Having read what Chilton(the juror posting here) has said about it, I can agree that Childs completely screwed up. Regardless of what I feel about the ineptitude of the rest of the City employees, he handled this badly.
Guess the Reiser Rule came true here. Give a geek the benefit of the doubt and he'll probably have committed the crime.
I'm all in favor of taxing stupidity... do the Republicans, Focus on the Family, and Think of the Children all oppose this because it places an undue tax burden on their members?
And how would that be beneficial to the survival of the creature, so that it has greater chance of reproducing and spreading that quality than those who didn't develop it? Just cuz it's in a book doesn't mean it makes any sense ya know. Look at the bible.
Because it increases the chance that the two might engage in a mutually beneficial fashion, like ants and aphids or humans and dogs.
A change doesn't need to be beneficial to an individual creature to get propagated, a recessive trait that is beneficial to the species will get propagated just as widely. Obviously, a dominant trait that is detrimental to the individual but beneficial to the species would get bred out without an advanced society to support it.
Heck, you might as well ask why various negative traits, such as allergies, seem to be more prevalent in our society, despite their detriment to the individual. Our society has advanced enough to compensate for it so those individuals don't die the first time somebody gives them a peanut butter sandwich.
The significance of it not being truly cracked even with a basic protection as in AC2 is this: every time Ubisoft releases a new game then the pirates must play through the entire game collecting the values which can take a few weeks to get 100% unless the process can somehow be automated.
The ASUS RT-N16 is an awesome router that is supported by DD-WRT and has been reported to work with Tomato.
If Tomato supports N on that, I'll need to get one. I've got a Asus 500 with Tomato that has been awesome blocking the annoyingly large amount of spam connection attemps(500/sec+) my mailserver gets, but it lacks the GigE ports the N16 has.
Several of Weird Al's songs do not make fun of the original work.
E.g. "I want to be a Jedi" doesn't really parody the original, it just uses the structure to joke about Starwars. Unlike, say, Amish Paradise clearly poking fun at Gangsters Paradise.
The first part(chief exec) has to be taken from the context that Childs was not far from the top and that the people asking him to violate polciy included his boss and the security officer, who was recently put in that position and had been acting a manner consistent with someone testing security, or possibly just clueless. The first time they asked him to violate the rules, it easily could have been a policy test.
As for the secure setting, that's both city policy and just good sense: don't give your password when you don't know exactly who receives it, like in front of a conference phone with an unknown number of people on the other end.
After they canned him, he probably just should have said "screw it" and given them a notarized envelope with the information, which is what I would have done. But I can understand that he might have felt, given the behavior he had already seen and the fact the city had already let go many of the network personnel he considered competent, that it was likely that something would go wrong and he would have accused him of sabotage.
Since the network did not go down while he was in jail, I'd say it is shown that his work was better than his behavior. I doubt his paranoia/egotism was justified, but there would have been even less he could have done to exonerate himself if he had complied and the new staff had screwed things up.
It could be the case that the committee has since eliminated/altered that paragraph, but if they have, they haven't updated that section of their website.
No reference? Right in the middle of the "don't" list in the City's policy is "Do NOT disclose passwords to your boss".
Here, I'll quote it for you:
Do not share passwords with anyone, including administrative assistants or secretaries. All passwords are to be treated as sensitive, confidential information.
Here is a list of things to avoid:
Giving your password over the phone to ANYONE.
Sending a password in an e-mail message.
Telling your boss your password .
Talking about a password in front of others.
Hinting at the format of a password (e.g., "my family name").
Writing in your password on questionnaires or security forms.
Sharing your password with family members.
Telling your co-workers your passwordwhile on vacation.
If someone demands a password, refer him or her to this document or have him or her call someone in Information Security.
Which doesn't really make any sense unless Chell is an android. I suppose you could interpret that as evidence of GlaDOS' insanity, but Chell being an android is as good or better an explanation.
If you had actually listened, the speech at the start of that level mentions the real Test Chamber 16 is currently unavailable due to mandatory scheduled maintenance and that it has been replaced with "a live-fire course designed for military androids".
The university my sister went to added an Intro to Java requirement to liberal arts majors halfway through her stay. Horrible, horrible idea. Even with rampant cheating, GPAs tanked and they scrapped it after two quarters.
Not likely to work, unless these guys are complete idiots and developed their system from scratch. Which isn't out of possibility, but coupon systems have been kind of a commodity service since the turn of the millenium.
Most coupon barcodes don't encode the relevant data anymore, they just encode a key or two to records in a DB somewhere. It use to be that things like price and quantity were encoded directly; but, just like your suggestion, it was too easy to modify a 20 cent off a can of soup coupon into a 20 dollar off a case of beer coupon./did work on barcoding systems, still has a bunch of UCC manuals
"a little LMSD soap opera," a staffer is quoted as saying in an e-mail to Carol Cafiero, the administrator running the program. "I know, I love it," she is quoted as having replied.
... contend e-mails turned over to them by the district suggest [Carol] Cafiero [the system's administrator] "may be a voyeur" who might have viewed some of the photos on her home computer. The motion says Cafiero, who has been placed on paid leave, has failed to turn that computer over to the plaintiffs despite a court order to do so, and asks a judge to sanction her.
It has already been shown that informing teachers that students scored high or low on a fake predictive test will cause a significant change in test scores, so I imagine that this will probably work, regardless of the predictive ability of the system.
Cops will spend more time in these areas and less likely to let identified people off on a warning, thus arrests will be higher even with the same crime rate, which leads to more court cases, more convictions, perhaps higher sentences to "crack down" on "known recidivists", etc.
The local booze shop has some and their blends list only 4 ingredients: propylene glycol, water, nicotine and various "flavorings". Presumably in that order of concentration.
I'm assuming any visible exhalations are mainly glycol.
Actually, I've got an ultrasonic smoke machine handy(no glycol though). *2 minutes later* Most of the visible exhalation is a result of the glycol or any flavoring ingredients. Any water vapor in my lungs got absorbed, only the small amount of water vapor in my mouth was visible when I exhaled.
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I also like how they confused plastic(as in deformation) with plastic(as in chained hydrocarbons)
I've only heard of them because Google had Lala integrated into search results.
Having read what Chilton(the juror posting here) has said about it, I can agree that Childs completely screwed up. Regardless of what I feel about the ineptitude of the rest of the City employees, he handled this badly.
Guess the Reiser Rule came true here. Give a geek the benefit of the doubt and he'll probably have committed the crime.
And when the person replacing him mucked things up, do you think they might not assume he sabotaged things?
Considering the ineptitude the new staff has shown, I can see why he would have been concerned.
There was no "only give to the mayor" rule, but there were "don't tell your boss the password" and "don't say it in front of other people" rules
Yah, and they aren't suffering from it. They rather enjoy it!
Well, at least until the meds kick in.
No, they just don't like the competition.
"Does this make me look fat?".
Blatant lie("No")
Better lie("The other one looks better")
Truth("No, your fat makes you look fat, and your haircut is atrocious")
Which response has the highest net outcome for all parties? Unless the person asking has a truth fetish, they probably want to hear the better lie.
Polite society functions on lies of omission and white lies.
Because it increases the chance that the two might engage in a mutually beneficial fashion, like ants and aphids or humans and dogs.
A change doesn't need to be beneficial to an individual creature to get propagated, a recessive trait that is beneficial to the species will get propagated just as widely. Obviously, a dominant trait that is detrimental to the individual but beneficial to the species would get bred out without an advanced society to support it.
Heck, you might as well ask why various negative traits, such as allergies, seem to be more prevalent in our society, despite their detriment to the individual. Our society has advanced enough to compensate for it so those individuals don't die the first time somebody gives them a peanut butter sandwich.
The significance of it not being truly cracked even with a basic protection as in AC2 is this: every time Ubisoft releases a new game then the pirates must play through the entire game collecting the values which can take a few weeks to get 100% unless the process can somehow be automated.
What, like reverse fuzz testing?
If Tomato supports N on that, I'll need to get one. I've got a Asus 500 with Tomato that has been awesome blocking the annoyingly large amount of spam connection attemps(500/sec+) my mailserver gets, but it lacks the GigE ports the N16 has.
Slight bummer it doesn't seem to do 5GHz...
In treating the cure's side effects.
Several of Weird Al's songs do not make fun of the original work.
E.g. "I want to be a Jedi" doesn't really parody the original, it just uses the structure to joke about Starwars. Unlike, say, Amish Paradise clearly poking fun at Gangsters Paradise.
The first part(chief exec) has to be taken from the context that Childs was not far from the top and that the people asking him to violate polciy included his boss and the security officer, who was recently put in that position and had been acting a manner consistent with someone testing security, or possibly just clueless. The first time they asked him to violate the rules, it easily could have been a policy test.
As for the secure setting, that's both city policy and just good sense: don't give your password when you don't know exactly who receives it, like in front of a conference phone with an unknown number of people on the other end.
After they canned him, he probably just should have said "screw it" and given them a notarized envelope with the information, which is what I would have done. But I can understand that he might have felt, given the behavior he had already seen and the fact the city had already let go many of the network personnel he considered competent, that it was likely that something would go wrong and he would have accused him of sabotage.
Since the network did not go down while he was in jail, I'd say it is shown that his work was better than his behavior. I doubt his paranoia/egotism was justified, but there would have been even less he could have done to exonerate himself if he had complied and the new staff had screwed things up.
Sure:
The overall policy page is:
http://www.sfgov.org/site/coit_index.asp?id=56853
The security policy is specifically:
http://www.sfgov.org/site/coit_page.asp?id=79251
Which basically says "follow the County security policy until we come up with something different"
http://www.sfgov.org/site/uploadedfiles/dtis/coit/Policies_Forms/CCISDA_security.pdf [sfgov.org]
It could be the case that the committee has since eliminated/altered that paragraph, but if they have, they haven't updated that section of their website.
No reference? Right in the middle of the "don't" list in the City's policy is "Do NOT disclose passwords to your boss".
Here, I'll quote it for you:
And you apparently don't understand the mind of an overclocker; they aren't sane.
If you had actually listened, the speech at the start of that level mentions the real Test Chamber 16 is currently unavailable due to mandatory scheduled maintenance and that it has been replaced with "a live-fire course designed for military androids".
The university my sister went to added an Intro to Java requirement to liberal arts majors halfway through her stay. Horrible, horrible idea. Even with rampant cheating, GPAs tanked and they scrapped it after two quarters.
Not likely to work, unless these guys are complete idiots and developed their system from scratch. Which isn't out of possibility, but coupon systems have been kind of a commodity service since the turn of the millenium.
Most coupon barcodes don't encode the relevant data anymore, they just encode a key or two to records in a DB somewhere. It use to be that things like price and quantity were encoded directly; but, just like your suggestion, it was too easy to modify a 20 cent off a can of soup coupon into a 20 dollar off a case of beer coupon. /did work on barcoding systems, still has a bunch of UCC manuals
Snippet from that email:
Assuming the forensics can get everything:
It has already been shown that informing teachers that students scored high or low on a fake predictive test will cause a significant change in test scores, so I imagine that this will probably work, regardless of the predictive ability of the system.
Cops will spend more time in these areas and less likely to let identified people off on a warning, thus arrests will be higher even with the same crime rate, which leads to more court cases, more convictions, perhaps higher sentences to "crack down" on "known recidivists", etc.
The local booze shop has some and their blends list only 4 ingredients: propylene glycol, water, nicotine and various "flavorings". Presumably in that order of concentration.
I'm assuming any visible exhalations are mainly glycol.
Actually, I've got an ultrasonic smoke machine handy(no glycol though). *2 minutes later* Most of the visible exhalation is a result of the glycol or any flavoring ingredients. Any water vapor in my lungs got absorbed, only the small amount of water vapor in my mouth was visible when I exhaled.
I've bolded the answer for you:)