Bitter? About not receiving public recognition over classified work?
The contribution of those who worked at Bletchley Park is immeasurable, both literally and figuratively. Anyone who is even remotely familiar with the history of cryptography or the Second World War knows of Bletchley Park.
But bitter about not having received official recognition because of the rules that were in place to maintain secrecy? Yeah, the secrecy was maintained long after it was necessary and had well passed into public knowledge, but BITTER?
I'm sorry, but no. There are thousands, if not tens of thousands of individuals whose contributions toward a free society will never be known because of the secrecy in which they had to conduct their duties. If we include those who died in war and whose bodies or for that matter, identities were never recovered, that number would probably reach into the hundreds of thousands, if not millions.
And this lady is bitter that she hasn't received recognition from the British government?
If your system hasn't been compromised, it doesn't matter.
You could do your banking on an open, unsecured network, no WEP, no WPA, etc because your traffic between you and your banking institution has been encrypted from point to point.
If I am paying some dude to write a custom solution for me, he damn well better listen to what I have to say. If not, then we have a problem and I can find someone else. Usually, I can.
Japan seems like it has a decidedly odd take on things because it's a wealthy, first world nation who's culture is substantially different from the west's.
Just look at Japanese games shows like that human tetris thing. No western TV guys would have come up with that. Different culture.
I think your friend violated Rule Number One of the Chase, which is don't look back. Again, not that I would condone that kind of thing. Anymore. It's stupid.
That said, a guy on a sportbike is not just faster but much more maneuverable as well as less visible.
Like you said, all the cop has to do is follow, but all I have to do is make him lose sight of me just long enough for me to choose another direction.
While I believe this story about the motorcycle is true, you saw this on YouTube BECAUSE a helicopter was close by. There's plenty of guys who never make the news because they just gunned it and got away.
A lot of cops will openly acknowledge that if a sportbike blows past them, pursuit can be futile without air support. This jives with my experience because in my youth and stupidity, I blew past manned speed traps and most of the time, it seems the cops never bothered. The one time I did see lights and pulled over, I was sorely tempted to just gun it and go. I'm utterly confident that there's no way I would have been caught if I didn't have to pretend to be a somewhat law abiding citizen.
While I don't completely disagree with you, I can understand the reasoning of waiting for the first major point update. Point updates solve a lot of issues for X.0 OS releases.
But yeah, I'm glad that GeoHot did what he did b/c the DevTeam was starting to go prima donna. Competition is good.
The usual culprits (the iPhone DevTeam) were waiting until the 3.1 release but it looks like their hand was forced by an independent hacker releasing his jailbreak on Friday.
There was a LOT of stuff you after jailbreaking (background apps, tether, etc) on the 1.x and 2.x OS releases but as Apple adds more features with each consecutive release, I'm finding the need to jailbreak a little less compelling. I still will, b/c I find a terminal + SSH alone to be compelling but once tethering is official, I may just go back to an un-jailbroken state. I still need the unlock, of course.
Rumors? What rumors? Anywhere you go in Africa, if there are motorized vehicles, you can find spare parts for Toyota LandCruisers, Toyota HiAces and Toyota HiLuxes.
They call that a cool space craft? It doesn't even have warp drive, let alone quantum torpedoes. It doesn't even have anything onboard to which you could apply the phase "reverse the polarity". Cool. Bah!
Dude, you can reverse the polarity on anything with a DC circuit. Sometimes, with spectacular results.
You said shortwave, but I'm changing it slightly to HF.
The organization for which I normally work has policies about this kind of thing and almost all of our vehicles, without exception, are equipped with HF. The problem is, they don't work all the time, either. The vagaries of atmospheric conditions, time of day, blah blah blah and the skip zone, it's usually just as efficient to call on the phone instead of screwing around on the radio for half an hour. Because let's face it, even in Africa, if there's a large number of people there, someone's set up a cell tower.
For the past two years, I've carried my iPhone into several African countries and I tend to work pretty far from civilization. The GPS on the 3G was worth the full price of the iPhone alone. I'm about to get the GS for no other reason than the compass. Oh, and I tether, too. Usually hell of a lot cheaper if I can get a connection than what we get charged for data over a Thuraya or BGAN.
Let me ask you, was this vehicle bought for going off road recreationally or for work purposes? If the answer is recreationally, then your friend bought it for a yuppie purpose.
I worked all over Africa for several years. A Land Rover is almost never the answer, because it breaks down too much. Yeah, if it's a Defender, you can probably fix whatever is wrong with a torch, wrench and a screwdriver, but RELIABLE is something no LR can claim. You know what's better than being able to do that? How about not breaking down in the first place.
There's a reason Toyota 70 series LCs pretty much own the where-the-road-ends market. They may not have the nifty suspension of the LRs and don't handle the axle twisters as well, but at least it'll keep going.
Really, even in the bush, LRs are yuppie vehicles.
I'm playing through Oblivion now. I first bought it a couple years ago for my PC, then promptly forgot about it. Now I have it running in Cider on my Mac. Getting Oblivion mods to work properly is evidently a challenge but getting a bunch of them to work together through Cider is a pain in the ass.
I say this because after having played Oblivion on and off for a few months now, I've finally fucking had it with the leveling mechanics. I really did try to like it and I give it a good whirl (~50% of the main quest) I went looking for solutions to this and evidently, there are three:
1.) Don't level-up. There is very, very little in the way of incentives to advance in level. At least the way I think Bethesda intended. A huge portion of the leveling mechanic is a zero sum game. There is actually quite a disincentive to leveling up.
3.) Game mechanic changing mod. The most popular and extensive mods are ones that significantly change the leveling system because not a lot of people seem to like it. They'll put up with it, because the game has a lot of other things going for it, but everyone I seem to know and the general zeitgeist seems to be that if any one thing could be changed, it would be the leveling system.
In Oblivion, the advantages to leveling up are access to better gear, more hit points and more magic, and better attribute stats. But here's the catch, everything else gets access to that stuff, too. And if you do it inefficiently, you are BEHIND the power curve of everything you fight. Yo, WTF? The purpose of kicking ass to get better stuff and increased stats is to kick more ass! It's not to maintain a status quo.
I realize that Bethesda has mentally locked themselves into this dumb mechanic. No one likes that shit. They tolerate it. It's an evolutionary dead end of RPG gaming. Seriously, cut this shit out.
The original article is obviously not written by a 13 year old. The vocabulary and writing style is of someone much, much older. Even the brightest and most articulate 16-18 olds have much less mature writing styles.
I think the Japanese do well because they score better on (from the link) "tobacco, alcohol, obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diet and physical inactivity" scale.
But I would like to think that family/community tradition is a part of it.
I can't find that quote in the link.
If anyone believes that the average Japanese male drinks less and smokes less than the American, they are sorely mistaken.
Oddly enough, the highest combined life span is Hawaii, the state with the highest proportion of those with Asian ethnic heritage.
While he's costing himself, (a good bit more than 3650, I might add) he's benefiting the rest of society. His feelings about SSNs means his tax contribution will pay for a few more feet of road paving than he might otherwise, so why are you trying to talk him out of it?
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Bitter? About not receiving public recognition over classified work?
The contribution of those who worked at Bletchley Park is immeasurable, both literally and figuratively. Anyone who is even remotely familiar with the history of cryptography or the Second World War knows of Bletchley Park.
But bitter about not having received official recognition because of the rules that were in place to maintain secrecy? Yeah, the secrecy was maintained long after it was necessary and had well passed into public knowledge, but BITTER?
I'm sorry, but no. There are thousands, if not tens of thousands of individuals whose contributions toward a free society will never be known because of the secrecy in which they had to conduct their duties. If we include those who died in war and whose bodies or for that matter, identities were never recovered, that number would probably reach into the hundreds of thousands, if not millions.
And this lady is bitter that she hasn't received recognition from the British government?
Sorry, but color me a little unsympathetic.
If your system hasn't been compromised, it doesn't matter.
You could do your banking on an open, unsecured network, no WEP, no WPA, etc because your traffic between you and your banking institution has been encrypted from point to point.
That said, if I were you, I wouldn't do it.
If I am paying some dude to write a custom solution for me, he damn well better listen to what I have to say. If not, then we have a problem and I can find someone else. Usually, I can.
That's commercial software.
I hadn't posted, I'd mod up for I dunno what.
e17.
If there was ever an example of a "closed" open source project...
e16 was damn cool window manager. And then e17 happened.
and 11 out of 7 statistics are just made up.
Japan seems like it has a decidedly odd take on things because it's a wealthy, first world nation who's culture is substantially different from the west's.
Just look at Japanese games shows like that human tetris thing. No western TV guys would have come up with that. Different culture.
I think your friend violated Rule Number One of the Chase, which is don't look back. Again, not that I would condone that kind of thing. Anymore. It's stupid.
That said, a guy on a sportbike is not just faster but much more maneuverable as well as less visible.
Like you said, all the cop has to do is follow, but all I have to do is make him lose sight of me just long enough for me to choose another direction.
Author understands neither statistics nor survey methodology.
While I believe this story about the motorcycle is true, you saw this on YouTube BECAUSE a helicopter was close by. There's plenty of guys who never make the news because they just gunned it and got away.
A lot of cops will openly acknowledge that if a sportbike blows past them, pursuit can be futile without air support. This jives with my experience because in my youth and stupidity, I blew past manned speed traps and most of the time, it seems the cops never bothered. The one time I did see lights and pulled over, I was sorely tempted to just gun it and go. I'm utterly confident that there's no way I would have been caught if I didn't have to pretend to be a somewhat law abiding citizen.
While I don't completely disagree with you, I can understand the reasoning of waiting for the first major point update. Point updates solve a lot of issues for X.0 OS releases.
But yeah, I'm glad that GeoHot did what he did b/c the DevTeam was starting to go prima donna. Competition is good.
You can unlock the baseband and go back to an un-Jailbroken state.
The 3GS unlock & jailbreak has been available since midnight last night.
http://blog.iphone-dev.org/
The usual culprits (the iPhone DevTeam) were waiting until the 3.1 release but it looks like their hand was forced by an independent hacker releasing his jailbreak on Friday.
There was a LOT of stuff you after jailbreaking (background apps, tether, etc) on the 1.x and 2.x OS releases but as Apple adds more features with each consecutive release, I'm finding the need to jailbreak a little less compelling. I still will, b/c I find a terminal + SSH alone to be compelling but once tethering is official, I may just go back to an un-jailbroken state. I still need the unlock, of course.
Yep. Same drives, same source, same batch, same usage patterns = fail around the same time.
I scratched my head over this, too.
Why is "absolute zero" in quotes? And what do "people" who aren't "scientists" call "0" on the "temperature scale" that "scientists" term "Kelvin"?
Rumors? What rumors? Anywhere you go in Africa, if there are motorized vehicles, you can find spare parts for Toyota LandCruisers, Toyota HiAces and Toyota HiLuxes.
They call that a cool space craft? It doesn't even have warp drive, let alone quantum torpedoes. It doesn't even have anything onboard to which you could apply the phase "reverse the polarity". Cool. Bah!
Dude, you can reverse the polarity on anything with a DC circuit. Sometimes, with spectacular results.
You said shortwave, but I'm changing it slightly to HF.
The organization for which I normally work has policies about this kind of thing and almost all of our vehicles, without exception, are equipped with HF. The problem is, they don't work all the time, either. The vagaries of atmospheric conditions, time of day, blah blah blah and the skip zone, it's usually just as efficient to call on the phone instead of screwing around on the radio for half an hour. Because let's face it, even in Africa, if there's a large number of people there, someone's set up a cell tower.
For the past two years, I've carried my iPhone into several African countries and I tend to work pretty far from civilization. The GPS on the 3G was worth the full price of the iPhone alone. I'm about to get the GS for no other reason than the compass. Oh, and I tether, too. Usually hell of a lot cheaper if I can get a connection than what we get charged for data over a Thuraya or BGAN.
Let me ask you, was this vehicle bought for going off road recreationally or for work purposes? If the answer is recreationally, then your friend bought it for a yuppie purpose. I worked all over Africa for several years. A Land Rover is almost never the answer, because it breaks down too much. Yeah, if it's a Defender, you can probably fix whatever is wrong with a torch, wrench and a screwdriver, but RELIABLE is something no LR can claim. You know what's better than being able to do that? How about not breaking down in the first place. There's a reason Toyota 70 series LCs pretty much own the where-the-road-ends market. They may not have the nifty suspension of the LRs and don't handle the axle twisters as well, but at least it'll keep going. Really, even in the bush, LRs are yuppie vehicles.
I'm playing through Oblivion now. I first bought it a couple years ago for my PC, then promptly forgot about it. Now I have it running in Cider on my Mac. Getting Oblivion mods to work properly is evidently a challenge but getting a bunch of them to work together through Cider is a pain in the ass.
I say this because after having played Oblivion on and off for a few months now, I've finally fucking had it with the leveling mechanics. I really did try to like it and I give it a good whirl (~50% of the main quest) I went looking for solutions to this and evidently, there are three:
1.) Don't level-up. There is very, very little in the way of incentives to advance in level. At least the way I think Bethesda intended. A huge portion of the leveling mechanic is a zero sum game. There is actually quite a disincentive to leveling up.
2.) Meta-game. "Efficient" leveling. Oblivion metagaming makes D&D munchkin powergaming look tame. Really, it's completely asinine.
3.) Game mechanic changing mod. The most popular and extensive mods are ones that significantly change the leveling system because not a lot of people seem to like it. They'll put up with it, because the game has a lot of other things going for it, but everyone I seem to know and the general zeitgeist seems to be that if any one thing could be changed, it would be the leveling system.
In Oblivion, the advantages to leveling up are access to better gear, more hit points and more magic, and better attribute stats. But here's the catch, everything else gets access to that stuff, too. And if you do it inefficiently, you are BEHIND the power curve of everything you fight. Yo, WTF? The purpose of kicking ass to get better stuff and increased stats is to kick more ass! It's not to maintain a status quo.
I realize that Bethesda has mentally locked themselves into this dumb mechanic. No one likes that shit. They tolerate it. It's an evolutionary dead end of RPG gaming. Seriously, cut this shit out.
You really want to go down that line of reasoning?
The customer pays for his/her bandwidth.
FedEx and UPS pay their taxes for road use(fuel).
Et al, etc.
The original article is obviously not written by a 13 year old. The vocabulary and writing style is of someone much, much older. Even the brightest and most articulate 16-18 olds have much less mature writing styles.
TFA was written by someone else.
I think the Japanese do well because they score better on (from the link) "tobacco, alcohol, obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diet and physical inactivity" scale.
But I would like to think that family/community tradition is a part of it.
I can't find that quote in the link.
If anyone believes that the average Japanese male drinks less and smokes less than the American, they are sorely mistaken.
Oddly enough, the highest combined life span is Hawaii, the state with the highest proportion of those with Asian ethnic heritage.
What, South Korea and Japan aren't "the rest of the world"?
While he's costing himself, (a good bit more than 3650, I might add) he's benefiting the rest of society. His feelings about SSNs means his tax contribution will pay for a few more feet of road paving than he might otherwise, so why are you trying to talk him out of it?