I actually do not see a major problem with that. I do not see any benefit of having professional athletes anyway.
Same here, but the solution I see is to simply ban professional races (no prize money and sponsored athletes are not allowed to race). But some say that big competitions are an alternative to war. Seems to work for football in Europe...
A third of what you say would actually be a good thing. The rest is either garbage (antichrist, hah!) or indeed dangerous. I wouldn't mind a 'new world order' if it puts the boot on transnational companies which are currently draining the world without paying taxes and without political limits. And I just read something saying that in the same way that the robber barons of the late 1800s where curbed by the raise in power of the federal government, the current transnational companies will require a 'world government' (more likely a stronger UN) before their excesses are curbed. One has to be careful one wishes for, though.
I thought of that mosquito zapper a DECADE ago while I worked in sound detection and ranging. When I saw the price and complexity for a patent for a lone inventor, I said screw it. I'm not jealous that they made it, I'm bitter that they are not selling it.
In addition to that, it's one thing to be yelled at by your lathe instructor "don't put your finger there!" and then look at his own missing fingertip, and then another entirely to be yelled at by... actors ?!? WTF.
I truly do not understand the US aversion for identity papers. (*) There needs to be a way for you to interact with the state / federal government, it's obvious. But how do you prove who you are when you do ? ID papers provide this certification easily. I've heard all kind of 'slippery slope' arguments like 'it's the first step towards a nazi state'. Well duh, every country in Europe has had ID papers since at least WWII and it hasn't changed anything. Instead of that the US relies on driver's license for the same purpose, or much worse, social security number which anybody can figure out and copy at will. Dumb.
(*) And at the same time I don't understand why most USamericans don't give a flying squirrel about the wholesale spying going on. They don't want a piece of paper to identify them once a year when a cop or a govnmt employee asks for it for a legitimate purpose, but they don't care to have their every word archived to some big brother 5 zetabytes database with sorry consequences years from now. Beats me.
Amazon was selling below wholesale as a means to control the market.
How can it be below wholesale when (1) they sell them at the same price than hardbacks (2) they sell them even more if your IP address is out of the US (pisses me off) (3) there's no cost involved for printing / distribution / marketing /...
eBooks should be a fraction of the price of a paperback. They are NOT, except for some self published crap or 200 year old semi-classics they use as loss leader to entice Kindle buyers.
As to that root kit you mentioned, MS could have protected itself from that without SecureBoot or any boot signing. MS could have made MBR writes from within their OS forbidden without an extreme warning. No OS bothers to do that, but it would have been actually a pretty defensible move on their part to mitigate root kits.
Yes. I aways wondered why writing to the MBR wasn't possible only after going into BIOS, activating manually an option 'allow MBR write just for this boot', install your OS, reboot and it's secure again.
Italy currently has the record for (not) young (anymore) people staying with their parents, at least for Europe. But the reason isn't video games or girlfriend pillows, it's simply the lack of jobs. No job means no money, and without money you can't settle down somewhere else. Many of those socialize, go out, have significant others that they see regularly.
I just started doing some GPU programming and the change in thinking that it requires even for very simple things can be hard for programmers. I don't know if this language forces us to think in new terms, but here's a very simple example: we often use arrays of structures. Well, a GPU can optimize computations on arrays but not on structures, so it's better to use structures of arrays... Even is less natural for the programmer. Plenty of small examples like that that don't really depend on the language you use.
Even in the US, the Declaration of Independence wasn't followed immediately by the Constitution
Yes, this. It's easy to be afraid for middle-east countries that have trouble starting democracy after an eternity of autocratic rule, but it took 9 years in the US for the 'system' to stabilize (and some violent bloodshed). Even France, which is also considered an example of 'old' democracy, it took easily a century from the revolution through the Terror, Napoleon, various returns to democracy and kings before it stabilized in the late 1870. Let's give those guys some time and cross our fingers that the bloodsheds can stay limited like in Tunisia or Libya.
So what did you pick instead ? Leave a black hole in the middle of the dashboard ? It's not like you can purchase compatible systems anyway except maybe for basic radio with no link to the steering wheel buttons.
Much more relevant to this discussion is the underhanded C contest where backdoors much be introduced in innocuous-looking C code. There's an art to it.
I'm guessing that the goal of this is in part to clamp down on human trafficking, illegal porn sites and related crimes.
And pray tell, how do you differentiate between illegal porn site and legal porn site ?!? I don't even have the remotest idea what "related crime" may mean.
From what I can tell, the real problem here is that the policy is somewhat vague. A company selling sex toys would arguably be an adult site, but is probably not what Google is intending to bar from those ads. But, without a clearer policy it's hard to say for sure.
So would a website discussing Kafka or Finegan's wake.
I have an old but popular personal website that's been running since 96 and using Google ads since the very beginning (2003? Can't remember). Two weeks ago I received a sternly written email that because there was ONE 'adult' picture on the entire site (700 pages), I had 3 days to remove it or adsense would stop. I thought it was some scam but it was the real deal. And yes, it was an artistic rendition of a breast as a mountain with minifig climbers on it. WTF, Google, you turning into baptist hypocrites or what ?!?
Ada is wordy, but for the few months I tackled it I found it powerful, intuitive and very readable. I looked at Cobol source code for sheer kicks and got cold sweat worse than any horror film or girlfriend saying "I'm late".
Economics should be classified similar to Logic and Math. They are constructs of the human mind that are great tools to model the way the world works. But like any model you have to know the limitations.
Not really, because the knowledge of the 'rules' of economics changes their effect ('beating the system'). It should be more akin to quantum mechanics, with wavefunctions observing other wavefunctions.
I have walked out of job interviews where they asked nothing but puzzles
I have walked out of a job interview where they asked me why I wasn't wearing a tie: "I though you were looking for a driver programmer, not a fashion victim..."
Filesystems. Linux and *BSD have *FAT*, NTFS, and ZFS in common. That's about it.
Strange, I expected a lot of common pieces between the two. The source for most things in/bin/ is the same, right ? Or are all options to, say, 'ls' different ?
I'm not trolling here, but as a Linux user I never took interest in BSD, I hardly know what it is. The impression I have is that it is solid but somewhat backwards compared to Linux. It's just strange to me that there are two similar OSes coming out the same year and they are still both here. So what are the differences besides the licensing scheme ?
Well if you seriously want to get around this, you need two accounts. Take two documents diff them and remove and/or correct what you see.
That wouldn't necessarily work. Take a video and introduce a white dot on the lower right corner at 1:13 in one version, and a red dot on the upper right corner at 2:17 on the other. If you average (or scramble the differences) the two, you still end up with a smudge on the lower right corner at 1:13 and another smudge at 2:17, both traceable back to the original videos. You could make it a lot more resilient still by taking a random number, generating a turbo-code for it, and using that to change the file all along. Even if part of the turbo-code is modified, edited or clipped, you can still find the original random value.
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I actually do not see a major problem with that. I do not see any benefit of having professional athletes anyway.
Same here, but the solution I see is to simply ban professional races (no prize money and sponsored athletes are not allowed to race). But some say that big competitions are an alternative to war. Seems to work for football in Europe...
A third of what you say would actually be a good thing. The rest is either garbage (antichrist, hah!) or indeed dangerous. I wouldn't mind a 'new world order' if it puts the boot on transnational companies which are currently draining the world without paying taxes and without political limits. And I just read something saying that in the same way that the robber barons of the late 1800s where curbed by the raise in power of the federal government, the current transnational companies will require a 'world government' (more likely a stronger UN) before their excesses are curbed. One has to be careful one wishes for, though.
So how does this compare to a, say, Xeon Phi ?
I thought of that mosquito zapper a DECADE ago while I worked in sound detection and ranging. When I saw the price and complexity for a patent for a lone inventor, I said screw it. I'm not jealous that they made it, I'm bitter that they are not selling it.
In addition to that, it's one thing to be yelled at by your lathe instructor "don't put your finger there!" and then look at his own missing fingertip, and then another entirely to be yelled at by... actors ?!? WTF.
I truly do not understand the US aversion for identity papers. (*) There needs to be a way for you to interact with the state / federal government, it's obvious. But how do you prove who you are when you do ? ID papers provide this certification easily. I've heard all kind of 'slippery slope' arguments like 'it's the first step towards a nazi state'. Well duh, every country in Europe has had ID papers since at least WWII and it hasn't changed anything. Instead of that the US relies on driver's license for the same purpose, or much worse, social security number which anybody can figure out and copy at will. Dumb.
(*) And at the same time I don't understand why most USamericans don't give a flying squirrel about the wholesale spying going on. They don't want a piece of paper to identify them once a year when a cop or a govnmt employee asks for it for a legitimate purpose, but they don't care to have their every word archived to some big brother 5 zetabytes database with sorry consequences years from now. Beats me.
Amazon was selling below wholesale as a means to control the market.
How can it be below wholesale when (1) they sell them at the same price than hardbacks (2) they sell them even more if your IP address is out of the US (pisses me off) (3) there's no cost involved for printing / distribution / marketing / ...
eBooks should be a fraction of the price of a paperback. They are NOT, except for some self published crap or 200 year old semi-classics they use as loss leader to entice Kindle buyers.
As to that root kit you mentioned, MS could have protected itself from that without SecureBoot or any boot signing. MS could have made MBR writes from within their OS forbidden without an extreme warning. No OS bothers to do that, but it would have been actually a pretty defensible move on their part to mitigate root kits.
Yes. I aways wondered why writing to the MBR wasn't possible only after going into BIOS, activating manually an option 'allow MBR write just for this boot', install your OS, reboot and it's secure again.
Italy currently has the record for (not) young (anymore) people staying with their parents, at least for Europe. But the reason isn't video games or girlfriend pillows, it's simply the lack of jobs. No job means no money, and without money you can't settle down somewhere else. Many of those socialize, go out, have significant others that they see regularly.
...because 'ch' breaks sorting algorithms, then don't go back to '' (thorn, which /. is likely to eat because of the lack of UTF-8).
I just started doing some GPU programming and the change in thinking that it requires even for very simple things can be hard for programmers. I don't know if this language forces us to think in new terms, but here's a very simple example: we often use arrays of structures. Well, a GPU can optimize computations on arrays but not on structures, so it's better to use structures of arrays... Even is less natural for the programmer. Plenty of small examples like that that don't really depend on the language you use.
Even in the US, the Declaration of Independence wasn't followed immediately by the Constitution
Yes, this. It's easy to be afraid for middle-east countries that have trouble starting democracy after an eternity of autocratic rule, but it took 9 years in the US for the 'system' to stabilize (and some violent bloodshed). Even France, which is also considered an example of 'old' democracy, it took easily a century from the revolution through the Terror, Napoleon, various returns to democracy and kings before it stabilized in the late 1870. Let's give those guys some time and cross our fingers that the bloodsheds can stay limited like in Tunisia or Libya.
So what did you pick instead ? Leave a black hole in the middle of the dashboard ? It's not like you can purchase compatible systems anyway except maybe for basic radio with no link to the steering wheel buttons.
And WTF does 'wittingly' means ? That you are trying to drown a fish ?
Much more relevant to this discussion is the underhanded C contest where backdoors much be introduced in innocuous-looking C code. There's an art to it.
I'm guessing that the goal of this is in part to clamp down on human trafficking, illegal porn sites and related crimes.
And pray tell, how do you differentiate between illegal porn site and legal porn site ?!? I don't even have the remotest idea what "related crime" may mean.
From what I can tell, the real problem here is that the policy is somewhat vague. A company selling sex toys would arguably be an adult site, but is probably not what Google is intending to bar from those ads. But, without a clearer policy it's hard to say for sure.
So would a website discussing Kafka or Finegan's wake.
Here. I guess Google must be moving to Texas.
I have an old but popular personal website that's been running since 96 and using Google ads since the very beginning (2003? Can't remember). Two weeks ago I received a sternly written email that because there was ONE 'adult' picture on the entire site (700 pages), I had 3 days to remove it or adsense would stop. I thought it was some scam but it was the real deal. And yes, it was an artistic rendition of a breast as a mountain with minifig climbers on it. WTF, Google, you turning into baptist hypocrites or what ?!?
Ada is wordy, but for the few months I tackled it I found it powerful, intuitive and very readable. I looked at Cobol source code for sheer kicks and got cold sweat worse than any horror film or girlfriend saying "I'm late".
Economics should be classified similar to Logic and Math. They are constructs of the human mind that are great tools to model the way the world works. But like any model you have to know the limitations.
Not really, because the knowledge of the 'rules' of economics changes their effect ('beating the system'). It should be more akin to quantum mechanics, with wavefunctions observing other wavefunctions.
I have walked out of job interviews where they asked nothing but puzzles
I have walked out of a job interview where they asked me why I wasn't wearing a tie: "I though you were looking for a driver programmer, not a fashion victim..."
Filesystems. Linux and *BSD have *FAT*, NTFS, and ZFS in common. That's about it.
Strange, I expected a lot of common pieces between the two. The source for most things in /bin/ is the same, right ? Or are all options to, say, 'ls' different ?
I'm not trolling here, but as a Linux user I never took interest in BSD, I hardly know what it is. The impression I have is that it is solid but somewhat backwards compared to Linux. It's just strange to me that there are two similar OSes coming out the same year and they are still both here. So what are the differences besides the licensing scheme ?
Well, if there's no reply, simply send one of those to me and I'll be happy to boot and report... C;-)
Well if you seriously want to get around this, you need two accounts. Take two documents diff them and remove and/or correct what you see.
That wouldn't necessarily work. Take a video and introduce a white dot on the lower right corner at 1:13 in one version, and a red dot on the upper right corner at 2:17 on the other. If you average (or scramble the differences) the two, you still end up with a smudge on the lower right corner at 1:13 and another smudge at 2:17, both traceable back to the original videos. You could make it a lot more resilient still by taking a random number, generating a turbo-code for it, and using that to change the file all along. Even if part of the turbo-code is modified, edited or clipped, you can still find the original random value.