Even if Finland ranked very high up in math and literacy, we have our share of math-illiterate. One day I went to a local store, where everything cost 1EUR. I bought a big box of smaller candy boxes, and the small boxes were 3 for 1EUR. The larger box contained 24 smaller boxes. And the cashier could not handle figuring out the formula 24/3 x 1, she ended up charging me 7EUR. I did not complain, stores that hire people that can't do trivial math deserve what they get.
I was so surprised at this that I mentally had to recheck MY calculation to be sure I was right.
Offtopic or not, don't pick up "Digital Fortress" if you know anything about security and cryptography. While it has one or two good ideas, most of it is really badly written. Da Vinci code was better.
I still laugh when I remember the scene when a network based attack against a firewall causes firewall graphics slowly crumble in a display: "...we have only 10% of shiel...er firewall left..."
However, in the country of Finland, which ranks well above USA in the crime per capita statistics, I feel much safer. Why? Let's see:
- women can walk safely alone in the streets of the biggest city in the middle of the night - in the aforementioned city there are no dangerous suburbs which police will tell you to avoid - first graders can walk to school alone - babies can take a nap in a pram outside a grocery shop while mommy is doing shopping
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Even if Finland ranked very high up in math and literacy, we have our share of math-illiterate. One day I went to a local store, where everything cost 1EUR. I bought a big box of smaller candy boxes, and the small boxes were 3 for 1EUR. The larger box contained 24 smaller boxes. And the cashier could not handle figuring out the formula 24/3 x 1, she ended up charging me 7EUR. I did not complain, stores that hire people that can't do trivial math deserve what they get.
I was so surprised at this that I mentally had to recheck MY calculation to be sure I was right.
Hey, they are not the only ones using satellite pictures for various other tasks. Maybe their purpose is the same as some US activities:
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http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/surveillance/20
Offtopic or not, don't pick up "Digital Fortress" if you know anything about security and cryptography. While it has one or two good ideas, most of it is really badly written. Da Vinci code was better.
I still laugh when I remember the scene when a network based attack against a firewall causes firewall graphics slowly crumble in a display: "...we have only 10% of shiel...er firewall left..."
However, in the country of Finland, which ranks well above USA in the crime per capita statistics, I feel much safer. Why? Let's see:
- women can walk safely alone in the streets of the biggest city in the middle of the night
- in the aforementioned city there are no dangerous suburbs which police will tell you to avoid
- first graders can walk to school alone
- babies can take a nap in a pram outside a grocery shop while mommy is doing shopping
See the quote: "More has been invested in making IE secure than any browser on the planet by a long shot. Nothing is going to change."
Money is no replacement for clue.
Nope, MockingBird would be the presentation application.