I don't think that "instance" means infected machine here. I would say likely it would be some sort of control node of the botnet. If you have many control nodes, it is much harder to take control of the botnet as a whole.
In Australia, we call it Tall Poppy Syndrome where someone that is doing outstanding work is seen as a threat, a target and something to be cut back down to size. Though in this case, I would say that there is a hint of Schadenfreude thrown into the mix as well.
There are many theoretical reasons to expect that education reduces crime. By raising earnings, education raises the opportunity cost of crime and the cost of time spent in prison. Education may also make individuals less impatient or more risk averse, further reducing the propensity to commit crimes. To empirically explore the importance of the relationship between schooling and criminal participation, this paper uses three data sources: individual-level data from the Census on incarceration, state-level data on arrests from the Uniform Crime Reports, and self-report data on crime and incarceration from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth.
All three of these data sources produce similar conclusions: schooling significantly reduces crim- inal activity. This finding is robust to different identification strategies and measures of criminal activity. The estimated effect of schooling on imprisonment is consistent with its estimated effect on both arrests and self-reported crime. Both OLS and IV estimates produce similar conclusions about the quantitative impact of schooling on incarceration and arrest. The estimated impacts on incarceration and self-reports are unchanged even when rich measures of individual ability and family background are controlled for using NLSY data. Finally, we draw similar conclusions us- ing aggregated state-level UCR data as we do using individual-level data on incarceration and self-reported crime in the Census or NLSY.
Given the consistency of our findings, we conclude that the estimated effects of education on crime cannot be easily explained away by unobserved characteristics of criminals, unobserved state policies that affect both crime and schooling, or educational differences in the conditional probability of arrest and imprisonment given crime. Evidence from other studies regarding the elasticity of crime with respect to wage rates suggests that a significant part of the measured effect of education on crime can be attributed to the increase in wages associated with schooling. We further argue that the impact of education on crime implies that there are benefits to education not taken into account by individuals themselves, so the social return to schooling is larger than the private return. The estimated social externalities from reduced crime are sizeable. A 1% increase in the high school completion rate of all men ages 20-60 would save the United States as much as $1.4 billion per year in reduced costs from crime incurred by victims and society at large. Such externalities from education amount to $1,170-2,100 per additional high school graduate or 14-26% of the private return to schooling. It is diffcult to imagine a better reason to develop policies that prevent high school drop out.
I hear this statistic a lot as some kind of indictment of our education system, but if you think about it, it makes sense.
Wow, that train of thought has completely blown me away. I am not even sure on where to start replying to you.
If you spend more on education, not just tertiary, but primary and secondary, it will nurture youth to have higher aspirations, it will teach them more. If you have someone leaving secondary school with a good understanding of basic subjects (math, English, at least one science and computers) as well as a rounded splash of some elective subjects such as history, economics, art, music, religion they are much more likely to either look for further education on their own (even if they have to pay as much for it as in the US) and move on to being a productive member of society rather than ending up in prison.
That's not to say that everyone with a good education will never do anything illegal or end up in jail, but the number of people in prison with a poor education should stand out above anything else that to keep people out of prison, give them an education. Give them the ability to actually join society as a peer rather than as the bottom of the ladder cleaning the bathrooms or working as a parking attendant.
This concept of paying more earlier also has the advantage saving more money in the long run. If you don't need to pay for putting someone in prison AND have the benefit of that person contributing to the society they live in, it clearly is a win-win scenario.
Taking something that isn't yours is stealing, even if the owner makes it easy.
This is gambling however. It's like playing a game of poker where you aren't supposed to see the cards, but one player is showing them to you. It is HIS/HER fault. Using the knowledge of that players cards in your betting and game is fine-and-dandy with me. Each player should be covering his cards.
This is a slot machine, it is a perfectly legal profit center for casinos and gaming establishments to strip money away from the poor, addicted, weak-minded and the like. This isn't a case where a chap sneaks into a software design company, steals the code for a slot machine and sells it to another developer. This is out and out poor coding that has bitten someone in the ass and they are suing the guy who noticed it. If I was semi-omnipotent (whereby had the power to change who got fined, but not whether they got fined) I would be slugging any fine directly to the company who coded this rubbish in the first place.
And seeing as I am in a somewhat antagonistic mood, please enlighten me on how enticing dim-witted souls into thinking that they have a real chance of winning money, as compared to in reality siphoning off their meager funds isn't stealing. Casinos are nothing short of a way for someone to profit off the addictions, simple-wits and guilability of those beneath them - and this is said from someone who has made a good deal of money from playing poker - the real kind, against other players, not the poker-machine type. If you ask me, they should be totally and utterly, without the slightest hesitation, liable for any mistakes on their part, any badly written gaming machines, or any-and-all dumb-shittery, mental-fuck-up-edness or downright incompetence on their part.
What you see is what you get.. no wait... what you see is what takes your money... No, hang on, let me word this... What you see should take your money... and if it doesn't then you can be hit with all sorts of charges... Hmmm, that doesn't sound as good as my original line...
Yes, but apparently if you profit off a glitch, it is your fault and yu are a bad person however if you simply write a buggy poker machine slot machine game thingy, you are just A-Okay.
To me, this is exactly like charging a person who uses a buggy phone that gives them free calls every other call with fraud. They bought the phone as is, made no changes to it and they are being charged. These guys didn't change the code in the poker machine, they just knew what buttons to press after putting money in. If anything, they should be celebrated as the folks that beat the gaming industry.
Indeed, I thought this was going to be the perfect thing for say two friends to use as a backup method between each other - not so much a randon anyone on the internets has the backup... If it does pick users off the internet, I am less interested in it - I thought the concept of peer to peer based backup (but selecting your peers) was brilliant.
Sneaking past metal detectors huh? I sure can't wait for cartridges that have plastic bullets and casings, and have propellant that bomb detecting machines don't notice.
Until then, your 9/11 doomsday scenario isn't likely to happen. Hell, it isn't likely to begin with.
Again, I agree with your comment - but at the same time, imagine if three years ago, someone told you that in three years time, a chap could use a 3D printer to print an entire gun (ok, in this case short a firing pin) from plastic and that it would actually work. Yes, right now, it might be rather hard to imagine how on earth we might be able to have rounds that don't contain metal - but hey, there is nothing but time working against us here is there?
It's actually not a crime to print a gun (or otherwise manufacture one for personal use), which is why this guy did so openly and was not arrested.
You are totally correct, however, I dare say that given how much of a game-changer this is in terms of policing weapons, and how politicians hate being caught with their pants down without a law that has already been passed, your statement will be out-dated in 3... 2.... There...
Not only the US, I recall a case that made the media a while back in Australia where a famous photographer landed in semi-hot water when a nude photo was in a gallery and causes a cuffuffle as the person in the photo was under the age of 18. I don't recall if anything further happened short of a Streissand and got the artist a whole heap of publicity, but I was pretty sure that the art community backed them and common sense prevailed.
I don't want to start searching for it here at work though, not sure that the links would come up safe as I don't recall the artists name - and other search terms might bring back something less than savoury.
I don't mind folks trying to make a game more immersive, but I think that these guys missed a boat that sailed a good few years back. I think the next major step in immersive gameplay will be a 3D headset coupled with whatever that funny 360 degree slippery treadmill thingy that was on the site a few days ago. That made me a heck of a lot more interested than having a crappy projector sitting in the same area as me.
The gravity of the body at the center is pulling the object in, the velocity vector is pushing the orbiting body out, but as they are equally matched the net result is a nice perfect circular orbit (not accounting for the fact that true circular orbits probably only occur in theory and also avoiding all those horrible to write as formulas elliptical orbits). Isn't that the same thing?
Or is the first law simply saying that a body with movement will continue to keep moving as long as nothing interacts with it? If there are two opposite but equal forces being applied with a new force of zero, would that not be allowed to be the same thing? And I ain't starting a fight here lol, I was exceptional at physics in early school, but loathed it as it seemed immensely boring, so I went down the chemistry path - and now regret it. As fun as it is knowing a bunch of Chem stuff, I would much prefer to have learned all the formulas I am now trying to replicate in programming LOL.
Yeah, I think my brain just simply refused to comprehend that bit - and the article was exceptionally vague on the details - or perhaps my dumb kicked in and it just stopped making sense at that point. I figured I wouldn't repeat it here in case I was getting it wrong.
Slashdot Mirror
You might want to look into HipHop a bit. It's rather quite nice.
Also the fact that a behemoth like FB can run as it is written in PHP is more of a commentary on the value of your post.
I don't think that "instance" means infected machine here. I would say likely it would be some sort of control node of the botnet. If you have many control nodes, it is much harder to take control of the botnet as a whole.
Why was Ron Paul trying to use the force of government to coerce someone into doing something they were already going to do?
From the article (Really, sometimes reading it gives a whole new insight into a story):
The owners had offered to sell RonPaul.com to Paul but also offered to give him RonPaul.org as an alternative if Paul didn’t want to buy the .com.
In Australia, we call it Tall Poppy Syndrome where someone that is doing outstanding work is seen as a threat, a target and something to be cut back down to size. Though in this case, I would say that there is a hint of Schadenfreude thrown into the mix as well.
Basically, it's just sad and pathetic.
Maybe you could sing this song in your moment of glee, it's what came to mind when I read the summary...
On the farm, every Friday
On the farm, it's rabbit pie day.
So, every Friday that ever comes along,
I get up early and sing this little song
Run rabbit – run rabbit – Run! Run! Run!
Run rabbit – run rabbit – Run! Run! Run!
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Goes the farmer's gun.
Run, rabbit, run, rabbit, run.
Lyrics courtesy of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run_Rabbit_Run
Was a dingy rustic bar with Malcolm sitting talking to two twins and an ad appearing on TV for Fruity Oaty Bar...
Miranda...
From the LA times.
Serious editors, that link is even provided at the bottom of the crappy summary article you folks pointed to - and it is MUCH more in-depth.
In reply to yourself and the AC above you, let me provide a decent snip of the conclusion of a rather detailed study from Berkley:
Full PDF link
There are many theoretical reasons to expect that education reduces crime. By raising earnings, education raises the opportunity cost of crime and the cost of time spent in prison. Education may also make individuals less impatient or more risk averse, further reducing the propensity to commit crimes. To empirically explore the importance of the relationship between schooling and criminal participation, this paper uses three data sources: individual-level data from the Census on incarceration, state-level data on arrests from the Uniform Crime Reports, and self-report data on crime and incarceration from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth.
All three of these data sources produce similar conclusions: schooling significantly reduces crim- inal activity. This finding is robust to different identification strategies and measures of criminal activity. The estimated effect of schooling on imprisonment is consistent with its estimated effect on both arrests and self-reported crime. Both OLS and IV estimates produce similar conclusions about the quantitative impact of schooling on incarceration and arrest. The estimated impacts on incarceration and self-reports are unchanged even when rich measures of individual ability and family background are controlled for using NLSY data. Finally, we draw similar conclusions us- ing aggregated state-level UCR data as we do using individual-level data on incarceration and self-reported crime in the Census or NLSY.
Given the consistency of our findings, we conclude that the estimated effects of education on crime cannot be easily explained away by unobserved characteristics of criminals, unobserved state policies that affect both crime and schooling, or educational differences in the conditional probability of arrest and imprisonment given crime. Evidence from other studies regarding the elasticity of crime with respect to wage rates suggests that a significant part of the measured effect of education on crime can be attributed to the increase in wages associated with schooling. We further argue that the impact of education on crime implies that there are benefits to education not taken into account by individuals themselves, so the social return to schooling is larger than the private return. The estimated social externalities from reduced crime are sizeable. A 1% increase in the high school completion rate of all men ages 20-60 would save the United States as much as $1.4 billion per year in reduced costs from crime incurred by victims and society at large. Such externalities from education amount to $1,170-2,100 per additional high school graduate or 14-26% of the private return to schooling. It is diffcult to imagine a better reason to develop policies that prevent high school drop out.
Highlights are mine.
I hear this statistic a lot as some kind of indictment of our education system, but if you think about it, it makes sense.
Wow, that train of thought has completely blown me away. I am not even sure on where to start replying to you.
If you spend more on education, not just tertiary, but primary and secondary, it will nurture youth to have higher aspirations, it will teach them more. If you have someone leaving secondary school with a good understanding of basic subjects (math, English, at least one science and computers) as well as a rounded splash of some elective subjects such as history, economics, art, music, religion they are much more likely to either look for further education on their own (even if they have to pay as much for it as in the US) and move on to being a productive member of society rather than ending up in prison.
That's not to say that everyone with a good education will never do anything illegal or end up in jail, but the number of people in prison with a poor education should stand out above anything else that to keep people out of prison, give them an education. Give them the ability to actually join society as a peer rather than as the bottom of the ladder cleaning the bathrooms or working as a parking attendant.
This concept of paying more earlier also has the advantage saving more money in the long run. If you don't need to pay for putting someone in prison AND have the benefit of that person contributing to the society they live in, it clearly is a win-win scenario.
Boat anchor? How large do you think these drives are?
Have you considered he might have a really, really small boat?
Taking something that isn't yours is stealing, even if the owner makes it easy.
This is gambling however. It's like playing a game of poker where you aren't supposed to see the cards, but one player is showing them to you. It is HIS/HER fault. Using the knowledge of that players cards in your betting and game is fine-and-dandy with me. Each player should be covering his cards.
This is a slot machine, it is a perfectly legal profit center for casinos and gaming establishments to strip money away from the poor, addicted, weak-minded and the like. This isn't a case where a chap sneaks into a software design company, steals the code for a slot machine and sells it to another developer. This is out and out poor coding that has bitten someone in the ass and they are suing the guy who noticed it. If I was semi-omnipotent (whereby had the power to change who got fined, but not whether they got fined) I would be slugging any fine directly to the company who coded this rubbish in the first place.
And seeing as I am in a somewhat antagonistic mood, please enlighten me on how enticing dim-witted souls into thinking that they have a real chance of winning money, as compared to in reality siphoning off their meager funds isn't stealing. Casinos are nothing short of a way for someone to profit off the addictions, simple-wits and guilability of those beneath them - and this is said from someone who has made a good deal of money from playing poker - the real kind, against other players, not the poker-machine type. If you ask me, they should be totally and utterly, without the slightest hesitation, liable for any mistakes on their part, any badly written gaming machines, or any-and-all dumb-shittery, mental-fuck-up-edness or downright incompetence on their part.
There is no EULA on a poker machine.
What you see is what you get.. no wait... what you see is what takes your money... No, hang on, let me word this... What you see should take your money... and if it doesn't then you can be hit with all sorts of charges... Hmmm, that doesn't sound as good as my original line...
Yes, but apparently if you profit off a glitch, it is your fault and yu are a bad person however if you simply write a buggy poker machine slot machine game thingy, you are just A-Okay.
To me, this is exactly like charging a person who uses a buggy phone that gives them free calls every other call with fraud. They bought the phone as is, made no changes to it and they are being charged. These guys didn't change the code in the poker machine, they just knew what buttons to press after putting money in. If anything, they should be celebrated as the folks that beat the gaming industry.
Indeed, I thought this was going to be the perfect thing for say two friends to use as a backup method between each other - not so much a randon anyone on the internets has the backup... If it does pick users off the internet, I am less interested in it - I thought the concept of peer to peer based backup (but selecting your peers) was brilliant.
Sneaking past metal detectors huh? I sure can't wait for cartridges that have plastic bullets and casings, and have propellant that bomb detecting machines don't notice.
Until then, your 9/11 doomsday scenario isn't likely to happen. Hell, it isn't likely to begin with.
Again, I agree with your comment - but at the same time, imagine if three years ago, someone told you that in three years time, a chap could use a 3D printer to print an entire gun (ok, in this case short a firing pin) from plastic and that it would actually work. Yes, right now, it might be rather hard to imagine how on earth we might be able to have rounds that don't contain metal - but hey, there is nothing but time working against us here is there?
It's actually not a crime to print a gun (or otherwise manufacture one for personal use), which is why this guy did so openly and was not arrested.
You are totally correct, however, I dare say that given how much of a game-changer this is in terms of policing weapons, and how politicians hate being caught with their pants down without a law that has already been passed, your statement will be out-dated in 3... 2.... There...
Not only the US, I recall a case that made the media a while back in Australia where a famous photographer landed in semi-hot water when a nude photo was in a gallery and causes a cuffuffle as the person in the photo was under the age of 18. I don't recall if anything further happened short of a Streissand and got the artist a whole heap of publicity, but I was pretty sure that the art community backed them and common sense prevailed.
I don't want to start searching for it here at work though, not sure that the links would come up safe as I don't recall the artists name - and other search terms might bring back something less than savoury.
I always thought that expression in art was pretty much anything goes? That art was for the most part above general censorship no matter what?
Doesn't poetry, song and the like get expempted from the likes of this?
Mach 5.1...
Was that a Whooosh as it went over my head or just a bang as the compressed sound finally caught up?
I don't mind folks trying to make a game more immersive, but I think that these guys missed a boat that sailed a good few years back. I think the next major step in immersive gameplay will be a 3D headset coupled with whatever that funny 360 degree slippery treadmill thingy that was on the site a few days ago. That made me a heck of a lot more interested than having a crappy projector sitting in the same area as me.
It's already at 25k signatures by the way...
Honestly, I can't stand the way we treat kids today. We say they're important and then do everything we can to show them they aren't.
Then do something to change it. Sign the petition on Change.org already.
http://www.change.org/petitions/the-bartow-police-and-bartow-high-school-drop-charges-against-kiera-wilmot?utm_campaign=signature_receipt&utm_medium=email&utm_source=share_petition
Dead Big Business ...
Freudian slip?
LMAO, apparently so :)
The gravity of the body at the center is pulling the object in, the velocity vector is pushing the orbiting body out, but as they are equally matched the net result is a nice perfect circular orbit (not accounting for the fact that true circular orbits probably only occur in theory and also avoiding all those horrible to write as formulas elliptical orbits). Isn't that the same thing?
Or is the first law simply saying that a body with movement will continue to keep moving as long as nothing interacts with it? If there are two opposite but equal forces being applied with a new force of zero, would that not be allowed to be the same thing? And I ain't starting a fight here lol, I was exceptional at physics in early school, but loathed it as it seemed immensely boring, so I went down the chemistry path - and now regret it. As fun as it is knowing a bunch of Chem stuff, I would much prefer to have learned all the formulas I am now trying to replicate in programming LOL.
Yeah, I think my brain just simply refused to comprehend that bit - and the article was exceptionally vague on the details - or perhaps my dumb kicked in and it just stopped making sense at that point. I figured I wouldn't repeat it here in case I was getting it wrong.