The "race" is not about the hardware. All modern supercomputers are massively clustered, using various shared memory architectures. The technology is commodity level, and even a small sum like $10 million can buy a SHITLOAD of hardware. The challenge, and the point of competition, is the creation of software technologies and algorithms to effectively make use of clustered hardware. It's a question of who has the best minds working on the software. The hardware is a given. People have constructed impressive massively parallel processors using game consoles, after all.
It's the programmers, not the supercomputer makers, who will make the difference in this "race."
I actually ascribe to your colleague's view. You really need to do your best to anticipate and handle all REALISTICALLY POSSIBLE error scenarios. But if something unimaginable happens, you probably do NOT want to:
A) Sweep it under the rug so that the user, and you, never even know it happened
B) Try to recover, i.e. perform complex tasks, while state is corrupted in unknown ways
Really, the important idea is to make sure the user knows something REALLY bad happened, and give the user enough information to report back to you, so that you have a chance in hell of figuring it out. This DOESN'T mean you need to display a raw call stack to the user. But a dialog which pops and allows the user to send a crash report via email isn't a bad idea. If you just log it and continue, the user will probably never know anything went wrong, and your application might end up doing more damage in its attempts to recover than by simply aborting. If an insane person came into your house and re-arranged and broke all your stuff, would you trust the same person to fix it?
Having said that, your friend seems to have misunderstood this idea and applied it to situations where it shouldn't apply -- you can realistically expect that sometimes a database won't get opened correctly, or a file open operation fails, etc. But if you're hitting problems like using a null reference in a place where the reference can't possibly be null, that's really a serious logical flaw in your code and you really do need as much detail as possible to find it and fix it.
It might be the same money, but the price of the money is possibly different. Do you get 1% cash back on all purchases with your debit card, like you get with some major credit cards?
The wording on the banknote means exactly what it says. That it is legal tender for all DEBTS, public and private. Buying something with cash does not involve a debt. You simply don't receive your item until you have paid for it. No debt was ever incurred.
The good thing about WiFi hacking is that you have to be nearby.
Uhh, check that assumption. I know a guy who uses a parabolic antenna with a signal amplifier. I think the furthest he's been able to connect is over a mile (some AP he picked up across the river). Connection quality wasn't great but it was there. Instead of wardriving, we can hang out for an afternoon and "war-drink" which involves drinking beer on the roof while pivoting the antenna around. You can pick up dozens of APs without even moving.
And of course, they've demonstrated 50-mile distances at various DEFCON events over the years.
But it's trivial to figure out what MAC to spoof, especially if you're not using WEP and relying entirely on MAC filtering. Just sniff the air -- you'll see packets from a legit host, MAC address and all. Take that MAC, there you go. A friend of mine in the early 2000's used to do this all the time on cruise liners, when they didn't offer wireless to their customers yet. The APs were unencrypted but MAC-locked. He just sniffed a valid MAC and away to the Internet he went. It's trivial.
I've lived in Oregon almost my whole life, and went through public school here. My first thought on reading this is that a number of district leaders who have historically poor performance measures must be pressuring the state to allow this. See, in Oregon, we have this extremely backwards system where if a district is slipping in terms of the students' performance on standardized tests, that district is punished by having funding taken away. This of course worsens the district still further, leading to more decline, leading to more fiscal punishment... I'm sure a lot of these districts are hurting these days with students who consistently score low on the English tests because of spelling problems, and they see this as a way for them to boost their scores (and therefore, their funding levels) so that hopefully, just maybe, the schools can get back on their feet and start TEACHING again.
It's a fucked up situation but it's not the school districts' fault. It is the insane policy of the State of Oregon to seek out underperforming districts and attack them by pulling funding. If they'd stop doing THAT, maybe the districts could focus on education again instead of getting the kids to pass standardized tests at a particular level.
"If you can source enough current..." as if you have any control over the current. It's a simple damn equation, people. V = I*R. For a given conductor, if you put one volt across it, a current V/R will flow through it. No, you can't magically wish for a higher current at the same voltage. Nor could you achieve an arbitrary voltage at a given current. If you can control both current and voltage, then BY DEFINITION you are changing the resistance.
Another one of my least favorites: "It's the current that kills, not the voltage." Actually, it's the stoppage of your heart that kills you, along with possibly the boiling and cooking of your internal organs. People take these sorts of sayings and end up making stupid decisions.
The overwhelming majority of human progress has come from people who were or are highly religious.
If your argument is that the majority class is somehow important, then you should have asserted instead that being male is obviously the biggest factor in making a lasting impact.
My now-wife and I spent a day hanging out there... Enjoying the Roman baths.. Some drinks by the soaking pools... Then a quick jaunt in our bathrobes over to the crocodile holding tanks. Romantic? Not quite the word I'd use, but it was fun. Just don't drink so much that you start getting the crocodile pool confused with the bath house.
(No, seriously, I'm not making it up. Hamat Gader is one of the world's finest Roman-bath-slash-crocodile-farming establishments I've ever visited.)
Do you know who the person was? Because you seem to have encountered somebody whose mind is so sick that they can see an image of a child who is so young that they haven't even been born yet and sexual thoughts go through their head. Maybe this person's name should appear on... I don't know, some kind of list of people who pose a threat to children's safety.
Can we, for once god dammit, talk about the issue instead of complaining about whatever poor schmuck with very little personal control over the daily happenings of our government, is currently sitting in the Oval Office? Seriously dude, I do not give a shit.
There are a lot of sites that will not serve data to Tor users because of fucking morons using it to spam message boards. Thanks a lot, assholes.
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I'm all for transparency in government and holding people in power responsible, but there's an entire world of governments out there that should have their actions (or lack thereof, depending on the issue) scrutinized by the public, not just America. Where's the WikiLeaks coverage of China's human rights issues? How about the Cambodian government's failure to address the problem of child sex workers?
It's WikiLEAKS. If it hasn't been leaked to Wikileaks, how can Wikileaks publish it? Wikileaks is not an espionage organization and it's not about on-the-move journalism. If you have some information on these topics, which you seem to be so concerned about, why don't you put your own ass on the line and send it to Wikileaks?
So what you're saying is that the enforcement arm of the government will be more and more populated by people who are out of touch. Good. That gives the rest of us a massive advantage. We know the technology whereas you are the ones playing catch-up.
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So, you are pro anonymous vigilante open DDoS war on the Internet, I take it? You don't mind seeing this kind of shit happen?
The "race" is not about the hardware. All modern supercomputers are massively clustered, using various shared memory architectures. The technology is commodity level, and even a small sum like $10 million can buy a SHITLOAD of hardware. The challenge, and the point of competition, is the creation of software technologies and algorithms to effectively make use of clustered hardware. It's a question of who has the best minds working on the software. The hardware is a given. People have constructed impressive massively parallel processors using game consoles, after all.
It's the programmers, not the supercomputer makers, who will make the difference in this "race."
I actually ascribe to your colleague's view. You really need to do your best to anticipate and handle all REALISTICALLY POSSIBLE error scenarios. But if something unimaginable happens, you probably do NOT want to:
A) Sweep it under the rug so that the user, and you, never even know it happened
B) Try to recover, i.e. perform complex tasks, while state is corrupted in unknown ways
Really, the important idea is to make sure the user knows something REALLY bad happened, and give the user enough information to report back to you, so that you have a chance in hell of figuring it out. This DOESN'T mean you need to display a raw call stack to the user. But a dialog which pops and allows the user to send a crash report via email isn't a bad idea. If you just log it and continue, the user will probably never know anything went wrong, and your application might end up doing more damage in its attempts to recover than by simply aborting. If an insane person came into your house and re-arranged and broke all your stuff, would you trust the same person to fix it?
Having said that, your friend seems to have misunderstood this idea and applied it to situations where it shouldn't apply -- you can realistically expect that sometimes a database won't get opened correctly, or a file open operation fails, etc. But if you're hitting problems like using a null reference in a place where the reference can't possibly be null, that's really a serious logical flaw in your code and you really do need as much detail as possible to find it and fix it.
And what are my principles?
It might be the same money, but the price of the money is possibly different. Do you get 1% cash back on all purchases with your debit card, like you get with some major credit cards?
The wording on the banknote means exactly what it says. That it is legal tender for all DEBTS, public and private. Buying something with cash does not involve a debt. You simply don't receive your item until you have paid for it. No debt was ever incurred.
The good thing about WiFi hacking is that you have to be nearby.
Uhh, check that assumption. I know a guy who uses a parabolic antenna with a signal amplifier. I think the furthest he's been able to connect is over a mile (some AP he picked up across the river). Connection quality wasn't great but it was there. Instead of wardriving, we can hang out for an afternoon and "war-drink" which involves drinking beer on the roof while pivoting the antenna around. You can pick up dozens of APs without even moving.
And of course, they've demonstrated 50-mile distances at various DEFCON events over the years.
But it's trivial to figure out what MAC to spoof, especially if you're not using WEP and relying entirely on MAC filtering. Just sniff the air -- you'll see packets from a legit host, MAC address and all. Take that MAC, there you go. A friend of mine in the early 2000's used to do this all the time on cruise liners, when they didn't offer wireless to their customers yet. The APs were unencrypted but MAC-locked. He just sniffed a valid MAC and away to the Internet he went. It's trivial.
Wow, you've learned that batteries have internal resistances, congratulations. Once again, V = I*R. Always.
I've lived in Oregon almost my whole life, and went through public school here. My first thought on reading this is that a number of district leaders who have historically poor performance measures must be pressuring the state to allow this. See, in Oregon, we have this extremely backwards system where if a district is slipping in terms of the students' performance on standardized tests, that district is punished by having funding taken away. This of course worsens the district still further, leading to more decline, leading to more fiscal punishment... I'm sure a lot of these districts are hurting these days with students who consistently score low on the English tests because of spelling problems, and they see this as a way for them to boost their scores (and therefore, their funding levels) so that hopefully, just maybe, the schools can get back on their feet and start TEACHING again.
It's a fucked up situation but it's not the school districts' fault. It is the insane policy of the State of Oregon to seek out underperforming districts and attack them by pulling funding. If they'd stop doing THAT, maybe the districts could focus on education again instead of getting the kids to pass standardized tests at a particular level.
"If you can source enough current..." as if you have any control over the current. It's a simple damn equation, people. V = I*R. For a given conductor, if you put one volt across it, a current V/R will flow through it. No, you can't magically wish for a higher current at the same voltage. Nor could you achieve an arbitrary voltage at a given current. If you can control both current and voltage, then BY DEFINITION you are changing the resistance.
Another one of my least favorites: "It's the current that kills, not the voltage." Actually, it's the stoppage of your heart that kills you, along with possibly the boiling and cooking of your internal organs. People take these sorts of sayings and end up making stupid decisions.
The overwhelming majority of human progress has come from people who were or are highly religious.
If your argument is that the majority class is somehow important, then you should have asserted instead that being male is obviously the biggest factor in making a lasting impact.
My now-wife and I spent a day hanging out there... Enjoying the Roman baths.. Some drinks by the soaking pools... Then a quick jaunt in our bathrobes over to the crocodile holding tanks. Romantic? Not quite the word I'd use, but it was fun. Just don't drink so much that you start getting the crocodile pool confused with the bath house.
(No, seriously, I'm not making it up. Hamat Gader is one of the world's finest Roman-bath-slash-crocodile-farming establishments I've ever visited.)
Do you know who the person was? Because you seem to have encountered somebody whose mind is so sick that they can see an image of a child who is so young that they haven't even been born yet and sexual thoughts go through their head. Maybe this person's name should appear on... I don't know, some kind of list of people who pose a threat to children's safety.
Can we, for once god dammit, talk about the issue instead of complaining about whatever poor schmuck with very little personal control over the daily happenings of our government, is currently sitting in the Oval Office? Seriously dude, I do not give a shit.
There are a lot of sites that will not serve data to Tor users because of fucking morons using it to spam message boards. Thanks a lot, assholes.
I'm all for transparency in government and holding people in power responsible, but there's an entire world of governments out there that should have their actions (or lack thereof, depending on the issue) scrutinized by the public, not just America. Where's the WikiLeaks coverage of China's human rights issues? How about the Cambodian government's failure to address the problem of child sex workers?
It's WikiLEAKS. If it hasn't been leaked to Wikileaks, how can Wikileaks publish it? Wikileaks is not an espionage organization and it's not about on-the-move journalism. If you have some information on these topics, which you seem to be so concerned about, why don't you put your own ass on the line and send it to Wikileaks?
it is *not* a "weight" in any sense of the word.
Yes it is. It is a weight in the sense meant by the term "atomic weight."
But if you really want change for change's sake (it's not like this leads to confusion among chemists), let's call it atomic mojo. How about that?
Massive passive? Awesome possum!
Uh, aren't "normal" and "common" part of the DEFINITION of ubiquity?
That's why it's called "flexible time off," not "sick days" you fucking fascists.
I'm already working on Wednesday's hangover, so maybe that's it. Still struggling to get the specific reference...
Clean it up? How the fuck do you clean it up?
Ah, I see. All small-time open source software (software written by a single person in their own time) is a "mistake." Nice.
So what you're saying is that the enforcement arm of the government will be more and more populated by people who are out of touch. Good. That gives the rest of us a massive advantage. We know the technology whereas you are the ones playing catch-up.