If I understand it correctly, more than one exemption can be used in a single denial. It's entirely possible that more exemptions are being filed while at the same time a higher proportion of requests are being honored, with the rejected requests simply getting multiple exemptions where before they would only get one. Not saying this is the case, just that even with those numbers it's not possible to see the whole picture.
If you're going to point out that Europa is different from Antartica at least take the time to point out how it's different. Namely, the complex life in Antarctica evolved in different, more comfortable conditions. Complex life under hundreds of feet of ice on Earth says nothing about whether or not it's possible for life to begin or become complex in those conditions. It just says that once started, life is very adaptable.
Oh, and as a bonus, that credit card is hooked to my overdraft protection.
FYI, this could be a seriously bad idea. At minimum, I would double (and then triple) check what you are responsible for if that card is stolen and the thief hits your overdraft protection for a few grand before you realize what's happening. It's entirely possible that the theft protections on your credit card won't cover what's pulled out of savings to cover overdraft. At minimum, it's quite likely that they won't cover the fees associated with that service.
If the false positive rate is anything greater than zero his point is still valid. Let's say there's 1,000,000 violent crimes committed in the US each year, and the odds of you being flagged falsely are one in a billion, you're betting your freedom on a 1 in 100 chance that your name won't come up in some investigation in any given year. It's the birthday paradox writ large, it doesn't matter if there's a billion DNA fingerprints or 365 days, the odds of a collision across a significant number of samples is much higher than intuition would make it seem.
Granted, odds are pretty good that the police won't even question you depending on your location, so maybe you'd only be investigated if you were in the same area that the crime took place, so instead of 100 it's 5000. Maybe if being accused of certain crimes wasn't a punishment in and of itself (sexual assault of a child comes to mind) you might convince me that it's worth the risk. But the way the world works, a 1 in 50000 chance of being accused of something like that is quite simply unacceptably high.
Except, being convicted means that a court of law found you guilty. Being arrested means a cop didn't like you and wanted to arrest you. "Oh, yelling at a polic officer isn't disturbing the peace? Ok, you can go... but we're keeping your DNA and fingerprints on record, so you better watch yourself!"
Even if you still held clearance you still would be legally obligated not to read or download it. Just because you have Secret clearance doesn't mean you get to read anything that happens to have "Secret" stamped on it, you must to have a "need to know" the information to carry out the duties you got the clearance for.
After an hour? No. After 12 hours a day, 5 days a week? Yes. If I've been sitting in front of a computer screen for several hours and close my eyes I can feel the muscles unwinding. It's not something I'm conciously away of until I look away from the screen, but the muscles of and around my eyes are constantly tense when reading off a monitor.
As for the refresh rate of e-ink, for me it is almost exactly equal to the time it takes my eyes to travel from the bottom to the top of the page. The only time I notice it is if I need to go back/forward several pages, then the slow refresh is frustrating since you have to wait for a page to display before you can move to the next one.
I guess I haven't played Mass Effect, I thought he was ripping off Alistair Reynold's Revelation Space series. But then, I thought that Alistair Reynolds was ripping off Jayge Carr's short story Lungfish. And I'm sure that Mr. Carr was just as guilty of ripping someone elses (Von Neumann's?) ideas as well. Just goes to show, there's very few new ideas to be had.
It is in their hands. You can't tell me that Google's employees in China aren't thinking about it. Weighing the risk and cost on one side, against the ethical responsibility, money, and prestige of working for Google on the other. Normally, I don't agree with the sentimate "If you don't like it then don't work for them" because I see it as short sighted and somewhat cruel. In this situation... I garauntee you anyone working at the Google offices in China could find another position in a matter of weeks. If these people are staying there it is because they believe in what they are doing enough to accept the risks, kudos to them I say.
Oh God No! The government might get such vital information as your home address. Unless the speed test is uploading a copy of everything on your computer, you give the government much more information every year just filling out your taxes.
Should be easy enough, just build a universe destroying device that sets itself off unless what you want to happen happens. The hard part is making the probability of the device failing be less than the probability of whatever you want to happen randomly happening. Unfortunatly, considering that you teleporting to Mars is unlikely to happen over the course of several million universe lifetimes, that would have to be a pretty foolproof device.
Repeat after me: "You do not need excercise to lose weight". Calories in Calories out. Being bedridden might reduce calories out to 1200 or so, but you can always eat less. It might not be enjoyable, but if the choice is being hungry every day for 6 months or being bedridden for the rest of my life, I for one would rather be hungry.
You didn't really undestand the summary. Prison's in Spain are for those who are a physical danger to society. Conning someone out of their money wouldn't land you in jail either, nor would pickpocketing or unnarmed theft. They are non-violent offenders, and there are certainly punishments for those kinds of offenders, it's just that they don't generally involve prison time.
And how does making emails plain text prevent that?
Dear Sir/Madam,
Due to changes in our routing technology, we require you to install the update found at www.example.com in order to continue accessing our services, thank you very much for your cooperation
Did you even RTFS? The emails contain instructions for things that the attackers want the admins to do. It's called social engineering, and it's not a computer glitch, it's a critical thinking glitch.
Because Google isn't using their monopoly to limit customer choice! Have we really forgotten what the purpose of anti-trust laws are!? Having the majority of the market share is not against anti-trust laws. Using that market share to stiffle competition is. Using your market share to improve your project is not stifling the competition.
I'm sure someone will say it more seriously than you are, so let me just point out right away, the structures that the scientists are describing are fleeting, lasting for billionths of a second before breaking down and reforming with different water molecules. In short, even if the structure of these bonds could effect the body (and that's a big if), you'd have to deliver the water to the problem area within a billionth of a second for it to do anything.
I actually preferred a touch point to a mouse for productivity tasks when I a laptop that had one. Not having to take your fingers off the keys is a nice feature and with a little bit of practice can be nearly as fast as using a mouse. It's remarkably hard to find a low cost laptop with a touch point though, most people just don't like them.
One year ago - Slashdotters complaining about Flash on websites. Now - Slashdotters complaining that Apple doesn't support Flash on products they'll never buy.
All this confusion! Which side do I root for? Apple or Flash? It's enough to make my head explode!
Not really that confusing. I would rather sites not use flash and move to better, newer, more open technologies. Unfortunatly, I don't have a whole lot of control over what sites do and a number of video and game sites that I enjoy happen to rely on flash. Just because I'd rather not have sites using it doesn't mean I don't want support for it for the sites that don't listen to me.
The iPhone offered new things in a phone, things the average consumer didn't realize were possible. The iPad offers... what? I just don't see it. The only significant difference between the iPad and an iTouch is the screen size. Yes, that will give developers more that they can do, but only up to a certain point, especially if all apps are suposed to be compatible with the iPhone. It can't even be used as a proper web browsing machine given that amount of sites that are to a greater or lesser extent powered by flash.
How about a declaration that within a decade we'll have a space infrastructure that can actually support multiple goals at once, including LEO tourism, NEO mining, a Mars and Moon landing, and deep space exploration. Not saying NASA shouldn't be doing pure science, but I feel we're to the point now where the infrastructure is more important, at least if we ever want space exploration and exploitation to become commonplace.
Of course, that is essentially what the White House's new innitiative is saying, they just haven't thrown enough money at it to make it happen.
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If I understand it correctly, more than one exemption can be used in a single denial. It's entirely possible that more exemptions are being filed while at the same time a higher proportion of requests are being honored, with the rejected requests simply getting multiple exemptions where before they would only get one. Not saying this is the case, just that even with those numbers it's not possible to see the whole picture.
Three words, Guillermo del Toro
If you're going to point out that Europa is different from Antartica at least take the time to point out how it's different. Namely, the complex life in Antarctica evolved in different, more comfortable conditions. Complex life under hundreds of feet of ice on Earth says nothing about whether or not it's possible for life to begin or become complex in those conditions. It just says that once started, life is very adaptable.
Oh, and as a bonus, that credit card is hooked to my overdraft protection.
FYI, this could be a seriously bad idea. At minimum, I would double (and then triple) check what you are responsible for if that card is stolen and the thief hits your overdraft protection for a few grand before you realize what's happening. It's entirely possible that the theft protections on your credit card won't cover what's pulled out of savings to cover overdraft. At minimum, it's quite likely that they won't cover the fees associated with that service.
If the false positive rate is anything greater than zero his point is still valid. Let's say there's 1,000,000 violent crimes committed in the US each year, and the odds of you being flagged falsely are one in a billion, you're betting your freedom on a 1 in 100 chance that your name won't come up in some investigation in any given year. It's the birthday paradox writ large, it doesn't matter if there's a billion DNA fingerprints or 365 days, the odds of a collision across a significant number of samples is much higher than intuition would make it seem.
Granted, odds are pretty good that the police won't even question you depending on your location, so maybe you'd only be investigated if you were in the same area that the crime took place, so instead of 100 it's 5000. Maybe if being accused of certain crimes wasn't a punishment in and of itself (sexual assault of a child comes to mind) you might convince me that it's worth the risk. But the way the world works, a 1 in 50000 chance of being accused of something like that is quite simply unacceptably high.
Except, being convicted means that a court of law found you guilty. Being arrested means a cop didn't like you and wanted to arrest you. "Oh, yelling at a polic officer isn't disturbing the peace? Ok, you can go... but we're keeping your DNA and fingerprints on record, so you better watch yourself!"
Even if you still held clearance you still would be legally obligated not to read or download it. Just because you have Secret clearance doesn't mean you get to read anything that happens to have "Secret" stamped on it, you must to have a "need to know" the information to carry out the duties you got the clearance for.
After an hour? No. After 12 hours a day, 5 days a week? Yes. If I've been sitting in front of a computer screen for several hours and close my eyes I can feel the muscles unwinding. It's not something I'm conciously away of until I look away from the screen, but the muscles of and around my eyes are constantly tense when reading off a monitor.
As for the refresh rate of e-ink, for me it is almost exactly equal to the time it takes my eyes to travel from the bottom to the top of the page. The only time I notice it is if I need to go back/forward several pages, then the slow refresh is frustrating since you have to wait for a page to display before you can move to the next one.
I guess I haven't played Mass Effect, I thought he was ripping off Alistair Reynold's Revelation Space series. But then, I thought that Alistair Reynolds was ripping off Jayge Carr's short story Lungfish. And I'm sure that Mr. Carr was just as guilty of ripping someone elses (Von Neumann's?) ideas as well. Just goes to show, there's very few new ideas to be had.
It is in their hands. You can't tell me that Google's employees in China aren't thinking about it. Weighing the risk and cost on one side, against the ethical responsibility, money, and prestige of working for Google on the other. Normally, I don't agree with the sentimate "If you don't like it then don't work for them" because I see it as short sighted and somewhat cruel. In this situation... I garauntee you anyone working at the Google offices in China could find another position in a matter of weeks. If these people are staying there it is because they believe in what they are doing enough to accept the risks, kudos to them I say.
Oh God No! The government might get such vital information as your home address. Unless the speed test is uploading a copy of everything on your computer, you give the government much more information every year just filling out your taxes.
LED wireless signals would theoretically have none of these downsides.
Nope, instead it'll have a whole range of different ones, such as requiring line of site.
Should be easy enough, just build a universe destroying device that sets itself off unless what you want to happen happens. The hard part is making the probability of the device failing be less than the probability of whatever you want to happen randomly happening. Unfortunatly, considering that you teleporting to Mars is unlikely to happen over the course of several million universe lifetimes, that would have to be a pretty foolproof device.
Repeat after me: "You do not need excercise to lose weight". Calories in Calories out. Being bedridden might reduce calories out to 1200 or so, but you can always eat less. It might not be enjoyable, but if the choice is being hungry every day for 6 months or being bedridden for the rest of my life, I for one would rather be hungry.
You didn't really undestand the summary. Prison's in Spain are for those who are a physical danger to society. Conning someone out of their money wouldn't land you in jail either, nor would pickpocketing or unnarmed theft. They are non-violent offenders, and there are certainly punishments for those kinds of offenders, it's just that they don't generally involve prison time.
It looks like the key is printed out in Hex at the bottom as well as the QR barcode.
I suspect that you give the GGP too much credit.
And how does making emails plain text prevent that?
Dear Sir/Madam,
Due to changes in our routing technology, we require you to install the update found at www.example.com in order to continue accessing our services, thank you very much for your cooperation
Your ISP Admin Team
Did you even RTFS? The emails contain instructions for things that the attackers want the admins to do. It's called social engineering, and it's not a computer glitch, it's a critical thinking glitch.
Because Google isn't using their monopoly to limit customer choice! Have we really forgotten what the purpose of anti-trust laws are!? Having the majority of the market share is not against anti-trust laws. Using that market share to stiffle competition is. Using your market share to improve your project is not stifling the competition.
I'm sure someone will say it more seriously than you are, so let me just point out right away, the structures that the scientists are describing are fleeting, lasting for billionths of a second before breaking down and reforming with different water molecules. In short, even if the structure of these bonds could effect the body (and that's a big if), you'd have to deliver the water to the problem area within a billionth of a second for it to do anything.
I actually preferred a touch point to a mouse for productivity tasks when I a laptop that had one. Not having to take your fingers off the keys is a nice feature and with a little bit of practice can be nearly as fast as using a mouse. It's remarkably hard to find a low cost laptop with a touch point though, most people just don't like them.
One year ago - Slashdotters complaining about Flash on websites.
Now - Slashdotters complaining that Apple doesn't support Flash on products they'll never buy.
All this confusion! Which side do I root for? Apple or Flash? It's enough to make my head explode!
Not really that confusing. I would rather sites not use flash and move to better, newer, more open technologies. Unfortunatly, I don't have a whole lot of control over what sites do and a number of video and game sites that I enjoy happen to rely on flash. Just because I'd rather not have sites using it doesn't mean I don't want support for it for the sites that don't listen to me.
The iPhone offered new things in a phone, things the average consumer didn't realize were possible. The iPad offers... what? I just don't see it. The only significant difference between the iPad and an iTouch is the screen size. Yes, that will give developers more that they can do, but only up to a certain point, especially if all apps are suposed to be compatible with the iPhone. It can't even be used as a proper web browsing machine given that amount of sites that are to a greater or lesser extent powered by flash.
How about a declaration that within a decade we'll have a space infrastructure that can actually support multiple goals at once, including LEO tourism, NEO mining, a Mars and Moon landing, and deep space exploration. Not saying NASA shouldn't be doing pure science, but I feel we're to the point now where the infrastructure is more important, at least if we ever want space exploration and exploitation to become commonplace.
Of course, that is essentially what the White House's new innitiative is saying, they just haven't thrown enough money at it to make it happen.