Another study from 2011 shows that the new Firefox 4.0 browser is steadily losing market share to a new upstart "Chrome" browser from Google. I'll be sure to keep monitoring these trends...
MCAS should sound an alarm, it should *NOT* over-ride the pilot, and drive the plane nose-down into the ground. If the 737 MAX can't be easily flown by a competent pilot without the MCAS band-aid, the 737 MAX should have its airworthiness certificate revoked.
Of course the 737 Max 8 can be easily flown by a competent pilot without the aid of MCAS. A competent pilot will be able to keep the craft inside the flight envelope in all but the rarest circumstances, and will never experience the action of MCAS.
MCAS is designed to save the plane if 1) circumstances get rare, or 2) the pilot is less than competent.
Even in situation #1, the MCAS commands can be overridden quickly by any competent pilot through a pair of disconnect switches if, in the pilot's competent judgment, it is hurting and not helping. In situation #2, MCAS is probably the last hope of saving the plane, since the pilot is too incompetent to do so unassisted.
Major version releases are only every 12 months. There is a minor patch release every six weeks which coincides with "normal" Firefox version updates. All security patches are deployed to both release channels, but feature enhancements are not deployed to the ESR channel between major version releases..
Given that the lottery is frequently described as a "tax on people who are bad at math," it is a wonderful irony that this money is going to commemorate some of the most important mathematical work in history.
Data is not "consumed." That is a ridiculous way to put it. Tt has no shelf life, it produces no waste byproducts, it can be reused indefinitely. It is transmitted, stored, deleted, and maybe in there it delivers information to a brain. Even then, do we really delete data, or just representations of data?
" Andre-are you at work today? Gimme a call - 301-555-5555. Gerry" You think Gerry's not already getting a call from someone looking to cash in, or who just thinks they're being funny?
How many of these numbers still ring up the person who carried the device in 2001? Probably not many. Vanishingly small number, in fact. This was before the whole cell phone number portability thing.
I don't think I have a single phone number from 2001 that is still in use for me.
Any security focused organization that doesn't listen to its people on the ground is failing at its mission.
Not to mention that an inability to provide feedback is a good way to kill moral in an organization.
Well, yes, and I think this is the most apt description I've read so far of the TSA.
And I can't think of a job with lower morale. People hate you, your job is boring repetition, and it serves no actual purpose. Plus no one higher up cares about the problems or inefficiencies you see day-to-day.
Even Microsoft paid tribute today. The daily image for October 6th at Bing.com was Castle Stalker in Loch Linnhe, aka "Castle Arrrrgh," where Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail ends.
http://www.bing.com/reference
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When you buy a game console, does the store have you sign some licensing document? No? Then the "you don't own, you're just licensing" theory is a steaming pile of horseshit.
As with all the EULAs that we so love to hate, no signature is required for it to be actionable. If you see the EULA which states "if you disagree, you must return the product," and then you keep the product (Xbox, CD album, DVD movie, video game, etc.), it is assumed that you agree to the EULA.
Yes, I think this is BS just as much as you do. But what should we do with our frustration? I think it boils down to three options:
Ignore it. We all do this. But it doesn't really lead to positive change.
Take legal action (complain to your representative, donate to the EFF, educate users, etc.) I agree that this is ultimately how change must happen (i.e. the overthrow of the DMCA). But your representatives have many reasons (aka lobbyists) to preserve the DMCA. This is the slow path to change.
Boycott the product. Honestly, this would be just as difficult to organize as Option #2, at the scale needed to provoke change. But if enough people stopped buying consoles with EULAs, I do believe that the EULAs would change overnight. These companies listen to their accountants much more seriously than they listen to Congressmen.
It's terrifying to me (and a sign of the times) that we can't do what we please with the material we've paid for.
You aren't buying material. You are paying for a license to use the material in a certain way.
If you are looking for a place to take the pitchfork and torch mob, it really ought to be the console manufacturers. And if you think their business model is awful, your primary avenue of activism is to not buy their product.
So here's my little PSA: Even if you don't live somewhere that can really "flood" in a traditional sense, buy flood insurance if you have a basement. At least the minimal "get the mold out" insurance.
As an added bonus, flood insurance in the U.S. is the absolute cheapest in areas outside of defined flood plains.
Check out your area at FEMA's website. They have a kludgey map viewer, but the info is there.
I live in Sacramento, the "River City," about 2 miles from the American River and about 3 miles from the Sacramento River. I'm just outside of the "Zone X" flood diagram, and my FEMA flood insurance is only a couple hundred US$ per year.
After Katrina in New Orleans, Sacramento's levees were widely identified as the next-most crappiest. Zone X or not, I snapped that policy right up!
It's inner workings are totally opaque to the general public (me included, for the most part). The fact that is works at all is "magical," in the Asimovian sense.
And for both, if you want answers, you have to ask "The Man!"
Until this fall, our university was maintaining one of, if not the largest, Cyrus mail system in the world. Over 50,000 mailboxes generating an average of 4,000,000 transactions a day (peaking at 5,000,000), hosted on a cluster of SunFire servers and StorEdge/StorageTek SAN. In-house, open-source...sounds great, right?
This year we estimated the cost of increasing our default inbox quota from a paltry 60 MB to 1 GB (a long-overdue upgrade). The total came in at about US$500,000, which is fiscally untenable at this point.
Then we were hit by a previously unknown ZFS bug that crippled mail delivery for almost a week while we worked with Carnegie Mellon, Sun and consultants trying to figure out why our system wasn't scaling properly.
We realized that sometimes outsourcing is the best alternative, no matter what in-house resources or requirements exist.
We just launched Google-hosted email for all students, which is projected to save $250,000 annually (or more if TCO is considered).
It was fun being the guinea-pig for scaling up Cyrus, but by partnering with Google we can deliver more reliable, larger inboxes and save money instead of spending it. DIY "let the CS department handle it" philosophies are great, but not always the best plan. Even for email, outsourcing can sometimes be the best option, not a cop out.
Myspace doesn't sell anything. If you want to buy a song you have to purchase it from Amazon through the link provided. Otherwise you use Myspace's music player.
That is what makes this a "new music service" from MySpace. It's also what makes this story "news."
Good summary. Have a biscuit.
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Another study from 2011 shows that the new Firefox 4.0 browser is steadily losing market share to a new upstart "Chrome" browser from Google. I'll be sure to keep monitoring these trends...
MCAS should sound an alarm, it should *NOT* over-ride the pilot, and drive the plane nose-down into the ground. If the 737 MAX can't be easily flown by a competent pilot without the MCAS band-aid, the 737 MAX should have its airworthiness certificate revoked.
Of course the 737 Max 8 can be easily flown by a competent pilot without the aid of MCAS. A competent pilot will be able to keep the craft inside the flight envelope in all but the rarest circumstances, and will never experience the action of MCAS.
MCAS is designed to save the plane if 1) circumstances get rare, or 2) the pilot is less than competent.
Even in situation #1, the MCAS commands can be overridden quickly by any competent pilot through a pair of disconnect switches if, in the pilot's competent judgment, it is hurting and not helping. In situation #2, MCAS is probably the last hope of saving the plane, since the pilot is too incompetent to do so unassisted.
The way the KGB blocked? Is it still 1991?
They meant "the former KGB," now the Federal Security Service, or FSB. The KGB ceased to exist, at least in name, in 1991.
Firefox Extended Service Release (ESR) is available for those who require consistency in the UI for a longer term.
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/.
Major version releases are only every 12 months. There is a minor patch release every six weeks which coincides with "normal" Firefox version updates. All security patches are deployed to both release channels, but feature enhancements are not deployed to the ESR channel between major version releases..
Given that the lottery is frequently described as a "tax on people who are bad at math," it is a wonderful irony that this money is going to commemorate some of the most important mathematical work in history.
lawyers. Seriously, can we please round these bottom-feeders up and put them at the bottom of Yucca Mountain?
I'm all for it, but I think we'll have to wait far too long before any radioactive waste actually ends up there. Let's just go with Chernobyl?
Plus it's incredibly rare for a rugby player to make the headlines, full stop.
Fixed that for you.
Unlike slashdot, which writes everything in code on paper and has mute gnomes who it in a locked vault.
Actually, the mute gnomes hand off the coded papers through an airlock to blind gnomes, who then store them in the locked vault.
Hey! That's the same password I have on my chastity belt!
You've changed, man. It used to be about the music!
Or, wait...what was Slashdot about waaay back in the 900,000 range of UIDs?
You won't even be allowed to possess the sixth version of this Nexus phone on the planet Earth. It will only be for use in the off-world colonies.
Special Verizon squads have orders to destroy, upon detection, any Nexus Six phone. This is called "retirement," and is not covered under warranty.
Better suggestion: Use fakenamegenerator and come up with something that doesn’t look like an obviously bogus profile.
HSRfakenamegenerator:
Data is not "consumed." That is a ridiculous way to put it. Tt has no shelf life, it produces no waste byproducts, it can be reused indefinitely. It is transmitted, stored, deleted, and maybe in there it delivers information to a brain. Even then, do we really delete data, or just representations of data?
" Andre-are you at work today? Gimme a call - 301-555-5555. Gerry" You think Gerry's not already getting a call from someone looking to cash in, or who just thinks they're being funny?
How many of these numbers still ring up the person who carried the device in 2001? Probably not many. Vanishingly small number, in fact. This was before the whole cell phone number portability thing. I don't think I have a single phone number from 2001 that is still in use for me.
Any security focused organization that doesn't listen to its people on the ground is failing at its mission. Not to mention that an inability to provide feedback is a good way to kill moral in an organization.
Well, yes, and I think this is the most apt description I've read so far of the TSA.
They are failing at their mission, which is supposed to be "protecting the Nation’s transportation systems to ensure freedom of movement for people and commerce." They are actually restricting the movement of people and commerce, and without increasing the protection of either.
And I can't think of a job with lower morale. People hate you, your job is boring repetition, and it serves no actual purpose. Plus no one higher up cares about the problems or inefficiencies you see day-to-day.
Even Microsoft paid tribute today. The daily image for October 6th at Bing.com was Castle Stalker in Loch Linnhe, aka "Castle Arrrrgh," where Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail ends. http://www.bing.com/reference
As with all the EULAs that we so love to hate, no signature is required for it to be actionable. If you see the EULA which states "if you disagree, you must return the product," and then you keep the product (Xbox, CD album, DVD movie, video game, etc.), it is assumed that you agree to the EULA. Yes, I think this is BS just as much as you do. But what should we do with our frustration? I think it boils down to three options:
It's terrifying to me (and a sign of the times) that we can't do what we please with the material we've paid for.
You aren't buying material. You are paying for a license to use the material in a certain way.
If you are looking for a place to take the pitchfork and torch mob, it really ought to be the console manufacturers. And if you think their business model is awful, your primary avenue of activism is to not buy their product.
...Michael Dell was found today at a Memphis hotel in a bathtub full of ice with strange incisions on his body.
"Adbusters gives Google a perfect opportunity to sue for tortious interference with business operation"
Even though Adbusters is a Canadian organization?
So here's my little PSA: Even if you don't live somewhere that can really "flood" in a traditional sense, buy flood insurance if you have a basement. At least the minimal "get the mold out" insurance.
As an added bonus, flood insurance in the U.S. is the absolute cheapest in areas outside of defined flood plains.
Check out your area at FEMA's website. They have a kludgey map viewer, but the info is there.
I live in Sacramento, the "River City," about 2 miles from the American River and about 3 miles from the Sacramento River. I'm just outside of the "Zone X" flood diagram, and my FEMA flood insurance is only a couple hundred US$ per year.
After Katrina in New Orleans, Sacramento's levees were widely identified as the next-most crappiest. Zone X or not, I snapped that policy right up!
It's inner workings are totally opaque to the general public (me included, for the most part). The fact that is works at all is "magical," in the Asimovian sense.
And for both, if you want answers, you have to ask "The Man!"
Until this fall, our university was maintaining one of, if not the largest, Cyrus mail system in the world. Over 50,000 mailboxes generating an average of 4,000,000 transactions a day (peaking at 5,000,000), hosted on a cluster of SunFire servers and StorEdge/StorageTek SAN. In-house, open-source...sounds great, right?
This year we estimated the cost of increasing our default inbox quota from a paltry 60 MB to 1 GB (a long-overdue upgrade). The total came in at about US$500,000, which is fiscally untenable at this point.
Then we were hit by a previously unknown ZFS bug that crippled mail delivery for almost a week while we worked with Carnegie Mellon, Sun and consultants trying to figure out why our system wasn't scaling properly.
We realized that sometimes outsourcing is the best alternative, no matter what in-house resources or requirements exist.
We just launched Google-hosted email for all students, which is projected to save $250,000 annually (or more if TCO is considered).
It was fun being the guinea-pig for scaling up Cyrus, but by partnering with Google we can deliver more reliable, larger inboxes and save money instead of spending it. DIY "let the CS department handle it" philosophies are great, but not always the best plan. Even for email, outsourcing can sometimes be the best option, not a cop out.
Myspace doesn't sell anything. If you want to buy a song you have to purchase it from Amazon through the link provided. Otherwise you use Myspace's music player.
That is what makes this a "new music service" from MySpace. It's also what makes this story "news." Good summary. Have a biscuit.