The part about judicial intervention being a predictor of judicial intervention to come is less obvious.
Of course, if it is just a result of the most delinquent kids receiving the most attention when they are young and continuing the behavior anyway, it is less interesting, but the article doesn't make it clear exactly what 'similar histories' means, so there isn't really any way to tell.
I don't know, when I look at reality TV today, it doesn't seem to have any less skin the television in the past, and that seems like a fair way to measure cultural attitudes.
Janet Jackson's super nipple is a bit of a counterpoint, but the group of people who thought it was funny was probably bigger than the group of people who thought there should be an end to television, and I think the group of people who didn't care was at least of comparable size to the group that thought it was very inappropriate for 'family' television.
When the alternative is dying immediately, a surprising number of people are likely to choose cancer later.
I've watched close relatives suffer with and die of cancer, and if it meant I got to live a decade and die of cancer instead of dying this week, I'd take the stuff.
It is likely that shareholders owning 62% of Sun stock voted for the Oracle deal. This is slightly different than 62% of shareholders (for instance, if 1 person owned 50% of the company, another owned 12%, and 15,000 people owned the rest, 0.013% of the shareholders would have 62% of the vote).
It indicates that a powered tether could indeed counteract much of the atmospheric drag (apparently if varies throughout the year and the tether they discuss is not sized such that it would be enough all of the time).
So is the earth (it is the 7th most abundant metal). Titanium is expensive because it is expensive to refine. Wikipedia indicates that more titanium dioxide is produced than titanium metal (the dioxide is used as a white pigment) and that current reserves are on the order of about 120 years of current production:
I think the most common upgrade scenario is with the purchase of a new computer.
That's my plan, but this laptop is working well enough that I will probably be using XP for at least another year. Maybe it will even hold out until (consumer) SSDs hit sane price points.
IE is no longer dominant. Between Opera, Safari, Chrome and Firefox, there are enough people using other platforms that web designers would be fools to only support IE.
Who cares if they do? Security through obscurity is a perfectly valid strategy, as long as it is used in conjunction with other strategies, so when someone criticizes the mere use of secrecy, they can be disregarded.
(Think about it for a minute; passwords, keys, access codes, hidden safes, etc.)
So when they know about and are actively working on fixing a bug that is an exploit vulnerability, you think they should do it in public?
I get the argument that telling your users about it means that they can protect themselves (say, by running noscript), but for a consumer facing organization like Mozilla, the majority of users aren't going to notice or do anything.
They already had a standing policy of hiding security related bugs (I.e. those that they figured were exploitable; It is even discussed in the log linked in the summary!).
That some people want to be paid for their work is not an issue. That people can use unlicensed fonts isn't really any different than today (I suppose font designers might be a bit less happy with a solution that is promiscuous with their precious data).
An easy workaround would be for someone like the Mozilla foundation to spend a few million dollars making sure that a decent variety of fonts were available under liberal licenses. They may not feel like it, but they could certainly afford it, and if a few million dollars isn't enough to generate a couple of dozen decent fonts, I would be pretty surprised. Amusingly, Microsoft felt the need to do something like this a decade ago, and they actually did it.
(The graph on that last page is terrible, the median wage increases by more than 60%, while the ratio of median to mean decreases by about 10%, but at a glance, the latter appears to have changed by 3x more than the former)
NT/2k/XP have a variety of binary shims for working with different hardware; the selection of that shim is done at install time and the setting is read from disk at boot time. If the shim specified on the boot drive does not match the hardware, Windows won't boot.
There are ways to convince it to select the correct blob (The second one is going to be the most interesting for people working with a system that won't boot):
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The part about judicial intervention being a predictor of judicial intervention to come is less obvious.
Of course, if it is just a result of the most delinquent kids receiving the most attention when they are young and continuing the behavior anyway, it is less interesting, but the article doesn't make it clear exactly what 'similar histories' means, so there isn't really any way to tell.
I would think a fair chunk of the 38% are non-votes, rather than no votes.
I don't know, when I look at reality TV today, it doesn't seem to have any less skin the television in the past, and that seems like a fair way to measure cultural attitudes.
Janet Jackson's super nipple is a bit of a counterpoint, but the group of people who thought it was funny was probably bigger than the group of people who thought there should be an end to television, and I think the group of people who didn't care was at least of comparable size to the group that thought it was very inappropriate for 'family' television.
I dub thee hammerhands.
I suggest using 3 or 5 hundred years when extrapolating, not 15.
There were less laws 500 years ago, but the typical person certainly wasn't more free.
Broadly speaking, usenet is an internet message board.
The bad always comes with the good. I mean, would you really throw away internet message boards just because they enable hipster whining?
When the alternative is dying immediately, a surprising number of people are likely to choose cancer later.
I've watched close relatives suffer with and die of cancer, and if it meant I got to live a decade and die of cancer instead of dying this week, I'd take the stuff.
Tax cuts work for me.
It is likely that shareholders owning 62% of Sun stock voted for the Oracle deal. This is slightly different than 62% of shareholders (for instance, if 1 person owned 50% of the company, another owned 12%, and 15,000 people owned the rest, 0.013% of the shareholders would have 62% of the vote).
Sure, but this all started when somebody said there wasn't anything on the moon worth bringing back to Earth.
I'm pretty sure it isn't worth mining titanium on the moon and then bringing it back to Earth.
Well, here is a NASA discussion of the thing:
http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast08sep97_1.htm
It indicates that a powered tether could indeed counteract much of the atmospheric drag (apparently if varies throughout the year and the tether they discuss is not sized such that it would be enough all of the time).
Yeah, but it is probably more like unplugging wall warts than insulating your house.
That is, it will be a hassle, be visible, and show a tiny benefit, all the while distracting from more worthwhile activity.
So is the earth (it is the 7th most abundant metal). Titanium is expensive because it is expensive to refine. Wikipedia indicates that more titanium dioxide is produced than titanium metal (the dioxide is used as a white pigment) and that current reserves are on the order of about 120 years of current production:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanium#Occurrence
I think the most common upgrade scenario is with the purchase of a new computer.
That's my plan, but this laptop is working well enough that I will probably be using XP for at least another year. Maybe it will even hold out until (consumer) SSDs hit sane price points.
IE is no longer dominant. Between Opera, Safari, Chrome and Firefox, there are enough people using other platforms that web designers would be fools to only support IE.
Why?
I am still on XP and use Firefox, but from what I understand, the sandboxed IE8 on Windows 7 provides one of the safest browsing experiences.
Nice libertarian troll there, I almost responded, and I'm not even a libertarian.
Who cares if they do? Security through obscurity is a perfectly valid strategy, as long as it is used in conjunction with other strategies, so when someone criticizes the mere use of secrecy, they can be disregarded.
(Think about it for a minute; passwords, keys, access codes, hidden safes, etc.)
So when they know about and are actively working on fixing a bug that is an exploit vulnerability, you think they should do it in public?
I get the argument that telling your users about it means that they can protect themselves (say, by running noscript), but for a consumer facing organization like Mozilla, the majority of users aren't going to notice or do anything.
They haven't released an update yet though, which is probably the more interesting event.
They already had a standing policy of hiding security related bugs (I.e. those that they figured were exploitable; It is even discussed in the log linked in the summary!).
What licensing issues?
That some people want to be paid for their work is not an issue. That people can use unlicensed fonts isn't really any different than today (I suppose font designers might be a bit less happy with a solution that is promiscuous with their precious data).
An easy workaround would be for someone like the Mozilla foundation to spend a few million dollars making sure that a decent variety of fonts were available under liberal licenses. They may not feel like it, but they could certainly afford it, and if a few million dollars isn't enough to generate a couple of dozen decent fonts, I would be pretty surprised. Amusingly, Microsoft felt the need to do something like this a decade ago, and they actually did it.
The median is widely used for reporting average wages in the U.S. For example:
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/wkyeng.nr0.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_States
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_States
It is even discussed in contrast with the mean:
http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/COLA/central.html
(The graph on that last page is terrible, the median wage increases by more than 60%, while the ratio of median to mean decreases by about 10%, but at a glance, the latter appears to have changed by 3x more than the former)
NT/2k/XP have a variety of binary shims for working with different hardware; the selection of that shim is done at install time and the setting is read from disk at boot time. If the shim specified on the boot drive does not match the hardware, Windows won't boot.
There are ways to convince it to select the correct blob (The second one is going to be the most interesting for people working with a system that won't boot):
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/824125
(I haven't looked closely, but apparently this is no longer an issue as of Vista)