This is why the episode of BSG where they didn't want to network the systems together because of the Cylons hacking in remotely is so laughable
It's a little less laughable when you consider that the Cylons owned most of the electronics manufacturing business on the twelve colonies.
(it would take a single firewall rule in that case... deny all incoming traffic)
That's a nice thought, but it doesn't help when your firewall switches to "allow all" once it sees the right magic packet. Which is exactly what happened in the pilot episode.
there's consumer grade encryption available that far exceeds the capability of the most advanced military computers to crack within a practical amount of time
Imagine a world where one company in, say, China makes more than half of the world's consumer electronics, including parts used for high security applications. In such a world it would be easy to see why people lie awake at night dreaming of Ken Thompson style hacks.
"kids with the active games didn't get any more exercise than those given inactive video games"
Or, to spin it the other way, "kids with the so-called 'inactive' video games got as much excercise as those given more 'active' games".
Having seen the kind of swearing, drinking, controller-throwing and fist-fighting that usually accompany games of Mario Kart, SMB-Wii or Mario Galaxy, I can easily see how they would beat more passive games like Wii Sports for physical activity.
I once parked my Chevy Nova at the bottom of a lake for several months, and when I pulled it back out the stupid thing wouldn't start. The weasels from Chevrolet forced me to pay for thousands of dollars in repairs just to get my car running again.
Public Safety Minister Vic Toews, who introduced the bill to Parliament, had absolutely no idea what was in it or why people would be so upset about it.
So, you see, everything is okay. You trust the Public Safety Minister, don't you?
It's not like he's lying through his teeth or anything. Or hopelessly incompentant.
Well, technically he would have to be one or the other, but you can still trust him, right?
Anyway, the thing is that it requires a faculty member who is actually invested in teaching their students rather than just herding them through a course.
Or perhaps a faculty member who doesn't long for the extra respect and pay that working at a coffee shop would offer compared to teaching at a University.
It would be nice to live in a world where teachers did have the time and resources to actually teach their students but the real world seldom works that way.
Could a professor put questions on the test that he or she knows aren't easily solved by using the Internet?
I don't know. Is there a question which cannot be answered by visiting www.gmail.com and having a helpful friend or highly paid accomplice on the outside write up the solution for you?
If your answer to that question is 'No', then you're starting to see the problem. If your answer is 'Yes', then I have an amazing investment opportunity for you. It's a combination of a perpetual motion machine, time cube, and weight loss device that is made entirely from recycled ophidian extracts...
The crazy thing, and I'm not making this up, is that some audiophiles claim that double-blind testing "doesn't work". They claim that you introduce errors that mask the superiority of the expensive equipment.
But they're right. The problem is not with the audiophiles, but with the testing.
A _proper_ double-blind test would involve you, the tester, telling the test subject the names of two competing brands of audio equipment, but not their price. The subject would then hold lengthy conversations with his peers about how much better the equipment makes everything sound without ever plugging it in. Whichever brand leaves him feeling more superior at the end of the test is clearly better.
If you're just going to bring stupid crap like listening to music into it then you're completely missing the point and your testing methodology is doomed to failure.
As someone who doesn't bike regularly, I've completed a century (100 mile ride) in less than 5 hours. 200 miles in a day should be no problem for an experienced racer, and even 400 miles is probably not outside the realm of possibility.
Spending the next three days travelling in circles at 17,285 mph may be a bit more challenging, but you probably have a nicer bike than mine.
The original idea was not to have any "plan" at all, but simply charge customers for what they had used in the previous month. So if you used only enough to qualify for the $10 plan, you pay $10 at the end of the month.. If you used enough for the $25 plan, you would pay $25.
The focus groups hated it, because they weren't able to choose a plan like they were accustomed to. So they changed it to the current system where you pick a plan and if you go over it you pay for the next tier. It works exactly the same, but the same focus groups loved it.
Each pool is a LUN that is 3.6TB in size before formatting or actually 3,347,054,592 bytes as reported by "cat/proc/partitions".
a file system with about 72TB using "df -h" or 76,982,232,064 bytes from "cat/proc/partitions"
Yeah, I think there's definitely a scaling problem there.
Or perhaps a reading comprehension problem, since/proc/partitions reports in blocks, not bytes, but either way it doesn't inspire any kind of confidence in the rest of their testing methodology.
The original inscription in 'Inferno" was Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch'entrate which, translated into modern English, means "Where do you want to go today?"
"Abandon all hope, ye who enter here" has a simliar meaning, but is less correct.
At least thedailywtf.com will have an inexhaustible supply of new material once all of these people get exciting jobs in the fast-paced software industry.
If I'm not mistaken Canada is also one of the countries where if you want to back-up your pictures (for example) to CD it's presumed that you infringe copyright and you have to pay some fee no matter what, isn't it?
It's also one of the countries where it is legal to share music. Funny how that works, isn't it?
Here's a brain teaser. Suppose that you work ten days every month for three months, and every day you produce ten lines of code. How many lines of code will you produce?
Oh, and you can only compile your code on the far side of the river, and the rope bridge will only allow you to bring two members of your development team across at a time, the DBA will kill the programmer if they are left alone together, the programmer will kill the web developer, and the linker is connected to a box with three light bulbs inside of it. And you're writing a program to determine the weight of an airplane which is balanced on top of seven eggs, one of which is hard boiled...
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This is why the episode of BSG where they didn't want to network the systems together because of the Cylons hacking in remotely is so laughable
It's a little less laughable when you consider that the Cylons owned most of the electronics manufacturing business on the twelve colonies.
(it would take a single firewall rule in that case... deny all incoming traffic)
That's a nice thought, but it doesn't help when your firewall switches to "allow all" once it sees the right magic packet. Which is exactly what happened in the pilot episode.
there's consumer grade encryption available that far exceeds the capability of the most advanced military computers to crack within a practical amount of time
There sure is. But all it takes is one little "mistake" to turn it from unbreakable into child's play.
Imagine a world where one company in, say, China makes more than half of the world's consumer electronics, including parts used for high security applications. In such a world it would be easy to see why people lie awake at night dreaming of Ken Thompson style hacks.
"kids with the active games didn't get any more exercise than those given inactive video games"
Or, to spin it the other way, "kids with the so-called 'inactive' video games got as much excercise as those given more 'active' games".
Having seen the kind of swearing, drinking, controller-throwing and fist-fighting that usually accompany games of Mario Kart, SMB-Wii or Mario Galaxy, I can easily see how they would beat more passive games like Wii Sports for physical activity.
I once parked my Chevy Nova at the bottom of a lake for several months, and when I pulled it back out the stupid thing wouldn't start. The weasels from Chevrolet forced me to pay for thousands of dollars in repairs just to get my car running again.
Can you believe that?
Public Safety Minister Vic Toews, who introduced the bill to Parliament, had absolutely no idea what was in it or why people would be so upset about it.
So, you see, everything is okay. You trust the Public Safety Minister, don't you?
It's not like he's lying through his teeth or anything. Or hopelessly incompentant.
Well, technically he would have to be one or the other, but you can still trust him, right?
The LRT stations in Calgary were doing this twenty years ago for the same reasons.
I'd rather that my 12-year-old daughter doesn't have to ask me how Rick ImpoliteWord became President.
I already have enough awkward US history to explain as it is.
Anyway, the thing is that it requires a faculty member who is actually invested in teaching their students rather than just herding them through a course.
Or perhaps a faculty member who doesn't long for the extra respect and pay that working at a coffee shop would offer compared to teaching at a University.
It would be nice to live in a world where teachers did have the time and resources to actually teach their students but the real world seldom works that way.
Could a professor put questions on the test that he or she knows aren't easily solved by using the Internet?
I don't know. Is there a question which cannot be answered by visiting www.gmail.com and having a helpful friend or highly paid accomplice on the outside write up the solution for you?
If your answer to that question is 'No', then you're starting to see the problem. If your answer is 'Yes', then I have an amazing investment opportunity for you. It's a combination of a perpetual motion machine, time cube, and weight loss device that is made entirely from recycled ophidian extracts...
The crazy thing, and I'm not making this up, is that some audiophiles claim that double-blind testing "doesn't work". They claim that you introduce errors that mask the superiority of the expensive equipment.
But they're right. The problem is not with the audiophiles, but with the testing.
A _proper_ double-blind test would involve you, the tester, telling the test subject the names of two competing brands of audio equipment, but not their price. The subject would then hold lengthy conversations with his peers about how much better the equipment makes everything sound without ever plugging it in. Whichever brand leaves him feeling more superior at the end of the test is clearly better.
If you're just going to bring stupid crap like listening to music into it then you're completely missing the point and your testing methodology is doomed to failure.
An iPad counts as a gazillion books, right?
Only if you read them. Most iPads count for about six birds, a slingshot and a handful of green pigs.
As someone who doesn't bike regularly, I've completed a century (100 mile ride) in less than 5 hours. 200 miles in a day should be no problem for an experienced racer, and even 400 miles is probably not outside the realm of possibility.
Spending the next three days travelling in circles at 17,285 mph may be a bit more challenging, but you probably have a nicer bike than mine.
The original idea was not to have any "plan" at all, but simply charge customers for what they had used in the previous month. So if you used only enough to qualify for the $10 plan, you pay $10 at the end of the month.. If you used enough for the $25 plan, you would pay $25.
The focus groups hated it, because they weren't able to choose a plan like they were accustomed to. So they changed it to the current system where you pick a plan and if you go over it you pay for the next tier. It works exactly the same, but the same focus groups loved it.
People are funny that way.
I wonder if they have an option for downloading Trumpet Winsock onto your phone.
Each pool is a LUN that is 3.6TB in size before formatting or actually 3,347,054,592 bytes as reported by "cat /proc/partitions".
a file system with about 72TB using "df -h" or 76,982,232,064 bytes from "cat /proc/partitions"
Yeah, I think there's definitely a scaling problem there.
Or perhaps a reading comprehension problem, since /proc/partitions reports in blocks, not bytes, but either way it doesn't inspire any kind of confidence in the rest of their testing methodology.
Yeah, you'd have to work for Fox News to believe in a story like...
Oh, right. Never mind.
The original inscription in 'Inferno" was Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch'entrate which, translated into modern English, means "Where do you want to go today?"
"Abandon all hope, ye who enter here" has a simliar meaning, but is less correct.
And very good at looking at things.
Why just one word? You have 63 characters to work with. That's enough for the whole verse.
This begs the question
Don't make me card you.
At least thedailywtf.com will have an inexhaustible supply of new material once all of these people get exciting jobs in the fast-paced software industry.
But do any of those factors lead to the Air Force getting a surprisingly large bill from AT&T?
If I'm not mistaken Canada is also one of the countries where if you want to back-up your pictures (for example) to CD it's presumed that you infringe copyright and you have to pay some fee no matter what, isn't it?
It's also one of the countries where it is legal to share music. Funny how that works, isn't it?
Language evolves. Everyone knows what he meant. Shut the fuck up.
Indeed. He meant "I don't know what this phrase means but I'm going to use it anyway".
because 10 x 10 = 300 amirite
Here's a brain teaser. Suppose that you work ten days every month for three months, and every day you produce ten lines of code. How many lines of code will you produce?
Oh, and you can only compile your code on the far side of the river, and the rope bridge will only allow you to bring two members of your development team across at a time, the DBA will kill the programmer if they are left alone together, the programmer will kill the web developer, and the linker is connected to a box with three light bulbs inside of it. And you're writing a program to determine the weight of an airplane which is balanced on top of seven eggs, one of which is hard boiled...
Quick, hide the violins.