I guess MMA is Mixed Martial Arts, I've never heard of that term or acronym before.
Humans have been into aggression for since before the dawn of the earliest civilizations, do you really think it's going to go away any time soon? Maybe you need to brush up on your history a little bit, "civilized" societies can and do go from their pinnacle to their worst in short time spans, shockingly short if there is a lot of pent-up tension. In some ways, I think it might be argued that civilized societies pretend they are free of humanity's worst aspects, when it's just denial or turning a blind eye.
Maybe that coincided with the time when there were no free 3D drivers, and Red Hat forwarded the "Fuck You" from hardware vendors since they (a) hadn't the drivers developed yet and (b) had a principle problem with including proprietary drivers.
Then (in my opinion) Ubuntu et al not-so-strict distros included proprietory drivers, Linux became more present on the desktop, Hardware vendors noticed Linux. Open-source driver developers had more time and resources to continue and eventually brought forth free drivers.
To claim that Canonical is freeloading on other companies' contributions is a bit of myopic, in my opinion. How many upstream bug reports came from Ubuntu users?
Too many, we marked them as dup. But your point is invalid since Canonical != Ubuntu users and Canonical != Ubuntu maintainers. Latter are all in the volunteer camp. Red Hat users & maintainers are probably largely there too.
The way I see it Ubuntu is mainly a packager (distribution) and behaves like one. They mainly configure, build and distribute the existing software. Of course they provide patches for bugs they encounter, and they send it upstream to reduce their own work.
But Canonical doesn't have the means and will to truly commit developer resources to Linux (like Red Hat does). They want to achieve something with what is there*, and they are very good at communicating, community-building, reacting to users, connecting users and developers. That is Ubuntu's value. Red Hat has some of this too, but for them it is business to engineer a Linux that works, because that is what they sell.
*Greg Kroah Hartman complained Ubuntu doesn't give patches upstream.
If you look at the maintainance map, you can see that Redhat is relavant in several areas, but most of it is volunteer. Canonical is not so relevant here (except for the default theme and the calculator -- lol).
Imagine your company was structured like that. Or that you'd have to sell this plan to your stakeholders.:) But it works!
This article is nothing more than sensationalist and stupid.
And the 10 ways of "deflecting an asteroid" are a collection of how not to do it*. The real solutions are to either slow it down or accelerate it, and let it miss Earth before or after it is crossing Earths way. That can be done for example by attaching a rocket to it.
-- * Except for painting Breaking it apart with a nuke: Hard to do, creates more asteroids. Attaching a net/sail: Hard to do, asteroids are not static objects Mirrors/Lasers pointing at it: You need to shoot them up and aim correctly (which is already hard with our telescopes) Gravity: Yeah, maybe, but also hard to navigate something there
And if there is no FF extension then the required functionality is probably impossible to do browser-side.
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That's all that I can think of at the moment, there may be more ways to follow a user. But I don't see much that can be done on the browser-side to stop more tracking.
You missed the point. The summary is suggesting a server-side solution, i.e. signaling the website to bugger off.
Throwing advertising magazines into the trash is not a method of opting out.
This is about telling the publisher that you are not interested in such material. Disabling/deleting {images, cookies, history} is not the same thing.
TFS suggests signaling the publisher and requiring the publisher to react based on it.
One technical method of implementing this would be an additional HTTP-Request Header, like Accept-Language, or to reuse the now-abandoned Charge-To field.
... The Flash client makes queries which are hard-coded in the.swf (this is dumb as it means SQL Injection is effectively a 'feature' of the store).
Their webdesign company is called "Inject Design Ltd.". Go figure...
You could easily alter the query string to show the hashes stored in the MySQL users table. I figured out the version of MySQL was 4.0 (Debian Sarge) - and the hashes in this version are very weak, cracking them would take less than a couple of hours.
I'm unsure what hashes he is talking about here. Password hashes? What was the weak hash algorithm?
By not only explaining how something should be done but also expressing the reasoning to why this method has been chosen
Yes - a truly excellent thing to do. They should do the same thing with laws - define the law as they currently do but also provide a justification for the law. That way the law can be challenged in the future when the justification no longer holds. In addition, no one will ever misinterpret the meaning of a law and use it for purposes for which it was not designed.
That is what already happens in some European countries. It is part of being a judge to interpret laws while taking the intention of the lawmaker into account. Laws have accompaning documents that detail these (and you can tell from history/press from that time).
Now back to format specifications - code makes for a very poor specification. While code can implement a specification, it generally does so in an unorganized fashion. Specifications should be clear - having no ambiguities or vagueness. Code is not so clear. And as the parent mentioned, generally does not communicate reasoning to the reader.
Mathematically based definitions are great - they are both clear and organized. Tools such as lex/flex/yacc/bison combine code with mathematical definitions to implement such specifications. The ideal format specification would include a mathematical definition along with reasoning explaining the design decisions.
In design theory there is the notion of explicit and implicit knowledge. Unless you are very reflective and a very experienced designer, you will not be able to make all your knowledge and your whole decision process explicit.
There is also a theorem in logic preventing you from writing the perfect universally understood specification.
It looks like they focused on only measuring certain atmospheric things, but this proves nothing as far as extrasolar planets go.
Free oxygen on any planet tells you that something is making oxygen. In our case it is the plants which we treat so badly: turning them into newspapers, etc.
The issue is burning down large areas of rain forest to get more short-term farmland, which uses up oxygen as well as permanently destroys the source for oxygen. The newspaper is not so relevant, since it is partially recycled and partially grown for the purpose.
Lyx is not WYSIWYG but WYSIWYM. And for saving time, just look at how long it takes you to write a 1-page document (e.g. letter). Much faster with LyX, especially if you don't want to put up with LaTeX's weird error messages.
You and many others make the mistake that the damage is not limited to one individual that is killed or mentally/physically injured.
Torture also destroys cooperation with allies. US tortured in Iraq. Thousands of people are mentally and physically damaged. But many Iraqis that might have become allies and help the US build up the country were driven away. "Taxi to the Dark Side" is a good documentation about this.
Making friends is far more effective in getting information, and torture has been shown numerous times to be inefficient. To put it in Picards words, one wonders why it is still practiced. To put it in Sun Tzu's words, use the "land".
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The Open Source community is about shared effort for shared gain, not personal recognition.
Have you spent a moment in the "Open Source community"? The majority of contributions to Linux are from profit-making corporations.
Not true for the Linux Kernel. Most of the contributions to Linux come from individuals without a company. After that are unknown contributers. Then companies.
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/sites/main/files/publications/linuxkerneldevelopment.pdf
A moat and a drawbridge.
I guess MMA is Mixed Martial Arts, I've never heard of that term or acronym before.
Humans have been into aggression for since before the dawn of the earliest civilizations, do you really think it's going to go away any time soon? Maybe you need to brush up on your history a little bit, "civilized" societies can and do go from their pinnacle to their worst in short time spans, shockingly short if there is a lot of pent-up tension. In some ways, I think it might be argued that civilized societies pretend they are free of humanity's worst aspects, when it's just denial or turning a blind eye.
On the contrary, there has never been so little violence in this world: http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_on_the_myth_of_violence.html
The internet is the single most important tool for global justice and peace.
Because people stay in their basements and don't go out killing each other.
Yeah? Link?
Maybe that coincided with the time when there were no free 3D drivers, and Red Hat forwarded the "Fuck You" from hardware vendors since they (a) hadn't the drivers developed yet and (b) had a principle problem with including proprietary drivers.
Then (in my opinion) Ubuntu et al not-so-strict distros included proprietory drivers, Linux became more present on the desktop, Hardware vendors noticed Linux. Open-source driver developers had more time and resources to continue and eventually brought forth free drivers.
What's your version?
To claim that Canonical is freeloading on other companies' contributions is a bit of myopic, in my opinion. How many upstream bug reports came from Ubuntu users?
Too many, we marked them as dup. But your point is invalid since Canonical != Ubuntu users and Canonical != Ubuntu maintainers. Latter are all in the volunteer camp. Red Hat users & maintainers are probably largely there too.
The way I see it Ubuntu is mainly a packager (distribution) and behaves like one. They mainly configure, build and distribute the existing software. Of course they provide patches for bugs they encounter, and they send it upstream to reduce their own work.
But Canonical doesn't have the means and will to truly commit developer resources to Linux (like Red Hat does). They want to achieve something with what is there*, and they are very good at communicating, community-building, reacting to users, connecting users and developers. That is Ubuntu's value.
Red Hat has some of this too, but for them it is business to engineer a Linux that works, because that is what they sell.
*Greg Kroah Hartman complained Ubuntu doesn't give patches upstream.
If you look at the maintainance map, you can see that Redhat is relavant in several areas, but most of it is volunteer. Canonical is not so relevant here (except for the default theme and the calculator -- lol).
Imagine your company was structured like that. Or that you'd have to sell this plan to your stakeholders. :) But it works!
Oh you wanted 'interrogation'? It is in 101a now, we switched recently. 101 is torture now.
The elders of the Internet would never stand for it.
... and then they built the supercollider.
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Your signature actually makes sense here.
This article is nothing more than sensationalist and stupid.
And the 10 ways of "deflecting an asteroid" are a collection of how not to do it*. The real solutions are to either slow it down or accelerate it, and let it miss Earth before or after it is crossing Earths way. That can be done for example by attaching a rocket to it.
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* Except for painting
Breaking it apart with a nuke: Hard to do, creates more asteroids.
Attaching a net/sail: Hard to do, asteroids are not static objects
Mirrors/Lasers pointing at it: You need to shoot them up and aim correctly (which is already hard with our telescopes)
Gravity: Yeah, maybe, but also hard to navigate something there
And if there is no FF extension then the required functionality is probably impossible to do browser-side.
...
That's all that I can think of at the moment, there may be more ways to follow a user. But I don't see much that can be done on the browser-side to stop more tracking.
You missed the point. The summary is suggesting a server-side solution, i.e. signaling the website to bugger off.
Throwing advertising magazines into the trash is not a method of opting out.
This is about telling the publisher that you are not interested in such material. Disabling/deleting {images, cookies, history} is not the same thing.
TFS suggests signaling the publisher and requiring the publisher to react based on it.
One technical method of implementing this would be an additional HTTP-Request Header, like Accept-Language, or to reuse the now-abandoned Charge-To field.
Risky.Biz
... The Flash client makes queries which are hard-coded in the .swf (this is dumb as it means SQL Injection is effectively a 'feature' of the store).
Their webdesign company is called "Inject Design Ltd.". Go figure ...
You could easily alter the query string to show the hashes stored in the MySQL users table. I figured out the version of MySQL was 4.0 (Debian Sarge) - and the hashes in this version are very weak, cracking them would take less than a couple of hours.
I'm unsure what hashes he is talking about here. Password hashes? What was the weak hash algorithm?
By not only explaining how something should be done but also expressing the reasoning to why this method has been chosen
Yes - a truly excellent thing to do. They should do the same thing with laws - define the law as they currently do but also provide a justification for the law. That way the law can be challenged in the future when the justification no longer holds. In addition, no one will ever misinterpret the meaning of a law and use it for purposes for which it was not designed.
That is what already happens in some European countries. It is part of being a judge to interpret laws while taking the intention of the lawmaker into account. Laws have accompaning documents that detail these (and you can tell from history/press from that time).
Now back to format specifications - code makes for a very poor specification. While code can implement a specification, it generally does so in an unorganized fashion. Specifications should be clear - having no ambiguities or vagueness. Code is not so clear. And as the parent mentioned, generally does not communicate reasoning to the reader.
Mathematically based definitions are great - they are both clear and organized. Tools such as lex/flex/yacc/bison combine code with mathematical definitions to implement such specifications. The ideal format specification would include a mathematical definition along with reasoning explaining the design decisions.
In design theory there is the notion of explicit and implicit knowledge. Unless you are very reflective and a very experienced designer, you will not be able to make all your knowledge and your whole decision process explicit.
There is also a theorem in logic preventing you from writing the perfect universally understood specification.
unless wifi spots think internet access means web access
It looks like they focused on only measuring certain atmospheric things, but this proves nothing as far as extrasolar planets go.
Free oxygen on any planet tells you that something is making oxygen. In our case it is the plants which we treat so badly: turning them into newspapers, etc.
The issue is burning down large areas of rain forest to get more short-term farmland, which uses up oxygen as well as permanently destroys the source for oxygen. The newspaper is not so relevant, since it is partially recycled and partially grown for the purpose.
there aren't enough hybrids to produce any meaningful change in the statistics yet.
There are statistical test for this -- whether the change is significant or not. I assume the authors of the study considered this (being scientists).
If you want to claim the opposite, you have to provide some evidence for your claim that it is not significant.
And what the average users takes away from that comparison:
"I don't have a widescreen, so I'll take windows."
The eye has a resolution of about 400 dpi on one meter distance*.
So the resolvable angle is (1 inch / 400) / (1 m) = 6.35E-5 rad
4K on 25 feet screens is 1.9 mm per pixel, or 13 dpi.
Means you need to put that screen as far as 30m away, otherwise you could theoretically see pixels.
With 8K, 15m. With your laptop, about 3m.
*Hint: don't print in a finer resolution.
Virtually any Bugzilla install has "love" bugs, e.g. Gnome Love, or bugs that are tagged in a similar way for new devs to dive in.
Lyx is not WYSIWYG but WYSIWYM. And for saving time, just look at how long it takes you to write a 1-page document (e.g. letter). Much faster with LyX, especially if you don't want to put up with LaTeX's weird error messages.
This is all very weird.
You and many others make the mistake that the damage is not limited to one individual that is killed or mentally/physically injured.
Torture also destroys cooperation with allies. US tortured in Iraq. Thousands of people are mentally and physically damaged. But many Iraqis that might have become allies and help the US build up the country were driven away. "Taxi to the Dark Side" is a good documentation about this.
Making friends is far more effective in getting information, and torture has been shown numerous times to be inefficient. To put it in Picards words, one wonders why it is still practiced. To put it in Sun Tzu's words, use the "land".
I will also never understand the phrase "XYZ has quietly {posted,announced}".
General relativity has some simple but expressive formulas.