No, the most scrutinized things with software are probably cars. Thats good in that way because they are used for driving hundreds of millions of kilometers each day. An deadly error occurring once every 1000000 kilometers for a single device will kill 100s of people per day.
No, Hitler is the Guy the tea Party favours. The always hold Rallies where they display pictures of him. I think they say that they love him so much because he was not born in America and is not Christian or something like that.....
Imagine we would have two "Internets". On one, you could connect however you want.
The other one is "secure(tm)" and not "secure because we use authentication and encryption and create mechanism for key exchange for those who want"
secure(tm) is defined by certifications. Now assume a product for the military (e.g. a new fighter) jet can be only build if every part was ordered via a secure(tm) terminal and a secure(tm) network connection. Who defines secure(tm). Probably the NSA will hand out these certificates, probably with the help of consultants/service companies. Wat may even worse is that the experts recommending it now (in their time at the NSA) may hold shares in companies which help the NSA, or may go there after leaving the NSA (after all they are the "experts in secure(tm) networks" and very valuable).
How much money do you believe can be earned in allowing companies to access the secure(tm) Internet, which then may be only way to deliver a bunch of screws which are going to be used in a tank?
I see business opportunities and a rise in power for organizations like the NSA; i understand that they may propose this.
I would also monitor the most dangerous weapons on the planet i am visiting. But if i had a technology for traveling light-years, i probably would not do that visibly.
-i can buy a net/notebook with roughly the same computational power as last year but lower price, size, and energy comsumption (meaning battery lifetimes for acceptable price finally started to increase seriously!)
-i can buy devices in all form factors with extremely small size, small computational power, but enough to make a drawing or a text. i find the choice we have now have extremely nice.
However: i wont buy a tablet without and electromagnetic digitizer.
It would be nice if the fundamental security and measures like firewalling on our standard OS ses would be well enough so that we don't need additional firewalls. Then also attacks from inside a network would be much harder. Sadly this is not true for any of the standard Desktop OS, linux and mac os x included.
Funny how (even if you have javacript turned on, which i usually dont have) easily you can get around seeing these funny messages generated by an incompetent web designer and still copy the text.
Did i now violate laws? will somebody sue me because i help people to circumvent anything?
Moreover if not all appearances of a trademark carry a (tm) symbol and it is not mentioned that all appearances of the name relate to the trademark (i dont believe you would find this sentence in every manual if it would not be needed), does this affect the validity of using the term as a trademark?
Another interesting question is if is a legal difference if i make a insulting remark in relation a trademark or a name.
To me it seems that flat-rates are never flat-rates, but bets of the providers on a average consumption per user, and that the "outliers" are few enough to ignore their legal complaints or pay them off. Usually the latter is stated somewhere in the fine-print.
this means: -Provider wins in average because normal user never used the data he pays for by the flat-rate.
-Provider wins even more because he is not even bound to providing a flat-rate, even for those who use more.
My suggestion:
-Line providers and Internet provider may not be the same company, and the line providers must give transparent conditions to Internet providers.
-All offers are only allowed to have a single pricing model consisting of price per GB (goes to internet provider), installations cost (one time, split between line provider and Internet provider), monthly basic fee (line provider).
-The Line providers must support multiple Internet providers at the same time over the same DSL line
Also net neutrality is settled in that moment. If is use so much, then i pay so much. If some Internet provider then wants to provide super-fast access to some of the hyped services, the he should rent the lines and pair appropriately.
Yes. The point is that i normally suppose people learned in school how to handle the calculator.
What they should take with them, ideally on that level are exponents in processes - how does water flow scale versus pipe diameter? how does energy consumption go up with speed? etc.
Having that in their minds will help them more than training them to type number better.
> Good for you. I also hold qualifications (Astronomy, Computer Science) and have taught at University (Computer Science). But I don't bandy about my qualifications to bring legitimacy to my arguments.
Funny, i intended the title only as a background information. I hate it if people involved in something don't state so and make their opinion general.
>> A pen is enough.
> I would at least want some paper. It's pretty hard to take home 30 or 40 desks to mark.
A pen is enough. Paper is provided for by the examiner (and sometimes stamped and a document) to prevent cheating. Half of our tests were actually "pen only".
>> In physics exams students should prove they can transform formulas symbolically.
> Yes they should. But there's more to physics than symbolic math.
Really? i never noted that. Most of the number processing i would have to do is done by programs, actually. I hate it actually when students stand in front of a device and instead of having developed way to derive quickly in which direction to turn the know take out graphing calculators.
>> Typing in number can be done by people at the cashier desk.
> And it's an essential skill. There's no need for snobbery.
For people at the cashier desk, maybe. In my life as a researcher it seldom happened that i had to perform numerical calculations by hand. I tend to write a program even for the simplest calculation, since i seem to have a small legasteny when it comes to numbers and manual calculations (compared to other physicists at least).
>> Graphing calculators are a disease.
> That disease you speak of many an 18th Century mathematician or scientist would have committed bloody murder to obtain.
They would have murdered for having anything which has a sqrt or log key. But to learn mathematics, graphing calculators are not so great.
>> Everybody who wants, can take in a standalone mp3-player - these are cheap.
> and just as useful for cheating.
No, i don't think you can contact somebody outside the room using a simple mp3-player without wireless.
>> Regarding the dictionary - these exist in paper and are cheap - and faster than an ipod.
> Luddite! iPods are awful for entry, but there are decent and much faster ways to look up a word than a paper dictionary. The one stored on a device can be MUCH larger and more detailed without taking up room or breaking your back.
Uhm yes? concerned about the student carrying it five time per year?
-A pen is enough. In physics exams students should prove they can transform formulas symbolically. Typing in number can be done by people at the cashier desk. Graphing calculators are a disease.
-Everybody who wants, can take in a standalone mp3-player - these are cheap.
-Regarding the dictionary - these exist in paper and are cheap - and faster than an ipod.
Most important: who uses sophistication to cheat and i caught should be removed from the studies immediately.
instead of "checking if the suspect" is lying, how about "verifying what he says". Would sound nicer, especially taking into account that the screenshots were not originally designed for tracking persons.
Hyping a product only works when the product is timely and well designed at the same time. Defining a produce by "killing a product which is already out for 4 years" is the definition of neither.
(no,i dont own an iphone. they where to late in supporting 3g, sorry)
Read the postscript description. Think about the operators available. Read gs manpage and hope -dSAFER is specified in one way or the other, in all sw using gs internally.
Excuse me *how* is the code not reusable by definition? And *why* does a GUI prevent automation?
A GUI should assist the User in entering exactly the information which can be entered in a structured way. Nobody forces you to force everything in a *bad* GUI.
i don't cover tracks online. i just don't leave them intentionally. I use the same pseudonym everywhere and i don't change it. i normally dont use credit cards and i would not know why somebody would need more than my e-mail address.
Regarding stalking: the more powerful thing than trying to follow you could be to call at your workplace and complain about you by mixing a little bit of truth with a little bit of lies. Some workplaces don't react kind if some woman calls and tells your boss you owe her money. In the worst case he believes that in the best case you may nearly wash of the false (or one-sided) accusations. Now you say: doesn't happen? You have a happy life.
Regarding your comments about my social life: one of the reasons i don't give a shit on the worthless database entry called friend in social networks is because i have real ones. These are the ones which have been in my life for 15-20years and their phone numbers are in my phone list (and no, we are not friend in social networks).
And yes. i call people idiots whose definition of "friend" is "anybody who shits on my farm at farmville". I do that in the same way as i would call people idiots who confuse a Kindergarten teacher reading Winnie the Pooh with an actor playing King Lear by heart, because they want to assure them self something.
And for sure i don't go online automatically; what an absurd idea.
They don't care about it even if they help scammers with this. They don't care about that people know when they are home and when not and what expensive equipment to look for (as an insurance i would refuse to pay for damages). How many things do you want to give people stalking you at their hands to threaten you?
As i said: Idiots.
Yes, i know i may seem paranoid. i have seen enough not to reconsider my position for a second. I try actually never to disclose any information which could identify me. Who needs to know will know when he need to know something about me. In the end what can i buy from hundred friend on Facebook? In my experience the number of persons you can count on is limited to below a handful. People thinking they have hundred friends have a problem with reality.
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No, the most scrutinized things with software are probably cars. Thats good in that way because they are used for driving hundreds of millions of kilometers each day. An deadly error occurring once every 1000000 kilometers for a single device will kill 100s of people per day.
No, Hitler is the Guy the tea Party favours. The always hold Rallies where they display pictures of him. I think they say that they love him so much because he was not born in America and is not Christian or something like that.....
Imagine we would have two "Internets". On one, you could connect however you want.
The other one is "secure(tm)" and not "secure because we use authentication and encryption and create mechanism for key exchange for those who want"
secure(tm) is defined by certifications. Now assume a product for the military (e.g. a new fighter) jet can be only build if every part was ordered via a secure(tm) terminal and a secure(tm) network connection. Who defines secure(tm). Probably the NSA will hand out these certificates, probably with the help of consultants/service companies. Wat may even worse is that the experts recommending it now (in their time at the NSA) may hold shares in companies which help the NSA, or may go there after leaving the NSA (after all they are the "experts in secure(tm) networks" and very valuable).
How much money do you believe can be earned in allowing companies to access the secure(tm) Internet, which then may be only way to deliver a bunch of screws which are going to be used in a tank?
I see business opportunities and a rise in power for organizations like the NSA; i understand that they may propose this.
I would also monitor the most dangerous weapons on the planet i am visiting. But if i had a technology for traveling light-years, i probably would not do that visibly.
-i can buy a net/notebook with roughly the same computational power as last year but lower price, size, and energy comsumption (meaning battery lifetimes for acceptable price finally started to increase seriously!)
-i can buy devices in all form factors with extremely small size, small computational power, but enough to make a drawing or a text. i find the choice we have now have extremely nice.
However: i wont buy a tablet without and electromagnetic digitizer.
It would be nice if the fundamental security and measures like firewalling on our standard OS ses would be well enough so that we don't need additional firewalls. Then also attacks from inside a network would be much harder. Sadly this is not true for any of the standard Desktop OS, linux and mac os x included.
I hope this answers the question.
unlike before google instant lets me instantly not click on ads instead of having time to consciously not click on them.
Funny how (even if you have javacript turned on, which i usually dont have) easily you can get around seeing these funny messages generated by an incompetent web designer and still copy the text.
Did i now violate laws? will somebody sue me because i help people to circumvent anything?
Moreover if not all appearances of a trademark carry a (tm) symbol and it is not mentioned that all appearances of the name relate to the trademark (i dont believe you would find this sentence in every manual if it would not be needed), does this affect the validity of using the term as a trademark?
Another interesting question is if is a legal difference if i make a insulting remark in relation a trademark or a name.
Yes.
If i get it right this was a regression of an old bug, which means that everybody could have found it by regression-testing with enough manpower.
And now having a patch installed 1 day earlier, for a bug probably known to some bad guys for 2 years, does not save the day.
To me it seems that flat-rates are never flat-rates, but bets of the providers on a average consumption per user, and that the "outliers" are few enough to ignore their legal complaints or pay them off. Usually the latter is stated somewhere in the fine-print.
this means:
-Provider wins in average because normal user never used the data he pays for by the flat-rate.
-Provider wins even more because he is not even bound to providing a flat-rate, even for those who use more.
My suggestion:
-Line providers and Internet provider may not be the same company, and the line providers must give transparent conditions to Internet providers.
-All offers are only allowed to have a single pricing model consisting of price per GB (goes to internet provider), installations cost (one time, split between line provider and Internet provider), monthly basic fee (line provider).
-The Line providers must support multiple Internet providers at the same time over the same DSL line
Also net neutrality is settled in that moment. If is use so much, then i pay so much. If some Internet provider then wants to provide super-fast access to some of the hyped services, the he should rent the lines and pair appropriately.
Yes. The point is that i normally suppose people learned in school how to handle the calculator.
What they should take with them, ideally on that level are exponents in processes - how does water flow scale versus pipe diameter? how does energy consumption go up with speed? etc.
Having that in their minds will help them more than training them to type number better.
>> I hold a PHD in physics.
> Good for you. I also hold qualifications (Astronomy, Computer Science) and have taught at University (Computer Science). But I don't bandy about my qualifications to bring legitimacy to my arguments.
Funny, i intended the title only as a background information. I hate it if people involved in something don't state so and make their opinion general.
>> A pen is enough.
> I would at least want some paper. It's pretty hard to take home 30 or 40 desks to mark.
A pen is enough. Paper is provided for by the examiner (and sometimes stamped and a document) to prevent cheating. Half of our tests were actually "pen only".
>> In physics exams students should prove they can transform formulas symbolically.
> Yes they should. But there's more to physics than symbolic math.
Really? i never noted that. Most of the number processing i would have to do is done by programs, actually. I hate it actually when students stand in front of a device and instead of having developed way to derive quickly in which direction to turn the know take out graphing calculators.
>> Typing in number can be done by people at the cashier desk.
> And it's an essential skill. There's no need for snobbery.
For people at the cashier desk, maybe. In my life as a researcher it seldom happened that i had to perform numerical calculations by hand. I tend to write a program even for the simplest calculation, since i seem to have a small legasteny when it comes to numbers and manual calculations (compared to other physicists at least).
>> Graphing calculators are a disease.
> That disease you speak of many an 18th Century mathematician or scientist would have committed bloody murder to obtain.
They would have murdered for having anything which has a sqrt or log key. But to learn mathematics, graphing calculators are not so great.
>> Everybody who wants, can take in a standalone mp3-player - these are cheap.
> and just as useful for cheating.
No, i don't think you can contact somebody outside the room using a simple mp3-player without wireless.
>> Regarding the dictionary - these exist in paper and are cheap - and faster than an ipod.
> Luddite! iPods are awful for entry, but there are decent and much faster ways to look up a word than a paper dictionary. The one stored on a device can be MUCH larger and more detailed without taking up room or breaking your back.
Uhm yes? concerned about the student carrying it five time per year?
I hold a PHD in physics.
-A pen is enough. In physics exams students should prove they can transform formulas symbolically. Typing in number can be done by people at the cashier desk. Graphing calculators are a disease.
-Everybody who wants, can take in a standalone mp3-player - these are cheap.
-Regarding the dictionary - these exist in paper and are cheap - and faster than an ipod.
Most important: who uses sophistication to cheat and i caught should be removed from the studies immediately.
instead of "checking if the suspect" is lying, how about "verifying what he says". Would sound nicer, especially taking into account that the screenshots were not originally designed for tracking persons.
Hyping a product only works when the product is timely and well designed at the same time. Defining a produce by "killing a product which is already out for 4 years" is the definition of neither.
(no,i dont own an iphone. they where to late in supporting 3g, sorry)
Many armed humans identified around target just eliminated: deceive by strolling by, hiding the weapon and whistling innocently.
Read the postscript description. Think about the operators available. Read gs manpage and hope -dSAFER is specified in one way or the other, in all sw using gs internally.
Let me add: They started from a programming language where security is *easy to implement*.
Excuse me *how* is the code not reusable by definition? And *why* does a GUI prevent automation?
A GUI should assist the User in entering exactly the information which can be entered in a structured way. Nobody forces you to force everything in a *bad* GUI.
unless tcl/tk wont do the job
i don't cover tracks online. i just don't leave them intentionally. I use the same pseudonym everywhere and i don't change it. i normally dont use credit cards and i would not know why somebody would need more than my e-mail address.
Regarding stalking: the more powerful thing than trying to follow you could be to call at your workplace and complain about you by mixing a little bit of truth with a little bit of lies. Some workplaces don't react kind if some woman calls and tells your boss you owe her money. In the worst case he believes that in the best case you may nearly wash of the false (or one-sided) accusations. Now you say: doesn't happen? You have a happy life.
Regarding your comments about my social life: one of the reasons i don't give a shit on the worthless database entry called friend in social networks is because i have real ones. These are the ones which have been in my life for 15-20years and their phone numbers are in my phone list (and no, we are not friend in social networks).
And yes. i call people idiots whose definition of "friend" is "anybody who shits on my farm at farmville". I do that in the same way as i would call people idiots who confuse a Kindergarten teacher reading Winnie the Pooh with an actor playing King Lear by heart, because they want to assure them self something.
And for sure i don't go online automatically; what an absurd idea.
Let me add:
4chan being nice.
Duke Nukem Forever possibly being released soon.
Microsoft supporting open source
Cats and dogs living together.
They don't care about it even if they help scammers with this. They don't care about that people know when they are home and when not and what expensive equipment to look for (as an insurance i would refuse to pay for damages). How many things do you want to give people stalking you at their hands to threaten you?
As i said: Idiots.
Yes, i know i may seem paranoid. i have seen enough not to reconsider my position for a second. I try actually never to disclose any information which could identify me. Who needs to know will know when he need to know something about me. In the end what can i buy from hundred friend on Facebook? In my experience the number of persons you can count on is limited to below a handful. People thinking they have hundred friends have a problem with reality.
And a sofa.
my comment was about the other phones. I hope BBs check the certificate. i know other phones cant do it correctly.