Why not just obey the law while in China and stay out of jail/alive? You have no idea of what you are fucking with. If you don't think they will be watching everything a foreign national is doing and itching for a reason to arrest you, you are naive, bordering on stupid.
It's one thing to espouse freedom like we have in the US. That's a noble pursuit.
It's quite another to be thrown in a Chinese jail for no other reason other than "Look at me, I'm getting through the great firewall of china:-p"
Get a grip. Go over there, do what you gotta do, and come home.
This still doesn't change the fact that the AGW argument is supported by insufficient evidence and flawed computer models. Much of North America and Europe used to be covered in glaciers, and they were gone before man existed. GW was happening long before fossil fuels were dug out of the ground.
There's actual hard evidence of this. AGW is a scam to guilt people into spending money on "Green" technology utilizing a naturally occurring phenomena that was already in full swing before man existed.
I drive a small fuel efficient car, use CFL's and generally do what all the granola munching, tree hugging liberal rabid AGW alarmists do. Mainly because pollution is dirty, it stinks, and burning a lot of gas is a waste of money. Those are all good enough reasons to me. I don't need Al Gore to make up a reason for me to do it.
>if you know C++ you can get a job in a heartbeat. Yea people with real skills are never unemployed.
Even if you can't code, if you understand computers at the electrical, wire, clock, and register level, and understand binary and hex, you'll never be unemployed. Colleges can help you but are ultimately unnecessary. Everything you need to know is available for free, or nearly so.
Hope is poisonous. Hope in one hand and shit in the other and tell me which one fills up faster.
Creating something out of nothing, which actually works, is what impresses people, not hope. Creation is the essence of engineering. An engineer with any talent is always building something, because they don't have an option. They have to do it or they go crazy. Whether or not there's a monetary reward is secondary to the need to create. You don't need a job to create something an employer would be interested in seeing.
Your ultimate salary level has NOTHING to do with economic conditions that were present when you got your start, and everything to do with what you have built before, what you are building now, and what you will be building tomorrow, along with your ambition to achieve a higher salary. You need to have both parts of the equation.
I'm not trolling, I just think people have got their mindset all wrong with this hope and prestigious university bullshit. How well you do in life only depends on one thing: what you can do. Everything else is meaningless to the people with money that you want to collect a check from. What you can do is completely up to you and within your control. If it's not, and you need to pay MIT to show you, you are in the wrong field. You should already be able to do what you go to college for, on the first day of your freshman year. If you aren't there, go into a field that requires a good personality (as opposed to knowledge) to succeed. Engineering is a bad idea if you are this person.
A college degree is a good thing, I'm not saying it isn't, but it's a pretty small part of the equation.
If you can't find a job it's because you have nothing to offer. I don't care what kind of paper you have in that frame on your wall or where you got it. You need to develop some skills and build something real, even if you have to serve coffee to make money while you do it.
I have no advanced degree and make more than most PhD's./shrug
"Talk is cheap. Show me the code." -Linus Torvalds
If you can't produce a well written piece of code, that you wrote, that wasn't part of a school project, you have issues. Talented people do what they do because they love to do it. If you don't love what you do, and don't do it all the time, regardless of your employment status, you usually won't amount to much unless you know people or are related to them.
If you do write code and build shit all the time, you will succeed in spite of yourself.
I made $20k a year at my first engineering job. I could have made more money as a union electrician. I didn't care how much money I made, because I got to do what I love to do.
I'm a lazy fuck too when it comes to everything else in my life. If it only paid $5 an hour, I'd still be doing it.
You gotta pay your dues, and that means building things and getting experience. Sometimes it doesn't pay well at first. Stop crying about it and make something out of yourself.
Actually one of the poser's children is a "son" born on Tuesday, not a boy born on Tuesday. In your probability equation you need to define when a boy becomes a man (often defined by culture) and factor this into the equation. You also need to define whether "children" means "offspring" or "non-adult offspring".
There's a lot more than meets the eye to this problem, some of which is open to interpretation by the problem solver, and must be defined within any solution which you arrive at. Some of this I've mentioned above, but to figure out the probability of an offspring being a boy you'd need to define the maximum age of a human being, which you can average, but then you need to define whether we are dealing with a particular country, or the entire world, and the maximum recorded age or average max.
There are too many undefined variables to accurately calculate the probability that the poser has 2 boys based on the information given in the problem.
"It has announced new plans to hire US engineers to enhance its technical skills and propel its growth globally."
I thought the US was comprised of a bunch of fat, lazy, stupid people and behind the curve on technology. Now we're able to enhance the technical skills of foreigners? They must be referring to the foreign students here for a technology education because US citizens are far too stupid. No, I got it! We elected Obama so now we must be smart!/sarcasm off
So you can send private texts and calls that your employer isn't allowed to see. So you can deal drugs with it. So you can buy drugs with it. So you can watch porn on it. So you can make your own porn with it. So you can sext your girlfriend and MMS pictures of your cock to her. So you can text your best friend the lurid details of your latest sexual conquest.
I can think of lots of reasons someone would want a second phone not financed by their employer. Most of these reasons involve stuff you don't want your employer to know about or see.
If you are straight edged AND boring, there is no reason. If you like to live dangerously on the fringe or are sexually adventurous, get your own phone. It's a necessity if you regularly have unprotected textual intercourse.
71.5% of statistics are made up on the spot. 87.2% of the statistics which are made up on the spot are more accurate than their counterparts compiled with actual research.
Another issue is that offshore windmills are much more easily attacked by an enemy. If we are generating 20% of our electricity using them and we get attacked by an enemy, we could be crippled on the coasts if they took out the windmills, which could be done very easily with submarines and torpedoes.
This is unlikely now, but much of the world views the US (and I can understand why) as being on a downward spiral, and we have a LOT of enemies. If we continue to weaken our economic and political position in the world it won't be more than 100 years before someone tries it.
yea a single ISP probably wouldn't work. you'd need buy-in the size of the DNSBL buy-in. Everyone would need to register their SMTP servers in order to get on it, much the way that everyone needs to subscribe to the blacklist to get a copy.
The problem with DNS blacklists are the same issues that plague any type of blacklist intended for protection.
New threat = new problem. In order to be detected, damage must be done. With a white list, spammers can hacktivate all the illegal smtps they want and it won't help. You can't register an entire bot-net with a white list. The administrators of the list would know that something is funky. You can however easily activate smtps on a 20000 ip botnet and the ip addresses won't appear on the blacklist until the spam's been sent.
The damage is done at that point. If everyone was on a white list, botnets wouldn't even work to send spam./shrug
Blacklisting as a means of security will always suck. It's never future proof and is an inherently flawed concept no matter how good you think your blacklisting system is. As well you open yourself up to litigation whenever you run a public blacklist.
Whitelisting is future proof. It's marginally more painful to get set up, but the benefits far outweigh the the initial cost. There's also absolutely no legal risk.
The trick is to do it in the least tiresome way possible. When whitelisting fails it's due to a crappy implementation plan and processes every single time.
In the long run, it's far less work and much easier to maintain. It's also infinitely more secure.
A much better system would be a DNSWL. White list all the legitimate companies and throw them off when they spam people. That way you aren't saying anything bad about anyone. You are simply not saying something. Companies need to apply to be on the list and can get thrown off if they are proven to spam people.
I guarantee it would be shorter list than a black list and would have none of the liability.
#1 you should never require that a function use GPCS data directly. That makes the function useless for any script that's not used for input via http input vars. userId should be fed via function argument in case you need to find the user's name in other situations and would like to re-use the code #2 you should use prepared statements whenever user input is sent as part of a query to the database. No matter how well you think you are escaping it, there's usually a way around it. Prepared statements precompile the query and delineate the data explicitly from the SQL code, which makes SQL injection impossible. #3 mysqli functions are a far better option than the standard mysql functions for many reasons, I strongly suggest you learn it, build a mysqli data access library and use it. #4 mysql_real_escape_string doesn't protect against sql injection, it only escapes non-printable characters #5 Never use _REQUEST unless you are expecting input from all of GPC on that particular array element, and you handle all of the vectors. If you are only expecting data from _POST, use _POST./shrug
>I call it being happy with what's been working just fine for me over the past decade. not to mention productive if you've built up a library toolkit of any substance...
One day I may sit down and learn Ruby, but I'm too busy being productive right now...
You should be polite to servers so they don't spit in your food, or worse. Wanting to be nice is admirable, but that's the least of the good reasons to be polite to people who handle your food, even if they are thankless assholes.
a 100km dense rock asteroid would sterilize the earth's surface. It would vaporize 343000 cubic miles of crust in less than a second.
Peak Overpressure: 6.89e+07 Pa = 689 bars = 9780 psi at 500km from impact. Actually at 500km from impact you'd be in the crater since it would be 520 miles in size. If it were possible to not be incinerated instantly, the pressure would probably cause you to explode as it dissipated. The wind would be 14900 mph
At 5000km from impact, you'd get hit with wind doing 978mph and get subjected to 54psi air pressure 4 hours after impact. This would kill you. Your body would be buried under 5.1 feet of ejecta
This is assuming a "Dense Rock" asteroid hitting the earth at a 45 degree angle, at 17000kph, which is the typical impact velocity. 11.8 RS earthquake would result over the entire earth. This is off the scale. It's nearly a quadrillion tons of seismic energy. It would split the earth. You would be launched high enough into the air to kill you from the impact when you came back down, if the acceleration didn't kill you. A nickel/iron one would be much worse.
The earth would most likely be an asteroid belt right now from this size of an impact at 45 degrees. It would survive an oblique impact, but the earth would get another moon and it would be an extinction event. The orbit would certainly be affected and the tides would change.
Yea it would be very messy and kill just about all multicellular animals. People would become extinct. There would be nowhere to hide on the earth's surface.
Actually the study found that a cell phone talker at normal volume is even more irritating than a loud talker. I once had a guy go ballistic on me and I was *between* train cars on a commuter train. I actually stepped out of the cabin and into the passageway between trains to be polite and it still set him off. I just put it in airplane mode now and listen to my music. That was a very long time ago. I'm pretty sure the guy would have shot me if he had been carrying a piece. Never seen someone so pissed before...
* They change lanes into my car without looking * They sit at a stop sign and don't go anywhere, even though it's safe * They drive in a 45 mph zone at 15mph because they are in an argument with someone or squinting at addresses * They put their turn signal on, then stop before turning, and just sit there
Nah you're wrong, a person yelling into a handset is simply disturbing. It has nothing to do with me being nosy. It's disturbing in the same sense that the homeless guy is when he walks down the street yelling at his imaginary friend, except the cell phone people don't usually smell like a deli, and they should have more self control over themselves than the schizoid homeless guy.
Studies have been done before, I believe that's what AC is alluding to. This is VERY old news. Here's an article about a university of York study from 2004 that came to the same conclusion: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20040412.html
There are even older stories. I'm just at work and have boss aggro.
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Why not just obey the law while in China and stay out of jail/alive?
You have no idea of what you are fucking with. If you don't think they will be watching everything a foreign national is doing and itching for a reason to arrest you, you are naive, bordering on stupid.
It's one thing to espouse freedom like we have in the US. That's a noble pursuit.
It's quite another to be thrown in a Chinese jail for no other reason other than "Look at me, I'm getting through the great firewall of china :-p"
Get a grip. Go over there, do what you gotta do, and come home.
This still doesn't change the fact that the AGW argument is supported by insufficient evidence and flawed computer models. Much of North America and Europe used to be covered in glaciers, and they were gone before man existed. GW was happening long before fossil fuels were dug out of the ground.
There's actual hard evidence of this. AGW is a scam to guilt people into spending money on "Green" technology utilizing a naturally occurring phenomena that was already in full swing before man existed.
I drive a small fuel efficient car, use CFL's and generally do what all the granola munching, tree hugging liberal rabid AGW alarmists do. Mainly because pollution is dirty, it stinks, and burning a lot of gas is a waste of money. Those are all good enough reasons to me. I don't need Al Gore to make up a reason for me to do it.
>if you know C++ you can get a job in a heartbeat.
Yea people with real skills are never unemployed.
Even if you can't code, if you understand computers at the electrical, wire, clock, and register level, and understand binary and hex, you'll never be unemployed. Colleges can help you but are ultimately unnecessary. Everything you need to know is available for free, or nearly so.
Hope is poisonous. Hope in one hand and shit in the other and tell me which one fills up faster.
Creating something out of nothing, which actually works, is what impresses people, not hope. Creation is the essence of engineering. An engineer with any talent is always building something, because they don't have an option. They have to do it or they go crazy. Whether or not there's a monetary reward is secondary to the need to create. You don't need a job to create something an employer would be interested in seeing.
Your ultimate salary level has NOTHING to do with economic conditions that were present when you got your start, and everything to do with what you have built before, what you are building now, and what you will be building tomorrow, along with your ambition to achieve a higher salary. You need to have both parts of the equation.
I'm not trolling, I just think people have got their mindset all wrong with this hope and prestigious university bullshit. How well you do in life only depends on one thing: what you can do. Everything else is meaningless to the people with money that you want to collect a check from. What you can do is completely up to you and within your control. If it's not, and you need to pay MIT to show you, you are in the wrong field. You should already be able to do what you go to college for, on the first day of your freshman year. If you aren't there, go into a field that requires a good personality (as opposed to knowledge) to succeed. Engineering is a bad idea if you are this person.
A college degree is a good thing, I'm not saying it isn't, but it's a pretty small part of the equation.
Hope... that's a politician word.
If you can't find a job it's because you have nothing to offer. I don't care what kind of paper you have in that frame on your wall or where you got it. You need to develop some skills and build something real, even if you have to serve coffee to make money while you do it.
I have no advanced degree and make more than most PhD's. /shrug
"Talk is cheap. Show me the code."
-Linus Torvalds
If you can't produce a well written piece of code, that you wrote, that wasn't part of a school project, you have issues. Talented people do what they do because they love to do it. If you don't love what you do, and don't do it all the time, regardless of your employment status, you usually won't amount to much unless you know people or are related to them.
If you do write code and build shit all the time, you will succeed in spite of yourself.
I made $20k a year at my first engineering job. I could have made more money as a union electrician. I didn't care how much money I made, because I got to do what I love to do.
I'm a lazy fuck too when it comes to everything else in my life. If it only paid $5 an hour, I'd still be doing it.
You gotta pay your dues, and that means building things and getting experience. Sometimes it doesn't pay well at first. Stop crying about it and make something out of yourself.
Actually one of the poser's children is a "son" born on Tuesday, not a boy born on Tuesday. In your probability equation you need to define when a boy becomes a man (often defined by culture) and factor this into the equation. You also need to define whether "children" means "offspring" or "non-adult offspring".
There's a lot more than meets the eye to this problem, some of which is open to interpretation by the problem solver, and must be defined within any solution which you arrive at. Some of this I've mentioned above, but to figure out the probability of an offspring being a boy you'd need to define the maximum age of a human being, which you can average, but then you need to define whether we are dealing with a particular country, or the entire world, and the maximum recorded age or average max.
There are too many undefined variables to accurately calculate the probability that the poser has 2 boys based on the information given in the problem.
"It has announced new plans to hire US engineers to enhance its technical skills and propel its growth globally."
I thought the US was comprised of a bunch of fat, lazy, stupid people and behind the curve on technology. Now we're able to enhance the technical skills of foreigners? They must be referring to the foreign students here for a technology education because US citizens are far too stupid. No, I got it! We elected Obama so now we must be smart! /sarcasm off
So you can send private texts and calls that your employer isn't allowed to see.
So you can deal drugs with it.
So you can buy drugs with it.
So you can watch porn on it.
So you can make your own porn with it.
So you can sext your girlfriend and MMS pictures of your cock to her.
So you can text your best friend the lurid details of your latest sexual conquest.
I can think of lots of reasons someone would want a second phone not financed by their employer. Most of these reasons involve stuff you don't want your employer to know about or see.
If you are straight edged AND boring, there is no reason. If you like to live dangerously on the fringe or are sexually adventurous, get your own phone. It's a necessity if you regularly have unprotected textual intercourse.
They only checked 4 million URLS. There are 87,966,601 registered domain names according to this page: http://whois.sc/internet-statistics/
This 37% statistic is complete bunk. What they should measure is the amount of traffic dedicated to porn...
71.5% of statistics are made up on the spot.
87.2% of the statistics which are made up on the spot are more accurate than their counterparts compiled with actual research.
Of this, I'm 99% certain.
Another issue is that offshore windmills are much more easily attacked by an enemy. If we are generating 20% of our electricity using them and we get attacked by an enemy, we could be crippled on the coasts if they took out the windmills, which could be done very easily with submarines and torpedoes.
This is unlikely now, but much of the world views the US (and I can understand why) as being on a downward spiral, and we have a LOT of enemies. If we continue to weaken our economic and political position in the world it won't be more than 100 years before someone tries it.
yea a single ISP probably wouldn't work. you'd need buy-in the size of the DNSBL buy-in. Everyone would need to register their SMTP servers in order to get on it, much the way that everyone needs to subscribe to the blacklist to get a copy.
The problem with DNS blacklists are the same issues that plague any type of blacklist intended for protection.
New threat = new problem. In order to be detected, damage must be done. With a white list, spammers can hacktivate all the illegal smtps they want and it won't help. You can't register an entire bot-net with a white list. The administrators of the list would know that something is funky. You can however easily activate smtps on a 20000 ip botnet and the ip addresses won't appear on the blacklist until the spam's been sent.
The damage is done at that point. If everyone was on a white list, botnets wouldn't even work to send spam. /shrug
Blacklisting as a means of security will always suck. It's never future proof and is an inherently flawed concept no matter how good you think your blacklisting system is. As well you open yourself up to litigation whenever you run a public blacklist.
Whitelisting is future proof. It's marginally more painful to get set up, but the benefits far outweigh the the initial cost. There's also absolutely no legal risk.
The trick is to do it in the least tiresome way possible. When whitelisting fails it's due to a crappy implementation plan and processes every single time.
In the long run, it's far less work and much easier to maintain. It's also infinitely more secure.
Exactly!
A much better system would be a DNSWL. White list all the legitimate companies and throw them off when they spam people. That way you aren't saying anything bad about anyone. You are simply not saying something. Companies need to apply to be on the list and can get thrown off if they are proven to spam people.
I guarantee it would be shorter list than a black list and would have none of the liability.
Can you step outside for a moment? We'd like to have a word with you. We're in the black suburban out front.
This has more issues than just security.
#1 you should never require that a function use GPCS data directly. That makes the function useless for any script that's not used for input via http input vars. userId should be fed via function argument in case you need to find the user's name in other situations and would like to re-use the code /shrug
#2 you should use prepared statements whenever user input is sent as part of a query to the database. No matter how well you think you are escaping it, there's usually a way around it. Prepared statements precompile the query and delineate the data explicitly from the SQL code, which makes SQL injection impossible.
#3 mysqli functions are a far better option than the standard mysql functions for many reasons, I strongly suggest you learn it, build a mysqli data access library and use it.
#4 mysql_real_escape_string doesn't protect against sql injection, it only escapes non-printable characters
#5 Never use _REQUEST unless you are expecting input from all of GPC on that particular array element, and you handle all of the vectors. If you are only expecting data from _POST, use _POST.
That's just the first 2 lines.
or you need to learn to write secure code.
>I call it being happy with what's been working just fine for me over the past decade.
not to mention productive if you've built up a library toolkit of any substance...
One day I may sit down and learn Ruby, but I'm too busy being productive right now...
This is the worst possible situation. There should be no protection for police that assault people illegally.
The simple solution is for police officers to always assume they are on camera and obey the fucking law.
You should be polite to servers so they don't spit in your food, or worse. Wanting to be nice is admirable, but that's the least of the good reasons to be polite to people who handle your food, even if they are thankless assholes.
a 100km dense rock asteroid would sterilize the earth's surface. It would vaporize 343000 cubic miles of crust in less than a second.
Peak Overpressure: 6.89e+07 Pa = 689 bars = 9780 psi at 500km from impact. Actually at 500km from impact you'd be in the crater since it would be 520 miles in size. If it were possible to not be incinerated instantly, the pressure would probably cause you to explode as it dissipated. The wind would be 14900 mph
At 5000km from impact, you'd get hit with wind doing 978mph and get subjected to 54psi air pressure 4 hours after impact. This would kill you. Your body would be buried under 5.1 feet of ejecta
This is assuming a "Dense Rock" asteroid hitting the earth at a 45 degree angle, at 17000kph, which is the typical impact velocity. 11.8 RS earthquake would result over the entire earth. This is off the scale. It's nearly a quadrillion tons of seismic energy. It would split the earth. You would be launched high enough into the air to kill you from the impact when you came back down, if the acceleration didn't kill you. A nickel/iron one would be much worse.
http://impact.ese.ic.ac.uk/cgi-bin/crater.cgi?dist=500&distanceUnits=1&diam=100&diameterUnits=2&pdens=&pdens_select=3000&vel=17&velocityUnits=1&theta=45&wdepth=&wdepthUnits=1&tdens=2500
The earth would most likely be an asteroid belt right now from this size of an impact at 45 degrees. It would survive an oblique impact, but the earth would get another moon and it would be an extinction event. The orbit would certainly be affected and the tides would change.
Yea it would be very messy and kill just about all multicellular animals. People would become extinct. There would be nowhere to hide on the earth's surface.
It's called economy of scale. Of course a power outage means you don't go to work.
There was definitely a paradigm shift in the use of the word paradigm after Kuhn's book.
Actually the study found that a cell phone talker at normal volume is even more irritating than a loud talker. I once had a guy go ballistic on me and I was *between* train cars on a commuter train. I actually stepped out of the cabin and into the passageway between trains to be polite and it still set him off. I just put it in airplane mode now and listen to my music. That was a very long time ago. I'm pretty sure the guy would have shot me if he had been carrying a piece. Never seen someone so pissed before...
* They change lanes into my car without looking
* They sit at a stop sign and don't go anywhere, even though it's safe
* They drive in a 45 mph zone at 15mph because they are in an argument with someone or squinting at addresses
* They put their turn signal on, then stop before turning, and just sit there
Oh yea this is about people not in cars. My bad.
Nah you're wrong, a person yelling into a handset is simply disturbing. It has nothing to do with me being nosy. It's disturbing in the same sense that the homeless guy is when he walks down the street yelling at his imaginary friend, except the cell phone people don't usually smell like a deli, and they should have more self control over themselves than the schizoid homeless guy.
Studies have been done before, I believe that's what AC is alluding to. This is VERY old news. Here's an article about a university of York study from 2004 that came to the same conclusion:
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20040412.html
There are even older stories. I'm just at work and have boss aggro.