Just because a candidate is well funded doesn't force you (or anyone) to vote for them, or their party. Also, just because your preferred candidate didn't get elected, doesn't mean the candidate who did get elected isn't your representative. You can still write them a letter. Just because your preferred candidates aren't in office doesn't mean you don't live in a democracy. It just means you're in a minority, and the majority (considered by the rest of the world collectively as "Americans") still vote the dumb assholes into office.
Please don't get me wrong, I am sympathetic to your situation, and I agree the system in America is severely biased. But it's still a democracy, and the people have the power to change if they would organize themselves. That they haven't yet, indicates the majority of the people are happy with the situation, and thus collective accountability applies
"Your honor, when I punched officer whatnot in the face, he had his hand on my four year old daughters crotch. Shouldn't he be on the sex offender list?"
In a democracy, just as the government is meant to be accountable to the people, the people are accountable for the government they choose. Democracy doesn't stop at the ballot box. This is something noone seems to get. Why does everyone hate Americans? Because of what their government does. And they keep on putting assholes in charge. Sure, not every American voted the same way, but as a democracy you (theoretically) have the power as a population to stop bad laws from being passed, and to stop bad actions from being taken... In general, people don't. It's called tacit consent. Bitch and whine all you want, and say you voted for the other guy, but you are implicitly condoning the actions of your government until you actively protest against them, either within the law (writing letter to your representatives, legal protests) or outside the law (civil disobedience).
It's not so much "closed source app", it's more along the lines of "app that tries to spew files all over my file system without a reliable uninstall technique, coupled with the fact that it won't play nicely with the libraries I already have installed, it has to install it's own copies". I understand the libraries thing to an extent, and I am willing to forgive that, but for god's sake, make the linux port obey the FHS at least.
I like firefox, and haven't yet moved to using chrome on the desktop. All my Android devices use the built in chrome-style browser though, fennec is just too slow. Mainly, I like the extensions/add-ons. But there's one killer feature I like in chrome that I WISH mozilla would immitate, and that's the incognito tab. Having private browsing close/hide all my active tabs and other active windows, and not being able to have some private and some non-private windows/tabs is really annoying. Instead they clone the crap "features",/sigh
This works against older engineers because they are competing against younger engineers who can adapt to new tools faster.
Really? Platforms and tools? Rephrasing without the business speak, you seem to be talking about four things: languages, standard/common libraries, techniques, or actual programming tools, i.e. computerised assistence in the actual effort of programming. Languages only get easier to learn; The more you know, the more wierd something has to be to have not 'seen that syntax before'. Same with libraries. Techniques of getting things done? I'm pretty sure it's harder for a fresh out of school programmer to pick up a book on advanced AI techniques and implement them from scratch, than a programmer with 20 years of experience who has probably used similar techniques at some time, possibly even independently developed (Hey we ALL reinvent the wheel on weekends). And learning a new IDE, or tool like make or ant... Sure the 20 something might be able to read through the manual slightly faster, because of better eyesight...
Recent graduates might graduate with knowledge of current tools, but that doesn't make them able to learn faster. It's just that they don't have to learn at all.
Games are essentially luxury items. But they are luxury physical items in the sense that they fall under the first sale doctrine. Let's compare them to other luxury items that fall undert the first sale doctrine, like say... a rolex. Expensive physical objects, such as rolex watches, being resold don't cause their respective industries to cry foul, but this is because those objects have inherently longer useful lifespans, which justify to some extent their costs. Also those objects decay with age.
Because of their digital nature, games and the media they're on don't decay within the useful lifespan of the first sale. So to solve their 'problem' game producers should make their games more replayable. They also need to rethink their pricing. $60 games are the rolexes of the gaming world, but they don't give you anything comprable to a rolex. A rolex supposedly gives you quality, for a life time. A $60 game gives you nothing more than a $20 game. It can be just as crap. Game producers and distributers need to realise they're not selling luxury items, they're selling commodity items. Choose the price point accordingly.
The ruling is equivalent to "if you have a logon, you should have root".
No it isn't. It's a point of law, and a good one! From TFA
In a 22-page ruling, the appellate court held that an employee with valid access to corporate data cannot be held liable under the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) if they then misuse or misappropriate the data.
"The CFAA expressly prohibits improper 'access' of computer information," chief judge Alex Kozinski wrote in the court's majority opinion. "It does not prohibit misuse or misappropriation," he wrote.
These guys had authority to access the data as part of their daily job. They may have stolen the data, i.e. removed copies illegally from the company network, but in doing so they did not exceed their access rights. They might be guilty of violating their contracts, corporate espionage, or a whole host of other things, but not 'hacking'. This judge made the right call, the prosecutor screwed up by laying the wrong charges.
Actually, magicians tricks are more on the patent side than the copyright side. They are processes. I suppose it could be argued that they are scripted, and more similar to a play, but then they should probably be more forthright about the deception involved, that is to say the performance is not the entire script so only the performace would be copyrightable, being the exact wording and action. More than anything, magic tricks fall under the "trade secrets" category. They can be branded, trademarked, and protected in that sense, but if someone else figures out how to do the same thing, by reverse engineering, good for them.
Considering how complex social organisation, including businesses are, single people probably make very little difference. A good CEO that makes a massive difference to company's performance is good because they fit in, make decisions that improve morale (even if they start by firing half the staff). Yes the CEO can make sweeping decisions like axing entire manufacturing lines, but their effectiveness is severely limited when it comes to making the manufacturing line grunts work faster/stronger/better/more agressively. That's why they SUCK at the next job, because it's not the same organisition. The thing is the CEO can only really make the good decisions if they listen to the rest of the organisation.
About that empathy statement - Business is more concerned with screwing people than technology. Which would seem to indicate even less empathy from business types. Anecdotal evidence in the form of personal empirical exeperience supports this insight as far as I'm concerned.
I thought of this when I saw the headline too; I've long had issues with the whole idea of using biometics as a security feature pecisely because they can't be revoked and are, at least in the case of fingerprints, easy to compromise. But RTFS again. The bank is proposing the replacment of the card with the palm scan. That is, they're replacing the physical identification token, not the security access component. They are retaining pin numbers. You just don't have to carry a physical card around with you anymore. If anything, I'd say this is one of the more sensible uses for biometrics I've seen.
To answer your question directly:
Palm scan gets compromised/duplicated
Pin changed (just to be sure)
Duplicate palm scan is useless
Granted this relies on the idea that any payment will always require a PIN entry, not the case with credit cards for example.
As someone else who lives in South africa, mod parent up! That being said, if we get the SKA, the bandwidth it requires is going to need dedicated infrastruture to be built. I'm not 100% sure, but I don't think you can even get DSL out in the karoo (the desert area they plan on building the SKA in). Still, I suspect this would be the case in Australia as well, and even in the middle of Western Europe; this thing is going to use so much bandwidth that no matter where it's built it's going to need it's own pipe.
You mean like a financial institution perhaps, yeah they definitely won't try to screw you over. Trust is an issue regardless of the funding channel and the same guidelines apply, rule #1 being: If it looks too good to be true, it probably is.
I'm allergic to sulphur based anti-biotics and topical application of a variety of sulphur compaunds commonly used anti-bacterial products. Anecdotally, my doctor tells me it's not uncommon, mostly causing mild skin irritation, but that my case is particularly severe. Beyond that I can't state a source...
Could it effectively be mass produced so that it could become a household item, every house having it's own hydrogen generator and turbine which can contribute to the grid? I've always thought that decentralising power production would make it greener, if only because there's less loss to long distance transmission. Either way, I'm holding thumbs for the six week trial.
Isn't handing over your login credentials a violation of Facebook's ToS? And if so, isn't requiring that prospective employees do so in essence forcing them to violate contractual terms? And isn't THAT illegal somehow? IANAL, and I'm genuinely curious.
The term decimate refers orginally to the roman army's collective punishment for desertion. Every ten ten men in the deserters unit drew lots, short straw was killed immediately. Deci = 10, i.e. to kill one tenth of your force. I agree decimate isn't used in science/maths generally, but it's common meaning is still correctly to reduce/destroy 1/10th, although mainstream media and other wannabe sound like smart people who use big words on T.V. have generally corrupted this meaning.
There are some situations where optimizing small sections by linking in C/C++ code doesn't work. Callback function for integration/numercial methods libraries spring to mind. Writing the library so that non-professional programmers who are more interested in the science can use it, generally means having them write their callbacks in python. Where does the program spend most of its time? In the callback. Python is too slow.
Also I've found that python has other limitations. I coded a simple recursive depth first search, and I'm happy to let it run for days/weeks on my data and n=128, but python's memory usage and artificial limits cause the python equivalent of stack overflows. I had to rewrite in C++... Not a speed issue, but python isn't great for everything
Time to go digital with documents PGP signed (or similar). Hell my digital signature would be a hell of a lot more fraud proof than the scrawl that is my real signature.
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Just because a candidate is well funded doesn't force you (or anyone) to vote for them, or their party. Also, just because your preferred candidate didn't get elected, doesn't mean the candidate who did get elected isn't your representative. You can still write them a letter. Just because your preferred candidates aren't in office doesn't mean you don't live in a democracy. It just means you're in a minority, and the majority (considered by the rest of the world collectively as "Americans") still vote the dumb assholes into office.
Please don't get me wrong, I am sympathetic to your situation, and I agree the system in America is severely biased. But it's still a democracy, and the people have the power to change if they would organize themselves. That they haven't yet, indicates the majority of the people are happy with the situation, and thus collective accountability applies
"Your honor, when I punched officer whatnot in the face, he had his hand on my four year old daughters crotch. Shouldn't he be on the sex offender list?"
In a democracy, just as the government is meant to be accountable to the people, the people are accountable for the government they choose. Democracy doesn't stop at the ballot box. This is something noone seems to get. Why does everyone hate Americans? Because of what their government does. And they keep on putting assholes in charge. Sure, not every American voted the same way, but as a democracy you (theoretically) have the power as a population to stop bad laws from being passed, and to stop bad actions from being taken... In general, people don't. It's called tacit consent. Bitch and whine all you want, and say you voted for the other guy, but you are implicitly condoning the actions of your government until you actively protest against them, either within the law (writing letter to your representatives, legal protests) or outside the law (civil disobedience).
It's not so much "closed source app", it's more along the lines of "app that tries to spew files all over my file system without a reliable uninstall technique, coupled with the fact that it won't play nicely with the libraries I already have installed, it has to install it's own copies". I understand the libraries thing to an extent, and I am willing to forgive that, but for god's sake, make the linux port obey the FHS at least.
I like firefox, and haven't yet moved to using chrome on the desktop. All my Android devices use the built in chrome-style browser though, fennec is just too slow. Mainly, I like the extensions/add-ons. But there's one killer feature I like in chrome that I WISH mozilla would immitate, and that's the incognito tab. Having private browsing close/hide all my active tabs and other active windows, and not being able to have some private and some non-private windows/tabs is really annoying. Instead they clone the crap "features", /sigh
How will the auto update affect packged versions within linux distros? Won't it screw up the packager management?
+1 "God I hope you're right" and another +1 "May they be first against the wall when the revolution comes"...
This works against older engineers because they are competing against younger engineers who can adapt to new tools faster.
Really? Platforms and tools? Rephrasing without the business speak, you seem to be talking about four things: languages, standard/common libraries, techniques, or actual programming tools, i.e. computerised assistence in the actual effort of programming. Languages only get easier to learn; The more you know, the more wierd something has to be to have not 'seen that syntax before'. Same with libraries. Techniques of getting things done? I'm pretty sure it's harder for a fresh out of school programmer to pick up a book on advanced AI techniques and implement them from scratch, than a programmer with 20 years of experience who has probably used similar techniques at some time, possibly even independently developed (Hey we ALL reinvent the wheel on weekends). And learning a new IDE, or tool like make or ant ... Sure the 20 something might be able to read through the manual slightly faster, because of better eyesight...
Recent graduates might graduate with knowledge of current tools, but that doesn't make them able to learn faster. It's just that they don't have to learn at all.
Games are essentially luxury items. But they are luxury physical items in the sense that they fall under the first sale doctrine. Let's compare them to other luxury items that fall undert the first sale doctrine, like say... a rolex. Expensive physical objects, such as rolex watches, being resold don't cause their respective industries to cry foul, but this is because those objects have inherently longer useful lifespans, which justify to some extent their costs. Also those objects decay with age.
Because of their digital nature, games and the media they're on don't decay within the useful lifespan of the first sale. So to solve their 'problem' game producers should make their games more replayable. They also need to rethink their pricing. $60 games are the rolexes of the gaming world, but they don't give you anything comprable to a rolex. A rolex supposedly gives you quality, for a life time. A $60 game gives you nothing more than a $20 game. It can be just as crap. Game producers and distributers need to realise they're not selling luxury items, they're selling commodity items. Choose the price point accordingly.
Which means they're the most likely target, and very likely to use their offensive capabilities in retaliation.
The ruling is equivalent to "if you have a logon, you should have root".
No it isn't. It's a point of law, and a good one! From TFA
In a 22-page ruling, the appellate court held that an employee with valid access to corporate data cannot be held liable under the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) if they then misuse or misappropriate the data.
"The CFAA expressly prohibits improper 'access' of computer information," chief judge Alex Kozinski wrote in the court's majority opinion. "It does not prohibit misuse or misappropriation," he wrote.
These guys had authority to access the data as part of their daily job. They may have stolen the data, i.e. removed copies illegally from the company network, but in doing so they did not exceed their access rights. They might be guilty of violating their contracts, corporate espionage, or a whole host of other things, but not 'hacking'. This judge made the right call, the prosecutor screwed up by laying the wrong charges.
Actually, magicians tricks are more on the patent side than the copyright side. They are processes. I suppose it could be argued that they are scripted, and more similar to a play, but then they should probably be more forthright about the deception involved, that is to say the performance is not the entire script so only the performace would be copyrightable, being the exact wording and action. More than anything, magic tricks fall under the "trade secrets" category. They can be branded, trademarked, and protected in that sense, but if someone else figures out how to do the same thing, by reverse engineering, good for them.
Considering how complex social organisation, including businesses are, single people probably make very little difference. A good CEO that makes a massive difference to company's performance is good because they fit in, make decisions that improve morale (even if they start by firing half the staff). Yes the CEO can make sweeping decisions like axing entire manufacturing lines, but their effectiveness is severely limited when it comes to making the manufacturing line grunts work faster/stronger/better/more agressively. That's why they SUCK at the next job, because it's not the same organisition. The thing is the CEO can only really make the good decisions if they listen to the rest of the organisation.
About that empathy statement - Business is more concerned with screwing people than technology. Which would seem to indicate even less empathy from business types. Anecdotal evidence in the form of personal empirical exeperience supports this insight as far as I'm concerned.
Make the T-shirt and wear it to the office!
MANAGEMENT is the BIGGEST COST CENTRE
I thought of this when I saw the headline too; I've long had issues with the whole idea of using biometics as a security feature pecisely because they can't be revoked and are, at least in the case of fingerprints, easy to compromise. But RTFS again. The bank is proposing the replacment of the card with the palm scan. That is, they're replacing the physical identification token, not the security access component. They are retaining pin numbers. You just don't have to carry a physical card around with you anymore. If anything, I'd say this is one of the more sensible uses for biometrics I've seen.
To answer your question directly:
Granted this relies on the idea that any payment will always require a PIN entry, not the case with credit cards for example.
As someone else who lives in South africa, mod parent up! That being said, if we get the SKA, the bandwidth it requires is going to need dedicated infrastruture to be built. I'm not 100% sure, but I don't think you can even get DSL out in the karoo (the desert area they plan on building the SKA in). Still, I suspect this would be the case in Australia as well, and even in the middle of Western Europe; this thing is going to use so much bandwidth that no matter where it's built it's going to need it's own pipe.
You mean like a financial institution perhaps, yeah they definitely won't try to screw you over. Trust is an issue regardless of the funding channel and the same guidelines apply, rule #1 being: If it looks too good to be true, it probably is.
I'm replying I'm alergic to *both*. Granted my doc didn't weigh in on stats about allergies to the anti-biotics, just the disinfectants.
I'm allergic to sulphur based anti-biotics and topical application of a variety of sulphur compaunds commonly used anti-bacterial products. Anecdotally, my doctor tells me it's not uncommon, mostly causing mild skin irritation, but that my case is particularly severe. Beyond that I can't state a source...
Could it effectively be mass produced so that it could become a household item, every house having it's own hydrogen generator and turbine which can contribute to the grid? I've always thought that decentralising power production would make it greener, if only because there's less loss to long distance transmission. Either way, I'm holding thumbs for the six week trial.
Isn't handing over your login credentials a violation of Facebook's ToS? And if so, isn't requiring that prospective employees do so in essence forcing them to violate contractual terms? And isn't THAT illegal somehow? IANAL, and I'm genuinely curious.
The term decimate refers orginally to the roman army's collective punishment for desertion. Every ten ten men in the deserters unit drew lots, short straw was killed immediately. Deci = 10, i.e. to kill one tenth of your force. I agree decimate isn't used in science/maths generally, but it's common meaning is still correctly to reduce/destroy 1/10th, although mainstream media and other wannabe sound like smart people who use big words on T.V. have generally corrupted this meaning.
There are some situations where optimizing small sections by linking in C/C++ code doesn't work. Callback function for integration/numercial methods libraries spring to mind. Writing the library so that non-professional programmers who are more interested in the science can use it, generally means having them write their callbacks in python. Where does the program spend most of its time? In the callback. Python is too slow.
Also I've found that python has other limitations. I coded a simple recursive depth first search, and I'm happy to let it run for days/weeks on my data and n=128, but python's memory usage and artificial limits cause the python equivalent of stack overflows. I had to rewrite in C++... Not a speed issue, but python isn't great for everything
Time to go digital with documents PGP signed (or similar). Hell my digital signature would be a hell of a lot more fraud proof than the scrawl that is my real signature.