Yes, the system has multitasking abilities, but Android is not designed for user-level multitasking. GUIs, frameworks, etc... are all designed for full-screen and developers usually don't expect their apps to be resized. Peripherals like keyboards and mice are supported but like with resizing, apps typically don't use them effectively. If you adapt android to properly support desktop-style usage, you need to rethink the user experience for all apps, living you with something that is basically just linux with dalvik support.
I am not saying that the "right to be forgotten" is bad. I'm saying that the law is stupid. The really stupid part is that search engines have a say in what is and what is not a valid request. It shall be a judge's job.
Here, a cosmologist named Alain Riazuelo criticized J.P. Petit work regarding his theories. He points several mathematical mistakes. J.P. Petit answers by requesting a public confrontation, which, for some reason, doesn't get. He then goes on by saying how cowardly Alain Riazuelo, that he didn't understand anything about his theory, blah blah blah... But nowhere I see him address the technical points raised by his opponent. And no, I don't buy his excuse that he absolutely needs a seminar to defend his position.
They don't just allow them to cherry pick, they require them to. As an European I would have preferred a middle finger, just to show how stupid the law is.
1) Choosing a password should be something you do very infrequently. 2) Our focus should be on protecting passwords against informed statistical attacks and not brute-force attacks. 3) When you do have to choose a password, one of the most important selection criteria should be how many other people have also chosen that same password. 4) One of the most impactful things that we can do as a security community is to change password strength meters and disallow the use of common passwords.
XKCD 936 addresses 2 and 3 With four _random_ common words, you have 44 bits of entropy, guaranteed, and no informed statistical attack will change this. OTOH, common password schemes using clever tricks are more vulnerable (Tr0ub4dor&3 only have 28 bits of entropy if the cracker is smart enough). And with 44 bits of entropy, it is unlikely that someone has chosen the same password. As for strength meters and all this Randall strongly implies that we should focus on length rather than numbers, case and special characters.
I am very skeptical of Jean-Pierre Petit works. He looks more informed than your average quack. He is definitely knowledgeable in aerodynamics and some of his "Lanturlu" comics are really good. However, the way he sees conspiracies everywhere (including UFOs), his reliance on "ad hominem" arguments and tendency to go well beyond his field of expertise is suspicious at best. I'm not saying that his theories are worthless but they shall be taken with much skepticism.
Note that even if PACS basically grants you the same rights as marriage regarding taxes, it doesn't do much regarding inheritance. And in France, even if you write a will, children have priority over at least half of your assets (i.e. you can't disinherit them).
The solution for taxes is PACS which is a form of civil union which have no fidelity requirement and that can be ended at any time without lengthy procedures. Same sex PACS have always been allowed since its creation, in 1999.
A lot of things are flammable in pure oxygen. A few astronauts would have been able to testify, had they been alive... ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A... )
In this case, yes. There are far more evidence that point to a hoax rather than something legit : bogus scientific claims, Rossi's not totally clean past, unusual presentation,... And we are talking about breaking the rules of physics as we know them : an extraordinary claim that requires extraordinary evidence. So yes, there is a tiny, tiny possibility that it is legit and that's why a few scientists and investors are interested but otherwise and without further evidence, it's safe to assume it is a hoax.
What language is as good as Perl for throwaway scripts ? If written countless perl scripts for countless problems such as extracting data from web pages, crude monte-carlo simulations, code generation, merging contact lists, etc... Most of this code is no more, in fact, a lot of it was one-liners directly written on the command line. For this, I don't need a language that is clean, maintainable and readable. I need a language that is featureful, terse and lenient, and it's exactly what Perl is. As an added bonus it is installed by default in most UNIX systems.
Ah, and BTW, it is a legitimate question. A lot of modern languages focus on maintainable code, which is a good thing. However, there are some cases where short term efficiency is more important. I thought about ruby (second in the list of dying lanquages...) but are there more recent alternatives ?
Offshore workers used to be cheaper than an TI-84 calculator and it is the only reason they were hired as their skill level was abysmal. But guess what, low skill doesn't mean stupid, so these offshore workers start getting better, and they start noticing that they are more valuable than the minuscule "wages" they get. As a result they now want to actually get paid, forcing the directors to reconsider that TI-84.
As for the offshore workers. They will probably indeed start their own companies, not just because they are replaced by machines, but because they now have the necessary skills to compete. I believe it is a good thing.
This "flying car" (actually a roadable plane) is most likely to be a toy for private pilots. As such it is better than the sum of its parts. First it solves the problem of parking space. Getting hangar space in your local airfield may be difficult and/or expensive. Second it solves the problem of what to do after you land. Unless the place you want to go is in the airfield itself, you are likely to need a car to move around. Third it offers an alternative in case of bad weather. Unlike airliners many small aircraft can't fly in poor weather conditions, and not all private pilots have the required IFR certification. Also, many small airfields are not equipped to allow instrument landing. As a result it is good to know that you can simply drive back home if you are stuck.
I am an ultralight pilot (LSA in the US) and I faced all three of these problems. They are bad enough to make flying little more than a hobby.
Google is just in a snit that CyanogenMod is fantastically better than stock android, BECAUSE it gives power back to users.
No, the real value of CM is the way they manage to put recent, lightweight android on devices in stead of their manufacturers. Power to users is just a secondary goal, and CM doesn't offer much more than just rooting. For this, the champion is Xposed framework.
Taking 15x as long to follow procedure is fine so long as they hire 15x as many people to do it. Anything less is implicitly telling someone to disobey procedures or be fired. Hiring a shell company subcontractor or other scapegoat should not release the top brass from liability - that's why they get the big paychecks, right?
9 women don't make a baby in one month... And insensitive or not, people hate safety procedures, especially if they are perceived as useless. And people will do anything to skip them. Just see how many drivers don't follow something as simple as a speed limit.
C++ is an enormously powerful and comprehensive language, and it relies on the programmer or organization to use a reasonable subset of it
I use a reasonable subset of C++, I call it C:) Well strictly speaking, C is not a subset of C++ but I consider it good form when writing C to also make if valid C++.
And what you are saying about memory is true in userland code but in the kernel allocating memory is no trivial task. You have to think about paging, DMAs, etc... and your pointers may point to devices rather then memory. Another problem with C++ is that it is hard to know exactly what code is executed and when. With C you just need to follow the code without worrying about a constructor being called or an operator being overloaded. The kernel is a place where you really want to control such things.
It is possible to do kernel level code in C++. I did. But the code was more like "C with classes" than real C++. You can do it the C++ way (within reason) but it would require extreme levels of expertise.
There is a French site called AdopteUnMec.com (adopt a guy) that works by being heavily biased towards women : - free for women, men pay - women can message any men, men need to ask permission first - site is marketed like a shopping site where men are considered products, with tongue-in-cheek ads highlighting their features, or offering "sales". Profiles with pictures are all public though.
It is very successful in France but it failed to gain traction when they tried to export the concept to other countries. Due to their policy they boast a 50-50 men/women ratio and deeper relationships for both sexes.
Fuel cells are the same as conventional generators and power plants : burn fuel => get electricity. The only difference is that you skip all the intermediate steps, which has various advantages such as a higher efficiency, less nuisances, etc... But beside that, there is nothing you can do with fuel cells that you can't do with conventional thermal generation.
The article doesn't speak of large scale power generation but rather the effect of customers producing their own electricity. In fact one of the company cited as an example only owns the wires and doesn't do power generation at all. And one of the proposed solution is indeed for the utility company to install their own PV panels on their customers homes.
It's 41% less revenue for the shareholders, not for the company as a whole. And it is a worst case scenario too. The expected loss is about 8% it the company owns power generation or 15% if it doesn't.
Nothing to do with Apple hate, more like the love of money. Apple is a US company that is very profitable and wants to make loads of cash selling stuff in the EU. Of course the EU want its share, and it knows that Apple can pay.
The problem is not that it is obscure and baroque, the problem is that it tries to be both an interactive shell and a programming language. Zsh is clearly designed as an interactive shell, not something that will be called by a daemon or used in init scripts. As such it can get away with shellshock-like bugs, changing specs and complexity. If it makes the user's life easier, that's ok. Bash also attempt to offer great interactive features but because it is also the interpreter for most shell scripts in linux, it also has to stay consistent and robust. As a result, well, I believe it fails at both. It's way behind zsh as an interactive shell and it's even messier than perl as a programming language.
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Yes, the system has multitasking abilities, but Android is not designed for user-level multitasking. GUIs, frameworks, etc... are all designed for full-screen and developers usually don't expect their apps to be resized. Peripherals like keyboards and mice are supported but like with resizing, apps typically don't use them effectively.
If you adapt android to properly support desktop-style usage, you need to rethink the user experience for all apps, living you with something that is basically just linux with dalvik support.
I am not saying that the "right to be forgotten" is bad. I'm saying that the law is stupid.
The really stupid part is that search engines have a say in what is and what is not a valid request. It shall be a judge's job.
Here is the article that ticked me off : http://www.jp-petit.org/scienc...
Which is a reply to : http://www2.iap.fr/users/riazu...
All these conversations are in French.
Here, a cosmologist named Alain Riazuelo criticized J.P. Petit work regarding his theories. He points several mathematical mistakes. J.P. Petit answers by requesting a public confrontation, which, for some reason, doesn't get. He then goes on by saying how cowardly Alain Riazuelo, that he didn't understand anything about his theory, blah blah blah... But nowhere I see him address the technical points raised by his opponent. And no, I don't buy his excuse that he absolutely needs a seminar to defend his position.
They don't just allow them to cherry pick, they require them to.
As an European I would have preferred a middle finger, just to show how stupid the law is.
1) Choosing a password should be something you do very infrequently.
2) Our focus should be on protecting passwords against informed statistical attacks and not brute-force attacks.
3) When you do have to choose a password, one of the most important selection criteria should be how many other people have also chosen that same password.
4) One of the most impactful things that we can do as a security community is to change password strength meters and disallow the use of common passwords.
XKCD 936 addresses 2 and 3
With four _random_ common words, you have 44 bits of entropy, guaranteed, and no informed statistical attack will change this. OTOH, common password schemes using clever tricks are more vulnerable (Tr0ub4dor&3 only have 28 bits of entropy if the cracker is smart enough). And with 44 bits of entropy, it is unlikely that someone has chosen the same password.
As for strength meters and all this Randall strongly implies that we should focus on length rather than numbers, case and special characters.
I am very skeptical of Jean-Pierre Petit works.
He looks more informed than your average quack. He is definitely knowledgeable in aerodynamics and some of his "Lanturlu" comics are really good.
However, the way he sees conspiracies everywhere (including UFOs), his reliance on "ad hominem" arguments and tendency to go well beyond his field of expertise is suspicious at best. I'm not saying that his theories are worthless but they shall be taken with much skepticism.
Here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
Note that even if PACS basically grants you the same rights as marriage regarding taxes, it doesn't do much regarding inheritance. And in France, even if you write a will, children have priority over at least half of your assets (i.e. you can't disinherit them).
The solution for taxes is PACS which is a form of civil union which have no fidelity requirement and that can be ended at any time without lengthy procedures. Same sex PACS have always been allowed since its creation, in 1999.
A lot of things are flammable in pure oxygen.
A few astronauts would have been able to testify, had they been alive... ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A... )
In this case, yes. ... And we are talking about breaking the rules of physics as we know them : an extraordinary claim that requires extraordinary evidence.
There are far more evidence that point to a hoax rather than something legit : bogus scientific claims, Rossi's not totally clean past, unusual presentation,
So yes, there is a tiny, tiny possibility that it is legit and that's why a few scientists and investors are interested but otherwise and without further evidence, it's safe to assume it is a hoax.
What language is as good as Perl for throwaway scripts ?
If written countless perl scripts for countless problems such as extracting data from web pages, crude monte-carlo simulations, code generation, merging contact lists, etc... Most of this code is no more, in fact, a lot of it was one-liners directly written on the command line.
For this, I don't need a language that is clean, maintainable and readable. I need a language that is featureful, terse and lenient, and it's exactly what Perl is. As an added bonus it is installed by default in most UNIX systems.
Ah, and BTW, it is a legitimate question.
A lot of modern languages focus on maintainable code, which is a good thing. However, there are some cases where short term efficiency is more important. I thought about ruby (second in the list of dying lanquages...) but are there more recent alternatives ?
Offshore workers used to be cheaper than an TI-84 calculator and it is the only reason they were hired as their skill level was abysmal.
But guess what, low skill doesn't mean stupid, so these offshore workers start getting better, and they start noticing that they are more valuable than the minuscule "wages" they get. As a result they now want to actually get paid, forcing the directors to reconsider that TI-84.
As for the offshore workers. They will probably indeed start their own companies, not just because they are replaced by machines, but because they now have the necessary skills to compete. I believe it is a good thing.
I don't think it is mandatory even in the US... yet
If you don't have GPS, emergency services can track you using cell tower data.
This "flying car" (actually a roadable plane) is most likely to be a toy for private pilots. As such it is better than the sum of its parts.
First it solves the problem of parking space. Getting hangar space in your local airfield may be difficult and/or expensive.
Second it solves the problem of what to do after you land. Unless the place you want to go is in the airfield itself, you are likely to need a car to move around.
Third it offers an alternative in case of bad weather. Unlike airliners many small aircraft can't fly in poor weather conditions, and not all private pilots have the required IFR certification. Also, many small airfields are not equipped to allow instrument landing. As a result it is good to know that you can simply drive back home if you are stuck.
I am an ultralight pilot (LSA in the US) and I faced all three of these problems. They are bad enough to make flying little more than a hobby.
Google is just in a snit that CyanogenMod is fantastically better than stock android, BECAUSE it gives power back to users.
No, the real value of CM is the way they manage to put recent, lightweight android on devices in stead of their manufacturers.
Power to users is just a secondary goal, and CM doesn't offer much more than just rooting. For this, the champion is Xposed framework.
Taking 15x as long to follow procedure is fine so long as they hire 15x as many people to do it. Anything less is implicitly telling someone to disobey procedures or be fired. Hiring a shell company subcontractor or other scapegoat should not release the top brass from liability - that's why they get the big paychecks, right?
9 women don't make a baby in one month...
And insensitive or not, people hate safety procedures, especially if they are perceived as useless. And people will do anything to skip them. Just see how many drivers don't follow something as simple as a speed limit.
C++ is an enormously powerful and comprehensive language, and it relies on the programmer or organization to use a reasonable subset of it
I use a reasonable subset of C++, I call it C :)
Well strictly speaking, C is not a subset of C++ but I consider it good form when writing C to also make if valid C++.
And what you are saying about memory is true in userland code but in the kernel allocating memory is no trivial task. You have to think about paging, DMAs, etc... and your pointers may point to devices rather then memory. Another problem with C++ is that it is hard to know exactly what code is executed and when. With C you just need to follow the code without worrying about a constructor being called or an operator being overloaded. The kernel is a place where you really want to control such things.
It is possible to do kernel level code in C++. I did. But the code was more like "C with classes" than real C++. You can do it the C++ way (within reason) but it would require extreme levels of expertise.
in Europe
Google is a US company, so I guess they were at a disadvantage compared to L.A.
There is a French site called AdopteUnMec.com (adopt a guy) that works by being heavily biased towards women :
- free for women, men pay
- women can message any men, men need to ask permission first
- site is marketed like a shopping site where men are considered products, with tongue-in-cheek ads highlighting their features, or offering "sales".
Profiles with pictures are all public though.
It is very successful in France but it failed to gain traction when they tried to export the concept to other countries. Due to their policy they boast a 50-50 men/women ratio and deeper relationships for both sexes.
What ?! Islam can't tolerate Maths ? It's not like Arabs invented a big part of it back then...
Fuel cells are the same as conventional generators and power plants : burn fuel => get electricity.
The only difference is that you skip all the intermediate steps, which has various advantages such as a higher efficiency, less nuisances, etc... But beside that, there is nothing you can do with fuel cells that you can't do with conventional thermal generation.
The article doesn't speak of large scale power generation but rather the effect of customers producing their own electricity. In fact one of the company cited as an example only owns the wires and doesn't do power generation at all.
And one of the proposed solution is indeed for the utility company to install their own PV panels on their customers homes.
It's 41% less revenue for the shareholders, not for the company as a whole. And it is a worst case scenario too.
The expected loss is about 8% it the company owns power generation or 15% if it doesn't.
Nothing to do with Apple hate, more like the love of money.
Apple is a US company that is very profitable and wants to make loads of cash selling stuff in the EU. Of course the EU want its share, and it knows that Apple can pay.
The problem is not that it is obscure and baroque, the problem is that it tries to be both an interactive shell and a programming language.
Zsh is clearly designed as an interactive shell, not something that will be called by a daemon or used in init scripts. As such it can get away with shellshock-like bugs, changing specs and complexity. If it makes the user's life easier, that's ok.
Bash also attempt to offer great interactive features but because it is also the interpreter for most shell scripts in linux, it also has to stay consistent and robust. As a result, well, I believe it fails at both. It's way behind zsh as an interactive shell and it's even messier than perl as a programming language.