Obviously at the time IOS was designed, everyone would write their own special-purpose operating system for embedded devices. These days, wouldn't it make more sense to just scrap it and switch to Linux? Lots of other manufacturers are doing it (Linksys, Netgear, D-Link, etc.). This would certainly prevent this kind of embarassment.
I just realized that there is not much of a space for unique SSN's. 9 digits gives a maximum of 1 billion numbers. However, not every number is actually used. I assume that there must at least be a control number to check if SSN can be valid, similar to how credit cards / ISBN work. There could also be regional prefixes, similar to IP addresses (e.g. 111 = New York, 999 = California or something like that). etc. This would significantly reduce the number space.
Even if that's not the case, the population of US is ~ 300 million. There must have been more than 1 billion people who have lived/still living since the SSNs were first introduced.
My question is, how did US not run out of unique numbers? Do SSNs get reused?
True, religion has destroyed so much; however, much much more has been destroyed by the anti- or non-religious (e.g., Stalin's Communism or Nazism {even though Nazis called themselves Christians, the atrocities of the Nazis were not done "in the name of religion" other than trying to eliminate those of particular belief sets and/or religions [most prominently Jewish]}).
Bullshit. It's amazing how hard christians try to hide the fact that Hitler was a lifelong catholic and so were his followers. Hitler sought -- and received -- support from the catholic church. Later on that proved to be quite an embarrassment for which the church had to apologize.
Stalin is an interesting case. He was educated in a religious primary school and then in a seminary. He gave up his christian faith only to create a state-based religion with him as some sort of demi-god. [Similar examples can be seen in ancient Egypt (pharao was "god"), imperial China, modern North Korea, etc.]
Modern democracy is based on Judeo-Christian principles. I'll quote from an insightful essay on the matter:
Bullshit again. Show me where the bible or torah or whatever advocates a democratic system of government. Don't quote what some guy said about some other guy who wrote some book you never read. You are a christian -- go directly to the supposed source of your values, the bible. The bible I'm familiar with advocates slavery, genocide, torture, rape, collective punishment, human sacrifice, etc.
For every bad thing done in the name of religion, I can counter with many more good things done in the name of religion. We shouldn't resort to straw man arguments.
I would argue that there are far more bad things than good that are done in the name of religion. The chief problem with it is that it requires you to surrender critical thinking. It values unquestioning obedience, even when someone tells you to do something clearly immoral.
These third party websites aren't going through an established booking system, instead they are screen scraping and acting as a front-end to the airline's website.
and?
Using the airline's website in this manner is not only illegal but it also causes a lot of slowdowns and other problems for the people who actually go to the airline's website.
Illegal? Please cite the relevant statute. Slowdowns? Please provide the statistics.
Now the airline is punishing the wrong people by canceling all the bookings done through the third parties.
And also shooting itself in the foot by refusing to do business with people who have already given it money. Seriously, this is like cutting off your nose to spite your face.
Traditionally, that is to say, up until MySQL 5.1.22, InnoDB handled newly inserted records into an InnoDB table with an AUTO_INCREMENT column by using a global counter which held the last value for the auto-incrementing column. A lock would be placed on this counter for the duration of the SQL statement which did the inserting... The new server variable, innodb_autoinc_lock_mode controls how InnoDB treats statements which insert rows into an InnoDB table with an AUTO_INCREMENT column. Depending on your environment â" specifically, whether you are using the binlog for replication or recovery purposes and whether you are executing "batched insert" statementsâ" you can set this variable to 0, 1, or 2. 0 corresponds to the traditional mode, and is not recommended except for very specific scenarios (see the doc link above). 1 represents "consecutive mode" and is the default. In this mode, only statements where InnoDB cannot determine the number of rows to be inserted will use the global auto-increment lock. All other "simple insert" statements (even those inserting multiple records in batch mode) will use a faster, lighter locking mechanism, which results in significant scalability increases. The final setting, 2, represents an "interleaved" mode and has even greater scalability improvements, but cannot be used in scenarios where the binary log is being used for recovery or statement-based replication.
So now mysql can handle two concurrent inserts? Nice! Except for the fact that this new amazing option is incompatible with replication. MySQL is going to become a real database. Any time now...
I created a 4 hour video on building boats. I sell probably 30 a year. An online video rental site bought a legal copy and now rents my video out at $15 per week.
and? How is it different from any other video? Should we outlaw all video rental stores just so you can make $80?
So when is microsoft going to stop bastardizing open standards? For instance, are there any plans to finally release specifications to microsoft's proprietary extensions to Kerberos? [and I don't mean the NDA bullshit microsoft tried to pull]. Or how about the ODF vs. MS OOXML debacle?
This is what microsoft will never "learn" because their business model depends on not learning it.
I always thought it was stupid that XML documents include reference to a DTD hosted on a remote server that you do not maintain. This is wrong on so many levels, I don't even know where to begin:
1. The validation will not work if the remote server is down, or network is down, or your connection to the internet is down, or if the file is not accessible for any other reason.
2. You are at the mercy of some third-party to ensure that the file is correct and that it doesn't change.
3. You are susceptible to man-in-the-middle attack.
etc.
For some insane reason, all XML examples have this reference to a remote URL. Most people never change defaults, so we get in a situation where nearly every time XML is validated, W3C site gets hit. The geniuses at W3C should have thought of that *before* this happened. Now they have to live with it...
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I remember reading that ext4 loses data. Has this been addressed?
This thing does not ADD any energy to the atmosphere. It EXTRACTS energy from it.
I don't have the foggiest idea.
If a genetically-modified human were cloned today, would that clone be outside common ancestry?
nope.
Would it be designed?
not any more than a naturally occurring sequence of mutations
Do we know this hasn't happened in the distant past?
The burden of proof is on you to show that it did.
Obviously at the time IOS was designed, everyone would write their own special-purpose operating system for embedded devices. These days, wouldn't it make more sense to just scrap it and switch to Linux? Lots of other manufacturers are doing it (Linksys, Netgear, D-Link, etc.). This would certainly prevent this kind of embarassment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvsboPUjrGc
YEAAHHH!!!!!
I just realized that there is not much of a space for unique SSN's. 9 digits gives a maximum of 1 billion numbers. However, not every number is actually used. I assume that there must at least be a control number to check if SSN can be valid, similar to how credit cards / ISBN work. There could also be regional prefixes, similar to IP addresses (e.g. 111 = New York, 999 = California or something like that). etc. This would significantly reduce the number space.
Even if that's not the case, the population of US is ~ 300 million. There must have been more than 1 billion people who have lived/still living since the SSNs were first introduced.
My question is, how did US not run out of unique numbers? Do SSNs get reused?
Every sperm is great.
Every sperm is sacred.
True, religion has destroyed so much; however, much much more has been destroyed by the anti- or non-religious (e.g., Stalin's Communism or Nazism {even though Nazis called themselves Christians, the atrocities of the Nazis were not done "in the name of religion" other than trying to eliminate those of particular belief sets and/or religions [most prominently Jewish]}).
Bullshit. It's amazing how hard christians try to hide the fact that Hitler was a lifelong catholic and so were his followers. Hitler sought -- and received -- support from the catholic church. Later on that proved to be quite an embarrassment for which the church had to apologize.
Stalin is an interesting case. He was educated in a religious primary school and then in a seminary. He gave up his christian faith only to create a state-based religion with him as some sort of demi-god. [Similar examples can be seen in ancient Egypt (pharao was "god"), imperial China, modern North Korea, etc.]
Modern democracy is based on Judeo-Christian principles. I'll quote from an insightful essay on the matter:
Bullshit again. Show me where the bible or torah or whatever advocates a democratic system of government. Don't quote what some guy said about some other guy who wrote some book you never read. You are a christian -- go directly to the supposed source of your values, the bible. The bible I'm familiar with advocates slavery, genocide, torture, rape, collective punishment, human sacrifice, etc.
For every bad thing done in the name of religion, I can counter with many more good things done in the name of religion. We shouldn't resort to straw man arguments.
I would argue that there are far more bad things than good that are done in the name of religion. The chief problem with it is that it requires you to surrender critical thinking. It values unquestioning obedience, even when someone tells you to do something clearly immoral.
These third party websites aren't going through an established booking system, instead they are screen scraping and acting as a front-end to the airline's website.
and?
Using the airline's website in this manner is not only illegal but it also causes a lot of slowdowns and other problems for the people who actually go to the airline's website.
Illegal? Please cite the relevant statute. Slowdowns? Please provide the statistics.
Now the airline is punishing the wrong people by canceling all the bookings done through the third parties.
And also shooting itself in the foot by refusing to do business with people who have already given it money. Seriously, this is like cutting off your nose to spite your face.
China fights piracy.
RAID6 uses Reed-Solomon error correction. In fact, RAID5 can be viewed as a special case of RAID6.
This thing looks like a solution in search of a problem. Slow news day?
So now mysql can handle two concurrent inserts? Nice! Except for the fact that this new amazing option is incompatible with replication. MySQL is going to become a real database. Any time now...
and? How is it different from any other video? Should we outlaw all video rental stores just so you can make $80?
Attack of the space-lawyers!
How easy is it to build your own machine with specs closely matching Apple's and install OSX on it?
Did the cat have any superpowers?
Attach the laser to shark!
Ironically, Alberta is Canada's Jesusland -- or the closest thing to it anyway.
So when is microsoft going to stop bastardizing open standards? For instance, are there any plans to finally release specifications to microsoft's proprietary extensions to Kerberos? [and I don't mean the NDA bullshit microsoft tried to pull]. Or how about the ODF vs. MS OOXML debacle?
This is what microsoft will never "learn" because their business model depends on not learning it.
Or does a single tab still cause the entire browser to freeze up?
I always thought it was stupid that XML documents include reference to a DTD hosted on a remote server that you do not maintain. This is wrong on so many levels, I don't even know where to begin:
1. The validation will not work if the remote server is down, or network is down, or your connection to the internet is down, or if the file is not accessible for any other reason.
2. You are at the mercy of some third-party to ensure that the file is correct and that it doesn't change.
3. You are susceptible to man-in-the-middle attack.
etc.
For some insane reason, all XML examples have this reference to a remote URL. Most people never change defaults, so we get in a situation where nearly every time XML is validated, W3C site gets hit. The geniuses at W3C should have thought of that *before* this happened. Now they have to live with it...
EU suggested that microsoft bribe standards bodies to buy votes in favour of OOXML?
Every GPU is similar in design to IBM Cell. It's just a simple but massively parallel DSP with very fast local memory.