I know the Windows computers waste more of my work time with... -- Losing processor cycles and memory to all the background programs needed to keep the systems safe -- Waves of updates of Adobe Reader, Java, or the aforementioned prophylactic programs -- Constant rebooting -- Mysterious printer problems
... and the most important. What do you do when your hard drive fails?
It's not the actual detonation that does it in. Detonation of around 100 modern warheads (approx 400-500 kiloton, airburst) within a short period (not spread out over decades like the testing weapons) would put enough debris into the upper atmosphere to trigger a nuclear winter that would last about 20 years. Long enough to wipe out most of the worlds populations of large mammals including humans. See it's not the Bombs that kill everyone, it's the starvation afterwards.
In this modern era people forget just how easy it is to starve to death. The US could survive one year of total crop failure with only minor starvation but you push it to 2 or 20 and we're in cannibalism time. After that first year when starvation sets in everyone's going to go bat shit crazy and start killing each other.
The volcano or comet impact ca. 535 was likely larger than that and the effects only lasted 3 years. The even larger Toba supervolcano caused climate effects lasting at least 20 years, but early humans survived even then. That released 800 cubic km of ash and 6 billion tons of sulphur dioxide, far more than a few thousand nukes would kick up. Certainly with the loss of all infrastructure more than half of humanity would likely die due to lack of resources, but its unlikely to kill off everyone.
Sellers who do business in multiple states pay each state the rate for that state, not their local rate. The bill says the state that collect will be the buyer's state. What I wonder is if the rate will be based on the billing address or the shipping address? I might want to get a credit card issued to a NH address -- no sales tax, instead of Massachusetts at 6.25%. The exorbitant state sales tax has already driven me out of local stores and buying everything I can on the net.
"Microsoft has already extracted per-device royalty agreements for Android products from at least 10 companies, including Samsung, the world's largest smartphone maker, HTC, Compal Electronics (whose customers include Dell, HP and Toshiba), Quanta Computer, Wistron, General Dynamics Itronix, Velocity Micro, Onkyo, Acer, and Viewsonic."
Wow. Those deals are secret, all right. If you want the terms for licensing check here Typical industry terms are 1% of gross profit on the product per patent. I guess there must be at least one moron around here.
Every company in the industry that enters into licensing talks with any other company signs NDA's before doing so. Both parties interested in talking want the NDA.
This is only true if what they are licensing is confidential technology. Patents are public. I've been in patent licensing talks. There were no NDAs. In fact the licensor wants it known that you signed a license and are paying royalties which is the case here with the Android users.
Speed trap cameras get around this by claiming that they aren't taking a picture of the driver, they're taking a picture of the car. Since the car has no right of privacy, too bad for it. Same for GPS tracking, it's only telling where the car goes, not a person. I expect this usage to be allowed by the court. Also, if its not illegal for them to track you, then it isn't illegal for them to track your friend.
Anyway, want a free GPS device? Send an anonymous tip to the Feds that your neighbor is dealing drugs. Then start checking his car.
My mail server blocks many.br addresses due to the constant spam, but br is no worse than.ar,.cn, or.pl. Maybe someone is sending a message. Though I can't imagine anybody getting that worked up over email spam these days; maybe 10 years ago.
"A top social scientist, Diederik Stapel, of Tilburg University, has been suspended after an investigation showed that he’s been fabricating his data for years"
In what other field can you publish made-up crap and become a top scientist? You might be able to get away with it in some fields for a few years as an unknown, but psychology is a field where papers are not making repeatable, scientific predictions.
Who is charged for this overage? If it is the guy who uses the application or is it the "application writer"?
Reading the announcement link, it sounds like the "application writer/server" pays. But I don't get it... If my web server serves up a html/js page that calls the google maps v3 api, which doesn't require an api key, and the end user user's web browser executes the javascript calling the metered google api, how does google identify the application writer/server?
Looks like the JS load from the server is what they are counting but it does seem like you could cheat.
Since you aren't paying them, you still won't be a customer, so why do you expect support? Customer support is expensive. For many businesses it is the main profit center. Redhat for example.
Yes, it is. Obviously these people have discovered a way to teleport. Recreating mass where mass was not before. Or even better, a way to transfer ones self into the interwebs!/s
This is bullshit in reality. 0s ans 1s got flipped in flash storage. No new mass was created. Perhaps, rebalanced, but not created.
Way to not understand the article at all. The weight is from the additional energy need to store the data, not from mass.
I added one inverter to my kindle so now it gets lighter when I store an eBook.
Especially in terms of unpatched security vulnerabilities - to wit/e.g. (and, we'll compare them, "Apples-to-Apples", by the types of softwares involved for enterprise class development for business):
FIRST, OPERATING SYSTEMS:
Vulnerability Report: Microsoft Windows Server 2008: (10/30/2011)
vs. Linux's "latest/greatest" KERNEL ONLY (mind you, just a kernel - toss on the rest of what's in a full linux server distro? You'd have even MORE than this (which is 4x++ that of Windows Server ALONE)):
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Vulnerability Report: Linux Kernel 2.6.x (10/30/2011)
How many of the Linux kernel bugs were marked critical by Secunia (4 or 5 of 5)? Oh, none. How many of those 153 Windows bugs were critical? 60!!!!! They released a product with 60 critical bugs!!!!!
Wow. Thanks for the links. It makes it clear who has the more secure product.
$_[n] is error prone if you mix it with shift or you ever make changes to your code, since the indexes change. Typically you would either shift the arguments if there are a variable number, or get them all at once using "my ($arg1, $arg2) = @_;" There is seldom a reason to get them one by one using indexes. Also there is $_[n] = new_value; which C programmers find unsettling.
&foo disables prototype checking and context selection. &foo(glob($baz)) is called with a list even if the prototype is sub foo($).
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The Wired article from last month has better pictures and more information
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/10/el-hierro-eruption-continues-but-not-likely-to-form-new-island/
Hi, Good to hear from a professional Solaris System Administrator. I can't imagine any other job that would have given you that attitude.
I know the Windows computers waste more of my work time with...
-- Losing processor cycles and memory to all the background programs needed to keep the systems safe
-- Waves of updates of Adobe Reader, Java, or the aforementioned prophylactic programs
-- Constant rebooting
-- Mysterious printer problems
... and the most important. What do you do when your hard drive fails?
China doesn't have nuclear weapons. Just ask Herman Cain.
Actually, I thought LANL was outsourcing the production of nuclear weapons to China.
Ha! Two jokes for the price of one. Thanks, I'll be here all week.
It's not the actual detonation that does it in. Detonation of around 100 modern warheads (approx 400-500 kiloton, airburst) within a short period (not spread out over decades like the testing weapons) would put enough debris into the upper atmosphere to trigger a nuclear winter that would last about 20 years. Long enough to wipe out most of the worlds populations of large mammals including humans. See it's not the Bombs that kill everyone, it's the starvation afterwards.
In this modern era people forget just how easy it is to starve to death. The US could survive one year of total crop failure with only minor starvation but you push it to 2 or 20 and we're in cannibalism time. After that first year when starvation sets in everyone's going to go bat shit crazy and start killing each other.
The volcano or comet impact ca. 535 was likely larger than that and the effects only lasted 3 years. The even larger Toba supervolcano caused climate effects lasting at least 20 years, but early humans survived even then. That released 800 cubic km of ash and 6 billion tons of sulphur dioxide, far more than a few thousand nukes would kick up. Certainly with the loss of all infrastructure more than half of humanity would likely die due to lack of resources, but its unlikely to kill off everyone.
When every state is in on it, they won't have much choice. Is Amazon going to pull out of the USA?
Sellers who do business in multiple states pay each state the rate for that state, not their local rate. The bill says the state that collect will be the buyer's state. What I wonder is if the rate will be based on the billing address or the shipping address? I might want to get a credit card issued to a NH address -- no sales tax, instead of Massachusetts at 6.25%. The exorbitant state sales tax has already driven me out of local stores and buying everything I can on the net.
How many of those 160 killed last year were shot through a clipboard?
Yes. But you have to edit xorg.conf, and we all know what that means.
"Microsoft has already extracted per-device royalty agreements for Android products from at least 10 companies, including Samsung, the world's largest smartphone maker, HTC, Compal Electronics (whose customers include Dell, HP and Toshiba), Quanta Computer, Wistron, General Dynamics Itronix, Velocity Micro, Onkyo, Acer, and Viewsonic."
Wow. Those deals are secret, all right. If you want the terms for licensing check here Typical industry terms are 1% of gross profit on the product per patent. I guess there must be at least one moron around here.
Every company in the industry that enters into licensing talks with any other company signs NDA's before doing so. Both parties interested in talking want the NDA.
This is only true if what they are licensing is confidential technology. Patents are public. I've been in patent licensing talks. There were no NDAs. In fact the licensor wants it known that you signed a license and are paying royalties which is the case here with the Android users.
Speed trap cameras get around this by claiming that they aren't taking a picture of the driver, they're taking a picture of the car. Since the car has no right of privacy, too bad for it. Same for GPS tracking, it's only telling where the car goes, not a person. I expect this usage to be allowed by the court. Also, if its not illegal for them to track you, then it isn't illegal for them to track your friend.
Anyway, want a free GPS device? Send an anonymous tip to the Feds that your neighbor is dealing drugs. Then start checking his car.
Nothing Just the Polish ISP tpnet.pl generates massive spam.
My mail server blocks many .br addresses due to the constant spam, but br is no worse than .ar, .cn, or .pl. Maybe someone is sending a message. Though I can't imagine anybody getting that worked up over email spam these days; maybe 10 years ago.
Wednesday at 2:00 PM? But that's right in the middle of the Car Credit infomercial!
I've reported hacked machines on networks at CMU and NASA. Scientists and engineers know enough to set up servers but not enough about security.
"A top social scientist, Diederik Stapel, of Tilburg University, has been suspended after an investigation showed that he’s been fabricating his data for years"
In what other field can you publish made-up crap and become a top scientist? You might be able to get away with it in some fields for a few years as an unknown, but psychology is a field where papers are not making repeatable, scientific predictions.
Who is charged for this overage? If it is the guy who uses the application or is it the "application writer"?
Reading the announcement link, it sounds like the "application writer/server" pays. But I don't get it ... If my web server serves up a html/js page that calls the google maps v3 api, which doesn't require an api key, and the end user user's web browser executes the javascript calling the metered google api, how does google identify the application writer/server?
Looks like the JS load from the server is what they are counting but it does seem like you could cheat.
Since you aren't paying them, you still won't be a customer, so why do you expect support? Customer support is expensive. For many businesses it is the main profit center. Redhat for example.
Yes, it is. Obviously these people have discovered a way to teleport. Recreating mass where mass was not before. Or even better, a way to transfer ones self into the interwebs! /s
This is bullshit in reality. 0s ans 1s got flipped in flash storage. No new mass was created. Perhaps, rebalanced, but not created.
Way to not understand the article at all. The weight is from the additional energy need to store the data, not from mass.
I added one inverter to my kindle so now it gets lighter when I store an eBook.
They slammed the door on this lawsuit. It crashed and burned.
Especially in terms of unpatched security vulnerabilities - to wit/e.g. (and, we'll compare them, "Apples-to-Apples", by the types of softwares involved for enterprise class development for business):
FIRST, OPERATING SYSTEMS:
Vulnerability Report: Microsoft Windows Server 2008: (10/30/2011)
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/18255/?task=advisories
Unpatched 3% (4 of 153 Secunia advisories)
vs. Linux's "latest/greatest" KERNEL ONLY (mind you, just a kernel - toss on the rest of what's in a full linux server distro? You'd have even MORE than this (which is 4x++ that of Windows Server ALONE)):
---
Vulnerability Report: Linux Kernel 2.6.x (10/30/2011)
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/2719/?task=advisories
Unpatched 6% (18 of 281 Secunia advisories)
Let me look at the links.
How many of the Linux kernel bugs were marked critical by Secunia (4 or 5 of 5)? Oh, none. How many of those 153 Windows bugs were critical? 60!!!!! They released a product with 60 critical bugs!!!!!
Wow. Thanks for the links. It makes it clear who has the more secure product.
Plus there are third parties who also give great support
Also, Redhat is the largest single contributor to the kernel and wrote RPM.
$_[n] is error prone if you mix it with shift or you ever make changes to your code, since the indexes change. Typically you would either shift the arguments if there are a variable number, or get them all at once using "my ($arg1, $arg2) = @_;" There is seldom a reason to get them one by one using indexes. Also there is $_[n] = new_value; which C programmers find unsettling.
&foo disables prototype checking and context selection. &foo(glob($baz)) is called with a list even if the prototype is sub foo($).