18.000.000 cpus in 6.400.000 systems is on AVERAGE 2.812 CPUs
Okay, fine. You want to use periods instead of commas for separating thousands... at least have the decency of using a different separator to mark the decimal point! Does your "2.812" actually mean "2,812" or "2.812"? My calculator tells me that its "2.812", but why should I have to re-do your calculations just to read what you've written?
I find it hard to believe that so many people mod-ed you up to 5: Insightful when I doubt half those people actually read (and were able to understand) what you were talking about. Chalk it up to the phenomenon of mod points just for filling up space.
That's the whole point. It makes the numbers meaningless, and therefore makes the conclusion invalid. The important statistic would be "percentage of FOIA requests denied". I'm guessing that THAT statistic didn't *jive* well with the author's pre-conceived conclusions, and so was conveniently ommited.
It would extend the private copying levy — which adds a small tax to all blank media, such as CDs and DVDs — to devices that can reproduce media, including MP3 players and computers.
My question is; which part of the computer? I custom build all my computers, so which individual part do I need to order from the US?
Not sure what your experience has been, but my connection is 10mps down. The bottleneck is always on the server or server's isp -- it is very hard to find servers that can actually stream video at reasonable quality and speed.
Stock Market: Company releases shares of itself to investors in order to raise capital. Investors purchase these shares as "equity" into that company.
This: Hackers sell access to compromised computers.
This is more like your typical shady arms dealer than a stock market. Heck, this is even more like your local 7-11 than it is like a stock market - you buy computers rather than milk and cigarettes.
You have oversimplified the issue. The root causes are;
1. Windows / [insert other exploitable program here (ie. Flash/Adobe PDF reader)]
2. Stupid users
If your user downloads and runs malware, there's almost nothing your OS can do to stop it. The only way to stop it is to force application signing... but who really wants that?
So tell me, which OS would you choose that could stop all malware even with stupid users?
Then TFS mentions something as banal as "wrapping long lines of code"....and my bubble bursts.
What's wrong with that? Manually wrapping long lines of code is only done to prevent having to scroll horizontally while reading the code. These days, the number of characters that can fit in the code window can differ significantly between devs. I use a 28" widescreen at 1900x1200 - I can fit a hell of a lot more characters in my code window than can a dev with 19" non-wide with w/e low resolution he decides to use. With manual wrapping, if I write the code, he has to scroll. If he writes the code, I do not get to take advantage of my added screen real-estate. As long as the automatic wrapping has a half-decent indentation style, I would love to see this in any IDE.
It's no different than AJAX or Cloud Computing. AJAX is nothing but yet another RPC mechanism. Cloud Computing is nothing more than the old mainframe model of the 1960s and 1970s.
And a Feb 2010 survey made up by yours truly says that those 37% are exactly the same people who would never {head of/buy/give two shits about} Starcraft 2 even if they did have internet.
I did not say it was useless, it certainly has its uses, but it is pretty far down there on the list of useful things. It is only valuable because it is rare/cornered market.
Almost every other metal known to man is more useful than gold.
There is some law regarding that information only be required to do credit checks
This is actually completely incorrect. There are laws in Canada stating that a bank / cc company cannot refuse you service if you refuse to give your SIN. If they ever tell you they absolutely require it (not just "it'd be nice, please sir, give us your SIN"), you can sue for quite a nice sum.
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Yet another reason to use ad blockers. I'm starting to think Firefox should come with it out of the box.
They'll make bigger botnets and bigger networks, and soon, they will make a botnet on a network so big, it will destroy them all!
Or maybe they are modding down any post that speak of their intelligence... IN B4 BOTNET CENSOR
18.000.000 cpus in 6.400.000 systems is on AVERAGE 2.812 CPUs
Okay, fine. You want to use periods instead of commas for separating thousands... at least have the decency of using a different separator to mark the decimal point! Does your "2.812" actually mean "2,812" or "2.812"? My calculator tells me that its "2.812", but why should I have to re-do your calculations just to read what you've written?
I find it hard to believe that so many people mod-ed you up to 5: Insightful when I doubt half those people actually read (and were able to understand) what you were talking about. Chalk it up to the phenomenon of mod points just for filling up space.
Dear slashdot: Please stop posting rumors. I would like some facts, not an entire front page full of unverifiable rumors.
That's the whole point. It makes the numbers meaningless, and therefore makes the conclusion invalid. The important statistic would be "percentage of FOIA requests denied". I'm guessing that THAT statistic didn't *jive* well with the author's pre-conceived conclusions, and so was conveniently ommited.
From TFA:
Agencies often cite more than one exemption when withholding part or all of the material sought in an open-records request.
Making these numbers, and this article completely meaningless. Perhaps the Obama admin is just more "open" in citing multiple exemptions.
I would like to suggest that everybody now go back and RTFA on today's why you should stop mindlessly quoting statistic
Or for more fun, voting for Gore causes death by cancer!
Read your stats: Apparently they cited more exemptions then there were requests. There is something fishy with these numbers.
cited exemptions at least 466,872 times in budget year 2009
the number of information requests...444,924 in 2009
Doesn't this raise any red flags to you? Maybe that these "facts" indicate that they cited more exemptions than there were requests?
It would extend the private copying levy — which adds a small tax to all blank media, such as CDs and DVDs — to devices that can reproduce media, including MP3 players and computers.
My question is; which part of the computer? I custom build all my computers, so which individual part do I need to order from the US?
I'm so sorry...that I'm not
Fixed that for you
Can I start my own band + label, and sell a single CD to my brother for 1 BILLYION dollars, and get ALL of the fund?? In that case, TYVM NDP!
Not sure what your experience has been, but my connection is 10mps down. The bottleneck is always on the server or server's isp -- it is very hard to find servers that can actually stream video at reasonable quality and speed.
Stock Market: Company releases shares of itself to investors in order to raise capital. Investors purchase these shares as "equity" into that company.
This: Hackers sell access to compromised computers.
This is more like your typical shady arms dealer than a stock market. Heck, this is even more like your local 7-11 than it is like a stock market - you buy computers rather than milk and cigarettes.
You have oversimplified the issue. The root causes are;
1. Windows / [insert other exploitable program here (ie. Flash/Adobe PDF reader)]
2. Stupid users
If your user downloads and runs malware, there's almost nothing your OS can do to stop it. The only way to stop it is to force application signing... but who really wants that?
So tell me, which OS would you choose that could stop all malware even with stupid users?
How is this a "stock exchange"?
Then TFS mentions something as banal as "wrapping long lines of code"....and my bubble bursts.
What's wrong with that? Manually wrapping long lines of code is only done to prevent having to scroll horizontally while reading the code. These days, the number of characters that can fit in the code window can differ significantly between devs. I use a 28" widescreen at 1900x1200 - I can fit a hell of a lot more characters in my code window than can a dev with 19" non-wide with w/e low resolution he decides to use. With manual wrapping, if I write the code, he has to scroll. If he writes the code, I do not get to take advantage of my added screen real-estate. As long as the automatic wrapping has a half-decent indentation style, I would love to see this in any IDE.
It's no different than AJAX or Cloud Computing. AJAX is nothing but yet another RPC mechanism. Cloud Computing is nothing more than the old mainframe model of the 1960s and 1970s.
-1 Oversimplification Mod...
Isn't the news feed very similar to aggregated RSS feeds from multiple sources? Not necessarily technically, but from a "process" standpoint.
Your opinions determine your opinions! Novel research guyz
And a Feb 2010 survey made up by yours truly says that those 37% are exactly the same people who would never {head of/buy/give two shits about} Starcraft 2 even if they did have internet.
I did not say it was useless, it certainly has its uses, but it is pretty far down there on the list of useful things. It is only valuable because it is rare/cornered market. Almost every other metal known to man is more useful than gold.
That being said, are there any non-US based, encrypted voip clients that will work on smartphones?
Yes, also considering that TFA is on CBC.CA
There is some law regarding that information only be required to do credit checks
This is actually completely incorrect. There are laws in Canada stating that a bank / cc company cannot refuse you service if you refuse to give your SIN. If they ever tell you they absolutely require it (not just "it'd be nice, please sir, give us your SIN"), you can sue for quite a nice sum.