In all likelihood, if I were to talk to the person next to me about where the safest place in the plane was, the next person over would join in and tell us what they thought. But I'm not Muslim, and don't look like an arab. It sounds like (from other reports, not just the/. article) that people freaked because of the people looked and sounded different than because of any real threat.
And while there may be a high reward for the criminals/terrorists, there are only small rewards for the security people for finding the bad guys and small punishments for not finding them.
As you say, this means that the bad guys learn the effective techniques - and usually quite quickly (the ones that don't are often culled quickly) but the good guys are, by necessity, always trying to catch up, but with only poor feedback as to how effective the catching up actually is.
I have heard (but can't seem to verify via google etc) that road damage goes up with the fourth power of vehicle weight, with the square of the speed and (naturally) linearly with miles travelled. So, to get people to pay proportional to the amount of road work needed, if I pay $1 for my car, a semi (with reasonable assumptions about speed and miles travelled) should be paying $500,000 or more - the weight is by far the largest factor and when multiplied by number of miles travelled gets big quickly. For lighter, more fuel efficient vehicles the numbers would be even larger.
This kind of tax, then, would penalize most drivers and essentially subsidize the trucking industry even more than is currently the case.
A while back someone put online the following which helps in firefox. Make this a bookmark and when you click it the page goes to black on white (losing background and text color, or background images) and resets link colors. Take out all the newlines and spaces and such.
Not that it necessarily matters to "Grandma", but it does seem odd that google is not supporting linux video chat (at least as far as I can determine).
Welcome to the american system of (in)justice. Sure, there are times when things work out, but for the most part it is about politicians trying to stay in office, so DAs slam people for things that they think will get them (or their bosses) votes.
I thought about this once and managed to figure out the basic idea for building a simple turing machine with find, grep, touch and rm (I think) - these build the actions and the whole thing would have been run with a "while" loop in the shell. I'd have to work it out again, but I seem to remember keeping the tape in subdirectories, the machine in a file (that was grepped) and the current cell was just a file name. But I never actually programmed it, so I could have it all wrong.
Even for experienced linux users (I've been using linux since the early 90s), compiling a kernel is not always fun. More than once I've had odd problems either with the configuration (sooooo many options, and deciding which ones are good can be more than a bit confusing) or with the install process. Sure, I then get a snappier kernel without all the cruft, but it is not a process I'd suggest for anyone not interested in such things.
It might be nice for distros to provide an option to download and install kernels with good default options for specific classes of machines. If there were also a small application that could probe the hardware and use some expert-system type rules to specify the best one of those packages to install, the whole thing could then be automated so even newbies would be able to tune their kernel for better performance.
I'd suggest actually getting it on paper - calmly and rationally lay out what he wants you to do and your objections so that it looks like a memorandum of instructions to you and get him to sign and date it. Make sure that he understands that if he does not sign it, you won't do what he has requested. Then make a couple of copies (and one for him) and keep the original in a safe place. You might also make it clear that you think the company might well be sued over these actions.
Of course, this is likely to get you fired (perhaps not immediately, but eventually). But it is also likely that he'll decide not to sign it in which case you're off the hook. Keep the paper copy anyway with a note to the effect that he would not sign it -- it may well happen that he finds someone else to do the dirty work.
Just recently I saw a web posting on how many people did commit suicide during the first part of the great depression. It seemed to be well enough informed and claimed that while the suicide rate rose during the depression, it was just a continuation of a steady rise that had been occurring for a number of years beforehand and that for the most part it was not the common image of "stock traders jumping out of windows". I can't find that page now, but here's one that claims something similar.
Indeed, if this becomes pervasive, probably someone will do just that - change one bit of an audio file/video/image and it will have a different hash, so would not be caught by their hash function. The bit doesn't even have to be in the content, but might be in metadata. This is far from hard to implement with most common file types.
So, ISPs and governments will put a lot of work and a lot of processing power and especially a lot of money into a system that can be defeated easily and cheaply.
So, for Joe to get back a fee of $69.95 (times however many months the sucker paid for), he has to have :
Had the doctor measure his cock at some previous time (one doctors appointment worth - and will typical medical plans cover this kind of thing?). And had this noted in his medical records (likely to get a psych note somewhere in his records).
Had the doctor measure his cock afterwards. (Another doctors appointment worth.)
Get the doctor to write down his findings (embarrassing at the very least).
Get that notarized (usually a fee involved) and now more people involved so even more embarassing.
Probably send this by registered mail.
And wait for the scammers to nitpick the whole process.
Simple, inexpensive and reliable way to get your money back from a batch of liars.
They could do a "crackpot" moderation option (and maybe a "scam" one too), but that would only apply to comments. Oh well, at least the story got flagged with the "snakeoil" tag.
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Or "The customer is only freight and should sit still and shut up for the duration."
In all likelihood, if I were to talk to the person next to me about where the safest place in the plane was, the next person over would join in and tell us what they thought. But I'm not Muslim, and don't look like an arab. It sounds like (from other reports, not just the /. article) that people freaked because of the people looked and sounded different than because of any real threat.
Ah, for mod points for this.
And while there may be a high reward for the criminals/terrorists, there are only small rewards for the security people for finding the bad guys and small punishments for not finding them.
As you say, this means that the bad guys learn the effective techniques - and usually quite quickly (the ones that don't are often culled quickly) but the good guys are, by necessity, always trying to catch up, but with only poor feedback as to how effective the catching up actually is.
I posted above on this, but I've heard that damage goes up with the fourth power of weight.
I have heard (but can't seem to verify via google etc) that road damage goes up with the fourth power of vehicle weight, with the square of the speed and (naturally) linearly with miles travelled. So, to get people to pay proportional to the amount of road work needed, if I pay $1 for my car, a semi (with reasonable assumptions about speed and miles travelled) should be paying $500,000 or more - the weight is by far the largest factor and when multiplied by number of miles travelled gets big quickly. For lighter, more fuel efficient vehicles the numbers would be even larger.
This kind of tax, then, would penalize most drivers and essentially subsidize the trucking industry even more than is currently the case.
colours that make it hard for some of us to read.
A while back someone put online the following which helps in firefox. Make this a bookmark and when you click it the page goes to black on white (losing background and text color, or background images) and resets link colors. Take out all the newlines and spaces and such.
Now to see if it survives being posted here.
javascript:(function()%7Bvar%20newSS,%20styles%3D%27*%20%7B%20background%3A%20white%20!%20important;%20color%3A%20black%20!important%20%7D%20%3Alink,%20%3Alink%20*%20%7B%20color%3A%20#0000EE%20!important%20}%20:visited,%20:visited%20*%20{%20color:%20#551A8B%20!important%20}';%20if(document.createStyleSheet)%20{%20document.createStyleSheet(%22javascript:'%22+styles+%22'%22);%20}%20else%20{%20newSS=document.createElement('link');%20newSS.rel='stylesheet';%20newSS.href='data:text/css,'+escape(styles);%20document.documentElement.childNodes[0].appendChild(newSS);%20}%20})();
More profit than not, I'd say.
Not that it necessarily matters to "Grandma", but it does seem odd that google is not supporting linux video chat (at least as far as I can determine).
Welcome to the american system of (in)justice. Sure, there are times when things work out, but for the most part it is about politicians trying to stay in office, so DAs slam people for things that they think will get them (or their bosses) votes.
I've heard your claims about the quran and the vedas before - do you have any reliable sources?
I thought about this once and managed to figure out the basic idea for building a simple turing machine with find, grep, touch and rm (I think) - these build the actions and the whole thing would have been run with a "while" loop in the shell. I'd have to work it out again, but I seem to remember keeping the tape in subdirectories, the machine in a file (that was grepped) and the current cell was just a file name. But I never actually programmed it, so I could have it all wrong.
Even for experienced linux users (I've been using linux since the early 90s), compiling a kernel is not always fun. More than once I've had odd problems either with the configuration (sooooo many options, and deciding which ones are good can be more than a bit confusing) or with the install process. Sure, I then get a snappier kernel without all the cruft, but it is not a process I'd suggest for anyone not interested in such things.
It might be nice for distros to provide an option to download and install kernels with good default options for specific classes of machines. If there were also a small application that could probe the hardware and use some expert-system type rules to specify the best one of those packages to install, the whole thing could then be automated so even newbies would be able to tune their kernel for better performance.
I'd suggest actually getting it on paper - calmly and rationally lay out what he wants you to do and your objections so that it looks like a memorandum of instructions to you and get him to sign and date it. Make sure that he understands that if he does not sign it, you won't do what he has requested. Then make a couple of copies (and one for him) and keep the original in a safe place. You might also make it clear that you think the company might well be sued over these actions.
Of course, this is likely to get you fired (perhaps not immediately, but eventually). But it is also likely that he'll decide not to sign it in which case you're off the hook. Keep the paper copy anyway with a note to the effect that he would not sign it -- it may well happen that he finds someone else to do the dirty work.
Just recently I saw a web posting on how many people did commit suicide during the first part of the great depression. It seemed to be well enough informed and claimed that while the suicide rate rose during the depression, it was just a continuation of a steady rise that had been occurring for a number of years beforehand and that for the most part it was not the common image of "stock traders jumping out of windows". I can't find that page now, but here's one that claims something similar.
Shouldn't that be modd not digg?
Indeed, if this becomes pervasive, probably someone will do just that - change one bit of an audio file/video/image and it will have a different hash, so would not be caught by their hash function. The bit doesn't even have to be in the content, but might be in metadata. This is far from hard to implement with most common file types.
So, ISPs and governments will put a lot of work and a lot of processing power and especially a lot of money into a system that can be defeated easily and cheaply.
FAQ Is this recognized as a word yet? I'm sure English language scrabble players are all looking forward to that day.
When I clicked on "buy this" from a penis enlargement spam the other day (just out of curiosity), the price was $200+. So thats only 2,000 customers.
So, for Joe to get back a fee of $69.95 (times however many months the sucker paid for), he has to have :
Simple, inexpensive and reliable way to get your money back from a batch of liars.
They could do a "crackpot" moderation option (and maybe a "scam" one too), but that would only apply to comments. Oh well, at least the story got flagged with the "snakeoil" tag.
Is there any similar effort toward building eclipse/netbeans/??? IDE's for jquery?
For more information, you can try the Afar Rift Home Page for the Afar Rift Project.
So this judge thinks that "security by obscurity" works? (I wonder if there's a nice Latin phrase for that.)
It doesn't, and going this route means that the bad guys still have an opportunity to exploit any problems.
Or "Running A Muck", a collection of cartoons by John Caldwell .