To what? Appease the hard liners in Iran that America and its people are politically neutral on electoral fraud? Swiss have always taken the easy way out by being politically neutral even when entire countries around them were being raped, pillaged and their populations enslaved and murdered. Oh, but economically if you want to use their financial system to hide your ill-gotten money no problem because being politically neutral informs their belief that they can take money from anyone and the blood comes right off.
The Swiss are cowards and worse, I'm proud to be a progressive American supporting the people of Iran. My country may not be perfect and in fact its policies may of contributed to the Iranian "Islamic" Revolution that put these characters like Ahmadinejad in power but democracies do not stand alone for long and calling what Switzerland had in the 1600's as 'democracy' is like calling the current Iranian regime 'democracy'.
Sometimes voting does not work, look at Iran. I'm not saying such blatant rigging of an election could occur in Germany nowadays but other less obvious abuses of power such as this go almost unnoticed by the average citizen. Does the EFF do international issues or just US stuff? It would be wise methinks to get an international organization involved so we could get some leverage on having a say on any future treaties that involve these sorts of shenanigans.
I'm glad that most advances I have seen are integrated at least in a rudimentary in all major OS nowadays. It used to be that to use Windows 95 even with a mild disability required you to purchase multiple software packages that often were poorly supported if the company was even around by the time you bought the software.
Running TOR or some other is an important aspect of this but we really need to step up the information inside Iran on how to use and obtain Tor. I presume Slashdoters inside Iran have a copy or two and might be able to find a way to distribute it to the populace therein and we can do our part in trying to get the International media to get on the Tor bandwagon as well.
Best code reviews I have seen cost a lot of money in man hours and are usually are done by an in house group that specializes in it. For the last firmware review (2048k ASM) we had 3 salaried guys making over 120k a year spend 3 months on it to find 4 critical bugs and dozens of lesser ones. Shipping that firmware would of made us liable for over 2 million dollars worth of hardware. So if you look at it another way ~1/20th of the cost of the product was invested in the final code review.
Having the same group review their own code is like the fox guarding the hen house, he might be a vegetarian but I doubt it.
Their A's in class will not help them in an actual research position. Research is increasingly becoming the bastion of actual knowledge whilst everyone who gets artificial A's just regurgitates by rote. Try talking to these people about something that requires a bit of mathematical knowledge and watch most of them conceptually fail.
Anyone else hate exams that require you to "show all work" when advanced students (perhaps yourselves) are then burdened with consciously writing down each step instead of utilizing the methodology that solves the problem in fewer steps? Teachers that scream at you to show your 'work' typically only know how to solve a problem one way and often by rote. IF you come at them with something they have not seen like when in high school I solved a double integral for a classical hydrodynamics problem involving two pitchers of water they freak out at you. The teacher accused me of plagiarizing the answer from the internet, which admittedly I had learned the concept from but this was before wireless internet and for this over-demonstration of knowledge I had to plead my case in front of her superiors. I won after 2 weeks of wrangling but it damaged my reputation amongst the other teachers until I finished high school.
That is why the first thing any sane student does is check the exams from last semester to see if they jive with how they work. Rote learning can't teach you how to think it can only force feed you the answer and make you throw up answers on cue.
How hard is it to keep a Linux, AIX and SunOS servers patched with security updates, seriously. These boxes must of never been properly secured in the first place for that many operating systems to be compromised. I know it is a bit of security through obscurity but having multiple server OS usually offers you some protection but to have this many fail seems like they need to pay more $$$$ and get a competent sysadmin group. I would not be surprised if a majority of their day to day sysadmin work was outsourced. If you do not have someone that is there with the firewall logs in real time, at least one honeypot behind the firewall and tripwire setups that page everyone but god when your honeypot is disturbed you are not even trying. Hell, I have that at home.
Yeah, some of my friends who were prolific mp3 downloaders during the Napster and Limewire heydays I have seen spent 100's to thousands of dollars on children's media.
Uh, this is sorta pathetic that we computer science literate folk cannot muster up the courage to tell him to confront the policy with a student protest. However, that is what I would expect from Slashdot where everything is resolved by lawsuit or clever hack. Well sometimes we need to go piss in someone's cheerios. That is what we should be telling him to do, go down to the lib arts colleges and rally up the professional protest set, get some cogent arguments laid out and make sure you notify all media within a few hundred miles because for whoever is having a slow news day you might make the cut.
I don't listen repetitively to songs unless I am drunk, lonely and writing cheesy romantic comedies paired with a Schizophrenic Midsummer's Night Dream motif. So only on weekends.
I have at least 5 different devices that cannot stream that I use weekly. Also why waste the bandwidth playing the same songs over and over again, yesterday I listened to almost 2 gigs of music and some days I might listen to 3-4x that amount when I listen to my 1980's punk FLAC-encoded albums. I use Comcast that would mean I would use 1/3-2/3 of my bandwidth per month just for background noise.
Last saturday in South Carolina a facebook group organized a 200 person strong group of teenagers to go out attack a store clerk and pull out and beat up a family in a car.
It would be far funnier to make the USB stick a torrent server on there that starts up torrents for any police files, mail and logs when they go back to hook it up. So we can examine them to see if they are complying with the law.
And for those of us with 10's of thousands of documents on our computers? How well are these going to be able to differentiate between a PDF file that involves fiction and one that is real? Hell, some of my source material for a horror screenplay I tinker with now and then has made-up schematics and lists of where and how people are going to be killed in the scenes.
I have not watch broadcast television or used my Tivo since February and I seem to be keeping up fine with pop cultural references and the like in conversations. I'm going to cancel my cable forever this summer. I use Hulu but instead of watching 4-5 shows I watch 3 now and I get all my news in textual form. One thing I have begun noticing is that when discussing a current event lately that my liberal (MSNBC) and conservative (foxnews) friends quickly gel into imitative stances on any issue that seem to have been picked up from watching the same talking head deliver the news to them every night for years. They even began arguing over O'Reilly and Olberman and how each was lying just like they do on television.
I stopped buying Creative products after they refused to support Linux in the 90's. Recently I bought some of their Live Cams because they were on clearance for a vision subsystem and I was disappointed again by their lack of Linux support. Creative has had the attitude that if the the drivers do not work for your operating system why don't you install the normal OS or buy a more expensive product that does support your OS.
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To what? Appease the hard liners in Iran that America and its people are politically neutral on electoral fraud? Swiss have always taken the easy way out by being politically neutral even when entire countries around them were being raped, pillaged and their populations enslaved and murdered. Oh, but economically if you want to use their financial system to hide your ill-gotten money no problem because being politically neutral informs their belief that they can take money from anyone and the blood comes right off. The Swiss are cowards and worse, I'm proud to be a progressive American supporting the people of Iran. My country may not be perfect and in fact its policies may of contributed to the Iranian "Islamic" Revolution that put these characters like Ahmadinejad in power but democracies do not stand alone for long and calling what Switzerland had in the 1600's as 'democracy' is like calling the current Iranian regime 'democracy'.
Sometimes voting does not work, look at Iran. I'm not saying such blatant rigging of an election could occur in Germany nowadays but other less obvious abuses of power such as this go almost unnoticed by the average citizen. Does the EFF do international issues or just US stuff? It would be wise methinks to get an international organization involved so we could get some leverage on having a say on any future treaties that involve these sorts of shenanigans.
How is this offtopic? Man, Slashdot moderation has gotten just mean lately.
Yes, but if it is an American star it will surely be 8 solar masses at death and have space diabetes from eating all those delicious rocky planets.
I'm glad that most advances I have seen are integrated at least in a rudimentary in all major OS nowadays. It used to be that to use Windows 95 even with a mild disability required you to purchase multiple software packages that often were poorly supported if the company was even around by the time you bought the software.
Running TOR or some other is an important aspect of this but we really need to step up the information inside Iran on how to use and obtain Tor. I presume Slashdoters inside Iran have a copy or two and might be able to find a way to distribute it to the populace therein and we can do our part in trying to get the International media to get on the Tor bandwagon as well.
Best code reviews I have seen cost a lot of money in man hours and are usually are done by an in house group that specializes in it. For the last firmware review (2048k ASM) we had 3 salaried guys making over 120k a year spend 3 months on it to find 4 critical bugs and dozens of lesser ones. Shipping that firmware would of made us liable for over 2 million dollars worth of hardware. So if you look at it another way ~1/20th of the cost of the product was invested in the final code review.
Having the same group review their own code is like the fox guarding the hen house, he might be a vegetarian but I doubt it.
Their A's in class will not help them in an actual research position. Research is increasingly becoming the bastion of actual knowledge whilst everyone who gets artificial A's just regurgitates by rote. Try talking to these people about something that requires a bit of mathematical knowledge and watch most of them conceptually fail.
Anyone else hate exams that require you to "show all work" when advanced students (perhaps yourselves) are then burdened with consciously writing down each step instead of utilizing the methodology that solves the problem in fewer steps? Teachers that scream at you to show your 'work' typically only know how to solve a problem one way and often by rote. IF you come at them with something they have not seen like when in high school I solved a double integral for a classical hydrodynamics problem involving two pitchers of water they freak out at you. The teacher accused me of plagiarizing the answer from the internet, which admittedly I had learned the concept from but this was before wireless internet and for this over-demonstration of knowledge I had to plead my case in front of her superiors. I won after 2 weeks of wrangling but it damaged my reputation amongst the other teachers until I finished high school. That is why the first thing any sane student does is check the exams from last semester to see if they jive with how they work. Rote learning can't teach you how to think it can only force feed you the answer and make you throw up answers on cue.
Depending on their firewall and proxy just attempting to visit a site like that can get you flagged by IT.
How hard is it to keep a Linux, AIX and SunOS servers patched with security updates, seriously. These boxes must of never been properly secured in the first place for that many operating systems to be compromised. I know it is a bit of security through obscurity but having multiple server OS usually offers you some protection but to have this many fail seems like they need to pay more $$$$ and get a competent sysadmin group. I would not be surprised if a majority of their day to day sysadmin work was outsourced. If you do not have someone that is there with the firewall logs in real time, at least one honeypot behind the firewall and tripwire setups that page everyone but god when your honeypot is disturbed you are not even trying. Hell, I have that at home.
Yeah, some of my friends who were prolific mp3 downloaders during the Napster and Limewire heydays I have seen spent 100's to thousands of dollars on children's media.
Uh, this is sorta pathetic that we computer science literate folk cannot muster up the courage to tell him to confront the policy with a student protest. However, that is what I would expect from Slashdot where everything is resolved by lawsuit or clever hack. Well sometimes we need to go piss in someone's cheerios. That is what we should be telling him to do, go down to the lib arts colleges and rally up the professional protest set, get some cogent arguments laid out and make sure you notify all media within a few hundred miles because for whoever is having a slow news day you might make the cut.
Combine that with some sort of aggregating data feed from EFF and other trusted sites.
I don't listen repetitively to songs unless I am drunk, lonely and writing cheesy romantic comedies paired with a Schizophrenic Midsummer's Night Dream motif. So only on weekends.
So it will be cheaper than a normal divorce ?
I still think we should lay siege to Comcast HQ for the crap they have pulled.
Sorry, just got off my sister from South Carolina. Her friend was in the car that was mentioned in this story.
I have at least 5 different devices that cannot stream that I use weekly. Also why waste the bandwidth playing the same songs over and over again, yesterday I listened to almost 2 gigs of music and some days I might listen to 3-4x that amount when I listen to my 1980's punk FLAC-encoded albums. I use Comcast that would mean I would use 1/3-2/3 of my bandwidth per month just for background noise.
Last saturday in South Carolina a facebook group organized a 200 person strong group of teenagers to go out attack a store clerk and pull out and beat up a family in a car.
It would be far funnier to make the USB stick a torrent server on there that starts up torrents for any police files, mail and logs when they go back to hook it up. So we can examine them to see if they are complying with the law.
And for those of us with 10's of thousands of documents on our computers? How well are these going to be able to differentiate between a PDF file that involves fiction and one that is real? Hell, some of my source material for a horror screenplay I tinker with now and then has made-up schematics and lists of where and how people are going to be killed in the scenes.
I have not watch broadcast television or used my Tivo since February and I seem to be keeping up fine with pop cultural references and the like in conversations. I'm going to cancel my cable forever this summer. I use Hulu but instead of watching 4-5 shows I watch 3 now and I get all my news in textual form. One thing I have begun noticing is that when discussing a current event lately that my liberal (MSNBC) and conservative (foxnews) friends quickly gel into imitative stances on any issue that seem to have been picked up from watching the same talking head deliver the news to them every night for years. They even began arguing over O'Reilly and Olberman and how each was lying just like they do on television.
I stopped buying Creative products after they refused to support Linux in the 90's. Recently I bought some of their Live Cams because they were on clearance for a vision subsystem and I was disappointed again by their lack of Linux support. Creative has had the attitude that if the the drivers do not work for your operating system why don't you install the normal OS or buy a more expensive product that does support your OS.
Lol, are you serious?
What is at the centre of a gaseous planet then? Is it gas and liquid all the way done, lol.