They were even featured on one of those "reality" TV shows a few months back, as I vaguely recall. A private towing company installed it in a vehicle, loaded up a database of deadbeats, then trolled public parking lots and shopping center lots looking for cars to repossess. When they found one, they quickly dragged it away and claimed a bounty.
That's almost 100% correct. The problems could potentially be infecting a document previewed or even the search indexer, though. There have been successful attacks on Windows taking advantage of the JPEG previewer as well as WMF, TTF, and others.
I don't know of any such successful attacks on Windpws 7 or higher. Doesn't prove they're impossible, just that they haven't been encountered yet.
Much as I'd like to, 50 years of understanding exactly how fast 60 MPH is means I have to pause and think about a little mental conversion when I see kph. However, when I saw this story, I didn't have to do that. 10,000,000 kph is so fast that I have no frame of reference where a converted figure would help me understand it any more than an unconverted figure.
It helped when you expressed it in terms of m/s, because I at least know the speed of light is about 300,000,000 m/s. Even so, it's still little more than a huge number. All I can really do is compare it to other huge numbers.
Advertising revenue and fees for operating online stores, as far as I can tell. They probably sell business intelligence data from their tracking efforts, too.
Their goal is obviously more noble than that. They want to underpay a bunch of United States Citizens so they don't have to underpay a bunch of H1B workers. Those visas don't come cheap, you know.
No, it's not $100,000. It's $100,000 worth of "donations". That means they'll get licenses for 50 seats of SQL Server 2013, 100 licenses for Office 365, 80 licenses for Windows Server 2013, etc.
If only I could have gotten my college to accept tuition payments in the forms of software licenses. "Dear Bursar's Office, please accept this voucher worth 10 licenses to install Debian."
Thanks, I hadn't downloaded it yet. Just checked it out, it's pretty much what I expected. Rows of meaningless icons across the top and bottom that do many inexplicable and non-intuitive things, a Google map beneath everything that displays a 3D view making it hard to locate yourself in a downtown office building. It's definitely an appropriately "1.0" version for an iPhone, so if you download it expect many updates to follow in the coming weeks.
Flinging the insults like this as an ad hominem attack. "You're stupid, that's a stupid idea, why are you still trying to pollute the code with your stupidity?" are all irrelevant arguments. They attack the person, not the problem. "This thing wastes cycles when switching tasks!" gets to the actual problem. Adding belligerent and ad hominem attacks isn't logical; they don't help make his point.
I know Linus claims he reserves his vitriol for "people who should know better". In this case, he should know better how to argue a point.
Then you must work in a dismal place if threats are tolerated. If I were to threaten my coworkers with a richly-deserved beating, security would be emptying my desk for me.
Most of the time when people complain about political correctness, it's because they the self-discipline or the intelligence necessary to compose a polite reply. Clearly Linus is not lacking in intelligence, but he seems short on common sense here.
Political correctness, when done well, is a more effective weapon than boorishness. Calling someone a fool is easy, but crass and wasteful. In the eyes of the audience it lowers you to the level of the fool, and you have to work harder to prove you aren't. Giving someone else the opportunity to open their own mouth and prove themselves a fool, now that's economical. They'll happily blather out their inanity on their own, if you let them.
Understanding normalization would help in creating temporary tables used to hold intermediate results during analysis. If your temp tables lack integrity, you could be creating tables with the wrong rows, leading you to the wrong conclusions.
If you can actually parse the bull, it does have some actual meaning underneath it, and what it says isn't necessarily a good thing.
"We will pull together disparate engineering efforts today into a coherent set of our high-value activities. This will enable us to deliver the most capability—and be most efficient in development and operations—with the greatest coherence to all our key customers.”
This says that smart people won't be able to work on small, high functioning teams like they need to. Instead, itsounds like they're going to break up teams and pool their people. This will have the effect of making everyone equally mediocre, which is not what they need.
“Some of these changes will involve putting things together and others will involve repartitioning the work, but in all instances we will be more coherent for our users and developers.”
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." What value does he deliver if everything is the same? This squashes out room for innovation.
This memo is not only gobbledygook, it's hiding some really bad practices.
It's not just the religious fundamentalists. Students of history understand that tracking of things is a useful step in controlling those things.
There's a very common pattern used by tyrannical governments. They demonize and marginalize the "undesirables", whether they be religious cultists, intellectuals, liberals, or conservatives (when you hear the word "terrorist" used without a weapon of mass destruction actually being detonated, you're seeing this step in action.) They isolate undesirables by restricting their travels: note that you don't have to pin a red star on their lapel if you place their names on a secret list. They build up lists of associations between people, so that if one undesirable does something violent, they instantly roll up his entire network. And if they know who the registered gun owners are, they go to their houses and disarm them before taking away any more of their rights. (This is tied closely into the American gun culture.)
I won't deny that bringing these topics up sounds like paranoia today, because today's definition of paranoia seems to now exclude the "irrational belief" clause. People who claim such things are marginalized as "conspiracy theorists". What is being deliberately forgotten is that both the Second World War and the Cold War involved these exact same activities. Today's children and young adults may not remember or understand the Nazis or the Red Menace, but their grandparents do, and the parallels to the US government's current activities are unmistakable. I don't think it qualifies as irrational when the threat has a basis in history and in documented, observable behavior today.
I don't care how well you think you're watching. You are a human, and you are capable of overseeing simple activities, such as official pieces of paper being dropped in a box, or official stones being dropped in a jar. Your capabilities for "oversight" do not extend down to observing the correct bits are flowing through a CPU.
The thing we've all forgotten in our rush to tune into the 24 hour news channel is that voting results do NOT have to be completed within 15 seconds of the polls closing. I don't care if Talking Hairpiece of the Nightly News wants to announce something, or if he really wants to announce something. The Constitutionally provided timeline for tallying election results specifies weeks, not minutes. The winner won't be seated in his office for two months following the election, so tallying the vote early or late doesn't change anything.
My right to voting securely damn well better not be trumped by your desire to see a news story.
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Red Bull may be the only substance known to man which has its flavor improved by adding alcohol.
Ugh. To this day I can't smell Red Bull without fighting the urge to vomit (again), and I quit drinking several years ago.
They were even featured on one of those "reality" TV shows a few months back, as I vaguely recall. A private towing company installed it in a vehicle, loaded up a database of deadbeats, then trolled public parking lots and shopping center lots looking for cars to repossess. When they found one, they quickly dragged it away and claimed a bounty.
Androeyed?
That's almost 100% correct. The problems could potentially be infecting a document previewed or even the search indexer, though. There have been successful attacks on Windows taking advantage of the JPEG previewer as well as WMF, TTF, and others.
I don't know of any such successful attacks on Windpws 7 or higher. Doesn't prove they're impossible, just that they haven't been encountered yet.
More directly, this could be the precursor to Snow Crash.
Much as I'd like to, 50 years of understanding exactly how fast 60 MPH is means I have to pause and think about a little mental conversion when I see kph. However, when I saw this story, I didn't have to do that. 10,000,000 kph is so fast that I have no frame of reference where a converted figure would help me understand it any more than an unconverted figure.
It helped when you expressed it in terms of m/s, because I at least know the speed of light is about 300,000,000 m/s. Even so, it's still little more than a huge number. All I can really do is compare it to other huge numbers.
In Soviet Goat.cx, gas-cloud rips YOUR black-hole!
You must be old here.
Advertising revenue and fees for operating online stores, as far as I can tell. They probably sell business intelligence data from their tracking efforts, too.
Their goal is obviously more noble than that. They want to underpay a bunch of United States Citizens so they don't have to underpay a bunch of H1B workers. Those visas don't come cheap, you know.
No, it's not $100,000. It's $100,000 worth of "donations". That means they'll get licenses for 50 seats of SQL Server 2013, 100 licenses for Office 365, 80 licenses for Windows Server 2013, etc.
If only I could have gotten my college to accept tuition payments in the forms of software licenses. "Dear Bursar's Office, please accept this voucher worth 10 licenses to install Debian."
Why not frighten the potential engineers? A well-timed scare like that might have saved you 9 months.
Thanks, I hadn't downloaded it yet. Just checked it out, it's pretty much what I expected. Rows of meaningless icons across the top and bottom that do many inexplicable and non-intuitive things, a Google map beneath everything that displays a 3D view making it hard to locate yourself in a downtown office building. It's definitely an appropriately "1.0" version for an iPhone, so if you download it expect many updates to follow in the coming weeks.
That is if you don't delete the app first.
http://what3words.com/copy.apple.badly is just outside Oxford, England. More specifically, it appears to be KC Skipp Plumbing and Heating in Cogges.
Yeah, I can see this catching on, at least long enough to sell enough $0.99 apps to retire. http://what3words.com/clever.those.limes
It's a TinyUrl for map coordinates, but more human memorable?
Exactly! And you can pay them extra if you want a single word to refer to a specific wedge of dirt.
Parmitano: "Hey, I gotta leak in my helmet!"
Cassidy: "Go ahead. It's your helmet."
Flinging the insults like this as an ad hominem attack. "You're stupid, that's a stupid idea, why are you still trying to pollute the code with your stupidity?" are all irrelevant arguments. They attack the person, not the problem. "This thing wastes cycles when switching tasks!" gets to the actual problem. Adding belligerent and ad hominem attacks isn't logical; they don't help make his point.
I know Linus claims he reserves his vitriol for "people who should know better". In this case, he should know better how to argue a point.
Then you must work in a dismal place if threats are tolerated. If I were to threaten my coworkers with a richly-deserved beating, security would be emptying my desk for me.
When did civility become a disease?
Most of the time when people complain about political correctness, it's because they the self-discipline or the intelligence necessary to compose a polite reply. Clearly Linus is not lacking in intelligence, but he seems short on common sense here.
Political correctness, when done well, is a more effective weapon than boorishness. Calling someone a fool is easy, but crass and wasteful. In the eyes of the audience it lowers you to the level of the fool, and you have to work harder to prove you aren't. Giving someone else the opportunity to open their own mouth and prove themselves a fool, now that's economical. They'll happily blather out their inanity on their own, if you let them.
No, it's not weak. It's marketing, and it's profitable. People are obviously willing to spend their $0.99 on something that amuses them.
There's an iPad app for cats. It's a dot that moves around on a black screen, and responds to the touch of a paw.
So a laser pointer channel would probably be a big hit. For six minutes, until Fluffy gets bored. Hope you didn't pay for the 2-year subscription!
One of the better Dilbert cartoons about the boss wanting to build an inventory system in email comes to mind: http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1995-12-31/
Understanding normalization would help in creating temporary tables used to hold intermediate results during analysis. If your temp tables lack integrity, you could be creating tables with the wrong rows, leading you to the wrong conclusions.
If you can actually parse the bull, it does have some actual meaning underneath it, and what it says isn't necessarily a good thing.
"We will pull together disparate engineering efforts today into a coherent set of our high-value activities. This will enable us to deliver the most capability—and be most efficient in development and operations—with the greatest coherence to all our key customers.”
This says that smart people won't be able to work on small, high functioning teams like they need to. Instead, itsounds like they're going to break up teams and pool their people. This will have the effect of making everyone equally mediocre, which is not what they need.
“Some of these changes will involve putting things together and others will involve repartitioning the work, but in all instances we will be more coherent for our users and developers.”
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." What value does he deliver if everything is the same? This squashes out room for innovation.
This memo is not only gobbledygook, it's hiding some really bad practices.
It's not just the religious fundamentalists. Students of history understand that tracking of things is a useful step in controlling those things.
There's a very common pattern used by tyrannical governments. They demonize and marginalize the "undesirables", whether they be religious cultists, intellectuals, liberals, or conservatives (when you hear the word "terrorist" used without a weapon of mass destruction actually being detonated, you're seeing this step in action.) They isolate undesirables by restricting their travels: note that you don't have to pin a red star on their lapel if you place their names on a secret list. They build up lists of associations between people, so that if one undesirable does something violent, they instantly roll up his entire network. And if they know who the registered gun owners are, they go to their houses and disarm them before taking away any more of their rights. (This is tied closely into the American gun culture.)
I won't deny that bringing these topics up sounds like paranoia today, because today's definition of paranoia seems to now exclude the "irrational belief" clause. People who claim such things are marginalized as "conspiracy theorists". What is being deliberately forgotten is that both the Second World War and the Cold War involved these exact same activities. Today's children and young adults may not remember or understand the Nazis or the Red Menace, but their grandparents do, and the parallels to the US government's current activities are unmistakable. I don't think it qualifies as irrational when the threat has a basis in history and in documented, observable behavior today.
I don't care how well you think you're watching. You are a human, and you are capable of overseeing simple activities, such as official pieces of paper being dropped in a box, or official stones being dropped in a jar. Your capabilities for "oversight" do not extend down to observing the correct bits are flowing through a CPU.
The thing we've all forgotten in our rush to tune into the 24 hour news channel is that voting results do NOT have to be completed within 15 seconds of the polls closing. I don't care if Talking Hairpiece of the Nightly News wants to announce something, or if he really wants to announce something. The Constitutionally provided timeline for tallying election results specifies weeks, not minutes. The winner won't be seated in his office for two months following the election, so tallying the vote early or late doesn't change anything.
My right to voting securely damn well better not be trumped by your desire to see a news story.