Really do you think Isreal's nukes are constrained enough to make Iran not worry? Isreal has a habit of striking whoever they think is a treat to their interests. If they think Iran is a big enough threat and it is the only way to be sure to win I wouldn't think they would have any problem dropping a tactical nuke. If nothing else the fact that Isreal has it would make Iran feel they have a right to have one too just like India Pakistan. Their is no way in hell that a country is going to allow a powerful nation they consider to be a threat have the bomb and not want one themselves (especially a country run but nutjobs).
How would this work? We can't monitor Iran properly with them continuing to claim it is research/power they are refining for, difficulties even finding where their nuclear facilities are etc. How would this work with 10's or 100's of nations? Is the UN or whatever send monitors into 100 countries? How about countries that the west has decided it is okay to have nukes (US, UK, Russia, China, France)? If a nuke becomes obsolete are they allowed to replace it with a newer model with a new warhead?
The car industry will delay and then claim it will cost too much and at some point they will have a favorable government or a recession they can throw at it to say that it would hurt the economy and make the US cars uncompetitive, blah blah. Never going to happen. Alternative powered vehicles will take market share before the average gas powered car hits this standard would be my guess. The average car might get more than 54.5mpg but not by increasing gas powered tech.
If so a rough approximation is role playing is FF where each character is controlled by a different person and things are decided using dice and/or well placed bribes to the DM/equivalent. If not: explain it as a board game with dice. Random stuff happens depending on where on the "board" you decide to go and the result is determined by the role of a dice (almost always except for things like Settlers of Catan).
Good example. D666 data can be a beast:) Seriously though, with any scale of a project not even counting for the fact that you probably won't remember everything when 6months go by, other developers will be trying to call your functions and won't realize that it is a problem. It might work in any testing they do until it hits the real world with large datasets, unusual inputs, or an attacker and then it goes "boom". Than who do you blame? The person that wrote the function thinking no one will use it again and the piece that does use it is throughly tested? The second guy that was just trying to get something done and it seemed to work? The company for not forcing strict architecture/documentation practices?
How exactly do you define trade dress rigorously? A company might think rectangle with rounded corners is their distinct design but it turns out to be having the power button 1cm from centre of the bottom that everyone things is amazing. So to protect themselves companies patent every single part of a design whether it is truly something no one has thought of before or not. The whole point of getting the patent/trademark whatever is it will hopefully stop all the little guys from trying to copy you and provide ammo for mutually insured destruction against your bigger competitors.
I get your point that when it is clear what qualifies their will be less legal action I'm just not sure that courts/legislator will ever be rigorous enough or should they (because there is the flip side of something truly innovative falling outside of protections because protections didn't take into account their possiblity).
That would be the best way to go. Have a "native" type in.Net, Java etc that is "credit card" does all the magic to validate the card, communicates encrypted, decrypts when necessary, is understood by things like data entry controls etc. Than it is both easier and secure to use the correct method rather than hacking a plan text box and storing unencrypted data everywhere. As long as it is easier to go the unsafe way people will do it either because they are lazy or just inexperienced and that was the natural way they came up with how to solve their problem.
It is hard to say sometimes what is negligent. For example buffer overflow or SQL injections: most run of the mill developers don't know enough to write code that prevents them, know what causes it etc. They are spending their time solving a real problem in a perfect world where the user interacts with their software in a sane manner. They don't have an interest in learning arcane magic tricks that can be played at the binary level to get things to work badly etc. For large products they probably can afford a security team or an audit but for a small spinoff of a home baked project? Not a chance.
If you need to be able to type at 70wpm to code your projects efficiently they are probably pretty simple programs. The biggest part of the day is thinking. Even say you can spit out 1k lines of code a day that are actually tested and properly working that is still only ~20chars per lineX1k lines 20k chars, 70wpm = 350char/min so about an hour of typing. I agree you need to be able to keep up with your mind to have flow but a lot of time I find I think of what I want to do as about 10 lines of code. Type it than ctrl-F5 or otherwise test that it works, think somemore, type another 10 lines etc. It is a rarity that I have something more than my internal clipboard can hold that is needed to express one idea.
What does it have to do with mactards? People making at or near minimum wage won't take their job seriously because it is easy to find a similar crappy job somewhere else. This isn't news. Now to the extent that people think that their company of choice is infallible you can be right. But Gizmodo as mentioned has a reason to not like Apple and has a history of illegal activity so not exactly a reliable source of news. Not saying it doesn't happen at Apple stores, heck this crap happens at most stores I suspect. Just I wouldn't necessarily trust this site to report facts on anything not device teardowns.
I worked at a anti-spam company a few years. That was one of the things we did. We would send a 250 Ok to a message regardless of if it was accepted or not. If it wasn't accepted the customer had the option of putting it into a quarantine or just not writing it anywhere. I think we also always told suspect bad senders (essentially anyone we haven't seen before or anyone with a non-perfect score in our reputation and various blocklists) that a recipient exists. If things were suspect we'd throttle their connection way down to reduce load on the customers systems and make the bot really inefficient/prove them to be a bot because they don't obey SMTP standards for request timeouts (profit is proportional to emails/hr so generally spammer cut corners in terms of always assuming messages are accepted, not bothering to send the QUIT command etc). I imagine some similar stuff could be used for forums.
Are they not replaceable or just not customer replaceable? Reviews I read said they didn't bother because they didn't want to damage the machine but didn't say that an Apple store couldn't do it for you. Apple doesn't sell computers I guess they sell appliances. Don't like toasters don't buy a Mac.
Come on a if statement a for loop and a switch statement and there is nothing stopping you from starting the next Google. Deep technical knowledge, the ability to assemble components into large/complex/maintainable systems, research user needs and manage project budget and people all things that are useless details.
Are you really sure that when you are installing a linux distro that it is read linearly? If not than what? Move the file back to spinning disk and then launch the installer? Which then means you need to have the spare space for the stuff you want to bring back so what's the point? You are also looking at well over 1k for a tape drive for which you could by many many 3TB external HDD.
Haha. Not always relaxing though depends on the strength of the girl in my experience. A lot of them especially if they start getting into it start grinding like crazy like they are trying to rip it off.
Hey that is cool. I thought they were living it to the app developers what they showed on their tiles which would mean pretty much every company would pride themselves on how well they chose for you what data they want to broadcast. I wonder how this works in the backend. Does the OS send events to the tiles that are set to show live updates to "update now"? Is the event handler in the app forced to be public and the OS just deregisters it?
I agree. You need to develop for the features and limitations of your platform. Also now with HTML5 support in metro there will be even more idiot cousins hacking together a "webpage" and calling it a working program. Not dissing true web developers but the space seems to be the place were someone without engineering skills decides to experiment, or people with really crappy design skills make you suffer with blinking pink on a snot green background etc. Probably just the cool factor of being able to tell your friends you have a webpage but still. I can't see the typical php cut and paster giving much of a thought about making things easier for desktop users, or scaled appropriately for a phone etc.
You're right of course users will ultimately choose. I think the thing with evernote (haven't used it) or Skype(have) which are on multiple platforms is that just because you work on multiplatforms doesn't mean your interaction style needs to be the same. While start menu search is what I use to find things quickly usually, sometimes if I can't remember what a think is called I'll click through the startmenu to see what's there. With Metro it is a big pain because the tiles are big and clunky requiring more motion on average to see everything. Not to mention privacy issues data in the "find an app" area means that your data is visible to anyone in the room whenever you use your computer, even stuff you aren't currently using.
Realistically for the next few years at least Windows phone isn't going to be the most familiar UI for people coming from a phone anyways so why mimic it on a desktop? They might drive market share of each other up but the common design is more of a "make devlopers happy" decision I my opinion. Maybe users will like it. I can definitely see it pulling in the types of people that like Mac for their closed eco system, this is even a better model for them I think because they are much more likely to get a matching app for both phone and desktop than on Mac because the underlying framework is the same (and the Windows store will kind of make it a no brainer to just publish the app to both the desktop and the Win Phone stores I think).
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Really do you think Isreal's nukes are constrained enough to make Iran not worry? Isreal has a habit of striking whoever they think is a treat to their interests. If they think Iran is a big enough threat and it is the only way to be sure to win I wouldn't think they would have any problem dropping a tactical nuke. If nothing else the fact that Isreal has it would make Iran feel they have a right to have one too just like India Pakistan. Their is no way in hell that a country is going to allow a powerful nation they consider to be a threat have the bomb and not want one themselves (especially a country run but nutjobs).
How would this work? We can't monitor Iran properly with them continuing to claim it is research/power they are refining for, difficulties even finding where their nuclear facilities are etc. How would this work with 10's or 100's of nations? Is the UN or whatever send monitors into 100 countries? How about countries that the west has decided it is okay to have nukes (US, UK, Russia, China, France)? If a nuke becomes obsolete are they allowed to replace it with a newer model with a new warhead?
The car industry will delay and then claim it will cost too much and at some point they will have a favorable government or a recession they can throw at it to say that it would hurt the economy and make the US cars uncompetitive, blah blah. Never going to happen. Alternative powered vehicles will take market share before the average gas powered car hits this standard would be my guess. The average car might get more than 54.5mpg but not by increasing gas powered tech.
If so a rough approximation is role playing is FF where each character is controlled by a different person and things are decided using dice and/or well placed bribes to the DM/equivalent. If not: explain it as a board game with dice. Random stuff happens depending on where on the "board" you decide to go and the result is determined by the role of a dice (almost always except for things like Settlers of Catan).
Good example. D666 data can be a beast :) Seriously though, with any scale of a project not even counting for the fact that you probably won't remember everything when 6months go by, other developers will be trying to call your functions and won't realize that it is a problem. It might work in any testing they do until it hits the real world with large datasets, unusual inputs, or an attacker and then it goes "boom". Than who do you blame? The person that wrote the function thinking no one will use it again and the piece that does use it is throughly tested? The second guy that was just trying to get something done and it seemed to work? The company for not forcing strict architecture/documentation practices?
How exactly do you define trade dress rigorously? A company might think rectangle with rounded corners is their distinct design but it turns out to be having the power button 1cm from centre of the bottom that everyone things is amazing. So to protect themselves companies patent every single part of a design whether it is truly something no one has thought of before or not. The whole point of getting the patent/trademark whatever is it will hopefully stop all the little guys from trying to copy you and provide ammo for mutually insured destruction against your bigger competitors.
I get your point that when it is clear what qualifies their will be less legal action I'm just not sure that courts/legislator will ever be rigorous enough or should they (because there is the flip side of something truly innovative falling outside of protections because protections didn't take into account their possiblity).
Even with strict definitions lawyers will still make money. Just because you're going to lose doesn't mean you can't sue.
That would be the best way to go. Have a "native" type in .Net, Java etc that is "credit card" does all the magic to validate the card, communicates encrypted, decrypts when necessary, is understood by things like data entry controls etc. Than it is both easier and secure to use the correct method rather than hacking a plan text box and storing unencrypted data everywhere. As long as it is easier to go the unsafe way people will do it either because they are lazy or just inexperienced and that was the natural way they came up with how to solve their problem.
It is hard to say sometimes what is negligent. For example buffer overflow or SQL injections: most run of the mill developers don't know enough to write code that prevents them, know what causes it etc. They are spending their time solving a real problem in a perfect world where the user interacts with their software in a sane manner. They don't have an interest in learning arcane magic tricks that can be played at the binary level to get things to work badly etc. For large products they probably can afford a security team or an audit but for a small spinoff of a home baked project? Not a chance.
If you need to be able to type at 70wpm to code your projects efficiently they are probably pretty simple programs. The biggest part of the day is thinking. Even say you can spit out 1k lines of code a day that are actually tested and properly working that is still only ~20chars per lineX1k lines 20k chars, 70wpm = 350char/min so about an hour of typing. I agree you need to be able to keep up with your mind to have flow but a lot of time I find I think of what I want to do as about 10 lines of code. Type it than ctrl-F5 or otherwise test that it works, think somemore, type another 10 lines etc. It is a rarity that I have something more than my internal clipboard can hold that is needed to express one idea.
He could be coding in Mono C# you insensitve clod :)
What does it have to do with mactards? People making at or near minimum wage won't take their job seriously because it is easy to find a similar crappy job somewhere else. This isn't news. Now to the extent that people think that their company of choice is infallible you can be right. But Gizmodo as mentioned has a reason to not like Apple and has a history of illegal activity so not exactly a reliable source of news. Not saying it doesn't happen at Apple stores, heck this crap happens at most stores I suspect. Just I wouldn't necessarily trust this site to report facts on anything not device teardowns.
I worked at a anti-spam company a few years. That was one of the things we did. We would send a 250 Ok to a message regardless of if it was accepted or not. If it wasn't accepted the customer had the option of putting it into a quarantine or just not writing it anywhere. I think we also always told suspect bad senders (essentially anyone we haven't seen before or anyone with a non-perfect score in our reputation and various blocklists) that a recipient exists. If things were suspect we'd throttle their connection way down to reduce load on the customers systems and make the bot really inefficient/prove them to be a bot because they don't obey SMTP standards for request timeouts (profit is proportional to emails/hr so generally spammer cut corners in terms of always assuming messages are accepted, not bothering to send the QUIT command etc). I imagine some similar stuff could be used for forums.
Are they not replaceable or just not customer replaceable? Reviews I read said they didn't bother because they didn't want to damage the machine but didn't say that an Apple store couldn't do it for you. Apple doesn't sell computers I guess they sell appliances. Don't like toasters don't buy a Mac.
What are the chances that you still care about data and aren't preoccupied scrapping the skin tumors off you third hand?
Turing that was a fun language. Syntax isn't going to teach you how to figure out a linked list or the like, let alone a crypto algorithm.
Come on a if statement a for loop and a switch statement and there is nothing stopping you from starting the next Google. Deep technical knowledge, the ability to assemble components into large/complex/maintainable systems, research user needs and manage project budget and people all things that are useless details.
Yeah and I'm pretty sure that leaking something that is a state secret for national security reasons qualifies as treason.
I agree this is an ask slashdot question from someone born in the 90's that has never saw a tape drive before.
Are you really sure that when you are installing a linux distro that it is read linearly? If not than what? Move the file back to spinning disk and then launch the installer? Which then means you need to have the spare space for the stuff you want to bring back so what's the point? You are also looking at well over 1k for a tape drive for which you could by many many 3TB external HDD.
F and J keys? Looking at my keyboard I'm wondering how wide is your navel :)
Haha. Not always relaxing though depends on the strength of the girl in my experience. A lot of them especially if they start getting into it start grinding like crazy like they are trying to rip it off.
Hey that is cool. I thought they were living it to the app developers what they showed on their tiles which would mean pretty much every company would pride themselves on how well they chose for you what data they want to broadcast. I wonder how this works in the backend. Does the OS send events to the tiles that are set to show live updates to "update now"? Is the event handler in the app forced to be public and the OS just deregisters it?
I agree. You need to develop for the features and limitations of your platform. Also now with HTML5 support in metro there will be even more idiot cousins hacking together a "webpage" and calling it a working program. Not dissing true web developers but the space seems to be the place were someone without engineering skills decides to experiment, or people with really crappy design skills make you suffer with blinking pink on a snot green background etc. Probably just the cool factor of being able to tell your friends you have a webpage but still. I can't see the typical php cut and paster giving much of a thought about making things easier for desktop users, or scaled appropriately for a phone etc.
You're right of course users will ultimately choose. I think the thing with evernote (haven't used it) or Skype(have) which are on multiple platforms is that just because you work on multiplatforms doesn't mean your interaction style needs to be the same. While start menu search is what I use to find things quickly usually, sometimes if I can't remember what a think is called I'll click through the startmenu to see what's there. With Metro it is a big pain because the tiles are big and clunky requiring more motion on average to see everything. Not to mention privacy issues data in the "find an app" area means that your data is visible to anyone in the room whenever you use your computer, even stuff you aren't currently using.
Realistically for the next few years at least Windows phone isn't going to be the most familiar UI for people coming from a phone anyways so why mimic it on a desktop? They might drive market share of each other up but the common design is more of a "make devlopers happy" decision I my opinion. Maybe users will like it. I can definitely see it pulling in the types of people that like Mac for their closed eco system, this is even a better model for them I think because they are much more likely to get a matching app for both phone and desktop than on Mac because the underlying framework is the same (and the Windows store will kind of make it a no brainer to just publish the app to both the desktop and the Win Phone stores I think).