I mean, I understand the appeal of a new device like this. But seriously, if you already own a collection of NES games, you should really look into getting an original NES or top loader modded with the Hi-Def NES board. This will add HDMI output, an extremely high quality video upconverter, as well as expansion audio support.
during brute force attacks, sequential reads from disk into RAM contribute to the overall MTBF and MTTF statistics for the hardware. depending on how old the disk is and how complex the encryption, you could very well end up with a nontrivial number of missing sectors and potentially corrupted data on the disk just from thrashing it for personal gain. depending on the encryption, any writes will also contribute to things like SSD write life
Except they don't run the brute force attack on the physical hardware that they confiscated in a search. The very first thing that is done is that the disks are cloned. Copies of the cloned disk image are then used in any attempt to brute force passwords or encryption keys.
So is the implication here just that it's harder to find highly competent women in technical fields rather than men?
DING DING DING! We have a winner!
Look I am all for equal pay for equal work and have no problems with working with women in the team or project.
I do have issue with someone being incompetent who is trying to do the job (be it a man or woman). And as you just stated, if the system really is anonymous skill assessment, then the people scoring the skill assessments don't know the gender, which simply means there are more highly skilled men that used the system than women, and that on average, the men that have used were more likely to get the job directly because they were higher skilled technically than the women.
I mean, this isn't really rocket science to realize that the more highly skilled person will be offered the job (when all other factors are eliminated by anonymizing the data). And thus if as they stated, that men have on average a higher technical score than the women on average, it isn't much of a leap to say that men would more likely be offered a job than women...
Well, Xbox One is 3 years old now and has as much graphics power as 8 year old PC graphics cards. Now that consoles are effectively a small-form-factor PC, using 8 years old graphics tech is really hurting it. I am surprised this is releasing so soon and at this price. I would have expected keeping the same price while using the low-end AMD Polaris GPU (who knows, maybe they are actually using that GPU, but I doubt it as it would probably cost them $130-150 for the chip alone which is half the price of the console).
That is because the CEO was taught to think of everything and everyone as dealing with a mythical "widget" with all the widgets take the same time/resources to make and widgets get sold on the free, open market for the same price. To them (CEOs), everyone and everything is an interchangeable part on the production line to creating profits. By training more programmers, they want a larger pool of talent to choose from so they can simply layoff and hire more widget makers as their funding supports without needing to determine if that particular widget maker actually made magic widgets which were somehow better than the widgets made by other programmers (because all widgets are the same... remember... but in reality we know all code is not the same).
I mean seriously. Invest in the infrastructure to build high capacity, high efficiency transmission lines to other regions and even countries and sell that power instead of give it away for free.
I don't think you understand what happened in this case. API's have inherently always been allowed to be used essentially since the beginning of coding. A Judge and/or jury didn't rule that the the code in the Java was fair use to use, just the functional names. This retained the same working conditions that have existed for the last 30-40 years of code development, including the white/clean room techniques that have been used by virtually every major development studio, (including Oracle by the way). The underlying code is still protected, but you can't protect the names of the functions. I mean seriously, how many times have people written a function called "length" or "size" (hint, thousands of times).
Are we all suddenly suppose to pay royalties to the first one who called their function by that name? What about if someone wrote a program that then auto-generated creating billions of function names from every language, but each function was simply "return(1)"? Am I to get billions of dollars from every company in existence now for them infringing my copyright on all those function names?
In other words, your argument is ridiculous. The real copyright is and always has been on the specific implementation of the code, not what it is named.
I have to agree with you in some sense. It is all about the local QUALIFIED talent pool, not the overall national numbers. There will be plenty of people who will spout off saying there are tons of Hispanics and African Americans who live in and around SV. That is not in question, there are plenty. But of those, how many have BS, MS, or Doctorate in software engineering/design/computer science/computer engineering/information science etc., and of those that have those degrees, how many have the degree from a high ranked school and/or have appropriate high talent skill (simply having a degree is one thing, but being able to be any good is entirely another)?
Really, this is a questionable action which will be most likely overturned. The court can not arbitrarily order some lawyers to be required to perform actions that other lawyers do not need to do in order to appear before the court. They are placing an arbitrary barrier in front of a section of people, which can be likened to poll tests to prevent them from appearing in court.
This case is also about immigration and enforcement of immigration laws. Laws that are FEDERAL laws, not STATE laws. District Attorneys have always had the say in terms of what crimes get prosecuted, especially when there are budget considerations (i.e. the prosecution office only has money to pay for 10 prosecutors for the year, and those prosecutors can only handle X amount of cases due to the time those cases take to prosecute). This is a STATE Judge slapping FEDERAL Attorneys because the Attorneys have made a different decision on priority of cases to bring before FEDERAL court. Now just imagine the uproar if a FEDERAL Judge did that to a STATE DA....
Except he may be streaming anytime there is an audience to watch. It means that if he happened to have a game installed and ready to run at 12:00am on release date, he might be streaming all night long because there will be people somewhere in the world that are awake and watching someone playing the brand new game that they might have been interested in buying, but held off on the pre-order because they have been burned too many times recently (can anyone say Batman?). As such, there is NO good time for an automatic update to take control of the system. Let ME make the damn decision on installing the update, on even when to CHECK that there are new updates out there. Don't annoy me with crap popups, messages, and screens that takeover my system and force me to acknowledge. And don't make us have to jump through hops and/or require a specific version of the OS to even have a chance to setup the system so that the only time I am ever bothered about updates is when I feel like clicking on the "check for updates" button and then select which updates I want at that time.
Yeah, yanks should usa a vat tax. Clear and simple. And then let the federal government redistribute the vat tax to the states and the states redistribute the tax to the municipalities etc...
But that is top down taxation. Its just like trickle down economics, it simply doesn't work for the exact same reason, because the first one with the cash tends to keep most all of it.
Look, I agree with you to a point, but that point ends the moment you don't have a defined way that you are put on the "mental health list" as well as a defined way in which you are removed from the "mental health list".
Who defined the list of things which constitute "mental illness" anyway? 40-50 years ago we were calling LBGTs a "mental illness" (heck, many places still do). People with Parkinson or MS were considered "mentially ill" back 60-70 years ago as well. Go back a little more and any strong willed woman was also "mentally ill" ("hysterical"... ever look up the root of that word?).
So my point being, as we gain more knowledge, we have found that more and more of these "mental illnesses" are more societal problems with fears of the "not normal" or have actual physical underlying issues (and as such, a physical illness is then just that, physical, not "mental").
We don't actually read the DNA like you think either from that mammoth hair. All we get are DNA snipets. We then use computers to look at all those and attempts to put them back into some kind of order that seems to make sense based on all the other DNA snipets we have seen before. In other words, it all works because we have this huge catalogue of DNA that we have looked at previously. That all falls apart once you have complete randomness. You would never be able to tell what piece comes next.
I mean it is just that simple. Of COURSE the system is rigged towards the "party insiders". IT IS THEIR PARTY! The Democrat and Republican party leaders have final say in how they want their party to work, and these "outsiders" are attempting to get the endorsement of respective party leaders to run on that party's name.
Of course the party leadership has setup rules to be able to influence who is and isn't able to be put forward as their candidate. If you don't like those rules, you have a choice to either get high enough up in the respective party to influence a change of the rules, or go start your own damn party and set your own rules.
Seriously think about it. Someone is searching on the INTERNET to purchase a popular item. If amazon won't sell it to random customer, there are 20-100 other stores that gladly will. All you have done is lose business which could have also resulted in additional sales for other items at the same time of the purchase (as well as all the additional marketing information that was lost from the sale which seems to be the real money anyway now).
Actually you were more right the first time when saying the problem was created by Congress. It isn't the industry's fault at all and certainly isn't the CEO's faults. Congress said thou shalt build one plane to rule them all. One plane to find them, one plane to bring them all in and in the darkness bind them.
The industry is simply bidding on the contracts that Congress is making. And in this case, then dealing with all the feature creep that Congress has caused by telling the Air Force, Navy, and Marines that they all need to use this one plane to replace all their existing needs.... There was a reason we had specialized planes for specialized purposes. A plane that is carrying several tons of bombs will not do so well when having to dog fight against other planes. A plane that has VTOL capability will have a lot of space taken up by all the extra power plant requirements needed for having enough thrust to lift straight off the ground and/or hover for landing. A plane that has short, foldable wings to be able to fit more onto an aircraft carrier will have more structural drawbacks than airframes that do not have foldable wings.
It is all the feature creep to make a single plane that does everything which is the problem. Don't blame the industry. The industry didn't invent these requirements. Someone who has zero technical ability said to someone else wouldn't it be great if all our planes were the same because then we could save on maintenance and training costs because it is all the same platform, and a bunch of other people which no technical ability looked at the numbers for projected cost savings over the lifetime of the airplanes and said yes, that would save money. But none of those people looked at the technical challenges and costs involved in engineering a single plane that could do everything that 5-6 existing planes do when they said replace all those existing planes with just a single one which does all the same roles that those other planes could do, only better...
A stationary piece of dust weighting 1 gram will have an impact force of 662,920,828 TONS! A piece of dust moving in the opposite direction of the probe will have even higher impact energy due to the relative speeds between the two objects.
To put that in perspective, imagine an indestructible needle/pin and put 1816 Empire State Buildings on top of that indestructible pin and then put your spacecraft under that pin...
I love the idea. However with a device that small, how do we get a signal back? It will not be able to generate a strong radio or light signal to send back. Would we be able to use existing radio telescopes to pick it up, or would we need better receiving infrastructure?
The real questing isn't detecting the radio/light signal. The real question is how in the world (or more aptly "universe") can such a craft survive impact with dust when moving at the velocity that they are proposing? A stationary piece of dust weighting 1 gram will have an impact force of 662,920,828 TONS! A piece of dust moving in the opposite direction of the probe will have even higher impact energy due to the relative speeds between the two objects.
This is precisely why I lost all interest in Oculus the instant I heard that it had been acquired by Facebook.
Same here. It is why I am glad there are several competing devices that are due out as well. That said, I am really waiting on one that has a decent field of view.
On that same line, the FIRST TIME it happened was in Jan 2012. All reactors combined went several thousand years of operating time without an incident occurring... Just to give you an idea of frequency of this type of event is.
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Since unlimited plans haven't been available for years now by Verison, everyone on an unlimited plan is grandfathered.
I fixed that for you. There are plenty of carriers that still have unlimited data plans, Sprint and T-Mobile come to the top of my mind.
I mean, I understand the appeal of a new device like this. But seriously, if you already own a collection of NES games, you should really look into getting an original NES or top loader modded with the Hi-Def NES board. This will add HDMI output, an extremely high quality video upconverter, as well as expansion audio support.
during brute force attacks, sequential reads from disk into RAM contribute to the overall MTBF and MTTF statistics for the hardware. depending on how old the disk is and how complex the encryption, you could very well end up with a nontrivial number of missing sectors and potentially corrupted data on the disk just from thrashing it for personal gain. depending on the encryption, any writes will also contribute to things like SSD write life
Except they don't run the brute force attack on the physical hardware that they confiscated in a search. The very first thing that is done is that the disks are cloned. Copies of the cloned disk image are then used in any attempt to brute force passwords or encryption keys.
So is the implication here just that it's harder to find highly competent women in technical fields rather than men?
DING DING DING! We have a winner!
Look I am all for equal pay for equal work and have no problems with working with women in the team or project.
I do have issue with someone being incompetent who is trying to do the job (be it a man or woman). And as you just stated, if the system really is anonymous skill assessment, then the people scoring the skill assessments don't know the gender, which simply means there are more highly skilled men that used the system than women, and that on average, the men that have used were more likely to get the job directly because they were higher skilled technically than the women.
I mean, this isn't really rocket science to realize that the more highly skilled person will be offered the job (when all other factors are eliminated by anonymizing the data). And thus if as they stated, that men have on average a higher technical score than the women on average, it isn't much of a leap to say that men would more likely be offered a job than women...
Well, Xbox One is 3 years old now and has as much graphics power as 8 year old PC graphics cards. Now that consoles are effectively a small-form-factor PC, using 8 years old graphics tech is really hurting it. I am surprised this is releasing so soon and at this price. I would have expected keeping the same price while using the low-end AMD Polaris GPU (who knows, maybe they are actually using that GPU, but I doubt it as it would probably cost them $130-150 for the chip alone which is half the price of the console).
That is because the CEO was taught to think of everything and everyone as dealing with a mythical "widget" with all the widgets take the same time/resources to make and widgets get sold on the free, open market for the same price. To them (CEOs), everyone and everything is an interchangeable part on the production line to creating profits. By training more programmers, they want a larger pool of talent to choose from so they can simply layoff and hire more widget makers as their funding supports without needing to determine if that particular widget maker actually made magic widgets which were somehow better than the widgets made by other programmers (because all widgets are the same... remember... but in reality we know all code is not the same).
I mean seriously. Invest in the infrastructure to build high capacity, high efficiency transmission lines to other regions and even countries and sell that power instead of give it away for free.
I don't think you understand what happened in this case. API's have inherently always been allowed to be used essentially since the beginning of coding. A Judge and/or jury didn't rule that the the code in the Java was fair use to use, just the functional names. This retained the same working conditions that have existed for the last 30-40 years of code development, including the white/clean room techniques that have been used by virtually every major development studio, (including Oracle by the way). The underlying code is still protected, but you can't protect the names of the functions. I mean seriously, how many times have people written a function called "length" or "size" (hint, thousands of times).
Are we all suddenly suppose to pay royalties to the first one who called their function by that name? What about if someone wrote a program that then auto-generated creating billions of function names from every language, but each function was simply "return(1)"? Am I to get billions of dollars from every company in existence now for them infringing my copyright on all those function names?
In other words, your argument is ridiculous. The real copyright is and always has been on the specific implementation of the code, not what it is named.
Seriously, who still uses it?
I have to agree with you in some sense. It is all about the local QUALIFIED talent pool, not the overall national numbers. There will be plenty of people who will spout off saying there are tons of Hispanics and African Americans who live in and around SV. That is not in question, there are plenty. But of those, how many have BS, MS, or Doctorate in software engineering/design/computer science/computer engineering/information science etc., and of those that have those degrees, how many have the degree from a high ranked school and/or have appropriate high talent skill (simply having a degree is one thing, but being able to be any good is entirely another)?
Really, this is a questionable action which will be most likely overturned. The court can not arbitrarily order some lawyers to be required to perform actions that other lawyers do not need to do in order to appear before the court. They are placing an arbitrary barrier in front of a section of people, which can be likened to poll tests to prevent them from appearing in court.
This case is also about immigration and enforcement of immigration laws. Laws that are FEDERAL laws, not STATE laws. District Attorneys have always had the say in terms of what crimes get prosecuted, especially when there are budget considerations (i.e. the prosecution office only has money to pay for 10 prosecutors for the year, and those prosecutors can only handle X amount of cases due to the time those cases take to prosecute). This is a STATE Judge slapping FEDERAL Attorneys because the Attorneys have made a different decision on priority of cases to bring before FEDERAL court. Now just imagine the uproar if a FEDERAL Judge did that to a STATE DA....
Exactly, and the big issue is Carbon in the UPPER ATMOSPHERE, not so much particulates on the ground.
If you are concerned with global warming, yes. If you are concerned with lung cancer, pulmonary disease, and asthma, no.
Except he may be streaming anytime there is an audience to watch. It means that if he happened to have a game installed and ready to run at 12:00am on release date, he might be streaming all night long because there will be people somewhere in the world that are awake and watching someone playing the brand new game that they might have been interested in buying, but held off on the pre-order because they have been burned too many times recently (can anyone say Batman?). As such, there is NO good time for an automatic update to take control of the system. Let ME make the damn decision on installing the update, on even when to CHECK that there are new updates out there. Don't annoy me with crap popups, messages, and screens that takeover my system and force me to acknowledge. And don't make us have to jump through hops and/or require a specific version of the OS to even have a chance to setup the system so that the only time I am ever bothered about updates is when I feel like clicking on the "check for updates" button and then select which updates I want at that time.
Yeah, yanks should usa a vat tax. Clear and simple. And then let the federal government redistribute the vat tax to the states and the states redistribute the tax to the municipalities etc...
But that is top down taxation. Its just like trickle down economics, it simply doesn't work for the exact same reason, because the first one with the cash tends to keep most all of it.
Look, I agree with you to a point, but that point ends the moment you don't have a defined way that you are put on the "mental health list" as well as a defined way in which you are removed from the "mental health list".
Who defined the list of things which constitute "mental illness" anyway? 40-50 years ago we were calling LBGTs a "mental illness" (heck, many places still do). People with Parkinson or MS were considered "mentially ill" back 60-70 years ago as well. Go back a little more and any strong willed woman was also "mentally ill" ("hysterical"... ever look up the root of that word?).
So my point being, as we gain more knowledge, we have found that more and more of these "mental illnesses" are more societal problems with fears of the "not normal" or have actual physical underlying issues (and as such, a physical illness is then just that, physical, not "mental").
We don't actually read the DNA like you think either from that mammoth hair. All we get are DNA snipets. We then use computers to look at all those and attempts to put them back into some kind of order that seems to make sense based on all the other DNA snipets we have seen before. In other words, it all works because we have this huge catalogue of DNA that we have looked at previously. That all falls apart once you have complete randomness. You would never be able to tell what piece comes next.
I mean it is just that simple. Of COURSE the system is rigged towards the "party insiders". IT IS THEIR PARTY! The Democrat and Republican party leaders have final say in how they want their party to work, and these "outsiders" are attempting to get the endorsement of respective party leaders to run on that party's name.
Of course the party leadership has setup rules to be able to influence who is and isn't able to be put forward as their candidate. If you don't like those rules, you have a choice to either get high enough up in the respective party to influence a change of the rules, or go start your own damn party and set your own rules.
Seriously think about it. Someone is searching on the INTERNET to purchase a popular item. If amazon won't sell it to random customer, there are 20-100 other stores that gladly will. All you have done is lose business which could have also resulted in additional sales for other items at the same time of the purchase (as well as all the additional marketing information that was lost from the sale which seems to be the real money anyway now).
Actually you were more right the first time when saying the problem was created by Congress. It isn't the industry's fault at all and certainly isn't the CEO's faults. Congress said thou shalt build one plane to rule them all. One plane to find them, one plane to bring them all in and in the darkness bind them.
The industry is simply bidding on the contracts that Congress is making. And in this case, then dealing with all the feature creep that Congress has caused by telling the Air Force, Navy, and Marines that they all need to use this one plane to replace all their existing needs.... There was a reason we had specialized planes for specialized purposes. A plane that is carrying several tons of bombs will not do so well when having to dog fight against other planes. A plane that has VTOL capability will have a lot of space taken up by all the extra power plant requirements needed for having enough thrust to lift straight off the ground and/or hover for landing. A plane that has short, foldable wings to be able to fit more onto an aircraft carrier will have more structural drawbacks than airframes that do not have foldable wings.
It is all the feature creep to make a single plane that does everything which is the problem. Don't blame the industry. The industry didn't invent these requirements. Someone who has zero technical ability said to someone else wouldn't it be great if all our planes were the same because then we could save on maintenance and training costs because it is all the same platform, and a bunch of other people which no technical ability looked at the numbers for projected cost savings over the lifetime of the airplanes and said yes, that would save money. But none of those people looked at the technical challenges and costs involved in engineering a single plane that could do everything that 5-6 existing planes do when they said replace all those existing planes with just a single one which does all the same roles that those other planes could do, only better...
I suggest that VZ use quite a bit of that $12B and start buying back stock to remove those shares from the market then if EPS is a problem...
A stationary piece of dust weighting 1 gram will have an impact force of 662,920,828 TONS! A piece of dust moving in the opposite direction of the probe will have even higher impact energy due to the relative speeds between the two objects.
To put that in perspective, imagine an indestructible needle/pin and put 1816 Empire State Buildings on top of that indestructible pin and then put your spacecraft under that pin...
I love the idea. However with a device that small, how do we get a signal back? It will not be able to generate a strong radio or light signal to send back. Would we be able to use existing radio telescopes to pick it up, or would we need better receiving infrastructure?
The real questing isn't detecting the radio/light signal. The real question is how in the world (or more aptly "universe") can such a craft survive impact with dust when moving at the velocity that they are proposing? A stationary piece of dust weighting 1 gram will have an impact force of 662,920,828 TONS! A piece of dust moving in the opposite direction of the probe will have even higher impact energy due to the relative speeds between the two objects.
This is precisely why I lost all interest in Oculus the instant I heard that it had been acquired by Facebook.
Same here. It is why I am glad there are several competing devices that are due out as well. That said, I am really waiting on one that has a decent field of view.
The company says they are monitoring accounts for fraud and advise cardholders to do the same, but they offer no explanation for the delay.
Probably because some of the data from the breach was recently seen on the various black-market sites that sell the information.
On that same line, the FIRST TIME it happened was in Jan 2012. All reactors combined went several thousand years of operating time without an incident occurring... Just to give you an idea of frequency of this type of event is.