So the winner of the election will be the person that the best hackers go for? Sounds better than what we've been getting. I, for one, look forward to having Putin be our next president.
It's true that "What's better" should be answered by "It depends on your goals/needs/desires". Although having many choices is in general a good thing, allowing Pepsi is wrong because there's the waste of the precious petroleum products used in its manufacture and transportation.
1) Ask your kids to dig it up. Or their kids. 2) Earn some money, setup a trust fund for maintainance and buy some stock in every DowJones listed stock, donate land for a park in the downtown of a city and put it under a stone tower with a plaque explaining about the stock certificates which will be donated to the city at the 1k anniversary else if dug up earlier be donated to the United Nations (Heh. You're lieing about the stock of course) 3) Plant a Sequoia and place the box at the base. Carve "cut me down in 3005" onto the trunk.
I thought it felt heavy when I picked it up. Well, if they say it's an 'accounting error', then I guess that means they're not expecting me to give it back, right?
This article is the result of trult execrable reporting. The missing disks were the least of the problems at the lab. The investigations began after an administration change and BEFORE the missing disks story. There was a theft ring operating out of the lab that even included one person charging a Ford Mustang on her office credit card. For references, read the local newspapers www.abqjournal.com and thealibi.com
All kinds of BS, and people tend to quote those studies that verify their existing beliefs. I have this same problem, of course, but I did see a study done on children that surprised me with its originality. Basically what they did was monitor several classrooms of children (a variety of age groupings) and recorded all physical interactions (shoving, head-bonking, grabbing, etc). Then they showed movies to the class depicting violent activities. They continued recording the physical interactions and what they found was that only a few of the children were affected. Most kids experienced no change in behavior, but some kids had a large increase in attacks on others. The ones who increased their atacks were children who it later turned out were already diagnosed as disturbed children.
The study was somewhat more complex than as I describe it, but the conclusion they drew was not what they had expected to find. The conclusion was that viewing depictions of violent behaviors did not affect healthy children, but that it did affect disturbed children, and it affected them badly.
So what do we do? How can we regulate a product that causes no harm to healthy people?
We have the same problem with drugs: most people can do recreational drugs from time to time without harm; they can regulate their usage and have sense enough to not drive doing while doing LSD and meth. The same can be said for alcohol - some people become destructive when allowed to drink alcohol.
It appears that the percentage of people in our population who cannot drink is small enough that we can tolerate the side effects of those who cannot handle it. On the other hand, it may be that the number of people who can use heroin or cocaine responsibly without becoming lost to it (and there are those) is small enough that there is a significant danger to society from the side effects. Imagine what life would be like if every fifth person at work was coming off a 2-week meth run.
There are patchwork solutions in place. For example, it may surprise you to learn that convicted murderers in the United States are forbidden from owning guns - even after they've completed their prison sentence! Another solution is that we don't allow children to purchase or operate dangerous products such as alcohol, guns, automobiles, and voting machines even though many children do have the skills and judgement to use these products.
So we ask ourselves are violent video games dangerous in that they may affect unhealthy people in such significant numbers that society is endangered? It seems unlikely to me to be a problem, but it has been shown that it's bad for some people such as the disturbed children above.
What bothers me about kill-games is what makes it different from watching killing on TV. You're actually practicing the very thing that we don't want you to do - going through the motions over and over. No prob with healthy people (I must not be one because although World of Warcraft has no effect on be besides exhaustion, Counterstrike leaves me with a very itchy trigger finger)
So, our compromise in these cases is to prevent the acquisition of these products until the children are of an age where their judgement has matured to dampen their urges (I want to kill the teacher, but then the police will then kill me if I do that).
I do not understand this. What's the "proof of concept"? So someone wrote a program that looks for files that are executables and adds some code to the end that does the same thing? Does it promote itself to run with system permissions, or only user-level perms? As near as I can tell, the writer went to some trouble to limit his program so that it can only propagate on a particular machine and OS, and called it a '64 bit virus'. On the other hand, maybe I just don't get it.
Do you simply need a snapshot to restore the most recent point in history, or do you need the ability to restore some point in history?
Consider this scenario where I work: People have documents for once-a-year reports. They need to make a new one for all the stuff that happened this year, and they need the final from the previous two years. However, a virus (or new-hire) went through and randomly corrupted and deleted several documents some months ago. A mirrored system can quickly give you the data exactly as it was yesterday, but that would still be bad data. If you need to restore/access things as they were 6 months ago, or a year ago, you gotta have tapes or DVD's. Affordable solution are too slow, that is it takes longer to do the backup than allowable downtime (suppose DVD's take 20 hours to backup 8 hours of work - it won't fit in a day)
There's many options. One thing you can do is mirror your system onto cheap disks which gives you a quick snapshot. Then use tapes/DVD to do periodic full and incremental backups of the mirrored system. The you can use a cheap backup system and hope the tapes don't go bad. (They will).
Conservation in America? Haw Haw Haw Haw Haaaaaw The only time people start conservation is when there ain't any more.
Seriously, though. We don't need to build a plant; we just need to raise prices until consumption drops to a sustainable level. Then use the money to build an aqueduct (sp?) into Canada until there's a long term solution. And also, take away the price breaks for the fockin golf courses and force them by law to use recycled sewer water (which costs a fraction of desalinization).
1) Lack of formal support, Just try and find out who's responsible if you use calculus to design a bridge and it fails.
2) Speed of change (not 'velocity'), Not much change since we went from using fluxion to differential notation 300 YEARS AGO!
3) Lack of roadmap, Nobody seems to know what innovations will be forthcoming in the next release. It's almost as if Newton and Leibnitz were dead.
4) Functional gaps, What can you say about a tool that solves hard problems with 'Monte Carlo simulations' sheesh
5) Licensing caveats, Do you have a copy of the TOU? I've never even seen it! Is it OK to reverse engineer Green's theorem?
6) ISV endorsements I haven't seen a single Fortune 500 company advertisement that even admits to using calculus in making their products, much less endorsing it.
That the Russians did all the heavy lifting in WWII.
The Americans and British helped out a lot, but they sat on their hands for far longer than they had to. The Russians took one of the worst beatings any country has ever received in a war without giving up. Had the Russians had failed at Stalingrad, we would be living in a very different world today.
How can this be? Everyone knows Al Gore invented the Internet. I didn't see his name mentioned in the patent. Does he know he's been ripped off, again?
is not accuracy, verifiability, safety, ease of use, or any such thing.
It has to do with recounts. The purpose is to have a system that will always give the same result after every recount. Recounts make people unhappy because the result is never the same, so people assume the the mistakes continue to exist and are in favor of the other guy. We want the voters to be happy.
Mens, It is important to have big pens to satasfy your woman. Woman want big pens for pleasure. Our patanted pens enhancer apporved by doctor all over world. send $75 now for fantastic pens enhancer, or $50 if you already have piano wire and weights.
The way we do it is first we living people go vote, and then, if the count isn't going the right way, our dead ancestors rise from their graves and vote in alphabetical order until we have the votes we need.
"Would one dare do anything so risky as carouse, drive a car, hit the ski slopes, if three hundred years of life would be thereby imperiled?"
Dying isn't the problem as any older person can tell you. It's getting crippled.
When Christian missionaries first went to Japan they preached about eternal life. This horrified the peasants. Their's was a life of grueling back-breaking labor mixed with the capricious cruelty of their masters. Why would anyone want that forever? Honorable death was a blessing.
Would you want to spend 300 years in a hospital bed waiting for someone to bring you a bedpan? Worse yet, 300 years of watching daytime television.
Fixing the genetic causes of aging won't necessarily fix broken necks or collapsed spines. How about being blind for 250 years? I doubt they will ever be able to grow functioning replacement eyeballs to replace those you burst in a high-speed accident.
And furthermore, I can't imagine spending only another 10-30 years with you assholes, but I'll get through it somehow. But 500 more? sheesh.
What's worse than someone across the country making phony ID cards and writing bad checks in your name? It's when they do it in the same town. What is your alibi going to be? A woman here in Georgia spent almost a year in jail thanks to a person who stole her identity (and some checks) and wrote bad checks all over town. Because she had no money, she could not afford a lawyer. And let's just say that in Georgia the quality of service from the public defenders can be, ummm, variable.
Goto a prof with your suspicions (but you don't know yet, how could you?) and get assigned to find out for one of your papers. You've already done the work, so it should be an easy grade.
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So the winner of the election will be the person that the best hackers go for? Sounds better than what we've been getting.
I, for one, look forward to having Putin be our next president.
It's true that "What's better" should be answered by "It depends on your goals/needs/desires". Although having many choices is in general a good thing, allowing Pepsi is wrong because there's the waste of the precious petroleum products used in its manufacture and transportation.
1) Ask your kids to dig it up. Or their kids.
2) Earn some money, setup a trust fund for maintainance and buy some stock in every DowJones listed stock, donate land for a park in the downtown of a city and put it under a stone tower with a plaque explaining about the stock certificates which will be donated to the city at the 1k anniversary else if dug up earlier be donated to the United Nations (Heh. You're lieing about the stock of course)
3) Plant a Sequoia and place the box at the base.
Carve "cut me down in 3005" onto the trunk.
I thought it felt heavy when I picked it up.
Well, if they say it's an 'accounting error', then I guess that means they're not expecting me to give it back, right?
This article is the result of trult execrable reporting. The missing disks were the least of the problems at the lab. The investigations began after an administration change and BEFORE the missing disks story. There was a theft ring operating out of the lab that even included one person charging a Ford Mustang on her office credit card.
For references, read the local newspapers
www.abqjournal.com and thealibi.com
vmware?
All kinds of BS, and people tend to quote those studies that verify their existing beliefs. I have this same problem, of course, but I did see a study done on children that surprised me with its originality.
Basically what they did was monitor several classrooms of children (a variety of age groupings) and recorded all physical interactions (shoving, head-bonking, grabbing, etc). Then they showed movies to the class depicting violent activities. They continued recording the physical interactions and what they found was that only a few of the children were affected. Most kids experienced no change in behavior, but some kids had a large increase in attacks on others. The ones who increased their atacks were children who it later turned out were already diagnosed as disturbed children.
The study was somewhat more complex than as I describe it, but the conclusion they drew was not what they had expected to find. The conclusion was that viewing depictions of violent behaviors did not affect healthy children, but that it did affect disturbed children, and it affected them badly.
So what do we do? How can we regulate a product that causes no harm to healthy people?
We have the same problem with drugs: most people can do recreational drugs from time to time without harm; they can regulate their usage and have sense enough to not drive doing while doing LSD and meth. The same can be said for alcohol - some people become destructive when allowed to drink alcohol.
It appears that the percentage of people in our population who cannot drink is small enough that we can tolerate the side effects of those who cannot handle it. On the other hand, it may be that the number of people who can use heroin or cocaine responsibly without becoming lost to it (and there are those) is small enough that there is a significant danger to society from the side effects. Imagine what life would be like if every fifth person at work was coming off a 2-week meth run.
There are patchwork solutions in place. For example, it may surprise you to learn that convicted murderers in the United States are forbidden from owning guns - even after they've completed their prison sentence!
Another solution is that we don't allow children to purchase or operate dangerous products such as alcohol, guns, automobiles, and voting machines even though many children do have the skills and judgement to use these products.
So we ask ourselves are violent video games dangerous in that they may affect unhealthy people in such significant numbers that society is endangered? It seems unlikely to me to be a problem, but it has been shown that it's bad for some people such as the disturbed children above.
What bothers me about kill-games is what makes it different from watching killing on TV. You're actually practicing the very thing that we don't want you to do - going through the motions over and over. No prob with healthy people (I must not be one because although World of Warcraft has no effect on be besides exhaustion, Counterstrike leaves me with a very itchy trigger finger)
So, our compromise in these cases is to prevent the acquisition of these products until the children are of an age where their judgement has matured to dampen their urges (I want to kill the teacher, but then the police will then kill me if I do that).
"It surely can't be long now before we're all streaming the latest blockbuster movies to our laptops on the commuter train home?"
Why would you leave the house in the first place?
I do not understand this.
What's the "proof of concept"?
So someone wrote a program that looks for files that are executables and adds some code to the end that does the same thing?
Does it promote itself to run with system permissions, or only user-level perms?
As near as I can tell, the writer went to some trouble to limit his program so that it can only propagate on a particular machine and OS, and called it a '64 bit virus'.
On the other hand, maybe I just don't get it.
Do you simply need a snapshot to restore the most recent point in history, or do you need the ability to restore some point in history?
Consider this scenario where I work:
People have documents for once-a-year reports. They need to make a new one for all the stuff that happened this year, and they need the final from the previous two years. However, a virus (or new-hire) went through and randomly corrupted and deleted several documents some months ago. A mirrored system can quickly give you the data exactly as it was yesterday, but that would still be bad data.
If you need to restore/access things as they were 6 months ago, or a year ago, you gotta have tapes or DVD's. Affordable solution are too slow, that is it takes longer to do the backup than allowable downtime (suppose DVD's take 20 hours to backup 8 hours of work - it won't fit in a day)
There's many options. One thing you can do is mirror your system onto cheap disks which gives you a quick snapshot. Then use tapes/DVD to do periodic full and incremental backups of the mirrored system.
The you can use a cheap backup system and hope the tapes don't go bad. (They will).
It doesn't matter, because they're gone and we're still here. We Won!
nyaaah nyaah dumb Martians picked the wrong planet.
Those that _want_ to learn science and math.
Screw the rest - they can go into management.
Conservation in America?
Haw Haw Haw Haw Haaaaaw
The only time people start conservation is when there ain't any more.
Seriously, though. We don't need to build a plant; we just need to raise prices until consumption drops to a sustainable level. Then use the money to build an aqueduct (sp?) into Canada until there's a long term solution.
And also, take away the price breaks for the fockin golf courses and force them by law to use recycled sewer water (which costs a fraction of desalinization).
1) Lack of formal support,
Just try and find out who's responsible if you use calculus to design a bridge and it fails.
2) Speed of change (not 'velocity'),
Not much change since we went from using fluxion to differential notation 300 YEARS AGO!
3) Lack of roadmap,
Nobody seems to know what innovations will be forthcoming in the next release. It's almost as if Newton and Leibnitz were dead.
4) Functional gaps,
What can you say about a tool that solves hard problems with 'Monte Carlo simulations' sheesh
5) Licensing caveats,
Do you have a copy of the TOU?
I've never even seen it! Is it OK to reverse engineer Green's theorem?
6) ISV endorsements
I haven't seen a single Fortune 500 company advertisement that even admits to using calculus in making their products, much less endorsing it.
Just don't be surprised when George P Burdell get 4 million votes for every office.
That the Russians did all the heavy lifting in WWII.
The Americans and British helped out a lot, but they sat on their hands for far longer than they had to. The Russians took one of the worst beatings any country has ever received in a war without giving up.
Had the Russians had failed at Stalingrad, we would be living in a very different world today.
How can this be? Everyone knows Al Gore invented the Internet. I didn't see his name mentioned in the patent.
Does he know he's been ripped off, again?
Warning! Do not look into laser with remaining eye!
is not accuracy, verifiability, safety, ease of use, or any such thing.
It has to do with recounts. The purpose is to have a system that will always give the same result after every recount. Recounts make people unhappy because the result is never the same, so people assume the the mistakes continue to exist and are in favor of the other guy. We want the voters to be happy.
Mens,
It is important to have big pens to satasfy your woman. Woman want big pens for pleasure. Our patanted pens enhancer apporved by doctor all over world. send $75 now for fantastic pens enhancer, or $50 if you already have piano wire and weights.
It's gone. Nothing to see here folks, just move along.
The way we do it is first we living people go vote, and then, if the count isn't going the right way, our dead ancestors rise from their graves and vote in alphabetical order until we have the votes we need.
"Would one dare do anything so risky as carouse, drive a car, hit the ski slopes, if three hundred years of life would be thereby imperiled?"
Dying isn't the problem as any older person can tell you. It's getting crippled.
When Christian missionaries first went to Japan they preached about eternal life. This horrified the peasants. Their's was a life of grueling back-breaking labor mixed with the capricious cruelty of their masters. Why would anyone want that forever? Honorable death was a blessing.
Would you want to spend 300 years in a hospital bed waiting for someone to bring you a bedpan?
Worse yet, 300 years of watching daytime television.
Fixing the genetic causes of aging won't necessarily fix broken necks or collapsed spines.
How about being blind for 250 years?
I doubt they will ever be able to grow functioning replacement eyeballs to replace those you burst in a high-speed accident.
And furthermore, I can't imagine spending only another 10-30 years with you assholes, but I'll get through it somehow. But 500 more? sheesh.
What's worse than someone across the country making phony ID cards and writing bad checks in your name? It's when they do it in the same town. What is your alibi going to be?
A woman here in Georgia spent almost a year in jail thanks to a person who stole her identity (and some checks) and wrote bad checks all over town. Because she had no money, she could not afford a lawyer. And let's just say that in Georgia the quality of service from the public defenders can be, ummm, variable.
Goto a prof with your suspicions (but you don't know yet, how could you?) and get assigned to find out for one of your papers. You've already done the work, so it should be an easy grade.