Paul Rosenzweig, a high-level Homeland Security official, told Congress in September that the system had "encountered 4801 positive matches for known or suspected terrorists." However, it is unclear how many of those were correct matches.
No, it's very clear. Zero. Zilch, none, nada. If there were any correct matches, they would trot them out and use them to demonstrate the "success" of the program
This information is completely and totally useless. The information you want is the total matches, the number of false positive, and the % of actual positives in relationship to the total number of initial positives.
If they found 4801 positive matches for known or suspected, if that's out of 290,000 total matches, then that would go a long way to proving the system is utterly useless.
Uhm... Or actually. I generally use/dev/null for that to begin with...
*ponder* So what *is* the use of this? Considering that for example -O- - -O- would end up being 0, -O- * -O- would be -O- and -O- + -O- = -O-....
Hmmm... That looks deceptively like the behaviour of the number 0, with one small exception, and that should be -O- / -O- which would be 1. - -O- / -O- would then be -1? Okay. I'll quit rambling now. See my subject!
It might add stress to the track, although that'd pretty much negligible. The most important thing is that if/when the train derails, it'll already have lost some if its momentum, hopefully making the resulting destruction less 'destructive'.
Sorry. Nobody ever said that even making the backup copies was an OK thing to do, remember?
Actually:) In the country where I live, that *is* legal. So then you get the added problem if this random person would for example start mailing the things elsewhere.
(Just making a solid real world comparison to the ethereal 'net' world, and yes, it's flawed, I do realize that:)
If I leave a stack of copied CDs (ones I own myself) that I made for backup purposes (since my CDs quite easilly scratch) accidentily on a table in a foodcourt and someone takes them with them, would I be sueable for infringement of copyright?
And if I did it on purpose?
And how do we decide whether it's on purpose or not?
There's just one problem with this scenario, albeit not an enormous one.
I've done this for a long time with MS trying to stuff SP2 through my throat on my old XP machine (which was at that time known to break several applications I was using on a regular basis), only when these applications updated to work with SP2, did I install it.
However what will happen if you do this is that on *every* new update MS sends out, it'll automatically put the hi priority in again and enable it. So with every update you will have to manually disable it. And if you forget once, well, that's too bad then.
You get to the point where you just think ", I already told you, you piece of operating system that I didn't want it!"
Normally when a touchscreen goes out of sync, it means that the start of your scanning cycle moves either positive or negative. This will result in your touches actually ending up shifted opposed to what's on the screen.
Simply put: If you have 500 columns on your screen and a button in column 50-150 and one in 350-450, with a shift of 200-300 positive your pushing the 50-150 button will actually end up in 350-450 (and for that matter, your 350-450 should en up in the other one with a 100-200 positive shift)
Depending on where the buttons are located and how the touchscreen overlay is configured, out of sync might actually end up favouring one specific 'button'..
No need for Libre, I'll just go with a Cuba plain, please, possibly over some ice.
But to get back to licensing, LUA probably has the best licensing for a scripting language of its ilk, considering the fact it's an ideal candidate for full embedding in anything that needs object oriented smart scripting (which applies to pretty much all games with 'mobiles' or XML based UI's), so actually giving it the licensing it has was a brilliant move to get it spread.
I just cringed when you were grouping Perl with Java there... For that matter, I'd cringe if anyone would group any language with Java. It's really hard to make comparisons when you know that Java is pretty much always the worst choice in efficiency, speed and transparacy.
And that's why you use RSA keys with single login settings. So that anyone else, even if they get your PIN + RSA key cannot use that to login. Plus after a minute, the whole code is invalidated anyway.
And that's where VMWare comes in, or installs of windows on a bootable JAZZZZ floppy. Been doing that for a long time now. Actually works quite well. And if you use VMWare you can run ISS, IE5, IE6, IE7, Win2K, Win98SE, WinXP all on the same machine at the same time (some memory might be required:)
Or to put forward another example: Icedancers. If they go into a spin, they pull their arms together and thus start spinning faster without actually using any other force to do so. Indeed, angular momentum made visible in a very obvious form.
Uhm. Since always? Science is the whole idea of making a (thought out or not) statement, and then setting about disproving it. If you fail to disprove it, you end up with the 'last option is that it's true' idea.
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That's what I always thought... Hmmm.. Strange how these things turn out to be differently named, but essentially the same.
It's obvious that deplaning is gluing the wood shavings back to the wood you were just planing, right? So what does this have to do with airlines?
This information is completely and totally useless. The information you want is the total matches, the number of false positive, and the % of actual positives in relationship to the total number of initial positives.
If they found 4801 positive matches for known or suspected, if that's out of 290,000 total matches, then that would go a long way to proving the system is utterly useless.
Uhm... Or actually. I generally use /dev/null for that to begin with...
*ponder* So what *is* the use of this? Considering that for example -O- - -O- would end up being 0, -O- * -O- would be -O- and -O- + -O- = -O-....
Hmmm... That looks deceptively like the behaviour of the number 0, with one small exception, and that should be -O- / -O- which would be 1. - -O- / -O- would then be -1? Okay. I'll quit rambling now. See my subject!
Splut.
It might add stress to the track, although that'd pretty much negligible. The most important thing is that if/when the train derails, it'll already have lost some if its momentum, hopefully making the resulting destruction less 'destructive'.
Splut.
*BBZZT* *BZZZT* *BBBZZZT* *BZT* *BZZZT* *BZT* BINGO!
(For those of you unfamiliar with managereze bullshit bingo, the term is self explanatory)
Splut.
ps. You forgot the involvement of reprocessed organic material, harvested from ecologically acceptable farms.
Actually
(Just making a solid real world comparison to the ethereal 'net' world, and yes, it's flawed, I do realize that
I wonder..
If I leave a stack of copied CDs (ones I own myself) that I made for backup purposes (since my CDs quite easilly scratch) accidentily on a table in a foodcourt and someone takes them with them, would I be sueable for infringement of copyright?
And if I did it on purpose?
And how do we decide whether it's on purpose or not?
Splut.
Rocks do walk the earth. I've got inrefutable proof of that:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0425005/
This also explains why those little concrete poles at the side of the road always seem to want to cross the road when I'm biking home drunk...
They do offer a "no" option, but the "don't ask again" option isn't working or available, similar to the "yes to all" option
There's just one problem with this scenario, albeit not an enormous one.
I've done this for a long time with MS trying to stuff SP2 through my throat on my old XP machine (which was at that time known to break several applications I was using on a regular basis), only when these applications updated to work with SP2, did I install it.
However what will happen if you do this is that on *every* new update MS sends out, it'll automatically put the hi priority in again and enable it. So with every update you will have to manually disable it. And if you forget once, well, that's too bad then.
You get to the point where you just think ", I already told you, you piece of operating system that I didn't want it!"
Splut.
Normally when a touchscreen goes out of sync, it means that the start of your scanning cycle moves either positive or negative. This will result in your touches actually ending up shifted opposed to what's on the screen.
Simply put: If you have 500 columns on your screen and a button in column 50-150 and one in 350-450, with a shift of 200-300 positive your pushing the 50-150 button will actually end up in 350-450 (and for that matter, your 350-450 should en up in the other one with a 100-200 positive shift)
Depending on where the buttons are located and how the touchscreen overlay is configured, out of sync might actually end up favouring one specific 'button'..
Splut.
I think you completely missed the humour in that signature :)
Was I the only one that thought: Aha! They now made elves really gay characters! Or is that just me and my totally sick and disturbed mind?
Splut.
And you will find out that when you're facing off (or possibly facing over) a gnome, a codpiece might have been a very good idea after all.
Weebles the gnome.
No need for Libre, I'll just go with a Cuba plain, please, possibly over some ice.
But to get back to licensing, LUA probably has the best licensing for a scripting language of its ilk, considering the fact it's an ideal candidate for full embedding in anything that needs object oriented smart scripting (which applies to pretty much all games with 'mobiles' or XML based UI's), so actually giving it the licensing it has was a brilliant move to get it spread.
Splut.
I just cringed when you were grouping Perl with Java there... For that matter, I'd cringe if anyone would group any language with Java. It's really hard to make comparisons when you know that Java is pretty much always the worst choice in efficiency, speed and transparacy.
:(
But oh well
Splut.
This is why you need to EMP your newborn as soon as possible, just to be sure...
And that's why you use RSA keys with single login settings. So that anyone else, even if they get your PIN + RSA key cannot use that to login. Plus after a minute, the whole code is invalidated anyway.
"So Mr Ghandi, what do you think about Western Civilization?"
"That would be nice."
And that's where VMWare comes in, or installs of windows on a bootable JAZZZZ floppy. Been doing that for a long time now. Actually works quite well. And if you use VMWare you can run ISS, IE5, IE6, IE7, Win2K, Win98SE, WinXP all on the same machine at the same time (some memory might be required :)
Now if someone would just port RACF to Linux, I'd be back where I started! Whoopy! Builtin CVS in your filesystem, gotta love it :)
Or to put forward another example: Icedancers. If they go into a spin, they pull their arms together and thus start spinning faster without actually using any other force to do so. Indeed, angular momentum made visible in a very obvious form.
> Find a game reviewer that you trust, and select your games based on their opinions.
MUAHAHAHAH! Hahahahah! *cough* *cough* *gasp* *UUUUURGH*
(Sorry, you called the wrong number, this is 9-1-.....2!
Uhm. Since always? Science is the whole idea of making a (thought out or not) statement, and then setting about disproving it. If you fail to disprove it, you end up with the 'last option is that it's true' idea.