U.K. is the only country I've ever witnessed a guy with a PhD get into a fight, although I've seen a Bostonian PhD with bruises. I've seen several street fights in Manchester and Birmingham. I've been mugged in Manchester. I've only been threatened with a fight in Boston.
Yes, race is irrelevant here. These were McDonalds employees trying to protect their McDonalds from journalists. They should be put in prison, their McDonalds should be closed, and McDonalds should pay the guy a lot of money.
It's true the Arabic neighborhoods are considered the most dangerous in Paris, but they aren't nearly as dangerous as an American or British city though.
France has a reputation for "turning foreigners racist" because many North African / Arabic French harass women on the street rather nastily.
This is really really obnoxious if you're either female or go out with women, but I've never seen a fight or stabbing in France. I feel more safe in a French ghetto than outside a bar in England or Boston.
Have you ever been to France? They basically confined their Arabic minorities in ghettos for a generation, which prevented those minorities from acquiring French culture and turned their native north african street-harasment-of-women culture into something really nasty. It's still less nasty than Boston or England's bar fight culture, but it's still nasty.
I know about 10 people non-French who say they became racist by living in France. I've repeatedly explained that it really isn't race, but that does nothing once you've lived with rampant street harassment for six months.
In fact, the French themselves largely understand this isn't a racial issue, but an accident of history. That's why they pass laws like banning headscarfs in schools to try to force the immigrants they kept apart for a generation to integrate now.
There is definitely a huge race problem in France, largely perpetuated by the minorities themselves, but this was McDonalds employees assaulting him. They should all do jail time and McDonalds should be forced to pay him a large settlement.
In principle, the French speak with people they don't know on the street because the French are a moderately sociable people. Anglophones are actually pathologically anti-social.
There is however an Arabic street culture that goes way beyond simply being sociable and quickly become harassment, usually harassment of women. France has this problem worse than most European countries because they took Arabic immigrants in large groups and confined them in ghettos.
You'll witness a tiny amount of harassment in Turkey or maybe Greece, namely the cabs obnoxiously honk at you, scary but no big deal. In Morocco, I've been followed for hours by a scary guy asking to be our guid.
In France, these Arab guys mostly just harass women on the street. You'll never even notice them if you're male and don't leave a bar with a woman. I've occasionally witnessed French Arabs trying to pick fights with non-Arab men, but overall they're probably less violent that Brits or Americans from Boston. Bostonians and Brits are by far the most violent men I've seen anyplace.
In all seriousness, I habitually refuse to fund any closed source software projects, but I'm not that great about donating to the open source ones that wish to run on donations either. I have however happily contributed to "compile it yourself if you want it free" projects.
I've moral problems with contributing to software that takes away my freedom, which prevents me from buying your closed source software, no matter what incentives you offer. If otoh I see the source code exists, then my moral objections won't prevent me from indulging in whatever conveniences you offer for a price.
It's commonly argued that HFT lowers transaction costs overall, presumably that's not such a simpl question, but..
There are definitely rich people who make a lot less money now that HFT lowers *some* transaction costs. It's therefore worth picking apart the messenger's credentials a bit.
And the SEC, Obama, congress, etc. would actually regulate Wall St. if their lives depended upon it. Instead, they'd simply pass laws making HFT hard for smaller outfits, while granting Goldman-Sacks and Morgan-Stanly increased HFT.
Automatic memory management? Isn't this what makes C++ so fucking insanely complex? Bad idea.
Overloading? Umm, that's extremely dangerous in subtle complex code like operating system schedulers, computational code, etc. Very bad idea.
Inheritance? Nah. Almost as bad as overloading, but also useless for most most activities.
Templates? No, they're even worse than overloading. I suppose Java interfaces or Haskell typeclass could provide a safe form of overloading. I certainly acknowledge the desire to parameterize a struct on another type, but that's extremely complex for a low level language.
Lambda expressions, ala C++0x? Interesting proposal, not exactly sure how the memory management works out, but perhaps one could grant the compiler the ability to build closures in this way, but subject to the programer's memory management.
Yes, I'll grant that lambda expressions make sense, but not C++0x's lambda expressions, since they impose a memory management scheme. In essence, lambda expressions in C should be just-in-time optimizations that the programer controls manually.
In truth, most object oriented language 'features' are actually bad design choices, well unless your doing GUI work where the error object oriented programming creates aren't catastrophic.
Yes, there are vaguely functional features like parametric polymorphism and lambda expressions that might aid low-level programming, but they're complex enough to require a proof-of-concept language first. C must avoid the mad dash into standardization that created C++'s complexity.
I'd agree that fsf.org was almost surely miss-categorized by a filtering algorithm.
In particular, Microsoft has surely added filters that reduce the possibility that Windows users happen upon software that directly competes with Microsoft's offerings.
In principle, they'd avoid blocking important sites like fsf.org, but presumably they block less important stuff. It's simply that fsf.org fell through the cracks.
It won't lower wages, it'll raise them. Switzerland has amongst the highest wages in the world, far above any nearby country, except probably Luxembourg.
It won't reduce immigration either, it'll increase it. Switzerland has a ridiculously huge immigrant population. Geneva is 80% foreign born, most French, German, and U.K. It turns out "just pay em' more" is simpler than hiring lawyers for the visa paperwork, so more Swiss companies just hire abroad. Law are scary. Salaries are simply bookkeeping.
Also, the extra immigration won't reduce work for natives. If companies spend more on salaries, their employees spend more, voila economic activity, increasing employment.
Americans would never attempt this solution though because America's politicians are completely owned by corporation. Switzerland has plenty of corruption too of course, just nothing like the U.S. Also, Switzerland has a much stronger democratic tradition than the U.S., such as referenda being common and not crazy like in CA or CO.
Fun Fact : Swiss Rosti is what American hash browns, but the Swiss rosti always beats Waffle house. lol
There isn't much real security provided by closed source encryption products. If they've no intentional backdoors, you still face the company concealing their mistakes to save face, which costs you security.
An exchange of valued commodities plays some role in the courtship rituals of most if not all mammal and avian species, meaning it predates the "oldest profession". I suppose you'll claim that since teaching a class doesn't amount to courtship then blowjobs sound more akin to prostitution?
In any case, we know the ancient greeks and roman boys rewarded their teachers with blowjobs and anal sex.
I suspect duplicity and git-annex are the only correct answers in this thread because the underlying problem is that your rsync like tool must detect the changes using a listing of file hashes, not access to the files themselves. It's the same problem as doing incremental backups to a host not running specialized incremental backup software. Duplicity does this, but rsync does not afaik.
I bet Ron Paul could fare better as Democrat honestly, just reduce his most extreme conservative positions, ignore Obamacare, go hardcore pot legalization, anti-war, anti-contractor-fraud, etc. He'd beat any other democrat in all the red states, so the democrats would simply roll over and try calling him a centrist compromise. There aren't many Republicans with any sanity, but they'd all be forced to vote for him in the general election.
I believe the poster lacks an undergraduate degree, making an MBA too much work for too little gain.
I always recommend a degree in mathematics or physics honestly, they're the queen subjects from which everything else flows. If you like one, then you're pretty much set. Any machine learning problem is trivial by comparison to understanding General Relativity, Stochastic Differential Equations, Quantum Mechanics, the C^*-algebras and Gelfand–Naimark theorem, etc. If you quit, fine you've still acquires skills you'll surely use elsewhere.
I'm less confident about recommending this for an older developer of course, but maybe.
In fact, creating an "incentive not to be stupid" is an incredibly stupid reason that almost no court would adopt.
In this case, the bank has already taken all measures the court felt "reasonable". Ain't possible to reverse international bank transfers like one reverses credit card transfers though.
It isn't that the customer was stupid, but that the customer has exhausted the banks serious attempt at securing their money. And trust me German banks foist much more security upon their customers than American banks.
Google should comply wit the court order by blocking these videos. Ideally, they should block them by redirecting users to videos by bands not controlled by Gema with a message as to why they were redirected. If the users like the redirected videos enough, well that solves the problem completely.
I'm aware that Mt Gox's user facing bitcoin accounts are all single use, but I presume their internal holding accounts are persistent. If not, you simply harass Mt Gox about all the addresses in the drug money's chain, good chance they're amongst em'. If not yet, try again next month. There are obviously plenty of published recipient addresses with known owners as well, but I still think they'd harass the exchanges because they're legally obliged to cooperate.
As I said, a drug dealer can protect himself by simple hoarding the bitcoins until the statue of limitations expires, an extradition treaty with the U.S. collapses, the drugs are legalized, etc. You might be independently wealthy from your regular drug business but think bitcoins sound like a investment opportunity. At minimum, you can leave em' all to family members who aren't involved in the drug trade when you die.
You could perhaps sell drugs in exchange for bitcoins, but then hold the bitcoins until a statute of limitations expired or drugs were legalized, or anonymously trade away a large amount to hoarder. If the bitcoins never pass back into the banking world, then they won't pass anyone required to obey "know your customer" rules.
All transactions are visible in block explorer in the order they happened. Yes, they might need to trace the transaction through alpaca socks guy, well maybe even one guy arrested here sells alpaca socks, not drugs. It's a safe bet they'll threaten him into revealing his customer list though. Rinse repeat, eventually arrive at drug dealer. It's called old fashioned police work. In principle, they could encounter intermediate merchants that don't keep good enough records, but the bitcoins likely get fragmented meaning that some trail succeeds.
Bitcoins aren't even slightly anonymous. All these sellers were outed by the feds simply buying some drugs with bitcoins and watching the bitcoin transactions through block explorer. A few tracked bitcoins wound up passing their way through a legitimate exchange like Mt Gox. Voila, the feds start tracing the transaction history back up the chain. It's actually less secure than old fashioned money laundering.
Isn't this cut and dried that the DoJ to pay for the hosting? Or maybe the servers should be handed over to megaupload in a New Zealand data center if they don't want to pay up.
Interestingly, we've now established that most downloads from Hotfiles were open source software, certainly the DoJ claims that MegaUpload actively pursued Pirate uploads, but it's clear that MegaUpload has "significant non-infringing uses". It follows they should actually be returned to operation but still face the charges for encouraging piracy.
In reality, the DoJ wants all those non-infringing files deleted because they'll hurt their case. The DoJ has also repeatedly tried to prevent MegaUpload from hiring good lawyers.
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U.K. is the only country I've ever witnessed a guy with a PhD get into a fight, although I've seen a Bostonian PhD with bruises. I've seen several street fights in Manchester and Birmingham. I've been mugged in Manchester. I've only been threatened with a fight in Boston.
Yes, race is irrelevant here. These were McDonalds employees trying to protect their McDonalds from journalists. They should be put in prison, their McDonalds should be closed, and McDonalds should pay the guy a lot of money.
It's true the Arabic neighborhoods are considered the most dangerous in Paris, but they aren't nearly as dangerous as an American or British city though.
France has a reputation for "turning foreigners racist" because many North African / Arabic French harass women on the street rather nastily.
This is really really obnoxious if you're either female or go out with women, but I've never seen a fight or stabbing in France. I feel more safe in a French ghetto than outside a bar in England or Boston.
There is actually a traditional french solution to this problem : Burn down McDonalds.
I'm disappointed that no McDonalds were burned while I lived in Paris. Where is their sense of patriotism?
This "It might be fake" is a derail people. Just mod it down.
Have you ever been to France? They basically confined their Arabic minorities in ghettos for a generation, which prevented those minorities from acquiring French culture and turned their native north african street-harasment-of-women culture into something really nasty. It's still less nasty than Boston or England's bar fight culture, but it's still nasty.
I know about 10 people non-French who say they became racist by living in France. I've repeatedly explained that it really isn't race, but that does nothing once you've lived with rampant street harassment for six months.
In fact, the French themselves largely understand this isn't a racial issue, but an accident of history. That's why they pass laws like banning headscarfs in schools to try to force the immigrants they kept apart for a generation to integrate now.
There is definitely a huge race problem in France, largely perpetuated by the minorities themselves, but this was McDonalds employees assaulting him. They should all do jail time and McDonalds should be forced to pay him a large settlement.
In principle, the French speak with people they don't know on the street because the French are a moderately sociable people. Anglophones are actually pathologically anti-social.
There is however an Arabic street culture that goes way beyond simply being sociable and quickly become harassment, usually harassment of women. France has this problem worse than most European countries because they took Arabic immigrants in large groups and confined them in ghettos.
You'll witness a tiny amount of harassment in Turkey or maybe Greece, namely the cabs obnoxiously honk at you, scary but no big deal. In Morocco, I've been followed for hours by a scary guy asking to be our guid.
In France, these Arab guys mostly just harass women on the street. You'll never even notice them if you're male and don't leave a bar with a woman. I've occasionally witnessed French Arabs trying to pick fights with non-Arab men, but overall they're probably less violent that Brits or Americans from Boston. Bostonians and Brits are by far the most violent men I've seen anyplace.
In all seriousness, I habitually refuse to fund any closed source software projects, but I'm not that great about donating to the open source ones that wish to run on donations either. I have however happily contributed to "compile it yourself if you want it free" projects.
I've moral problems with contributing to software that takes away my freedom, which prevents me from buying your closed source software, no matter what incentives you offer. If otoh I see the source code exists, then my moral objections won't prevent me from indulging in whatever conveniences you offer for a price.
It's commonly argued that HFT lowers transaction costs overall, presumably that's not such a simpl question, but ..
There are definitely rich people who make a lot less money now that HFT lowers *some* transaction costs. It's therefore worth picking apart the messenger's credentials a bit.
And the SEC, Obama, congress, etc. would actually regulate Wall St. if their lives depended upon it. Instead, they'd simply pass laws making HFT hard for smaller outfits, while granting Goldman-Sacks and Morgan-Stanly increased HFT.
What features do you want?
Automatic memory management? Isn't this what makes C++ so fucking insanely complex? Bad idea.
Overloading? Umm, that's extremely dangerous in subtle complex code like operating system schedulers, computational code, etc. Very bad idea.
Inheritance? Nah. Almost as bad as overloading, but also useless for most most activities.
Templates? No, they're even worse than overloading. I suppose Java interfaces or Haskell typeclass could provide a safe form of overloading. I certainly acknowledge the desire to parameterize a struct on another type, but that's extremely complex for a low level language.
Lambda expressions, ala C++0x? Interesting proposal, not exactly sure how the memory management works out, but perhaps one could grant the compiler the ability to build closures in this way, but subject to the programer's memory management.
Yes, I'll grant that lambda expressions make sense, but not C++0x's lambda expressions, since they impose a memory management scheme. In essence, lambda expressions in C should be just-in-time optimizations that the programer controls manually.
In truth, most object oriented language 'features' are actually bad design choices, well unless your doing GUI work where the error object oriented programming creates aren't catastrophic.
Yes, there are vaguely functional features like parametric polymorphism and lambda expressions that might aid low-level programming, but they're complex enough to require a proof-of-concept language first. C must avoid the mad dash into standardization that created C++'s complexity.
I'd agree that fsf.org was almost surely miss-categorized by a filtering algorithm.
In particular, Microsoft has surely added filters that reduce the possibility that Windows users happen upon software that directly competes with Microsoft's offerings.
In principle, they'd avoid blocking important sites like fsf.org, but presumably they block less important stuff. It's simply that fsf.org fell through the cracks.
It won't lower wages, it'll raise them. Switzerland has amongst the highest wages in the world, far above any nearby country, except probably Luxembourg.
It won't reduce immigration either, it'll increase it. Switzerland has a ridiculously huge immigrant population. Geneva is 80% foreign born, most French, German, and U.K. It turns out "just pay em' more" is simpler than hiring lawyers for the visa paperwork, so more Swiss companies just hire abroad. Law are scary. Salaries are simply bookkeeping.
Also, the extra immigration won't reduce work for natives. If companies spend more on salaries, their employees spend more, voila economic activity, increasing employment.
Americans would never attempt this solution though because America's politicians are completely owned by corporation. Switzerland has plenty of corruption too of course, just nothing like the U.S. Also, Switzerland has a much stronger democratic tradition than the U.S., such as referenda being common and not crazy like in CA or CO.
Fun Fact : Swiss Rosti is what American hash browns, but the Swiss rosti always beats Waffle house. lol
There isn't much real security provided by closed source encryption products. If they've no intentional backdoors, you still face the company concealing their mistakes to save face, which costs you security.
An exchange of valued commodities plays some role in the courtship rituals of most if not all mammal and avian species, meaning it predates the "oldest profession". I suppose you'll claim that since teaching a class doesn't amount to courtship then blowjobs sound more akin to prostitution?
In any case, we know the ancient greeks and roman boys rewarded their teachers with blowjobs and anal sex.
http://vimeo.com/12915013
I suspect duplicity and git-annex are the only correct answers in this thread because the underlying problem is that your rsync like tool must detect the changes using a listing of file hashes, not access to the files themselves. It's the same problem as doing incremental backups to a host not running specialized incremental backup software. Duplicity does this, but rsync does not afaik.
Yes, git-annex could be coaxed into doing this, but it's not completely trivial.
I bet Ron Paul could fare better as Democrat honestly, just reduce his most extreme conservative positions, ignore Obamacare, go hardcore pot legalization, anti-war, anti-contractor-fraud, etc. He'd beat any other democrat in all the red states, so the democrats would simply roll over and try calling him a centrist compromise. There aren't many Republicans with any sanity, but they'd all be forced to vote for him in the general election.
I believe the poster lacks an undergraduate degree, making an MBA too much work for too little gain.
I always recommend a degree in mathematics or physics honestly, they're the queen subjects from which everything else flows. If you like one, then you're pretty much set. Any machine learning problem is trivial by comparison to understanding General Relativity, Stochastic Differential Equations, Quantum Mechanics, the C^*-algebras and Gelfand–Naimark theorem, etc. If you quit, fine you've still acquires skills you'll surely use elsewhere.
I'm less confident about recommending this for an older developer of course, but maybe.
In fact, creating an "incentive not to be stupid" is an incredibly stupid reason that almost no court would adopt.
In this case, the bank has already taken all measures the court felt "reasonable". Ain't possible to reverse international bank transfers like one reverses credit card transfers though.
It isn't that the customer was stupid, but that the customer has exhausted the banks serious attempt at securing their money. And trust me German banks foist much more security upon their customers than American banks.
Google should comply wit the court order by blocking these videos. Ideally, they should block them by redirecting users to videos by bands not controlled by Gema with a message as to why they were redirected. If the users like the redirected videos enough, well that solves the problem completely.
I'm aware that Mt Gox's user facing bitcoin accounts are all single use, but I presume their internal holding accounts are persistent. If not, you simply harass Mt Gox about all the addresses in the drug money's chain, good chance they're amongst em'. If not yet, try again next month. There are obviously plenty of published recipient addresses with known owners as well, but I still think they'd harass the exchanges because they're legally obliged to cooperate.
As I said, a drug dealer can protect himself by simple hoarding the bitcoins until the statue of limitations expires, an extradition treaty with the U.S. collapses, the drugs are legalized, etc. You might be independently wealthy from your regular drug business but think bitcoins sound like a investment opportunity. At minimum, you can leave em' all to family members who aren't involved in the drug trade when you die.
You could perhaps sell drugs in exchange for bitcoins, but then hold the bitcoins until a statute of limitations expired or drugs were legalized, or anonymously trade away a large amount to hoarder. If the bitcoins never pass back into the banking world, then they won't pass anyone required to obey "know your customer" rules.
All transactions are visible in block explorer in the order they happened. Yes, they might need to trace the transaction through alpaca socks guy, well maybe even one guy arrested here sells alpaca socks, not drugs. It's a safe bet they'll threaten him into revealing his customer list though. Rinse repeat, eventually arrive at drug dealer. It's called old fashioned police work. In principle, they could encounter intermediate merchants that don't keep good enough records, but the bitcoins likely get fragmented meaning that some trail succeeds.
Bitcoins aren't even slightly anonymous. All these sellers were outed by the feds simply buying some drugs with bitcoins and watching the bitcoin transactions through block explorer. A few tracked bitcoins wound up passing their way through a legitimate exchange like Mt Gox. Voila, the feds start tracing the transaction history back up the chain. It's actually less secure than old fashioned money laundering.
Isn't this cut and dried that the DoJ to pay for the hosting? Or maybe the servers should be handed over to megaupload in a New Zealand data center if they don't want to pay up.
Interestingly, we've now established that most downloads from Hotfiles were open source software, certainly the DoJ claims that MegaUpload actively pursued Pirate uploads, but it's clear that MegaUpload has "significant non-infringing uses". It follows they should actually be returned to operation but still face the charges for encouraging piracy.
In reality, the DoJ wants all those non-infringing files deleted because they'll hurt their case. The DoJ has also repeatedly tried to prevent MegaUpload from hiring good lawyers.