Life imprisonment will keep the criminal away from society where he can't do any further damage. It also eliminates the possibility of the state killing someone who may (no matter how small the chance) be innocent.
So making every last day of their life for 20+ years a living hell is somehow better than an execution? I'm not saying we should execute murders, but by your logic we shouldn't imprison anyone because we can't be 100% certain they commited whatever crime it was.
I've always meant to put up fliers around town:
"Such and Such Budget PC Disposal" Hauling fees as low as $4.99! Just to see how many perfectly salvagable boxes I could get.
You choose one at random. The chance of a collision is low, and if it is detected, you randomly choose again. Not a big deal.
In response to the GP, it's not even a matter of implementing multicast. Almost all of the networking hardware out there has it in place, it's just turned off.
The reason? The original implementation is hard for ISPs to charge for. But there is hope. At SIGCOMM 2006, there was a proposal that would be more ISP friendly, with a minimal performance hit. Its called Free Riding Multicast and essentially piggybacks off BGP's unicast routes.
Riddle me this, Batman : when does 'got arrested' ever come off your personal life record?
As in when a prospective employer says 'have you ever been arrested?'
Answer : never. If the charges get dropped you can always say 'Yes, but... ' and then fill in the rest of the story about how 'bad cop' or 'violated my rights' or whatever, but the employer checks the 'got arrested' box and you don't get hired.
In Texas, all I've ever been asked on an application is:
Have you ever been convicted of a felony?
Have you ever been convicted of a misdemeanor (excluding traffic violations)?
Not to say that this arrest isn't bogus, but I don't think anyone but the police have access/right to know about your arrest record.
Nobody goes and says "Let's build a city!", lays out plans, prototypes and discusses what business go where.
You've never heard of planned communities? They generally have fewer traffic problems and we the need to expand comes along, new parts of the community can be grafted in easily and in a way that you can't tell they were never part of the original design. The same thing happens with a well designed software project.
Furthermore, cities have all sorts of continuous planning (e.g. zoning regulations) that go into them, even if they were adhoc to begin with, but in that case, it takes a lot more work to correct the original oversights, e.g. the unfortunate use of imminent domain to build a new road or whatever.
Planned communities, like planned software, will still have some problems, but they will generally be smaller and less frequent.
The problem is that most of the time some genius pants checked in the.project file and other configuration files that Eclipse uses. As long as you put.project (or better yet.*) in the ignore list, there shouldn't be any issues.
Burning methane is better than letting it escape. See
Burning methane produces 1 CO2 molecule per molecule methane, but methane is 23 times worse as a greenhouse gas.
Also, its methane obtained from cow manure. I imagine the farmers keep the cow manure and uses to fertilize the grass.
I completely agree. You always see the trolls say that Google should "focus on search", as though by throwing more people at search is going help things. Look how well that worked for Windows. MS got bigger, releases got slower. The fact is, you can onlty have so many people doing search.
Any good businesman will tell you that failure is 95% of business. Most new buisinesses fail, most new products are not a roaring success. All Google needs is for one or two of its two dozen ventures to establish even a niche market (*cough* gmail *cough*) and it will make money hand over fist. Remember, Google is still the underdog in all of these new ventures, so almost any gains are a positive thing.
There is still a limited window of opportunity for using the finger. You chop off my finger, relatively soon, I'm going to notify my bank soon, unless you kill me, in which case, you probably would have killed me for my wallet and credit cards anyways.
Most criminals are cowards, looking for a safe, easy mark. Stealing a finger is neither safe nor easy.
You can do all sorts of things to make finger stealing unprofitable. Let the user choose which finger it is (so the attacker doesn't know which one to take), check for a pulse, ask for a PIN with the fingerprint, etc.
You essentially reduce theft of your identity to your murder, and the majority of criminals aren't willing to go that far. Too much risk.
There are some people willing to steal a wallet. There are not very many that will steal a finger.
Credit card fraud cases don't get much attention since they are a dime a dozen. Violent assault cases get much more attention, and thus have a much greater chance of getting caught. I think most criminals willing to attack a human and take their finger would find the risk outweighs any potential gains.
Agreed, but make that psychiatrist, not psychologist. There are physiological factors that contribute to panic attacks, and having an MD explain them to you can do wonders.
Plus, like the parent said, there are probably diet and exercise considerations that will help you out.
People can say "You shouldn't worry so much" and that sort of thing, but if that is all you needed, then you probably wouldn't be here in the first place.
At the very least, if you talk to a doctor, you'll be able to understand it better, and he/she'll probably tell you things you can do. Being able to do something will also make you feel better.
Ah, just checked the homepage, local college = Georgia Tech. Not exactly a community college. Still, continuing education is more focused on the trade, not the fundamentals I would think. I'd still recommend JSF w/ Facelets.
This idea of specialized training in programming had got to go. If they know how to program and read standards, that's all they need to know in order to grasp the entire concept.
I wouldn't say that this is necessarily the way for a "continuing education" course to be taught. Fundamentals can take a year or two to teach. The submitter didn't give a whole lot of context, but I'm guessing this is perhaps a course at a community college (low cost, outsider putting materials together, etc.)
Since it must be in Java appropriate topics might include:
EJB3/ORM
The MVC Pattern
Component based frameworks (e.g. JSF)
AOP, IoC (i.e. Spring or Seam or some such), although its not just a web programming topic, you can't avoid it.
While we're on the subject of JSF, I should plug Facelets, which vastly simplifies the view side of things.
Your biggest concern will be having enough time for the students to get their head around whatever framework you do choose. Using Java for a small application is like sandblasting a soup cracker (to quote the bard). You could really spend a whole course on one part of the MVC.
This all leads to the simple conclusion, that communism (as much as capitalism or all other -isms) are just minor technicalities only mostly happy people with nothing better to do can worry about.
Agreed, in TFA Lee says that the prevailing Chinese sentiment is:
'Hey, U.S. democracy, that's a good form of government. Chinese government, good and stable, that's a good form of government. Whatever, as long as I get to go to my favorite Web site, see my friends, live happily.' "
Too many people have a gut reaction to communism and start screaming evil and censorship. Firstly, China is nominaly communist. Secondly, things are getting better, but China will never be an America clone.
Not only do most Chinese not care about the government as long as their lives are OK, but they also were not indoctrinated with "Nothing is more important than Democracy" pap that we get from birth in the west. In some senses, the Chinese might as well be another species, as different as their thinking is from Westerners.
I think the Chinese government's filter is silly more than it is evil. Sure there might be a few incidents if suddenly everyone was exposed to the full details of what has been hidden, but considering that we discover all sorts of not so plesant truths about the govenment almost daily in the states and do nothing, why would the Chinese?
Actually, NP stands for non-deterministic polynomial time. Non-deterministic meaning that you could find a solution in polynomial time if you had a computer that could consider all possible search paths at once. P is deterministic polynomial time, i.e. you consider one search path at a time.
Then do you also believe that Homosapien is the final product of Creation? Are we the zenith of Evolution?
I wouldn't be surpirised if humans in millions of years (assuming we survive this long), are nearly identical to humans today. Society kind of puts a stick in the spokes of naturual selection after all. There is probably a little bit of genetic variation to be gained from inter-racial breeding, but for the most part, humans are going to resist bredding with any significant genetic-variants and society will continue to allow the 'non-fittest' to continue breeding and intermingling with the 'fittest'.
I'm not trying to be a class warrior here or claim that we should prevent the 'less fit' from breeding. I'm just guessing that the larger part of the human evolution will be societal evolution from this point forward.
A BS in Computer Science should be easy to get with only average math talent. Can you get a B in Cal I? You can handle the math in CS. Once you get out, you can probably forget it.
The notable exception is most areas of machine learning. ML is for computer scientists who were too smart to be statisticians. The math there can be obscene.
I've always liked that CS isn't rigorously scientific, but not so towards the liberal arts that anyone can get a degree in it. You need to be creative but you need to think about the structure of things. You need to think outside the box, but also work within limitations.
Sometimes CS is engineering, many times it is artistry, in some ways it is a true science, and occasionally there is some math.
The nice part about the math, is once you (or somebody) gets it right, you don't have to think about it anymore. Make it a function, use it a million times, forget the math.
Except she can't conceive that maybe some people take better notes with a laptop, and that perhaps her students are mature enough to decide on their own what the best way is for them to learn? Just because some people don't learn when they type doesn't mean everyone wont; learning styles vary greatly.
Let the student decide whether or not the laptop is helping them. If they fail the class, it's their own dang fault. In short, how they learn isnt her business. The student is responsible for learning, and if they want to transcribe every word (or read/. during class time or whatever) , then that is their decision.
I think that what sells downloads to the general population right now (i.e. teenagers) is the now factor. The Web 2.0 demographic are impatient and impulsive.
The rest of the world, on the other hand, might consider the quality of a purchase and the purchase price before buying. I know for me, I can generaly get albums for a few dollars cheaper on iTunes than I can buying the physical CD.
However, like the parent, I'm paranoid about losing my music. With a pre-version 6 iTunes and JHymn I can feel good about always being able to use my backups, however, it is a bit of a pain to setup and scrub every purchase I make. Also, for the average consumer, this isn't plausible.
Most people don't trust computers much. As such, even if it costs a few bucks more, most people will simply feel more secure with a physical CD in their posession.
So instead of taking hours to obtain a GPG key, the NSA could spend seconds and impersonate an otherwise [strike]paranoid[/strike] privacy-oriented person in typically confidential memos.
I realize this is a joke, but just so everyone knows, a little bit of scrutiny would expose a faked message.
If you RTF Mailing List, you will see that the "attack" only allows someone to append or prepend data to the signed message, and then the augmented message is only displayed the way it is because of an application bug in GPG.
No fundamental algorithm is broken, no one has discovered a way to cause collisions. In fact, if you tried to independently verify the signature of the message against the augmented message, it would fail.
What happens is that GPG skips text that is not part of the signed message, such as email headers and the like, then verifies what is signed. Unfortunately, once it's verified, it will output the whole message, leading the user to believe that the whole message was signed.
Again if you checked the signature against the whole message it wouldn't verify, GPG is just being a bit too helpful.
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I've always meant to put up fliers around town: "Such and Such Budget PC Disposal" Hauling fees as low as $4.99! Just to see how many perfectly salvagable boxes I could get.
I enjoy how you claim that a poster who already has good karma is a karama whore, but post AC so as not to risk your own karama. Damn trolls.
It's not small.
I think he just wants a free copy. I mean, who wouldn't?
In response to the GP, it's not even a matter of implementing multicast. Almost all of the networking hardware out there has it in place, it's just turned off.
The reason? The original implementation is hard for ISPs to charge for. But there is hope. At SIGCOMM 2006, there was a proposal that would be more ISP friendly, with a minimal performance hit. Its called Free Riding Multicast and essentially piggybacks off BGP's unicast routes.
Not to say that this arrest isn't bogus, but I don't think anyone but the police have access/right to know about your arrest record.
Furthermore, cities have all sorts of continuous planning (e.g. zoning regulations) that go into them, even if they were adhoc to begin with, but in that case, it takes a lot more work to correct the original oversights, e.g. the unfortunate use of imminent domain to build a new road or whatever.
Planned communities, like planned software, will still have some problems, but they will generally be smaller and less frequent.
The problem is that most of the time some genius pants checked in the .project file and other configuration files that Eclipse uses. As long as you put .project (or better yet .*) in the ignore list, there shouldn't be any issues.
Also, its methane obtained from cow manure. I imagine the farmers keep the cow manure and uses to fertilize the grass.
I completely agree. You always see the trolls say that Google should "focus on search", as though by throwing more people at search is going help things. Look how well that worked for Windows. MS got bigger, releases got slower. The fact is, you can onlty have so many people doing search.
Any good businesman will tell you that failure is 95% of business. Most new buisinesses fail, most new products are not a roaring success. All Google needs is for one or two of its two dozen ventures to establish even a niche market (*cough* gmail *cough*) and it will make money hand over fist. Remember, Google is still the underdog in all of these new ventures, so almost any gains are a positive thing.
There is still a limited window of opportunity for using the finger. You chop off my finger, relatively soon, I'm going to notify my bank soon, unless you kill me, in which case, you probably would have killed me for my wallet and credit cards anyways. Most criminals are cowards, looking for a safe, easy mark. Stealing a finger is neither safe nor easy. You can do all sorts of things to make finger stealing unprofitable. Let the user choose which finger it is (so the attacker doesn't know which one to take), check for a pulse, ask for a PIN with the fingerprint, etc. You essentially reduce theft of your identity to your murder, and the majority of criminals aren't willing to go that far. Too much risk.
There are some people willing to steal a wallet. There are not very many that will steal a finger.
Credit card fraud cases don't get much attention since they are a dime a dozen. Violent assault cases get much more attention, and thus have a much greater chance of getting caught. I think most criminals willing to attack a human and take their finger would find the risk outweighs any potential gains.
Agreed, but make that psychiatrist, not psychologist. There are physiological factors that contribute to panic attacks, and having an MD explain them to you can do wonders.
Plus, like the parent said, there are probably diet and exercise considerations that will help you out.
People can say "You shouldn't worry so much" and that sort of thing, but if that is all you needed, then you probably wouldn't be here in the first place.
At the very least, if you talk to a doctor, you'll be able to understand it better, and he/she'll probably tell you things you can do. Being able to do something will also make you feel better.
That's still looking pretty sad for Microsoft.
Ah, just checked the homepage, local college = Georgia Tech. Not exactly a community college. Still, continuing education is more focused on the trade, not the fundamentals I would think. I'd still recommend JSF w/ Facelets.
I wouldn't say that this is necessarily the way for a "continuing education" course to be taught. Fundamentals can take a year or two to teach. The submitter didn't give a whole lot of context, but I'm guessing this is perhaps a course at a community college (low cost, outsider putting materials together, etc.)
Since it must be in Java appropriate topics might include:
While we're on the subject of JSF, I should plug Facelets, which vastly simplifies the view side of things.
Your biggest concern will be having enough time for the students to get their head around whatever framework you do choose. Using Java for a small application is like sandblasting a soup cracker (to quote the bard). You could really spend a whole course on one part of the MVC.
Not only do most Chinese not care about the government as long as their lives are OK, but they also were not indoctrinated with "Nothing is more important than Democracy" pap that we get from birth in the west. In some senses, the Chinese might as well be another species, as different as their thinking is from Westerners.
I think the Chinese government's filter is silly more than it is evil. Sure there might be a few incidents if suddenly everyone was exposed to the full details of what has been hidden, but considering that we discover all sorts of not so plesant truths about the govenment almost daily in the states and do nothing, why would the Chinese?
I'm not trying to be a class warrior here or claim that we should prevent the 'less fit' from breeding. I'm just guessing that the larger part of the human evolution will be societal evolution from this point forward.
A BS in Computer Science should be easy to get with only average math talent. Can you get a B in Cal I? You can handle the math in CS. Once you get out, you can probably forget it.
The notable exception is most areas of machine learning. ML is for computer scientists who were too smart to be statisticians. The math there can be obscene.
I've always liked that CS isn't rigorously scientific, but not so towards the liberal arts that anyone can get a degree in it. You need to be creative but you need to think about the structure of things. You need to think outside the box, but also work within limitations.
Sometimes CS is engineering, many times it is artistry, in some ways it is a true science, and occasionally there is some math.
The nice part about the math, is once you (or somebody) gets it right, you don't have to think about it anymore. Make it a function, use it a million times, forget the math.
Except she can't conceive that maybe some people take better notes with a laptop, and that perhaps her students are mature enough to decide on their own what the best way is for them to learn? Just because some people don't learn when they type doesn't mean everyone wont; learning styles vary greatly.
/. during class time or whatever) , then that is their decision.
Let the student decide whether or not the laptop is helping them. If they fail the class, it's their own dang fault. In short, how they learn isnt her business. The student is responsible for learning, and if they want to transcribe every word (or read
They might have been refering to Mediawiki, the wiki engine that drives Wikipedia, and a lot of other wikis as it is free as in beer and as in speech.
The rest of the world, on the other hand, might consider the quality of a purchase and the purchase price before buying. I know for me, I can generaly get albums for a few dollars cheaper on iTunes than I can buying the physical CD.
However, like the parent, I'm paranoid about losing my music. With a pre-version 6 iTunes and JHymn I can feel good about always being able to use my backups, however, it is a bit of a pain to setup and scrub every purchase I make. Also, for the average consumer, this isn't plausible.
Most people don't trust computers much. As such, even if it costs a few bucks more, most people will simply feel more secure with a physical CD in their posession.
I realize this is a joke, but just so everyone knows, a little bit of scrutiny would expose a faked message.
If you RTF Mailing List, you will see that the "attack" only allows someone to append or prepend data to the signed message, and then the augmented message is only displayed the way it is because of an application bug in GPG.
No fundamental algorithm is broken, no one has discovered a way to cause collisions. In fact, if you tried to independently verify the signature of the message against the augmented message, it would fail.
What happens is that GPG skips text that is not part of the signed message, such as email headers and the like, then verifies what is signed. Unfortunately, once it's verified, it will output the whole message, leading the user to believe that the whole message was signed.
Again if you checked the signature against the whole message it wouldn't verify, GPG is just being a bit too helpful.