I would agree that a Condorcet method voting system (Schulze is a Condorcet variant) is the best possible method (IRV is flawed in comparison). However, Approval is significantly better than plurality/FPTP, and insufficient change is better than none at all.
The Legislature would still be dominated by the Rep and Dem monopoly.
However, for primaries this is big, because it means there might actually be competition and choice. Approval voting at least reduces the problem of the 3rd option spoiler (i.e., I could safely have voted for Kucinich 1st, Obama 2nd, etc.). This dynamic could drastically change how money in these elections would affect outcomes, and thus change the general election as well... what would have happened if, say, Huckabee the republican primary in New Hampshire in 2008? No more McCain, Obama might have not been such a desirable candidate vs. now front-runner Huckabee... who knows.
I have a Kindle 3. And love it. I have bought few books, but use it extensively to read other files I have got (ebooks, PDFs, simple text files,...
How good is the PDF experience on the Kindle3? I have an iPad, and it's decent (color), but it's a bit heavy for reading long hours at night. My main usage of ebooks are to read my tech manuals which are all PDFs.
Can someone get down off their high horse long enough to explain just how this was a poor security practice on Amazon's part?
Read the article... this isn't a huge flaw, just one that reduces the complexity of cracking an existing password.
If someone manages to break into Amazon (or do an inside job), they could theoretically steal a LOT of passwords (mine was impacted prior to changing it just now) by downloading the database and running a simple rainbow table against it.... given that crypt limited the length to 8 and they case-insensitized the passwords, that's quite easy to crack even at 8 characters.
Cracked password means likely 1 or more credit card numbers per account compromised, which is a decent pay-off.
Furthermore there is the security issue of password re-use wherein an Amazon account would give an email address, and the attacker could try the email address of the account with the same password.
A more important question is whether the definition should extend to say that the galaxy is the simply the accretion disk that forms around the black hole center.
Furthermore, star count could play a part in naming in the range cluster->dwarf galaxy->galaxy.
It's probably a very crude device, where they attach the speaker/vibrator wires directly to a detonator... Anything more sophisticated/selective would probably require more expensive equipment. I'm sure cost is of at least some concern to them.
Still doesn't explain why they didn't use a different SIM card/account (one that had no expectation of receiving other messages). Sounds pretty basic to me... I mean, what would have happened if that SMS arrived inadvertently while the bomb was being outfitted by the tech? Then you lose a bomb, the bomber, and the tech...
One word: Rollover. Sadly, many places in the US still have decreasing radius turns (cloverleaf off-ramp), and this, combined with the dangerously high center-of-gravity of the average SUV results in statistically abnormal rollover rates. In fact, driving an SUV is not only more dangerous for the SUV driver, but everyone else around.
That compressed gas, stored at pressure as high as 5,000 pounds per square inch, represents energy waiting to be released.
Not sure I'd want to be an a 1.0 version consumer vehicle with that much pressure without some serious discussion about the safety precautions to prevent or mitigate "unexpected pressure drops".
Can someone who's got more experience with the fluid mechanics add to this?
If few can even imagine the "violence and depravity" you witnessed at home, and Christianity is one of the world's major religions, it stands to reason that perhaps by any definition of Christianity that you didn't actually live in a "good Christian home"
Your answer reads like a textbook example of the No True Scotsman fallacy.
In fact, No True Christian is quite a common example of the above fallacy.
That's a quality seen in very few Hollywood-made productions. The second and third were decent, but predictable action flicks.
More on the transcendence is needed if the sequels were to match the original.
Personally, I wish the sequels would go deeper into the "harvesting humans" but come from a more rational angle like the one portrayed in the Hyperion Cantos wherein the transportation portals were used to harvest human thought energy in the brain.
Machines have plenty of energy (fusion/fission/solar), why "harvest" humans who are a net energy loss? Clearly for their unique processing power.
In the form of other parts of government "borrowing" from Social Security. Remember Al Gore and his lockbox? It was a way to tell us we were getting robbed by the financial elite (and to put an end to it)... too bad that guy never took office, eh?
Too bad our senior citizens are all hyped up about "austerity" and "deficit reduction" when the reality is that our debt is owed mostly to them.
Motorola plays in the commodity Android space. You know, where features rule and competition is fierce.
Apple doesn't play by those rules and makes up their own... but they write their own OS, design their own chip, and create a unique product out of the whole mess.
Apple "gets away" with their arrogance because they have something other companies don't... and consumers like what they have.
What has Moto done lately that HTC or Samsung can't match?
My iPhone is set with a non-PIN password, which will wipe the phone after 10 bad entries.
The solution, if you have recent backups, is to nuke the phone (entering 10 bad attempts) immediately upon being pulled over in your car... it would be nice if you could say, enter a "self-destruct" password and just do it with one go, but 10 is easily doable (10 blank entries, for example).
It's sad we have to resort to these tactics, but it is wise if you have any even marginally questionable content or are worried about LEO corruption, to clean your phone as needed.
Note: I have brought in my macbook to work before (as a consultant).
The use of internal standard software (Microsoft Office and Adobe Acrobat Pro in my case) posed a difficult problem since the licensing is hard to track... employee leaves company, but keeps the laptop, employee brings own software, etc.
Finally the issue of company information and security is better managed if the user of the laptop doesn't have root.
What they "figured out" is no different from what a number of companies to make a "first in the industry" product have figured out, and it has absolutely sod-all to do with actually making a decent design.
"first in the industry"? Which industry would that be? Mobile phones? PDAs? Smartphones? Each of these "industries" existed for years before the iPhone came out and cleaned their clocks. The iPhone was the first smartphone with a decent UI, sync model, and reasonable data plan (orig was $20/mo while Verizon required $45/mo for my older Treo)... but it was still a smartphone. Unless you are stating the industry as "iPhone-clones".
From the article: 'MySpace's management kept most of the site's developers but gutted nearly every other job role, according to a staffer who survived the cuts
Translation: They're up for sale, and devs are part of the more valuable "human capital". I wonder who would be buying?
It ignores tablets like iPad, it ignores iPod Touch.
If there was an iOS vs. Android, trust me, iOS would win just because of the above two products (leave alone AppleTV2).
Just because Google is foolish enough to severely limit the number of competitors to the iPod Touch (i.e., non-contract internet mobile device with Market access) is NOT Apple's problem:-)
The real story is that Apple's App Store is still kicking Android Market's ass despite Google having the natural advantage here (multiple models and manufacturers, no stringent approval process).
Dolphins don't live in our society. They live in dolphin societies. The only right they need is the right to live in that society without us bothering them. So, I'm against fishing them, and even keeping them in captivity outside of injured or rescued dolphins. anything else is unnecessary.
I'd add that we should consider impacts to their environment... what good does recognizing their "personhood" do when we slowly kill them by acidifying the oceans or remove their food sources for ourselves?
You're on the right path but it's a bit more complex than simple tolerance and segregation.
My phone can also use email, but email is worse than SMS, because I do not get instant notifications about the received message.
If your phone supports ActiveSync, it will use SMS protocol for the notifier, so your email client doesn't need to poll frequently. One of the most useful MS technologies... it's supported on iPhone, WinMob and Android.
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Approval Voting is a poor choice in comparison to the Schulze Method. Please stop advocating for a broken method.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schulze_method#Comparison_with_other_preferential_single-winner_election_methods
I would agree that a Condorcet method voting system (Schulze is a Condorcet variant) is the best possible method (IRV is flawed in comparison). However, Approval is significantly better than plurality/FPTP, and insufficient change is better than none at all.
The Legislature would still be dominated by the Rep and Dem monopoly.
However, for primaries this is big, because it means there might actually be competition and choice. Approval voting at least reduces the problem of the 3rd option spoiler (i.e., I could safely have voted for Kucinich 1st, Obama 2nd, etc.). This dynamic could drastically change how money in these elections would affect outcomes, and thus change the general election as well... what would have happened if, say, Huckabee the republican primary in New Hampshire in 2008? No more McCain, Obama might have not been such a desirable candidate vs. now front-runner Huckabee... who knows.
I have a Kindle 3. And love it. I have bought few books, but use it extensively to read other files I have got (ebooks, PDFs, simple text files, ...
How good is the PDF experience on the Kindle3? I have an iPad, and it's decent (color), but it's a bit heavy for reading long hours at night. My main usage of ebooks are to read my tech manuals which are all PDFs.
Can someone get down off their high horse long enough to explain just how this was a poor security practice on Amazon's part?
Read the article... this isn't a huge flaw, just one that reduces the complexity of cracking an existing password.
If someone manages to break into Amazon (or do an inside job), they could theoretically steal a LOT of passwords (mine was impacted prior to changing it just now) by downloading the database and running a simple rainbow table against it.... given that crypt limited the length to 8 and they case-insensitized the passwords, that's quite easy to crack even at 8 characters.
Cracked password means likely 1 or more credit card numbers per account compromised, which is a decent pay-off.
Furthermore there is the security issue of password re-use wherein an Amazon account would give an email address, and the attacker could try the email address of the account with the same password.
In my opinion, w galaxy should be a group of at least 1,000 stars orbiting one or more black holes
I think your definition fits our current known facts succinctly.
A more important question is whether the definition should extend to say that the galaxy is the simply the accretion disk that forms around the black hole center.
Furthermore, star count could play a part in naming in the range cluster->dwarf galaxy->galaxy.
It's probably a very crude device, where they attach the speaker/vibrator wires directly to a detonator... Anything more sophisticated/selective would probably require more expensive equipment. I'm sure cost is of at least some concern to them.
Still doesn't explain why they didn't use a different SIM card/account (one that had no expectation of receiving other messages). Sounds pretty basic to me... I mean, what would have happened if that SMS arrived inadvertently while the bomb was being outfitted by the tech? Then you lose a bomb, the bomber, and the tech...
Nope.
Film at 11: Crash.
One word: Rollover. Sadly, many places in the US still have decreasing radius turns (cloverleaf off-ramp), and this, combined with the dangerously high center-of-gravity of the average SUV results in statistically abnormal rollover rates. In fact, driving an SUV is not only more dangerous for the SUV driver, but everyone else around.
FTFA:
That compressed gas, stored at pressure as high as 5,000 pounds per square inch, represents energy waiting to be released.
Not sure I'd want to be an a 1.0 version consumer vehicle with that much pressure without some serious discussion about the safety precautions to prevent or mitigate "unexpected pressure drops".
Can someone who's got more experience with the fluid mechanics add to this?
If few can even imagine the "violence and depravity" you witnessed at home, and Christianity is one of the world's major religions, it stands to reason that perhaps by any definition of Christianity that you didn't actually live in a "good Christian home"
Your answer reads like a textbook example of the No True Scotsman fallacy.
In fact, No True Christian is quite a common example of the above fallacy.
As big a fan as I am of HTTPS, it's not only slower than HTTP for the end user, but costs a bunch more in bandwidth and compute (cacheing problems).
I'd say only HTTP is also more along the lines of Zuckerberg's infamous opinion of his users... in his view they get what they deserve.
That's a quality seen in very few Hollywood-made productions. The second and third were decent, but predictable action flicks.
More on the transcendence is needed if the sequels were to match the original.
Personally, I wish the sequels would go deeper into the "harvesting humans" but come from a more rational angle like the one portrayed in the Hyperion Cantos wherein the transportation portals were used to harvest human thought energy in the brain.
Machines have plenty of energy (fusion/fission/solar), why "harvest" humans who are a net energy loss? Clearly for their unique processing power.
In the form of other parts of government "borrowing" from Social Security. Remember Al Gore and his lockbox? It was a way to tell us we were getting robbed by the financial elite (and to put an end to it)... too bad that guy never took office, eh?
Too bad our senior citizens are all hyped up about "austerity" and "deficit reduction" when the reality is that our debt is owed mostly to them.
DuckDuckGo :-)
I'm sure Schmidt was comfortably rich after being the CTO of Sun and the CEO of Novell.
Guys like him don't do it for the (extra) money, but because they want to be/do something important.
Motorola plays in the commodity Android space. You know, where features rule and competition is fierce.
Apple doesn't play by those rules and makes up their own... but they write their own OS, design their own chip, and create a unique product out of the whole mess.
Apple "gets away" with their arrogance because they have something other companies don't... and consumers like what they have.
What has Moto done lately that HTC or Samsung can't match?
My iPhone is set with a non-PIN password, which will wipe the phone after 10 bad entries.
The solution, if you have recent backups, is to nuke the phone (entering 10 bad attempts) immediately upon being pulled over in your car... it would be nice if you could say, enter a "self-destruct" password and just do it with one go, but 10 is easily doable (10 blank entries, for example).
It's sad we have to resort to these tactics, but it is wise if you have any even marginally questionable content or are worried about LEO corruption, to clean your phone as needed.
http://fakelarryellison.blogspot.com/
Note: I have brought in my macbook to work before (as a consultant).
The use of internal standard software (Microsoft Office and Adobe Acrobat Pro in my case) posed a difficult problem since the licensing is hard to track... employee leaves company, but keeps the laptop, employee brings own software, etc.
Finally the issue of company information and security is better managed if the user of the laptop doesn't have root.
What they "figured out" is no different from what a number of companies to make a "first in the industry" product have figured out, and it has absolutely sod-all to do with actually making a decent design.
"first in the industry"? Which industry would that be? Mobile phones? PDAs? Smartphones? Each of these "industries" existed for years before the iPhone came out and cleaned their clocks. The iPhone was the first smartphone with a decent UI, sync model, and reasonable data plan (orig was $20/mo while Verizon required $45/mo for my older Treo)... but it was still a smartphone. Unless you are stating the industry as "iPhone-clones".
From the article: 'MySpace's management kept most of the site's developers but gutted nearly every other job role, according to a staffer who survived the cuts
Translation: They're up for sale, and devs are part of the more valuable "human capital". I wonder who would be buying?
Windows 7 Phone just sends it in powerpoint format.
Using PPTP (PowerPoint Tunneling Protocol)
I remember lots of tears and well, it still happened every time.
Perhaps not all generated tears are the same (maybe this explains why guys avoid chick flicks?)
This is iOS phones vs. Android phones.
It ignores tablets like iPad, it ignores iPod Touch.
If there was an iOS vs. Android, trust me, iOS would win just because of the above two products (leave alone AppleTV2).
Just because Google is foolish enough to severely limit the number of competitors to the iPod Touch (i.e., non-contract internet mobile device with Market access) is NOT Apple's problem :-)
The real story is that Apple's App Store is still kicking Android Market's ass despite Google having the natural advantage here (multiple models and manufacturers, no stringent approval process).
Dolphins don't live in our society. They live in dolphin societies. The only right they need is the right to live in that society without us bothering them. So, I'm against fishing them, and even keeping them in captivity outside of injured or rescued dolphins. anything else is unnecessary.
I'd add that we should consider impacts to their environment... what good does recognizing their "personhood" do when we slowly kill them by acidifying the oceans or remove their food sources for ourselves?
You're on the right path but it's a bit more complex than simple tolerance and segregation.
My phone can also use email, but email is worse than SMS, because I do not get instant notifications about the received message.
If your phone supports ActiveSync, it will use SMS protocol for the notifier, so your email client doesn't need to poll frequently. One of the most useful MS technologies... it's supported on iPhone, WinMob and Android.