that's too simple. what they found out is that in the moment when the students enroll things are already settled. Tell your 7 year old daughter that she sucks at math but that it's not bad because she is a girl and dont give her technical toys and she will make decisions in choosing hobbies and interests in school based on that. i have seen many attempts at fixing gender imbalance and these programs usually take a half hearted approach at fixing some symptoms of the problem that we as a society still have gender issues deep in the early childhood and childhood education.
What actually disturbs me more is: why should they do this? The answer is simple: They want to determine the most effective non-obvious way of creating filter bubbles to make the user feel well and stay longer.
It is so-to say a "second order filter bubble", i.e. the use of a positive feedback mechanism.
It is fine that they introduced it. It protects against very specific things:
a) S3 data in there to stay, probably for many decades. To me it is a difference if all S3 data is unencrypted if there is a bug in the system at some point, or a new insitutional requirement in the future, or just the data which is accessed during the unfixed bug or after the change in laws.
b) One more layer of safety is never bad. You can use this to transport the key safely to the system of the user and the rest of the requests via normal html.
Slashdot comments dominated by software guys. I can tell you, with the *right* (semi-expensive ~ 10k) equipment, the hardware part of this is fairly trivial. (lets say 1h)
Police and secret services use IMSI catchers and trojan-based attacks on a large scale, so why should they not set up a DVB base station for an attack on a specific target (nevertheless infecting 1 Mio of devices in the target area).
Large-scale phishing attacks could get *much* easier. Imagine a News channel which broadcasts a warning about credit card fraud with a contact number to call.
Imagine a finance stock market TV which broadcasts a sudden warning about a stock on which you placed your bets before.
Criminal easily spend 10000s of $ for bullet-proof hosting, so buying DVB Test devices and applications from Agilent could even reduce their costs. If you earn enoung money with it, it pays off.
Everything which worked via spam now can be done without any chance of blocking it. I am fascinated by the idea that a semi-modern device would accept anything withou authentication. (oh, i forgot, typing in a verification number would be *so inconvenient*, so it would hinder shoveling advertisements up into everybody's ass).
I yet have to see many convincing cases of extensions for browsers (for everyday applications). I am unisg firefox, and the extensions i use are scrapbook, nojs, foxyproxy.
but recently mainly for low-price products. i dont complain, i bought a HP low-cost notebook 3 years ago, and i am happy - despite the obvious drawbacks, since the price was more than ok.
Android development started a long time before the iphone was released. Taken into account the first target market for any mobile company back in that day (Japan), it seems indeed likely that there were *many* other devices which influenced the design of samsungs mobile phones. (Most notably the huge amount of PIM devices in japan like the Sony Clie Series).
What indeed was manifested by the Iphone is that even mobile phones should not be designed as PIM devices but as media players (thus the loss of buttons makes sense).
Yeah, i would like to say that these things are probably a great source or creativity and enable next level of machine learning algorithms to understand life, but 20 years of internet made me a realist.
What really worries me about this is that such a thing cant be enforced or checked without decrypting all my storage, how unrelated it may be.
I find that court rulings should have the property of being enforcable without confiscating all of my stuff if i am not guilty (or accused) of any crime.
My advice is: train your analytic skills and understand where thing go right, wrong, or just different. This can only be done by experience. While i learn programming languages slower than with 25, i learned to analyze code. Having seen code written by many very different people (everything from physics professors to psychologists), i understand the idea of most code better than the authors (since i see the limitations the author is placed under). If you apply your analytic experience and skills to the problem, you will be welcome to any team.
I love the cloud. I have a 24/7 EC2 instance for personal use (vpn, charing files between my computers in the vpn), I use the compute instance whenever i need to number crunch something (FEM, Inductance calclulations).
But there are reasons to keep things in your own responsibility. The most important reason would be that iff you dont want the cloud service provider to write something "if it fails it fails" then the cloud is as expensive as your own serve, and that only if you dont count the lawyer cost which you would need to check if yout fulfilled all obligations for your purpose by making some contract.
-the matlab compiler signs code for execution. no GPL3 is compatible with it (even if they never mention the term "DRM" in the manual).
-what happens if a part of your software sits in controllers owned by your customer (for whom you develop) which logs data as a service offered to his customers? as long as you own the controller they dont need to pass the code on, but at whuch point should that happen?
-assume that you develop software to be delivered to a daughter company. is it enough to create builds and give them access to the repository to enable them to fulfill their obligations?
i have been working in two of theand really big companies (both > 100k employees), one Japanese, one german.
in the Japanese company there was no strategy regarding software and "whatever works" was fine, which included open source.
the German company had the strategy to explicitly manage the obligations from open source. effectively the rules were: Apache style, bsd style licenses and LGPL where white listed GPL 3 was blacklisted GPL needed special consideration (so kind of blacklisted)
Employers favor people getting things done in a professional way. I have colleagues who stay in office 20% more than i do (10h instead of 8h), yet they produce less code and much less *well working not completely bugged code*. Planning my work and dissecting a problem into small, doable (and commitable) tasks came to me with age and experience. If a release date comes close, it gets even more important to think twice before you type and avoid stupid mistakes - and thus, my experience shows: avoid stupid all-nighters or 100h/week coding marathons. A missing feature usually can be explained and added later. But if a fucking show-stopper bug causes an undetected gross miscalulation, then things escalate quickly and nastily, up to loosing the customer.
I had the case that some moronic project leader did not honour the feature freeze, but forced a junior colleague of mine (he knew I would not follow his order in that) to patch something in the middle of the code on the last afternoon before the review meeting (wihtout telling the rest of the team). He did not even put the time into looking into the new pdf report generated by the program and sent it directly to the customer as a demonstration. I can tell you, the customer was impressed that we presented software the output of which were not inspected by a human a single time (Reported cost error was by a factor of 10^12).
But long before that happens the question is if the laser can remain a laser.
A laser needs some kind of nonlinearity in the medium. Any nonlinearity introduces a scale. So the real question is: At which power does of-resonant driving cause transitions (e.g. Landau-Zener) or of-resonant shifts (Stark shift) and can you actually theoretically contruct a medium which fulfills the criteria to serve as a lasing medium for an arbitrary large scale of power?
As a starting point for an examination of such questions i recomment the Quantum Optics Toolbox for Matlab by Sze Tan.
If enough people expect microsoft to do it, then disappointing these people is going to do some economic harm. Microsoft should decide how it handles that.
My problems are my problems and there is no moral ground that MS can not be "nice".
IMHO that would sole the problem. Instead of making a complex bet on the custromer behaviour, ISPs should just provide access as cheap and fast as possible. Customer should take responsibility for usage.
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that's too simple. what they found out is that in the moment when the students enroll things are already settled. Tell your 7 year old daughter that she sucks at math but that it's not bad because she is a girl and dont give her technical toys and she will make decisions in choosing hobbies and interests in school based on that. i have seen many attempts at fixing gender imbalance and these programs usually take a half hearted approach at fixing some symptoms of the problem that we as a society still have gender issues deep in the early childhood and childhood education.
What actually disturbs me more is: why should they do this? The answer is simple: They want to determine the most effective non-obvious way of creating filter bubbles to make the user feel well and stay longer.
It is so-to say a "second order filter bubble", i.e. the use of a positive feedback mechanism.
It is fine that they introduced it. It protects against very specific things:
a) S3 data in there to stay, probably for many decades. To me it is a difference if all S3 data is unencrypted if there is a bug in the system at some point, or a new insitutional requirement in the future, or just the data which is accessed during the unfixed bug or after the change in laws.
b) One more layer of safety is never bad. You can use this to transport the key safely to the system of the user and the rest of the requests via normal html.
"Yes officer, he was meant to be beaten"
Slashdot comments dominated by software guys. I can tell you, with the *right* (semi-expensive ~ 10k) equipment, the hardware part of this is fairly trivial. (lets say 1h)
Police and secret services use IMSI catchers and trojan-based attacks on a large scale, so why should they not set up a DVB base station for an attack on a specific target (nevertheless infecting 1 Mio of devices in the target area).
Large-scale phishing attacks could get *much* easier. Imagine a News channel which broadcasts a warning about credit card fraud with a contact number to call.
Imagine a finance stock market TV which broadcasts a sudden warning about a stock on which you placed your bets before.
Criminal easily spend 10000s of $ for bullet-proof hosting, so buying DVB Test devices and applications from Agilent could even reduce their costs. If you earn enoung money with it, it pays off.
Everything which worked via spam now can be done without any chance of blocking it. I am fascinated by the idea that a semi-modern device would accept anything withou authentication. (oh, i forgot, typing in a verification number would be *so inconvenient*, so it would hinder shoveling advertisements up into everybody's ass).
from "no company" to "company delivers a product to customers" is not bad at all.
The implications of a technology like this go far beyond taxi drivers.
In the moment when autonoumous cars go mainstream, half of the car manufacturers will go bancrupt and the other half will have a very good time.
I yet have to see many convincing cases of extensions for browsers (for everyday applications). I am unisg firefox, and the extensions i use are scrapbook, nojs, foxyproxy.
Probably my post was to long to understand for the AC.
And you actually have to share it only with the person you are giving the binary to.
but recently mainly for low-price products. i dont complain, i bought a HP low-cost notebook 3 years ago, and i am happy - despite the obvious drawbacks, since the price was more than ok.
Yes.
Android development started a long time before the iphone was released. Taken into account the first target market for any mobile company back in that day (Japan), it seems indeed likely that there were *many* other devices which influenced the design of samsungs mobile phones. (Most notably the huge amount of PIM devices in japan like the Sony Clie Series).
What indeed was manifested by the Iphone is that even mobile phones should not be designed as PIM devices but as media players (thus the loss of buttons makes sense).
Yeah, i would like to say that these things are probably a great source or creativity and enable next level of machine learning algorithms to understand life, but 20 years of internet made me a realist.
What really worries me about this is that such a thing cant be enforced or checked without decrypting all my storage, how unrelated it may be.
I find that court rulings should have the property of being enforcable without confiscating all of my stuff if i am not guilty (or accused) of any crime.
I mean, thats the elephant in the room, isnt it. I found that everything thich can be automated easily is automated in eclipse.
My advice is: train your analytic skills and understand where thing go right, wrong, or just different. This can only be done by experience. While i learn programming languages slower than with 25, i learned to analyze code. Having seen code written by many very different people (everything from physics professors to psychologists), i understand the idea of most code better than the authors (since i see the limitations the author is placed under). If you apply your analytic experience and skills to the problem, you will be welcome to any team.
you just ask on slashdor for people volunterring for the setting it up, knowing the specific requirements, and thinking about it.
The real question is: is tehre already a MS Access DB?
If yes, then dont touch a running system.
I love the cloud. I have a 24/7 EC2 instance for personal use (vpn, charing files between my computers in the vpn), I use the compute instance whenever i need to number crunch something (FEM, Inductance calclulations).
But there are reasons to keep things in your own responsibility. The most important reason would be that iff you dont want the cloud service provider to write something "if it fails it fails" then the cloud is as expensive as your own serve, and that only if you dont count the lawyer cost which you would need to check if yout fulfilled all obligations for your purpose by making some contract.
inadverted creation of obligations:
-the matlab compiler signs code for execution. no GPL3 is compatible with it (even if they never mention the term "DRM" in the manual).
-what happens if a part of your software sits in controllers owned by your customer (for whom you develop) which logs data as a service offered to his customers? as long as you own the controller they dont need to pass the code on, but at whuch point should that happen?
-assume that you develop software to be delivered to a daughter company. is it enough to create builds and give them access to the repository to enable them to fulfill their obligations?
i have been working in two of theand really big companies (both > 100k employees), one Japanese, one german.
in the Japanese company there was no strategy regarding software and "whatever works" was fine, which included open source.
the German company had the strategy to explicitly manage the obligations from open source. effectively the rules were:
Apache style, bsd style licenses and LGPL where white listed
GPL 3 was blacklisted
GPL needed special consideration (so kind of blacklisted)
Employers favor people getting things done in a professional way. I have colleagues who stay in office 20% more than i do (10h instead of 8h), yet they produce less code and much less *well working not completely bugged code*. Planning my work and dissecting a problem into small, doable (and commitable) tasks came to me with age and experience. If a release date comes close, it gets even more important to think twice before you type and avoid stupid mistakes - and thus, my experience shows: avoid stupid all-nighters or 100h/week coding marathons. A missing feature usually can be explained and added later. But if a fucking show-stopper bug causes an undetected gross miscalulation, then things escalate quickly and nastily, up to loosing the customer.
I had the case that some moronic project leader did not honour the feature freeze, but forced a junior colleague of mine (he knew I would not follow his order in that) to patch something in the middle of the code on the last afternoon before the review meeting (wihtout telling the rest of the team). He did not even put the time into looking into the new pdf report generated by the program and sent it directly to the customer as a demonstration. I can tell you, the customer was impressed that we presented software the output of which were not inspected by a human a single time (Reported cost error was by a factor of 10^12).
They remove the feature which kept me from using google docs and sheets...
But long before that happens the question is if the laser can remain a laser.
A laser needs some kind of nonlinearity in the medium. Any nonlinearity introduces a scale. So the real question is: At which power does of-resonant driving cause transitions (e.g. Landau-Zener) or of-resonant shifts (Stark shift) and can you actually theoretically contruct a medium which fulfills the criteria to serve as a lasing medium for an arbitrary large scale of power?
As a starting point for an examination of such questions i recomment the Quantum Optics Toolbox for Matlab by Sze Tan.
If enough people expect microsoft to do it, then disappointing these people is going to do some economic harm. Microsoft should decide how it handles that.
My problems are my problems and there is no moral ground that MS can not be "nice".
IMHO that would sole the problem. Instead of making a complex bet on the custromer behaviour, ISPs should just provide access as cheap and fast as possible. Customer should take responsibility for usage.