Those sites can easily control the ad content before it's served, simply by hosting the advertising content themselves. If they did this, they probably wouldn't get picked up by my Ghostery filters, and they better not unnecessarily use javascript either (99.999% of the web which is written in javascript doesn't need to be). And of course, I block third-party cookies and wipe all other cookies at restart.
Web hosters have decided to use third-party advertisers for convenience. Ease of blocking the content is the price of said convenience.
You can't rely on every instructor that you have in school to be the best. And to make things even more complicated, just because a bunch of other students consider an instructor to be good, does not mean that his/her teaching style will be good for you. For example, I learned the most when I had teachers that kept lectures to a minimum but designed very thoughtful and enlightening homework assignments, problem sets, etc. while other students preferred instructors who explained everything plainly while providing minimal assignments (this prevents you from thinking critically on your own).
If you want to get the maximum mileage out of your college experience, learn how to use the resources around you, whether they be textbooks, the internet, other students, and junior instructors. If you walk in expecting all your instructors to do the majority of the work in teaching you, then you're doomed from the start.
And in other !news, management does not have the requisite competencies of their positions.
Seriously, if you preside over IT and don't have the technical awareness to deal with issues like these, you don't belong in your job. Of course, the problem is systematic, because someone put that ignorant dolt in the first place, who in turn was put in place by another ignorant dolt..... recursion.
You don't even need to exchange the key through gmail. You can simply host the encrypted mail on Google's servers, download it, and exchange the key through a third party service.
Open Source is really tricky to do well and make money from and sometimes it is just not a viable business model.
Agreed, but the counterargument is that if it's closed source, you can't trust its security, and nobody should really trust it anyways. Why would I use some security software if it may well be carrying around an NSA backdoor? Why should anyone pay for it?
Once you close the source to your security product, you effectively have no product anymore. Open source is not 100% bulletproof, but closed source is by this point bloody close to 0%.
I know that Linux should be the only alternative to Windows/OSX at this point
What's wrong with BSD?
Of course, there's always this issue which I haven't seen mentioned recently. The fact that nothing similar has come forward on Linux is concerning to me....
Not that Russia was ever a major ally to the US, but more and more countries are ceasing to put up with the hostile nature of the US's foreign relations policy. The US is failing in all sorts of relations due to its policies on copyrights, "terrorism," worthless wars and drug enforcement, and increasingly, other nations are no longer putting up with it.
Throughout its history, the US has more or less never had any interest in the well-being of other nations they enter relations with. Of course, you could perhaps say this is true of all nations. However, if the US is going to be so self-centered in its relations, then the best thing for the world is for them to have less of an influence in strong-arming other nations into agreeing with them. This influence historically has come largely from dominating economic pressure, but we'll see if it lasts - hopefully it doesn't. The last thing the world needs is to become more like the US.
I'm more talented than skilled, but consider skilled workers more important. Talented people will take their talents with them when they leave the job. Skilled workers will leave the benefits of their skill in the work they leave behind - better architected, easier to maintain, more bug-free code than someone without skill. Talented/unskilled people would get it done fast, and produce a trainwreck.
Coursera has some courses on GPU programming, like this one, and what's nice about them pretty slow, and I'm assuming that they explain things well. Other online courses probably offer the same, and I think the video lectures would be helpful in understanding the concepts.
They aren't making money by MAKING people suffer; they are making money by STOPPING human suffering. They profit by IMPROVING human life.
You are missing the point of the article. They are not just stopping people from suffering, they are, in effect, stating "You will die if you do not pay what I am legally entitled to," and the entitlement is, of course, whatever the owner damn well wishes. This is extortion, no less, and the author's point is that the patents in question only help people able to pay for it. Or, do you think the patent holders were right in the scenario the author presented in TFA:
Myriad denied the test to two women in the case by rejecting their Medicaid insurance — according to the plaintiffs, because the reimbursement was too low. Other women, after one round of Myriad’s testing, had to make agonizing decisions about whether to have a single or double mastectomy, or whether to have their ovaries removed, with severely incomplete information — either Myriad’s testing for additional BRCA mutations was unaffordable (Myriad charges $700 extra for information that national guidelines say should be provided to patients), or second opinions were unattainable because of Myriad’s patents.
In fact, if I were trying to save the life of a loved one, or any person honestly, I (as should you, as well as anyone else who is not a cruel, inhuman monster) would break every fucking law in the book that I would need to in order to do so (given of course that it does not inflict harm on any other person). This is, in fact, the very exact scenario Lawrence Kohlberg presented when he formulated his 6 stages of moral reasoning!
No. Patent law does not apply to saving human lives. Legal system be damned, there are morals at stake.
Right, because proprietary software would never have a vulnerability.
Much less would the software vendor give the information about it to the NSA before patching it.
And even less that they would not bother to patch it at all, because honestly, they don't have to if they don't want to, and there's nothing you can do about it.
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Excel is considered a skill? EXCEL??! I completely understand this post was intended to be facetious, but ugh - Python, just feels dirty now, solely for being listed next to Excel. Heck, even MongoDB has been diminished... and I didn't even think that was possible!
The full Android documentation (introductory tutorials and reference) is available here and is completely free.
If you're looking for more tutorials on how to get started, The New Boston has an absolutely outstanding series of tutorial videos for Android beginners with little experience. More advanced users may find the pace unbearably slow however.
Actually, generating public outcry is probably the best thing that they can do. There are only a couple good senators and representatives in the US congress and they're not going to overturn these awful laws by themselves. Instead, all they can do is call out the other legislators on their supposed claims of government oversight keeping these programs in check, because obviously that's not happening. The NSA, and probably all other US (and UK, and other) intelligence agencies have already been exposed several times for their lies to the public (and this goes back decades as well).
So the best thing that these good guy legislators can do is expose the programs and discredit the people that support them. That will get a lot of people who are on the fence to fall on their side.
I think a robot, with sufficient development, will be able to handle those kinds of situations more precisely. A human driver is only able to control the steering wheel, pedals, and anything else within reach. A robot could have more sensors and controllers located throughout the body of the vehicle, and could probably control them much better than a human, or a system designed to work with a human driver.
Agreed, there are lots of situations to test as you mentioned, but a robot also potentially offers much more precision and control.
Funny. So remember everyone - if you find a critical bug in Windows, do what this guy did. Disclosing it confidentially to Microsoft instead would be highly irresponsible.
If I give you a bag of marbles every day and you do not discard them, then you are still collecting them. It doesn't matter whether you took them from me or whether I give them to you willingly.
The intelligence official is an outright liar and should be punished to the fullest extent possible for perjury (assuming he was under oath). And whenever the politician says that these programs have government oversight, one simply needs to point out how bald-facedly he lied to Senator Wyden during the hearing.
But of course, just like in the case of Bradley Manning, the US government is going to shoot the messenger and act like it's not even a problem. That's a great nation for you there.
Your numbers are spot on, and even the plot at the top of the wiki page you posted confirms that the numbers come out to exactly 8.4 inches.
I'm not sure where the >1 foot since 1900 figure came from. A source would help, and I'm pretty sure it didn't come from TFA. My only guess is that there are multiple ways to measure sea levels and the amount by which they change, in the same way that there are different ways to measure elevation... but I could be totally wrong.
There's a difference between expert-level understanding and basic competency (or as you say, a dumbed down version). But that's what every seconday school education is supposed to provide (yes, I know, supposed to, but doesn't actually do).
But in order to make decisions on these matters, everyone needs to have a basic level of understanding. No, you will not be able to build your own nuclear reactor, but you should at least be able to make a reasonably thought out opinion on whether it's safe to have one in your hometown. And you can't simply just trust the experts that it works - look at what happened in Fukushima, for instance.
It's critically important in fact, that people ask these questions. No field was simply dreamt of into existence overnight. I mean, maybe this isn't true if you're an utter fucking genius like Donald Knuth or Alan Turing, but even Albert Einstein had to ask stupid questions like "what would I see if I were traveling at the speed of light?" And quantum mechanics even was slowly formulated into existence by making incremental predictions and observations that took quite a few decades to fully make sense as a basic physical theory.
Yes, I agree that at a point, it becomes futile to understand everything without dedicating several years of schooling and practical work, and I also agree that nobody should be allowed to believe it's not true unless he/she is a scientist with some pretty damn compelling research/theory to say otherwise. But my argument is that these basic levels of understanding are critical for a civilized society to function.
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Those sites can easily control the ad content before it's served, simply by hosting the advertising content themselves. If they did this, they probably wouldn't get picked up by my Ghostery filters, and they better not unnecessarily use javascript either (99.999% of the web which is written in javascript doesn't need to be). And of course, I block third-party cookies and wipe all other cookies at restart.
Web hosters have decided to use third-party advertisers for convenience. Ease of blocking the content is the price of said convenience.
You can't rely on every instructor that you have in school to be the best. And to make things even more complicated, just because a bunch of other students consider an instructor to be good, does not mean that his/her teaching style will be good for you. For example, I learned the most when I had teachers that kept lectures to a minimum but designed very thoughtful and enlightening homework assignments, problem sets, etc. while other students preferred instructors who explained everything plainly while providing minimal assignments (this prevents you from thinking critically on your own).
If you want to get the maximum mileage out of your college experience, learn how to use the resources around you, whether they be textbooks, the internet, other students, and junior instructors. If you walk in expecting all your instructors to do the majority of the work in teaching you, then you're doomed from the start.
And in other !news, management does not have the requisite competencies of their positions.
Seriously, if you preside over IT and don't have the technical awareness to deal with issues like these, you don't belong in your job. Of course, the problem is systematic, because someone put that ignorant dolt in the first place, who in turn was put in place by another ignorant dolt..... recursion.
You don't even need to exchange the key through gmail. You can simply host the encrypted mail on Google's servers, download it, and exchange the key through a third party service.
Now who's gonna do it?
Open Source is really tricky to do well and make money from and sometimes it is just not a viable business model.
Agreed, but the counterargument is that if it's closed source, you can't trust its security, and nobody should really trust it anyways. Why would I use some security software if it may well be carrying around an NSA backdoor? Why should anyone pay for it?
Once you close the source to your security product, you effectively have no product anymore. Open source is not 100% bulletproof, but closed source is by this point bloody close to 0%.
I know that Linux should be the only alternative to Windows/OSX at this point
What's wrong with BSD?
Of course, there's always this issue which I haven't seen mentioned recently. The fact that nothing similar has come forward on Linux is concerning to me....
Not that Russia was ever a major ally to the US, but more and more countries are ceasing to put up with the hostile nature of the US's foreign relations policy. The US is failing in all sorts of relations due to its policies on copyrights, "terrorism," worthless wars and drug enforcement, and increasingly, other nations are no longer putting up with it.
Throughout its history, the US has more or less never had any interest in the well-being of other nations they enter relations with. Of course, you could perhaps say this is true of all nations. However, if the US is going to be so self-centered in its relations, then the best thing for the world is for them to have less of an influence in strong-arming other nations into agreeing with them. This influence historically has come largely from dominating economic pressure, but we'll see if it lasts - hopefully it doesn't. The last thing the world needs is to become more like the US.
Nobody really cites him anymore as a legitimate resource ever since he was outed as an Oracle paid shill.
Nobody with a brain really cited him as a legitimate resource before either.
You are now a province of America. Don't let the shame overwhelm you now....
Here is the bug in question. Note that there is a bit of dissent in a few of the comments....
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=855370
I'm more talented than skilled, but consider skilled workers more important. Talented people will take their talents with them when they leave the job. Skilled workers will leave the benefits of their skill in the work they leave behind - better architected, easier to maintain, more bug-free code than someone without skill. Talented/unskilled people would get it done fast, and produce a trainwreck.
Coursera has some courses on GPU programming, like this one, and what's nice about them pretty slow, and I'm assuming that they explain things well. Other online courses probably offer the same, and I think the video lectures would be helpful in understanding the concepts.
They aren't making money by MAKING people suffer; they are making money by STOPPING human suffering. They profit by IMPROVING human life.
You are missing the point of the article. They are not just stopping people from suffering, they are, in effect, stating "You will die if you do not pay what I am legally entitled to," and the entitlement is, of course, whatever the owner damn well wishes. This is extortion, no less, and the author's point is that the patents in question only help people able to pay for it. Or, do you think the patent holders were right in the scenario the author presented in TFA:
Myriad denied the test to two women in the case by rejecting their Medicaid insurance — according to the plaintiffs, because the reimbursement was too low. Other women, after one round of Myriad’s testing, had to make agonizing decisions about whether to have a single or double mastectomy, or whether to have their ovaries removed, with severely incomplete information — either Myriad’s testing for additional BRCA mutations was unaffordable (Myriad charges $700 extra for information that national guidelines say should be provided to patients), or second opinions were unattainable because of Myriad’s patents.
In fact, if I were trying to save the life of a loved one, or any person honestly, I (as should you, as well as anyone else who is not a cruel, inhuman monster) would break every fucking law in the book that I would need to in order to do so (given of course that it does not inflict harm on any other person). This is, in fact, the very exact scenario Lawrence Kohlberg presented when he formulated his 6 stages of moral reasoning!
No. Patent law does not apply to saving human lives. Legal system be damned, there are morals at stake.
Right, because proprietary software would never have a vulnerability.
Much less would the software vendor give the information about it to the NSA before patching it.
And even less that they would not bother to patch it at all, because honestly, they don't have to if they don't want to, and there's nothing you can do about it.
HTML6, haXe, Zimbu, Opa, F#, Rails 4.0 (released a few days ago), CoffeeScript, Google Dart, Ceylon, , Django 1.5, MS Excel, 'R', Dao,Hadoop, MongoDB, C# 4.0, Python 3,
Excel is considered a skill? EXCEL??! I completely understand this post was intended to be facetious, but ugh - Python, just feels dirty now, solely for being listed next to Excel. Heck, even MongoDB has been diminished... and I didn't even think that was possible!
The full Android documentation (introductory tutorials and reference) is available here and is completely free.
If you're looking for more tutorials on how to get started, The New Boston has an absolutely outstanding series of tutorial videos for Android beginners with little experience. More advanced users may find the pace unbearably slow however.
Actually, generating public outcry is probably the best thing that they can do. There are only a couple good senators and representatives in the US congress and they're not going to overturn these awful laws by themselves. Instead, all they can do is call out the other legislators on their supposed claims of government oversight keeping these programs in check, because obviously that's not happening. The NSA, and probably all other US (and UK, and other) intelligence agencies have already been exposed several times for their lies to the public (and this goes back decades as well).
So the best thing that these good guy legislators can do is expose the programs and discredit the people that support them. That will get a lot of people who are on the fence to fall on their side.
You SI barbarians! Everyone that knows anything knows that Mebidollars are a far more preferable unit of currency!
This makes those 'In Soviet Russia' jokes somewhat more believable...
But can it create black holes which can engulf Earth?
I think a robot, with sufficient development, will be able to handle those kinds of situations more precisely. A human driver is only able to control the steering wheel, pedals, and anything else within reach. A robot could have more sensors and controllers located throughout the body of the vehicle, and could probably control them much better than a human, or a system designed to work with a human driver.
Agreed, there are lots of situations to test as you mentioned, but a robot also potentially offers much more precision and control.
Funny. So remember everyone - if you find a critical bug in Windows, do what this guy did. Disclosing it confidentially to Microsoft instead would be highly irresponsible.
If I give you a bag of marbles every day and you do not discard them, then you are still collecting them. It doesn't matter whether you took them from me or whether I give them to you willingly.
The intelligence official is an outright liar and should be punished to the fullest extent possible for perjury (assuming he was under oath). And whenever the politician says that these programs have government oversight, one simply needs to point out how bald-facedly he lied to Senator Wyden during the hearing.
But of course, just like in the case of Bradley Manning, the US government is going to shoot the messenger and act like it's not even a problem. That's a great nation for you there.
Your numbers are spot on, and even the plot at the top of the wiki page you posted confirms that the numbers come out to exactly 8.4 inches.
I'm not sure where the >1 foot since 1900 figure came from. A source would help, and I'm pretty sure it didn't come from TFA. My only guess is that there are multiple ways to measure sea levels and the amount by which they change, in the same way that there are different ways to measure elevation... but I could be totally wrong.
There's a difference between expert-level understanding and basic competency (or as you say, a dumbed down version). But that's what every seconday school education is supposed to provide (yes, I know, supposed to, but doesn't actually do).
But in order to make decisions on these matters, everyone needs to have a basic level of understanding. No, you will not be able to build your own nuclear reactor, but you should at least be able to make a reasonably thought out opinion on whether it's safe to have one in your hometown. And you can't simply just trust the experts that it works - look at what happened in Fukushima, for instance.
It's critically important in fact, that people ask these questions. No field was simply dreamt of into existence overnight. I mean, maybe this isn't true if you're an utter fucking genius like Donald Knuth or Alan Turing, but even Albert Einstein had to ask stupid questions like "what would I see if I were traveling at the speed of light?" And quantum mechanics even was slowly formulated into existence by making incremental predictions and observations that took quite a few decades to fully make sense as a basic physical theory.
Yes, I agree that at a point, it becomes futile to understand everything without dedicating several years of schooling and practical work, and I also agree that nobody should be allowed to believe it's not true unless he/she is a scientist with some pretty damn compelling research/theory to say otherwise. But my argument is that these basic levels of understanding are critical for a civilized society to function.