Does TFS mean the "419 entertainment service". Where entertainingly pathetic "Ningerian" desperados send entertainingly badly written offers of entertainingly implausible fiscal improprieties to us for our entertainment. There's an alternative form of this too, which is laughing uproariously at the Darwin-Award level of gullibility of the small proportion of people who fall for these, and the inverse of the "419-eater" blood sport.
419 fraud isn't a problem, it's a never-ending source of hilarity.
OK, from that aspect, yes, I see where you're coming from.
TBH though, as I get longer and longer in the tooth, I'm finding that I get more and more cautious about validating input. I see that the actual programmers in the sand pit do too, as the version number of our package edges upwards.
In effect, what Oracle did was to take an obscure, poorly tested code path and promote it into the hot path through their code. This is something that any first-year CS student should know is risky.
Excessive hyperbole is a good way of making an otherwise sound argument sound silly.
I remember when I was a Computing Science first-year student (18+ in my country, but 17+ in the educational system I went to university in). Compiler options beyond input and output files names were not on the agenda. "This is sequential execution" ; "this is a branch" ; "this is a loop" were on the agenda, followed by introduction to some languages (FORTRAN, along with "this is a GOTO ; it is considered dangerous"). By the end of first year we'd moved through some aspects of algorithm design, recursion, and why and how to remove recursion if possible.
Do computing science students these days get so close to particular languages that they actually even know what compiler flags are about? I'd suspect not, because that sort of implementation detail is going to be out of date before they finish their second year. Besides, they're studying Computing Science, not Programming, so they'd be learning three or four languages in their first year, as well as much more important algorithm design etc.
Several fairly "situation normal" points in there. Someone, somewhere wants to make money off of anything they possibly can ; film at eleven.
As a student, I had numerous instances of being denied access to parts of various departmental libraries.
We didn't do much of "departmental libraries" at all. Two libraries on the main campus (regular books and antiquarian books, to a fair approximation) serving the subjects taught/ researched at that campus ; a secondary library at the site I was on (not a campus - no accommodation - but about 8 departments in one building) serving the departments in that building (various life lab-sciences, anatomy, engineering , geology ; an odd mix ; not designed, but "Topsy-ed"). Some departments had a small library of their own, but mostly that was populated with reprints that had been sent to staff at the department over the decades and other such cruft. I was tasked with clearing out my department's "junk room" one week, which is how I managed to get autographs of a pre-war Everest mountaineer, and the "father of radiometric dating".
Of course, the individual departments aren't really set up for handling a flux of visitors, whereas the libraries are (permanently manned front desks, that sort of thing ; signs for the toilets instead of you being expected to know).
the basic barrier with traditional libraries: Most of them are a long distance away.
18 minutes door-to-door to walk ; 25 minutes to use the bus ; 10 minutes to drive plus another 30 minutes to find somewhere to park (by design ; personal vehicles were banned from the main campus and the secondary site had parking for about 5% of it's staff and 0% of students)
I attended several American "public" (state-owned) universities, and while they were more open than the typical private university, they still erected barriers to the general public.
Given the amount of "we pay for it ; why cant we see the data" cawing I hear here, I'm surprised that this would be allowed to happen.
Yes, there is "inter-library loan", but this tends to apply only to fairly common books. If you're looking for something rare, they are often not willing to ship it; you must visit the library to see it.
Works pretty well here. It costs you either the price of the postage (including insurance for rarer/ larger volumes), or the cost of licensed photocopying, so it's not particularly cheap. But compared to hitch-hiking the length of the country for a couple of days reading... well often the ILL was a better use of time. I tried getting an ILL of the 'Mona Lisa' once, but they didn't seem keen to send it to a post box in the rough part of town. Don't know why.
These days, if they've not got it already scanned, they'll probably scan and index an entire volume whenever it's requested and then print off the article in question. Saves money in the long run.
We'll see how it all plays out. Or maybe our descendants will.
Whether or not it has better sound than mine, I don't know. Or care. I don't have adequate hearing to tell.
The only way that I know it's mono is because I had to disembowel it to work out how to wire a tape recorder (cassette, not reel to reel) into it about 30 years ago. And the age is a guess from how much dust was in it's guts then. It was certainly older than I was, because it's tuning glass display panel named stations that were turned off before I was born.
I just remembered - the record deck could play at 78RPM as well as at 45 or 33_1/3. My stereo can't do that - it can only play CDs. Or memory cards.
Something that is the exact opposite of what the internet was originally intended.
The original intent of the Internet was to provide a resilient way of interconnecting computer networks. What passes on those networks wasn't considered as part of the "problem", but considering that the military were a substantial part of the development groups, then command & control, launch instructions, etc were fairly high on the list of types of traffic.
I don't see how that is exactly opposite to controlling the distribution of information. Please elucidate your logical steps between these points.
But there were the academic libraries, right? Well, not necessarily. Unless you passed the relevant tests, you were often not allowed access to those inner sanctums, and couldn't read their copies of the journals.
[SNIP]
(This was in the US; YMMV at schools in other countries.)
Well it was certainly very, very different in the UK, or at least in Scotland. The university at home in Aberdeen had then (and still, I think, has) an open access policy in that it is open for anyone, literally anyone, to come in off the street and use the material on the shelves. The only times that I've heard of people being barred from entry has been a couple of the local winos and nut cases who have in the past damaged books. "Kilted Steve", I'm talking about you, you insane fucktard!
Obviously, you're not allowed to remove books from the premises without having an account with them. That cost, per year, about £35 (â38 +/-, $ ??) last time I looked, plus a £50 (~â55) deposit against any accidental damage, and mine is due for renewal some time soon. I could charge it against expenses, but the paperwork is more hassle than it's worth.
Hardly prohibitive.
I guess that Harvard etc are private businesses that receive no public funding, so are an example of the inherent benefits of capitalism over socialism.
in my life I've authored webpages using wysiwyg editors that had an enormous amount of cruft.
Well whoopee for you. I'd be more impressed if you'd written (if that's what the Americanism "authored" means) web pages that had an enormous amount of cruft, using a text editor. That would be showing serious dedication to generating cruft.
Using a cruft-generating machine to generate cruft is about as impressive as standing on a beach holding a broom and saying "I've decided to let the tide come swooshing in".
Software that lets drivers unlock car doors and even start their vehicles using a mobile phone could let car thieves do the very same things,
... is an excessively constricted form of the problem.
A less-wrong form would be:
[Anything] that lets [anyone] [do anything] and even [anything else] using [anything] could let [anything] thieves do the very same things,
No, seriously ; if you can do anything, then the bad guys can do it too. The only hope of preventing the bad guys from doing it is to make it more expensive for them to do it than would allow them a reasonable return on the effort, thus persuading them to fuck off and find somewhere easier to steal from.
Has someone posted the obligatory XKCD? I can't get to the site - blocked by my ISP/ employer - to remember the cartoon number. The one with the billion dollar code-breaking machine (and the nerd) being beaten by the five dollar kneecap-breaking machine.
I suppose it might be considered a compliment that XKCD is blocked at the ground station, but it probably just gets hit on a brought-in list of not-work domains.
... to change the orbital plane, it'd certainly take a quantity, but in the scheme of things, not a huge quantity. But unless I'm mistaken, the ISS has no propulsion of it's own, but relies on it's Russian cargo vessels to give it an orbital boost when necessary.
So, if there is the thick end of 2 tonnes of extra lift available, then loading more fuel to boost the ISS orbit and simultaneously equate ( ? G ) it, should be doable, if desired.
But given the 9-year timescale on hand, plus the availability of both long "spars" and electrical power, aren't there plausible magnetic schemes that would be able to accelerate the ISS, slowly, into a different, higher, orbit?
Or does that only work for braking? A quick search tells me... it's not clear. And I don't feel up to finding out.
average middle class people might be in construction again, and its going to be socially awkward when someone starts bragging at church "how I put up a fence" and the guy in front of him turns around and says "uh, actually, that was me"
Your church lets carpenters and the like of rude mechanicals in through the doors? Time to get a new church!
Next thing you know, they'll be allowing philanderers, thieves and tax dodgers stay in the church because it's socially convenient, and they're rich and immoral.
I'm going to also assume they've acquired dirt on most of Congress as well as the President and most presidential candidates, as a way to prevent their funding from being taken.
When did the conversation about Murdoch and his tactics move west of the Atlantic?
Interesting, but what what about when two different groups make up 10% each in an unshakeable belief?
Assuming that the two sets of beliefs are very clearly and unarguably mutually contradictory, then you get (I've been using this meme a lot today;and why not?) :
HERETIC! Burn the HERETIC ! |/
Heretic! BURN the Heretic! \|
Double-dip Darwin Awards all round. Whoopee!
(Bloody Slashdot Lameness filter ; hasn't it heard of ASCII ART?)
These contain isolated (but complexed) metal atoms, though, not nanoparticles. I do not know whether these compounds could also serve as effective electron sources on X-ray irradiation
Most ranges of X-rays (possibly overlapping into the extreme UV) are caused by transitions in either direction between an electron in one of the innermost couple of electron shells and a "free" electron (absorb an X-ray and an electron gets kicked out ; have a free electron then relax into that hole and an X-ray gets emitted). So, the outer, "bonding" electron shells aren't much involved. At which point, I would expect that, from the X-ray's point of view, it doesn't much matter what the chemical situation is - it could be a Pt atom in a nugget the size of your fist, or a Pt atom (ion) in a plasma, they'd still react as Pt atoms.
To validate this view point : use of X-ray irradiation is one common tool for identifying the composition of unknown samples in the Earth Sciences, because it doesn't give a shit about the chemical environment of the atoms ; correspondingly, this techniques is fine and dandy for sodium and upwards in the Periodic Table ; but on the top row (think : carbonates ; the oxygen in silicates ; water, bound or "free" ; hydrocarbons), it's a lot harder to get clear and unambiguous results. PRECISELY because on this row, the innermost electron shells are involved in the chemical environment.
So, taking a drug that grabs onto replicating DNA ; wedge a Pt (or Au...) atom somewhere into the structure ; feed to your lab rat ; put lab rat under X-rays. If you get enough of the drug to the sites of vigorous DNA replication, you should be able to fry that tumour.
Equally, aim the X-ray beam at the rat's balls, or a busy uterus, and it's Birth Defect Central for your next stopping point. Which is nothing new for chemotherapy. It's not a "golden bullet", even if it is a potentially useful tool.
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419 fraud isn't a problem, it's a never-ending source of hilarity.
Don't come within 200 miles of me.
TBH though, as I get longer and longer in the tooth, I'm finding that I get more and more cautious about validating input. I see that the actual programmers in the sand pit do too, as the version number of our package edges upwards.
Excessive hyperbole is a good way of making an otherwise sound argument sound silly.
I remember when I was a Computing Science first-year student (18+ in my country, but 17+ in the educational system I went to university in). Compiler options beyond input and output files names were not on the agenda. "This is sequential execution" ; "this is a branch" ; "this is a loop" were on the agenda, followed by introduction to some languages (FORTRAN, along with "this is a GOTO ; it is considered dangerous"). By the end of first year we'd moved through some aspects of algorithm design, recursion, and why and how to remove recursion if possible.
Do computing science students these days get so close to particular languages that they actually even know what compiler flags are about? I'd suspect not, because that sort of implementation detail is going to be out of date before they finish their second year. Besides, they're studying Computing Science, not Programming, so they'd be learning three or four languages in their first year, as well as much more important algorithm design etc.
Elite in HD downsampledto 320x200x16colours !
A chorus of "yums" ran round the table "yum," "yum," "yum," "yum," "yum," "YUM!"
We didn't do much of "departmental libraries" at all. Two libraries on the main campus (regular books and antiquarian books, to a fair approximation) serving the subjects taught/ researched at that campus ; a secondary library at the site I was on (not a campus - no accommodation - but about 8 departments in one building) serving the departments in that building (various life lab-sciences, anatomy, engineering , geology ; an odd mix ; not designed, but "Topsy-ed"). Some departments had a small library of their own, but mostly that was populated with reprints that had been sent to staff at the department over the decades and other such cruft. I was tasked with clearing out my department's "junk room" one week, which is how I managed to get autographs of a pre-war Everest mountaineer, and the "father of radiometric dating".
Of course, the individual departments aren't really set up for handling a flux of visitors, whereas the libraries are (permanently manned front desks, that sort of thing ; signs for the toilets instead of you being expected to know).
18 minutes door-to-door to walk ; 25 minutes to use the bus ; 10 minutes to drive plus another 30 minutes to find somewhere to park (by design ; personal vehicles were banned from the main campus and the secondary site had parking for about 5% of it's staff and 0% of students)
Given the amount of "we pay for it ; why cant we see the data" cawing I hear here, I'm surprised that this would be allowed to happen.
Works pretty well here. It costs you either the price of the postage (including insurance for rarer/ larger volumes), or the cost of licensed photocopying, so it's not particularly cheap. But compared to hitch-hiking the length of the country for a couple of days reading ... well often the ILL was a better use of time. I tried getting an ILL of the 'Mona Lisa' once, but they didn't seem keen to send it to a post box in the rough part of town. Don't know why.
These days, if they've not got it already scanned, they'll probably scan and index an entire volume whenever it's requested and then print off the article in question. Saves money in the long run.
Yours may.
Don't like walking? Don't like the commercially available cars? Don't like doing oily-hands work? Rearrange the words "shit" and "tough".
(Which is approximately Russian for "In English, please.")
There was a joke? Why?
Why would you expect to see a joke on a site that brands itself as 'News for Nerds ; stuff that matters'?
Just asking.
Whether or not it has better sound than mine, I don't know. Or care. I don't have adequate hearing to tell.
The only way that I know it's mono is because I had to disembowel it to work out how to wire a tape recorder (cassette, not reel to reel) into it about 30 years ago. And the age is a guess from how much dust was in it's guts then. It was certainly older than I was, because it's tuning glass display panel named stations that were turned off before I was born.
I just remembered - the record deck could play at 78RPM as well as at 45 or 33_1/3. My stereo can't do that - it can only play CDs. Or memory cards.
The original intent of the Internet was to provide a resilient way of interconnecting computer networks. What passes on those networks wasn't considered as part of the "problem", but considering that the military were a substantial part of the development groups, then command & control, launch instructions, etc were fairly high on the list of types of traffic.
I don't see how that is exactly opposite to controlling the distribution of information. Please elucidate your logical steps between these points.
Well it was certainly very, very different in the UK, or at least in Scotland. The university at home in Aberdeen had then (and still, I think, has) an open access policy in that it is open for anyone, literally anyone, to come in off the street and use the material on the shelves. The only times that I've heard of people being barred from entry has been a couple of the local winos and nut cases who have in the past damaged books. "Kilted Steve", I'm talking about you, you insane fucktard!
Obviously, you're not allowed to remove books from the premises without having an account with them. That cost, per year, about £35 (â38 +/-, $ ??) last time I looked, plus a £50 (~â55) deposit against any accidental damage, and mine is due for renewal some time soon. I could charge it against expenses, but the paperwork is more hassle than it's worth.
Hardly prohibitive.
I guess that Harvard etc are private businesses that receive no public funding, so are an example of the inherent benefits of capitalism over socialism.
Well whoopee for you. I'd be more impressed if you'd written (if that's what the Americanism "authored" means) web pages that had an enormous amount of cruft, using a text editor. That would be showing serious dedication to generating cruft.
Using a cruft-generating machine to generate cruft is about as impressive as standing on a beach holding a broom and saying "I've decided to let the tide come swooshing in".
... is an excessively constricted form of the problem. A less-wrong form would be :
No, seriously ; if you can do anything, then the bad guys can do it too. The only hope of preventing the bad guys from doing it is to make it more expensive for them to do it than would allow them a reasonable return on the effort, thus persuading them to fuck off and find somewhere easier to steal from.
Has someone posted the obligatory XKCD? I can't get to the site - blocked by my ISP/ employer - to remember the cartoon number. The one with the billion dollar code-breaking machine (and the nerd) being beaten by the five dollar kneecap-breaking machine.
I suppose it might be considered a compliment that XKCD is blocked at the ground station, but it probably just gets hit on a brought-in list of not-work domains.
But Britain probably has 200 local cheeses too. Or pushing it.
So, if there is the thick end of 2 tonnes of extra lift available, then loading more fuel to boost the ISS orbit and simultaneously equate ( ? G ) it, should be doable, if desired.
But given the 9-year timescale on hand, plus the availability of both long "spars" and electrical power, aren't there plausible magnetic schemes that would be able to accelerate the ISS, slowly, into a different, higher, orbit?
Or does that only work for braking? A quick search tells me ... it's not clear. And I don't feel up to finding out.
Your church lets carpenters and the like of rude mechanicals in through the doors? Time to get a new church!
Next thing you know, they'll be allowing philanderers, thieves and tax dodgers stay in the church because it's socially convenient, and they're rich and immoral.
Attendez ! On mange du fromage! Deux cent different fromages!
"I wish to make a complaint"
"We're closed"
About this here 'passtimes' wot I purchas-ed from this very boutique not one hour ago"
"Oh, the Nowegian passtimes? Very nice passtime. Lovely plumage."
"It's got one 's' too many"
I can't drag it along any further. But it was worth the effort. Perhaps.
When did the conversation about Murdoch and his tactics move west of the Atlantic?
Assuming that the two sets of beliefs are very clearly and unarguably mutually contradictory, then you get (I've been using this meme a lot today ;and why not?) :
Double-dip Darwin Awards all round. Whoopee!
(Bloody Slashdot Lameness filter ; hasn't it heard of ASCII ART?)
Most ranges of X-rays (possibly overlapping into the extreme UV) are caused by transitions in either direction between an electron in one of the innermost couple of electron shells and a "free" electron (absorb an X-ray and an electron gets kicked out ; have a free electron then relax into that hole and an X-ray gets emitted). So, the outer, "bonding" electron shells aren't much involved. At which point, I would expect that, from the X-ray's point of view, it doesn't much matter what the chemical situation is - it could be a Pt atom in a nugget the size of your fist, or a Pt atom (ion) in a plasma, they'd still react as Pt atoms.
To validate this view point : use of X-ray irradiation is one common tool for identifying the composition of unknown samples in the Earth Sciences, because it doesn't give a shit about the chemical environment of the atoms ; correspondingly, this techniques is fine and dandy for sodium and upwards in the Periodic Table ; but on the top row (think : carbonates ; the oxygen in silicates ; water, bound or "free" ; hydrocarbons), it's a lot harder to get clear and unambiguous results. PRECISELY because on this row, the innermost electron shells are involved in the chemical environment.
So, taking a drug that grabs onto replicating DNA ; wedge a Pt (or Au ...) atom somewhere into the structure ; feed to your lab rat ; put lab rat under X-rays. If you get enough of the drug to the sites of vigorous DNA replication, you should be able to fry that tumour.
Equally, aim the X-ray beam at the rat's balls, or a busy uterus, and it's Birth Defect Central for your next stopping point. Which is nothing new for chemotherapy. It's not a "golden bullet", even if it is a potentially useful tool.
(2) Move thermostat.
Take whichever is the least complicated course.
Of course you did.