There is a lot of debate here over Auemheimer's character and his true intent. I'm not sure why any of that matters - can we really consider a carelessly designed api a "security exploit?" All he did was increment a number in a url, if I understand this correctly. I don't really care if he sold the information to gawker or if he is a crazy person - changing a url is not "hacking" in any sense. If anyone should be prosecuted here, it's AT&T for being grossly negligent with their customers' private data. The data was openly exposed to the internet - all Auemheimer did was demonstrate how to manipulate the url to get it.
But what about more advanced life? Could we find tell-tale signs that a planetary system had been modified or terraformed in order to make it more habitable for intelligent alien species? For instance, when humans colonize Mars, we will need to raise global planetary temperatures significantly in order to live on the surface without suits.
This seems a lot more interesting to me. As another poster mentioned, would cfc use constitute enough of a civilization's existence to make it a viable means of detecting them? But looking for a planet that is warm enough to have liquid water and is outside the goldilocks zone of its solar system seems like an interesting idea.
I doubt this will be the end of the enthusiast PC market.
But it does sound like a good opportunity to start a business that sells user-customized soldered motherboard/cpu combos.
Am I the only one who can't wait to give Win8 a shot just to see what all the screaming is about? I haven't touched the interface at all and only know what I've seen in pictures, but usually something as polarizing as metro ends up being awesome in the long run or it gets completely ditched. I'm excited to decide which one I think it is....
Looking at a magazine is outside your little closed world that you carry in your pocket. That said, I rarely see a magazine on those racks that I want to browse. But sometimes I do and read something new to me.
Why is reading a crappy magazine in the doctor's office more productive than using your smartphone? I hate when people spew opinions like this without showing at least ONE piece of data/evidence that using a smartphone is more harmful than the alternative (the other things we do when we're bored).
And didn't people make the same arguments about television? And then, later, about videogames?
If the orbit comes close enough to the black hole, and if the protoplanetary disc is large enough, tidal effects will destroy the protoplanetary disc.
Question is: why hasn't this destruction happened at the previous closest pass of the black hole?
From TFA:
"The star was likely formed in the stellar ring and later thrown into its highly eccentric orbit though a close encounter with one or more stars in the ring. The stars exchanged momentum and the red dwarf was tossed onto a new, deadly trajectory. "
So, even though they're calling it an "orbit," it was likely not on this trajectory before and this is the first time it's getting close enough to the black hole for the disc to be affected. Also, the disc is already being destroyed:
"But the damage is already happening. The protoplanetary disk is disintegrating under the black hole's tidal pull -- stretching the disk like taffy. Add to that a withering blast of ultraviolet radiation from the black hole that is heating and driving off material in the disk."
I realize you're probably saying this as a joke, but I can face-unlock all of my brother's android devices and we don't like particularly similar as far as brothers go...
PS I probably should have said "the current administration's" VERSION of net neutrality. I don't want anyone to think my comment meant I'm anti-net neutrality, just that I think the net neutrality policy in place isn't even worthy of that name.
Romney cannot spell out what HE would do but he can blame Obama for doing what Obama has done.
Is this your first election?
I'm not trying to be a smart-a$$, just pointing out that this is almost always the strategy when going up against the incumbent. It's much safer to try and make the incumbent look bad than to try and convince others that his own policies are any better.
I took it as him calling Obama's version of net neutrality a "solution looking for a problem," not net neutrality in general. Am I wrong here? I could have mis-interpreted it.
Unfortunately, it is hard to find anything controversial or interesting in these answers, which is to be expected when political teams are given time to craft PC responses to questions like these. Everything here is what you would expect - Obama answers the questions by talking up his policies of the past 4 years and Mitt answers the questions by attacking Obama's policies of the past 4 years. I would much rather see these questions posed in a debate, where the candidates have less time and less help in coming up with responses.
I agree with you.
However, the Democrats' "view" of the issue does not match their policies. I'm no Mitt fan, but he is right on when he attacks the current administration/FCC's net neutrality policy.
I don't know why every company who sells serious development/production software doesn't give away "developer versions" of their software which can legally be used for home-use only. No one is going to pay a boatload for software that isn't going to make them money and any serious business whose employees use the software will be willing to pay for a legitimate license.
*cough*adobe*cough*
You SHOULD be right, but there's a bigger problem in this country. The guy with the political motive is supposed to keep the guy with the profit motive from screwing his constituents over - that's why we vote for that politician. But right now, the guy with the political motive and the guy with the profit motive are best friends.
Absolutely. I've been programming javascript for a long time and I still confuse myself with its variable scoping.
I think part of the problem is that most web developers have never been formally trained in javascript. Most likely they were formally trained in OOP languages like C++. And if you try to apply the rules of those languages to javascript, you have just enough knowledge to dig yourself a gigantic hole.
That's pretty short-sighted. Most programmers, even computer engineers and CS types, learn good programming practices after they have entered industry. School gives you a solid base to start from, but you need real-world experience to really sharpen your skills.
At some point, YOU were that guy making common mistakes. You learned from those mistakes and became a good programmer because your boss didn't fire you the first time you nested your classes a little too deeply.
You did not read the posts at all. I DON'T want anyone to pay for Me to get to work. That was the whole point of my post. Also, I don't live in a large city and my place of work is in the middle of nowhere. I live in the largest city near my work. Please read before you post.
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There is a lot of debate here over Auemheimer's character and his true intent. I'm not sure why any of that matters - can we really consider a carelessly designed api a "security exploit?" All he did was increment a number in a url, if I understand this correctly. I don't really care if he sold the information to gawker or if he is a crazy person - changing a url is not "hacking" in any sense. If anyone should be prosecuted here, it's AT&T for being grossly negligent with their customers' private data. The data was openly exposed to the internet - all Auemheimer did was demonstrate how to manipulate the url to get it.
But what about more advanced life? Could we find tell-tale signs that a planetary system had been modified or terraformed in order to make it more habitable for intelligent alien species? For instance, when humans colonize Mars, we will need to raise global planetary temperatures significantly in order to live on the surface without suits.
This seems a lot more interesting to me. As another poster mentioned, would cfc use constitute enough of a civilization's existence to make it a viable means of detecting them? But looking for a planet that is warm enough to have liquid water and is outside the goldilocks zone of its solar system seems like an interesting idea.
I doubt this will be the end of the enthusiast PC market. But it does sound like a good opportunity to start a business that sells user-customized soldered motherboard/cpu combos.
Have you used a motorola phone? If the next nexus is a moto, the other OEMs might get a sales boost...
Now explain why I would even *want* to use phone apps on my desktop?
Because most people have already purchased huge numbers of apps and, if they can get use out of them on another platform, why not?
Am I the only one who can't wait to give Win8 a shot just to see what all the screaming is about? I haven't touched the interface at all and only know what I've seen in pictures, but usually something as polarizing as metro ends up being awesome in the long run or it gets completely ditched. I'm excited to decide which one I think it is....
Looking at a magazine is outside your little closed world that you carry in your pocket. That said, I rarely see a magazine on those racks that I want to browse. But sometimes I do and read something new to me.
The internet is a "little closed world?"
Why is reading a crappy magazine in the doctor's office more productive than using your smartphone? I hate when people spew opinions like this without showing at least ONE piece of data/evidence that using a smartphone is more harmful than the alternative (the other things we do when we're bored).
And didn't people make the same arguments about television? And then, later, about videogames?
If the orbit comes close enough to the black hole, and if the protoplanetary disc is large enough, tidal effects will destroy the protoplanetary disc.
Question is: why hasn't this destruction happened at the previous closest pass of the black hole?
From TFA:
"The star was likely formed in the stellar ring and later thrown into its highly eccentric orbit though a close encounter with one or more stars in the ring. The stars exchanged momentum and the red dwarf was tossed onto a new, deadly trajectory. "
So, even though they're calling it an "orbit," it was likely not on this trajectory before and this is the first time it's getting close enough to the black hole for the disc to be affected. Also, the disc is already being destroyed: "But the damage is already happening. The protoplanetary disk is disintegrating under the black hole's tidal pull -- stretching the disk like taffy. Add to that a withering blast of ultraviolet radiation from the black hole that is heating and driving off material in the disk."
Who cares if it charges a little faster than the previous Tesla? It doesn't even have NFC.
Hopefully they remember to upgrade my area to 3G first... Paying the same price for everyone else for edge speeds is getting old.
I realize you're probably saying this as a joke, but I can face-unlock all of my brother's android devices and we don't like particularly similar as far as brothers go...
PS I probably should have said "the current administration's" VERSION of net neutrality. I don't want anyone to think my comment meant I'm anti-net neutrality, just that I think the net neutrality policy in place isn't even worthy of that name.
Romney cannot spell out what HE would do but he can blame Obama for doing what Obama has done.
Is this your first election? I'm not trying to be a smart-a$$, just pointing out that this is almost always the strategy when going up against the incumbent. It's much safer to try and make the incumbent look bad than to try and convince others that his own policies are any better.
I took it as him calling Obama's version of net neutrality a "solution looking for a problem," not net neutrality in general. Am I wrong here? I could have mis-interpreted it.
Unfortunately, it is hard to find anything controversial or interesting in these answers, which is to be expected when political teams are given time to craft PC responses to questions like these. Everything here is what you would expect - Obama answers the questions by talking up his policies of the past 4 years and Mitt answers the questions by attacking Obama's policies of the past 4 years. I would much rather see these questions posed in a debate, where the candidates have less time and less help in coming up with responses.
I agree with you. However, the Democrats' "view" of the issue does not match their policies. I'm no Mitt fan, but he is right on when he attacks the current administration/FCC's net neutrality policy.
They chose to do it because it works and it's profitable. Direct your ire at the patent and court systems.
I don't know why every company who sells serious development/production software doesn't give away "developer versions" of their software which can legally be used for home-use only. No one is going to pay a boatload for software that isn't going to make them money and any serious business whose employees use the software will be willing to pay for a legitimate license. *cough*adobe*cough*
Yeah...it really is that simple. Which is why it's ridiculous that the FCC is screwing it up.
You SHOULD be right, but there's a bigger problem in this country. The guy with the political motive is supposed to keep the guy with the profit motive from screwing his constituents over - that's why we vote for that politician. But right now, the guy with the political motive and the guy with the profit motive are best friends.
"Variable scoping -- in javascript especially!"
Absolutely. I've been programming javascript for a long time and I still confuse myself with its variable scoping.
I think part of the problem is that most web developers have never been formally trained in javascript. Most likely they were formally trained in OOP languages like C++. And if you try to apply the rules of those languages to javascript, you have just enough knowledge to dig yourself a gigantic hole.
That's pretty short-sighted. Most programmers, even computer engineers and CS types, learn good programming practices after they have entered industry. School gives you a solid base to start from, but you need real-world experience to really sharpen your skills.
At some point, YOU were that guy making common mistakes. You learned from those mistakes and became a good programmer because your boss didn't fire you the first time you nested your classes a little too deeply.
You did not read the posts at all. I DON'T want anyone to pay for Me to get to work. That was the whole point of my post. Also, I don't live in a large city and my place of work is in the middle of nowhere. I live in the largest city near my work. Please read before you post.
I have met people who do the following things while driving long distances:
-Nalance their checkbook
-Read the newspaper
-Read novels
Sometimes people are just going to choose to do stupid and dangerous things. We can't possibly try and prevent every single one by making it a law.