On the other hand, if information isn't meant to be distributed, such as personal information, then it ought not be.
I also suppose another question that should be asked before even this one is who is the source of the information. As I see it, private entities -- people, companies, &c. -- have the privilege of deciding if they want their information distributed or not; governments do not.
This clears up the inevitable questions like "what about [any given leaked Bush Administration memo]?"
In order to understand that these two views aren't hypocritical, the first question that needs to be asked is, "does the originator of the information wish to distribute it?" If it's meant for distribution, it can't be controlled, it can't be restricted, aspects of it can't be kept secret (say, the method by which the originator did try to control it) -- it "wants to be free," as the cliché goes. Once it's out there, it's out there.
On the other hand, if information isn't meant to be distributed, such as personal information, then it ought not be.
[The seeming hypocrisy in the abortion/death penalty thing can be easily understood, BTW, if you understand that the right wing's "culture of life" means innocent life: in their opinions, a fetus is a human life, and an innocent one, and deserves to be protected, whereas a murderer deserves to be sentenced to death.]
Notice that leap seconds are inserted at seemingly random places; they don't occur at regular intervals.
The leap second is not just inserted to "keep up with" a day that's tiny bit longer than 86400 seconds (as leap years are inserted every fourth year): it's inserted because sometimes the length of a year actually changes, for example from anomalies in the earth's rotation. You'd need to have variable-length seconds to make this work.
The length of the year is also steadily decreasing by a few microseconds per year, so you'd have to keep changing your second definition every time you fell behind.
I don't think the yellow dots would survive being photocopied or faxed around. Would government offices even use color printers just to print out typical black-and-white documents, memos, etc.?
Yeah, backdate your computer's clock. Then try to explain why the first Received header on your email, which is appended by the SMTP server through which you sent your message, is always x hours or days or whatever ahead.
Also, what of the possibility that an email server will just replace your date header? If this isn't a server configuration option, it should be. I haven't seen a server that does this, but I've seen NNTP servers do it, and some that also add an additional NNTP-Posting-Date header.
What if the realtor didn't know those skeletons were there in the first place? And let's avoid a rebuttal of "negligence" and just assume we've a situation where they were really well-hidden: cemented up in the wall or something.:)
This could be an unauthorized "easter egg" inserted by a developer at Rockstar that the company didn't even know about. That individual should be held responsible (to the extent of losing their job, and perhaps legally responsible if it can be shown they knew they were contravening the ESRB rating system), but Rockstar shouldn't, unless it can be shown they knew about the "easter egg" and/or they have negligently loose review processes of their developers' work.
Ah. I always thought that the water relationship was the first "conventional" definition -- in the same way as units like inches and cubits have positively banal original definitions (inch = length of three barley corns laid end to end, or the length of a thumb; cubit = length of the forearm), and that they only switched to a complex definition to ensure precision (and over time, progressively more complex -- and in human terms, meaningless -- definitions in order to increase precision).
Yep, I saw the stellaawards.com page. I was, however, looking for a page to link to that explicitly provided the other side of the story since everyone else is pointing out all the aspects of it that make it look completely frivolous.
If you want more from the completely "NPOV" perspective, also try Wikipedia.
"The temperature McDonalds' sold the coffee at is the recommended optimum serving temperature."
The coffee was hotter than the state health and safety regulations allowed for, whether or not it's the "optimum serving temperature." In fact, this particular McDonald's had been cited prior to this incident for keeping their coffee too hot. I've read that the optimum serving temperature of coffee is something like 180 degrees, but the regulations require it to be kept much lower.
My own opinions of officious regulatory agencies notwithstanding, if you ignore safety regulations, you're opening yourself up to legal liability when something goes wrong.
All it means is that someone looked at the conventional length of a second (1/86400 of a day) and found a natural phenomena that was really, really, really, really, really close, and unlike the length of a day, won't change over time.
As another example, take the metre. You can see how the definition of the metre became more and more precise here. I don't see it mentioned there, but the original "meaningful" definition of the metre, if extremely imprecise, is based on water: 1 ml of water = 1 gm in mass = 1 cm on each side when formed intoa cube.
If they want to slip it in so you don't notice, they could always just increase this little tax a cent or two, or widen it to cover broadband -- after all, if our telephone users are still paying for a war that was over that was over 107 years ago, it's only fair that broadband users do, too!
It'd make more sense (and probably be a lot easier to quantify, and therefore enforce, and be a lot more typical of the semantics of "proportional" in tax terms) to make it simply proportional to the price of the service, e.g., a 1% added-on tax (like a sales tax).
I'd especially like to see how this system would handle fairly when someone tries to connect and their speed gets downgraded due to network issues (say, a 56k modem handshake fscks up and you connect at 28.8, or congestion on your broadband is sporadically causing it to crawl). How would you handle a proportional tax with this in mind? Just tax them at the "advertised" rate? IOW, always end up overtaxing them, since network slowdowns are inevitable, from time to time, but OTOH your link never runs faster than its advertised rate.
Perhaps it could be proportional to the total bandwidth they use in a billing period, but then again virtually no broadband users are billed by their bandwidth (unless they go over their monthly bandwidth cap, or whatever).
"Bipartisan," I love that term. It basically means that tweedle-dee and tweedle-dum decided to conspire together on some new scheme so you have no way of opposing it.
The MAC isn't used as a seed to some random function, it's used as-is, since it's a unique number you already possess. This means you can generate universally unique IDs without having to register for a special number, like you do if you want an SMB OID. Basically, you need two values to make a guaranteed-unique identifier -- a time and a location: the first half of a UUID is the time it was created (with a 100ns resolution) and the MAC is the where.
The random type of UUIDs, which aren't guaranteed unique, but are merely probabilisticly unique -- and which don't use MACs at all -- are meant to be fallbacks if a MAC is unavailable on your system, or if one has privacy concerns and doesn't wish to broadcast a UUID's location of generation.
There are (almost) fully random UUIDs, also. There's one UUID format in which a couple bits denote "the rest of this UUID is random" basically. Other types of UUIDs use the MAC address and a timestamp, or sometimes a randomized MAC section (in which case a bit in that section will be set which is never set in a real MAC address).
A black hole of one solar mass has a temperature of only 60 nanokelvins; in fact, such a black hole would absorb far more cosmic microwave background radiation than it emits. A black hole of 4.5 × 10^22 kg (about the mass of the Moon) would be in equilibrium at 2.7 kelvins, absorbing as much radiation as it emits. Yet smaller primordial black holes would emit more than they absorb, and thereby lose mass.
If you wanted to establish an equilibrium at 300 Kelvin ("room temperature") you'd need about 4.08 × 10^20 kg. That's about one hundredth of the mass of the moon.
The "hack" was typing in a URL, presumably without even possessing a login username/password/cookie. The article doesn't say, but knowing how a lot of colleges work, the identifier in the URL was probably just your SSN or something equally as pseudo-secret.
URIs are a superset of URLs and URNs. I think what you're talking about is a URN, isn't it? These are the URIs that specifically name something uniquely (for example, urn:isbn:1902593790 or urn:oid:1.3.6.1.4.1.20115) but don't necessary help you locate it at a specific place.
The Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales, has said before that he won't even allow ads to run on Wikipedia, no matter how much the site may cost to operate and how much revenue the ads would bring in.
Does anyone really think he's going to sell it off to Google and let them close it up like this?
Nope, they're for real, and they actually have a policy against allowing extremist nuts like racist groups in. Take a look around their website; it's a pretty broad-spectrum libertarian movement: The articles section has stuff from the "typical" right-wing libertarians (laissez-faire free-market supporters) all the way to a few libertarian socialists and anarchists.
I'm sure the group will attract religious fundamentalists/traditionalists (although these guys actually have their own secessionist project going in South Carolina, IIRC), anti-immigrant xenophobes and the usual hangers-on who use "libertarianism" to cover up some other ideology, but that's not the main thrust of the project.
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This clears up the inevitable questions like "what about [any given leaked Bush Administration memo]?"
In order to understand that these two views aren't hypocritical, the first question that needs to be asked is, "does the originator of the information wish to distribute it?" If it's meant for distribution, it can't be controlled, it can't be restricted, aspects of it can't be kept secret (say, the method by which the originator did try to control it) -- it "wants to be free," as the cliché goes. Once it's out there, it's out there.
On the other hand, if information isn't meant to be distributed, such as personal information, then it ought not be.
[The seeming hypocrisy in the abortion/death penalty thing can be easily understood, BTW, if you understand that the right wing's "culture of life" means innocent life: in their opinions, a fetus is a human life, and an innocent one, and deserves to be protected, whereas a murderer deserves to be sentenced to death.]
Notice that leap seconds are inserted at seemingly random places; they don't occur at regular intervals.
The leap second is not just inserted to "keep up with" a day that's tiny bit longer than 86400 seconds (as leap years are inserted every fourth year): it's inserted because sometimes the length of a year actually changes, for example from anomalies in the earth's rotation. You'd need to have variable-length seconds to make this work.
The length of the year is also steadily decreasing by a few microseconds per year, so you'd have to keep changing your second definition every time you fell behind.
I don't think the yellow dots would survive being photocopied or faxed around. Would government offices even use color printers just to print out typical black-and-white documents, memos, etc.?
Yeah, backdate your computer's clock. Then try to explain why the first Received header on your email, which is appended by the SMTP server through which you sent your message, is always x hours or days or whatever ahead.
Also, what of the possibility that an email server will just replace your date header? If this isn't a server configuration option, it should be. I haven't seen a server that does this, but I've seen NNTP servers do it, and some that also add an additional NNTP-Posting-Date header.
Rhode Island beat you to it.
At least I'd hope they'd write "Hot Coffee-Gate," and if Slash would let me, with a proper en dash.
What if the realtor didn't know those skeletons were there in the first place? And let's avoid a rebuttal of "negligence" and just assume we've a situation where they were really well-hidden: cemented up in the wall or something. :)
This could be an unauthorized "easter egg" inserted by a developer at Rockstar that the company didn't even know about. That individual should be held responsible (to the extent of losing their job, and perhaps legally responsible if it can be shown they knew they were contravening the ESRB rating system), but Rockstar shouldn't, unless it can be shown they knew about the "easter egg" and/or they have negligently loose review processes of their developers' work.
Ah. I always thought that the water relationship was the first "conventional" definition -- in the same way as units like inches and cubits have positively banal original definitions (inch = length of three barley corns laid end to end, or the length of a thumb; cubit = length of the forearm), and that they only switched to a complex definition to ensure precision (and over time, progressively more complex -- and in human terms, meaningless -- definitions in order to increase precision).
If you want more from the completely "NPOV" perspective, also try Wikipedia.
"The temperature McDonalds' sold the coffee at is the recommended optimum serving temperature."
The coffee was hotter than the state health and safety regulations allowed for, whether or not it's the "optimum serving temperature." In fact, this particular McDonald's had been cited prior to this incident for keeping their coffee too hot. I've read that the optimum serving temperature of coffee is something like 180 degrees, but the regulations require it to be kept much lower.
My own opinions of officious regulatory agencies notwithstanding, if you ignore safety regulations, you're opening yourself up to legal liability when something goes wrong.
Here are some of the facts involved in the famous McDonald's coffee lawsuit. That particular lawsuit was not an example of a frivolous lawsuit; there are plenty of others, but that isn't one.
As another example, take the metre. You can see how the definition of the metre became more and more precise here. I don't see it mentioned there, but the original "meaningful" definition of the metre, if extremely imprecise, is based on water: 1 ml of water = 1 gm in mass = 1 cm on each side when formed intoa cube.
If they want to slip it in so you don't notice, they could always just increase this little tax a cent or two, or widen it to cover broadband -- after all, if our telephone users are still paying for a war that was over that was over 107 years ago, it's only fair that broadband users do, too!
It'd make more sense (and probably be a lot easier to quantify, and therefore enforce, and be a lot more typical of the semantics of "proportional" in tax terms) to make it simply proportional to the price of the service, e.g., a 1% added-on tax (like a sales tax).
I'd especially like to see how this system would handle fairly when someone tries to connect and their speed gets downgraded due to network issues (say, a 56k modem handshake fscks up and you connect at 28.8, or congestion on your broadband is sporadically causing it to crawl). How would you handle a proportional tax with this in mind? Just tax them at the "advertised" rate? IOW, always end up overtaxing them, since network slowdowns are inevitable, from time to time, but OTOH your link never runs faster than its advertised rate.
Perhaps it could be proportional to the total bandwidth they use in a billing period, but then again virtually no broadband users are billed by their bandwidth (unless they go over their monthly bandwidth cap, or whatever).
"Bipartisan," I love that term. It basically means that tweedle-dee and tweedle-dum decided to conspire together on some new scheme so you have no way of opposing it.
The random type of UUIDs, which aren't guaranteed unique, but are merely probabilisticly unique -- and which don't use MACs at all -- are meant to be fallbacks if a MAC is unavailable on your system, or if one has privacy concerns and doesn't wish to broadcast a UUID's location of generation.
There are (almost) fully random UUIDs, also. There's one UUID format in which a couple bits denote "the rest of this UUID is random" basically. Other types of UUIDs use the MAC address and a timestamp, or sometimes a randomized MAC section (in which case a bit in that section will be set which is never set in a real MAC address).
...They replaced your drive with a refurbished (i.e., used) drive? That's some warranty policy.
The "hack" was typing in a URL, presumably without even possessing a login username/password/cookie. The article doesn't say, but knowing how a lot of colleges work, the identifier in the URL was probably just your SSN or something equally as pseudo-secret.
URIs are a superset of URLs and URNs. I think what you're talking about is a URN, isn't it? These are the URIs that specifically name something uniquely (for example, urn:isbn:1902593790 or urn:oid:1.3.6.1.4.1.20115) but don't necessary help you locate it at a specific place.
The Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales, has said before that he won't even allow ads to run on Wikipedia, no matter how much the site may cost to operate and how much revenue the ads would bring in.
Does anyone really think he's going to sell it off to Google and let them close it up like this?
Um, we were talking about compressing and encoding files, not encrypting them. "Encoding" means things like base64, uuEncode, MacBinary, and so on.
Nope, they're for real, and they actually have a policy against allowing extremist nuts like racist groups in. Take a look around their website; it's a pretty broad-spectrum libertarian movement: The articles section has stuff from the "typical" right-wing libertarians (laissez-faire free-market supporters) all the way to a few libertarian socialists and anarchists.
I'm sure the group will attract religious fundamentalists/traditionalists (although these guys actually have their own secessionist project going in South Carolina, IIRC), anti-immigrant xenophobes and the usual hangers-on who use "libertarianism" to cover up some other ideology, but that's not the main thrust of the project.