If the genes of clubfoot had no benefit whatsoever, natural selection would drive the condition out of the gene pool.
And yet they don't, and it hasn't.
I don't mean to equate autism with clubfoot, but at the same time you can't assert that "different" must mean "somehow better" simply because it continues to happen.
Space Shuttle is also a little larger and a little more complex. I'm using "little" in the loosest possible way. Comparing SpaceX to Shuttle is like comparing F-150 with Peterbuilt (there you go, a truck analogy:)
All the more reason to not screw around with shuttle launches for routine maintenance trips.
If you "can protect against [the bugs] with proper coding practices", are they really "bugs"? I would say not.
Description: all built-in functions are insecure and will poison your cat and sell your organs.
Workaround: re-implement all native functionality yourself.
Ask yourself something - assuming the student is guilty of the act - what's better for the student and their family:
1. Being suspended for a few days and learning that actions have consequences.
Doesn't matter. Even if that's ostensibly "better for the student and their family", I still see no justification whatsoever for a school having the authority to dole out that punishment for actions taking place outside of school. My daughter got pissed off at my son and bit him this morning while they were sitting in my living room. Should she be suspended for it? It's against school policy, after all.
Neither should we ignore malicious false statements merely because someone claims, "I was just doing a parody."
While Jerry Falwell agrees with you, the US Supreme Court does not. I can be as mean and vicious and petty and spiteful in parody as I want to, with explicit legal protection.
Accusations against teachers and principles of sexual misconduct against their students are typically taken very seriously (with good reason).
This might be the missing piece that damns her case. That accusation is a little too plausible to be a clear-cut parody. She should have accused him of smoking crack with squirrels or something.
So how is a student who makes such statements, apparently in retaliation for being disciplined at school, that different from a student who retaliates by pulling a fire alarm?
If the statements are clearly parody (as doesn't seem to be the case here), the difference is that pulling a fire alarm wasn't unanimously upheld by the SCOTUS.
They don't want this crap. They can't monetize that. They *want* to delete it. They want to have never captured it in the first place, but sadly that ship has sailed. If they delete it, they'll be charged with destroying evidence or whatever the equivalent crime is in the various European jurisdictions in question.
Perhaps I haven't followed this closely enough and it's already been answered, but why wasn't their announcement to the effect of "we accidentally collected this data, which we have already destroyed for your privacy."
Now, compare that to WOW, where I can personally email the CTO directly about a problem, and he'll happily respond with a technical answer, and even admit fault if something went wrong on their end.
That's exactly why I still with my local ISP. They're not the cheapest, but whenever I have a (rare) problem, I can call Dan The CTO and he'll either have it looked at ASAP or tell me what's wrong and how long I can expect it to be down. My end of the bargain is that I don't call him until 1) I'm darn sure the problem's not on my end, and 2) it's been going on for a little while. I'm happy to hold up my end for that level of service.
Also if someone is recording you, you should be allowed to make your own recording of that encounter. The few times on a customer service call where I announced I might also be recording the conversation "for quality assurance purposes", I was transferred immediately to the completely freaked out boss.
They almost always explicitly tell you that you are allowed to record the conversation:
Them: This call may be recorded for quality assurance purposes.
Me: Why, thank you!
Now, statistically, can you explain the odds in all of this occurring over the course of the earth's existance?
I think you're looking for the Anthropic Principle. In summary, all of those things had to be just so, or we wouldn't be here to notice that they were different. It's really just a form of selection bias.
Where is this? Does Microsoft condone this I wonder, especially considering they no longer support XP?? I see that support for the current builds and service pack level for XP is done, again, as of 04/2009!
You misspelled "2014" (reference: the page you sent me).
Where is this? Does Microsoft condone this I wonder, especially considering they no longer support XP?? I see that support for the current builds and service pack level for XP is done, again, as of 04/2009!
You can buy a Dell Inspiron Mini 10, brand new, today, with XP Pro. We're not talking about Bob's Tires and Laptops. If you can get a Dell with XP, then I'd have to say XP is available to the public. The rest of your invalid reasoning can be similarly dismissed.
These location services (google is not the only one) simply create a database of wifi names and correlate them to GPS. I don't see the problem here. If you dont want me to write down your hotspot's ssid then I suggest you stop broadcasting it.
Not quite. Skyhook provides the same service for Apple, and they work by correlating MAC addresses of APs with location.
It was set up by our Windows admin who had little Unix experience before we started hanging out. I suppose it's possible that he has all the AD stuff and Citrix and printing and file services etc. working perfectly and only has a blind spot when it comes to successfully running the Exchange installer, but I kinda doubt it.
I didn't say this happened yesterday. Postfix has improved since then, too, and adds a lot of extra functionality. For one, we have a lot of mailboxes that customers send data to that gets POPped off and handled by various background processes. I don't remember the Byzantine details, but we were paying a nontrivial amount to host those accounts on Exchange. I moved all of those to accounts directly on the Postfix server so that only email destined to be read by employees via Outlook would end up on Exchange.
foo@example.com might end up in Cyrus on the FreeBSD host, or on Exchange. No one outside our company would know which, and we don't pay a penny for all those "storage" accounts.
Or the denial of service attacks possible against an Internet-exposed Exchange server because it simply cannot handle a reasonable amount of direct SMTP traffic, especially broadly distributed spambots?
That is so true. Our Exchange server was falling over at least a couple times a week, even though it was on a fresh install on good hardware and run by a competent admin. It just couldn't stand up to all the dictionary attacks and other jackassery thrown at it. I installed a FreeBSD+Postfix server in front of the Exchange server and configured it to learn which usernames were valid on the Exchange, set up Spamassassin, and let it go. We literally haven't had a single unplanned outage on Exchange since that day.
First, Google's an American company, and even though our IP laws are screwy, it's generally recognized that it's the server's responsibility to block unwanted requests, and not the client's responsibility not to make them (especially in this case where it's obvious that there's no intent of wrongdoing). Second, I guaran-freakin'-tee that no one at Google said, "know what, it's Tuesday and I'm bored; let's fuzz CBravo's CMS to see what happens". Despite your protests, either now or at some point in the past, Google spidered the "edit" URL and is now trying to fetch it. Somehow they found a bunch of links to my site like ".../filtering-spam-postfix?SESS37ae[...]" and try to fetch those. Technically, I'm not publishing those URLs. Who cares? It doesn't hurt anything and I'm not going to whine that Google keeps trying to fetch them.
Seriously, of all the things in the world to get upset about, a search engine's automatic spidering of a URL that got published sometime (even if you don't think it did) is below the noise floor.
Even the wine connosieur, who spends lots of his money on buying *just the right* wine agreed that milkshakes taste better.
Much of it is in context. Milkshakes are more accessible, certainly, but there are times when complexity and challenge are worth the effort. For example, I most efficiently code to techno, but I'd much rather relax at home to something with more depth. Similarly, a chocolate shake goes great with a cheeseburger, but I'd much rather complement a good filet and fried mushrooms with a nice red wine.
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If the genes of clubfoot had no benefit whatsoever, natural selection would drive the condition out of the gene pool.
And yet they don't, and it hasn't.
I don't mean to equate autism with clubfoot, but at the same time you can't assert that "different" must mean "somehow better" simply because it continues to happen.
Space Shuttle is also a little larger and a little more complex. I'm using "little" in the loosest possible way. Comparing SpaceX to Shuttle is like comparing F-150 with Peterbuilt (there you go, a truck analogy :)
All the more reason to not screw around with shuttle launches for routine maintenance trips.
Cows far flung.
If you "can protect against [the bugs] with proper coding practices", are they really "bugs"? I would say not.
Description: all built-in functions are insecure and will poison your cat and sell your organs.
Workaround: re-implement all native functionality yourself.
QED.
Ask yourself something - assuming the student is guilty of the act - what's better for the student and their family:
1. Being suspended for a few days and learning that actions have consequences.
Doesn't matter. Even if that's ostensibly "better for the student and their family", I still see no justification whatsoever for a school having the authority to dole out that punishment for actions taking place outside of school. My daughter got pissed off at my son and bit him this morning while they were sitting in my living room. Should she be suspended for it? It's against school policy, after all.
Neither should we ignore malicious false statements merely because someone claims, "I was just doing a parody."
While Jerry Falwell agrees with you, the US Supreme Court does not. I can be as mean and vicious and petty and spiteful in parody as I want to, with explicit legal protection.
Accusations against teachers and principles of sexual misconduct against their students are typically taken very seriously (with good reason).
This might be the missing piece that damns her case. That accusation is a little too plausible to be a clear-cut parody. She should have accused him of smoking crack with squirrels or something.
So how is a student who makes such statements, apparently in retaliation for being disciplined at school, that different from a student who retaliates by pulling a fire alarm?
If the statements are clearly parody (as doesn't seem to be the case here), the difference is that pulling a fire alarm wasn't unanimously upheld by the SCOTUS.
Viola! Problem solved.
Fiddlesticks.
They don't want this crap. They can't monetize that. They *want* to delete it. They want to have never captured it in the first place, but sadly that ship has sailed. If they delete it, they'll be charged with destroying evidence or whatever the equivalent crime is in the various European jurisdictions in question.
Perhaps I haven't followed this closely enough and it's already been answered, but why wasn't their announcement to the effect of "we accidentally collected this data, which we have already destroyed for your privacy."
Now, compare that to WOW, where I can personally email the CTO directly about a problem, and he'll happily respond with a technical answer, and even admit fault if something went wrong on their end.
That's exactly why I still with my local ISP. They're not the cheapest, but whenever I have a (rare) problem, I can call Dan The CTO and he'll either have it looked at ASAP or tell me what's wrong and how long I can expect it to be down. My end of the bargain is that I don't call him until 1) I'm darn sure the problem's not on my end, and 2) it's been going on for a little while. I'm happy to hold up my end for that level of service.
Also if someone is recording you, you should be allowed to make your own recording of that encounter. The few times on a customer service call where I announced I might also be recording the conversation "for quality assurance purposes", I was transferred immediately to the completely freaked out boss.
They almost always explicitly tell you that you are allowed to record the conversation:
Them: This call may be recorded for quality assurance purposes.
Me: Why, thank you!
The two replies to this post of mine make so much more sense now. :-D
I don't think that's where coffee comes from...
Tell my girlfriend and I'll kick your ass.
That site is fake. All the supposed programmers are under the age of 60.
Now, statistically, can you explain the odds in all of this occurring over the course of the earth's existance?
I think you're looking for the Anthropic Principle. In summary, all of those things had to be just so, or we wouldn't be here to notice that they were different. It's really just a form of selection bias.
Where is this? Does Microsoft condone this I wonder, especially considering they no longer support XP?? I see that support for the current builds and service pack level for XP is done, again, as of 04/2009!
You misspelled "2014" (reference: the page you sent me).
Where is this? Does Microsoft condone this I wonder, especially considering they no longer support XP?? I see that support for the current builds and service pack level for XP is done, again, as of 04/2009!
You can buy a Dell Inspiron Mini 10, brand new, today, with XP Pro. We're not talking about Bob's Tires and Laptops. If you can get a Dell with XP, then I'd have to say XP is available to the public. The rest of your invalid reasoning can be similarly dismissed.
These location services (google is not the only one) simply create a database of wifi names and correlate them to GPS. I don't see the problem here. If you dont want me to write down your hotspot's ssid then I suggest you stop broadcasting it.
Not quite. Skyhook provides the same service for Apple, and they work by correlating MAC addresses of APs with location.
Except for the fact that upgrading an older version of Linux to a newer version is free.
And don't forget that you can still buy XP machines new off-the-shelf today, so yes, you have to count XP vulnerabilities as current.
It was set up by our Windows admin who had little Unix experience before we started hanging out. I suppose it's possible that he has all the AD stuff and Citrix and printing and file services etc. working perfectly and only has a blind spot when it comes to successfully running the Exchange installer, but I kinda doubt it.
I didn't say this happened yesterday. Postfix has improved since then, too, and adds a lot of extra functionality. For one, we have a lot of mailboxes that customers send data to that gets POPped off and handled by various background processes. I don't remember the Byzantine details, but we were paying a nontrivial amount to host those accounts on Exchange. I moved all of those to accounts directly on the Postfix server so that only email destined to be read by employees via Outlook would end up on Exchange.
foo@example.com might end up in Cyrus on the FreeBSD host, or on Exchange. No one outside our company would know which, and we don't pay a penny for all those "storage" accounts.
Or the denial of service attacks possible against an Internet-exposed Exchange server because it simply cannot handle a reasonable amount of direct SMTP traffic, especially broadly distributed spambots?
That is so true. Our Exchange server was falling over at least a couple times a week, even though it was on a fresh install on good hardware and run by a competent admin. It just couldn't stand up to all the dictionary attacks and other jackassery thrown at it. I installed a FreeBSD+Postfix server in front of the Exchange server and configured it to learn which usernames were valid on the Exchange, set up Spamassassin, and let it go. We literally haven't had a single unplanned outage on Exchange since that day.
In the Netherlands you can view http://example.com/command=view&id=12345 but you are not allowed to change that to http://example.com/command=edit&userid=5&id=12345 because you are pretending to be someone you are not (like a failed login attempt). It is about intention in the Netherlands: you do not have to succeed to break the law.
First, Google's an American company, and even though our IP laws are screwy, it's generally recognized that it's the server's responsibility to block unwanted requests, and not the client's responsibility not to make them (especially in this case where it's obvious that there's no intent of wrongdoing). Second, I guaran-freakin'-tee that no one at Google said, "know what, it's Tuesday and I'm bored; let's fuzz CBravo's CMS to see what happens". Despite your protests, either now or at some point in the past, Google spidered the "edit" URL and is now trying to fetch it. Somehow they found a bunch of links to my site like ".../filtering-spam-postfix?SESS37ae[...]" and try to fetch those. Technically, I'm not publishing those URLs. Who cares? It doesn't hurt anything and I'm not going to whine that Google keeps trying to fetch them.
Seriously, of all the things in the world to get upset about, a search engine's automatic spidering of a URL that got published sometime (even if you don't think it did) is below the noise floor.
Most of the people I know who fall under this description dislike psychologists the most of all scientists and/or academics.
Still kicking it with Tom Cruise?
Not really. It just means your tastes are more discrete.
Even the wine connosieur, who spends lots of his money on buying *just the right* wine agreed that milkshakes taste better.
Much of it is in context. Milkshakes are more accessible, certainly, but there are times when complexity and challenge are worth the effort. For example, I most efficiently code to techno, but I'd much rather relax at home to something with more depth. Similarly, a chocolate shake goes great with a cheeseburger, but I'd much rather complement a good filet and fried mushrooms with a nice red wine.
BTW, if 86 glossy A4 pages makes a difference to you, get to the gym as they will weigh less then 100 grams.
That's an extra $47.83 in gate fees.