from NICs.
My biggest complain about PowerShell is what I now unaffectionately call "PHP syndrome": Extensible through modules, but there are no namespaces. As the system grows, the list of core commands grows as well, and there is no clear grouping available outside the documentation.
Yes, it is a nice enough replacement for the dozens of little VBScript files kicking around, because it offers easy access to WMI and.NET. Unfortunately, it also brings over a new "On Error Resume Next", in the form of silently continuing after each error.
Agreed. That would likely have worked out much better... but politically, it's impossible. Why does district X get access, but not district Y? That particular random criterion is slightly correlated with this obscure trait, so clearly the politicians in charge are working for or against those people, and don't deserve to be reelected...
One website, that's expected to have incredibly heavy loads, will handle personal medical and financial information, and must play suitably well with a ton of third-parties' services while being the target of severe attacks from any foreign government or script kiddy who doesn't like it..
Yep. I'm a FOSS advocate, and I just read the memo linked in the similarly-hyped FA... but this story is a waste of a good outrage.
A state-led education department has picked a particular product used to cover their basic computing curriculum, and it isn't FOSS. That sucks, but we'll try harder next time. Meanwhile, other schools not under this authority are free to use FOSS, and any schools that can manage extra resources (unlikely, I know) can still present FOSS as alternatives, and FOSS can probably still be used outside the curriculum.
I set up a computer lab in Ghana, and they had similar policies in place, but with vague enough wording that I could use a carefully-configured OpenOffice installation to cover the requirements. I suspect the actual mandated curriculum in South Africa is likely similar, and this news is just a memo from the authority saying they made the easy choice for picking their standard software.
Reaching far back to my Cisco knowledge from 2003-ish, that's because 802.11 requires acknowledging every single packet, whereas wired Ethernet allows a larger window, so several packets get sent before an acknowledgement. I don't know if that's still the case (perhaps a modern network engineer will confirm, please), but that could be the reason for seeing just about double the transfer speed through a wire. On wireless, you're using almost twice as many packets to receive the same data.
In properly-executed due process, nobody's opinion of right or wrong actually matters.
The jury simply decides whether the accuser proved their theory of each charge in the trial. It is perfectly right for a juror to think someone murdered somebody, but still find him "not guilty" because it didn't happen the way the accuser said it did.
The judge only opines on whether everyone followed procedure, and how severe the punishment should be.
The legislature's opinion matters, but that's well before the fact, and ideally it only results in a general rule following the will of the people.
"They" are many different teams in many different places around the world, so they'll almost all be traveling anyway. Dumping a pile of sand in a building is just an unnecessary expense for no real benefit.
I wonder what the price tag is to fill a large indoor space with enough sand for a good test. Don't forget we also need to pay for damage to the building from blowing sand everywhere and heating it up to uncomfortable temperatures. Then there's the price to clean it all back out for the next project.
Compare that to some airfare, shipping, and sunscreen.
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Stereotypes are a crude biologically-formed statistical analysis, stored in cultural memory and transmitted through oral and theatrical tradition.
These systems will use a highly-refined statistical analysis, stored in The Cloud and transmitted through wired and wireless networks.
Both will ultimately determine that people who have spent time in Australia are more likely to buy iocaine powder than a Sicilian. The latter system will just be able to tell you exactly how much more likely.
Many jurisdictions actually have laws against such deceptive pricing practices, with varying requirements to be met.
The point of a discount is to be the tie-breaking factor in whether or not to buy a product of a particular brand. The seller loses some profit, perhaps even all profit, but gains a sale and may even make his competitor lose one. It can provide an opportunity to prove that one product is as good or better than an alternative, thus winning market share.
It is important to remember your own intent at all times. If you plan on buying a Brand X widget, a discount on Brand Y widgets don't matter, but a discount on Brand X only helps you. If, however, you were shopping for a widget with no brand loyalty, the discount may be enough to redirect your dollars, with both you and the discounted brand benefiting. The only way you lose with a discount is if, as you pointed out, you buy more than you otherwise would have. That's a bad idea regardless of discounts.
It would assist in a vandalism charge, just like it would if you used it on the cash registers, in-store speaker system, or vending machines. With the closed-circuit surveillance the stores already have for shoplifting, the trial would be speedy, and you'd likely be found liable for the replacement cost of the device, plus penalties.
But hey, at least you'd have given a clear message to the store manager: You're a psychopath who carries a taser to intentionally damage someone else's property at the slightest provocation. That was the message you wanted to send, right?
...because Lightning is still superior for the reasons enumerated above.
And in another sense, he's awesome.
Not sure why it does that but it seems that I'm not the only one.
[citation needed]
In two decades of being a techie, I've never heard of a "boot file", let alone one that got "deleted" by a Linux installation. Sure, there's the MBR and several configuration files, but Ubuntu has always been excellent at configuring dual-booting right out of the box. Of course, even if you do screw it up somehow by hand, there are plenty of forum posts and helpful users out there, ready and willing to walk you through the very short repair process.
Your story reeks strongly of FUD.
I just assumed he meant Media Access Control, and his statement made no sense.
cases have been ruled previously that claim "you can't repeal this law".
[citation needed]
The legislature handles repealing laws, and the legislative branch isn't subject to precedent from the judicial branch at all.
What you seem to be confusing it with is a judge finding a law unconstitutional, which is a totally different matter from repeal. A judge may indeed choose to rule on whether a law is itself wrong, but that is a separate matter from the "merits of the case". Depending on the jurisdiction, it sometimes can only happen in the appellate court, which is restricted to matters of procedure, rather than evidence. The trial court answers the question "Did the events happen like the prosecutor says they did?" and the appellate court settle the matter of "should this instance be exempt?".
This means that you can argue that you should be exempt because the law is wrong, and the court could agree. On the other hand, the court could have, for example, already examined the law and found it to be right. Regardless of your particular case, the problem isn't likely the law itself, so there's no reason to waste the court's time with yet another mundane example of the same reiterated redundancy. Your parents lied; you're not special.
In contrast, the legislature can repeal a law for any reason or none, at any time. They wrote the law in the first place. Perhaps society's expectations have changed, or some case has illustrated a need for a new codified exception, or the law was broken to begin with (as with the USA PATRIOT Act) and the full ramifications weren't understood when it was rushed through.
HFT doesn't take an hour to move 1%. I've worked in a financial firm, in the trading department. What takes an hour is for the head advisor to misunderstand something, make a (snap) decision, and pass it to the account managers, who count up how much of the investment to trade, and pass the numbers on to the trading desk, who calls in the trade, and it's done a few milliseconds later.
Seeing that much money move at once is what triggers the HFT algorithms, which will then buy and sell the commodity across different markets. The price will fluctuate a little as the HFT algorithms jump around waiting for the big rush of traders, but when it doesn't come, they move on elsewhere.
Without an actual war, it's unlikely very many investors would rush to buy oil, so the HFT algorithms would just increase the trade volume, but wouldn't move the price very much at all.
One of the first should be the ruling that allowed case law to take precedence over legal matters.
Case law is what determines the current valid meaning of the written laws, as precedent. Get rid of case law, and all the clarity of modern law disappears. Goodbye, privacy. Free speech? Well that still probably applies to things you say, but nothing written online... or maybe it's just going to cover the use of your wine press. After all, it was Supreme Court cases that established our current interpretations of these basic laws. "Freedom of speech, or of the press", as written, really only covered printed documents and verbal speech, and the "unreasonable searches" in the Fourth Amendment meant physically going through a person's personal effects.
Without the baseline of case law, the vague written law is no help in determining what's legal or not. You could be arrested for anything, and it must go to court for a judge to decide. Older similar cases can't be used as precedent, so the prosecutor could argue any crazy theory he wants, and know that he'll be able to at least present evidence... but evidence standards are based in case law, too, so the judge has no reason to reject evidence that, for example, showed up at the police station's door with a note saying it came from your car. Let's hope the jury is on your side, but since you're defending yourself against someone who's well-trained in the art of convincing people to believe a story (because, without case law, that's the prosecutor's whole job), your acquittal is unlikely.
Sure, getting rid of case law would make the written law easier to understand, but practically useless.
I also see great value for those that aren't to that point yet.
And in the case of bipolar, the bad days where you're too depressed to leave the bed, let alone the house.
For electroshock, a stunt plane. It's built for one specific rare job, which it does pretty decently, but it's absolutely the wrong tool for every other job. In fact, treating it as the solution to everything will have disastrous, if not lethal, results.
For phrenology, the Spruce Goose. It made it big, but was utterly unsuccessful, and existed solely on the hope that it would work.
What is your conscience worth to you?
Researchers have been responsibly reporting vulnerabilities for decades, usually out of an altruistic desire to make the world a little safer. The extra cash is just a token of appreciation, not a work-for-hire deal. Heck, a lot of researchers are already getting paid on salary to do the work that leads them to the bugs.
The point was to list decent halfway-decent scripting languages.
For what it's worth, I meant that sarcastically. All languages suck. PowerShell, I've found, just sucks more than most.
The point was to list decent halfway-decent scripting languages.
Powershell is a batch file on steroids. It is good for automating system administration in a known environment, but not much else. While many Microsoft products do offer modules, there's still a lot of (especially older) ones that don't. Also, since much of the existing API is a direct port from Windows' internal structure, many of the designs are non-intuitive, like having IP addresses almost completely separate from NICs.
My biggest complain about PowerShell is what I now unaffectionately call "PHP syndrome": Extensible through modules, but there are no namespaces. As the system grows, the list of core commands grows as well, and there is no clear grouping available outside the documentation.
Yes, it is a nice enough replacement for the dozens of little VBScript files kicking around, because it offers easy access to WMI and .NET. Unfortunately, it also brings over a new "On Error Resume Next", in the form of silently continuing after each error.
Agreed. That would likely have worked out much better... but politically, it's impossible. Why does district X get access, but not district Y? That particular random criterion is slightly correlated with this obscure trait, so clearly the politicians in charge are working for or against those people, and don't deserve to be reelected...
All of which had the luxury of a slow rollout, and don't have anywhere near the same amount of damage done if they're compromised.
One website, that's expected to have incredibly heavy loads, will handle personal medical and financial information, and must play suitably well with a ton of third-parties' services while being the target of severe attacks from any foreign government or script kiddy who doesn't like it..
Yep. I'm a FOSS advocate, and I just read the memo linked in the similarly-hyped FA... but this story is a waste of a good outrage.
A state-led education department has picked a particular product used to cover their basic computing curriculum, and it isn't FOSS. That sucks, but we'll try harder next time. Meanwhile, other schools not under this authority are free to use FOSS, and any schools that can manage extra resources (unlikely, I know) can still present FOSS as alternatives, and FOSS can probably still be used outside the curriculum.
I set up a computer lab in Ghana, and they had similar policies in place, but with vague enough wording that I could use a carefully-configured OpenOffice installation to cover the requirements. I suspect the actual mandated curriculum in South Africa is likely similar, and this news is just a memo from the authority saying they made the easy choice for picking their standard software.
TRWTF is Delphi.
I can see why the original submission was edited.
No mention of a Raspberry Pi.
Reaching far back to my Cisco knowledge from 2003-ish, that's because 802.11 requires acknowledging every single packet, whereas wired Ethernet allows a larger window, so several packets get sent before an acknowledgement. I don't know if that's still the case (perhaps a modern network engineer will confirm, please), but that could be the reason for seeing just about double the transfer speed through a wire. On wireless, you're using almost twice as many packets to receive the same data.
In properly-executed due process, nobody's opinion of right or wrong actually matters.
The jury simply decides whether the accuser proved their theory of each charge in the trial. It is perfectly right for a juror to think someone murdered somebody, but still find him "not guilty" because it didn't happen the way the accuser said it did.
The judge only opines on whether everyone followed procedure, and how severe the punishment should be.
The legislature's opinion matters, but that's well before the fact, and ideally it only results in a general rule following the will of the people.
"They" are many different teams in many different places around the world, so they'll almost all be traveling anyway. Dumping a pile of sand in a building is just an unnecessary expense for no real benefit.
Kerbal Space Program has taught me one thing well: Big rovers are ridiculously hard to put anywhere other than "just left of the launchpad".
Advice for other KSP players: A 650-ton rover is not a good idea. Funny, perhaps, but not good.
I wonder what the price tag is to fill a large indoor space with enough sand for a good test. Don't forget we also need to pay for damage to the building from blowing sand everywhere and heating it up to uncomfortable temperatures. Then there's the price to clean it all back out for the next project.
Compare that to some airfare, shipping, and sunscreen.