I agree that var is bad, and that if you use it you are a bad person; but used well lambda expressions can greatly enhance readability - particularly when used with LINQ queries. Consider the following two tests (code written from memory, it's been a long time since I've done this, there's probably mistakes)
The first one is obviously a lot shorter, but its real advantage is that it actually looks like what it does with no need to parse loops or introducing tracking variables.
1) What is at the center of a black hole? Answer: Singularity. Real Answer: No freaking clue
The singularity of a black hole simply means we can't see that far. It is the point from which information cannot escape. It's not some psuedomystic hand-waving nonsense promising unicorns and fulfilled dreams. It's just the name for a region for which there is no way to discover what is inside of it.
The singularity in the context of technological progress uses the black hole as a metaphor. It describes a point at which technology becomes self-propelling in a manner that makes it impossible for us to project what life would be like then, in a similar way to how miniaturisation and Moore's law have given us a present that couldn't have been projected in the 1940s. People then like to project what it could look like as an interesting exercise, and some of them choose to promise unicorns, but that doesn't make the concept of self-propelling technological advance itself inherently wrong.
Human field of vision is wider than it is tall, therefore our video recordings are landscape , therefore our video display devices are landscape . Unfortunately, when reading there is a cost in time and readability when a line of text extends beyond a certain length, hence why we use paper in portrait, and why some early displays were portrait. But there's nothing stopping you from having multiple portrait windows on a sufficiently large landscape monitor.
"The purpose of the site was not to let fans discuss their favourite episodes, it was to store and distribute copyrighted material without licence. This is precisely what copyright laws were designed to tackle. This isn't news, this isn't relevant to any serious discussion about copyright reform, this is the system working as intended."
You are completely full of shit and I would like to know why you feel it is okay to come in here and just lie? They did not "store and distribute copyrighted material without licence".
I'm going to hazard a guess that they were hosting links to torrent files of the episodes. Which should be legal but for some insane reason isn't.
In response to the announcement on their Facebook users are lamenting that they can no longer use the site to stream full episodes of both new and classic Who. Clearly the site must have offered streams of full episodes for the users to be upset that they aren't there anymore.
The fact that he yielded on this suggests to me that he was aware that a search warrant would find something on his computer(s) that shouldn't have been there in the first place. It's unfortunate the site is gone, but we're not actually seeing the whole story here. Sadly, because of how things have already went, we probably never will.
We are seeing the whole story here,/. is just choosing not to cover it adequately. The site was hosting full episodes, which was the main reason anyone visited it. This isn't the BBC using overreaching copyright laws to leverage control over its brand, it's the BBC using the reasonable end of copyright law to protect its right to control the distribution of content.
That site was doing nothing except positives for the Doctor Who show. If they wanted to exercise more control over their brand, they could have at least tried to work with the site first, or even take it over and let the same people continue to run the site under their oversight. Fuckwits.
From the summary:
DWM's core focus was to provide a central location and community for everything in the 'Whoniverse,' from reconstructions of missing episodes to the latest episodes, and whatever lay between.
The purpose of the site was not to let fans discuss their favourite episodes, it was to store and distribute copyrighted material without licence. This is precisely what copyright laws were designed to tackle. This isn't news, this isn't relevant to any serious discussion about copyright reform, this is the system working as intended.
Hey Slashdot Editors and posters. Information like this would have been nice to know in the summary. Otherwise it make it sounds like a fan site was shut down for having information about a show.
Get your fucking act together and stop trying to feed into FUD.
From the summary:
DWM's core focus was to provide a central location and community for everything in the 'Whoniverse,' from reconstructions of missing episodes to the latest episodes, and whatever lay between.
They do at least hint at it in the summary. That said, it's still beyond a joke that they're treating this like an outrage when it's simply the law acting like it should. How can we hope for a serious discussion about copyright reform when so many people take the childish approach of simply demanding to have exactly what they want for free all the time?
Now you can't even organize a group to talk about something that interests you, if you dont own the rights to the topic of discussion!?
From the summary:
DWM's core focus was to provide a central location and community for everything in the 'Whoniverse,' from reconstructions of missing episodes to the latest episodes, and whatever lay between.
The purpose of the site was not to let fans discuss their favourite episodes, it was to store and distribute copyrighted material without licence. This is precisely what copyright laws were designed to tackle. This isn't news, this isn't relevant to any serious discussion about copyright reform, this is the system working as intended.
Volkswagen hooks up their audio systems to the CANBUS on cars. Those audio systems may have bluetooth enabled. This may allow a hacker to get onto the CANBUS via BT. I haven't tried, but it's definitely something that one could attempt. Other manufacturers do this also, such as GM and Chevy.
A 2009 study claim to have managed it. Given the range & pairing requirements of BT though, it does mean crashing a car that you're currently in. Giving the victim a specially prepared CD that will hack the CANBUS half way through their road trip seems a much more sensible idea to me.
Yes, people sometimes mispronounced it, but that is due to ignorance.
Actually, the technology that became SQL was originally called Sequel, but that was trademarked so they changed to SQL. So the correct answer is/s kju l/, but that's only for legal reasons, and mispronunciations are as likely to be due to knowing more about the technology and its history as less.
That is the point of using a botnet to run a DDoS, yes. A single control signal issues a huge surge in traffic. That doesn't make it an amplified attack though. An amplified attack is when the zombies trick a third party (such as a DNS server) to reply to the victim with more information than you sent them. This can up the size of the attack 100-fold.
A group of scientists have confirmed a link between the sonar, used by Exxon Mobil to map the ocean floor for oil, and the death of melon-headed whales.
The whales are already having a tough time of it, what with the dying. There's no need to insult them as well.
Not only this, but applying different cryptography methods on top of each other may expose weaknesses in the system. IIRC Sony choosing to use "all the crypto" was one of the mistakes that allowed the PSN to be cracked,
yes. many people are unaware of the fact that these major power plants - coal, gas, oil, nuclear - are only efficient when they are at maximum capacity. if you shut them off for any reason (and this can be done fairly quickly), getting them back up to temperature can take *weeks*.
Actually, gas can be spun up in less than an hour. A lot of coal/oil plants have gas turbines on them that run during start-up for this very reason. Nuclear, on the other hand, basically can't be turned off. It's why your electricity is cheaper at night: stops the network becoming unstable from too much generation with no draw.
in fact, it's not very well-known but the wind systems in scotland where i used to live were heavily subsidised. the UK Govt pays them 25 thousand pounds A MONTH to NOT run them.
Strictly speaking the national grid, an independent private company who you would be perfectly free to set up a competitor to, pays them not to run. This is not unique to wind power, as balancing the load/generation across the network often requires plants of all varieties to be shut down at which point the plant owner is paid some proportion of the profits they would have expected to gain from running the plant to get them to turn it off.
in fact, as they're motors as well as generators, when it's not windy enough, from what i hear they're actually POWERED to make them LOOK like they're generating electricity, so that people don't wonder why they're not running.
That was a plot line from the sitcom "Twenty Twelve", not reality.
Most reading I'll do in dead-tree format, but reference materials are where my surface excels. The ability to copy the relevant text in to One Note (and often have it save all the meta data needed for referencing, along with a link to the original) and be able to easily flick between several open texts is indispensable. When researching my dissertation last year, I probably spent at least as long dealing with the one real book as all my electronic sources.
Doesn't check it works perfectly on all hardware, but a good chunk of the testing could be done on VMs running monkey-scripts which are simply disposed of & a new image spun up if they break. That said, automating hardware resets is hardly an unsolved problem.
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I agree that var is bad, and that if you use it you are a bad person; but used well lambda expressions can greatly enhance readability - particularly when used with LINQ queries. Consider the following two tests (code written from memory, it's been a long time since I've done this, there's probably mistakes)
Assert.IsTrue(list.Any(item => item == value));
against
bool matches = false;
foreach(Type item in list) { if(item == vale) { matches = true; }}
Assert.IsTrue(matches);
The first one is obviously a lot shorter, but its real advantage is that it actually looks like what it does with no need to parse loops or introducing tracking variables.
Won't merge? Word has built in merge and diff tools https://support.microsoft.com/...
Indeed. Other BS things called as "singularity".
1) What is at the center of a black hole? Answer: Singularity. Real Answer: No freaking clue
The singularity of a black hole simply means we can't see that far. It is the point from which information cannot escape. It's not some psuedomystic hand-waving nonsense promising unicorns and fulfilled dreams. It's just the name for a region for which there is no way to discover what is inside of it.
The singularity in the context of technological progress uses the black hole as a metaphor. It describes a point at which technology becomes self-propelling in a manner that makes it impossible for us to project what life would be like then, in a similar way to how miniaturisation and Moore's law have given us a present that couldn't have been projected in the 1940s. People then like to project what it could look like as an interesting exercise, and some of them choose to promise unicorns, but that doesn't make the concept of self-propelling technological advance itself inherently wrong.
Human field of vision is wider than it is tall, therefore our video recordings are landscape , therefore our video display devices are landscape . Unfortunately, when reading there is a cost in time and readability when a line of text extends beyond a certain length, hence why we use paper in portrait, and why some early displays were portrait. But there's nothing stopping you from having multiple portrait windows on a sufficiently large landscape monitor.
"The purpose of the site was not to let fans discuss their favourite episodes, it was to store and distribute copyrighted material without licence. This is precisely what copyright laws were designed to tackle. This isn't news, this isn't relevant to any serious discussion about copyright reform, this is the system working as intended."
You are completely full of shit and I would like to know why you feel it is okay to come in here and just lie? They did not "store and distribute copyrighted material without licence".
I'm going to hazard a guess that they were hosting links to torrent files of the episodes. Which should be legal but for some insane reason isn't.
In response to the announcement on their Facebook users are lamenting that they can no longer use the site to stream full episodes of both new and classic Who. Clearly the site must have offered streams of full episodes for the users to be upset that they aren't there anymore.
The fact that he yielded on this suggests to me that he was aware that a search warrant would find something on his computer(s) that shouldn't have been there in the first place. It's unfortunate the site is gone, but we're not actually seeing the whole story here. Sadly, because of how things have already went, we probably never will.
We are seeing the whole story here, /. is just choosing not to cover it adequately. The site was hosting full episodes, which was the main reason anyone visited it. This isn't the BBC using overreaching copyright laws to leverage control over its brand, it's the BBC using the reasonable end of copyright law to protect its right to control the distribution of content.
That site was doing nothing except positives for the Doctor Who show. If they wanted to exercise more control over their brand, they could have at least tried to work with the site first, or even take it over and let the same people continue to run the site under their oversight. Fuckwits.
From the summary:
DWM's core focus was to provide a central location and community for everything in the 'Whoniverse,' from reconstructions of missing episodes to the latest episodes, and whatever lay between.
The purpose of the site was not to let fans discuss their favourite episodes, it was to store and distribute copyrighted material without licence. This is precisely what copyright laws were designed to tackle. This isn't news, this isn't relevant to any serious discussion about copyright reform, this is the system working as intended.
Thank you for giving more information.
Hey Slashdot Editors and posters. Information like this would have been nice to know in the summary. Otherwise it make it sounds like a fan site was shut down for having information about a show.
Get your fucking act together and stop trying to feed into FUD.
From the summary:
DWM's core focus was to provide a central location and community for everything in the 'Whoniverse,' from reconstructions of missing episodes to the latest episodes, and whatever lay between.
They do at least hint at it in the summary. That said, it's still beyond a joke that they're treating this like an outrage when it's simply the law acting like it should. How can we hope for a serious discussion about copyright reform when so many people take the childish approach of simply demanding to have exactly what they want for free all the time?
Now you can't even organize a group to talk about something that interests you, if you dont own the rights to the topic of discussion!?
From the summary:
DWM's core focus was to provide a central location and community for everything in the 'Whoniverse,' from reconstructions of missing episodes to the latest episodes, and whatever lay between.
The purpose of the site was not to let fans discuss their favourite episodes, it was to store and distribute copyrighted material without licence. This is precisely what copyright laws were designed to tackle. This isn't news, this isn't relevant to any serious discussion about copyright reform, this is the system working as intended.
Volkswagen hooks up their audio systems to the CANBUS on cars. Those audio systems may have bluetooth enabled. This may allow a hacker to get onto the CANBUS via BT. I haven't tried, but it's definitely something that one could attempt. Other manufacturers do this also, such as GM and Chevy.
A 2009 study claim to have managed it. Given the range & pairing requirements of BT though, it does mean crashing a car that you're currently in. Giving the victim a specially prepared CD that will hack the CANBUS half way through their road trip seems a much more sensible idea to me.
I just pass the list to the intern helper-object, and let the environment deal with the implementation.
Apparently this icebreaker is manned by horses specially trained to rescue any livestock swallowed by the crew of other ships.
Yes, people sometimes mispronounced it, but that is due to ignorance.
Actually, the technology that became SQL was originally called Sequel, but that was trademarked so they changed to SQL. So the correct answer is /s kju l/, but that's only for legal reasons, and mispronunciations are as likely to be due to knowing more about the technology and its history as less.
Even PHP has database abstraction these days.
If you're just bouncing, with no additional information it's not an amplification attack, just reflected.
That is the point of using a botnet to run a DDoS, yes. A single control signal issues a huge surge in traffic. That doesn't make it an amplified attack though. An amplified attack is when the zombies trick a third party (such as a DNS server) to reply to the victim with more information than you sent them. This can up the size of the attack 100-fold.
The whales are already having a tough time of it, what with the dying. There's no need to insult them as well.
How do you suggest the control room communicate with all the various power stations and electricity consumers across the country then?
Not only this, but applying different cryptography methods on top of each other may expose weaknesses in the system. IIRC Sony choosing to use "all the crypto" was one of the mistakes that allowed the PSN to be cracked,
Actually, gas can be spun up in less than an hour. A lot of coal/oil plants have gas turbines on them that run during start-up for this very reason. Nuclear, on the other hand, basically can't be turned off. It's why your electricity is cheaper at night: stops the network becoming unstable from too much generation with no draw.
Strictly speaking the national grid, an independent private company who you would be perfectly free to set up a competitor to, pays them not to run. This is not unique to wind power, as balancing the load/generation across the network often requires plants of all varieties to be shut down at which point the plant owner is paid some proportion of the profits they would have expected to gain from running the plant to get them to turn it off.
That was a plot line from the sitcom "Twenty Twelve", not reality.
Most reading I'll do in dead-tree format, but reference materials are where my surface excels. The ability to copy the relevant text in to One Note (and often have it save all the meta data needed for referencing, along with a link to the original) and be able to easily flick between several open texts is indispensable. When researching my dissertation last year, I probably spent at least as long dealing with the one real book as all my electronic sources.
That's why you need alternative treatments.
Doesn't check it works perfectly on all hardware, but a good chunk of the testing could be done on VMs running monkey-scripts which are simply disposed of & a new image spun up if they break. That said, automating hardware resets is hardly an unsolved problem.
He paid $250M? Doesn't he know it's only $1.99 on Kindle?
The point is that it has all the social features that Google decided to strip out of GReader about a year before they shuttered it all together.