Because all the programmer I know around are quite adult, responsible, and do not care for the latest toy. But they do care that they are given enough time to implement features, taht the features are correctly documented, that the spec are there etc... And in the last 6 years I was there, those point were not met, and usually the manager were responsible for a reason or another, but never beared the responsability.
To sum up, to define the programmer as "child", is really disapparging, and far far away from reality of the average software developpement shop. Most are average guys which want to do a correct job, but are put in impossible situation by management.
No if the quote would be applied to manager "manager are like child, they like to play and win, but do not wish any responsasbility in tehir action".
QUOTE (emphasis mine): How does this infection start off? As always, it begins with a seemingly innocent web address passed to you via Instant Messaging. Click the link and allow the file to execute and your day will quickly go bad."
The method used after that sound interresting, but nothing beat "trusting" executable being sent by any source, anonym or not , on email or AIM. Do that and SOONER or later your day will turn bad.
I am not saying your post is false, but you forget a lot of terrorist : the intern one like mc veigh, IRA, separatist corse, separatist bask, tchecheyn (some of them at least have used arguably terrorist way, remmember the russian school), red army faction for the older one of us, etc...etc...
All those could not care less shit about "islam", "US support to Israel" and a few of your other points.
What I want to say is that because in the last 5 years the US was only attacked once by some ismlamist, you forget that terrorism is a world wide problem and people using islam as a pretext for terrorism is only a part of it. By ignoring this fact you weaken a rethoric which would otherwise stand of its own.
For the "reservoir dog" game I wanted to check the official web site. So I went to it : there is an age verification thingy. I clicked inadvertently on the OK button before entering the correct year. I got the answer "you are not authorised". Naturally they used a trick with activex to put some random file data somewhere, because even after having deleted all cookie, offline content, changed IP , used a proxie I still could not go in the web site. I will definitly not buy the game when it is such an hassle just to watch a web site. I have LESS DIFFICULTY trying to get porn where they ask for your age with an agree/disagree button:).
One way ticket no registered baggage paid in cash in a non-face to face sale is the best for the "chance" to get selected. Those are flagged red. At the opposite side of the spectrum you have frequent traveler paying with a credit card and in class highier or equal than C (business compartment). Those are green. But as I always said this is a freaking stooooopid system. Because this means as a terrorist, since this is readily public info, you simply hvae to behave, pay some business class ticket with a credit card over a period of time and be in a FT program. TADA ! less chance to be selected.
Granted that was the "plan" but I dunno if it was ever implemented that way. But even if it was not, I have no doubt the rule for selection are as brain dead and can be gamed : if you just know what rules are "in" and "out" for selection, just ask a lot of acomplice to be "selected" while at the same time looking yourself innocent. You swamp the selection process with dummy and you can pass through (since they meet their quota of selection TSA will probably then not search those ruled "out").
The point of the GP , protected by DRM or NOT, are STILL copyrighted material. Heck, even a simple.txt file is a copyrighted material. It does not matter that it ain't DRM'ed encrypted or whatnot.
And in this , the author of the article should get a smack on the head.
I might be wrong, but would not the telomere be of way different length, shorter in the adult cell transformed into embryo cell, and a real embryo cell ? Meaning if (fiction speaking here) you grew an organ out of it, it would anyway be as old as you are right now ?
Liability and contract don't end when a firm is bought by another one. So by refusing to honor a previously signed up contract with scrotti brother that they bought on, sony would not only open themselves to liability, but likely void the contract freeing to sell the CDs.
"If you're terrorist free, why would recordings of all your telephone conversations be interesting?"
Private activity spied on
"If you're treason free, why would a log of all your internet activity be interesting?"
Private activity spied on, opinion you want to keep for yourself spied on
"If you're not searching for child porn, why would a database of all your searches/web browsing being released to the general public be interesting?"
Private activity spied on
"If you're accident free, why would the data be interesting?"
PUBLIC activity spied on
Not only this is what you do in public, so no privacy is involved, but this is an activity you engage in COMMON with other public entity (aka:driving). You have no expectation of privacy in public and are expected to respect law. Now if they enforce law more strongly I could not care less from your whining, after the 3rd FREAKING ACCIDENT of a driver swerving/cutting my lane/bumping me from behind. Maybe if driver knew they had a bigbrother under thier butt watching the last 30 sec of what they did they would be a bit more carefull instead of being irresponsible immature PRICK.
Oh, and comparing private acativity to driving and big brother is like crying wolf. Next time you cry wolf people will ignore you. In future reserve your energy for real privacy violation.
I am not speaking of giving a composition in the meaning of all fungus and bacteria which CONTAMINATED the product, but i am for labelling everything which was intentionally put in it. Hormon treatment for beef (yes in some country those are forbidden), genetically modified soja, phage on the meat. You are missing the point also about the phage being innocuous. Beef hormone and modified soja is also innocuous. Aspartame too. But this is about CHOICE and being able to make one or inform oneselves. If you do not know something was ADDED or MODIFIED in the prodct you buy... Well you have taken the choice from the people. You might as well give us feed bag with "trust us" written in big bold red lettering.
PS: I understand very well those phage are innocuous. What i am reacting allergically is all mention of "won't be needed to be on the labbeling". Just like genetically modified food.
Whether histerical or not, whether dangerous or not, I am for TRUTH in labelling. It does not matter whether biotest found out that it is innocuous. It does not matter that FDA thinks genetically modified soja is ok for consumption, or hormone in beef, what matters is that *I* "the consumer" need to know to make a choice. Whether I inform myself to make a correct decision is my choice. But if you take out stuff from the label beause no consummer would buy it out of fear, then you REMOVE the choice, even if it is a dumb choice. And I as a consumer find it a really bad idea. Next you will claim putting a label with a list of ingredient with % is a dumb idea too.
Not only this is paid propaganda which, despite being uncovered by some media, will cast some shadow on al gore (first effect) but this will cast a shadow on any future internet grassroot movement (second effect). Call me paranoid but I have the feeling, seeing how the political flows and ebbs are in the USA right now, that this side effect may has well have been sought for... Think about it : eliminating or hindering grassroot campaign can only be a win for both party enabling them to canalise any politic debate toward what they wish (aka : all usual campaign talk directed toward the public) while diverting people from what they don't want to speak about (Irak, erosion of liberty, illegality of of certain governemental action etc....).
it is RUP, ITIL. Now everybody in the management swear by those. Naturally softwaer engineer are forced to draw nice UML diagram before those are sent in gigantic 98 pages document to the otusourcing team, for a change which should have taken at most 20 hours we get weeks of works. I would accept it if this was linked to an increase of quality of code, less bugs, and lower end cost. But this is not. Still this has been declared a success by our management.
Fankly who modded that insightful ? It ain't even a good thougth experiment since the protocol would have inside "incredible when I add a piece of paper in such and such form now the piece of wood float in the air for a few second. And if in addition there is such and such wind condition it can stays in air for hours !" that is what experimental protocol are for : to enable other to reproduce under the same condition the experiment.
There are good reason to not ignore negative result in science : because those are NOT failed experiment. They are *RESULTS* in themselves. I do not want to do an ad-hominem, but frankly, Your propention to plaid for and beg to look at positive result more than negative means that you should stay away from any experimental lab.
Negative and positive experimental results are both as important.
keep in mind that such Ai would probably not be a world project, but rather a single country doing it. Let us just imagine this is China or US. So most probably the country would implement a friendlines toward THEM rather than global toward human. Now the parent post begins to make a lot of frightening sense "they are against us. We can't convince to join us or be friendly to us. They need to be eliminated as a threat. Change nuke targeting system to those country. Countdown to launch 10,9,8...".
FYI molcas and molpro are just software, whether they run under windows is irrelevant. What is relevant is that to use those package I need normal day to day administration of that machine (network config from time to time 'cause uni admin like to change stuff,and in case of power dropping in the middle of a calculation, because I am too cheapo to buy a special supply, well having to mount and have fun repairing everything cost me more time than the same power down on a neighbour machine which is windows). And what i use is Suse, what is not bad as I can get a lot of support at the University from other fellow.
My experience is only relevant as an anedocte. You might have another better experience. All I know is that NO ONE I know from the average people without too much knowledge of PC would have gone learning through. Try hunt for an howto because some networking config is not going through as needed. Fun.Fun.Fun. I can only thanks deeply all those who helped me.
What you are comparing (a N^2 C++, to a python nlogn) you are varying two parameter. When comparing two thing you should only vary one, or you blow hot air. In other word I can counter your argument by saying a C++ nlogn implementation is better than a python n^4, but what does it says us of the CPU performance in comparing language : NOTHING.
The GP is comparing for the same implementation the speed difference. So if you implement a stupid N^2 bubble sort in C++, it will be slow as hell, but stil better than the same bubble sort in java. And if you have a nifty (N) algorithm it will still be quicker with a C++ implementation.
Comparing the learn curve between linux and windows, despite having made great step, is still a pain in the bottom. I use linux with a special compiler to run molpro (roughly said a quantum calculation package) and molcas. It took me a FREAKING long ime to get it right, and I can't imagine your average people taking the time to do it. And here lies the problem : The "you learnt windows so you can learn windows" is BUNK because of that. You can't compare the user friendliness and ease of learning of windows with linux. Sure some distro get it better than others, but this is still far away from general public. So in a way yes, windows in some way is so much easier to use, that you could as well say people were born knowing how to use it (or nearly). Naturally you can call sheenigan and speak about security issue, patching, and whatnot, but windows is year ahead in usuability issues. Call me back when the learn curve of linux is down to the one of windows...
Torture is a type of "crime against humanity", just like genocide is. Did you forget nuremberg ? Anybody being given such order should disobey them. And anybody accidentally getting a whif of such things happening should also loudly denounce them, clearance or not. Do you want us to go 60 years back and use the "I did not knew it" or "I was ordered to do it" excuses ?
If a large explosion occurs in a stadium, I doubt it would limit itself to a few dead. But even then you do not need to kill to fuck up the general economy. Just target a few crude reserve tanker, the big round one, which are "guarded" by a few civilian security people over the last 20 meters with a few camera, with a nice Law or better. I doubt tanker are made to resist such an explosion.
Firstly anti aircraft gun are not for commercial passenger flight, they are for military craft. Secondly, I live near an airport. I can assure you that at landing the craft is in a quite straigth line, your erratically "moving" is only happenning in strong wind condition, which is certainly NOT the norm at any airport I know (well maybe not denver:)). Especially if you are in the alignement of the landing/take off strip.
I have no idea how easy it is to fire a gun, and a better argument would be that you are not sure to target a vital part of the plane, but as other pointed out, you only need to hit SOMEWHERE to spread terror.
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Because all the programmer I know around are quite adult, responsible, and do not care for the latest toy. But they do care that they are given enough time to implement features, taht the features are correctly documented, that the spec are there etc... And in the last 6 years I was there, those point were not met, and usually the manager were responsible for a reason or another, but never beared the responsability.
To sum up, to define the programmer as "child", is really disapparging, and far far away from reality of the average software developpement shop. Most are average guys which want to do a correct job, but are put in impossible situation by management.
No if the quote would be applied to manager "manager are like child, they like to play and win, but do not wish any responsasbility in tehir action".
QUOTE (emphasis mine): How does this infection start off? As always, it begins with a seemingly innocent web address passed to you via Instant Messaging. Click the link and allow the file to execute and your day will quickly go bad."
The method used after that sound interresting, but nothing beat "trusting" executable being sent by any source, anonym or not , on email or AIM. Do that and SOONER or later your day will turn bad.
I am not saying your post is false, but you forget a lot of terrorist : the intern one like mc veigh, IRA, separatist corse, separatist bask, tchecheyn (some of them at least have used arguably terrorist way, remmember the russian school), red army faction for the older one of us, etc...etc...
All those could not care less shit about "islam", "US support to Israel" and a few of your other points.
What I want to say is that because in the last 5 years the US was only attacked once by some ismlamist, you forget that terrorism is a world wide problem and people using islam as a pretext for terrorism is only a part of it. By ignoring this fact you weaken a rethoric which would otherwise stand of its own.
For the "reservoir dog" game I wanted to check the official web site. So I went to it : there is an age verification thingy. I clicked inadvertently on the OK button before entering the correct year. I got the answer "you are not authorised". Naturally they used a trick with activex to put some random file data somewhere, because even after having deleted all cookie, offline content, changed IP , used a proxie I still could not go in the web site. I will definitly not buy the game when it is such an hassle just to watch a web site. I have LESS DIFFICULTY trying to get porn where they ask for your age with an agree/disagree button :).
One way ticket no registered baggage paid in cash in a non-face to face sale is the best for the "chance" to get selected. Those are flagged red. At the opposite side of the spectrum you have frequent traveler paying with a credit card and in class highier or equal than C (business compartment). Those are green. But as I always said this is a freaking stooooopid system. Because this means as a terrorist, since this is readily public info, you simply hvae to behave, pay some business class ticket with a credit card over a period of time and be in a FT program. TADA ! less chance to be selected.
Granted that was the "plan" but I dunno if it was ever implemented that way. But even if it was not, I have no doubt the rule for selection are as brain dead and can be gamed : if you just know what rules are "in" and "out" for selection, just ask a lot of acomplice to be "selected" while at the same time looking yourself innocent. You swamp the selection process with dummy and you can pass through (since they meet their quota of selection TSA will probably then not search those ruled "out").
The point of the GP , protected by DRM or NOT, are STILL copyrighted material. Heck, even a simple .txt file is a copyrighted material. It does not matter that it ain't DRM'ed encrypted or whatnot.
And in this , the author of the article should get a smack on the head.
I might be wrong, but would not the telomere be of way different length, shorter in the adult cell transformed into embryo cell, and a real embryo cell ? Meaning if (fiction speaking here) you grew an organ out of it, it would anyway be as old as you are right now ?
Liability and contract don't end when a firm is bought by another one. So by refusing to honor a previously signed up contract with scrotti brother that they bought on, sony would not only open themselves to liability, but likely void the contract freeing to sell the CDs.
A RFID chip has got an enormous advantage in comparison to magnetic stripe : no meccanical part for the reading.
But if you had comparied to a bar-code tag (2D or 1D) then you would have been right : this bring nothing.
"If you're terrorist free, why would recordings of all your telephone conversations be interesting?"
Private activity spied on "If you're treason free, why would a log of all your internet activity be interesting?"
Private activity spied on, opinion you want to keep for yourself spied on "If you're not searching for child porn, why would a database of all your searches/web browsing being released to the general public be interesting?"
Private activity spied on
"If you're accident free, why would the data be interesting?"
PUBLIC activity spied on
Not only this is what you do in public, so no privacy is involved, but this is an activity you engage in COMMON with other public entity (aka:driving). You have no expectation of privacy in public and are expected to respect law. Now if they enforce law more strongly I could not care less from your whining, after the 3rd FREAKING ACCIDENT of a driver swerving/cutting my lane/bumping me from behind. Maybe if driver knew they had a bigbrother under thier butt watching the last 30 sec of what they did they would be a bit more carefull instead of being irresponsible immature PRICK.
Oh, and comparing private acativity to driving and big brother is like crying wolf. Next time you cry wolf people will ignore you. In future reserve your energy for real privacy violation.
I am not speaking of giving a composition in the meaning of all fungus and bacteria which CONTAMINATED the product, but i am for labelling everything which was intentionally put in it. Hormon treatment for beef (yes in some country those are forbidden), genetically modified soja, phage on the meat. You are missing the point also about the phage being innocuous. Beef hormone and modified soja is also innocuous. Aspartame too. But this is about CHOICE and being able to make one or inform oneselves. If you do not know something was ADDED or MODIFIED in the prodct you buy... Well you have taken the choice from the people. You might as well give us feed bag with "trust us" written in big bold red lettering. PS: I understand very well those phage are innocuous. What i am reacting allergically is all mention of "won't be needed to be on the labbeling". Just like genetically modified food.
Whether histerical or not, whether dangerous or not, I am for TRUTH in labelling. It does not matter whether biotest found out that it is innocuous. It does not matter that FDA thinks genetically modified soja is ok for consumption, or hormone in beef, what matters is that *I* "the consumer" need to know to make a choice. Whether I inform myself to make a correct decision is my choice. But if you take out stuff from the label beause no consummer would buy it out of fear, then you REMOVE the choice, even if it is a dumb choice. And I as a consumer find it a really bad idea. Next you will claim putting a label with a list of ingredient with % is a dumb idea too.
Intranet. Now you see why 100 Mgbt/s-1 and way up is interresting, attractive and sometimes NEEDED. Mileage may vary depending on application.
Ken Lay. Please tell us how does this fit in your rethoric. good luck.
Not only this is paid propaganda which, despite being uncovered by some media, will cast some shadow on al gore (first effect) but this will cast a shadow on any future internet grassroot movement (second effect). Call me paranoid but I have the feeling, seeing how the political flows and ebbs are in the USA right now, that this side effect may has well have been sought for... Think about it : eliminating or hindering grassroot campaign can only be a win for both party enabling them to canalise any politic debate toward what they wish (aka : all usual campaign talk directed toward the public) while diverting people from what they don't want to speak about (Irak, erosion of liberty, illegality of of certain governemental action etc....).
it is RUP, ITIL. Now everybody in the management swear by those. Naturally softwaer engineer are forced to draw nice UML diagram before those are sent in gigantic 98 pages document to the otusourcing team, for a change which should have taken at most 20 hours we get weeks of works. I would accept it if this was linked to an increase of quality of code, less bugs, and lower end cost. But this is not. Still this has been declared a success by our management.
Experimental protocol.
Fankly who modded that insightful ? It ain't even a good thougth experiment since the protocol would have inside "incredible when I add a piece of paper in such and such form now the piece of wood float in the air for a few second. And if in addition there is such and such wind condition it can stays in air for hours !" that is what experimental protocol are for : to enable other to reproduce under the same condition the experiment.
There are good reason to not ignore negative result in science : because those are NOT failed experiment. They are *RESULTS* in themselves. I do not want to do an ad-hominem, but frankly, Your propention to plaid for and beg to look at positive result more than negative means that you should stay away from any experimental lab.
Negative and positive experimental results are both as important.
keep in mind that such Ai would probably not be a world project, but rather a single country doing it. Let us just imagine this is China or US. So most probably the country would implement a friendlines toward THEM rather than global toward human. Now the parent post begins to make a lot of frightening sense "they are against us. We can't convince to join us or be friendly to us. They need to be eliminated as a threat. Change nuke targeting system to those country. Countdown to launch 10,9,8...".
FYI molcas and molpro are just software, whether they run under windows is irrelevant. What is relevant is that to use those package I need normal day to day administration of that machine (network config from time to time 'cause uni admin like to change stuff,and in case of power dropping in the middle of a calculation, because I am too cheapo to buy a special supply, well having to mount and have fun repairing everything cost me more time than the same power down on a neighbour machine which is windows). And what i use is Suse, what is not bad as I can get a lot of support at the University from other fellow.
My experience is only relevant as an anedocte. You might have another better experience. All I know is that NO ONE I know from the average people without too much knowledge of PC would have gone learning through. Try hunt for an howto because some networking config is not going through as needed. Fun.Fun.Fun. I can only thanks deeply all those who helped me.
What you are comparing (a N^2 C++, to a python nlogn) you are varying two parameter. When comparing two thing you should only vary one, or you blow hot air. In other word I can counter your argument by saying a C++ nlogn implementation is better than a python n^4, but what does it says us of the CPU performance in comparing language : NOTHING.
The GP is comparing for the same implementation the speed difference. So if you implement a stupid N^2 bubble sort in C++, it will be slow as hell, but stil better than the same bubble sort in java. And if you have a nifty (N) algorithm it will still be quicker with a C++ implementation.
Comparing the learn curve between linux and windows, despite having made great step, is still a pain in the bottom. I use linux with a special compiler to run molpro (roughly said a quantum calculation package) and molcas. It took me a FREAKING long ime to get it right, and I can't imagine your average people taking the time to do it. And here lies the problem : The "you learnt windows so you can learn windows" is BUNK because of that. You can't compare the user friendliness and ease of learning of windows with linux. Sure some distro get it better than others, but this is still far away from general public. So in a way yes, windows in some way is so much easier to use, that you could as well say people were born knowing how to use it (or nearly). Naturally you can call sheenigan and speak about security issue, patching, and whatnot, but windows is year ahead in usuability issues. Call me back when the learn curve of linux is down to the one of windows...
Torture is a type of "crime against humanity", just like genocide is. Did you forget nuremberg ? Anybody being given such order should disobey them. And anybody accidentally getting a whif of such things happening should also loudly denounce them, clearance or not. Do you want us to go 60 years back and use the "I did not knew it" or "I was ordered to do it" excuses ?
Bad hypothese, bias, bad statistical analysis etc... etc...
skepdic on pear
sceptic report
And tons of other link...
If a large explosion occurs in a stadium, I doubt it would limit itself to a few dead. But even then you do not need to kill to fuck up the general economy. Just target a few crude reserve tanker, the big round one, which are "guarded" by a few civilian security people over the last 20 meters with a few camera, with a nice Law or better. I doubt tanker are made to resist such an explosion.
Firstly anti aircraft gun are not for commercial passenger flight, they are for military craft. Secondly, I live near an airport. I can assure you that at landing the craft is in a quite straigth line, your erratically "moving" is only happenning in strong wind condition, which is certainly NOT the norm at any airport I know (well maybe not denver :)). Especially if you are in the alignement of the landing/take off strip.
I have no idea how easy it is to fire a gun, and a better argument would be that you are not sure to target a vital part of the plane, but as other pointed out, you only need to hit SOMEWHERE to spread terror.