People have used completely made up identities for years and never been detected
It is not uncommon for people to have no formal identity, especially people who avoid being in the system
Many of the cases of identity theft are so frustrating for the victims because they have to continually and repeatedly prove they are who they say they are and have trouble doing so because the identity thief has more and better forms of ID then the real person does....
It's not a lack of specialisation but a lack of any knowledge of the subject in hand?
An amateur working knowledge of botany, a basic knowledge medieval herbals, and at least basic working knowledge of medieval italian (or whatever she thinks it's written in) would at least make it possible to decipher
Even if it is a basic code then to check she is not just getting nonsense she needs to be able to recognise that it at least makes sense..so if it shows a typical representation of a plant as shown in medieval herbals and then mentions that plant in the right language and with the right context and grammar nearby she might be on to something.... but she does not know enough to even check her own work
People who have broken code without knowing the language have been able to check it because what they get looks like a language... the method she uses (anagrams) is impossible to check unless she knows the language ?
I said I have installed Server 2008 (Which is approx between Vista and Win7) and still had to install updates with a reboot, and install extra drivers, (and preinstall RAID drivers, this would not be normal on a desktop machine)
Not FUD - Reality
Both Windows and Linux need tweaking, but Windows Still needs on most machines more work to get installed than most modern Linux installs... in my experience
I *have* a massive CD collection... It would not fit on the iPhone (if I had one)... a 10th of it would not fit on an iPhone (max is 32 GB minus space for other things)
Most of the bands I like and actually bother buying are not played on the radio (or at least not on any stations I can regularly get where I am) they often release a new CD without any radio station paying any attention.....
I too have installed Windows (From 3.1 through to Server 2008) and Various flavours of Linux and it used to be installing Linux was a pain and Windows was fairly easy (Except for RAID drivers, and some badly written drivers)
Now I tend to find that Linux installs are much friendlier and easy, and it is the last few tweaks to get the system how I want it are the only difficulty (and this is no more difficult than editing registry keys)
Windows however is painful to install, (Install, Update, Reboot repeat until bored....) and then search for the manufacturers website, then search the manufacturers website for the correct driver, run the installer, reboot again... then when I have a working system, tweak to make it how I like as above....
Almost all Movie animation shops and Special Effects companies use Linux and Linux Native apps to to all of their work.......It is rare for them to use Windows at all
Einstein a scientific outsider? He was a full trained physicist working in the Swiss Patent office when he came up with his early work, and had no problem getting published in well known peer reviewed journals, not exactly working out of his field?
Hijacking ship -
Cost : Guns, Boats, RPG's People, Possible harm or death (but less so than at home)
Reward : Huge Ransom
Capitalism says that this is a formula for profit and should be done by everyone capable of doing it......the only thing that stops the rest of the world doing it is that the downside for the rest of us is relatively much greater and so it outweighs the profit
So she has apparently decoded a manuscript written in a language she does not read (medieval Italian) does not know what a medieval herbal looks like, is not a botanist, a linguist or anything else that would be helpful to decoding a medieval manuscript of any kind.....
For her next trick she will disprove Einstein, and prove the world is flat.....
Newspapers were once the only source of information
Then came Radio and TV, and they because the source of in depth well researched information
Then came the Internet, they could have a role as a known reliable source of information
The problem is that the only role they have left is to be a reliable source of in depth news - and my experience is that they are not reliable, cover most stories in a very superficial way, do poor research (mostly from the internet, or direct from press statements) and are not very well written....
If they were a bit more processional then people would be willing to pay for their content, as it is people will just go elsewhere...
The difference was that the Catholic Church at the time was the established religion, i.e. state run, state sanctioned, and laws were passed to uphold this status and force people to pay... *one* of the reasons for separation of church and State in the US
The CoS wants complete control over it's followers because they have no power over the general populace or the media
...no it is easy to optimise because it is badly designed and mostly badly implemented, other scripting languages do not have so many ways to optimise them simply because they are a) not used so intensively where they should not be, and b) because where they need to be fast are fundamentally fast in the first place....
Python should not be used for processor intensive applications (or the processor intensive part should be implemented in a "real" language), Javascript should not be used for processor intensive applications, it only is because it is available... and it is optimised because there is no alternative....
Tomato - The only member of the Solanum family that has non-toxic fruit, used in almost every salad and sandwich simply because it is cheap and easy to get hold of and looks pretty... not because it is the best, or everyone likes it
Javascript - A fundamentally badly designed language that happens to have some nice features all of which are better implemented in nicer languages, which is only used in browsers because it is universally available, and is not used elsewhere simply because it is never the best option....
It is not a good scripting language, not a good embedded language, not a good dynamic language, not a good language for closures, not a good object oriented language etc... it is merely adequate
Most inventors work for a company, are paid to come up with new ideas.... they have already been paid, it's the company who gets the patent...
Monopolies cannot be earned, only taken by force, in this case the force is provided by the government, all monopolies are bad for the economy, it's just that alternative (less investment, or trade secrets) was deemed to be worse for the economy
The walling off is mostly from large corporations who would otherwise steal the idea, not small companies who would not try...and is mostly done by large companies not small inventors
Productive people are getting paid, by companies to come up with new ideas... If I build a house do I get paid for the next 20 years for it , no I get a fair price for the work I have done...
Fine, build it in hardware, and send the working model to the patent office and then you can patent it.......otherwise you are patenting a written work which should be copyrighted not patented
The fact that you *can* *theoretically* build it in hardware is meaningless...
..simple Most people are BT Customers, or Customer of BT Wholesale via a third party
BT is the Commercial version of the old Government run monopoly that existed before it was sold off...So naturally most people stayed with them, and since BT Wholesale is by far the largest Broadband provider (for the same reasons) they supply broadband to most of the resellers
But the contents of Wikipedia are creative commons so if enough people get fed up with their policies then they can start the whole thing up again with all the current content, but without the current rules and admins....
This is the English language Wikipedia - So articles on non-english speaking countries are likely to be smaller......it does not help that many people from Heilongjiang probably cannot or do not update the page, whereas a large proportion of people from Texas can and do
what's the article like on zh-yue.wikipedia.org? (not being able to read chinese I cannot find it...?)
Slashdot Mirror
..and don't forget GNOME...
The split from GNU will mean a fork into GNU GNOME and Non-GNU [GNOME] (please replace name with something similar)
If they manage to take the majority of the community with them then GNU GNOME is likely to lag but it will still exist?
How do you prove you are you?
People have used completely made up identities for years and never been detected
It is not uncommon for people to have no formal identity, especially people who avoid being in the system
Many of the cases of identity theft are so frustrating for the victims because they have to continually and repeatedly prove they are who they say they are and have trouble doing so because the identity thief has more and better forms of ID then the real person does....
I used to go to the Cinema an watch movies - and thought it was worth it
Now I stay at home and watch movies ..... the same movies because the new ones are frankly mostly rubbish ...
So use Google and you know that your search information would be given to the government if they have a legitimate request
Or use Bing where Microsoft probably would, going from their past record where they have, but state they wouldn't ?
At least with Google you know where you stand ....
The information was openly requested - No Charge
The information was provided by the US Government legally - No Charge
The information was posted on a website not hosted in the US and is not breaking any local or international laws - No charge
What can they do ... nothing
It's not a lack of specialisation but a lack of any knowledge of the subject in hand?
An amateur working knowledge of botany, a basic knowledge medieval herbals, and at least basic working knowledge of medieval italian (or whatever she thinks it's written in) would at least make it possible to decipher
Even if it is a basic code then to check she is not just getting nonsense she needs to be able to recognise that it at least makes sense ..so if it shows a typical representation of a plant as shown in medieval herbals and then mentions that plant in the right language and with the right context and grammar nearby she might be on to something .... but she does not know enough to even check her own work
People who have broken code without knowing the language have been able to check it because what they get looks like a language... the method she uses (anagrams) is impossible to check unless she knows the language ?
I said I have installed Server 2008 (Which is approx between Vista and Win7) and still had to install updates with a reboot, and install extra drivers, (and preinstall RAID drivers, this would not be normal on a desktop machine)
Not FUD - Reality
Both Windows and Linux need tweaking, but Windows Still needs on most machines more work to get installed than most modern Linux installs ... in my experience
I *have* a massive CD collection ... It would not fit on the iPhone (if I had one) ... a 10th of it would not fit on an iPhone (max is 32 GB minus space for other things)
Most of the bands I like and actually bother buying are not played on the radio (or at least not on any stations I can regularly get where I am) they often release a new CD without any radio station paying any attention .....
Only 32% of Netbook customers could find a Linux version of the Netbook they wanted to buy ....
I too have installed Windows (From 3.1 through to Server 2008) and Various flavours of Linux and it used to be installing Linux was a pain and Windows was fairly easy (Except for RAID drivers, and some badly written drivers)
Now I tend to find that Linux installs are much friendlier and easy, and it is the last few tweaks to get the system how I want it are the only difficulty (and this is no more difficult than editing registry keys)
Windows however is painful to install, (Install, Update, Reboot repeat until bored....) and then search for the manufacturers website, then search the manufacturers website for the correct driver, run the installer, reboot again ... then when I have a working system, tweak to make it how I like as above....
Almost all Movie animation shops and Special Effects companies use Linux and Linux Native apps to to all of their work .... ...It is rare for them to use Windows at all
Einstein a scientific outsider? He was a full trained physicist working in the Swiss Patent office when he came up with his early work, and had no problem getting published in well known peer reviewed journals, not exactly working out of his field?
Hijacking ship -
Cost : Guns, Boats, RPG's People, Possible harm or death (but less so than at home)
Reward : Huge Ransom
Capitalism says that this is a formula for profit and should be done by everyone capable of doing it ... ...the only thing that stops the rest of the world doing it is that the downside for the rest of us is relatively much greater and so it outweighs the profit
The time I was talking about the Catholic Church ran (or had major influence over) the running of most of Europe and beyond ....
In Italy the Catholic church is still an established religion ....and so yes you paid to maintain your historic buildings (many of which are churches)
So she has apparently decoded a manuscript written in a language she does not read (medieval Italian) does not know what a medieval herbal looks like, is not a botanist, a linguist or anything else that would be helpful to decoding a medieval manuscript of any kind .....
For her next trick she will disprove Einstein, and prove the world is flat .....
Newspapers were once the only source of information
Then came Radio and TV, and they because the source of in depth well researched information
Then came the Internet, they could have a role as a known reliable source of information
The problem is that the only role they have left is to be a reliable source of in depth news - and my experience is that they are not reliable, cover most stories in a very superficial way, do poor research (mostly from the internet, or direct from press statements) and are not very well written ....
If they were a bit more processional then people would be willing to pay for their content, as it is people will just go elsewhere...
The difference was that the Catholic Church at the time was the established religion, i.e. state run, state sanctioned, and laws were passed to uphold this status and force people to pay ... *one* of the reasons for separation of church and State in the US
The CoS wants complete control over it's followers because they have no power over the general populace or the media
...no it is easy to optimise because it is badly designed and mostly badly implemented, other scripting languages do not have so many ways to optimise them simply because they are a) not used so intensively where they should not be, and b) because where they need to be fast are fundamentally fast in the first place ....
Python should not be used for processor intensive applications (or the processor intensive part should be implemented in a "real" language), Javascript should not be used for processor intensive applications, it only is because it is available ... and it is optimised because there is no alternative ....
Tomato - The only member of the Solanum family that has non-toxic fruit, used in almost every salad and sandwich simply because it is cheap and easy to get hold of and looks pretty... not because it is the best, or everyone likes it
Javascript - A fundamentally badly designed language that happens to have some nice features all of which are better implemented in nicer languages, which is only used in browsers because it is universally available, and is not used elsewhere simply because it is never the best option ....
It is not a good scripting language, not a good embedded language, not a good dynamic language, not a good language for closures, not a good object oriented language etc ... it is merely adequate
Most inventors work for a company, are paid to come up with new ideas .... they have already been paid, it's the company who gets the patent ...
Monopolies cannot be earned, only taken by force, in this case the force is provided by the government, all monopolies are bad for the economy, it's just that alternative (less investment, or trade secrets) was deemed to be worse for the economy
The walling off is mostly from large corporations who would otherwise steal the idea, not small companies who would not try ...and is mostly done by large companies not small inventors
Productive people are getting paid, by companies to come up with new ideas ... If I build a house do I get paid for the next 20 years for it , no I get a fair price for the work I have done ...
Fine, build it in hardware, and send the working model to the patent office and then you can patent it .... ...otherwise you are patenting a written work which should be copyrighted not patented
The fact that you *can* *theoretically* build it in hardware is meaningless ...
..simple Most people are BT Customers, or Customer of BT Wholesale via a third party
BT is the Commercial version of the old Government run monopoly that existed before it was sold off ...So naturally most people stayed with them, and since BT Wholesale is by far the largest Broadband provider (for the same reasons) they supply broadband to most of the resellers
My on-line news consists of
BBC Online - for "proper" Local and International News
Various blogs for Tech and Science news
Newpaper sites are not in my favourites and I do not visit them ... full of Flash, Ads, and difficult to navigate as they are
But the contents of Wikipedia are creative commons so if enough people get fed up with their policies then they can start the whole thing up again with all the current content, but without the current rules and admins ....
This is the English language Wikipedia - So articles on non-english speaking countries are likely to be smaller ... ...it does not help that many people from Heilongjiang probably cannot or do not update the page, whereas a large proportion of people from Texas can and do
what's the article like on zh-yue.wikipedia.org? (not being able to read chinese I cannot find it ...?)