Does anyone understand what IF_HTML_FUNCTION is supposed to mean in the exploit code? As far as I can tell it's just plain text with no special meaning, it's just copied and pasted blindly from some previous code. Am I wrong?
I can't help but wonder whether the difference in culture plays a role in the success of these kinds of missions. I don't really understand why, but despite the ridiculously rigorous education in Japan, they have very few Fields Medal winners. No South Korean has ever won a Nobel Prize despite being one of the most technologically innovative nations in the world.
The thing is, I don't care how many 150 hour weeks these scientists put into homework when they were 9 years old, I'd rather have a bunch of MIT hackers building my space probe. Somehow our way works, and theirs doesn't. It's probably something to do with Western students thinking more critically because they're trained to question everything they hear... such a difference could easily affect long-term outcomes.
First, The question doesn't say the other (this does not mean older or younger...) child was not born on a Tuesday, maybe the questioner meant to include this info but they failed to.
Wrong.
The real confusion occurs due to the use of odd numbers... Imagine a world where everything was found in sets of twos, people had 2 heads, 4 arms, etc. They would always be dealing with eating animals that were siamese, if they wanted to hunt by throwing rocks or whatever each siamese would throw a rock so they would use two rocks. In this world I would say that what we call the number 2 would actually be like their number 1, and what we use as unity, or one, would be for the siamese called a half. Therefore their numberline would go 0,.5, 2, 2.5, 4, 4.5, 6, 6.5, 8, etc.
This is actually more reflective of reality in that, deep down, math and counting are extensions of logic, and the fundamental unit of logic is a true-false statement which is basically a set of 2. True is only 1/2 of the total possibilities for any given logical statement. For example say you have counted one rock, what that actually represents is both having one rock in your presence butt also, concurrently, not having counted other than one rock, so in essence you have counted two different things and are representing them with a number supposed to correspond with one thing. Wouldnt it make more sense to just use "two" to represent the one thing youve counted?
The probability of guessing correctly by saying the second child is a boy would therefore be 1/2(6), or 3, divided by 6 and a half, which gives you 6 out of 12 and 1/2 odds.
How did this wall of babbling nonsense earn an Interesting mod point?
-You come across a guy on the street who happens to have one of his two children with him, and it's a boy. That has no impact whatsoever on the gender of his other child, it's still 50/50.
-You call a guy up on the phone (he has 2 kids) and ask "Is either one of your kids a boy?" He answers yes. What does that mean for the gender of the other child?
Firstborn|Secondborn Boy Boy (possible, the other child is a boy) Boy Girl (possible, the other child is a girl) Girl Boy (possible, the other child is a girl) Girl Girl (Impossible)
So in 2/3 cases the other child is a girl.
Another insight from the comments: The tuesday thing is a constraint on the boy. It's unlikely that any given boy is born on a tuesday. So a boy-boy pair is much more likely to have a tuesday-born boy than a less boy-populated boy-girl pair.
Again though, it's a question of whether you happen to come across a guy on the street with a random one of his boys, or if you specifically ask him if any member of his kids is a tuesday-born boy.
Having the person volunteering this information, as if "tuesday born boyness" is a desirable quality, and if none of his children had it he wouldn't be bragging about it, makes it sort of fall into the second category.
Imagine that you boss wanted to put a sign on his door saying "Godhatesfags.com the truth is hard to hear!" How would you feel about that? Or would you want to meet with a vendor with swastika tattoos on all over his arms?
Even freedom of speech has it's limits.
You can't possibly be serious. Just seeing godhatesfags.com on a piece of paper, or swastika tattoos on someone offends you so much that you would reduce their freedom of speech to get your way? What are you thinking? How does a posted sign violate you so much that you need to stop them by force?
If you think you can afford to be picky, imagine how much companies can afford to fire uncooperative workers. A flight on the corporate jet costs your entire salary anyway, so nobody's worried about losing one pretty-good sysadmin, and people are lining up for your job.
In fact, your attitude would be threatening to me if I were an employer. I would be thinking that I can't depend on your continued employment if you're going to jump ship the first time you don't get your way..
I would not enter payment details on anything other than Paypal, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Steam, under any circumstances, ever. When I'm interested in buying something from some small site, I expect to be sent off to Paypal or their Amazon store to purchase the item, and if I'm faced with an HTML form with fields for a credit card number on their little site, they can kiss the sale goodbye instantly.
I guess making profit off the internet is so 90's too?
Nobody has to give you a job. If they don't like your 'x' they don't have to hire you.
Note that the employer is breaking federal law if 'x' is:
race, color, religion, sex, age, ethnic group, or national origin
disability
genetic information
association with or marriage to someone (on the basis of race, religion, national origin, or disability)
previous discrimination lawsuits, or participating in discrimination investigations
participation in schools or places of worship associated with a particular racial, ethnic, or religious group
States have innumerable laws such as can't make hiring, firing, compensation, layoff, transfer, training, benefits, retirement, or promotion decisions based on:
status as a parent
pregnancy
results of a lie detector test
marital status
sexual orientation
political affiliation
So clearly employees do have recourse for discrimination. Your "a job is a privilege not a right" is about a hundred years late.
Also, yes the first amendment only applies to congress (and state governments from the 14th amendment) but the question here isn't of law, it's of whether something is right or wrong. Freedom of speech is the defining principle of American culture and law, and its violation is rightfully greeted with disgust.
arguably the greatest unsolved problem in all of mathematics
P=NP is up there, and a lot more concise:p
I wouldn't worry about putting stuff on your arm that might get proven wrong—it doesn't mean F=m*a isn't a significant step in the evolution of human thought just because Einstein improved upon it.
Don't mod me for flamebait but I think that really looks bad. Tattoos rarely look good in their prime, and always end up faded and smudged. They don't make you look tough or interesting, just trashy.
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How do ATM vendors cancel a conference anyway? Shouldn't the correct response for Hack in the Box to give be a hearty fuck off?
Ah the intricacies of the Firefox codebase.
Does anyone understand what IF_HTML_FUNCTION is supposed to mean in the exploit code? As far as I can tell it's just plain text with no special meaning, it's just copied and pasted blindly from some previous code. Am I wrong?
Obviously the peace prizes have nothing to do with science, and they're not even awarded by the same people.
By turning down the prize he brings wide attention to the issue, which could actually change the situation.
I can't help but wonder whether the difference in culture plays a role in the success of these kinds of missions. I don't really understand why, but despite the ridiculously rigorous education in Japan, they have very few Fields Medal winners. No South Korean has ever won a Nobel Prize despite being one of the most technologically innovative nations in the world.
The thing is, I don't care how many 150 hour weeks these scientists put into homework when they were 9 years old, I'd rather have a bunch of MIT hackers building my space probe. Somehow our way works, and theirs doesn't. It's probably something to do with Western students thinking more critically because they're trained to question everything they hear... such a difference could easily affect long-term outcomes.
The money would certainly be better left for a new prize that spurs more math research than donating it to some charity.
You can buy a phone and pre-paid minutes in the US for cash.
The world's first Shape-Hole interface! Reminds me of this.
Wrong.
How did this wall of babbling nonsense earn an Interesting mod point?
A helpful analogy from the comments is:
-You come across a guy on the street who happens to have one of his two children with him, and it's a boy. That has no impact whatsoever on the gender of his other child, it's still 50/50.
-You call a guy up on the phone (he has 2 kids) and ask "Is either one of your kids a boy?" He answers yes. What does that mean for the gender of the other child?
Firstborn|Secondborn
Boy Boy (possible, the other child is a boy)
Boy Girl (possible, the other child is a girl)
Girl Boy (possible, the other child is a girl)
Girl Girl (Impossible)
So in 2/3 cases the other child is a girl.
Another insight from the comments:
The tuesday thing is a constraint on the boy. It's unlikely that any given boy is born on a tuesday. So a boy-boy pair is much more likely to have a tuesday-born boy than a less boy-populated boy-girl pair.
Again though, it's a question of whether you happen to come across a guy on the street with a random one of his boys, or if you specifically ask him if any member of his kids is a tuesday-born boy.
Having the person volunteering this information, as if "tuesday born boyness" is a desirable quality, and if none of his children had it he wouldn't be bragging about it, makes it sort of fall into the second category.
O_O YES
When I was a lad in Algebra 2, radians confused me to tears.
I'd like to inform you that greengrocers' apostrophes instantly void your entire argument with prejudice.
Go back to 4th grade you fucking idiot.
Anyone can fly for about 2 seconds.
You can call him whatever you want off-hours and anonymously.
Read the context, I was criticizing his implication that an employer can fire you for any reason they want.
You can't possibly be serious. Just seeing godhatesfags.com on a piece of paper, or swastika tattoos on someone offends you so much that you would reduce their freedom of speech to get your way? What are you thinking? How does a posted sign violate you so much that you need to stop them by force?
If you think you can afford to be picky, imagine how much companies can afford to fire uncooperative workers. A flight on the corporate jet costs your entire salary anyway, so nobody's worried about losing one pretty-good sysadmin, and people are lining up for your job.
In fact, your attitude would be threatening to me if I were an employer. I would be thinking that I can't depend on your continued employment if you're going to jump ship the first time you don't get your way..
My father became fabulously rich not growing the most alfalfa of any farmer in the state.
I would not enter payment details on anything other than Paypal, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Steam, under any circumstances, ever. When I'm interested in buying something from some small site, I expect to be sent off to Paypal or their Amazon store to purchase the item, and if I'm faced with an HTML form with fields for a credit card number on their little site, they can kiss the sale goodbye instantly.
I guess making profit off the internet is so 90's too?
Note that the employer is breaking federal law if 'x' is:
States have innumerable laws such as can't make hiring, firing, compensation, layoff, transfer, training, benefits, retirement, or promotion decisions based on:
So clearly employees do have recourse for discrimination. Your "a job is a privilege not a right" is about a hundred years late.
Also, yes the first amendment only applies to congress (and state governments from the 14th amendment) but the question here isn't of law, it's of whether something is right or wrong. Freedom of speech is the defining principle of American culture and law, and its violation is rightfully greeted with disgust.
P=NP is up there, and a lot more concise :p
But tread lightly around P=NP
In that case, definitely the most beautiful and famous theorem you can come up with is Euler's identity. e^(i*Pi) = -1.
Don't mod me for flamebait but I think that really looks bad. Tattoos rarely look good in their prime, and always end up faded and smudged. They don't make you look tough or interesting, just trashy.
How many religious, god-believing individuals have two masters degrees and two bachelor's degrees from MIT?