EXACTLY! The best security does not make entry/hacking "impossible", it makes entry/hacking "difficult". The steps for tracking this AC down is clear and possible, it's just difficult. I get tired of security "experts" that dismiss various barriers because the barrier can be penetrated with difficulty. Difficult barriers achieve security.
The same goes for anonymity on the internet. With enough difficult barriers, you have practical anonymity.
Replying to my own post about the LTCM bailout, let me add...
"Some industry officials said that Federal Reserve Bank of New York involvement in the rescue, however benign, would encourage large financial institutions to assume more risk, in the belief that the Federal Reserve would intervene on their behalf in the event of trouble. "
CLF are many times as expensive as incandescent, not as long lasting as claimed, not dim-able, not equivalent in brightness, etc.
Don't talk to me about penny energy savings for a product that costs many times more what it's replacing. And my house needs the extra heat in the winter time anyway. So no energy is not wasted by using incandescent.
I read this as a government request to gather evidence in advance of a crime being committed. Is there any precedence for this?
I realize that many companies have security camera recordings and other records that could later used as evidence after a crime has been detected. But those are not government mandated.
If you start flipping coins and it begins with an unusually large number of heads... it means that you probably slipped in a double headed coin. It's false to claim that "the sheer number of subsequent flips tending to be 50/50 swamps out the spike created by those early heads." A truly fair coin will not have statistical anomalies.
The police system described here is just the same as when police used to pay attention to crime: "there's a burglary crew working the Oakdale neighborhood, three homes his week, we should increase patrols in that neighborhood"
The use of motorcycle wheels reminds me of the pothole problem when riding a motorcycle. It's not pretty. I'm certain that this "roadable" car has almost no suspension, little maneuverability, and poor road visibility. That's makes it worse than a motorcycle when hitting a pothole. There is no way to make a public road as smooth as the surfaces of an airport.
It would be ever so nice of the Firefox install if it would tell you which of your plug-ins are going to fail - before the install is started. I hate finding out that my most useful plug-ins are toast only after the install in completed. Updating the plug-ins should not be an post-install afterthought.
Mozilla really NEEDS a Pre-Install Firefox Add-on Compatibility test! We users should have a way to test our favorite Add-ons BEFORE we install a new version!
They want to set a *.google.com cookie that contains identifying social data. That would greatly enhance their ability to data mine useful, and profitable, information from the combination of your social profile and your searches. It's a marketers wet dream: detailed demographic data with detailed personal interests (every search you do). All they need to do is sell ad space that matches you up with buying habits of people in your demographic and having the same interests. An advertiser would pay a lot for that high quality sales lead.
Police duties have been radically altered in the past 50 years. Police are no longer protectors walking a beat or cruising in a neighborhood. Police are predators.
Nothing brings out that fact better than the common sight of a police car hiding from plain view.
Please explain how it is "perfectly" constitutional. The Congress shall have the Power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States. ..” . Are you going to claim that the regulation of plants falls under the general welfare?
Recall that the Constitution grants powers. And only those powers granted by the Constitution are supposed to be exercised by the US government.
My kid went through a phase of being fascinated by magnets. A neighbor gave him "rare earth magnets". My MacBookPro died a couple of days after that. The PRAM (parameter RAM) was scrambled as was a good portion of the hard drive. I tried to reset the PRAM and reload the hard drive, but it was still unstable. Eventually, I had to replace the hard drive.
And my kid fried the MagSafe power supply too, by sticking his magnets up against the connector end.... I hate those magnets so gawd damn much
They need a congressional bill in order to abide by this statement...
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
The Constitution does not delegate to the US government powers over living organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae.
Many contractors over-promise in order get a competitive advantage just to get the contract. I've seen the same type of behavior with contractors who under-bid, just to get the contract, then pile on big charges for any and all change requests. Even changes that should be cost neutral.
Any contractor who claims that a delay is because "we have more than one customer" deserves a bad review. It means that they over-promised multiple customers and they sent your job to the bottom of their priority list.
Give honest time and cost estimates and customers will give good reviews.
No profit that I can think of. Granted, 13-year-olds don't need a profit motive to deface a rivals Facebook page. But in my adult world, I don't see the attraction to the risk/reward equation of a LinkedIn hijacking.
1. hijack a LinkedIn account 2. change the account information 3. ???? 4. profit
The lazy and unprofessional ones in your example are the HR people who are letting "can't read" recruiters surf LinkedIn instead of looking through LinkedIn themselves. Few companies have the cash to waste on that arrangement.
Recruiters used to have their own pool of qualified people, created by years of professional networking, that was unreachable to hiring companies. That is the value that recruiters brought to the companies. If recruiters are only going to search the same candidate pool that companies can search (on LinkedIn), then recruiters are not bringing any value to the process. That's just a lazy HR person making their company pay a commission in order to avoid doing their HR job.
I know of two companies that saved a lot of cash by mining LinkedIn for filling vacant positions rather than paying the standard commission rates they used to pay recruiters (a placement fee of between 25 and 30 percent of the associate's starting yearly salary). Firms *hate* paying recruiters. In fact, some HR people hate recruiters on a professional and a personal level.
There used to be good money in recruiting. If a big chuck of recruiting money moves to LinkedIn, that's a tidal wave of change. I would bet on LinkedIn.
Does anyone really believe that politicians have sudden urges to propose new bills that pander to wealthy businesses?
Since I happen to know something about how this works, I'll tell you - these bills are not written by the politicians or their staff. Big corporations employ people to write legislation on behalf of pliable politicians.
This bill probably will not pass - today. But it will be tried multiple times, multiple ways. Eventually, a similar bill *will* pass. Because in the future everyone will have gotten used to the idea.
Find a bug in Firefox or Chrome and you're helping make a product better that will make future products better. Find a bug in IE and there is a likelihood that few people will ever use that code to make future products better.
The people who find many bugs are the people looking to find bugs and make products better. And they report those bugs along with reproducible steps. The people who stumble upon bugs are trying to get other work done - they have no time or inclination to halt their work, figure out what they did to hit a bug, and report their findings (along with reproducible steps) to the IE team.
I'm surprised that this comment is the only mention of stroke writing character generation in this thread.
Rastor character generation was not obvious using analog electronics. Rastor was slow compared to stroke writing when using analog display generators. Rastor character generation didn't become obvious until digital electronics made it obvious (every pixel mapped to a bit)
You can''t compare a patent developed in the time of analog electronics with how obvious it became after digital electronics made it a no brainer.
It's been a while since I used JMeter, but I had good luck using a web capture/replay tool called Badboy as a functional input to JMeter.
I created the functional tests with Badboy, then export/imported them into JMeter. JMeter ran the Badboy functional tests with my desired testing characteristics. I got a pretty good overview of the performance of the application under test (an XML service that front-ended a database).
The problem with using load testing tools like JMeter for finding web site performance is that it's total guesswork to separate the web server performance from the network performance.
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EXACTLY! The best security does not make entry/hacking "impossible", it makes entry/hacking "difficult". The steps for tracking this AC down is clear and possible, it's just difficult. I get tired of security "experts" that dismiss various barriers because the barrier can be penetrated with difficulty. Difficult barriers achieve security.
The same goes for anonymity on the internet. With enough difficult barriers, you have practical anonymity.
Replying to my own post about the LTCM bailout, let me add ...
"Some industry officials said that Federal Reserve Bank of New York involvement in the rescue, however benign, would encourage large financial institutions to assume more risk, in the belief that the Federal Reserve would intervene on their behalf in the event of trouble. "
Secret bailouts are not new, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-Term_Capital_Management
On the face of it, it appeared that private banks provided the bailout money, but many suspected that they were all backed by secret government loans.
I echo this poster's experience.
CLF are many times as expensive as incandescent, not as long lasting as claimed, not dim-able, not equivalent in brightness, etc.
Don't talk to me about penny energy savings for a product that costs many times more what it's replacing. And my house needs the extra heat in the winter time anyway. So no energy is not wasted by using incandescent.
I read this as a government request to gather evidence in advance of a crime being committed. Is there any precedence for this?
I realize that many companies have security camera recordings and other records that could later used as evidence after a crime has been detected. But those are not government mandated.
If you start flipping coins and it begins with an unusually large number of heads... it means that you probably slipped in a double headed coin. It's false to claim that "the sheer number of subsequent flips tending to be 50/50 swamps out the spike created by those early heads." A truly fair coin will not have statistical anomalies.
The police system described here is just the same as when police used to pay attention to crime: "there's a burglary crew working the Oakdale neighborhood, three homes his week, we should increase patrols in that neighborhood"
The use of motorcycle wheels reminds me of the pothole problem when riding a motorcycle. It's not pretty. I'm certain that this "roadable" car has almost no suspension, little maneuverability, and poor road visibility. That's makes it worse than a motorcycle when hitting a pothole. There is no way to make a public road as smooth as the surfaces of an airport.
It would be ever so nice of the Firefox install if it would tell you which of your plug-ins are going to fail - before the install is started. I hate finding out that my most useful plug-ins are toast only after the install in completed. Updating the plug-ins should not be an post-install afterthought.
Mozilla really NEEDS a Pre-Install Firefox Add-on Compatibility test! We users should have a way to test our favorite Add-ons BEFORE we install a new version!
They want to set a *.google.com cookie that contains identifying social data. That would greatly enhance their ability to data mine useful, and profitable, information from the combination of your social profile and your searches. It's a marketers wet dream: detailed demographic data with detailed personal interests (every search you do). All they need to do is sell ad space that matches you up with buying habits of people in your demographic and having the same interests. An advertiser would pay a lot for that high quality sales lead.
Police duties have been radically altered in the past 50 years. Police are no longer protectors walking a beat or cruising in a neighborhood. Police are predators.
Nothing brings out that fact better than the common sight of a police car hiding from plain view.
Please explain how it is "perfectly" constitutional. The Congress shall have the Power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States. . .” . Are you going to claim that the regulation of plants falls under the general welfare?
Recall that the Constitution grants powers. And only those powers granted by the Constitution are supposed to be exercised by the US government.
My kid went through a phase of being fascinated by magnets. A neighbor gave him "rare earth magnets". My MacBookPro died a couple of days after that. The PRAM (parameter RAM) was scrambled as was a good portion of the hard drive. I tried to reset the PRAM and reload the hard drive, but it was still unstable. Eventually, I had to replace the hard drive.
And my kid fried the MagSafe power supply too, by sticking his magnets up against the connector end. ...
I hate those magnets so gawd damn much
They need a congressional bill in order to abide by this statement...
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
The Constitution does not delegate to the US government powers over living organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae.
You asked: "How soon can we expect something like this?"
He answered: " A mixing service requires a large volume and therefore a persistent demand"
Translation: "We can expect it as soon as Bitcoin produces a large volume and has persistent demand".
Did you actually expect him to give you a date like, "October"?
They need a new compass the points to "evil" when they do stuff like this.
Just because they can, doesn't mean they should!
Spot on. I wish I had mod points for you.
Many contractors over-promise in order get a competitive advantage just to get the contract. I've seen the same type of behavior with contractors who under-bid, just to get the contract, then pile on big charges for any and all change requests. Even changes that should be cost neutral.
Any contractor who claims that a delay is because "we have more than one customer" deserves a bad review. It means that they over-promised multiple customers and they sent your job to the bottom of their priority list.
Give honest time and cost estimates and customers will give good reviews.
Those rings are not self healing!
No profit that I can think of. Granted, 13-year-olds don't need a profit motive to deface a rivals Facebook page. But in my adult world, I don't see the attraction to the risk/reward equation of a LinkedIn hijacking.
1. hijack a LinkedIn account
2. change the account information
3. ????
4. profit
The lazy and unprofessional ones in your example are the HR people who are letting "can't read" recruiters surf LinkedIn instead of looking through LinkedIn themselves. Few companies have the cash to waste on that arrangement.
Recruiters used to have their own pool of qualified people, created by years of professional networking, that was unreachable to hiring companies. That is the value that recruiters brought to the companies. If recruiters are only going to search the same candidate pool that companies can search (on LinkedIn), then recruiters are not bringing any value to the process. That's just a lazy HR person making their company pay a commission in order to avoid doing their HR job.
I know of two companies that saved a lot of cash by mining LinkedIn for filling vacant positions rather than paying the standard commission rates they used to pay recruiters (a placement fee of between 25 and 30 percent of the associate's starting yearly salary). Firms *hate* paying recruiters. In fact, some HR people hate recruiters on a professional and a personal level.
There used to be good money in recruiting. If a big chuck of recruiting money moves to LinkedIn, that's a tidal wave of change. I would bet on LinkedIn.
The above comment should be modded up.
Does anyone really believe that politicians have sudden urges to propose new bills that pander to wealthy businesses?
Since I happen to know something about how this works, I'll tell you - these bills are not written by the politicians or their staff. Big corporations employ people to write legislation on behalf of pliable politicians.
This bill probably will not pass - today. But it will be tried multiple times, multiple ways. Eventually, a similar bill *will* pass. Because in the future everyone will have gotten used to the idea.
Find a bug in Firefox or Chrome and you're helping make a product better that will make future products better.
Find a bug in IE and there is a likelihood that few people will ever use that code to make future products better.
The people who find many bugs are the people looking to find bugs and make products better. And they report those bugs along with reproducible steps.
The people who stumble upon bugs are trying to get other work done - they have no time or inclination to halt their work, figure out what they did to hit a bug, and report their findings (along with reproducible steps) to the IE team.
Be nice to your QA professional.
I'm surprised that this comment is the only mention of stroke writing character generation in this thread.
Rastor character generation was not obvious using analog electronics. Rastor was slow compared to stroke writing when using analog display generators. Rastor character generation didn't become obvious until digital electronics made it obvious (every pixel mapped to a bit)
You can''t compare a patent developed in the time of analog electronics with how obvious it became after digital electronics made it a no brainer.
It's been a while since I used JMeter, but I had good luck using a web capture/replay tool called Badboy as a functional input to JMeter.
I created the functional tests with Badboy, then export/imported them into JMeter. JMeter ran the Badboy functional tests with my desired testing characteristics. I got a pretty good overview of the performance of the application under test (an XML service that front-ended a database).
The problem with using load testing tools like JMeter for finding web site performance is that it's total guesswork to separate the web server performance from the network performance.
a big +1
This comment should be at the top of the thread.
Damn Slashdot for having such a lame moderation system.