Personally, I much prefer placeholders / bind variables. They do help with sanitizing the data, but also ( for databases which have the feature ) can really reduce CPU utilization ( since the "same" statement isn't reparsed over and over again just because the variables changed ).
While Apple can't prevent people from downloading dangerous stuff, Leopard has a new feature to tag downloaded applications as coming off the Internet.
Wait... don't tell me they implemented RFC 3514 .;-)
Air power certainly is useful against large troop formations, stand alone structures ( and structures in a mixed environment with either guided munitions or saturation bombing ) in the right terrain. Deserts are particularly good environments; mountains much less so.
If one presumes a civil war between religiously motivated / secular combatants, I'd think that it would quickly devolve into the level of insurgency. Even if one side, say, turned San Francisco ( or Mobile, Alabama ) to rubble through air strikes, this would likely have the effect of mobilizing the other side into greater action ( or, at least, mobilizing a "radical" element ).
Please keep in mind: I'm not arguing with the inferred strategy, but rather it's effectiveness.
In my view, that is precisely why various Fundamentalist Christian Dominionist movements are, for many years now, desperately attempting to take over the Air Force, for they see it as the key deciding factor in any future conflagration.
Which would work so well, since airpower is the deciding factor in the current Iraq campaigns... oh, wait...
If any dear readers are wondering what the parent poster is on about, read this for a short introduction.
10 years ago a SWAT team here in Boston made a felony entry into the wrong apartment and ended up roughing up an elderly priest named Accelynne Williams so badly that he ended up dying of a heart attack.
If we pursue this plan, by late 2006 any two adjacent public CCTV terminals -- or private camcorders equipped with a digital video link -- will be reprogrammable by any authenticated MAGINOT BLUE STARS superuser to permit the operator to turn them into a SCORPION STARE basilisk weapon. We remain convinced that this is the best defensive posture to adopt in order to minimize casualties when the Great Old Ones return from beyond the stars to eat our brains.
The trick will be to make the analytics software work in a useful way. "The challenge is going to be teaching computers to recognize the suspicious behavior," said Smith. "Once this is done this will be a very impressive city in terms of public safety."
I'd wager the false positve rate is going to be very high, and it will be interesting to see if they can bring that down. Something like an alert for a stolen car ( or a car related to an amber alert ) could generate a very high false positive rate if the car is a common make/model.
On the other hand, if it teaches criminals to act in less "suspicious" ways, then the system will be of no value or perhaps even detremental ( showing no "suspicious" behavior when criminal activity is present, leading to a false sense of security ).
Apparently, the device was not clearly not a bomb. You seem to contend otherwise; guess we'll have to agree to disagee.
She displayed the device, engaged others in coversation , then when asked about the device walked away.
The more I think about it, the more the "hoax explosive device" charge seems to fit. She did seem to get security to think it was or could be threatening.
There's nothing wrong with questioning the kid or examining the device - that's just common sense. But there is exactly zero reason to arrest the kid once it's clear that it's nothing but a blinking T-Shirt. It's not a "hoax device", it's a blinking T-shirt.
I think the point of arresting her was to determine if it was a bomb or a blinking light.
Also, as others have noted, she walked away when questioned ( after she initiaed the conversation ). So an initial attempt to question her failed.
The crux of TFA seems to be "geek culture keeps out women who don't fit in". In that equation, I'd say culture is more important than gender.
For instance, I work with a woman who does Oracle DBA work. She and I have much more in common than the business systems analyst a few cubes down. Neither of us have much in common with the HR types.
Of course, a lot of this depends on how you define "geek culture". Neither of us like hentai tentacle pr0n, for example.;)
Then, cue the 'armor defeating rays' which do actual permanent damage to those who don't happen to have ANY protection on. It brings a scary new prospect to the term 'collateral damage'.
They're already working on that.
From TFA:
Silent Guardian and the Taser are just the first in a new wave of "non-lethal" weaponry being developed, mostly in the U.S.
These include not only microwave ray-guns, but the terrifying Pulsed Energy Projectile weapon. This uses a powerful laser which, when it hits someone up to 11/2 miles away, produces a "plasma" - a bubble of superhot gas - on the skin.
For better or worse, the Times has some of the most talked-about columnists in the country, and their importance evaporated almost instantly when the unwashed masses (me) could no longer read them.
I think you might be onto something.
The WSJ seems to be doing well with their subscription service, but they implemented differently from the NYT; the columns in the opinion journal are free, but news reporting requires subscription ( although the WSJ seems to give some news stories out as well ).
You need 2 buckets, a cotton t-shirt, propane camp stove ( or a heat source to boil water of some kind ) and bleach.
Cover the mouth of the empty bucket with the cotton t-shit.
Fill the other bucket with suspect water.
Pour the water from the full bucket into the empty bucket through the t-shirt. This filters out the larger baddies.
Presuming at least one of the buckets is metal, you can boil water in that. If not, a pot of some sort is required. The idea is to boil the water to a rolling boil for at least one minute.
Allow the water to cool for at least 30 minutes. Once cool, add 16 drops of bleach per gallon ( or 8 drops per 2 liter bottle ). If the water smells faintly of chlorine, it's safe to drink. If not, repeat adding the bleach.
A $400 water filtration system is nice, and can be cost effective in some cases ( as others pointed out, shipping and distributing small empty bottles is easier that shipping and distributing water ), but not having one doesn't mean you have no options.
"Science can be useful." Well, that's certainly a horrible lesson to learn - Heaven forbid the kids might think that this stuff could actually be useful to them. Then they might learn it for practical reasons, rather than for love of abstract knowledge, and we just can't have such things tainting our pure and clean ivory tower, now can we ?
As a child, I had the hardest time learning anything based around abstract theory. I kept asking "what's it for?" and without an answer other than "to pass a test" I became quickly bored. Damn near failed.
I really don't understand the idea that if knowledge has a practical application it's somehow unclean.
Perhaps it's a vestigal prejudice left over from the days when only the rich could afford higher education, and performing some sort of labor was a sign of membership in a lower class.
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Have to wonder if they restricted pens in the area of the nukes, since it's so easy to pick a bicycle lock with one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hsM88Wx8QQ
Probably not. Wouldn't be sporting to pick the lock and all, so no Brit would ever do that.
That caught my eye as well.
Personally, I much prefer placeholders / bind variables. They do help with sanitizing the data, but also ( for databases which have the feature ) can really reduce CPU utilization ( since the "same" statement isn't reparsed over and over again just because the variables changed ).
Did you just reply to yourself, so you could say you don't see yourself trolling?
Wait... don't tell me they implemented RFC 3514 .
For more signs of a sea change, I was was watching MSNBC this morning.
They were talking about Apple revenue numbers, but the interesting bit was at the end of the segment.
One of the commentators mentioned that when Leopard comes out, he's buying two Macs because "they're just better machines".
If the fat white guys in suits think Macs are better, Microsoft has a problem.
Air power certainly is useful against large troop formations, stand alone structures ( and structures in a mixed environment with either guided munitions or saturation bombing ) in the right terrain. Deserts are particularly good environments; mountains much less so.
If one presumes a civil war between religiously motivated / secular combatants, I'd think that it would quickly devolve into the level of insurgency. Even if one side, say, turned San Francisco ( or Mobile, Alabama ) to rubble through air strikes, this would likely have the effect of mobilizing the other side into greater action ( or, at least, mobilizing a "radical" element ).
Please keep in mind: I'm not arguing with the inferred strategy, but rather it's effectiveness.
Which would work so well, since airpower is the deciding factor in the current Iraq campaigns... oh, wait...
If any dear readers are wondering what the parent poster is on about, read this for a short introduction.
I'll have to assume blinky lights were involved.
Man that's a hell of a lag...
Good news: The helmet forces "God" to show up in the room when it's switched on.
Bad news: The "God" is Cthulhu.
Fhtagn
I'd pay money to see that.
Especially if there was a BBQ afterwords ( during? ).
That's a redirection, not necessarily an infected FLV.
So, are they just guessing FLV may sometime become a virus vector? Has someone done a proof of concept?
TFA makes it sound like the Georgia Tech Information Security Center is making it up as they go along.
It has a more sinister purpose:
what?
I'd wager the false positve rate is going to be very high, and it will be interesting to see if they can bring that down. Something like an alert for a stolen car ( or a car related to an amber alert ) could generate a very high false positive rate if the car is a common make/model.
On the other hand, if it teaches criminals to act in less "suspicious" ways, then the system will be of no value or perhaps even detremental ( showing no "suspicious" behavior when criminal activity is present, leading to a false sense of security ).
Apparently, the device was not clearly not a bomb. You seem to contend otherwise; guess we'll have to agree to disagee.
She displayed the device, engaged others in coversation , then when asked about the device walked away.
The more I think about it, the more the "hoax explosive device" charge seems to fit. She did seem to get security to think it was or could be threatening.
I think the point of arresting her was to determine if it was a bomb or a blinking light.
Also, as others have noted, she walked away when questioned ( after she initiaed the conversation ). So an initial attempt to question her failed.
Or, perhaps, different women?
The crux of TFA seems to be "geek culture keeps out women who don't fit in". In that equation, I'd say culture is more important than gender.
For instance, I work with a woman who does Oracle DBA work. She and I have much more in common than the business systems analyst a few cubes down. Neither of us have much in common with the HR types.
Of course, a lot of this depends on how you define "geek culture". Neither of us like hentai tentacle pr0n, for example.
They're already working on that.
From TFA:
Tazers are more properly called "less than lethal".
Like nightsticks. Rodney King lived, after all.
Unlike nightsticks, tazers seem to leave less damage. Like nightsticks there's still the capacity for injury / death.
As others have mentioned, without tazers nightsticks are the next level up from open-hand techniques ( which didn't seem to work in the video ).
Figure the tazer, while certainly not fun, saved this journalism student from bruises / broken bones.
I think you might be onto something.
The WSJ seems to be doing well with their subscription service, but they implemented differently from the NYT; the columns in the opinion journal are free, but news reporting requires subscription ( although the WSJ seems to give some news stories out as well ).
Hehehee... nice catch. As usual, all spelling errors are for the amusement of the reader.
You need 2 buckets, a cotton t-shirt, propane camp stove ( or a heat source to boil water of some kind ) and bleach.
Cover the mouth of the empty bucket with the cotton t-shit.
Fill the other bucket with suspect water.
Pour the water from the full bucket into the empty bucket through the t-shirt. This filters out the larger baddies.
Presuming at least one of the buckets is metal, you can boil water in that. If not, a pot of some sort is required. The idea is to boil the water to a rolling boil for at least one minute.
Allow the water to cool for at least 30 minutes. Once cool, add 16 drops of bleach per gallon ( or 8 drops per 2 liter bottle ). If the water smells faintly of chlorine, it's safe to drink. If not, repeat adding the bleach.
Thanks to the Red Cross for directions.
A $400 water filtration system is nice, and can be cost effective in some cases ( as others pointed out, shipping and distributing small empty bottles is easier that shipping and distributing water ), but not having one doesn't mean you have no options.
As a child, I had the hardest time learning anything based around abstract theory. I kept asking "what's it for?" and without an answer other than "to pass a test" I became quickly bored. Damn near failed.
I really don't understand the idea that if knowledge has a practical application it's somehow unclean.
Perhaps it's a vestigal prejudice left over from the days when only the rich could afford higher education, and performing some sort of labor was a sign of membership in a lower class.