Then why not shut the website down altogether? Even a static page is vulnerable to attack, costs bandwidth, etc. If the web servers are on the same network, then the database servers and application servers are also vulnerable. You're just talking about a matter of degrees, whereas actually unplugging machines from the network would totally eliminate the problems you listed.
The biggest difference between the the law of gravity and climate change science is that the former has an extremely strong record of prediction. Just about every time the law of gravity is tested (in situations where Newtonian physics applies), its predictions are correct. Climate change predictions are very often found to be incorrect, and by large margins. While this is a credit to science that such errors are publicized and corrected, one should acknowledge that basing global public policy on the strength of these predictions is a gamble.
Cristina Romer, an economist of some merit, established that the policy that played the largest role in ending the Great Depression was monetary expansion. She established this by comparing the economic performance of other countries, and found a strong correlation between the institution of an expanionist policy, and economic recovery. One of her conclusions, IIRC, was that the policies of direct payments and make-work jobs actually delayed the recovery.
This does not refute your main point, rather it supports it. The policy was one that can only come from a central bank, and so is consistent with the Keynesian school of thought.
A religion is defined as a "specific fundamental set of beliefs and practices generally agreed upon by a number of persons or sects"
Even atheists have a fundamental set of beliefs.
Atheists do not share a fundamental set of beliefs; they share a common disbelief. There may be widespread similarities between other beliefs that atheists do have, but those similarities have no part in defining one as atheist.
A GoDaddy Virtual Dedicated Server is *not* the property of the party who purchases the service, it is the property of GoDaddy. Read the product literature and the service agreement, and you will find that at no point are you granted the right to take sole control of the root account. This would be like insisting on changing the lock on an apartment so that only you have access to it. The strongest promise they make is that you will have administrative access so that you can install whatever you want.
GoDaddy did nothing wrong, but it's good that they put the best possible face on it.
P.S. If you don't have a Masters degree or equivalent in a physical science, then you are absolutely not qualified to interpret any climate data or its validity, so stop trying. If climate studies seem clear to you, it is because they have been dumbed down so that you will *think* you understand the issue. The best you can do is ready a lot of studies and attempt to read between the lines in each of them, but you will never actually understand what is going on... the climate scientists aren't even at that level.
You don't have to have a PhD in the relevant field to know when some is doing science wrong. When a research facility hides its data and refuses to reveal the precise methods -- in this case, source code -- by which another facility can duplicate its results, that is doing it wrong.
On one hand, 2^256 is a damn big keyspace. I've heard people say a collision is about as likely as winning every lottery in the world simultaneously, and then doing it again next week. Bug give enough computers with enough blocks enough time, and find a SHA1 collision you will. Depending on what kind of data it happens to, you might not even notice it.
2^256 = 10^77, which is only three orders of magnitude smaller than the number of atoms in the observable universe. The chances against a key collision are *puts on sunglasses* astronomical.
I think the main problem here is that Palm is trying to get a free ride from Apple's software development efforts. Apple created the iPod product in order to make money, and offered the iTunes player as a free solution so that Windows users could manage their iPods. If I were to write a free software utility whose main purpose was to support my hardware product, and a competitor spoofed my hardware product so that they didn't have to waste the time and money to write their own software utility, I would feel cheated.
iTunes was written for the purpose of managing Apple's hardware products. Getting a free ride on the back of Apple's software developers is not a right that any vendor has.
Apple employees have contributed the majority of work on WebKit since it became an independent project. Apple uses WebKit for Safari on Mac OS X, iPhone and Windows; on the former two it is also a system framework and used by many other applications. Apple's contribution has included extensive work on standards compliance, Web compatibility, performance, security, robustness, testing infrastructure and development of major new features.
Grappling is suitably only for one-on-one, preferably caged and regulated, matches. A ninja would kill a grappler from a distance. An army of Shaolin monks would kill and army of grapplers in minutes.
People pay something like $12/mo. for TiVo service, on top of the $30-$100 they spend on cable. Do you know how much downloadable TV that would pay for?
You're missing something. Look to the near future and you will find all major network programming, starting with all of ABC, available on the iTunes store. A device like the iTV would allow you to cancel your cable service. The business model of transmitting a 24x7x100(channels) feed of random crap for a fixed monthly fee is showing its age, and is well due to be replaced.
If these are analog signals, does the DMCA apply here? Is cleaning noise out of a signal considered "hacking" now?
Macrovision is trivially defeated with a simple, off-the-shelf, $10 video switch that you can buy at any big-box electronics store. Video switches do not have automatic gain control, because they are not "analog recording devices" under the DMCA. Lacking this feature means they are immune to Macrovision. The video output from the switch can then be routed to the recording device of your choice, with Macrovision stripped away.
No, you've got it backwards. Have you been to India? Lower-class Indians live in filth and poverty. The $800/mo. Indian programmer's lifestyle is still not very good. They can't afford a decent car, but everyone else is riding about in a moped or on foot. This programmer's housing is what we would consider middle-class; the lower classes live in shacks, or worse, tents or even huts.
It always amazes me that US workers actually defend companies that can fire employees for no particular reason. In the UK I know that they have to jump through hoops to get rid of me (for anything but gross misconduct), and that's exactly how it should be.
Imagine the reverse for a moment: a hard-working but visionless CEO presides over year after year of financial losses, dragging a company to the brink of bankruptcy. None of this is due to misconduct, but simply due to decisions that turn out not to be in the best interests of the company. Should this CEO be allowed to keep plugging away at her job, because she needs her pay, regardless of the harm to the other employees, the investors, and the customer?
If your answer is "no," then why should it be any different for any other employee? If the company will perform better without them than with them, that is sufficient reason to let them go. However, employees should be smart enough and organized enough to arrange for adequate severance, whether through individual negotiations (as is typical with corporate officers), collective negotiations, or through legislation. Once the agreement is made, though, then any dismissal not motivated by sheer malice becomes perfectly fair.
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Then why not shut the website down altogether? Even a static page is vulnerable to attack, costs bandwidth, etc. If the web servers are on the same network, then the database servers and application servers are also vulnerable. You're just talking about a matter of degrees, whereas actually unplugging machines from the network would totally eliminate the problems you listed.
Then why not actually shut the servers down? Any website is an attack vector, so you're just talking about a matter of degrees.
Don't forget that it was the federal government that codified slavery and segregation in the first place.
The biggest difference between the the law of gravity and climate change science is that the former has an extremely strong record of prediction. Just about every time the law of gravity is tested (in situations where Newtonian physics applies), its predictions are correct. Climate change predictions are very often found to be incorrect, and by large margins. While this is a credit to science that such errors are publicized and corrected, one should acknowledge that basing global public policy on the strength of these predictions is a gamble.
Cristina Romer, an economist of some merit, established that the policy that played the largest role in ending the Great Depression was monetary expansion. She established this by comparing the economic performance of other countries, and found a strong correlation between the institution of an expanionist policy, and economic recovery. One of her conclusions, IIRC, was that the policies of direct payments and make-work jobs actually delayed the recovery.
This does not refute your main point, rather it supports it. The policy was one that can only come from a central bank, and so is consistent with the Keynesian school of thought.
A religion is defined as a "specific fundamental set of beliefs and practices generally agreed upon by a number of persons or sects"
Even atheists have a fundamental set of beliefs.
Atheists do not share a fundamental set of beliefs; they share a common disbelief. There may be widespread similarities between other beliefs that atheists do have, but those similarities have no part in defining one as atheist.
A GoDaddy Virtual Dedicated Server is *not* the property of the party who purchases the service, it is the property of GoDaddy. Read the product literature and the service agreement, and you will find that at no point are you granted the right to take sole control of the root account. This would be like insisting on changing the lock on an apartment so that only you have access to it. The strongest promise they make is that you will have administrative access so that you can install whatever you want.
GoDaddy did nothing wrong, but it's good that they put the best possible face on it.
It was company time *you* were wasting. You should not leave your firewall open to a vendor for an indefinite time.
P.S. If you don't have a Masters degree or equivalent in a physical science, then you are absolutely not qualified to interpret any climate data or its validity, so stop trying. If climate studies seem clear to you, it is because they have been dumbed down so that you will *think* you understand the issue. The best you can do is ready a lot of studies and attempt to read between the lines in each of them, but you will never actually understand what is going on... the climate scientists aren't even at that level.
You don't have to have a PhD in the relevant field to know when some is doing science wrong. When a research facility hides its data and refuses to reveal the precise methods -- in this case, source code -- by which another facility can duplicate its results, that is doing it wrong.
A Philips screwdriver and 15 minutes of your life will suffice to clean the inside of your mouse too.
Unless it's an Apple mouse, which is sealed for all eternity and cannot be user-serviced.
Does it occur to you that the Magic Mouse, lacking buttons and balls, doesn't ever get dirty on the inside?
On one hand, 2^256 is a damn big keyspace. I've heard people say a collision is about as likely as winning every lottery in the world simultaneously, and then doing it again next week. Bug give enough computers with enough blocks enough time, and find a SHA1 collision you will. Depending on what kind of data it happens to, you might not even notice it.
2^256 = 10^77, which is only three orders of magnitude smaller than the number of atoms in the observable universe. The chances against a key collision are *puts on sunglasses* astronomical.
I think the main problem here is that Palm is trying to get a free ride from Apple's software development efforts. Apple created the iPod product in order to make money, and offered the iTunes player as a free solution so that Windows users could manage their iPods. If I were to write a free software utility whose main purpose was to support my hardware product, and a competitor spoofed my hardware product so that they didn't have to waste the time and money to write their own software utility, I would feel cheated.
iTunes was written for the purpose of managing Apple's hardware products. Getting a free ride on the back of Apple's software developers is not a right that any vendor has.
Not to mention WebKit, whose website states:
Apple employees have contributed the majority of work on WebKit since it became an independent project. Apple uses WebKit for Safari on Mac OS X, iPhone and Windows; on the former two it is also a system framework and used by many other applications. Apple's contribution has included extensive work on standards compliance, Web compatibility, performance, security, robustness, testing infrastructure and development of major new features.
Grappling is suitably only for one-on-one, preferably caged and regulated, matches. A ninja would kill a grappler from a distance. An army of Shaolin monks would kill and army of grapplers in minutes.
Moderate parent up. Every business and individual should have the right to end a business relationship that is not its best interests.
People pay something like $12/mo. for TiVo service, on top of the $30-$100 they spend on cable. Do you know how much downloadable TV that would pay for?
You're missing something. Look to the near future and you will find all major network programming, starting with all of ABC, available on the iTunes store. A device like the iTV would allow you to cancel your cable service. The business model of transmitting a 24x7x100(channels) feed of random crap for a fixed monthly fee is showing its age, and is well due to be replaced.
If these are analog signals, does the DMCA apply here? Is cleaning noise out of a signal considered "hacking" now?
Macrovision is trivially defeated with a simple, off-the-shelf, $10 video switch that you can buy at any big-box electronics store. Video switches do not have automatic gain control, because they are not "analog recording devices" under the DMCA. Lacking this feature means they are immune to Macrovision. The video output from the switch can then be routed to the recording device of your choice, with Macrovision stripped away.
No, you've got it backwards. Have you been to India? Lower-class Indians live in filth and poverty. The $800/mo. Indian programmer's lifestyle is still not very good. They can't afford a decent car, but everyone else is riding about in a moped or on foot. This programmer's housing is what we would consider middle-class; the lower classes live in shacks, or worse, tents or even huts.
Guess why it's hotter on Venus than on Mercury.
Because you're comparing atmospheric temperature, and Venus has a denser atmosphere?
It always amazes me that US workers actually defend companies that can fire employees for no particular reason. In the UK I know that they have to jump through hoops to get rid of me (for anything but gross misconduct), and that's exactly how it should be.
Imagine the reverse for a moment: a hard-working but visionless CEO presides over year after year of financial losses, dragging a company to the brink of bankruptcy. None of this is due to misconduct, but simply due to decisions that turn out not to be in the best interests of the company. Should this CEO be allowed to keep plugging away at her job, because she needs her pay, regardless of the harm to the other employees, the investors, and the customer?
If your answer is "no," then why should it be any different for any other employee? If the company will perform better without them than with them, that is sufficient reason to let them go. However, employees should be smart enough and organized enough to arrange for adequate severance, whether through individual negotiations (as is typical with corporate officers), collective negotiations, or through legislation. Once the agreement is made, though, then any dismissal not motivated by sheer malice becomes perfectly fair.
HP executives will not be taking any paycuts or reductions (despite poor company performance)
Hello? At least *one* executive, particularly the one named Carly, took a 100% pay cut due to poor company performance.
What they need to do is get rid of some overpriced C*Os and sell a couple of airplanes.
Apart from the other well-debunked tripe which I've snipped, don't you think HP has already done the above? What was her name?
Surely those must be signs of life on Mars, no?