Yep. Here's an independent analysis of the raw data. It's a long read, but the conclusion of the (apparently non-political) author is:
they are indisputable evidence that the “homogenized” data has been changed to fit someone’s preconceptions about whether the earth is warming.
and after slogging my way through the data, I agree. When scientists are more worried about grants and political clout than facts, they are not to be trusted.
Actually, they do. Every copy of OS X sold in a box is technically an upgrade, and the only place you can get the "full" version is on a Mac. Therefore installing an upgrade to OS X on a non-Mac is violating the user agreement, and it WILL hold up in court should Apple decide to pursue it, which they probably won't...
Depends.
Using Firefox (or even IE) on a production server to hit support.microsoft.com, or an internal intranet site to get drivers and tools is fine.
Using google to search down stuff and go get it is a different thing altogether.
Logging in a root can be bad too.
it's all in how you use the tools. The most important security tool is the gray stuff behind your eyes...
Yes, because Prohibition worked so well with alcohol, and works so well with drugs. The majority of gun crime in the US is committed by people who have illegally obtained the weapons in the first place, in violation of existing gun laws. Stricter laws will not do anything to reduce that level of crime.
Here's where maybe we can agree. In Arizona, anyone can obtain a CCW with the appropriate training. I have no problem making people get training to carry a gun, but that right needs to be open to everyone. Also, a factoid. In any given year you can count on one hand the number of gun crimes committed by CCW holders (of which there are many ten-thousands) The city in which I live has gun ownership rate in excess of 50% of the households. There has been one gun related murder in the last 5 years, and that was an illegal alien Mexican drug dealer that ended up dead in a retail parking lot. He brought his problems with him. 1 person in five years with a population of more than 20K with more than 10K guns present tells me that guns are not the problem. If free access to guns was the primary cause, then the murder rate in my city would be off the chart. it is not.
Just because something seems obvious does not mean it is true. As my statistics teacher taught me (or maybe is was my chemistry teacher), correlation does not imply causality.
Yes, it's obvious that if there were no guns they would be no gun crime. There would be other types of violent crime though, human nature being what is is. There would be 40k less deaths a year from cars if there were no cars, so we should make it really hard to get those too.
My proposal is proper training as a requirement to have either. There is a reason that speed limits in Germany are higher than the US, yet the per-capata death rate for drivers in Germany is markedly lower, and that is proper training.
Also, I'd like to direct your attention to the fact that the recent spate of shootings in the US occurred in states that have some of the strictest gun laws. Ironic, no?
The bottom line is that cutting down trees and using nasty chemicals to make paper, making ink, using a crapload of energy to print the papers and then distribute them makes little sense when we are talking about distributing information.
The Internet, and other electronic forms of media, and readers like the kindel make so much more sense in terms of availability and timeliness of the information. This industry needs to shrink, just like candle making shrank when the electric light became popular.
Regarding neutrality, NPR is about as neutral as right wing AM radio, and a press regulated by the government should scare the hell out of you. Since they would be subject to all sorts of regulations to maintain their not-for-profit status, I for one would not believe anything they printed.
Well, if you get all your news from CNN and / or Fox News I guess that would be your perspective, but in reality, I see that both sides teen to vote within their respective ideologies, modified by who has paid them the most money.
I know it's probably difficult to understand, but Republicans and Democrats do tend to differ on a large number of issues. Hatred hasn't anything to do with it, at least not hatred of the people. It's more extreme dislike of the others policies
Don't let Joel Anderson find out about street view, he'll want that blurred out as well.
The 7-11 on the corner by my house was routinely robbed. I'm sure if the image of the store in Street View was blurred out, some of these robberies would not have taken place, because I'm certain that the type of folks that hold up a convenience store plan this stuff in advance with high technology.
The great majority of what I do are PHP based homegrown CMS type sites. I use Dreamweaver to manage the code, I use Photoshop and Illustrator for the graphics, and I use Firebug to figure out the CSS.
I don't use Dreamweaver to it's fullest potential because I no longer do a lot of static HTML stuff, but I still find Dreamweaver useful for PHP, JavaScript and CSS coding, probably because I've been using it for 6 years.
I agree with you 100%. I find that, in general, it's less work and more maintainable to simply create the tables the customer needs for their specific site and code it up in PHP, using a library of common functions I've built over the years. I give them a tailored back end admin console, that is very specific to their site and content, generally using something like PHPMaker.
I just don't believe that's true. Some code is inherently more secure. UNIX is generally more secure than Windows. People like to say (for example) that the reason Mac OS has few trojans, and no real viruses to date (that I am aware of) is because of its market share. You'd have to be exceptionally naive to believe that among the legions of Apple hating Microsofties that no one has been able to create a successful virus yet. I'm certain it has absolutely nothing to do with the inherent security of UNIX - Nope that's not possible. has to be market share.:)
I have no proof to back this up, but there is also zero proof to back up the market share theory.
So, the EFF and Apple are going head to head over these issues, but you post the EFF article detailing EFF's point of view. Nilay Patel at Engadget seems to understand this a lot better than most of the people here:
"... Apple isn't asking for jailbreaking to specifically be ruled illegal, it's just asking that it not be specifically ruled legal. If that sounds like a fuzzy distinction, well, it is, but that's the sort of gray area that keeps everyone else out of court for the time being. We'll find out more in the spring, when the Copyright Office holds hearings -- final rulings are due in October."
It's not that scalable now, wait until it's written in.Net...
Properly written C and C++ code can and should trap all exceptions. There is no excuse for untrapped buffer overflows in mature commercial code.
Microsoft's method is to wait until a vulnerability is discovered, then patch it, as opposed to rigorous code reviews to proactively identify potential untrapped errors.
It's not like the cause of overflows is a complete mystery. Well... maybe it is to Microsoft.
So, don't make an implosion device. Make a sphere and core device, or a gun-type weapon. It's a lot less efficient, sure, but you can make it with tools from any high school machine shop. You don't even need high explosives - black powder will do.
I believe that one of the bombs used in Japan was of this type. They knew it was going to work. They didn't even bother to test it.
well, maybe we should have let the south succeed from the country. I'm from the midwest and I live in the west, I'm about as white as you can get, and I've rarely heard that kind of talk from anyone. Regardless, racist teachers in Dallas don't excuse the remarks of someone speaking at a presidential inauguration. Also, a behind closed door conversation, as disgusting as it may be, is not even close to the same as being made to ride in the back of the bus or use a separate restroom.
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Yep. Here's an independent analysis of the raw data. It's a long read, but the conclusion of the (apparently non-political) author is:
they are indisputable evidence that the “homogenized” data has been changed to fit someone’s preconceptions about whether the earth is warming.
and after slogging my way through the data, I agree. When scientists are more worried about grants and political clout than facts, they are not to be trusted.
wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/08/the-smoking-gun-at-darwin-zero/
Actually, they do. Every copy of OS X sold in a box is technically an upgrade, and the only place you can get the "full" version is on a Mac. Therefore installing an upgrade to OS X on a non-Mac is violating the user agreement, and it WILL hold up in court should Apple decide to pursue it, which they probably won't...
Louis Armstrongs
While I dig the guy's music, perhaps you meant "Neil"?
I have yet to encounter a situation where a table is easier than CSS. I don't even use tables for tabular data anymore.
Note that "easier" doesn't necessarily mean "less code"
and right on regarding goto. it's fine as long as you write structured code. I've seen plenty of shitty code written without gotos...
Or maybe you don't have no ice cream, you didn't get none, you can't afford it, 'cos you are on the welfare, and your dad's an alcoholic!!"
Maybe they should hire Comcast to manage the bathroom bandwidth.
I can has flaming chairz?
Depends. Using Firefox (or even IE) on a production server to hit support.microsoft.com, or an internal intranet site to get drivers and tools is fine. Using google to search down stuff and go get it is a different thing altogether. Logging in a root can be bad too. it's all in how you use the tools. The most important security tool is the gray stuff behind your eyes...
Yes, because Prohibition worked so well with alcohol, and works so well with drugs. The majority of gun crime in the US is committed by people who have illegally obtained the weapons in the first place, in violation of existing gun laws. Stricter laws will not do anything to reduce that level of crime.
Here's where maybe we can agree. In Arizona, anyone can obtain a CCW with the appropriate training. I have no problem making people get training to carry a gun, but that right needs to be open to everyone. Also, a factoid. In any given year you can count on one hand the number of gun crimes committed by CCW holders (of which there are many ten-thousands) The city in which I live has gun ownership rate in excess of 50% of the households. There has been one gun related murder in the last 5 years, and that was an illegal alien Mexican drug dealer that ended up dead in a retail parking lot. He brought his problems with him. 1 person in five years with a population of more than 20K with more than 10K guns present tells me that guns are not the problem. If free access to guns was the primary cause, then the murder rate in my city would be off the chart. it is not.
Just because something seems obvious does not mean it is true. As my statistics teacher taught me (or maybe is was my chemistry teacher), correlation does not imply causality.
Yes, it's obvious that if there were no guns they would be no gun crime. There would be other types of violent crime though, human nature being what is is. There would be 40k less deaths a year from cars if there were no cars, so we should make it really hard to get those too.
My proposal is proper training as a requirement to have either. There is a reason that speed limits in Germany are higher than the US, yet the per-capata death rate for drivers in Germany is markedly lower, and that is proper training.
Also, I'd like to direct your attention to the fact that the recent spate of shootings in the US occurred in states that have some of the strictest gun laws. Ironic, no?
The bottom line is that cutting down trees and using nasty chemicals to make paper, making ink, using a crapload of energy to print the papers and then distribute them makes little sense when we are talking about distributing information.
The Internet, and other electronic forms of media, and readers like the kindel make so much more sense in terms of availability and timeliness of the information. This industry needs to shrink, just like candle making shrank when the electric light became popular.
Regarding neutrality, NPR is about as neutral as right wing AM radio, and a press regulated by the government should scare the hell out of you. Since they would be subject to all sorts of regulations to maintain their not-for-profit status, I for one would not believe anything they printed.
Well, if you get all your news from CNN and / or Fox News I guess that would be your perspective, but in reality, I see that both sides teen to vote within their respective ideologies, modified by who has paid them the most money.
I know it's probably difficult to understand, but Republicans and Democrats do tend to differ on a large number of issues. Hatred hasn't anything to do with it, at least not hatred of the people. It's more extreme dislike of the others policies
Don't let Joel Anderson find out about street view, he'll want that blurred out as well.
The 7-11 on the corner by my house was routinely robbed. I'm sure if the image of the store in Street View was blurred out, some of these robberies would not have taken place, because I'm certain that the type of folks that hold up a convenience store plan this stuff in advance with high technology.
Agreed.
The great majority of what I do are PHP based homegrown CMS type sites. I use Dreamweaver to manage the code, I use Photoshop and Illustrator for the graphics, and I use Firebug to figure out the CSS.
I don't use Dreamweaver to it's fullest potential because I no longer do a lot of static HTML stuff, but I still find Dreamweaver useful for PHP, JavaScript and CSS coding, probably because I've been using it for 6 years.
I never use a program with an "!" in the title.
I agree with you 100%. I find that, in general, it's less work and more maintainable to simply create the tables the customer needs for their specific site and code it up in PHP, using a library of common functions I've built over the years. I give them a tailored back end admin console, that is very specific to their site and content, generally using something like PHPMaker.
post.
I'm with you. I use it every day, and I've had no issues. Sadly I can't say the same for Outlook 2007...
Beating the crap out of a fax machine with a bat?
I just don't believe that's true. Some code is inherently more secure. UNIX is generally more secure than Windows. People like to say (for example) that the reason Mac OS has few trojans, and no real viruses to date (that I am aware of) is because of its market share. You'd have to be exceptionally naive to believe that among the legions of Apple hating Microsofties that no one has been able to create a successful virus yet. I'm certain it has absolutely nothing to do with the inherent security of UNIX - Nope that's not possible. has to be market share. :)
I have no proof to back this up, but there is also zero proof to back up the market share theory.
Setting up proxies in New Jersey.
So, the EFF and Apple are going head to head over these issues, but you post the EFF article detailing EFF's point of view. Nilay Patel at Engadget seems to understand this a lot better than most of the people here:
"... Apple isn't asking for jailbreaking to specifically be ruled illegal, it's just asking that it not be specifically ruled legal. If that sounds like a fuzzy distinction, well, it is, but that's the sort of gray area that keeps everyone else out of court for the time being. We'll find out more in the spring, when the Copyright Office holds hearings -- final rulings are due in October."
It's not that scalable now, wait until it's written in .Net...
Properly written C and C++ code can and should trap all exceptions. There is no excuse for untrapped buffer overflows in mature commercial code.
Microsoft's method is to wait until a vulnerability is discovered, then patch it, as opposed to rigorous code reviews to proactively identify potential untrapped errors.
It's not like the cause of overflows is a complete mystery. Well... maybe it is to Microsoft.
Is when the damn thing resets 90% of the way to the end with no saves. Then I want to kill the developers and/or the hardware manufacturer.
ah. something new learned. thanks.
So, don't make an implosion device. Make a sphere and core device, or a gun-type weapon. It's a lot less efficient, sure, but you can make it with tools from any high school machine shop. You don't even need high explosives - black powder will do. I believe that one of the bombs used in Japan was of this type. They knew it was going to work. They didn't even bother to test it.
well, maybe we should have let the south succeed from the country. I'm from the midwest and I live in the west, I'm about as white as you can get, and I've rarely heard that kind of talk from anyone. Regardless, racist teachers in Dallas don't excuse the remarks of someone speaking at a presidential inauguration. Also, a behind closed door conversation, as disgusting as it may be, is not even close to the same as being made to ride in the back of the bus or use a separate restroom.