Implants like fingertip magnets and RFID chips are as easy to remove as they are to put in. It shouldn't take more than a few minutes and can be done without anesthesia (though it may hurt...).
It's not the job of the companies to train people up from scratch.
Maybe not in the US but in other countries like Japan, it is. They usually pick up smart kids, more importantly, hard working kids, the actual skills don't matter that much. They then grow inside the company. To work correctly, this system requires trust between the employer and the employee. Usually employees get lifetime employment and a steady advancement in exchange for their loyalty. Clearly, it is not how it works in the US, where employers lay off on a whim and loyalty is for suckers. Both systems have their advantages, I tend to think that the US way is more effective but it is not without drawbacks. The reluctance of companies to train their employees extensively is one of them.
Not all games are zero-sum. Try to see the big picture instead of stupid "get rich quick" schemes.
Just look at economic crisis : nobody seem to profit from it, even the 1% don't get richer. So why does it happen? The workers can still work, the factories are still there, no major shortage in natural resources,... that's pure economics. So if people can lose out of nothing, they should be able to win out of nothing too.
Most charging is done at home, and always will be because that will always be the cheapest option. I believe that California already has rules requiring landlords to allow installation of chargers.
That's assuming you have a home. It is much more complicated if you live in an apartment, or even a house without a parking spot.
Assholes fighting douchebags... Totally on topic. Anyways, parking in a charging spot without using the charger (it includes unplugged EV) is often illegal. So if it pisses you off, call the tow truck, or, if it is in a corporate building, notify the hierarchy.
Not exactly. All C is not valid C++. However, it may be considered good practice for C code to be written so as to make it valid C++. In is not a big effort and allows you to take advantage of the added safeties included is C++ compilers. Think of it as static analysis. One trouble however of using C++ is the lack of a binary standard, so, while compiling your C code as C++ may be a good test, actually shipping C code compiled with a C++ compiler may not be a good idea.
I don't know how it is in the US but did you call you city hall? If you are lucky enough to call them during opening hours then you are put on hold for 10 minutes, then redirected through 3 different services to reach the right person, who, hopefully, isn't on vacation. Then they ask you for information that no mortal can possibly know and log the incident in what must be a write-only database because no one seems to know what happened to the report. Well, to be fair, sometimes they really are helpful. However, for people how had an bad experience, it is likely that they will just drive around that pothole than repeat the ordeal.
It is called a freestart collision. A freestart collision is one where the attacker gets to choose the initialization vector. In maybe all practical applications, it doesn't happen as it is fixed by the standard.
Unlike MD5, it is still impossible to get two different files that have the same standard SHA-1 checksum.
And even true collision attacks are quite limited. For many applications (like cracking passwords), what you need is a preimage attack, and neither MD5 nor SHA-1 have one.
No Apple may be evil and I hate them but I also want them to stay (don't expect me to help them though). We may love to make fun of them for marketing every little feature as revolutionary but we must admit that they aren't without technical merit. And most importantly, they create competition. Without Apple, I don't think Android would be half as good as it is now. And while I love Google, I think it is a good thing that Apple (and Microsoft, and Facebook,...) are here to keep them in check.
So my electricity bill's going to go down now? No, I didn't think so either.
No, because part of the reason wind/solar is more competitive is because the more wind/solar you have, the more expensive fossil fuel power becomes. It is explained in TFA.
As a matter of fact, you should shred all your personal documents before throwing them away, especially if you recycle. No need to be paranoid but doing it won't cost you much, so, why not.
No, it is a good thing these things are done at the filesystem level. For example, RAID-Z (ZFS build-in RAID) eliminates the "write hole" problem. And its error detection combined with replication allows it to recover from corrupted rather than just unreadable data. These are features you can't have if replication, error detection and transactions are in separate layers. As for snapshots, they exploit a specificity of ZFS which is copy-on-write to make them extremely efficient. You can't do this without access to the filesystem internals.
On servers, and even sometimes on desktops, I like to use the minimal version of Ubuntu (a ~40MB iso). It installs the bare minimum which is basically a text (not hi-res) console and apt so that you can do the rest yourself. You can do it with Debian too, and used like this, Ubuntu and Debian are very similar.
Ok, Virgin Galactic offers $250k space trips for the rich and poor people are poor. But the rest is a jumble of facts with little relationship between them. It looks like the goal is to create an emotional response by contrasting the luxury of space tourism vs the poor conditions some people live in. But what is the underlying story (or non-story)?
My guess is that some poor town invested in that spaceport in an attempt to build an economy around it (tourism, service, etc...) but the returns are less than expected and the town struggles making up for it. Is that it?
Tell this to all my friends (real friends, not Facebook friends). Where there is a party or something they tend to plan everything via Facebook. And because I rarely log on, I am often a bit left out. They don't forget about me and usually contact me in other ways (real friends, I said) but I often miss out on part of the planning. Same thing for things like pictures and less important discussions. The worst part is that most of them know what Facebook is all about, the privacy implications and all that. One of them even refusing to use Google services as much as possible for this reason.
I think the truth is that people don't really care about their privacy. Mark Zuckerberg even said it clearly, and it didn't prevent him from making and keeping the most successful social network. Facebook is convenient, that's why it works. You won't make people change with privacy arguments.
But you better make sure not to make a single scientific or technical mistake. Otherwise non-nerds will laugh at you for being nerdy and nerds will laugh at you for failing at it. And beware, nerds are better at spotting these than Wikipedia.
So, for you, ads on major services from the likes of Google, Microsoft and Amazon are acceptable where small sites that don't have the resources to run their own ad service can go fuck themselves? The "own server" criteria is effective because it can catch a lot of ads, but "own server" ads are not better, just harder to block. If external site blocking becomes ubiquitous, the obvious response would be to make the things happen behind the scenes, where the server gets the ad from the external company and relay it to you while sending back tracking data in return. This would make to harder to distinguish ads vs content and would make tracking almost impossible to prevent. It would also make things technically harder because it would add workload to the webmaster's servers and ad providers would have to take measures to make accurate measurements and prevent cheating (probably by tracking more).
- Father has 5 kids. In a western country, that's a lot. - Father has a job and also studies, that leaves very little time to care about his kids. - What about the mother? - What about the 4 other kids, which are presumably girls, why aren't they smart like that boy? - Finishing a college degree and having a 8 year old son is quite uncommon.
Taken separately, there is absolutely nothing wrong with these points, but taken together, it starts to smell. I suspect his kids are not in the best environment at home (although it certainly could be worse).
Now, the father complains that his kid isn't "gifted". First, who doesn't think his son is special? Then, the point of "gifted" programs is to put the kids in a more challenging environment. The test here is to make sure that the kids won't drop out, and if parents can help them pass the test, they are also more likely to help them pass the "gifted" classes. It may be a bit unfair but affirmative action won't help in this case, if the kids can't follow, whatever the reason is, it is better to put them in a less challenging class.
In France we use the long scale but the term "billion" is almost never used. The short scale billion is called milliard and for the short scale trillions, we simply use thousands of milliards. Short scale trillions are so big anyways that they only seem to be used to express national debts. In science and computing, SI prefixes are preferred.
I suspect that racism is more prevalent in genealogists. Racists tend to care about purity of blood. And the way to check this is, of course, genealogy. So it is likely that racists are more interested in genealogy than most people. Therefore, it is more likely that the proportion of racists among genealogists is higher than the proportion of racists among the general population. That's basic Bayesian statistics, maybe too basic in fact.
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Implants like fingertip magnets and RFID chips are as easy to remove as they are to put in. It shouldn't take more than a few minutes and can be done without anesthesia (though it may hurt...).
Let's call the powered one "missiles" and the unpowered ones "bombs".
It's not the job of the companies to train people up from scratch.
Maybe not in the US but in other countries like Japan, it is.
They usually pick up smart kids, more importantly, hard working kids, the actual skills don't matter that much. They then grow inside the company. To work correctly, this system requires trust between the employer and the employee. Usually employees get lifetime employment and a steady advancement in exchange for their loyalty. Clearly, it is not how it works in the US, where employers lay off on a whim and loyalty is for suckers.
Both systems have their advantages, I tend to think that the US way is more effective but it is not without drawbacks. The reluctance of companies to train their employees extensively is one of them.
Not all games are zero-sum.
Try to see the big picture instead of stupid "get rich quick" schemes.
Just look at economic crisis : nobody seem to profit from it, even the 1% don't get richer. So why does it happen? The workers can still work, the factories are still there, no major shortage in natural resources, ... that's pure economics. So if people can lose out of nothing, they should be able to win out of nothing too.
Most charging is done at home, and always will be because that will always be the cheapest option. I believe that California already has rules requiring landlords to allow installation of chargers.
That's assuming you have a home. It is much more complicated if you live in an apartment, or even a house without a parking spot.
Assholes fighting douchebags... Totally on topic.
Anyways, parking in a charging spot without using the charger (it includes unplugged EV) is often illegal. So if it pisses you off, call the tow truck, or, if it is in a corporate building, notify the hierarchy.
3D printed laser drones should be the perfect solution, as long as they aren't running systemd.
I wonder how much it will cost in Bitcoin.
Not exactly. All C is not valid C++.
However, it may be considered good practice for C code to be written so as to make it valid C++. In is not a big effort and allows you to take advantage of the added safeties included is C++ compilers. Think of it as static analysis.
One trouble however of using C++ is the lack of a binary standard, so, while compiling your C code as C++ may be a good test, actually shipping C code compiled with a C++ compiler may not be a good idea.
I don't know how it is in the US but did you call you city hall?
If you are lucky enough to call them during opening hours then you are put on hold for 10 minutes, then redirected through 3 different services to reach the right person, who, hopefully, isn't on vacation. Then they ask you for information that no mortal can possibly know and log the incident in what must be a write-only database because no one seems to know what happened to the report.
Well, to be fair, sometimes they really are helpful. However, for people how had an bad experience, it is likely that they will just drive around that pothole than repeat the ordeal.
It is called a freestart collision.
A freestart collision is one where the attacker gets to choose the initialization vector. In maybe all practical applications, it doesn't happen as it is fixed by the standard.
Unlike MD5, it is still impossible to get two different files that have the same standard SHA-1 checksum.
And even true collision attacks are quite limited. For many applications (like cracking passwords), what you need is a preimage attack, and neither MD5 nor SHA-1 have one.
No Apple may be evil and I hate them but I also want them to stay (don't expect me to help them though). ...) are here to keep them in check.
We may love to make fun of them for marketing every little feature as revolutionary but we must admit that they aren't without technical merit. And most importantly, they create competition. Without Apple, I don't think Android would be half as good as it is now.
And while I love Google, I think it is a good thing that Apple (and Microsoft, and Facebook,
It is not surprising you didn't find any info on "nuts and bolts" cookies.
Because while nuts are popular ingredients for cookies, bolts are terrible.
So I suggest that you replace bolts with chocolate chips, these are much better and you are much more likely to find information about them.
So my electricity bill's going to go down now? No, I didn't think so either.
No, because part of the reason wind/solar is more competitive is because the more wind/solar you have, the more expensive fossil fuel power becomes. It is explained in TFA.
As a matter of fact, you should shred all your personal documents before throwing them away, especially if you recycle.
No need to be paranoid but doing it won't cost you much, so, why not.
No, it is a good thing these things are done at the filesystem level.
For example, RAID-Z (ZFS build-in RAID) eliminates the "write hole" problem. And its error detection combined with replication allows it to recover from corrupted rather than just unreadable data. These are features you can't have if replication, error detection and transactions are in separate layers.
As for snapshots, they exploit a specificity of ZFS which is copy-on-write to make them extremely efficient. You can't do this without access to the filesystem internals.
On servers, and even sometimes on desktops, I like to use the minimal version of Ubuntu (a ~40MB iso). It installs the bare minimum which is basically a text (not hi-res) console and apt so that you can do the rest yourself.
You can do it with Debian too, and used like this, Ubuntu and Debian are very similar.
And call it hydrogen fusion power.
So what is it all about? Seriously. TFA is tl;dr
Ok, Virgin Galactic offers $250k space trips for the rich and poor people are poor. But the rest is a jumble of facts with little relationship between them. It looks like the goal is to create an emotional response by contrasting the luxury of space tourism vs the poor conditions some people live in. But what is the underlying story (or non-story)?
My guess is that some poor town invested in that spaceport in an attempt to build an economy around it (tourism, service, etc...) but the returns are less than expected and the town struggles making up for it. Is that it?
Tell this to all my friends (real friends, not Facebook friends).
Where there is a party or something they tend to plan everything via Facebook. And because I rarely log on, I am often a bit left out. They don't forget about me and usually contact me in other ways (real friends, I said) but I often miss out on part of the planning. Same thing for things like pictures and less important discussions.
The worst part is that most of them know what Facebook is all about, the privacy implications and all that. One of them even refusing to use Google services as much as possible for this reason.
I think the truth is that people don't really care about their privacy. Mark Zuckerberg even said it clearly, and it didn't prevent him from making and keeping the most successful social network. Facebook is convenient, that's why it works. You won't make people change with privacy arguments.
Please do.
But you better make sure not to make a single scientific or technical mistake. Otherwise non-nerds will laugh at you for being nerdy and nerds will laugh at you for failing at it. And beware, nerds are better at spotting these than Wikipedia.
https://xkcd.com/1456/ (title text)
So, for you, ads on major services from the likes of Google, Microsoft and Amazon are acceptable where small sites that don't have the resources to run their own ad service can go fuck themselves?
The "own server" criteria is effective because it can catch a lot of ads, but "own server" ads are not better, just harder to block.
If external site blocking becomes ubiquitous, the obvious response would be to make the things happen behind the scenes, where the server gets the ad from the external company and relay it to you while sending back tracking data in return. This would make to harder to distinguish ads vs content and would make tracking almost impossible to prevent. It would also make things technically harder because it would add workload to the webmaster's servers and ad providers would have to take measures to make accurate measurements and prevent cheating (probably by tracking more).
- Father has 5 kids. In a western country, that's a lot.
- Father has a job and also studies, that leaves very little time to care about his kids.
- What about the mother?
- What about the 4 other kids, which are presumably girls, why aren't they smart like that boy?
- Finishing a college degree and having a 8 year old son is quite uncommon.
Taken separately, there is absolutely nothing wrong with these points, but taken together, it starts to smell. I suspect his kids are not in the best environment at home (although it certainly could be worse).
Now, the father complains that his kid isn't "gifted". First, who doesn't think his son is special? Then, the point of "gifted" programs is to put the kids in a more challenging environment. The test here is to make sure that the kids won't drop out, and if parents can help them pass the test, they are also more likely to help them pass the "gifted" classes. It may be a bit unfair but affirmative action won't help in this case, if the kids can't follow, whatever the reason is, it is better to put them in a less challenging class.
In France we use the long scale but the term "billion" is almost never used. The short scale billion is called milliard and for the short scale trillions, we simply use thousands of milliards.
Short scale trillions are so big anyways that they only seem to be used to express national debts. In science and computing, SI prefixes are preferred.
I suspect that racism is more prevalent in genealogists.
Racists tend to care about purity of blood. And the way to check this is, of course, genealogy. So it is likely that racists are more interested in genealogy than most people. Therefore, it is more likely that the proportion of racists among genealogists is higher than the proportion of racists among the general population. That's basic Bayesian statistics, maybe too basic in fact.