You neglected to explain the "blind" part, but you illustrated the CC: field admirably.
Then I would have had to explain secretaries, dictation marks, interoffice envelopes with red strings and other such antiquities. Think I'll just go soak in my clawfoot tub and make some calls on the rotary dial phone.
I'm sure using "Blind carbon copy (the BCC: field in email)" would have made things clearer to the author of TFA and all his tetchy sorry "techie" friends.
Right - because nothing is so immediately recognizable as rolling carbon paper and flimsy into your typewriter carriage.
I work on large scale air traffic control systems which run Linux and I don't envy the LSE in their task. Most of our interfaces are relatively simple and go out to organisations with a good history of validating interfaces. This trading system seems to have to interface to a lot of little offices around the place running various implementations. Its no surprise some of the interfaces weren't tested to the point where they are known to work 100%, though they may be 100% correct.
According to the article, the little organizations are running fine -- it's some of the big company systems that are having problems. My guess would be that their systems are so large and complex that they haven't been able to do sufficient testing, and that they weren't able to make the changes that they needed to make because the systems are all in use 24 x 7.
Its like the story of why a heart surgeon is paid more than a car mechanic. Try fixing a car engine while its running.
Comcast wants to sell content, not just access. That way they get it both ways: fees from their customers and they don't have to pay for GBs transferred via other company's wire. Netfix is their competitor, so why not make it hard for them to do business. Slowing down their traffic works too.
"What would be a good definition artificial intelligence that wouldn't be subject to goalpost moving?"
When the AI starts chiming in on where the goalpoast is, and giving us suggestions, I think then we can hang our hats and go home as a dying species.
You aren't intelligent because you can think about what being intelligent means, you are intelligent because you can think about what Douglas Hofstadter thinks intelligence means.
The problem is that you may send your username and password over HTTPS, each page after that you send your auth cookie over plain ol' unencrypted HTTP. Someone is capturing those auth cookies and using them to send delete commands to Facebook (no doubt after capturing all of the info and friends).
Use HTTPS Everywhere and force all your traffic that can be to be using HTTPS.
Why assume a sophisticated technical solution when the more likely explanation is the $5 wrench?
The point is that if we spent 10 years and billions of dollars developing this technology, then declare it "a dead end" and give up on it, only to turn around and pay other countries to utilize the technology that we ourselves paid to develop... then I am completely disheartened by the leadership of our space program and I begin to see the point of the hardcore libertarians who claim that we have no right to be spending tax dollars on a space program of any kind in the first place.
So you are against funding research of any kind or just space? Much other research funded by the government is then developed by private enterprise. The reason the government has a space program, instead of just funding it, is the interest by DoD.
For DEC they could have gone downscale to PCs, but the profit margins are too low: it's a commodity item. IBM doesn't build PCs anymore; they sold their PC business to Lenovo.
You have forgotten the DEC Rainbow. But that's ok, everyone else has also forgoten the Rainbow.
I agree the simplification is necessary for education. While Newtonian physics doesn't tell the whole story of physics, it's still useful for most human endeavors. In the grander scheme of the universe, it's wrong, but I've always understood it to be a useful simplification that the error is insignificant for most human needs on earth. For example, when doing mechanical engineering, I've never needed to perform relativistic portion of the calculations because the relativistic factor is far too small to be worth doing that math. In the other direction, for electrical engineering, I really don't need to keep quantum physics in mind all the time, I just needed the approximate equation that described the part's behavior.
For that matter, for most human endeavors the flat Earth hypothesis is fine, also. Why get into this "Earth is round" nonsense when it isn't necessary for just navigating down to the Walmart and back?
Why build a search engine and database? Just plug in a name and it should just give you a live stream from the person's phone, GPS location and nearby surveillance cameras. Can add a checkbox for promising to follow up with a warrant later in case some civil rights namby-pambys get in office. No sign of any at the moment
The system currently in place (.dot.NET-based) failed to meet the specs, because, try as they could, Accenture could not get a windows-based platform to run fast enough - too much letency.
>If software companies are putting out releases faster than the committee is putting out standards, then the committee is worthless. No. This is completely and utterly backwards thinking. The STANDARD is there for a reason, for releases to have a target to hit for making their core technology usable. Further releases should enhance the technology *surrounding* that standard, not try to "improve" upon that standard until they and others can agree on a new version of that standard to go forward.
Having browser makers defining the "standard" is the mess we needed to get out of in the first place. What, do we want to return to browser makers making up things as they go along, like goddamn IE?
How has backwards thinking like this become so prevalent in modern technology? I don't get it.
Wrong. The standard is there to allow competition so that one company doesn't control the technology. HTML has always been made up by the browsers and has always been open so that web developers can use it. There's nothing wrong with that.
I just need to know what to put in my web page header to tell a browser how to parse the output. If I want to use bleeding features supported by a subset of browsers, that's my problem. But if I want to reach the widest possible audience, I need to know what features are supported by (almost) all browsers.
What prevents me from posting a picture of Angelina Jolie as my FB profile picture? Do you think she would be happy having her face used in a Starbucks ad?
Since when are handguns allowed in airports? I mean besides Law Enforcement and Air Marshals. I'm assuming your not so stupid as to argue against them carrying guns.
OK, I'll bite. Yes, there should not be air marshals carrying guns on planes. And at least one Congrssman agrees with me. Its a complete and utter waste of money. http://duncan.house.gov/2009/06/22062009.shtml
light from laser pointers is polarized, but the direction will be random. It will change with time and with how the pointer is held. Polarizing sunglasses only work to reduce glare because most surfaces reflecting the Sun are horizontal.
If you want to just use it to do user interface operations, you need to set the scale down like a mouse. Typical screen:mouse motion is like 5:1, where a tablet by default is supposed to be more like 1:1 for doing fine graphics.
I hate trying to draw with a mouse. You need to zoom in so much that you are only seeing a tiny section of your work.
And of course, none of those kids will be allowed to go to school (at least in my state, no one is allowed in without a certain set of vaccines... I guess homeschooling is an option, but the home school crowd usually does so because they want a better education than is being provided by the state / private schools and would likely be aware of the scam issues) and thus, won't impact the majority of people when they get sick... this is a tragedy because they will have less apparent value to society already (I am not saying they actually have less value but that society tends not to appreciate the value of the uneducated today).
Its a good thing that a search for MMR vaccination certificate pdf turns up only 17,000 hits on google. Otherwise there might be parents out there tempted to just let the other kids get vaccinated but why take a chance on little Jimmy.
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You neglected to explain the "blind" part, but you illustrated the CC: field admirably.
Then I would have had to explain secretaries, dictation marks, interoffice envelopes with red strings and other such antiquities. Think I'll just go soak in my clawfoot tub and make some calls on the rotary dial phone.
Public FTPs are still common. It makes no sense to grab a Linux distro over sftp, not when the encryption layer wastes bandwidth and CPU power.
Its wasting the server bandwidth. Why not use torrent? Its sort of the ultimate Bcc.
I'm sure using "Blind carbon copy (the BCC: field in email)" would have made things clearer to the author of TFA and all his tetchy sorry "techie" friends.
Right - because nothing is so immediately recognizable as rolling carbon paper and flimsy into your typewriter carriage.
I work on large scale air traffic control systems which run Linux and I don't envy the LSE in their task. Most of our interfaces are relatively simple and go out to organisations with a good history of validating interfaces. This trading system seems to have to interface to a lot of little offices around the place running various implementations. Its no surprise some of the interfaces weren't tested to the point where they are known to work 100%, though they may be 100% correct.
According to the article, the little organizations are running fine -- it's some of the big company systems that are having problems. My guess would be that their systems are so large and complex that they haven't been able to do sufficient testing, and that they weren't able to make the changes that they needed to make because the systems are all in use 24 x 7.
Its like the story of why a heart surgeon is paid more than a car mechanic. Try fixing a car engine while its running.
http://www.itvt.com/story/6747/comcast-increases-vod-movie-line-over-450
Comcast wants to sell content, not just access. That way they get it both ways: fees from their customers and they don't have to pay for GBs transferred via other company's wire. Netfix is their competitor, so why not make it hard for them to do business. Slowing down their traffic works too.
"What would be a good definition artificial intelligence that wouldn't be subject to goalpost moving?"
When the AI starts chiming in on where the goalpoast is, and giving us suggestions, I think then we can hang our hats and go home as a dying species.
You aren't intelligent because you can think about what being intelligent means, you are intelligent because you can think about what Douglas Hofstadter thinks intelligence means.
I spot just one bug in slashdot. However that one is huge and makes the site unusable.
When you zoom the text, (ctrl+ in Chrome), the text spills out on the right side of the window and comments become unreadable.
Are you suggesting that the comments are readable at the normal size? You must be new here.
The problem is that you may send your username and password over HTTPS, each page after that you send your auth cookie over plain ol' unencrypted HTTP. Someone is capturing those auth cookies and using them to send delete commands to Facebook (no doubt after capturing all of the info and friends).
Use HTTPS Everywhere and force all your traffic that can be to be using HTTPS.
Why assume a sophisticated technical solution when the more likely explanation is the $5 wrench?
The point is that if we spent 10 years and billions of dollars developing this technology, then declare it "a dead end" and give up on it, only to turn around and pay other countries to utilize the technology that we ourselves paid to develop... then I am completely disheartened by the leadership of our space program and I begin to see the point of the hardcore libertarians who claim that we have no right to be spending tax dollars on a space program of any kind in the first place.
So you are against funding research of any kind or just space? Much other research funded by the government is then developed by private enterprise. The reason the government has a space program, instead of just funding it, is the interest by DoD.
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For DEC they could have gone downscale to PCs, but the profit margins are too low: it's a commodity item. IBM doesn't build PCs anymore; they sold their PC business to Lenovo.
You have forgotten the DEC Rainbow. But that's ok, everyone else has also forgoten the Rainbow.
Pleas stop using my Alphabet ©
I agree the simplification is necessary for education. While Newtonian physics doesn't tell the whole story of physics, it's still useful for most human endeavors. In the grander scheme of the universe, it's wrong, but I've always understood it to be a useful simplification that the error is insignificant for most human needs on earth. For example, when doing mechanical engineering, I've never needed to perform relativistic portion of the calculations because the relativistic factor is far too small to be worth doing that math. In the other direction, for electrical engineering, I really don't need to keep quantum physics in mind all the time, I just needed the approximate equation that described the part's behavior.
For that matter, for most human endeavors the flat Earth hypothesis is fine, also. Why get into this "Earth is round" nonsense when it isn't necessary for just navigating down to the Walmart and back?
Why build a search engine and database? Just plug in a name and it should just give you a live stream from the person's phone, GPS location and nearby surveillance cameras. Can add a checkbox for promising to follow up with a warrant later in case some civil rights namby-pambys get in office. No sign of any at the moment
The system currently in place (.dot.NET-based) failed to meet the specs, because, try as they could, Accenture could not get a windows-based platform to run fast enough - too much letency.
Windows is totally lacking in letency.
Also don't build taller walls, because it just encourages attackers to bring taller ladders.
I'm going to edit my registry based on the word of AC. Seems like a reliable source.
>If software companies are putting out releases faster than the committee is putting out standards, then the committee is worthless.
No. This is completely and utterly backwards thinking. The STANDARD is there for a reason, for releases to have a target to hit for making their core technology usable. Further releases should enhance the technology *surrounding* that standard, not try to "improve" upon that standard until they and others can agree on a new version of that standard to go forward.
Having browser makers defining the "standard" is the mess we needed to get out of in the first place. What, do we want to return to browser makers making up things as they go along, like goddamn IE?
How has backwards thinking like this become so prevalent in modern technology? I don't get it.
Wrong. The standard is there to allow competition so that one company doesn't control the technology. HTML has always been made up by the browsers and has always been open so that web developers can use it. There's nothing wrong with that.
I just need to know what to put in my web page header to tell a browser how to parse the output. If I want to use bleeding features supported by a subset of browsers, that's my problem. But if I want to reach the widest possible audience, I need to know what features are supported by (almost) all browsers.
What prevents me from posting a picture of Angelina Jolie as my FB profile picture? Do you think she would be happy having her face used in a Starbucks ad?
Since when are handguns allowed in airports? I mean besides Law Enforcement and Air Marshals. I'm assuming your not so stupid as to argue against them carrying guns.
OK, I'll bite. Yes, there should not be air marshals carrying guns on planes. And at least one Congrssman agrees with me. Its a complete and utter waste of money.
http://duncan.house.gov/2009/06/22062009.shtml
light from laser pointers is polarized, but the direction will be random. It will change with time and with how the pointer is held. Polarizing sunglasses only work to reduce glare because most surfaces reflecting the Sun are horizontal.
If you want to just use it to do user interface operations, you need to set the scale down like a mouse. Typical screen:mouse motion is like 5:1, where a tablet by default is supposed to be more like 1:1 for doing fine graphics.
I hate trying to draw with a mouse. You need to zoom in so much that you are only seeing a tiny section of your work.
Good idea on changing hand positions.
And of course, none of those kids will be allowed to go to school (at least in my state, no one is allowed in without a certain set of vaccines... I guess homeschooling is an option, but the home school crowd usually does so because they want a better education than is being provided by the state / private schools and would likely be aware of the scam issues) and thus, won't impact the majority of people when they get sick... this is a tragedy because they will have less apparent value to society already (I am not saying they actually have less value but that society tends not to appreciate the value of the uneducated today).
Its a good thing that a search for MMR vaccination certificate pdf turns up only 17,000 hits on google. Otherwise there might be parents out there tempted to just let the other kids get vaccinated but why take a chance on little Jimmy.
The thing that came out recently was the outright fraud in the research. Previously, the science was assumed to just be not reproducible.
Plus+ is ad-speak for "maybe the third one will catch on"