Care to point to specific bugs? We've been using SVN for years and never seen these problems.
Moreover, since SVN is client-server, why would a buggy client cause datacorruption in the database? Are you implying there are major bugs in the svn server?
huh of course the alcohol evaporates. the alcohol cloud is what burns when you pour liquor in a pan and set it aflame. try it: heat some liquor in a pan and light it (be careful and use less than half a cup). now repeat but wait with the ignition for a minute or so. it will not burn because the alcohol has been drifted away already.
The french police was right though: they didn't know a child was missing, and it was clear this had been a professional assassination. Fortunately a policeman in the countryside does not encounter such murders regularly enough to warrant the technical knowledge to research the murder scene. Therefor a specialised time from Paris was called in, who gave specific instructions *not to touch* the crime scene.
Moreover, they had flown a heli with a heatseaking camera to find additional victims, and as soon as they received information that the child was missing they did search the car.
So no incompetent cops there, just a very sad story.
3) We are a very active participant in the ARM Linux kernel. For the latest 3.4 ARM kernel – the next-gen kernel to be used on future Linux, Android, and Chrome distributions – NVIDIA ranks second in terms of total lines changed and fourth in terms of number of changesets for all employers or organizations.
(emphasis mine)
Unless you yourself are even more active in Linux then they are, it would be more appropriate for them to say to you... Fuck You.
Warning: Water is wet. (Oops, EU says you can't say that.)
you might want to research that story a bit further than just the initial headline. It turned out the claim was that bottled water is a medicine against dehydration (a medical condition). Not all forms of dehydration are cured by drinking water, and in some situations it is even harmful to the patient. So common sense prevailed and the claim was struck down.
Now if you want to have an argument about the quality of British press (who first ran the story), that's an entirely different topic.
the trouble with your argument is that it puts the means above the ends. Of course Jews should be respected and be able to live peacefully, just like any other human being. What people, like the GP, are saying is that the means employed by Israel do not respect the right of other human beings. That behaviour is not only morally saddening, it's feeding terrorism.
Have a look at the drug use statistics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adult_lifetime_cannabis_use_by_country) and tell me whose country has a problem with cannabis use...
After reading the article and watching the video: what seemed to have happened is that the Labour party voted in favor by accident (some sort of mix up apparently), this was recognized immediately and the further procedure was halted until the error could be repaired. So nothing to see here, move along...
your sarcasm is misplaced and your assumptions unnecessary. if you want to see how multiple track systems work, look outside the US. For instance the essence of this system in The Netherlands:
- the primary school offers a single track system. Children advancing to secondary school receive a qualitative assessment from the primary school for the track they will likely be most fit for. The qualitative (and thus subjective) assessment is extended with a qualitative assessment ( a test ).
- students start secondary school with one or two years of single track education, before the school decides which track they will be allowed to attend
- students are able to downgrade and upgrade their track, depening on results and approval from school.
In practice the system works quite well, with some issues here and there (for instance there is no real feedback loop from secondary to primary school, so primary teachers don't really learn whether their subjective recommendations are any good).
Then it appears one peeks around the corner with an RPG and points it at a US helicopter.
Sadly, this was the only action by the people on the ground that could be interpreted as aggressive behaviour. Looking back at the video, it was clearly a mistake by the humans on the helicopter/control side.
People make mistakes so for a professional organisation like the US army you would want them to incorporate error-correcting behaviour into their procedures. What I find so saddening is that no such error-correcting behaviour can be traced in the conversations of the soliders. Once they decided on the RPG, there was no looking back. Had they been more open to alternative explanations, they might have concluded that after the initial salvo the additional shootings were too risky.
Regardless, pointing a large telescope camera at an attack helicopter in any circumstances, and especially those, was an incredibly naive thing to do by the journalist.
The video illustrates another worrying issue: the use of long distance warfare makes it incredibly difficult for the people under attack to communicate their intentions. How do you surrender yourself to a drone you can't see?
Out of curiosity, and not knowing much on the subject, would subjecting data which appears to be random to a variety of compression algorithms be a means of testing for non-randomness?
(mods, why was the parent modded informative? the post does not contain information, only conjecture).
get the best healthcare available in the world
Would you like to backup that statement with facts? This is what wikipedia has to say about the subject:
At least 15.3% of the population is completely uninsured,[1][2][3] and a substantial additional portion of the population (35%) is "underinsured", or not able to cover the costs of their medical needs
So about 1 in 2 people in the US cannot get 'the best healthcare' in the world.
Despite the fact that not all citizens are covered, the United States has the third highest public healthcare expenditure per capita.
yet still you pay an extraordinary amount to provide that healthcare. And what quality does it provide?
in 2000, ranked the U.S. health care system as the highest in cost, first in responsiveness, 37th in overall performance, and 72nd by overall level of health (among 191 member nations included in the study).
and
The Commonwealth Fund ranked the United States last in the quality of health care among similar countries,[20] and notes U.S. care costs the most by far
It is quite sad to see your pedantic comment being modded +5. If you and your moderators had read the GP more carefully you would have seen he knows what he's talking about. What's more, *his* comment is actually on topic as it reflects the article.
to paraphrase: if the worst case performance for an algorithm is based on a constant speed cache, while the cache is in fact variable speed, then the true worst case performance for that algorithm may be a lot worse then expected.
This is all basic reading stuff, so maybe you should spend some more time reading and a bit less time insulting people.
as some other posters mentioned, talking to passengers is not as dangerous because they pick up clues that the driver needs to focus his/her attention on the road. This works in reverse as well: ever heard your passenger mention "they're braking ahead"?
RTFA that's the point of the algorithm: the camera sensors don't need to calculate what is interesting about the picture, they just need to sample a randomly distributed set of pixels. The algorithm calculates the highres image from that sample.
The idea behind the algorithm is really very elegant. To parafrase their approach: imagine a 1000x1000 pixel image with 24 bit color. There are 24 ^ 1000000 unique pixel configurations to fill that image. The vast majority of those configuration will look like noise. In real life you generally take pictures of non-noise things, like portraits etc. You might define a non-noise image as one where knowing the actual value of a given pixel allows a probability of predicting the value of a neighboring pixel that is greater than chance. A noisy image is one where knowing a given pixel value gives you no information about neighboring pixels at all.
The algorithm provides a way to distinguish between image configurations that depict random noise and those that depict something non-random. Since, apparently, the ratio of non-random image configurations is so small compared to the noisy image configurations, you need only a couple of hints to figure out which of the non-random image configurations you need. What the algoritm does is take a random sample of a non-random image (10% of the original pixels), and calculates a non-random image configuration that fits the given sample. Even though in theory you might end up with Madonna from a picture of E-T, in practice you don't (and I believe they claim they can prove that the chance of accidentally ending up with Madonna is extremely small).
this is modded insightful? how would this work in practice? you can't just loop a video file of say 10 hours. anyone monitoring the signal would figure out in at most 20 hours that they've been a fake. And how are you going to broadcast something that fits the current daylight and weather conditions to look sufficiently fake? You would be investing *a lot* of money to create something slightly believable, only to have the whole thing fall apart as soon as someone figures out the feeds they've been watching didn't match reality.
Mind you TFA mentioned they found days and days of intercepted video feeds. it's widespread apparently.
Again TFA mentioned that adding encryption would require hardware changes not only to the drones but also to the receiving equipment, which is also used by allies and in many diverse settings (thus different equipment types). adding encryption will thus require large structural changes, making it a slow and very costly process.
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Care to point to specific bugs? We've been using SVN for years and never seen these problems.
Moreover, since SVN is client-server, why would a buggy client cause datacorruption in the database? Are you implying there are major bugs in the svn server?
without backup, your claims are just FUD...
huh of course the alcohol evaporates. the alcohol cloud is what burns when you pour liquor in a pan and set it aflame. try it: heat some liquor in a pan and light it (be careful and use less than half a cup). now repeat but wait with the ignition for a minute or so. it will not burn because the alcohol has been drifted away already.
The french police was right though: they didn't know a child was missing, and it was clear this had been a professional assassination. Fortunately a policeman in the countryside does not encounter such murders regularly enough to warrant the technical knowledge to research the murder scene. Therefor a specialised time from Paris was called in, who gave specific instructions *not to touch* the crime scene.
Moreover, they had flown a heli with a heatseaking camera to find additional victims, and as soon as they received information that the child was missing they did search the car.
So no incompetent cops there, just a very sad story.
the EU is turning into a pretty violent place
no it isn't. Keep in mind the 99% of places in the EU (literally) where there is no increase in violence don't make for a good news story.
what!? Did you even read their statement?
3) We are a very active participant in the ARM Linux kernel. For the latest 3.4 ARM kernel – the next-gen kernel to be used on future Linux, Android, and Chrome distributions – NVIDIA ranks second in terms of total lines changed and fourth in terms of number of changesets for all employers or organizations.
(emphasis mine)
Unless you yourself are even more active in Linux then they are, it would be more appropriate for them to say to you ... Fuck You.
No. It was a matter of social engineering. the delivery platform had no significant role in the delivery of the attack.
care to explain?
Warning: Water is wet. (Oops, EU says you can't say that.)
you might want to research that story a bit further than just the initial headline. It turned out the claim was that bottled water is a medicine against dehydration (a medical condition). Not all forms of dehydration are cured by drinking water, and in some situations it is even harmful to the patient. So common sense prevailed and the claim was struck down.
Now if you want to have an argument about the quality of British press (who first ran the story), that's an entirely different topic.
oh but you *can* run .NET apps on your iPhone, using monotouch ;-)
the trouble with your argument is that it puts the means above the ends. Of course Jews should be respected and be able to live peacefully, just like any other human being. What people, like the GP, are saying is that the means employed by Israel do not respect the right of other human beings. That behaviour is not only morally saddening, it's feeding terrorism.
ha ha.
Have a look at the drug use statistics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adult_lifetime_cannabis_use_by_country) and tell me whose country has a problem with cannabis use...
After reading the article and watching the video: what seemed to have happened is that the Labour party voted in favor by accident (some sort of mix up apparently), this was recognized immediately and the further procedure was halted until the error could be repaired. So nothing to see here, move along...
you're aware of the [domainname] feature right? this shows you where a link is pointing...
the US spends more almost as much on defense as the rest of the world *combined* (43% http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Armed_Forces). So no, the combined european army would still not match the US army.
your sarcasm is misplaced and your assumptions unnecessary. if you want to see how multiple track systems work, look outside the US. For instance the essence of this system in The Netherlands:
- the primary school offers a single track system. Children advancing to secondary school receive a qualitative assessment from the primary school for the track they will likely be most fit for. The qualitative (and thus subjective) assessment is extended with a qualitative assessment ( a test ).
- students start secondary school with one or two years of single track education, before the school decides which track they will be allowed to attend
- students are able to downgrade and upgrade their track, depening on results and approval from school.
In practice the system works quite well, with some issues here and there (for instance there is no real feedback loop from secondary to primary school, so primary teachers don't really learn whether their subjective recommendations are any good).
Then it appears one peeks around the corner with an RPG and points it at a US helicopter.
Sadly, this was the only action by the people on the ground that could be interpreted as aggressive behaviour. Looking back at the video, it was clearly a mistake by the humans on the helicopter/control side.
People make mistakes so for a professional organisation like the US army you would want them to incorporate error-correcting behaviour into their procedures. What I find so saddening is that no such error-correcting behaviour can be traced in the conversations of the soliders. Once they decided on the RPG, there was no looking back. Had they been more open to alternative explanations, they might have concluded that after the initial salvo the additional shootings were too risky.
Regardless, pointing a large telescope camera at an attack helicopter in any circumstances, and especially those, was an incredibly naive thing to do by the journalist.
The video illustrates another worrying issue: the use of long distance warfare makes it incredibly difficult for the people under attack to communicate their intentions. How do you surrender yourself to a drone you can't see?
Assuming the author was born in 1979 AND was born on the 9th of May, you'd have a 1 in 1 chance. Even better odds!!! ;-)
citation needed.
Who are you to speak on behalf of the /. population?
Out of curiosity, and not knowing much on the subject, would subjecting data which appears to be random to a variety of compression algorithms be a means of testing for non-randomness?
Yes. the subject is called Kolmogorov complexity
(mods, why was the parent modded informative? the post does not contain information, only conjecture).
get the best healthcare available in the world
Would you like to backup that statement with facts? This is what wikipedia has to say about the subject:
At least 15.3% of the population is completely uninsured,[1][2][3] and a substantial additional portion of the population (35%) is "underinsured", or not able to cover the costs of their medical needs
So about 1 in 2 people in the US cannot get 'the best healthcare' in the world.
Despite the fact that not all citizens are covered, the United States has the third highest public healthcare expenditure per capita.
yet still you pay an extraordinary amount to provide that healthcare. And what quality does it provide?
in 2000, ranked the U.S. health care system as the highest in cost, first in responsiveness, 37th in overall performance, and 72nd by overall level of health (among 191 member nations included in the study).
and
The Commonwealth Fund ranked the United States last in the quality of health care among similar countries,[20] and notes U.S. care costs the most by far
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_the_United_States
Sounds like Clever Hans...
It is quite sad to see your pedantic comment being modded +5. If you and your moderators had read the GP more carefully you would have seen he knows what he's talking about. What's more, *his* comment is actually on topic as it reflects the article.
to paraphrase: if the worst case performance for an algorithm is based on a constant speed cache, while the cache is in fact variable speed, then the true worst case performance for that algorithm may be a lot worse then expected.
This is all basic reading stuff, so maybe you should spend some more time reading and a bit less time insulting people.
as some other posters mentioned, talking to passengers is not as dangerous because they pick up clues that the driver needs to focus his/her attention on the road. This works in reverse as well: ever heard your passenger mention "they're braking ahead"?
RTFA that's the point of the algorithm: the camera sensors don't need to calculate what is interesting about the picture, they just need to sample a randomly distributed set of pixels. The algorithm calculates the highres image from that sample.
The idea behind the algorithm is really very elegant. To parafrase their approach: imagine a 1000x1000 pixel image with 24 bit color. There are 24 ^ 1000000 unique pixel configurations to fill that image. The vast majority of those configuration will look like noise. In real life you generally take pictures of non-noise things, like portraits etc. You might define a non-noise image as one where knowing the actual value of a given pixel allows a probability of predicting the value of a neighboring pixel that is greater than chance. A noisy image is one where knowing a given pixel value gives you no information about neighboring pixels at all.
The algorithm provides a way to distinguish between image configurations that depict random noise and those that depict something non-random. Since, apparently, the ratio of non-random image configurations is so small compared to the noisy image configurations, you need only a couple of hints to figure out which of the non-random image configurations you need. What the algoritm does is take a random sample of a non-random image (10% of the original pixels), and calculates a non-random image configuration that fits the given sample. Even though in theory you might end up with Madonna from a picture of E-T, in practice you don't (and I believe they claim they can prove that the chance of accidentally ending up with Madonna is extremely small).
It's all about entropy really.
this is modded insightful? how would this work in practice? you can't just loop a video file of say 10 hours. anyone monitoring the signal would figure out in at most 20 hours that they've been a fake.
And how are you going to broadcast something that fits the current daylight and weather conditions to look sufficiently fake? You would be investing *a lot* of money to create something slightly believable, only to have the whole thing fall apart as soon as someone figures out the feeds they've been watching didn't match reality.
Mind you TFA mentioned they found days and days of intercepted video feeds. it's widespread apparently.
Again TFA mentioned that adding encryption would require hardware changes not only to the drones but also to the receiving equipment, which is also used by allies and in many diverse settings (thus different equipment types). adding encryption will thus require large structural changes, making it a slow and very costly process.