It would be nice with more refined diagnosis tools on the net tho; easily accessible and structured decision trees which can guide you through how to both rule in and rule out possibilities would make a good tool for both patients and doctors. Done correctly it could even cut down unnecessary doctors visits and/or increase chances of early discovery of some diseases.
The NHS has already produced a pretty good one. They also have a really good selection of information on their NHS Direct site, and a local rate national helpline to talk about general health related issues. Slightly more geekily, they have a Behind the headlines news site which gives the real science behind some of the more heinously bad medical reporting that some sections of the media engage in.
Plenty of controversy over nationalised healthcare systems: can't fault the NHS's online presence though, it's a real anomaly amongst Governmental efforts on the 'net.
>> Right now, these literals are interpreted as integers
Not if you're using python 3 - it will treat numbers as floats if you divide with them. If you're not using python 3, you can have python 2.6 do the same:
Provided you know precisely what the crack does: did they have (and review) the source for the crack, or did the just apply a patch from a shady underground group to one of their files and release it?
Python 2.6.4 (r264:75706, Dec 7 2009, 18:43:55) [GCC 4.4.1] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> 5/2 #Diving integers in Python 2.6 gives an integer 2 >>> from __future__ import division >>> 5/2 #Things work differently in the future 2.5 >>> 5//2 #You can use a double '/' to explicitly force an integer in Python 3 2
They may be adults, but if there is no method to track attendance (an attendance sheet passed around would do the trick) then you'll have swathes of poor performers who didn't attend blaming it on bad lectures, that in turn reflects badly on both the lecturer and the college in general. I genuinely believe most students who don't attend lectures as a matter of course would be willing to damage someone's reputation rather than shoulder any responsibility for underachievement.
More importantly though, monitoring attendance offers an easy way to track how popular a lecture is. If attendance is low, then it could mean the content is adding much to the material in the texts, or that the delivery is so bad it's actually hard for students to take it in. LIke-wise for high attendance.
Sure, there's a few bad reasons for tracking attendance, but plenty more good ones. I think you need to justify *not* taking it, rather than the other way around.
I understood that they had a set of policies for 'user-level' passwords (which this was not classed as) saying things like 'never diclose your password, even to your boss' and another set of policies for 'system-level' passwords, which these passwords were classed as. The policies for 'system-level' passwords say they must be stored in a centrally managed database: a policy that Childs violated by keeping them in a way only accessible to him. Under your model (assuming the above is correct) you wouldn't be absolved from prosecution in this case, because Childs hadn't followed procedures related to 'system-level' passwords.
It's all rather moot though, there is a systemic problem in any organisation which lets its IT be run in a way where someone can hold it hostage like this. The real lesson here is that institutional incompetence can lead to individual criminal liability.
If you're an IT admin working in the States then it's your geographic (not professional) situation that's putting you at risk of going to jail for something stupid like this.
No, the site is structured so if you enter any details in the form, they won't be submitted by your browser when you click the form. Since the site doesn't offer me any means to enter details and have them sent (and you'd want to give it more than the cursory glance I did to prove this) then why flag it as a phishing site?
It does...you'd have to accept the new EULA before it applies. Oh, but you'll need to accept the new EULA to install the update, and won't be able to play new games or play online unless you do so. All perfectly inline with the EULA you initially accepted. Did you read it, and decide it was a good deal, or just click on that accept button?
Or...focus on logging instead of actual restriction. Make sure they know what they can and can't do, and if the logs show they're frequently abusing the machines, do some parenting.
The right thing is obviously to sue the true rights holders in a protracted and monumentally expensive legal battle dragging your name through the mud and ultimately making a complete ass of yourself, after artificially inflating your stock price for a little while.
I suspect that the creative ingenuity and engineering effort involved in solving this problem is *not* sufficient to warrant a monopoly on putting little lights on a game controller. Being the first person to do something useful shouldn't give you a right to prevent other people copying it.
Now, if there was some major hurdle to adding lights to a game controller I hadn't realised, and Microsoft have somehow solved it: patent away!
Yeah, I kinda thought the same thing (hot and cold tap did it for me) but then I thought that, the tardis is meant to be 'sort of' alive, and is responsible for completely rebuilding itself, so why can't it go a bit eccentric in its old age?
(But what if someone slips in a stack of doctored disks?)
The important question is will the entire endeavour decrease the amount lost through fraudulent OLB transactions, and if the cost (producing the disc, customer dissatisfaction of having to use them etc.) is worth it for the expected decrease in fraudulent OLB transactions. In order to understand this you'll have to analyse a whole bunch of 'what if' questions, and the one above should certainly be one of them.
(OK, sure in reality the bank might expect to see a benefit from appearing to go out of their way to protect customers from fraud, even if the solution has no net value)
No, I'm not proposing content-type restrictions of http traffic as a panacea that you'd expect to implement like a magic bullet and prevent malware infesting your network, or as something you'd implement at a productivity cost: I did say 'for starters'.
Well for starters you can use a proxy to prevent (most) users being able to download anything over http that doesn't have a whitelisted content type/file extension.
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It would be nice with more refined diagnosis tools on the net tho; easily accessible and structured decision trees which can guide you through how to both rule in and rule out possibilities would make a good tool for both patients and doctors. Done correctly it could even cut down unnecessary doctors visits and/or increase chances of early discovery of some diseases.
The NHS has already produced a pretty good one. They also have a really good selection of information on their NHS Direct site, and a local rate national helpline to talk about general health related issues. Slightly more geekily, they have a Behind the headlines news site which gives the real science behind some of the more heinously bad medical reporting that some sections of the media engage in.
Plenty of controversy over nationalised healthcare systems: can't fault the NHS's online presence though, it's a real anomaly amongst Governmental efforts on the 'net.
The sooner we get these people off Limewire and onto Bittorrent, the sooner I can stop having to clean trojans off my friends PCs every few weeks.
>> Right now, these literals are interpreted as integers
Not if you're using python 3 - it will treat numbers as floats if you divide with them. If you're not using python 3, you can have python 2.6 do the same:
>>> 5/2
2
>>> from __future__ import division
>>> 5/2
2.5
Provided you know precisely what the crack does: did they have (and review) the source for the crack, or did the just apply a patch from a shady underground group to one of their files and release it?
Python 2.6.4 (r264:75706, Dec 7 2009, 18:43:55)
[GCC 4.4.1] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> 5/2 #Diving integers in Python 2.6 gives an integer
2
>>> from __future__ import division
>>> 5/2 #Things work differently in the future
2.5
>>> 5//2 #You can use a double '/' to explicitly force an integer in Python 3
2
"I don't f-ing care whether students come or not in my class"
I think it would be a little distracting if they did.
They may be adults, but if there is no method to track attendance (an attendance sheet passed around would do the trick) then you'll have swathes of poor performers who didn't attend blaming it on bad lectures, that in turn reflects badly on both the lecturer and the college in general. I genuinely believe most students who don't attend lectures as a matter of course would be willing to damage someone's reputation rather than shoulder any responsibility for underachievement.
More importantly though, monitoring attendance offers an easy way to track how popular a lecture is. If attendance is low, then it could mean the content is adding much to the material in the texts, or that the delivery is so bad it's actually hard for students to take it in. LIke-wise for high attendance.
Sure, there's a few bad reasons for tracking attendance, but plenty more good ones. I think you need to justify *not* taking it, rather than the other way around.
Yep, mice are pretty intuitive but relatively inefficient; they only allow you to express and x,y position and the state of a few buttons.
Controlling a modern OS via the keyboard is quite unintuitive, but you can be much more expressive, and so do things more efficiently.
Pretty sure he's talking about this
I understood that they had a set of policies for 'user-level' passwords (which this was not classed as) saying things like 'never diclose your password, even to your boss' and another set of policies for 'system-level' passwords, which these passwords were classed as. The policies for 'system-level' passwords say they must be stored in a centrally managed database: a policy that Childs violated by keeping them in a way only accessible to him. Under your model (assuming the above is correct) you wouldn't be absolved from prosecution in this case, because Childs hadn't followed procedures related to 'system-level' passwords.
It's all rather moot though, there is a systemic problem in any organisation which lets its IT be run in a way where someone can hold it hostage like this. The real lesson here is that institutional incompetence can lead to individual criminal liability.
If you're an IT admin working in the States then it's your geographic (not professional) situation that's putting you at risk of going to jail for something stupid like this.
As a BitTorrent user, I was shocked that anyone with a box connected to the Internet can spy on what everyone is downloading on BitTorrent.
Your geek card, hand it in!
No, the site is structured so if you enter any details in the form, they won't be submitted by your browser when you click the form. Since the site doesn't offer me any means to enter details and have them sent (and you'd want to give it more than the cursory glance I did to prove this) then why flag it as a phishing site?
It does...you'd have to accept the new EULA before it applies. Oh, but you'll need to accept the new EULA to install the update, and won't be able to play new games or play online unless you do so. All perfectly inline with the EULA you initially accepted. Did you read it, and decide it was a good deal, or just click on that accept button?
Or...focus on logging instead of actual restriction. Make sure they know what they can and can't do, and if the logs show they're frequently abusing the machines, do some parenting.
being closed for most of the 24 hour day gives people a little more time to thing about what is going on.
You mean like: "ARRRGH! What the hell are they doing with our servers while we're not there!!!
The right thing is obviously to sue the true rights holders in a protracted and monumentally expensive legal battle dragging your name through the mud and ultimately making a complete ass of yourself, after artificially inflating your stock price for a little while.
Actually, as others have pointed out these are design patents only...
I suspect that the creative ingenuity and engineering effort involved in solving this problem is *not* sufficient to warrant a monopoly on putting little lights on a game controller. Being the first person to do something useful shouldn't give you a right to prevent other people copying it.
Now, if there was some major hurdle to adding lights to a game controller I hadn't realised, and Microsoft have somehow solved it: patent away!
Yeah, I kinda thought the same thing (hot and cold tap did it for me) but then I thought that, the tardis is meant to be 'sort of' alive, and is responsible for completely rebuilding itself, so why can't it go a bit eccentric in its old age?
Don't click on that first link about GE's tax bill. It's worse than goatse.
Seriously, I think I'm going to throw up.
Yikes. Guess there's a few sharp thinking short sellers wearing a satisfied smirk today.
GUI buttons, dropping pidgin from the default install, 'just ignore notifications, no need to click them away'...now this?
Why does Ubuntu keep trying to make contentious decisions?
I'm starting to think I'm not Shuttleworth's target user here. SUSE, Fedora, Debian or CentOS. What does /. suggest as an alternative?
(But what if someone slips in a stack of doctored disks?)
The important question is will the entire endeavour decrease the amount lost through fraudulent OLB transactions, and if the cost (producing the disc, customer dissatisfaction of having to use them etc.) is worth it for the expected decrease in fraudulent OLB transactions. In order to understand this you'll have to analyse a whole bunch of 'what if' questions, and the one above should certainly be one of them.
(OK, sure in reality the bank might expect to see a benefit from appearing to go out of their way to protect customers from fraud, even if the solution has no net value)
No, I'm not proposing content-type restrictions of http traffic as a panacea that you'd expect to implement like a magic bullet and prevent malware infesting your network, or as something you'd implement at a productivity cost: I did say 'for starters'.
Well for starters you can use a proxy to prevent (most) users being able to download anything over http that doesn't have a whitelisted content type/file extension.