Had we been talking about what the acceleration was, you'd be absolutely right. The problem is CPA is a DISTANCE, properly determined by a solution of the Law of Universal Gravitation, f=Gm1m2/d^2, and some integration to determine the relative minima and maxima of f, and when d < r (earth), we have BIG problems.
Isn't this the asteroid that they found they were off by an order of magnitude on the size of a month or so back? Yeah, I wonder if they used the old mass or the corrected mass when they estimated the ballistic trajectory, because, you know, that might make a bit of a difference in just how far it'll miss by...
I like the idea of rolling releases, but given the amount of massively stupid crap that Ubuntu springs on us by just rolling it into a new release (unity, I'm looking at you), I also like the idea of freezing a Ubuntu box at a non-ugly release and having a box that at least receives security updates for a few years
While the Futura technically DOES date back to Ward as well, Ward played Robin and thus rarely drove the Batmobile. Most people think of the live-action Batman as Adam West... Fun fact, Adam West was listed in the Sun Valley, ID white pages as Batman for many years:)
Well, I was going to wait for your karma to catch up with you, your reply really should be -1; flamebait, but clearly that isn't happening, so you'll get the response you deserve. Congratulations on selling your privacy cheap, I'm sure that the rest of the world appreciates you for it. What's the old saying, "if you didn't pay for it, YOU are the product", and you have clearly given them a lot of product to work with, and for that I thank you, as it makes the system work. People like me, who sell their privacy dear, don't get very far without the suck^Wusers that make the "you are the product" a net positive transaction for the Zuckermans of the world, as in they can provide whatever sops of value they allow us all because they're making substantially more from all the free information you're giving them. As for your armchair analysis of my past lives, good on you for giving more of a fuck about my past lives than I do, I hope it serves you well.
EVERY SINGLE TIME I see a privacy breach issue, I see howls of "oh my god, how DARE they". It's easy, YOU LET THEM. You gave them a real phone number to snarf, you told them your real name, you gave them your freaking address and allowed them to turn on location tracking. You don't want people getting your information, DON'T GIVE IT OUT. Or if you do, LIE. Here's a great address to use as code for "none of your damn business": 1060 West Addison Street Chicago, IL 60613 (it's Wrigley Field, made famous as the fake address Elwood registered his car at in Blues Brothers). There's other addresses just as easily translated to "go away", such as 1600 Pennsylvania, Washington, DC. For phone numbers, here's a start: [insert your area code]-555-1212, long distance information. At one point, it was estimated that Elvis was added to any given user base within 72 hours of its opening to the public, I can't verify that anymore, my google-fu is too weak, but it sounds about right.
The fact that we haven't detected them is proof of their intelligence, no? Would YOU want to be contacted by a race thats major claim to fame (as far as they can see) is "I Love Lucy"?
Of course, wait until after the persistent TLS1.0 connection bug gets exploited. Because, you know, nothing says "we care about security" quite as much as making available an exploited protocol.
I've seen this issue from both sides, as a consumer, and as working as a CSR for a cable company. The absolutely hilarious part here is that most consumers that want ala carte channels think that their cable bills will go down with ala carte. Needless to say, they won't. What will end up happening is they'll look at the ten or so most popular channels, make them total $20-$30/month, then make the rest of the other 200+ channels total up to the remaining $30-$50 that cable customers know and dislike. THEN the premiums get thrown in. So basically, ala carte will raise your bills for less service. What's not to like from the Cable company's standpoint?
It's a variant of the MPP attack you can do now, basically, find something shared by system, and append bad stuff to it. Nontrivial in theory, not so much in practice, because of the inordinate amount of things that are running as system that really shouldn't.
Honmestly, the fact that Google+ is aiming for HTML5 games is by and large the reason it'll end up getting and keeping mindshare in the long run. Flash is reliant on Adobe's good graces to get fixes et al, but putting it into the HTML standard means that the FOSS mantra "all bugs are shallow to many eyes" starts having meaning. Basically, it may mean that google+ might have to make some small sacrifices to allow for firefox32767 (or whatever inflated versioning they use this week) compatibility, but it'll have a more robust environment for programmers and a much lower bar to entry (you need all sorts of development tools to make a flash game, you need a text editor to make HTML). Of course mindshare alone doesn't make for a successful platform (I'm looking at you, Commodore), but that mindshare will mean that eventually there will be a much richer gaming environment, and presumably the richer gaming environment will translate into user numbers eventually.
I've seen some pretty dick moves in my day, and tagging a photo with someone else's name, then hiding the evidence from them is pretty much up there. This is the kind of move you make if you wish to terminate a friendship with extreme prejudice. Therefore I expect to see its application almost immediately, in accordance with the Greater Internet Fuckwad theory.
Okay, so Major versions mean "new feature that may be buggy, so avoid.0 releases", Minor versions mean "okay, no new features, let's just concentrate on enhancing performance and security of the features we do have". And FF7's major claim to fame will be performance enhancements and a widget to tell MOZILLA about webpage memory usage. So not only is Firefox 7 breaking the traditional model, it's reporting things to Mozilla that it won't even report to the user. Screw this, if I want phone-home enabled browsers, I'll go with the ones I already KNOW phone home, IE and Chrome.
From the "thank you Captain Obvious" department, something that's in an invite-only beta practically has no users. Really? How did you ever get THAT idea?
Yeah, go right ahead and put a sub-kiloton fissionable in your car, that will work out well when it goes critical. To be fair, it'd have just about the same disastrous consequences of a Pinto gas tank, but the fact that there IS a Pinto gas tank story implies that car manufacturers really don't pay enough attention to when Things Go Really Wrong, and really shouldn't be trusted with things that can ruin many people's days simultaneously.
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aussie rules football is oxymoronic ;P
Had we been talking about what the acceleration was, you'd be absolutely right. The problem is CPA is a DISTANCE, properly determined by a solution of the Law of Universal Gravitation, f=Gm1m2/d^2, and some integration to determine the relative minima and maxima of f, and when d < r (earth), we have BIG problems.
Isn't this the asteroid that they found they were off by an order of magnitude on the size of a month or so back? Yeah, I wonder if they used the old mass or the corrected mass when they estimated the ballistic trajectory, because, you know, that might make a bit of a difference in just how far it'll miss by...
I like the idea of rolling releases, but given the amount of massively stupid crap that Ubuntu springs on us by just rolling it into a new release (unity, I'm looking at you), I also like the idea of freezing a Ubuntu box at a non-ugly release and having a box that at least receives security updates for a few years
While the Futura technically DOES date back to Ward as well, Ward played Robin and thus rarely drove the Batmobile. Most people think of the live-action Batman as Adam West... Fun fact, Adam West was listed in the Sun Valley, ID white pages as Batman for many years :)
Well, I was going to wait for your karma to catch up with you, your reply really should be -1; flamebait, but clearly that isn't happening, so you'll get the response you deserve. Congratulations on selling your privacy cheap, I'm sure that the rest of the world appreciates you for it. What's the old saying, "if you didn't pay for it, YOU are the product", and you have clearly given them a lot of product to work with, and for that I thank you, as it makes the system work. People like me, who sell their privacy dear, don't get very far without the suck^Wusers that make the "you are the product" a net positive transaction for the Zuckermans of the world, as in they can provide whatever sops of value they allow us all because they're making substantially more from all the free information you're giving them. As for your armchair analysis of my past lives, good on you for giving more of a fuck about my past lives than I do, I hope it serves you well.
EVERY SINGLE TIME I see a privacy breach issue, I see howls of "oh my god, how DARE they". It's easy, YOU LET THEM. You gave them a real phone number to snarf, you told them your real name, you gave them your freaking address and allowed them to turn on location tracking. You don't want people getting your information, DON'T GIVE IT OUT. Or if you do, LIE. Here's a great address to use as code for "none of your damn business": 1060 West Addison Street Chicago, IL 60613 (it's Wrigley Field, made famous as the fake address Elwood registered his car at in Blues Brothers). There's other addresses just as easily translated to "go away", such as 1600 Pennsylvania, Washington, DC. For phone numbers, here's a start: [insert your area code]-555-1212, long distance information. At one point, it was estimated that Elvis was added to any given user base within 72 hours of its opening to the public, I can't verify that anymore, my google-fu is too weak, but it sounds about right.
The interesting thing I'm seeing is that the news is propagating via twitter and MSM. I haven't seen a thing about graph search on facebook itself...
It didn't take two years to write JDK in the first place...
The fact that we haven't detected them is proof of their intelligence, no? Would YOU want to be contacted by a race thats major claim to fame (as far as they can see) is "I Love Lucy"?
Of course, wait until after the persistent TLS1.0 connection bug gets exploited. Because, you know, nothing says "we care about security" quite as much as making available an exploited protocol.
I've seen this issue from both sides, as a consumer, and as working as a CSR for a cable company. The absolutely hilarious part here is that most consumers that want ala carte channels think that their cable bills will go down with ala carte. Needless to say, they won't. What will end up happening is they'll look at the ten or so most popular channels, make them total $20-$30/month, then make the rest of the other 200+ channels total up to the remaining $30-$50 that cable customers know and dislike. THEN the premiums get thrown in. So basically, ala carte will raise your bills for less service. What's not to like from the Cable company's standpoint?
Would this be a Quantum Tunnel?
it was late, it's actually MPI, message passing interface. For some reason, I always call it message passing protocol
It's a variant of the MPP attack you can do now, basically, find something shared by system, and append bad stuff to it. Nontrivial in theory, not so much in practice, because of the inordinate amount of things that are running as system that really shouldn't.
I'd presume the same way you pronounce UFIA, since they have similar functions
Since its _Raison d'Etre_ is teaching kids programming, requiring cross-compilation on another machine would be the stupidest move in history.
Is the device going to have a built-in interpreted language ala BASIC, perl, or java, or is the device going to have a full compilation suite?
Honmestly, the fact that Google+ is aiming for HTML5 games is by and large the reason it'll end up getting and keeping mindshare in the long run. Flash is reliant on Adobe's good graces to get fixes et al, but putting it into the HTML standard means that the FOSS mantra "all bugs are shallow to many eyes" starts having meaning. Basically, it may mean that google+ might have to make some small sacrifices to allow for firefox32767 (or whatever inflated versioning they use this week) compatibility, but it'll have a more robust environment for programmers and a much lower bar to entry (you need all sorts of development tools to make a flash game, you need a text editor to make HTML). Of course mindshare alone doesn't make for a successful platform (I'm looking at you, Commodore), but that mindshare will mean that eventually there will be a much richer gaming environment, and presumably the richer gaming environment will translate into user numbers eventually.
I've seen some pretty dick moves in my day, and tagging a photo with someone else's name, then hiding the evidence from them is pretty much up there. This is the kind of move you make if you wish to terminate a friendship with extreme prejudice. Therefore I expect to see its application almost immediately, in accordance with the Greater Internet Fuckwad theory.
The point here isn't WHAT information its gathering, it's that it won't tell me the same information when I ask.
Okay, so Major versions mean "new feature that may be buggy, so avoid .0 releases", Minor versions mean "okay, no new features, let's just concentrate on enhancing performance and security of the features we do have". And FF7's major claim to fame will be performance enhancements and a widget to tell MOZILLA about webpage memory usage. So not only is Firefox 7 breaking the traditional model, it's reporting things to Mozilla that it won't even report to the user. Screw this, if I want phone-home enabled browsers, I'll go with the ones I already KNOW phone home, IE and Chrome.
From the "thank you Captain Obvious" department, something that's in an invite-only beta practically has no users. Really? How did you ever get THAT idea?
You fit in as a leech. And just like leeches, you're as safe, (or unsafe) as the hosts, the ones who share content with you
Yeah, go right ahead and put a sub-kiloton fissionable in your car, that will work out well when it goes critical. To be fair, it'd have just about the same disastrous consequences of a Pinto gas tank, but the fact that there IS a Pinto gas tank story implies that car manufacturers really don't pay enough attention to when Things Go Really Wrong, and really shouldn't be trusted with things that can ruin many people's days simultaneously.