Good code has documentation for knowing what it should do, and has unit tests to verify that it actually does that. If there are any problems good code can be modified to meet the (possibly changed) requirements better, while unit tests ensure the modifications do not make the code worse. Code which cannot be modified is not good code. It's that simple.
The most expensive digital media market wants the prices found in the markets in regions that have totally different income brackets and standards of living?
The general idea of EU is to unify these "totally different income brackets and standards of living". There are special huge help programs for poorer member states.
Big ferries take about 4 hours to cross the gulf (70 km). The 90 minutes mentioned in the summary does indeed apply for newer hydrofoil boats which have max speed about 70 km/h and take little or no cars on board (and have more expensive tickets). The number mentioned for the train (30 minutes) is 8 times less than for large ferries.
Missing from the summary: this project does not make sense without proper railway connection from Tallinn to central Europe (this is Rail Baltic, about to be started in "near" future and expected to be ready around 2025).
It's one thing to trust the server to be who you expect it to be.
It's something completely different to trust that server to tell you how to authenticate all the other servers that you know about. That requires a LOT more trust than "this server is the one I expected"
This is not what this is about. TFA talks only about updating keys for the same server as far as I can see.
If the devil payed you to successfully research a method to eliminate poverty would you do take his money?
If your goal is to eliminate poverty there is no need to research for a new method. The efficiency of producing food and buildings has gone up by a factor of tens or hundreds in last few centuries. If the humankind has still been not able to provide all people with enough food and shelter, then it's just a shame.
There are real, legitimate concerns and reasons to MITM. If you don't like it, don't do non-company things on company Internet and equipment.
All this somehow loses importance if I am allowed and expected to take my laptop to home half of the time and doing company things using my home internet and equipment. Well, I am basically forced to do that because their MITM software does not work properly with the dropbox software of some customers. So I have to download and upload those 200 MB files over my home connection, just to do my work.
If I really wanted to send over some sensitive information to somebody, you can be sure I would find a way to do this. And about malware, the only malware which I have seen on my computer is the company-enforced Symantec antivirus crapware. So there...
What browser can't an employer control to do a MitM attack? You can turn off cert pinning in both Chrome and Firefox, as well as add your own cert...
I am hoping this would require more access to my machine than they have got, but I may be wrong. Fortunately the IT department is at least physically located in another country;-)
I guess they've got to have a browser, every OS comes with one. It used to be that Microsoft was at their best as the underdog. If the browser were good enough, I'd switch... I have no loyalty to my browser. Adding value is fine with me--if it really is value and not bloat. I don't see it happening, but you never know.
With IE, it's more like misfeatures, like hiding the fact that my employer is carrying out a MITM attack on my encrypted connections. So sorry, there is no chance I would switch to it.
To be fair, though, the only two forms of generic programming I know a little about are the template approach in C++ and the duck-typing approach in Python. Both of those rely heavily on classes.
Presence of classes does not automatically mean OO. In C you also have structs and can store also function pointers in them to mimic virtual functions, yet nobody says C is an OO language. For "real" OO one needs at least derivation/inheritance and virtual method overriding. In C++, one could implement containers, iterators and algorithms without any derivation or virtual functions whatsoever, so in my mind, no OO is involved in STL.
The reason is, AI will have no 'motivation'. [...] Without a sense of self preservation it won't 'feel' a need to defend itself.
This idea (not saying that I fully agree with it) is quite nicely played out in the recent "Automata" movie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automata (film)). The critics could not make heads or tails of it, because they assumed the movies should be about people.
This is NOT revisionism or censorship. The fact we got to be forgotten is a something we enjoyed for most of our history. Until google and search engine came along, then it went out of the window.
You are right, this is not revisionism or censorship. It is luddism. You cannot turn back the wheels. What do you think the HR people do when they realize google does not give them all results about job applicants any more? That's right, they use another search engine. Or build their own.
Nowadays the society has a lot better memory, one just needs to acknowledge this. And the society needs to learn to forgive. By legal means if necessary.
two obscure commissioners on a "Digital Agenda" committee no one here has ever heard of?
European Pirate Party is certainly pro-open source and has made some comments:
Oettinger and Ansip are like night and day,” said Julia Reda, an MEP with the European Pirate Party, which focuses on internet regulation. “I am very pleasantly surprised by [Ansip's] level of understanding. He didn’t say anything outrageous in any case, which is a huge improvement over Oettinger.
Information does travel through space at a velocity faster than c - see the EPR paradox, which was subsequently questioned by Bell, and then experimentally tested by Alan Aspect (sorry I don't know the correct French spelling for his name).
Based on the evidence, quantum information does seem to travel faster than c.
Given the paradox of the wave-function collapse within the Copenhagen interpretation of QM (once a particle is measured it takes on a definite set of properties, which means that the wave-function must collapse everywhere simultaneously) it suggests that quantum information is transfered instantaneously.
This most probably shows that the wave-function-collapse interpretation does not have much to do with the reality and is just an artifact of the theory.
There are other interpretations which do not involve such mysterious collapses and provide smooth transition from quantum to macroscopic level. The logically most consistent one is the many-worlds interpretation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation).
It's not going to change it's mind half way to New York and go somewhere else.
This means inadequate planning and needless wasting of nonrenewable resources of the planet. If that's all we can offer against AI, I'm afraid we are doomed anyway.
The implementation of this Google policy seems quite strange. The article "BBC - Peston's Picks: Merrill's mess" can be found via google.com, it is the first (non-advertised) hit in https://www.google.com/#q=Stan.... When searching via a Google site in Europe (https://www.google.ee/#q=Stan+O%27Neal+site%3Awww.bbc.co.uk), the title "BBC - Peston's Picks: Merrill's mess" does not appear in the search results, but there is an entry:
Forbidden - BBC
www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/.../2007/10/.../index.htm...Tõlgi see leht
29.10.2007 - All weekend, wave after wave of schadenfreude has been crashing on the head of Stan O'Neal, the chairman of Merrill Lynch. After Merrill...
BBC News - Have Your Say
When clicking on this title (http://www.google.ee/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCQQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fblogs%2Fthereporters%2Frobertpeston%2F2007%2F10%2F29%2Findex.html&ei=IeG0U5O0NYa0PL-BgbgJ&usg=AFQjCNEfFXYrZu2W1GwPGwaq9Z19g_171Q&bvm=bv.70138588,d.ZWU ), the original article appears!
So, effectively Google displays the result, but says it is forbidden to read it? I'm baffled.
If every website must comply with every law in every country where the website can be seen [...]
Wikipedia donation requests are very targeted. I saw the donation request while browsing in my corporate VPN (the gateway to internet happens to reside in GB) and wanted to donate some money, but the system did not allow me to enter a credit card address outside of GB, so I gave up. When browsing at home, I have never seen a donation request, probably they think there would be no point in putting one up for my country.
At a minimum wouldn't that eliminate time dealing with syntax errors?
It seems to be a general concept that if one cannot make any mistakes using a system, then the system is not flexible enough to achieve anything interesting. And syntax errors cannot be clearly distinguished from semantic ones, when you make a system where every combination of tokens is syntactically valid, then there will be either a lot of semantic errors (think of writing machine code directly - almost any bit pattern is a valid opcode, so no syntax mistakes), or the system would be too rigid to be useful.
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Good code has documentation for knowing what it should do, and has unit tests to verify that it actually does that. If there are any problems good code can be modified to meet the (possibly changed) requirements better, while unit tests ensure the modifications do not make the code worse. Code which cannot be modified is not good code. It's that simple.
The most expensive digital media market wants the prices found in the markets in regions that have totally different income brackets and standards of living?
The general idea of EU is to unify these "totally different income brackets and standards of living". There are special huge help programs for poorer member states.
Big ferries take about 4 hours to cross the gulf (70 km). The 90 minutes mentioned in the summary does indeed apply for newer hydrofoil boats which have max speed about 70 km/h and take little or no cars on board (and have more expensive tickets). The number mentioned for the train (30 minutes) is 8 times less than for large ferries.
Missing from the summary: this project does not make sense without proper railway connection from Tallinn to central Europe (this is Rail Baltic, about to be started in "near" future and expected to be ready around 2025).
It's one thing to trust the server to be who you expect it to be.
It's something completely different to trust that server to tell you how to authenticate all the other servers that you know about. That requires a LOT more trust than "this server is the one I expected"
This is not what this is about. TFA talks only about updating keys for the same server as far as I can see.
If the devil payed you to successfully research a method to eliminate poverty would you do take his money?
If your goal is to eliminate poverty there is no need to research for a new method. The efficiency of producing food and buildings has gone up by a factor of tens or hundreds in last few centuries. If the humankind has still been not able to provide all people with enough food and shelter, then it's just a shame.
There are real, legitimate concerns and reasons to MITM. If you don't like it, don't do non-company things on company Internet and equipment.
All this somehow loses importance if I am allowed and expected to take my laptop to home half of the time and doing company things using my home internet and equipment. Well, I am basically forced to do that because their MITM software does not work properly with the dropbox software of some customers. So I have to download and upload those 200 MB files over my home connection, just to do my work.
If I really wanted to send over some sensitive information to somebody, you can be sure I would find a way to do this. And about malware, the only malware which I have seen on my computer is the company-enforced Symantec antivirus crapware. So there...
What browser can't an employer control to do a MitM attack? You can turn off cert pinning in both Chrome and Firefox, as well as add your own cert...
I am hoping this would require more access to my machine than they have got, but I may be wrong. Fortunately the IT department is at least physically located in another country ;-)
I guess they've got to have a browser, every OS comes with one. It used to be that Microsoft was at their best as the underdog. If the browser were good enough, I'd switch... I have no loyalty to my browser. Adding value is fine with me--if it really is value and not bloat. I don't see it happening, but you never know.
With IE, it's more like misfeatures, like hiding the fact that my employer is carrying out a MITM attack on my encrypted connections. So sorry, there is no chance I would switch to it.
To be fair, though, the only two forms of generic programming I know a little about are the template approach in C++ and the duck-typing approach in Python. Both of those rely heavily on classes.
Presence of classes does not automatically mean OO. In C you also have structs and can store also function pointers in them to mimic virtual functions, yet nobody says C is an OO language. For "real" OO one needs at least derivation/inheritance and virtual method overriding. In C++, one could implement containers, iterators and algorithms without any derivation or virtual functions whatsoever, so in my mind, no OO is involved in STL.
And what about the STL guy who was just interviewed here?
STL has little to do with OO, it's mostly about algorithms and generic programming.
The reason is, AI will have no 'motivation'. [...] Without a sense of self preservation it won't 'feel' a need to defend itself.
This idea (not saying that I fully agree with it) is quite nicely played out in the recent "Automata" movie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automata (film)). The critics could not make heads or tails of it, because they assumed the movies should be about people.
It is a public forum. Anyone, including an NSA agent can browse all your postings regardless of any encryption used between you and this site.
Nobody can browse my posts if I am posting as "anonymous coward" ... except that is not quite true without a secure connection!
This is NOT revisionism or censorship. The fact we got to be forgotten is a something we enjoyed for most of our history. Until google and search engine came along, then it went out of the window.
You are right, this is not revisionism or censorship. It is luddism. You cannot turn back the wheels. What do you think the HR people do when they realize google does not give them all results about job applicants any more? That's right, they use another search engine. Or build their own.
Nowadays the society has a lot better memory, one just needs to acknowledge this. And the society needs to learn to forgive. By legal means if necessary.
This is 400*250 = 100 000W = 100 kW. To transfer 85 kWh one needs almost an hour.
two obscure commissioners on a "Digital Agenda" committee no one here has ever heard of?
European Pirate Party is certainly pro-open source and has made some comments:
Oettinger and Ansip are like night and day,” said Julia Reda, an MEP with the European Pirate Party, which focuses on internet regulation. “I am very pleasantly surprised by [Ansip's] level of understanding. He didn’t say anything outrageous in any case, which is a huge improvement over Oettinger.
Source: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0... (if this appears paywalled, try via Google).
8 C is a cold winter day
8 C is a cold summer day - there, fixed it ... for me :(
The shitting dogs magnetic line orientation study is bound to belong among winners!
http://www.frontiersinzoology....
Information does travel through space at a velocity faster than c - see the EPR paradox, which was subsequently questioned by Bell, and then experimentally tested by Alan Aspect (sorry I don't know the correct French spelling for his name).
Based on the evidence, quantum information does seem to travel faster than c.
Given the paradox of the wave-function collapse within the Copenhagen interpretation of QM (once a particle is measured it takes on a definite set of properties, which means that the wave-function must collapse everywhere simultaneously) it suggests that quantum information is transfered instantaneously.
This most probably shows that the wave-function-collapse interpretation does not have much to do with the reality and is just an artifact of the theory. There are other interpretations which do not involve such mysterious collapses and provide smooth transition from quantum to macroscopic level. The logically most consistent one is the many-worlds interpretation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation).
It's not going to change it's mind half way to New York and go somewhere else.
This means inadequate planning and needless wasting of nonrenewable resources of the planet. If that's all we can offer against AI, I'm afraid we are doomed anyway.
Forbidden - BBC ...
BBC News - Have Your Say
www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/.../2007/10/.../index.htm...Tõlgi see leht
29.10.2007 - All weekend, wave after wave of schadenfreude has been crashing on the head of Stan O'Neal, the chairman of Merrill Lynch. After Merrill
When clicking on this title (http://www.google.ee/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCQQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fblogs%2Fthereporters%2Frobertpeston%2F2007%2F10%2F29%2Findex.html&ei=IeG0U5O0NYa0PL-BgbgJ&usg=AFQjCNEfFXYrZu2W1GwPGwaq9Z19g_171Q&bvm=bv.70138588,d.ZWU ), the original article appears! So, effectively Google displays the result, but says it is forbidden to read it? I'm baffled.
by generating a unique executable for each install
... and cloning a unique customer support team for each install!
If every website must comply with every law in every country where the website can be seen [...]
Wikipedia donation requests are very targeted. I saw the donation request while browsing in my corporate VPN (the gateway to internet happens to reside in GB) and wanted to donate some money, but the system did not allow me to enter a credit card address outside of GB, so I gave up. When browsing at home, I have never seen a donation request, probably they think there would be no point in putting one up for my country.
At a minimum wouldn't that eliminate time dealing with syntax errors?
It seems to be a general concept that if one cannot make any mistakes using a system, then the system is not flexible enough to achieve anything interesting. And syntax errors cannot be clearly distinguished from semantic ones, when you make a system where every combination of tokens is syntactically valid, then there will be either a lot of semantic errors (think of writing machine code directly - almost any bit pattern is a valid opcode, so no syntax mistakes), or the system would be too rigid to be useful.
For example, there could be two ways to reboot your PC:
1) Pull the side-window thing over, go to Settings, then Power, then Reboot
2) Click Start, click the Arrow beside Shutdown, then click Reboot
Why so complicated? I press:
3) [Windows] [Right-arrow] [Space]
This used to be Windows-U-something, but OK.