Well, to a lay person it might sound a little like "Belle later confirmed the existence of the Z(4430) with [something]", common folk don't talk about probability in terms of "a significance of 5.2 sigma".
A better phrasing would be: Belle later confirmed the existence of the Z(4430) with a significance of 5.2 sigma, a certainty high enough to be considered a discovery in particle physics.
I wonder how many people were angry and vaccine destroying the polio culture? Yes I did.
Well, there are a lot of people that seem to be very angry that we're now very strongly selecting against Down's syndrome. Some 90% of the women who get tested and find out their child will have it take an abortion. It's full of the "sorting society" rhetoric and worse slippery slope arguments than/. where first they take Down's, next we'll stomp out all individuality until we all look like we came from a cloning factory. I'm sorry I'm sure they're lovely people but more people with huge handicaps, genetic diseases and so on don't have to be born into this world than necessary. In a strict variety of that, I might not have been born myself... but I wouldn't care, since I wouldn't exist. As much as I like to think I'm a special little snowflake I'm sure my mom would have had a different kid she'd love just as much.
The difference is that in the old model, you paid to have more fun. In the new model, you pay to skip boredom.
This AC is spot on the money, that's exactly how I feel. And that boredom tastes artificially added, usually not that bad at first to get you addicted but the deeper you go the more the paid and free paths diverge. Like you can have the normal game or you can have the game with lots of extra grind, would you like to pay $1 to skip it? I guess some feel that's less of a dick move than setting up a paywall and say pay $1 to proceed or it's game over, but at least then it's in their best interest to make the experience as good as possible for you. Not that I like being heckled for money with tiny little DLCs everywhere either, give me large expansions and leave the sales booth out of the game itself. Nothing worse than an in-game NPC with a dollar sign over his head.
Where has this idea that Databases can't scale come from? - The world runs on Database for heaven sake. Do you think when you take money out of an ATM, its going to MONGODB? - And yet there are millions of ATM's and you can take money out of your VISA account in almost all of them anywhere in the world. That is called scale.
Of course you can with lots of money in hardware and software and top notch database administrators, architects and query designers but it's a lot of hard work and expensive. The sales pitch for NoSQL is that it's built for horizontal scale-out by design, just throw more servers at it - mainstream servers, not the extremely expensive high-end servers and it'll scale almost indefinitely without having to rework everything. There's a lot of people in the "when we go viral we must be ready for it" category, with highly variable degrees of realism. And social media has been the big buzzword lately where social media feeds of various forms are almost ideal for NoSQL, nobody cares if the feed is perfectly consistent or updated with the last two seconds of posts from your friends. To the tech-unsavvy, "They did that why can't we?"
I know its near impossible with a few of these companies since they are oligarchies but I feel that in order to vote for one of these companies you also should make a personal pledge to avoid doing business with the companies you vote for.
Aren't the companies you hate typically the ones you're stuck with? If there were good alternatives you'd obviously use them and your opinion would never go much past being shitty, but if you know they have you over a barrel and worse, they know as well but you can't find any better option than to suffer through it - that's when you hate. Like the boss you hate but you can't quit because you need the paycheck and the job market is horrible. Or the obnoxious neighbors who aren't bad enough to get evicted or arrested, but who aren't going to chase you away from your home. Or the bullies that used to harass and ridicule you at school.
Okay, so EA is not such a good example. But ISPs can be near monopolies. Walmart can' make enough mom and pop shops close that you cave. If you have a big mortgage and the value's gone down refinancing with another bank is easier said than done. Getting screwed over once, that hurts. To come crawling back for seconds, that's plain humiliating. But a lot of it is called "just fucking get on with your life" if Wal-Mart is the easiest place to shop, maybe you got better things to do than drive to the other side of town just to spite them. I recently paid a bill I know was unfair (hospital called me in on short notice, I never saw the letter until after the appointment had passed so they billed me for failing to appear), I could have fought it but decided it just wasn't worth the effort. Sometimes, life's too short.
If it were Teslas being tipped, I think the NFL and/or the military would be the ones investigating. Those things weigh over two tons and have a very low CG, making them nearly impossible to roll over without some heavy duty lifting apparatus.
If there was an NFL team nearby, I think they'd be the prime suspects instead....
Wow, really can't tell if this is sarcasm or not (from the linked MSDN Blog entry)
No, the reality detachment is part of the job requirements. Engineers might be able to keep a straight face for a sales meeting or two, but to really sell moderately good products well you have to drink your own kool-aid. Even when I'm on their side and they're not trying to sell me anything, everyone from marketing and sales I've ever met seems to have an over inflated view of the software's features, capabilities, quality and suitability for whatever the client asks for and trying to take them down a notch is like throwing facts at a non stick surface. No matter what they can bend reality until it's a positive, the only risk is that they go so over the top the customer stops taking them seriously. Like in this case you might take it for sarcasm but I can guarantee you it's not, at best it's an attempt at positive spin.or at worst they genuinely believe it.
MS is trying to push people off XP. There are other alternatives after all. Many of them are even free. How bad does it make Linux and Chrome look if they can't compete with an 12+ year old OS that MS is actively trying to push people off of?
*waves hand* These are not the users you are looking for. The people who absolutely don't want to leave XP are going to make the smallest leap possible and Windows 7 is always going to be more "Windows-y" than Linux or OS X, particularly when it comes to running their existing Windows applications that they probably also don't want to abandon.
There need be no middle-men besides our ISPs for grandma to remotely comment on the photos in my vacation folder.
Nothing except that 99% of the population: a) Don't have a 24x7 connected box b) Even if they do, it doesn't run the application stack you need and they don't want it to c) Don't have the skills to run a server and keep it patched/backed up/punch through firewalls etc. d) Don't have the time or interest to fiddle with it
How many people do you know that operate their own email server as opposed to some webmail provider? Run their own web server for their WordPress blog? Use their own photo/video sharing server instead of Instagram and YouTube? People don't want what you're selling, they want to log in on some website and have a working service. Most people I know would have to have such a system hosted at a co-lo with a support contract, which negates the whole "no third parties" advantage. Alternatively it'd have to be an "appliance" box to plug into the router, but then you're into selling consumer gear which needs some kind of corporation to build these boxes. And it still means that when you shut down your box, "you" fall off the social network unless you use replication but then you also have all sorts of issues with revocation because it's not just on your server anymore.
I guess it's tough to hear, but most people don't want to be the hub of their own data. They won't want to fiddle with PGP keys to make sure that messages sent from them to someone else on email or Facebook are really private. I can sort of understand too, the communication isn't more secure than the account info and tons of accounts get hacked/stolen everyday so even if you removed one weak link it's still only moderately secure not NSA and black hat-proof anyway. Not that we need to make it easy on them, but the inconvenience doesn't really outweigh the gain in security. (Yes, yes, cue the Franklin quote)
Actually the Internet is bad for all religions with deities, because it naturally leads to clashes about what god or gods are the right ones. God/Jesus Christ and Allah/Muhammad are not and will never be interchangeable and believing in one is mutually exclusive with believing in the other. Buddhism is the odd exception because despite the equally superstitious beliefs in karma, reincarnation and so on Buddha is not a god. Others have the equal capacity to reach enlightenment and may recognize the same truths he did, the path was always there he just wrote guides and taught others how to find it. As such the religion has no problems with other texts which might help steer others in the right direction, unlike nearly all other religions that have their scripture as the one and only truth.
Given the risk we should be designing for safety in the most extreme event possible. Look at it this way: the fact that the estimates were revised up tells us that the original estimates were too optimistic, there is at least some chance that the new ones are too.
Or the new ones are too pessimistic and rely on theoretical possibilities that never can or will come true in reality, but we choose to err on the side of caution. It's not proven necessary until we've had an actual quake exceed the old tolerances, which hopefully won't happen any time soon.
Well, first of all many major copyright holders have special deals with YouTube where they don't actually send DMCA requests. In that case it's just a private agreement between Sony and YouTube on content monitoring, at best you have a slander suit but no basis for a perjury. Secondly, they may have a legal claim to copyright on the whole clip reel as a collection - basically the selection and composition of clips - and that's enough to get them out of the perjury part. In generic terms, "Under penatlity of perjury, we are the copyright holders of movie X. We believe that the posted scene Y is in violation of our copyright on X." Even if that last part is wrong because it's freely licensed or in the public domain or for some other reason not eligible for copyright it's not under perjury. It sucks, but any competent lawyer will manage to wiggle Sony out of any trouble.
What is the size limit of a QRcode? Doesn't increasing the density of information contained in the image lead to the possibility of corrupt/missing data due to poor camera quality, motion blur, over/under exposure, or something along those lines?
They contain quite a bit of error correction so either it won't decode or it will with >99.99% probability decode correctly. You can store almost 3kB in a 177x177 QR code, but for the same physical area it's a trade-off between information density and readability. The bigger you make the QR "pixels" the less camera resolution you need, but the less information you can store as well.
Very unlikely.. the information in a QR code is probably just enough to say "I run kernel X (build Y) and it crashed with error code Z at instruction 12345 in module 123", if it was a kernel dump that's different but I have seen these without the QR codes and there's nothing sensitive there.
The CO considers cases upon complaints from consumers and traders, but will also at his own initiative look at marketing measures. Through negotiations with traders it is sought to arrive at voluntary arrangements. Failure to reach such a solution, the Consumer Ombudsman may submit the case to the Market Council which is a "court of law" in that field. (...) The CO and the Market Council have authority to issue decisions banning unlawful marketing and contract terms and conditions in standard contracts when deemed necessary in the interests of consumers.
They have the power to issue: a) Bans of marketing activities or terms b) Requirements like including information on consumer rights c) Fines (one time or daily until activities cease) d) Rather hefty fines for violating a) or b)
This is different from the Consumer Council which often helps mediate in individual consumer disputes, the CO goes after policies and offers. For example the "send a letter that looks like a bill" scam, if they issue a ban on your company and don't comply the penalties get nasty. That way they can't simply continue the scam by handing back money to those customers who complain. Sending a complaint costs very little and you as the customer don't take the shit for it personally. I guess it's sort of like class actions in consumer cases, except you get no settlement but it's quite effective at shutting them down or making them change their terms.
Well, Microsoft is fairly predictable in that they'll follow the money. Short time that might mean chasing other markets like the mobile market with Win8, but I don't think they can afford pissing off their conservative customers. That is the non-touch, non-hybrid traditional keyboard+mouse operated desktop often running point and click business applications. They're mostly using Win7 downgrade licenses today and are fine with that, they don't care what Win8 looks like. I'm sure that when they start looking at migrating off Win7, Microsoft will offer them something because they're not nearly as easy to push around as average consumers. They probably don't need to release that until 2016 or so though, to prepare for Win7's 2020 end-of-life.
disconnect it from the network promote the guy that said 5 years ago that you need starting to save money for replacement fire the guy who blocked that start saving the money for the replacement You think that I'm starting to save money for my new car only after my old car breaks completely?
Hi and welcome to the government. In general, we don't get to save money. Each year we get a budget, at the end of the year they gather it all up in the national surplus/deficit and we start over at zero with a new budget. Without acts of the relevant national assembly to create permanent funds what you are suggesting is illegal. Even transferring funds from one year's budget to the next because the project as suffered a delay is bureaucratic and risky - anyone higher up might decide to ax the project to reach their budget. This is why so many public offices go on a spending spree at the end of the year, if you don't use it the funds will be gone and on top of that next year's budget will probably be cut since clearly you don't need that much money.
The goal is of course to keep oversight, if the government's money went into thousands of small slush funds kept by various departments for various reasons there'd probably be a lot of hoarding and questionable re-purposing of funds and no real guarantee that they'd actually cover the major investments needed anyway. Instead the government believes they are so big that the year to year variations on the total is negligible, every year so many buildings must be renovated, equipment replaced, maintenance performed in all branches of government that all report in their needs and all get their share in the national budget. So in theory you'd put in a request for replacement funds when it needs replacing, it gets rolled up from your department, your hospital to the national healthcare service to the national budget, and funds are awarded down the same line.
Of course there are far more wishes than money so in reality each level down the chain only gets so much money and has to prioritize and more likely than not somewhere along the line your request for replacement will fail to make the cut. And that's where you are in the IT department, it's not going to be replaced and you may try again next year but that's not your call. You are just stuck trying to make the best of it and hopefully not be the cause of any major outages or putting patients at risk. I guess if shit hits the fan you can always say "I told you so", but you'll be the one taking most of the shit anyway. It's the way governments do business, if you want to make it different you'd have to redo the whole system not trying to find one scapegoat.
Care for the elderly seems to be quite effective too, a common cause for having many children in the past was that you had many to take care of you when you grew old. Maybe some died young or moved far away or were just dicks but chances were some would be around to help you out. It ties in with disposable income I guess, but it's also about institutions and a system to take care of you.
By the time we have the tech to build a starship we can just ship out as many embryos as we can fit in a freezer. Job done.
Assuming they survive that long, if not I'm thinking that by then we can manufacture embryos with artificially constructed DNA. We're very close today:
By 2014, self-replicating, synthetic bacterial cells with cell walls and synthetic DNA had been produced. In January of that year researchers produce an artificial eukaryotic cell capable of undertaking multiple chemical reactions through working organelles.
Technically you don't even need to produce the whole embryo, just take an egg from one of the (few) women on the planet and replace the DNA. We can already swap DNA between natural embryos, all we need is a DNA sequence from the lab and any woman could be a surrogate mother to any genes that are wanted/needed. Of course people will still want children that are theirs, but say a "one surrogate, one natural" child policy would be plenty.
That way we could also bring the entire human genetic diversity, one complete set is about 725MB but deltas are only about 4MB per individual so about a million people on a 4TB HDD. For that large groups you could probably find a better cascading way of compressing it as well (think base human + common subgroups/sequences + your unique bits) so bringing all of it seems more than plausible.
(Please correct me if I misunderstand the problem, it'e been years since I worked on this stuff) It seems to be both guys are right. That is, in an ideal world starting with a black sheet of paper then it seems to me Kay is almost certainly correct.
No, there's no sane world where Kay is right. There can only be one user of a global namespace, if everything made switches or settings there it would be chaos like in this case where it's impossible to turn on kernel debugging without turning on systemd debugging (though you can redirect systemd to a null log target as a workaround). If anyone is to use it, it is clearly the kernel since it's the kernel's command line and it has 20+ years of claim to it. And without any standard as to what those switches or settings should to, it's meaningless to have the global namespace act as global variables and move the kernel's parameters to a namespace. But even if the kernel moved debug to kernel.debug it still means systemd should use systemd.debug, under no circumstances should it use the plain "debug" like it does now. He's doing it wrong and even if he was right, he'd still be doing it wrong.
What's trolling about it? He is banned right now, that the ban may or may not be lifted at some point in the future doesn't change that. Particularly since we're talking about a deep behavioral change from a recurring pattern of behavior at some unspecified time in the future, not whether or not his next patch breaks anything. That none of his code will be merged means he's dead to the project, sure he can write code on his own but it's like a journalist who'll never get their article printed. If your patches aren't accepted by Linus, you're not in Linux. You may be in some fork or branch or distro kernel but you're a third party accessory. It is extremely rare even for Linus to take the man and not the ball (code) and declare a blanket ban on somone's code, so I guess he was already extremely pissed at the guy's attitude and this was the straw that broke the camel's back.
This. If you need "special" accounts just have it supply an AES key to decrypt the password database with, if you can crack that without having the key we're all in deep shit. Pseudo:
If (databaseLocked)
TryDecrypt(database,password)
If (ok)
Print "Alright, have fun"
Else
Print "Sorry, service down"
EndIf Else
LoginUser(username, password) EndIf
I guess you could do that as a shared secret kind of thing (you need 3 of 5 keys to unlock) but I really don't see the point.
Does it come with an actual monkey? I wouldn't want to end up with an MSCE or some other poor substitute, monkeys are both cuter and put less shit on your servers. Of course both could be replaced by a very small shell script. but I need one for the head count and scripts run headless so that won't do.
That's not how the telco official described it. He seemed to say that they were treating Svalbard as a small version of mainland Norway, where they could try new things and get quick feedback to make sure they're doing it right. He claimed that Svalbard was 10 years ahead of mainland Norway. He also suggested that they were seeing substantially lower maintenance costs with fiber, and were looking into removing all of the phone lines and coax and just using fiber. He seemed to imply that all of this was in preparation for rollout across mainland Norway.
We have a lot of cheaper places they could use as test beds, they don't pull long underwater fiber cables just for that but as PR it sounds better. It is true that they're planning to move off copper though, actually the first trial county has already gone all fiber - no more copper service just fiber + mobile and maybe cable for those who already have that. They've said the copper network is supposed to be phased out by 2017, so if Svalbard is 10 years ahead then they're many years behind schedule on the mainland. Not surprised though, they've been late to the fiber party instead trying to push xDSL, they've lost 75% of their land line subscribers since 2000 and recently announced 10% of the staff had to go. Former cable and energy companies are rushing to wire up customers, the first to offer fiber usually wins. And so far they're more in the "expand and offer sweet deals" mode than "consolidate and exploit our captive users", I'm sure they'll get there but right now it's pretty good to be a consumer.
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Well, to a lay person it might sound a little like "Belle later confirmed the existence of the Z(4430) with [something]", common folk don't talk about probability in terms of "a significance of 5.2 sigma".
A better phrasing would be:
Belle later confirmed the existence of the Z(4430) with a significance of 5.2 sigma, a certainty high enough to be considered a discovery in particle physics.
I wonder how many people were angry and vaccine destroying the polio culture? Yes I did.
Well, there are a lot of people that seem to be very angry that we're now very strongly selecting against Down's syndrome. Some 90% of the women who get tested and find out their child will have it take an abortion. It's full of the "sorting society" rhetoric and worse slippery slope arguments than /. where first they take Down's, next we'll stomp out all individuality until we all look like we came from a cloning factory. I'm sorry I'm sure they're lovely people but more people with huge handicaps, genetic diseases and so on don't have to be born into this world than necessary. In a strict variety of that, I might not have been born myself... but I wouldn't care, since I wouldn't exist. As much as I like to think I'm a special little snowflake I'm sure my mom would have had a different kid she'd love just as much.
The difference is that in the old model, you paid to have more fun. In the new model, you pay to skip boredom.
This AC is spot on the money, that's exactly how I feel. And that boredom tastes artificially added, usually not that bad at first to get you addicted but the deeper you go the more the paid and free paths diverge. Like you can have the normal game or you can have the game with lots of extra grind, would you like to pay $1 to skip it? I guess some feel that's less of a dick move than setting up a paywall and say pay $1 to proceed or it's game over, but at least then it's in their best interest to make the experience as good as possible for you. Not that I like being heckled for money with tiny little DLCs everywhere either, give me large expansions and leave the sales booth out of the game itself. Nothing worse than an in-game NPC with a dollar sign over his head.
Where has this idea that Databases can't scale come from? - The world runs on Database for heaven sake. Do you think when you take money out of an ATM, its going to MONGODB? - And yet there are millions of ATM's and you can take money out of your VISA account in almost all of them anywhere in the world. That is called scale.
Of course you can with lots of money in hardware and software and top notch database administrators, architects and query designers but it's a lot of hard work and expensive. The sales pitch for NoSQL is that it's built for horizontal scale-out by design, just throw more servers at it - mainstream servers, not the extremely expensive high-end servers and it'll scale almost indefinitely without having to rework everything. There's a lot of people in the "when we go viral we must be ready for it" category, with highly variable degrees of realism. And social media has been the big buzzword lately where social media feeds of various forms are almost ideal for NoSQL, nobody cares if the feed is perfectly consistent or updated with the last two seconds of posts from your friends. To the tech-unsavvy, "They did that why can't we?"
2) and - unlike the Christian God - provably exists.
You mean like those dinosaur bones? All part of God's ruse to see if we'll pick fictio^H^H^H^H^Haith over fact.
I know its near impossible with a few of these companies since they are oligarchies but I feel that in order to vote for one of these companies you also should make a personal pledge to avoid doing business with the companies you vote for.
Aren't the companies you hate typically the ones you're stuck with? If there were good alternatives you'd obviously use them and your opinion would never go much past being shitty, but if you know they have you over a barrel and worse, they know as well but you can't find any better option than to suffer through it - that's when you hate. Like the boss you hate but you can't quit because you need the paycheck and the job market is horrible. Or the obnoxious neighbors who aren't bad enough to get evicted or arrested, but who aren't going to chase you away from your home. Or the bullies that used to harass and ridicule you at school.
Okay, so EA is not such a good example. But ISPs can be near monopolies. Walmart can' make enough mom and pop shops close that you cave. If you have a big mortgage and the value's gone down refinancing with another bank is easier said than done. Getting screwed over once, that hurts. To come crawling back for seconds, that's plain humiliating. But a lot of it is called "just fucking get on with your life" if Wal-Mart is the easiest place to shop, maybe you got better things to do than drive to the other side of town just to spite them. I recently paid a bill I know was unfair (hospital called me in on short notice, I never saw the letter until after the appointment had passed so they billed me for failing to appear), I could have fought it but decided it just wasn't worth the effort. Sometimes, life's too short.
If it were Teslas being tipped, I think the NFL and/or the military would be the ones investigating. Those things weigh over two tons and have a very low CG, making them nearly impossible to roll over without some heavy duty lifting apparatus.
If there was an NFL team nearby, I think they'd be the prime suspects instead....
Wow, really can't tell if this is sarcasm or not (from the linked MSDN Blog entry)
No, the reality detachment is part of the job requirements. Engineers might be able to keep a straight face for a sales meeting or two, but to really sell moderately good products well you have to drink your own kool-aid. Even when I'm on their side and they're not trying to sell me anything, everyone from marketing and sales I've ever met seems to have an over inflated view of the software's features, capabilities, quality and suitability for whatever the client asks for and trying to take them down a notch is like throwing facts at a non stick surface. No matter what they can bend reality until it's a positive, the only risk is that they go so over the top the customer stops taking them seriously. Like in this case you might take it for sarcasm but I can guarantee you it's not, at best it's an attempt at positive spin.or at worst they genuinely believe it.
MS is trying to push people off XP. There are other alternatives after all. Many of them are even free. How bad does it make Linux and Chrome look if they can't compete with an 12+ year old OS that MS is actively trying to push people off of?
*waves hand* These are not the users you are looking for. The people who absolutely don't want to leave XP are going to make the smallest leap possible and Windows 7 is always going to be more "Windows-y" than Linux or OS X, particularly when it comes to running their existing Windows applications that they probably also don't want to abandon.
There need be no middle-men besides our ISPs for grandma to remotely comment on the photos in my vacation folder.
Nothing except that 99% of the population:
a) Don't have a 24x7 connected box
b) Even if they do, it doesn't run the application stack you need and they don't want it to
c) Don't have the skills to run a server and keep it patched/backed up/punch through firewalls etc.
d) Don't have the time or interest to fiddle with it
How many people do you know that operate their own email server as opposed to some webmail provider? Run their own web server for their WordPress blog? Use their own photo/video sharing server instead of Instagram and YouTube? People don't want what you're selling, they want to log in on some website and have a working service. Most people I know would have to have such a system hosted at a co-lo with a support contract, which negates the whole "no third parties" advantage. Alternatively it'd have to be an "appliance" box to plug into the router, but then you're into selling consumer gear which needs some kind of corporation to build these boxes. And it still means that when you shut down your box, "you" fall off the social network unless you use replication but then you also have all sorts of issues with revocation because it's not just on your server anymore.
I guess it's tough to hear, but most people don't want to be the hub of their own data. They won't want to fiddle with PGP keys to make sure that messages sent from them to someone else on email or Facebook are really private. I can sort of understand too, the communication isn't more secure than the account info and tons of accounts get hacked/stolen everyday so even if you removed one weak link it's still only moderately secure not NSA and black hat-proof anyway. Not that we need to make it easy on them, but the inconvenience doesn't really outweigh the gain in security. (Yes, yes, cue the Franklin quote)
Actually the Internet is bad for all religions with deities, because it naturally leads to clashes about what god or gods are the right ones. God/Jesus Christ and Allah/Muhammad are not and will never be interchangeable and believing in one is mutually exclusive with believing in the other. Buddhism is the odd exception because despite the equally superstitious beliefs in karma, reincarnation and so on Buddha is not a god. Others have the equal capacity to reach enlightenment and may recognize the same truths he did, the path was always there he just wrote guides and taught others how to find it. As such the religion has no problems with other texts which might help steer others in the right direction, unlike nearly all other religions that have their scripture as the one and only truth.
Given the risk we should be designing for safety in the most extreme event possible. Look at it this way: the fact that the estimates were revised up tells us that the original estimates were too optimistic, there is at least some chance that the new ones are too.
Or the new ones are too pessimistic and rely on theoretical possibilities that never can or will come true in reality, but we choose to err on the side of caution. It's not proven necessary until we've had an actual quake exceed the old tolerances, which hopefully won't happen any time soon.
Well, first of all many major copyright holders have special deals with YouTube where they don't actually send DMCA requests. In that case it's just a private agreement between Sony and YouTube on content monitoring, at best you have a slander suit but no basis for a perjury. Secondly, they may have a legal claim to copyright on the whole clip reel as a collection - basically the selection and composition of clips - and that's enough to get them out of the perjury part. In generic terms, "Under penatlity of perjury, we are the copyright holders of movie X. We believe that the posted scene Y is in violation of our copyright on X." Even if that last part is wrong because it's freely licensed or in the public domain or for some other reason not eligible for copyright it's not under perjury. It sucks, but any competent lawyer will manage to wiggle Sony out of any trouble.
What is the size limit of a QRcode? Doesn't increasing the density of information contained in the image lead to the possibility of corrupt/missing data due to poor camera quality, motion blur, over/under exposure, or something along those lines?
They contain quite a bit of error correction so either it won't decode or it will with >99.99% probability decode correctly. You can store almost 3kB in a 177x177 QR code, but for the same physical area it's a trade-off between information density and readability. The bigger you make the QR "pixels" the less camera resolution you need, but the less information you can store as well.
Very unlikely.. the information in a QR code is probably just enough to say "I run kernel X (build Y) and it crashed with error code Z at instruction 12345 in module 123", if it was a kernel dump that's different but I have seen these without the QR codes and there's nothing sensitive there.
This is why I like our Consumer Ombudsman (CO)
The CO considers cases upon complaints from consumers and traders, but will also at his own initiative look at marketing measures. Through negotiations with traders it is sought to arrive at voluntary arrangements. Failure to reach such a solution, the Consumer Ombudsman may submit the case to the Market Council which is a "court of law" in that field. (...) The CO and the Market Council have authority to issue decisions banning unlawful marketing and contract terms and conditions in standard contracts when deemed necessary in the interests of consumers.
They have the power to issue:
a) Bans of marketing activities or terms
b) Requirements like including information on consumer rights
c) Fines (one time or daily until activities cease)
d) Rather hefty fines for violating a) or b)
This is different from the Consumer Council which often helps mediate in individual consumer disputes, the CO goes after policies and offers. For example the "send a letter that looks like a bill" scam, if they issue a ban on your company and don't comply the penalties get nasty. That way they can't simply continue the scam by handing back money to those customers who complain. Sending a complaint costs very little and you as the customer don't take the shit for it personally. I guess it's sort of like class actions in consumer cases, except you get no settlement but it's quite effective at shutting them down or making them change their terms.
Well, Microsoft is fairly predictable in that they'll follow the money. Short time that might mean chasing other markets like the mobile market with Win8, but I don't think they can afford pissing off their conservative customers. That is the non-touch, non-hybrid traditional keyboard+mouse operated desktop often running point and click business applications. They're mostly using Win7 downgrade licenses today and are fine with that, they don't care what Win8 looks like. I'm sure that when they start looking at migrating off Win7, Microsoft will offer them something because they're not nearly as easy to push around as average consumers. They probably don't need to release that until 2016 or so though, to prepare for Win7's 2020 end-of-life.
What do you do?
disconnect it from the network
promote the guy that said 5 years ago that you need starting to save money for replacement
fire the guy who blocked that
start saving the money for the replacement
You think that I'm starting to save money for my new car only after my old car breaks completely?
Hi and welcome to the government. In general, we don't get to save money. Each year we get a budget, at the end of the year they gather it all up in the national surplus/deficit and we start over at zero with a new budget. Without acts of the relevant national assembly to create permanent funds what you are suggesting is illegal. Even transferring funds from one year's budget to the next because the project as suffered a delay is bureaucratic and risky - anyone higher up might decide to ax the project to reach their budget. This is why so many public offices go on a spending spree at the end of the year, if you don't use it the funds will be gone and on top of that next year's budget will probably be cut since clearly you don't need that much money.
The goal is of course to keep oversight, if the government's money went into thousands of small slush funds kept by various departments for various reasons there'd probably be a lot of hoarding and questionable re-purposing of funds and no real guarantee that they'd actually cover the major investments needed anyway. Instead the government believes they are so big that the year to year variations on the total is negligible, every year so many buildings must be renovated, equipment replaced, maintenance performed in all branches of government that all report in their needs and all get their share in the national budget. So in theory you'd put in a request for replacement funds when it needs replacing, it gets rolled up from your department, your hospital to the national healthcare service to the national budget, and funds are awarded down the same line.
Of course there are far more wishes than money so in reality each level down the chain only gets so much money and has to prioritize and more likely than not somewhere along the line your request for replacement will fail to make the cut. And that's where you are in the IT department, it's not going to be replaced and you may try again next year but that's not your call. You are just stuck trying to make the best of it and hopefully not be the cause of any major outages or putting patients at risk. I guess if shit hits the fan you can always say "I told you so", but you'll be the one taking most of the shit anyway. It's the way governments do business, if you want to make it different you'd have to redo the whole system not trying to find one scapegoat.
Care for the elderly seems to be quite effective too, a common cause for having many children in the past was that you had many to take care of you when you grew old. Maybe some died young or moved far away or were just dicks but chances were some would be around to help you out. It ties in with disposable income I guess, but it's also about institutions and a system to take care of you.
By the time we have the tech to build a starship we can just ship out as many embryos as we can fit in a freezer. Job done.
Assuming they survive that long, if not I'm thinking that by then we can manufacture embryos with artificially constructed DNA. We're very close today:
By 2014, self-replicating, synthetic bacterial cells with cell walls and synthetic DNA had been produced. In January of that year researchers produce an artificial eukaryotic cell capable of undertaking multiple chemical reactions through working organelles.
Technically you don't even need to produce the whole embryo, just take an egg from one of the (few) women on the planet and replace the DNA. We can already swap DNA between natural embryos, all we need is a DNA sequence from the lab and any woman could be a surrogate mother to any genes that are wanted/needed. Of course people will still want children that are theirs, but say a "one surrogate, one natural" child policy would be plenty.
That way we could also bring the entire human genetic diversity, one complete set is about 725MB but deltas are only about 4MB per individual so about a million people on a 4TB HDD. For that large groups you could probably find a better cascading way of compressing it as well (think base human + common subgroups/sequences + your unique bits) so bringing all of it seems more than plausible.
(Please correct me if I misunderstand the problem, it'e been years since I worked on this stuff) It seems to be both guys are right. That is, in an ideal world starting with a black sheet of paper then it seems to me Kay is almost certainly correct.
No, there's no sane world where Kay is right. There can only be one user of a global namespace, if everything made switches or settings there it would be chaos like in this case where it's impossible to turn on kernel debugging without turning on systemd debugging (though you can redirect systemd to a null log target as a workaround). If anyone is to use it, it is clearly the kernel since it's the kernel's command line and it has 20+ years of claim to it. And without any standard as to what those switches or settings should to, it's meaningless to have the global namespace act as global variables and move the kernel's parameters to a namespace. But even if the kernel moved debug to kernel.debug it still means systemd should use systemd.debug, under no circumstances should it use the plain "debug" like it does now. He's doing it wrong and even if he was right, he'd still be doing it wrong.
What's trolling about it? He is banned right now, that the ban may or may not be lifted at some point in the future doesn't change that. Particularly since we're talking about a deep behavioral change from a recurring pattern of behavior at some unspecified time in the future, not whether or not his next patch breaks anything. That none of his code will be merged means he's dead to the project, sure he can write code on his own but it's like a journalist who'll never get their article printed. If your patches aren't accepted by Linus, you're not in Linux. You may be in some fork or branch or distro kernel but you're a third party accessory. It is extremely rare even for Linus to take the man and not the ball (code) and declare a blanket ban on somone's code, so I guess he was already extremely pissed at the guy's attitude and this was the straw that broke the camel's back.
This. If you need "special" accounts just have it supply an AES key to decrypt the password database with, if you can crack that without having the key we're all in deep shit. Pseudo:
If (databaseLocked)
TryDecrypt(database,password)
If (ok)
Print "Alright, have fun"
Else
Print "Sorry, service down"
EndIf
Else
LoginUser(username, password)
EndIf
I guess you could do that as a shared secret kind of thing (you need 3 of 5 keys to unlock) but I really don't see the point.
Does it come with an actual monkey? I wouldn't want to end up with an MSCE or some other poor substitute, monkeys are both cuter and put less shit on your servers. Of course both could be replaced by a very small shell script. but I need one for the head count and scripts run headless so that won't do.
That's not how the telco official described it. He seemed to say that they were treating Svalbard as a small version of mainland Norway, where they could try new things and get quick feedback to make sure they're doing it right. He claimed that Svalbard was 10 years ahead of mainland Norway. He also suggested that they were seeing substantially lower maintenance costs with fiber, and were looking into removing all of the phone lines and coax and just using fiber. He seemed to imply that all of this was in preparation for rollout across mainland Norway.
We have a lot of cheaper places they could use as test beds, they don't pull long underwater fiber cables just for that but as PR it sounds better. It is true that they're planning to move off copper though, actually the first trial county has already gone all fiber - no more copper service just fiber + mobile and maybe cable for those who already have that. They've said the copper network is supposed to be phased out by 2017, so if Svalbard is 10 years ahead then they're many years behind schedule on the mainland. Not surprised though, they've been late to the fiber party instead trying to push xDSL, they've lost 75% of their land line subscribers since 2000 and recently announced 10% of the staff had to go. Former cable and energy companies are rushing to wire up customers, the first to offer fiber usually wins. And so far they're more in the "expand and offer sweet deals" mode than "consolidate and exploit our captive users", I'm sure they'll get there but right now it's pretty good to be a consumer.