Amazon had some sort of a spat with Nintendo a few years back, so they stopped selling all Nintendo consoles (the hardware). You could still buy them from third parties on Amazon just fine, but not directly from Amazon, or "fulfilled by Amazon".
Cars have a huge useful purpose. 99.9999% of the time cars are used to perform immensely useful work. Guns, on the other hand, have absolutely no useful purpose in the modern world. 99.9999% of the time guns are used to kill people (animals, etc.). And the other 0.0001% of the time, to shoot down drones, apparently.
I have one simple lifehack to wean yourself off any of the decongestants that have a rebound effect (i.e. your nose gets stuffed up after you stop using them even though you are not sick any more). Just spray only one of your nostrils, and alternate next time. Yeah, you'll be breathing through just one of the nostrils, but it'll give the other one a chance to rest and recover from the rebound effect. Use the redundancy of paired organs that evolution gave us!:)
Jeebus, what a crock of... more propaganda. Pretty much all countries require a visa if your own country also requires a visa for the citizens of the other country (tsar or no tsar). A lot of countries require a visa for Russians to enter, so Russia does the same. Pretty much the only reason. If US would agree to admit Russians without a visa (haha!), Russia would do the same. There are 38 countries whose citizens don't need a visa to enter Russia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Tsars had to personally approve foreigners entering Russia? Really? Personally?! And that's why Russia still requires a visa now? Did you know that it was common for wealthy families in Russia to have live-in French nannies for their children in 19th century? Did tsar also had to *personally* approve every French nanny entering Russia?
This can be said about pretty much any scientific field — we make assumptions based on observations. What's "real experience"? You can't touch or see electrons, for example, and yet we know a lot about what's going on with them. It's just that there are limited types of observations that we can make about distant stars, and not a whole lot of experiments that we can set up, but that doesn't mean that anything we learn about them is less "real" or valid. Look at neutrinos. They are everywhere, can't be any more "local" than that. And yet we probably know even less about them than about distant stars, simply because neutrinos just don't interact with the rest of the world that much (from what I remember from school). So "locality" of the observed object or event doesn't really mean much from scientific point of view.
What?! False *negatives* would be unacceptable. If the broad test is less sensitive than the specific tests and often misses a lot of viruses, then what's the point of having a broad test? False positives are perfectly fine on the other hand. You can always run a specific test to confirm the results of a broad test. In fact that's how it works for a lot of conditions. You run a highly sensitive cheaper or less invasive test that's known to be imprecise and only then you confirm the result with a more comprehensive test, if you get a positive reaction.
Just Alphabet?! Did they want to be on the first page in the phonebook? AAAlphabet would've been even better. Is Gmail going to be renamed Amail? Someone else owns alphabet.com and they didn't buy it prior to the announcement?!
It's appears to be a non-issue for CentOS 6/7 as ChallengeResponseAuthentication is set to "no" by default, which also sets KbdInteractiveAuthentication to "no" (the suggested work-around).
... or it's actually not possible to implement Push Messaging and Notifications without every message going through Google's servers (or GCM, Google Cloud Messaging)? Somehow I don't see this "feature" being all that popular, considering tracking/snooping and Google's discontinuing its services willy-nilly. And it looks like you have to actually pay Google if you want to send more than 10,000 notifications per day.
While I have absolutely no sympathy for all the hate that the keangear asshats will get from this, I just wish that ripoffreport.com would get their share of it. Did you know that if you pay them money, they will happily turn all the negative reports about your business into positive? They call it "Corporate Advocacy Program", but the real name of it should be "blackmail and extortion". Absolutely anyone can post anything about any business, be it true or a complete lie, and the business owner has absolutely no way for defending themselves. Except if you pay ripoffreport.com a few hundred bucks and then all negative reports go away. And they even claim that they will help place the newly positive reviews "at the top of search engines", whatever the hell that means. See, they do it to benefit the consumer and to assure the complete satisfaction, and not at all to blackmail small businesses and extort money from them: http://www.ripoffreport.com/CorporateAdvocacyProgram/Change-Report-From-Negative-To-Positive.aspx
Sniper rifle should be the *least* latency-sensitive weapon. In real life, no sniper can hit a running target at any reasonable distance (unless they are running directly towards, or away). More so if the target is passing by a window and is only visible for a fraction of a second, which makes any sort of leading practically impossible.
Also, sheep generally have trivial access to abundant food and cows even have computerized milking machines, with laser range-finders and all sorts of entertaining, stress-reducing and comforting gadgets. And your point is?
Sigh... How is this relevant that they were not "even" American citizens?! Are non-American citizens somehow less capable of feeling compassion for other human beings and thus are less capable of being motivated when working on a *healthcare* related website? Or are they not as smart? At least I hope they were all white, right?
Can someone explain it to me, why US/UK/etc. governments are so freaking afraid of leaks, when apparently it's such a common knowledge that everyone spies on everyone, including their friends and allies?!
Shouldn't it be, if you haven't done anything wrong, you shouldn't be afraid of the truth? Since enemies of any state already assume they are being spied on anyway?
I mean, I can understand if the leaks included real names of agents and informants, or were putting real people in real danger of being killed in some other way. But at this point it's all just about governments lying to the people and each other, and about politicians losing all credibility. Oh, wait, I think I just answered my own question...
The guy with charming ideas is nothing without a genius coder to implement them. And the coder indeed needs the ideas guy to suggest what he's going to code, and how it's going to look like. One can't do without the other, and so it goes in so many fields of work.
Um, no. Ideas are dime a dozen. The key word there is "charming". You need a schmoozer/promoter to make an idea popular, and being a charismatic leader does help. Plus, most "tech geniuses" are antisocial, often because they find it mind-numbingly boring to do the necessary steps to make any venture successful past implementing an idea. But tech people can be as creative and full of ideas as anyone else. We just lose interest right after we get it up and running, and move on to the next idea.:)
You can burn *anything* given hot enough flame and high enough concentration of oxygen. A cast iron frying pan will burn quite spectacularly given hot enough flame and high enough concentration of oxygen.
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That's why I never write C code. The compiler could have a bug. Assembler all the way!
Amazon had some sort of a spat with Nintendo a few years back, so they stopped selling all Nintendo consoles (the hardware). You could still buy them from third parties on Amazon just fine, but not directly from Amazon, or "fulfilled by Amazon".
Also, vote Bernie Sanders: http://feelthebern.org/bernie-...
Cars have a huge useful purpose. 99.9999% of the time cars are used to perform immensely useful work. Guns, on the other hand, have absolutely no useful purpose in the modern world. 99.9999% of the time guns are used to kill people (animals, etc.). And the other 0.0001% of the time, to shoot down drones, apparently.
I have one simple lifehack to wean yourself off any of the decongestants that have a rebound effect (i.e. your nose gets stuffed up after you stop using them even though you are not sick any more). Just spray only one of your nostrils, and alternate next time. Yeah, you'll be breathing through just one of the nostrils, but it'll give the other one a chance to rest and recover from the rebound effect. Use the redundancy of paired organs that evolution gave us! :)
Jeebus, what a crock of... more propaganda. Pretty much all countries require a visa if your own country also requires a visa for the citizens of the other country (tsar or no tsar). A lot of countries require a visa for Russians to enter, so Russia does the same. Pretty much the only reason. If US would agree to admit Russians without a visa (haha!), Russia would do the same. There are 38 countries whose citizens don't need a visa to enter Russia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Tsars had to personally approve foreigners entering Russia? Really? Personally?! And that's why Russia still requires a visa now? Did you know that it was common for wealthy families in Russia to have live-in French nannies for their children in 19th century? Did tsar also had to *personally* approve every French nanny entering Russia?
This can be said about pretty much any scientific field — we make assumptions based on observations. What's "real experience"? You can't touch or see electrons, for example, and yet we know a lot about what's going on with them. It's just that there are limited types of observations that we can make about distant stars, and not a whole lot of experiments that we can set up, but that doesn't mean that anything we learn about them is less "real" or valid. Look at neutrinos. They are everywhere, can't be any more "local" than that. And yet we probably know even less about them than about distant stars, simply because neutrinos just don't interact with the rest of the world that much (from what I remember from school). So "locality" of the observed object or event doesn't really mean much from scientific point of view.
Do you mean 8:5?
What?! False *negatives* would be unacceptable. If the broad test is less sensitive than the specific tests and often misses a lot of viruses, then what's the point of having a broad test? False positives are perfectly fine on the other hand. You can always run a specific test to confirm the results of a broad test. In fact that's how it works for a lot of conditions. You run a highly sensitive cheaper or less invasive test that's known to be imprecise and only then you confirm the result with a more comprehensive test, if you get a positive reaction.
It says Google etc. to block "Hash Lists". That means they are against it, right? What did "hash lists" do anything to anybody?
Just Alphabet?!
Did they want to be on the first page in the phonebook? AAAlphabet would've been even better.
Is Gmail going to be renamed Amail?
Someone else owns alphabet.com and they didn't buy it prior to the announcement?!
It's appears to be a non-issue for CentOS 6/7 as ChallengeResponseAuthentication is set to "no" by default, which also sets KbdInteractiveAuthentication to "no" (the suggested work-around).
... or it's actually not possible to implement Push Messaging and Notifications without every message going through Google's servers (or GCM, Google Cloud Messaging)? Somehow I don't see this "feature" being all that popular, considering tracking/snooping and Google's discontinuing its services willy-nilly. And it looks like you have to actually pay Google if you want to send more than 10,000 notifications per day.
What's a "Communist flag"?! Why are you putting "communist" together with the rest of the crap? Shouldn't you put hippies in the list too then?
While I have absolutely no sympathy for all the hate that the keangear asshats will get from this, I just wish that ripoffreport.com would get their share of it. Did you know that if you pay them money, they will happily turn all the negative reports about your business into positive? They call it "Corporate Advocacy Program", but the real name of it should be "blackmail and extortion". Absolutely anyone can post anything about any business, be it true or a complete lie, and the business owner has absolutely no way for defending themselves. Except if you pay ripoffreport.com a few hundred bucks and then all negative reports go away. And they even claim that they will help place the newly positive reviews "at the top of search engines", whatever the hell that means. See, they do it to benefit the consumer and to assure the complete satisfaction, and not at all to blackmail small businesses and extort money from them:
http://www.ripoffreport.com/CorporateAdvocacyProgram/Change-Report-From-Negative-To-Positive.aspx
And they call themselves scientists?! How do they know that the clam wasn't already dead when they opened the box... erhm, I mean the shell?
Sniper rifle should be the *least* latency-sensitive weapon. In real life, no sniper can hit a running target at any reasonable distance (unless they are running directly towards, or away). More so if the target is passing by a window and is only visible for a fraction of a second, which makes any sort of leading practically impossible.
Also, sheep generally have trivial access to abundant food and cows even have computerized milking machines, with laser range-finders and all sorts of entertaining, stress-reducing and comforting gadgets. And your point is?
Sigh... How is this relevant that they were not "even" American citizens?! Are non-American citizens somehow less capable of feeling compassion for other human beings and thus are less capable of being motivated when working on a *healthcare* related website? Or are they not as smart? At least I hope they were all white, right?
How much power will this thing be sucking? Is it going to be like the original PS3 mini-heater at 300W?
Can someone explain it to me, why US/UK/etc. governments are so freaking afraid of leaks, when apparently it's such a common knowledge that everyone spies on everyone, including their friends and allies?!
Shouldn't it be, if you haven't done anything wrong, you shouldn't be afraid of the truth? Since enemies of any state already assume they are being spied on anyway?
I mean, I can understand if the leaks included real names of agents and informants, or were putting real people in real danger of being killed in some other way. But at this point it's all just about governments lying to the people and each other, and about politicians losing all credibility. Oh, wait, I think I just answered my own question...
The guy with charming ideas is nothing without a genius coder to implement them. And the coder indeed needs the ideas guy to suggest what he's going to code, and how it's going to look like. One can't do without the other, and so it goes in so many fields of work.
Um, no. Ideas are dime a dozen. The key word there is "charming". You need a schmoozer/promoter to make an idea popular, and being a charismatic leader does help. Plus, most "tech geniuses" are antisocial, often because they find it mind-numbingly boring to do the necessary steps to make any venture successful past implementing an idea. But tech people can be as creative and full of ideas as anyone else. We just lose interest right after we get it up and running, and move on to the next idea. :)
The legal system does not hand out punishment on the basis of whether or not the defendant can pay for it
O, really?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-10960230
You can burn *anything* given hot enough flame and high enough concentration of oxygen. A cast iron frying pan will burn quite spectacularly given hot enough flame and high enough concentration of oxygen.
Time to start wearing burkas?