(stupid mouse with "back" button, lost the damn post, let's restart)
From the second link, emphasis mine
Two days ago a workshop was held at the Gran Sasso laboratories, where the various experiments reported their findings and discussed them. I have no report from the workshop, but it is clear that the superluminal signal of Opera is as dead as it can be. Following the workshop, the Opera collaboration is reported to have voted on removing Ereditato from the leadership position. The motion did not pass, but the voting showed that the collaboration was split, and this must eventually have led Ereditato to step down today.
It seems to me that someone inside took the opportunity to grab power into the structure of OPERA. Shady politics as usual. You are right that erro'ing is part of the scientific process, but on the political, and "journalistic" spheres it is a sign of weakness. So, it seems, that a group who was antagonist to him decided to take the opportunity and strike him down. Even if the vote hasn't passed, the no confidence was already set in motion, and his presence became a burden on the team. Hooray for crook scientists\politicians.
Unfortunately, unless we have someone on the inside of the workshop coming forward, explaining what exactly transpired, it will be kept as speculation. What is a shame.
Well, there is a great way to check that for sure. Someone with the tools should do an statistical analysis of how much paedophiles we have among priests, parents, teacher\school directors and other positions of power over children. If celibacy does not play a role, the distribution should be the same.
I can only speak for me, but I wage that it helps to a lot of other Brazilians. Your politics reflect on ours.
Recently, one of our center-right parties renamed themselves Democrats (yeah, you read right, center-right) and have tried to mirror the Democrats politics here. And even without taken them into considerations, a lot of politics and companies keep an eye on what is going on there to try to mirror it on national legislation. Thing about things like SOPA, had it passed, there would be a hard push to implement similar language here. So your politics directly influence ours indirectly. And also directly.
Let's say for example that Grinch becomes president and he works on his campaign promise to invade Iran. Suddenly it is a new Middle East war and again we are thrown on the Iraq war cycle of problems on the international scales. So yeah, we need to pay lots of attentions to your politics.
I will second this recommendation. There are also a couple of youtube seminaries with the author which are worth reading. For example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQVTIJBZook
I have used both extensively. On my former job we had a gigantic intranet application used in all of the branches across 10 countries. IT was a PHP\mysql with jQuery as a javascript framework. It worked great, the community is more developed so in some cases it is easier to find snippets. When I came to my current job I got a shock having to change to work with MooTools, which is what we use here. But after a while I realized that for serious heavy stuff it is a more robust framework. My current job is on a forums network with a couple of millions of daily hits and a half million userbase. Also, the extended frameworks for mootools, like Clientcide are really great.
I still don't understand why they elected to change to this system of releasing major versions every flippin month. The old system was working just fine, why can't this be Fx 5.5? And save v6 for when there are actually some major changes that deserve a major version.
Because when I an user check the "Choose your Browse" screen, it wants the higher number. Pfff, are you on FF5? My Chrome goes to 11!
Maybe he is just outside the USA? Here in Brazil, at the good and serious universities (which are Public, by the way), a part of the patent an\or copyright is always kept by the researches, usually 50%.
No they don't, and here is the crux of the question. If word processing for you is just bold, italic and paragraphs, yeah it is the same. The moment you start to make different formatting it is the problem starts. The change with the ribbon was bad, but most of the keyboard shortcuts was kept the same, so after the initial shock people went back to work.
But the worst problem is on Calc. There is a huge world of difference there which is difficult to adapt. Starting with macros and custom functions. But even smaller things like selecting all items, navigating the spreadsheet is completely different, enough to throw people away. The retraining, specially when what you do is automated, is too costly sometimes.
I'd argue that if that line is accepted, then the information should be stored in a manner that prevents access outside of a lawful enquiry authorized by a recognized court or a lawful query by the monitored individual as per the European data protection standards. How you'd enforce that is difficult.
As long as is opt in and public (the practice, not the data).
Now seriously guys, there are bad titles, and there are pathetic ones. This takes the cake as the prime of the prime on the latter camp. You make it sound like they want to ban it on Australia as a whole, while the truth is much more simple and in fact, valid. They simply urged the agencies to not use those services. The puzzlement should come from why are they using it anyway?
This was an audit performed on the security of Government data and not an exercise on quashing free speech. FFS aesoteric and samzepous, this was so pathetic that it wasn't even funny.
what technology has japan used or is japan using thats saved so many lives?
Japan has an impressive Earthquake alert system. They picked the shaking 1 minute before it main force hit. That gave time for most of the people to evacute the buildings as needed. Same goes for the Tsunami. Where they didn't have time to react though, like in Sendai, which was absurdly close to the epicenter, the death tool was worst.
While the article follows the journalistic tradition of bad statistics reporting, your vehemence is misplaced. Maybe you work for M$:)
Funny, but no. My vehemence is just to reiterate that they tested the "quality" of free antivirus against an unknown sample of threads. Which is completely different than what the summary tried to paint.
O Globo is one of the biggest newspapers on the country. But it is not a technology news site as the summary implies. Although yes, this was posted on the tech area of the site, it is hardly the focus of the newspaper.
Regarding the testing itself. This is just a report on a test made by an external firm (www. clavis.com.br) which was commissioned by the site. The test focused on the quality of free antivirus only. With implications that the issue lies in the fact that they are free, not that all antivirus are plagued by these issues (I will let you decide on what was the exactly aim of the article). Besides that, the test is devoid of crucial information. The database they used is a great one, the CAIS is maintained by our best scientific network, RNP (site in English: http://www.rnp.br/en/), so I trust the info there. But nowhere does it say that the threats are in Portuguese.
They used a list of 3.269 threats among virus, trojan horses, spywares, keyloggers, and etc. We don't know how many of each. Before the article they praise pay security suites, because they are a suite and not an antivirus only. There is no data on these threats, nor how many of each type, how old each one was, nor how they have threats which are not on the known list of each antivirus. Much less the language of the code.
Let me repeat it: NOTHING on the test implies that antivirus have a problem with non-English threats. It only said that those antivirus had that percentage of correct matches on either Heuristics or non-threads. But we don't know the exactly content of the database or the code used to test it. Much less the quality of the test.
Why would you need one? You could simple add something like this on the form you sign to take part of an exame. You hereby abide by this contract to not use any form of outside or electronic help during the course of this exam. And also to not use any type of communication device, included but not limited to cellphones. You also accept that during the exam, on the vicinity of the exam room, a device will be installed to monitor inbound and outbound communication, to scan for possible attempts to have external help. And you acknowledge and accept the fact that the evidence found by such devices can and will be used to investigate and if found guilty, exclude the guilty part from the rest of the procedures.
Of course you cover it in legalese and doesn't right amateurish like I did. In any case I can't understand why someone would think this is wrong.
I like it when trolls have no fucking idea what they are talking about. We haven't grow our sugar plantations in quite a while. The deforestation is not mainly for two things: wood and cattle. And it has slowed on the last decades. It is still a big problem, but for other reasons.
Lucky you. You don't have a sugar cartel controlling supply and jacking up prices like we do.
As the other user said, yes we do, the usineiros as they are called have a lot of people on the congress (the Agribusiness Lobby is the second larges non-partisan group on the Congress and Senate), and they have a monopoly of a lot of stuff. That means they jack up prices and try to stiffle the market of other type of fuel.
What happened to balance is that other big farmers decided to jump on the biodiesel wagon, and their lobby was stronger than the Ethanol's, so they got some subsidies to start making Castor Bean diesel. That put them on their place and the prices got a little more controlled. But still that risks upping the price of other produces with more and more farmers jumping at that wagon and forgetting the once great rice, wheat and soy.
Neither in fact. What happens is that what diplomats say in private are hardly what they say in public. Yes, they lie to the press and other diplomats about their feelings of other countries. That is quite obvious and I think everyone expects that. There is a "Gentleman's contract" that this kind of thing is private because no country wants to be told to shove it in front of the international community.
More damaging are allegations that other Arab countries wants to bomb Iran. That is a big issue regarding the political powers on the Middle East. From the sky article, only Saudi Arabia (US lapdog, so expected) and Bahrein wanted it. If there are more, them we have an issue.
I couldn't care less for possible embarrassment of UK Royal Family members. Or maybe a whore and drug use scandal going with some of diplomats, for me those are irrelevant and personal and shouldn't be leaked. I don't think every cable should be linked too, as pointed above, some of these are personal opinions that will be damage to the political balance once live. Now, if there are crime indications, and crime allegations, those should be put online.
I have an iPhone 3G. It can make use of some of the newest features in iOS 4 but cannot support multitasking (among others). I will not be upgrading my iPhone.
Wait, what? You don't support multitasking? How? Don't you multitask on your computer?
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(stupid mouse with "back" button, lost the damn post, let's restart)
From the second link, emphasis mine
Two days ago a workshop was held at the Gran Sasso laboratories, where the various experiments reported their findings and discussed them. I have no report from the workshop, but it is clear that the superluminal signal of Opera is as dead as it can be. Following the workshop, the Opera collaboration is reported to have voted on removing Ereditato from the leadership position. The motion did not pass, but the voting showed that the collaboration was split, and this must eventually have led Ereditato to step down today.
It seems to me that someone inside took the opportunity to grab power into the structure of OPERA. Shady politics as usual. You are right that erro'ing is part of the scientific process, but on the political, and "journalistic" spheres it is a sign of weakness. So, it seems, that a group who was antagonist to him decided to take the opportunity and strike him down. Even if the vote hasn't passed, the no confidence was already set in motion, and his presence became a burden on the team. Hooray for crook scientists\politicians.
Unfortunately, unless we have someone on the inside of the workshop coming forward, explaining what exactly transpired, it will be kept as speculation. What is a shame.
So, basically, everyone else was lying about how advanced they were, so Firefox should, too?
Yes, basically. Welcome to the real world of marketing. IT sucks, terribly, but unfortunately either you play this game or you lose.
Well, there is a great way to check that for sure. Someone with the tools should do an statistical analysis of how much paedophiles we have among priests, parents, teacher\school directors and other positions of power over children. If celibacy does not play a role, the distribution should be the same.
I can only speak for me, but I wage that it helps to a lot of other Brazilians. Your politics reflect on ours.
Recently, one of our center-right parties renamed themselves Democrats (yeah, you read right, center-right) and have tried to mirror the Democrats politics here. And even without taken them into considerations, a lot of politics and companies keep an eye on what is going on there to try to mirror it on national legislation. Thing about things like SOPA, had it passed, there would be a hard push to implement similar language here. So your politics directly influence ours indirectly. And also directly.
Let's say for example that Grinch becomes president and he works on his campaign promise to invade Iran. Suddenly it is a new Middle East war and again we are thrown on the Iraq war cycle of problems on the international scales. So yeah, we need to pay lots of attentions to your politics.
I will second this recommendation. There are also a couple of youtube seminaries with the author which are worth reading. For example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQVTIJBZook
If I may add an alternative word: MooTools.
I have used both extensively. On my former job we had a gigantic intranet application used in all of the branches across 10 countries. IT was a PHP\mysql with jQuery as a javascript framework. It worked great, the community is more developed so in some cases it is easier to find snippets. When I came to my current job I got a shock having to change to work with MooTools, which is what we use here. But after a while I realized that for serious heavy stuff it is a more robust framework. My current job is on a forums network with a couple of millions of daily hits and a half million userbase. Also, the extended frameworks for mootools, like Clientcide are really great.
I still don't understand why they elected to change to this system of releasing major versions every flippin month. The old system was working just fine, why can't this be Fx 5.5? And save v6 for when there are actually some major changes that deserve a major version.
Because when I an user check the "Choose your Browse" screen, it wants the higher number. Pfff, are you on FF5? My Chrome goes to 11!
Maybe he is just outside the USA? Here in Brazil, at the good and serious universities (which are Public, by the way), a part of the patent an\or copyright is always kept by the researches, usually 50%.
word processors work very much the same.
No they don't, and here is the crux of the question. If word processing for you is just bold, italic and paragraphs, yeah it is the same. The moment you start to make different formatting it is the problem starts. The change with the ribbon was bad, but most of the keyboard shortcuts was kept the same, so after the initial shock people went back to work.
But the worst problem is on Calc. There is a huge world of difference there which is difficult to adapt. Starting with macros and custom functions. But even smaller things like selecting all items, navigating the spreadsheet is completely different, enough to throw people away. The retraining, specially when what you do is automated, is too costly sometimes.
I'd argue that if that line is accepted, then the information should be stored in a manner that prevents access outside of a lawful enquiry authorized by a recognized court or a lawful query by the monitored individual as per the European data protection standards. How you'd enforce that is difficult.
As long as is opt in and public (the practice, not the data).
Now seriously guys, there are bad titles, and there are pathetic ones. This takes the cake as the prime of the prime on the latter camp. You make it sound like they want to ban it on Australia as a whole, while the truth is much more simple and in fact, valid. They simply urged the agencies to not use those services. The puzzlement should come from why are they using it anyway?
This was an audit performed on the security of Government data and not an exercise on quashing free speech. FFS aesoteric and samzepous, this was so pathetic that it wasn't even funny.
what technology has japan used or is japan using thats saved so many lives?
Japan has an impressive Earthquake alert system. They picked the shaking 1 minute before it main force hit. That gave time for most of the people to evacute the buildings as needed. Same goes for the Tsunami. Where they didn't have time to react though, like in Sendai, which was absurdly close to the epicenter, the death tool was worst.
4. Don't be evil and you won't have anything that could be used against you
Oh man. That was funny. You had me a moment there.
While the article follows the journalistic tradition of bad statistics reporting, your vehemence is misplaced. Maybe you work for M$ :)
Funny, but no. My vehemence is just to reiterate that they tested the "quality" of free antivirus against an unknown sample of threads. Which is completely different than what the summary tried to paint.
O Globo is one of the biggest newspapers on the country. But it is not a technology news site as the summary implies. Although yes, this was posted on the tech area of the site, it is hardly the focus of the newspaper.
Regarding the testing itself. This is just a report on a test made by an external firm (www. clavis.com.br) which was commissioned by the site. The test focused on the quality of free antivirus only. With implications that the issue lies in the fact that they are free, not that all antivirus are plagued by these issues (I will let you decide on what was the exactly aim of the article). Besides that, the test is devoid of crucial information. The database they used is a great one, the CAIS is maintained by our best scientific network, RNP (site in English: http://www.rnp.br/en/), so I trust the info there. But nowhere does it say that the threats are in Portuguese.
They used a list of 3.269 threats among virus, trojan horses, spywares, keyloggers, and etc. We don't know how many of each. Before the article they praise pay security suites, because they are a suite and not an antivirus only. There is no data on these threats, nor how many of each type, how old each one was, nor how they have threats which are not on the known list of each antivirus. Much less the language of the code.
Let me repeat it: NOTHING on the test implies that antivirus have a problem with non-English threats. It only said that those antivirus had that percentage of correct matches on either Heuristics or non-threads. But we don't know the exactly content of the database or the code used to test it. Much less the quality of the test.
Again: Language was not a part of the test!!!
Prosecutor: 'So you are admitting that you are a lying bastard?'
Why would you need one? You could simple add something like this on the form you sign to take part of an exame. You hereby abide by this contract to not use any form of outside or electronic help during the course of this exam. And also to not use any type of communication device, included but not limited to cellphones. You also accept that during the exam, on the vicinity of the exam room, a device will be installed to monitor inbound and outbound communication, to scan for possible attempts to have external help. And you acknowledge and accept the fact that the evidence found by such devices can and will be used to investigate and if found guilty, exclude the guilty part from the rest of the procedures.
Of course you cover it in legalese and doesn't right amateurish like I did. In any case I can't understand why someone would think this is wrong.
I like it when trolls have no fucking idea what they are talking about. We haven't grow our sugar plantations in quite a while. The deforestation is not mainly for two things: wood and cattle. And it has slowed on the last decades. It is still a big problem, but for other reasons.
He is in solitary confinement 23 hours a day; is not allowed to exercise in his cell; has been denied a pillow and sheets;
WTF?!?!?!?!!? Is there any way to corroborate these facts. Because this is fucking ridiculous.
Lucky you. You don't have a sugar cartel controlling supply and jacking up prices like we do.
As the other user said, yes we do, the usineiros as they are called have a lot of people on the congress (the Agribusiness Lobby is the second larges non-partisan group on the Congress and Senate), and they have a monopoly of a lot of stuff. That means they jack up prices and try to stiffle the market of other type of fuel.
What happened to balance is that other big farmers decided to jump on the biodiesel wagon, and their lobby was stronger than the Ethanol's, so they got some subsidies to start making Castor Bean diesel. That put them on their place and the prices got a little more controlled. But still that risks upping the price of other produces with more and more farmers jumping at that wagon and forgetting the once great rice, wheat and soy.
Yeah. We use Ethanol in Brazil since the early 80s, making them from sugar cane and it is great. Now corn ethanol is ridiculous inefficient.
"The irony is staggering, sir!"
Neither in fact. What happens is that what diplomats say in private are hardly what they say in public. Yes, they lie to the press and other diplomats about their feelings of other countries. That is quite obvious and I think everyone expects that. There is a "Gentleman's contract" that this kind of thing is private because no country wants to be told to shove it in front of the international community.
More damaging are allegations that other Arab countries wants to bomb Iran. That is a big issue regarding the political powers on the Middle East. From the sky article, only Saudi Arabia (US lapdog, so expected) and Bahrein wanted it. If there are more, them we have an issue.
I couldn't care less for possible embarrassment of UK Royal Family members. Or maybe a whore and drug use scandal going with some of diplomats, for me those are irrelevant and personal and shouldn't be leaked. I don't think every cable should be linked too, as pointed above, some of these are personal opinions that will be damage to the political balance once live. Now, if there are crime indications, and crime allegations, those should be put online.
I hardly think being manipulated into buying another cheesburger or diet pepsi is going to have a similar effect.
You never saw someone with morbid obesity, did you?
I have an iPhone 3G. It can make use of some of the newest features in iOS 4 but cannot support multitasking (among others). I will not be upgrading my iPhone.
Wait, what? You don't support multitasking? How? Don't you multitask on your computer?