You're making the assumption that one branch of the armed services (say, the Navy) is permitted by regulation to try to infiltrate another one. The NSA's mission is specifically to provide SIGINT and to protect government against foreign SIGINT - including military systems.
Just what we need... the ability for websites to easily create their own font, ignoring the hundreds of years that have gone into perfecting typography. Yes, resulting in tons of inter-office e-mails being formatted in Comic Sans.
Nah - the intruder knows something about opening windows and doors. Unfortunately, when asked for comment, the security agency responsible for protecting these assets responded that they "had no memory of anything, anything at all."
A visibly angered spokesman for Gabriel issued a statement directly to the thieves, saying, "This time, you've gone too far."
Exactly. Also - this is likely to be exactly what Google will argue gives them legal standing. From their comments after the auction:
You may remember that as the FCC was setting rules for the auction last summer, we urged the Commission to adopt four openness conditions. Further, we vowed to bid at least $4.6 billion in the auction if the Commission adopted all four rules. Even though the FCC ultimately agreed to only two of the conditions, which nullified our original pledge, we still believed it was important to demonstrate through action our commitment to a more open wireless world.
We're glad that we did... In turn, [raising the bid] helped increase the revenues raised for the U.S. Treasury, while making sure that the openness conditions would be applied to the ultimate licensee.
Actually Blu Ray hasn't been selling better since the death of HD DVD. They have a few theories but I think that for a lot of folks out there(like me) DVD is good enough. DVD is easy to backup,cheap, and with an upscaling player looks good enough on most folks sets. I have no way of backing this up, but I would guess that I'm fairly typical: I spent so much time waiting for a clear victor in this format war that by the time one appeared, I wasn't sure I even wanted one anymore. I mean, I'm sure I'll wind up with one at some point - when the price drops substantially (it hasn't yet) or when my 360 dies and the replacement comes out. But otherwise, I think I waited long enough that "okay, this is gonna be the format, honest" isn't enough of a justification to get me to buy one anymore.
And besides - my primary computer is a laptop, and I just don't have enough space to rip high def to my laptop willy-nilly. (See also, reasons why I don't want a 22 megapixel camera.)
So when the internal, non user-replaceable battery dies on this laptop, which it will, I get the feeling Apple might not be too happy about replacing it... Yyyyyeah. If you're okay with killing your bluetooth and wifi in order to get internal EVDO, I have a feeling you're going to be okay replacing the battery yourself.
I don't know if I would have called AI a sugar-fest. The best description I've heard of it was that it had all the warm characterization of a Stanley Kubrick film, coupled with the hard-nosed realism of a Spielberg flick.
The shockwaves from that would create huge tsunami waves, destroying both coastlines and inland areas, whilst creating a thick cloud of dust that would darken the skies indefinitely.
And thanks to little Nico, we now know that the likelihood of this happening is one thousand times greater than we thought.
Thanks, little buddy! You're a regular ray of sunshine.
Occasionally, you get the backing you need to appropriately deal with a bully. This is a story about just such a situation.
A few years ago I was doing systems administration for a small group which provided ISP services for a business which happened to work in the same building as we did. They had their own IT crew and support guys, and were generally nice guys. We kept out of each others' way.
One day we got a phone call from a network administrator at another company. He said that someone using an IP address in our block was attempting to attack one of his systems, repeatedly and and unsuccessfully trying to open an FTP connection to one of their web servers. Working together, we were able to verify that the "attack" was coming from the nice guys downstairs.
That's where it got a little weird. The other admin demanded the identity of the person at the workstation who was doing the attacking. We blinked - was that the kind of information we could just give out? I didn't think that it was - or at least, that it should be, and that until we'd had the chance to make a good-faith effort to resolve the situation ourselves, we weren't going to go handing someone's name to someone else. So we declined. The conversation got a bit tense, and I asked him to hold on while I contacted my manager.
His response was even-handed: requests to divulge the personal information of clients would be handled by our legal department. I was the one who got to deliver the message, and so when the other admin bloviated that they were following a policy and would hate to involve their lawyers, I took some relish in replying that we were following a policy too, and offering to forward him our legal department's contact information.
In the end, it turned out that the "attacker" was actually a consultant being paid by the company he was "attacking." They'd given him bad login information, and his software was being a bit too aggressive in retrying connections. So, much ado about nothing.
Exactly. Yellow means "this light is about to turn red." Shortening the time that it remains yellow is like saying "Onnn... your... MARKGETSETGO," only in reverse and with more dangerous repercussions.
Even if you manage to render that realistically your supercomputer is going to completely choke trying to work out 3D fluid dynamics with surface tension in real time.
That's something that comes up fairly commonly in arguments against the possibility of "true vr". "How could you simulate walking on a beach? Every grain of sand you touch, pushing against every grain of sand it's touching... et cetera." Therefore, VR is "computationally intractable", to use the technical term.
The thing is that the simulation doesn't have to be definitive, or accurately model the behavior of every particle in the system. All it has to do is fool you. That's still a hard problem, but it's easy to lose sight of the fact that perfect physics simulations aren't really the point.
Not that I'm privy to their bandwidth statistics, but I'd be willing to wager that YouTube gets more traffic from Comcast customers than Amazon Unboxed and XBox Movies put together. Almost certainly more than iTMS by itself, too.
The irony, of course, is that at least one major telecom company stopped allowing the FBI to eavesdrop using their equipment when that agency stopped paying its bills. They can wrap themselves in the flag as much as they want, but it's still all about the bottom line to them.
Women are inundated with astrological nonsense from fashion magazines, so it is normative for them to believe it even if they are otherwise highly logical.
I think the author overstates the prevalence of fashion magazines in women's reading materials. Or at the very least, the parts with a horoscope.
At least, I hope he does.
(DISCLAIMER: I leafed through a copy of GQ yesterday. This may make me a bad person, I'm not sure.)
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You're making the assumption that one branch of the armed services (say, the Navy) is permitted by regulation to try to infiltrate another one. The NSA's mission is specifically to provide SIGINT and to protect government against foreign SIGINT - including military systems.
Nah - the intruder knows something about opening windows and doors. Unfortunately, when asked for comment, the security agency responsible for protecting these assets responded that they "had no memory of anything, anything at all."
A visibly angered spokesman for Gabriel issued a statement directly to the thieves, saying, "This time, you've gone too far."
(emphasis mine)
And besides - my primary computer is a laptop, and I just don't have enough space to rip high def to my laptop willy-nilly. (See also, reasons why I don't want a 22 megapixel camera.)
If they really want something random, they should invest in some funky lighting for their server room...
I don't know if I would have called AI a sugar-fest. The best description I've heard of it was that it had all the warm characterization of a Stanley Kubrick film, coupled with the hard-nosed realism of a Spielberg flick.
Ha ha, very funny.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have a meeting at Goddard to get to.
And thanks to little Nico, we now know that the likelihood of this happening is one thousand times greater than we thought.
Thanks, little buddy! You're a regular ray of sunshine.
Yeah - in other circumstances, we might have done just that. But these were the nice guys down the hall, and we wanted to find out what was going on.
Occasionally, you get the backing you need to appropriately deal with a bully. This is a story about just such a situation.
A few years ago I was doing systems administration for a small group which provided ISP services for a business which happened to work in the same building as we did. They had their own IT crew and support guys, and were generally nice guys. We kept out of each others' way.
One day we got a phone call from a network administrator at another company. He said that someone using an IP address in our block was attempting to attack one of his systems, repeatedly and and unsuccessfully trying to open an FTP connection to one of their web servers. Working together, we were able to verify that the "attack" was coming from the nice guys downstairs.
That's where it got a little weird. The other admin demanded the identity of the person at the workstation who was doing the attacking. We blinked - was that the kind of information we could just give out? I didn't think that it was - or at least, that it should be, and that until we'd had the chance to make a good-faith effort to resolve the situation ourselves, we weren't going to go handing someone's name to someone else. So we declined. The conversation got a bit tense, and I asked him to hold on while I contacted my manager.
His response was even-handed: requests to divulge the personal information of clients would be handled by our legal department. I was the one who got to deliver the message, and so when the other admin bloviated that they were following a policy and would hate to involve their lawyers, I took some relish in replying that we were following a policy too, and offering to forward him our legal department's contact information.
In the end, it turned out that the "attacker" was actually a consultant being paid by the company he was "attacking." They'd given him bad login information, and his software was being a bit too aggressive in retrying connections. So, much ado about nothing.
Exactly. Yellow means "this light is about to turn red." Shortening the time that it remains yellow is like saying "Onnn... your... MARKGETSETGO," only in reverse and with more dangerous repercussions.
(cue Seinfeld) ...not that there's anything wrong with that.
That's something that comes up fairly commonly in arguments against the possibility of "true vr". "How could you simulate walking on a beach? Every grain of sand you touch, pushing against every grain of sand it's touching... et cetera." Therefore, VR is "computationally intractable", to use the technical term.
The thing is that the simulation doesn't have to be definitive, or accurately model the behavior of every particle in the system. All it has to do is fool you. That's still a hard problem, but it's easy to lose sight of the fact that perfect physics simulations aren't really the point.
Not that I'm privy to their bandwidth statistics, but I'd be willing to wager that YouTube gets more traffic from Comcast customers than Amazon Unboxed and XBox Movies put together. Almost certainly more than iTMS by itself, too.
;)
Not a very large wager, mind.
He's world famous in Poland!
Exactly. I have high hopes of settling down one day, once I can find a pair of nice girls who don't mind sharing a cup.
Bravo, sir. And encore.
I really, really hope the green tea I just spewed on my keyboard doesn't damage it permanently.
Link to solution is busted. Find it here.
The irony, of course, is that at least one major telecom company stopped allowing the FBI to eavesdrop using their equipment when that agency stopped paying its bills. They can wrap themselves in the flag as much as they want, but it's still all about the bottom line to them.
I think the author overstates the prevalence of fashion magazines in women's reading materials. Or at the very least, the parts with a horoscope.
At least, I hope he does.
(DISCLAIMER: I leafed through a copy of GQ yesterday. This may make me a bad person, I'm not sure.)
Okay, that made me smile. Thanks, this Friday has sucked otherwise. :)