Using statistical patterns is good Science, at least until it makes us uncomfortable. As a simple matter of the-universe-doesn't-care-if-it-isn't-fair, some people really are "more likely" to break the law. But, heaven forbid, we give extra attention to them. If we give "underprivileged" children positive attention, we're good citizens. The moment we give extra attention to someone for anything that could possibly be construed as negative, we're not only evil we "don't understand Science." Sadly, there is a fine line between being moral, and realizing the world doesn't always care what politically correct sentiments say.
For social reasons I will refrain from mentioning this to my friends (which I have) later tonight. Baaaah, I want one! This is so pointless but nifty, my inner collector is crying out. Damn fiscal responsibilities in life tell me it's a waste of money, but oh, the geeky child inside cries out!
I'm about 99% sure LOLStraia is going to give Nintendo wonderful kick backs because of its promotion of "family friendly games" that lines up perfectly with their war on art-crimes. They have to keep their babies butt powdered, less it cease playing poster child and start complaining about the game violence ban.
Your superior education system apparently didn't teach you much about how word usage and meaning varies between cultures. But that's okay, I'm sure we'll go liberate the hell out of you guys Bush style soon enough, and you can have some of our amazing edumikation.
Oh, let me educate you then. Left and right are relative to the individual. For example, if you're facing me, my left is your right. In AU, "left" has a slightly different meaning than it does for US citizens. But I understand people from other countries aren't educated enough to see this, so I understand your mistake.
Conservatives want to blame the gays; Liberals want to blame open media and expression of thought. On the right hand we have austere government imposed morality, on the left hand we have censorship nanny state. I'm not really sure which I hate more.
You go into a T-Mobile store, you soak up half an hour of their employees time and then turn around and want ~all~ of your money back five days later, where you will then soak up another thirty minutes of their time. Not to mention paper, a device that now has to be cleared out, contacting headquarters so someone can cutoff your stuff, etc. And you want them to do this for "free?" This isn't Walmart, stop being selfish. If you cancel your service, you should owe them something, at least to cover their time and operating costs.
I think this is good, it leaves more space on your already small disk to do other things. This is a net-oriented device, afterall. If you want a full-fledged computer, then get a full-fledged computer. This sounds exactly like what a NETbook should do.
No, this is just such horrible thinking it makes me want to throw feces at you. This sort of ridiculous thinking is the entire reason there's a HealthCare problem in America. Insurance companies MAKE PROFIT. Therefor, RISING COSTS ON INSURANCE COMPANIES MEAN RISING COSTS FOR EVERYONE. When a hospital sends a bill to a patient's insurance for $100,000, where do you think the insurance company gets the money? When a big business sends a bill for 6mil to their insurance company, guess where the money comes from?
Money does not grow on a tree.
Bologna, PS3/360 may not have as many "hackers," but it sure as hell has a lot of cheaters. Go play ModernWarfare-2 and tell me how many Nuke-Boosters you see on XBLive. Unfortunately, you don't need to explicitly alter software to exploit a game, the makers leave more than enough room for people to do annoying crap.
It's a conversion of thermal energy into mechanical motion. It may be far off, but this is something that could harness a very abundant but difficult to use energy source -- heat. I'm not sure how effective or efficient these could become, but it's still an interesting prospect.
I'm not the biggest "cloud" thumper, but of all the uses I can think of, the ability to not re-configure an infinity billion path settings, dependencies, include paths, bins, etc etc etc, sounds wonderful. Old computer break? No need to re-install your IDE and spend hours reconfiguring your system, just pop open your browser and continue where you left off.
My dad was a Tool Pusher for a drilling company, until one day he was offered a promotion to a desk job. He turned it down, and was "let go" in a matter of weeks. I'm not entirely sure why, but I imagine employers don't like it when people turn down promotions. I've had similar things happen to other friends as well.
If I type "100,000.00" into an English ATM, and it sees I'm trying to withdraw a hundred thousand dollars, I'm going to get some kind of error. Again, if the thousands place token merely "meant something else in the UI", the internal mechanisms should have caught the ridiculously large transaction because the user would have used the UI to enter a hundred thousand dollars -- which is nuts and should have just thrown an error at the ATM saying "you can't withdraw that much dang money."
Which, of course, leads me to believe either they honestly let people try to withdraw insane amounts of money or that the thousands place token was used somewhere it shouldn't have been. One mistake may have been caching the entered amount of as string for future parsing, instead of analyzing the data and formatting it in the form of an abstract datatype ~and then~ operating on the ADT. It really looks like these people withdrew one amount of money, and then a parsing error elsewhere caused the problem. The UI entry should have been parsed by the UI manager and then sent to the internal managers, which would have then sent money to the person standing at the ATM. It looks like they didn't do that though, which means improperly sterilized data (data which was part of the UI) was likely to blame.
This sort of difference between languages and whatnot is ~why~ the UI should deliver data to the internal mechanisms in a separate format than what the user entered -- that way terrible mistakes like this are isolated to the UI, and never propagate elsewhere (and when they do, huge values like this are caught by the first mechanism that gets handed the value.)
There's a reason we separate the data model from the external view and internal controller mechanisms. A moving decimal shouldn't affect the internal math, it should be nothing more than a harmless display error. The fact a moving decimal actually affected the internal management is sad. Well, maybe I'm being an elitist boob, but this seems more like negligent high level design that compounded a low level bug into being much worse than it should have been.
What you're thinking of is impulse -- when car hits a brick wall, it loses the same energy it does when it uses its breaks, the difference is impulse (though the momentum remains the same.)
I'm not sure how much that applies to lasers; You have to realize a laser will never "bounce," the energy distribution is entirely different. It's like comparing catching someone on fire to shooting them in the face. A laser of that power might burn a four inch hole, whereas a bullet might shoot right through.
My folks needed Internet for work purposes (I don't even really remember what it was anymore.) But I've had Internet access since as long as I can remember. My dad also had one of the earlier cellular phones -- it was huge, and actually had a big curly cord. It was like a regular corded phone, but bigger. Still, as someone who can read COBOL, I reserve the right to act like an old phogie.
The moment overprotective parents and eurosocialist progressives realized the Internet existed, we have had a huge boom of twits who think they can just join in and start passing laws. For christsake, I've been on the Internet since AOL was metering dialup usage -- you weren't here, ignorant masses, and neither were your ignorant oppressive laws. If you don't like our Internet, get out.
More like he made a text file and clicked "Open with Perl." Saying he "installed an unauthorized program" sounds too romantic. You have some mouse-pumping action to signal subroutines tied to a widget socket, he typed well formed syntax into a text file. The only thing he is guilty of is uploading public files.
Does this mean it's illegal for me to write software for personal (or in-house company) use, without abiding by these rules? What if I want to write the software for a personal project, and I release the sourcode? Does this mean I can officially break the law by typing code into a text file?
I'm pretty sure anyone who says "Internet Address" does not mean "Internet Protocol Address." Most people who mean Internet Protocol will specifically say "IP Address."
Dramaqueen dramabait blah blah. Call me crazy, but I'm sick of copyright. There's a difference between stealing a TV, and making a copy. It would be like taking a picture of a TV, and being sued for stealing the TV. You paid lots of cash to make your product? Well too damn bad -- a lot of Mathematicians worked hard to find mathematical relations, and I don't see you coughing up cash for them. Hurting innovation? Not today -- we don't need Brittany Spears, we don't need the Matrix. There is a wealth of industry waiting to be born from free distribution, but today it remains hindered in favor of a different industry. Economic growth can come from many places, but garbage crap like this isn't one of them.
Now patents...? There are no laws against building a machine that is patented, just how you make profit off of it. A lot of people say we need "copyright reform." Well, I say what we would have after "reform" would not be copyright at all. Copyright needs to be abolished, and an entirely new system needs to be erected. Laws need to adapt to the age of the Internet.
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Using statistical patterns is good Science, at least until it makes us uncomfortable. As a simple matter of the-universe-doesn't-care-if-it-isn't-fair, some people really are "more likely" to break the law. But, heaven forbid, we give extra attention to them. If we give "underprivileged" children positive attention, we're good citizens. The moment we give extra attention to someone for anything that could possibly be construed as negative, we're not only evil we "don't understand Science." Sadly, there is a fine line between being moral, and realizing the world doesn't always care what politically correct sentiments say.
For social reasons I will refrain from mentioning this to my friends (which I have) later tonight. Baaaah, I want one! This is so pointless but nifty, my inner collector is crying out. Damn fiscal responsibilities in life tell me it's a waste of money, but oh, the geeky child inside cries out!
I'm about 99% sure LOLStraia is going to give Nintendo wonderful kick backs because of its promotion of "family friendly games" that lines up perfectly with their war on art-crimes. They have to keep their babies butt powdered, less it cease playing poster child and start complaining about the game violence ban.
Your superior education system apparently didn't teach you much about how word usage and meaning varies between cultures. But that's okay, I'm sure we'll go liberate the hell out of you guys Bush style soon enough, and you can have some of our amazing edumikation.
Oh, let me educate you then. Left and right are relative to the individual. For example, if you're facing me, my left is your right. In AU, "left" has a slightly different meaning than it does for US citizens. But I understand people from other countries aren't educated enough to see this, so I understand your mistake.
There is no -1 disagree.
Conservatives want to blame the gays; Liberals want to blame open media and expression of thought. On the right hand we have austere government imposed morality, on the left hand we have censorship nanny state. I'm not really sure which I hate more.
You go into a T-Mobile store, you soak up half an hour of their employees time and then turn around and want ~all~ of your money back five days later, where you will then soak up another thirty minutes of their time. Not to mention paper, a device that now has to be cleared out, contacting headquarters so someone can cutoff your stuff, etc. And you want them to do this for "free?" This isn't Walmart, stop being selfish. If you cancel your service, you should owe them something, at least to cover their time and operating costs.
I think this is good, it leaves more space on your already small disk to do other things. This is a net-oriented device, afterall. If you want a full-fledged computer, then get a full-fledged computer. This sounds exactly like what a NETbook should do.
No, this is just such horrible thinking it makes me want to throw feces at you. This sort of ridiculous thinking is the entire reason there's a HealthCare problem in America. Insurance companies MAKE PROFIT. Therefor, RISING COSTS ON INSURANCE COMPANIES MEAN RISING COSTS FOR EVERYONE. When a hospital sends a bill to a patient's insurance for $100,000, where do you think the insurance company gets the money? When a big business sends a bill for 6mil to their insurance company, guess where the money comes from? Money does not grow on a tree.
Bologna, PS3/360 may not have as many "hackers," but it sure as hell has a lot of cheaters. Go play ModernWarfare-2 and tell me how many Nuke-Boosters you see on XBLive. Unfortunately, you don't need to explicitly alter software to exploit a game, the makers leave more than enough room for people to do annoying crap.
It's a conversion of thermal energy into mechanical motion. It may be far off, but this is something that could harness a very abundant but difficult to use energy source -- heat. I'm not sure how effective or efficient these could become, but it's still an interesting prospect.
I normally hate patent battles but this amuses me greatly.
I'm not the biggest "cloud" thumper, but of all the uses I can think of, the ability to not re-configure an infinity billion path settings, dependencies, include paths, bins, etc etc etc, sounds wonderful. Old computer break? No need to re-install your IDE and spend hours reconfiguring your system, just pop open your browser and continue where you left off.
My dad was a Tool Pusher for a drilling company, until one day he was offered a promotion to a desk job. He turned it down, and was "let go" in a matter of weeks. I'm not entirely sure why, but I imagine employers don't like it when people turn down promotions. I've had similar things happen to other friends as well.
If I type "100,000.00" into an English ATM, and it sees I'm trying to withdraw a hundred thousand dollars, I'm going to get some kind of error. Again, if the thousands place token merely "meant something else in the UI", the internal mechanisms should have caught the ridiculously large transaction because the user would have used the UI to enter a hundred thousand dollars -- which is nuts and should have just thrown an error at the ATM saying "you can't withdraw that much dang money."
Which, of course, leads me to believe either they honestly let people try to withdraw insane amounts of money or that the thousands place token was used somewhere it shouldn't have been. One mistake may have been caching the entered amount of as string for future parsing, instead of analyzing the data and formatting it in the form of an abstract datatype ~and then~ operating on the ADT. It really looks like these people withdrew one amount of money, and then a parsing error elsewhere caused the problem. The UI entry should have been parsed by the UI manager and then sent to the internal managers, which would have then sent money to the person standing at the ATM. It looks like they didn't do that though, which means improperly sterilized data (data which was part of the UI) was likely to blame.
This sort of difference between languages and whatnot is ~why~ the UI should deliver data to the internal mechanisms in a separate format than what the user entered -- that way terrible mistakes like this are isolated to the UI, and never propagate elsewhere (and when they do, huge values like this are caught by the first mechanism that gets handed the value.)
There's a reason we separate the data model from the external view and internal controller mechanisms. A moving decimal shouldn't affect the internal math, it should be nothing more than a harmless display error. The fact a moving decimal actually affected the internal management is sad. Well, maybe I'm being an elitist boob, but this seems more like negligent high level design that compounded a low level bug into being much worse than it should have been.
What you're thinking of is impulse -- when car hits a brick wall, it loses the same energy it does when it uses its breaks, the difference is impulse (though the momentum remains the same.)
I'm not sure how much that applies to lasers; You have to realize a laser will never "bounce," the energy distribution is entirely different. It's like comparing catching someone on fire to shooting them in the face. A laser of that power might burn a four inch hole, whereas a bullet might shoot right through.
Actually I meant to say "since before..."
My folks needed Internet for work purposes (I don't even really remember what it was anymore.) But I've had Internet access since as long as I can remember. My dad also had one of the earlier cellular phones -- it was huge, and actually had a big curly cord. It was like a regular corded phone, but bigger. Still, as someone who can read COBOL, I reserve the right to act like an old phogie.
The moment overprotective parents and eurosocialist progressives realized the Internet existed, we have had a huge boom of twits who think they can just join in and start passing laws. For christsake, I've been on the Internet since AOL was metering dialup usage -- you weren't here, ignorant masses, and neither were your ignorant oppressive laws. If you don't like our Internet, get out.
More like he made a text file and clicked "Open with Perl." Saying he "installed an unauthorized program" sounds too romantic. You have some mouse-pumping action to signal subroutines tied to a widget socket, he typed well formed syntax into a text file. The only thing he is guilty of is uploading public files.
print open(__file__, 'r').read()
Does this mean it's illegal for me to write software for personal (or in-house company) use, without abiding by these rules? What if I want to write the software for a personal project, and I release the sourcode? Does this mean I can officially break the law by typing code into a text file?
I'm pretty sure anyone who says "Internet Address" does not mean "Internet Protocol Address." Most people who mean Internet Protocol will specifically say "IP Address."
Dramaqueen dramabait blah blah. Call me crazy, but I'm sick of copyright. There's a difference between stealing a TV, and making a copy. It would be like taking a picture of a TV, and being sued for stealing the TV. You paid lots of cash to make your product? Well too damn bad -- a lot of Mathematicians worked hard to find mathematical relations, and I don't see you coughing up cash for them. Hurting innovation? Not today -- we don't need Brittany Spears, we don't need the Matrix. There is a wealth of industry waiting to be born from free distribution, but today it remains hindered in favor of a different industry. Economic growth can come from many places, but garbage crap like this isn't one of them.
Now patents...? There are no laws against building a machine that is patented, just how you make profit off of it. A lot of people say we need "copyright reform." Well, I say what we would have after "reform" would not be copyright at all. Copyright needs to be abolished, and an entirely new system needs to be erected. Laws need to adapt to the age of the Internet.