Honestly how many people should/would care who he is outside of his 700,000 or so constituents in Ohio? I for one am relieved that not everyone plays into the soap opera style dramatics that the mainstream media tries to turn Congress into. Sure, it's far from perfect, but the cast of characters they have crafted from the leadership is nothing short of Epic (in the theatric sense.)
Not surprised, considering that when facebook was founded there were a flurry of rumors that it was partly funded by the NSA, that Zuckerberg himself was a federal employee, and all kinds of things relating to how if the government wanted to collect information on its citizens without really trying, that a nice big free social network was exactly the way to do it.
Who knows how much of it is true, but holy crap is the latter part right or what.
Hey, you were the one too lazy to just ask "does relativity say that the elapsed time since their zygotes split from the embryo is now farther apart than it was before as they certainly have not been going exactly the same speed and subject to the same gravity their whole lives?"/now *thats* pedantic.
Relativity says they have experienced a different amount of elapsed time over the duration of the space journey taken by only one of the siblings.
The fact that two babies can't come out of one uterus at the exact same time is what says they are already, and always will be, different "Ages" (since birth).
They have been touting "more streams" for a long time (as long as you don't cross them...) They started with 1, went to 2 pretty quick and have been teasing 3 or 4 streams for a year or more...
I don't get it, he is Russian born and works in Manchester, England. Are they saying $2.2 trillion (nominal GDP of England in 2006) isn't enough to win a patent war? My god, if that's the case, then what is?
Your friends have too much power as it is, if you don't trust them. Being added to a group really means nothing in the context of privacy, it just means your name will (probably temporarily) appear on the list of members. If you can't trust your friends to not add you to groups you don't want to be in, you should not trust them with access to all the other info you have in Facebook.
While I think facebook has a callous disregard for privacy in general, their suggestion that you simply un-friend someone who plops you into a group is spot-on.
Membership in a group really just means that your name will appear in their roster. No one will have additional access to your personal information. If you find it annoying that you have to remove yourself from a group you don't want to be in, just remove the friend who put you there along with it.
Facebook has long needed better "friend" vs. "acquaintance" handling; i.e. you can share more with your inner circle than with the person you met once and say Hi to about every 6 months. Maybe this ruffle will be the push they need to get cracking on that feature.
The problem presents itself when the very groups claiming to be solely interested in "protecting" our rights (constitutional conservatives) go on ad nauseam about how "political correctness" is weakening America and how racial profiling is OK as long as it works and how the Bible, by way of sharing with the Constitution the use of the word God, has imbued a national priority of marginalizing gays. And, most recently, how portraying (in an accurate way) a current world event is intolerably insensitive. The hypocrisy of this is off the charts.
All the other video games that were offensive to minorities went unremarked (most notably the entire GTA III series with the exception of their attempt at showing pixellated sex, which is apparently unforgivable.)
I am not out to stand up for any one minority except, perhaps, the minority that demands a lack of hypocrisy in the national conversation. There are too few of us around.
"Freedom" is now amended to mean "Anything you want to do except marry someone of the same sex, have a different skin color than the majority and expect to not be harassed, or play a video game that might be offensive to someone if they are both easily offended and a member/relative of the military."
This isn't as funny as it is practical. Any manual transmission car with a decent idle control system can be driven without touching the gas pedal given the clutch is used gracefully. Trying to teach someone how to drive a manual car via "gas in, clutch out" is a sure way to simultaneously fail to teach them the right way to drive, and ruin your clutch.
NAT is insecure only if the machine operating the NAT is insecure. A host running a NAT with sufficient hardness/dumbness will shield the interior machines from any sort of inbound attack; the fact that they are unaddressable from the outside is as secure as you can get without unplugging. An attacker on the inside is a different story but that attack vector would exist with or without an internet in the first place.
Cue the "oh but there are insecure browsers/email/cellphones/whatever" crowd in 3, 2, 1...
He did at least say "maker" and not "inventor"... It could be argued that the guy who runs the company responsible for their production at present day is their "maker", could it not?
It must have been the total-system efficiency numbers I was thinking of then; go ahead and peek around Wikipedia for thermal efficiency of a Coal generation station (or any kind for that matter) and you won't find numbers anywhere close to the >90% range that can be achieved with a natural gas furnace. Then, come back and tell me I'm wrong. I will wait.
It goes into magnetic energy and heat generated in the power lines and transformers along the miles and miles between the point of production (usually a coal plant far outside of town or even clear across the state) and the point of use (your livingroom, for example). The rule of thumb I have seen is that over half of produced energy is wasted in this way. Contrast this with natural gas or even heating oil, which requires a pretty light energy burden to travel to your home and it's efficiency is determined by the sophistication of your heating device (most are 90%+ efficient, some furnaces extract so much heat that the exhaust isn't warm enough to rise in a conventional chimney.)
"zzap appears to have discovered the vulnerability shortly after seeing RainbowTwtr's colourful use of CSS injection to display the colours of the rainbow."
He discovered *someone elses* use of the vulnerability. He then went on to make it more publicly known, and finally lamented the evil that was about to descend upon the twitterverse.
Say that when you have $14 million to give up. It's like asking you to give up a $30,000 bonus to get another job making $60,000 a year... Money is relative, despite what many at the bottom think; the more you have the more you want and it never stops. I would have to say you are the exception and not the rule if you indeed do give up the prospect of many many millions in favor of "Retiring" with a few million. Sure it's easy to say, but those who do end up in that situation virtually never turn down more money.
Are you nuts? He will earn that $14M back (and then some) the first year he works at Oracle. In years to come, he will certainly make tens (if not hundreds) of millions more. A headline like "CEO parts with $14 million" shouldn't cause anyone to bat an eye, unless you are really clueless about how much they earn.
I was pondering the same thing... What part of Avatar was under water? Can those crazy blue alien people now ride 7-mile-deep diving creatures of some sort, for what is presumably a spiritual journey of self-accomplishment and occasional calamity?
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Oops...supposed to be "and a chick population that hasn't been exposed to as many STD's as city girls (have) ???
Either way you say it, you truly must never have visited the heartland... clean water and untainted women are NOT its strong suit.
Honestly how many people should/would care who he is outside of his 700,000 or so constituents in Ohio? I for one am relieved that not everyone plays into the soap opera style dramatics that the mainstream media tries to turn Congress into. Sure, it's far from perfect, but the cast of characters they have crafted from the leadership is nothing short of Epic (in the theatric sense.)
Not surprised, considering that when facebook was founded there were a flurry of rumors that it was partly funded by the NSA, that Zuckerberg himself was a federal employee, and all kinds of things relating to how if the government wanted to collect information on its citizens without really trying, that a nice big free social network was exactly the way to do it.
Who knows how much of it is true, but holy crap is the latter part right or what.
Hey, you were the one too lazy to just ask "does relativity say that the elapsed time since their zygotes split from the embryo is now farther apart than it was before as they certainly have not been going exactly the same speed and subject to the same gravity their whole lives?" /now *thats* pedantic.
Where is the (-1 "it's a trap!") mod when you need it...
Relativity says they have experienced a different amount of elapsed time over the duration of the space journey taken by only one of the siblings.
The fact that two babies can't come out of one uterus at the exact same time is what says they are already, and always will be, different "Ages" (since birth).
They have been touting "more streams" for a long time (as long as you don't cross them...) They started with 1, went to 2 pretty quick and have been teasing 3 or 4 streams for a year or more...
Here is an announcement about the "four HD streams" from just two weeks ago: http://www.fierceiptv.com/story/u-verse-customers-getting-upgrade-4-simultaneous-hd-streams/2010-09-16
I don't get it, he is Russian born and works in Manchester, England. Are they saying $2.2 trillion (nominal GDP of England in 2006) isn't enough to win a patent war? My god, if that's the case, then what is?
Your friends have too much power as it is, if you don't trust them. Being added to a group really means nothing in the context of privacy, it just means your name will (probably temporarily) appear on the list of members. If you can't trust your friends to not add you to groups you don't want to be in, you should not trust them with access to all the other info you have in Facebook.
While I think facebook has a callous disregard for privacy in general, their suggestion that you simply un-friend someone who plops you into a group is spot-on.
Membership in a group really just means that your name will appear in their roster. No one will have additional access to your personal information. If you find it annoying that you have to remove yourself from a group you don't want to be in, just remove the friend who put you there along with it.
Facebook has long needed better "friend" vs. "acquaintance" handling; i.e. you can share more with your inner circle than with the person you met once and say Hi to about every 6 months. Maybe this ruffle will be the push they need to get cracking on that feature.
The problem presents itself when the very groups claiming to be solely interested in "protecting" our rights (constitutional conservatives) go on ad nauseam about how "political correctness" is weakening America and how racial profiling is OK as long as it works and how the Bible, by way of sharing with the Constitution the use of the word God, has imbued a national priority of marginalizing gays. And, most recently, how portraying (in an accurate way) a current world event is intolerably insensitive. The hypocrisy of this is off the charts.
All the other video games that were offensive to minorities went unremarked (most notably the entire GTA III series with the exception of their attempt at showing pixellated sex, which is apparently unforgivable.)
I am not out to stand up for any one minority except, perhaps, the minority that demands a lack of hypocrisy in the national conversation. There are too few of us around.
"Freedom" is now amended to mean "Anything you want to do except marry someone of the same sex, have a different skin color than the majority and expect to not be harassed, or play a video game that might be offensive to someone if they are both easily offended and a member/relative of the military."
This isn't as funny as it is practical. Any manual transmission car with a decent idle control system can be driven without touching the gas pedal given the clutch is used gracefully. Trying to teach someone how to drive a manual car via "gas in, clutch out" is a sure way to simultaneously fail to teach them the right way to drive, and ruin your clutch.
Yeah but the OS was intrusion free when it got nicked, wasn't it?
NAT is insecure only if the machine operating the NAT is insecure. A host running a NAT with sufficient hardness/dumbness will shield the interior machines from any sort of inbound attack; the fact that they are unaddressable from the outside is as secure as you can get without unplugging. An attacker on the inside is a different story but that attack vector would exist with or without an internet in the first place.
Cue the "oh but there are insecure browsers/email/cellphones/whatever" crowd in 3, 2, 1...
So what part of it doesn't meet item 5: "an outcome of events contrary to what was, or might have been, expected."
He surely didn't expect to die (as no rumors of it being a suicide have surfaced). Contrary to his expectation, he died. Irony of the 5th order, QED.
He did at least say "maker" and not "inventor"... It could be argued that the guy who runs the company responsible for their production at present day is their "maker", could it not?
It must have been the total-system efficiency numbers I was thinking of then; go ahead and peek around Wikipedia for thermal efficiency of a Coal generation station (or any kind for that matter) and you won't find numbers anywhere close to the >90% range that can be achieved with a natural gas furnace. Then, come back and tell me I'm wrong. I will wait.
It goes into magnetic energy and heat generated in the power lines and transformers along the miles and miles between the point of production (usually a coal plant far outside of town or even clear across the state) and the point of use (your livingroom, for example). The rule of thumb I have seen is that over half of produced energy is wasted in this way. Contrast this with natural gas or even heating oil, which requires a pretty light energy burden to travel to your home and it's efficiency is determined by the sophistication of your heating device (most are 90%+ efficient, some furnaces extract so much heat that the exhaust isn't warm enough to rise in a conventional chimney.)
It saw where the flag was... before it got vaporized! "Flag not microwave safe". Should have gotten the made in china version. etc.etc.etc.
Reading comprehension fail.
"zzap appears to have discovered the vulnerability shortly after seeing RainbowTwtr's colourful use of CSS injection to display the colours of the rainbow."
He discovered *someone elses* use of the vulnerability. He then went on to make it more publicly known, and finally lamented the evil that was about to descend upon the twitterverse.
Say that when you have $14 million to give up. It's like asking you to give up a $30,000 bonus to get another job making $60,000 a year... Money is relative, despite what many at the bottom think; the more you have the more you want and it never stops. I would have to say you are the exception and not the rule if you indeed do give up the prospect of many many millions in favor of "Retiring" with a few million. Sure it's easy to say, but those who do end up in that situation virtually never turn down more money.
"Plan? You didn't have no plan! You ain't never had no plan!"
Are you nuts? He will earn that $14M back (and then some) the first year he works at Oracle. In years to come, he will certainly make tens (if not hundreds) of millions more. A headline like "CEO parts with $14 million" shouldn't cause anyone to bat an eye, unless you are really clueless about how much they earn.
I was pondering the same thing... What part of Avatar was under water? Can those crazy blue alien people now ride 7-mile-deep diving creatures of some sort, for what is presumably a spiritual journey of self-accomplishment and occasional calamity?