Discouraging third-party research != encouraging ignorance.
They're trying to make sure that both sides get a fair chance. WP, for all its goodness, still has quite a bit of bias floating around. Ask the judge for some lit about the problem at hand if you're curious.
How it should have been handled is the foreman should have asked for some literature about whatever she had a question about. I'm a big fan of Wikipedia, but in cases of law, opinion should be left out. Wikipedia has way too much opinion to be reliably used during legal proceedings. Use an old-fashioned encyclopedia.
If Internet Explorer 9 beta blocks 99% of those and Chrome only 3%, that makes a huge difference.
If being the key word, here. The study was funded by Microsoft, so any pretext of objectivity is out the window. Plus, a 96% discrepancy between Chrome and IE9 is just a little suspicious.
Let's just say I still trust Google a lot more than I trust Microsoft. As my sig might attest.
One hand, incompetence that might cause a fault in service once in a blue moon that can be repaired in less than half an hour. On the other, you've got incompetence that allows a system to be dropped by, again, a group of loosely organized script kiddies.
I'm not arguing for or against Amazon's service- I'm just stating that if I was in charge of damage control at Amazon, this is how I'd do it.
I think it's better to have a system that might suffer from hardware failures than a system that can be taken down by a group of loosely-organized script kiddies.
Take a small PR hit to mitigate a larger one? Sounds like a plan to me.
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Don't forget that you can run over to your local electronics reatailer and pick up a DVI-to-VGA converter thingamabob for cheap.
My gaming comp has two monitors- a native 1440x900 with DVI and VGA connections, and a native 1280x800 (I think) that only has VGA. My computer only has DVI out. Went out to Radioshack, picked up one of those on the cheap, and never looked back.
Booby traps are always an option. It's all too easy to fashion some sort of anti-handling device wired up to a detonator. Trip the cord, blooie.
My argument was that bringing the place down is a lot safer than trying to maneuver around a booby-trapped house for a month. That's not even going into the economic effects on the area if they dismantle the place looking for explosives.
Probably a major factor is the closeness of Interstate 15. If they pick the explosives out bit by bit, they could spend a month or more with I-15- a major interstate highway- shut down. That'd play hell on businesses all over the place. This way, the highway is shut down for a few hours, at most a day.
Plus there's those poor folks who live next to him who will be stuck out of their homes for as long as this takes.
I'm not an explosives expert either, but maybe the worry is that there's a metric fuckton of explosives in there, and one trip or dropped box and the whole neighborhood is a smoldering crater?
In that environment, a bomb suit wouldn't be worth jack shit. If a significant explosion was set off, you'd be dead and gone in milliseconds, suit or no suit.
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Discouraging third-party research != encouraging ignorance.
They're trying to make sure that both sides get a fair chance. WP, for all its goodness, still has quite a bit of bias floating around. Ask the judge for some lit about the problem at hand if you're curious.
How it should have been handled is the foreman should have asked for some literature about whatever she had a question about. I'm a big fan of Wikipedia, but in cases of law, opinion should be left out. Wikipedia has way too much opinion to be reliably used during legal proceedings. Use an old-fashioned encyclopedia.
That's your own fault. Check the citations in the article.
You don't "give up control of your data". You trust someone else to hold it for you.
I wouldn't put my credit card info up there, but assignments and character sheets I'm fine with.
Maybe the donation requests are just to get us used to having huge, annoying banner ads at the top of Wikipedia pages.
Ctrl-Alt-T opens up a console window in ChromeOS, and rooted Droids can access a shell terminal.
In the cloud, you don't need to waste an afternoon waiting for Windows to reinstall.
If Internet Explorer 9 beta blocks 99% of those and Chrome only 3%, that makes a huge difference.
If being the key word, here. The study was funded by Microsoft, so any pretext of objectivity is out the window. Plus, a 96% discrepancy between Chrome and IE9 is just a little suspicious.
Let's just say I still trust Google a lot more than I trust Microsoft. As my sig might attest.
If they plopped an old icebreaker in the exclusion zone near Pripyat and called it Skadovsk, I'd book my trip tonight.
Well, it's expected that you supply one. Although the deluxe edition comes with a Droid X and an AK-74.
5k for an Urchin? No way, bro. I might part with my Mama's Beads for that much, but only because I'm tripping all over those.
STALKER 2 will be a game box with a Makarov pistol, 2 clips of ammo and a plane ticket to Chernobyl.
It is a handicap, but the 100mb of free 3G a month mitigates that a bit. Or I imagine it would, if I could get the bloody thing to activate.
Now if only they'd allow me to attach that to my phone subscription (unlimited data) or allow me to tether my Droid to it.
I think this is the first of Anon's crusades that I don't support.
I mean, it's snow!
One hand, incompetence that might cause a fault in service once in a blue moon that can be repaired in less than half an hour. On the other, you've got incompetence that allows a system to be dropped by, again, a group of loosely organized script kiddies.
I'm not arguing for or against Amazon's service- I'm just stating that if I was in charge of damage control at Amazon, this is how I'd do it.
by a hacker group sympathetic to Wikileaks cause.
Thank you.
I think it's better to have a system that might suffer from hardware failures than a system that can be taken down by a group of loosely-organized script kiddies.
Take a small PR hit to mitigate a larger one? Sounds like a plan to me.
rate +1 Google plox
Don't forget that you can run over to your local electronics reatailer and pick up a DVI-to-VGA converter thingamabob for cheap.
My gaming comp has two monitors- a native 1440x900 with DVI and VGA connections, and a native 1280x800 (I think) that only has VGA. My computer only has DVI out. Went out to Radioshack, picked up one of those on the cheap, and never looked back.
Booby traps are always an option. It's all too easy to fashion some sort of anti-handling device wired up to a detonator. Trip the cord, blooie.
My argument was that bringing the place down is a lot safer than trying to maneuver around a booby-trapped house for a month. That's not even going into the economic effects on the area if they dismantle the place looking for explosives.
Probably a major factor is the closeness of Interstate 15. If they pick the explosives out bit by bit, they could spend a month or more with I-15- a major interstate highway- shut down. That'd play hell on businesses all over the place. This way, the highway is shut down for a few hours, at most a day.
Plus there's those poor folks who live next to him who will be stuck out of their homes for as long as this takes.
I'm not an explosives expert either, but maybe the worry is that there's a metric fuckton of explosives in there, and one trip or dropped box and the whole neighborhood is a smoldering crater?
There wouldn't be any bits left to pick up. Maybe if you're wearing a bomb suit they might find a few bits of ceramic lying about .
In that environment, a bomb suit wouldn't be worth jack shit. If a significant explosion was set off, you'd be dead and gone in milliseconds, suit or no suit.
Also, your sig is hilariously appropriate.
Volunteer != suicidal.