Yes, I read it. Did you? The same method was used for 2004 and 2005 numbers. Furthermore, numbers using the old method are also available for 2004: 655 in 2004, versus 175 in 2003 (see here)).
So what this shows is the number of attacks has about tripled year over year for the last 2 years. "ever-increasingly dangerous world" sounds about right...
I call bullshit on that. Please, where is your data?
Right here. I'm surprised they're still publishing those numbers. At some point there were talking about not publishing them anymore, probably because they interfered with Bush's repeated assertions that "the world is safer."
If we assume for a moment that these books are on average 1 inch thick (which seems a little low), we're talking about almost 300 ft of books. Assume a floor-to-ceiling bookcase with 8 shelves, and you're still talking about a 37 ft wide wall completely covered in books. If you have that much space, just start sorting by author, title, or however you want. That barcode scanner certainly isn't going to do the sorting for you. If you don't have enough space to store these books in an easily accessible way, I suggest you just donate all of them to the local library, and get a library card.
What you describe is not what determines whether something is linear or not. You can convert Celcius to Fahrenheit by multiplying by 9/5 and then adding 32. The fact that there's an offset does not mean that one is linear and the other is not. Either both are linear, or neither one is.
The US government is illegaly spying on its Citizens, and yet they worry that *iTunes* may be an invasion of privacy? Please get your priorities straight...
And I suppose the H1-B fresh of the Bangalore express can write better???
Yes, they can.
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You're full of shit. H1B employees have their taxes withheld like any other employee.
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You can only hold an H1-B visa for 6 years
This is not true. If a greencard application is filed before the 5th year is over, an H1B can be extended by one year every year until the greencard application comes through (which takes many, many years). It is entirely possible to be in the US on an H1B for 10+ years.
If you live in San Francisco or Silly Valley, then 90k is the going rate. You need that to pay rent and groceries.
No you don't. I made $75K when I started in the Valley in 1999, and rents have gone down substantially since then. Right now I own a home. If I were renting instead, I would 'need' maybe $65K year, much less if I cut back on non-essential spending.
Every single time this subject comes up on slashdot, there will be an outraged US worker who says something along the lines of "people higher H1Bs because there cheeper". My response to that is: you're not out of a job because of H1B workers, but because you can't write properly.
Why is that when DVD-Jon intends to move to the US, slashdot wants him to stay out because he might get arrested, but when virtually any other foreigner intends to work in the US, slashdot wants them to stay out because there are enough tech-job-stealing foreigners in the US already?
This is just amazingly rude on the part of the game developer. From the stats he posted it is clear that fuddruckers.com was responsible for maybe 4% of requests. For some reason, he thinks this is major problem, but instead of contacting fuddruckers.com and asking them to stop linking to his game, he makes it so that people visiting from fuddruckers.com are redirected to some other site, which isn't even up to that kind of bandwidth. This guy is far from a hero. I think he's clearly some kind of psychopath.
Forgot to add: remember copyright is still a CIVIL action, not even enforcable by the police yet!
There is such a thing as "criminal copyright infringement", which can be investigated by the FBI and prosecuted by the government (a well-known example being the Dmitry Sklyarov case).
perhaps, if they can legally classify copyright infrigement as terrorism....:S
They've been there, done that.
Also, they don't have to reclassify copyright violation as terrorism, only make a case that the copyright violator is somehow related to terrorism or otherwise endangers national security. For example, they might claim you're selling the works in question, and funneling the money to Osama bin Laden. Voila, they can now start wiretapping your phone and secretly enter and search your house.
The point is to stop you sending data to them. An IP address is not enough evidence, you must send data to the person so that they can prove you are really active on the torrent, otherwise the tracker could be sending false data, or virtually anything.
Does that really matter these days? All they need is a secret warrant under the "Patriot" Act (not too hard to obtain, from what I've been hearing), and they can come into your house in secret, search your computer, find all the incriminating evidence they need, and then prosecute you. And if your computer happens to be clean, they'll just leave and you'll never even know they were there.
It's like the word "resumé". Nobody ever spells it with the accent, even though they should, because otherwise it's just resume.
Not necessarily. There are plenty of words in English that are spelled identical, but pronounced differently based on context. Take "lead" (the metal) and "lead" (the verb) for example.
The article says that without leap-seconds the sun would start rising "a few seconds later each decade", but this would be compensated for by a leap-HOUR every 500-600 years. That equates to around 7 leap-seconds per YEAR though, which is much more that what is currently used. Even if the earth's rotation continues to slow, it's not slowing THAT much. In fact, it's been speeding up lately.
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Yes, I read it. Did you? The same method was used for 2004 and 2005 numbers. Furthermore, numbers using the old method are also available for 2004: 655 in 2004, versus 175 in 2003 (see here)).
So what this shows is the number of attacks has about tripled year over year for the last 2 years. "ever-increasingly dangerous world" sounds about right...
Right here. I'm surprised they're still publishing those numbers. At some point there were talking about not publishing them anymore, probably because they interfered with Bush's repeated assertions that "the world is safer."
Of course there is. You just have to go back far enough. In the end, we all descend from some amoeba in the primordial soup.
All of my email is already tunneled over SSH to a Dutch ISP. Perhaps I should start doing that with other traffic as well...
If we assume for a moment that these books are on average 1 inch thick (which seems a little low), we're talking about almost 300 ft of books. Assume a floor-to-ceiling bookcase with
8 shelves, and you're still talking about a 37 ft wide wall completely covered in books.
If you have that much space, just start sorting by author, title, or however you want. That barcode scanner certainly isn't going to do the sorting for you.
If you don't have enough space to store these books in an easily accessible way, I suggest you just donate all of them to the local library, and get a library card.
Liberals? With guns? No way!
What you describe is not what determines whether something is linear or not. You can convert Celcius to Fahrenheit by multiplying by 9/5 and then adding 32. The fact that there's an offset does not mean that one is linear and the other is not. Either both are linear, or neither one is.
The US government is illegaly spying on its Citizens, and yet they worry that *iTunes* may be an invasion of privacy? Please get your priorities straight...
Why? What gasoline-powered car can run all day and still have a half tank left?
It's still the stuff from a week and a half ago, i.e. old news.
Yes, they can.
You're full of shit. H1B employees have their taxes withheld like any other employee.
This is not true. If a greencard application is filed before the 5th year is over, an H1B can be extended by one year every year until the greencard application comes through (which takes many, many years). It is entirely possible to be in the US on an H1B for 10+ years.
No you don't. I made $75K when I started in the Valley in 1999, and rents have gone down substantially since then. Right now I own a home. If I were renting instead, I would 'need' maybe $65K year, much less if I cut back on non-essential spending.
'employeer'?
'thier'?
'illigal'?
And you wonder why companies hire foreign workers?
Every single time this subject comes up on slashdot, there will be an outraged US worker who says something along the lines of "people higher H1Bs because there cheeper". My response to that is: you're not out of a job because of H1B workers, but because you can't write properly.
Why is that when DVD-Jon intends to move to the US, slashdot wants him to stay out because he might get arrested, but when virtually any other foreigner intends to work in the US, slashdot wants them to stay out because there are enough tech-job-stealing foreigners in the US already?
This is just amazingly rude on the part of the game developer. From the stats he posted it is clear that fuddruckers.com was responsible for maybe 4% of requests. For some reason, he thinks this is major problem, but instead of contacting fuddruckers.com and asking them to stop linking to his game, he makes it so that people visiting from fuddruckers.com are redirected to some other site, which isn't even up to that kind of bandwidth. This guy is far from a hero. I think he's clearly some kind of psychopath.
remember copyright is still a CIVIL action, not even enforcable by the police yet!
There is such a thing as "criminal copyright infringement", which can be investigated by the FBI and prosecuted by the government (a well-known example being the Dmitry Sklyarov case).
They've been there, done that. Also, they don't have to reclassify copyright violation as terrorism, only make a case that the copyright violator is somehow related to terrorism or otherwise endangers national security. For example, they might claim you're selling the works in question, and funneling the money to Osama bin Laden. Voila, they can now start wiretapping your phone and secretly enter and search your house.
Click "parent" a few times and you'll see the MPAA and RIAA mentioned. These are US organizations, hence my comments about US-specific laws.
Does that really matter these days? All they need is a secret warrant under the "Patriot" Act (not too hard to obtain, from what I've been hearing), and they can come into your house in secret, search your computer, find all the incriminating evidence they need, and then prosecute you. And if your computer happens to be clean, they'll just leave and you'll never even know they were there.
Not necessarily. There are plenty of words in English that are spelled identical, but pronounced differently based on context. Take "lead" (the metal) and "lead" (the verb) for example.
The article says that without leap-seconds the sun would start rising "a few seconds later each decade", but this would be compensated for by a leap-HOUR every 500-600 years. That equates to around 7 leap-seconds per YEAR though, which is much more that what is currently used. Even if the earth's rotation continues to slow, it's not slowing THAT much. In fact, it's been speeding up lately.
I got bored just reading the slashdot article about this book. No wonder Addison Wesley decided not to publish it.