That's one thing that's always irked me about Paul Graham: Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley. He reminds me of an annoying New Yorker talking about Broadway and then maybe about the "flyover states" and how grand New York is and how the rest of the world wishes they had a place as grand as New York, where "the rest of the world" means "everywhere outside of New York."
The article for neutrality was pretty good, but it failed to catch some counter-arguments. The first-class plane ticket or "toll road" analogies are false - you can already pay more for better service overall. ISPs charge more for extra bandwidth and higher consumer speeds. Now they want to charge providers for bandwidth on both ends: bandwidth for the amount of data they send and tier fees for being accessible. It would be more like collecting tolls from trucks AND collecting taxes from their destination. Your destination/company doesn't pay the fee, you can't drive on the toll road. It's like charging for stamps AND having the recipient pay.
"If either party disputes the outcome of this engagement, an appeal may be filed and a hearing will be held at 8:30 A.M. on Friday, July 7, 2006 before the undersigned in Courtroom 3, George C. Young United States Courthouse and Federal Building, 80 North Hughey Avenue, Orlando, Florida 32801."
You know they'll spend at least 2 hours arguing over on what count to shoot, what hand gestures constitute "scissor", "paper" and "rock", how to dispute ties, etc., etc.
1) Referential Integrity has been in it since version 4 with InnoDB tables. 2) Subselects (MySQL calls them "subqueries") have been in it since 4.1. 3) Transactions/triggers have been in since 5.0 (5.1?).
I realize that it is a more effective way to shut down piracy, but they are dragging down people who are (in my opinion, should be) innocent to do it. My point was that being able to prosecute these people doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
They don't have free speech, either: making disparaging remarks about minority groups is illegal. For example, a pastor in Sweden said that "all gays are a cancer on society." Got fined/imprisoned (i forget which).
You know, ordinarily, police would love it if someone was distributing locations and phone numbers for drug dealers. Why doesn't the *AA thank them for giving them the IP addresses of illegal filesharers?
I used to work for a therapist practice where all the therapists would do their notes on their laptop. Unfortunately, that mean HIPAA-regulated client data was floating all around on their laptops. Should one of them get stolen, there goes privacy information. The problem is, therapists, and barely computer-literate people in general, do not have the patience nor the technical inclination to encrypt their personal laptops. These are usually their personal computers as well, so we say that it's up to them to delete their files, just to put up a small barrier of protection, and that they shoulder the loss should anything get out.
Eventually we switched to storing notes on a central server so the only thing stored on their computer is in the browser cache, which we tell them to clear when they can. There's just no cost-effective, user-friendly way yet to do full-disk encryption.
I would think that critical systems (power grids and such) do not need to be administered remotely, nor should they. Which means that if the computer you have to control such critical systems is somehow wired to the Internet, you should probably unplug it. I find it hard to believe that people running those systems somehow need the Internet as opposed to their own private network. I can't think of a case where this would be necessary, but maybe other Slashdot folk can enlighten me?
Which is exactly why law enforcement and Homeland Security need to be instructive and helpful to those entities that need protection. By protection, I mean against any kind of threat - sabotage, inside sabotage, terrorism, and even gross negligence. I don't care if it's Enron or Osama. Protecting industry against one threat should protect against all. But that doesn't involve stricter laws or invasive police procedures - all it need involve is education and vigilance.
Letting manufacturers or industry people know what kind of problems they have to be prepared for is one thing, but this is just the administration grandstanding about terrorism and is more of a way to get people scared about more things so the government can more tightly control those.
This doesn't seem like strictly "cyber" terror. My guess is that things like power plants valves and switches, prescription formulas, and car design specifications are NOT ON THE INTERNET. This is industrial sabotage, which requires physical access to the resources. The "cyber" part just means that computers are somehow involved. So what we have here is just a new way terrorists can fuck with us that we need to pay attention too.
Certainly people running power plants or pharmaceuticals need to secure their own internal computer network to keep some guy from reaching over a secretary's desk and altering the recipe for Prozac. But calling it "cyber" terrorism is just going to scare people into allowing the government to monitor their Internet traffic. After all, you wouldn't want a terrorist breaking into a nuclear powerplant over the Internet would you?! It's just another power grab instead of sanely alerting the respective authorities.
What a mediocre article. He could've at least brought up the "double-dipping" nature of the tiered system. At least do some better research:
The blogging phenomenon is possible because individuals can create Web sites with the World Wide Web prefix, www, that can be seen by anyone with Internet access.
No wonder my site isn't working: I forgot to add the www prefix!!
Asking if philosophy should have a role in computer science is like asking "Should economics play a role in computer science?" You don't need to know anything about economics to learn about computer science - but there may be parts of computer science that are similar to economics, and you might even use economics in a potential job in computer science. You might even borrow ideas from economics.
Similarly with philosophy: some concepts are similar (halting problem), you can borrow ideas from philosohpy, and you might even use philosophy in a potential job.
Basically, it doesn't need to play a role in computer science, it just shows that a liberal education will prepare you for life and make your skills in computer science more complete than any single-track course ever could.
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List of things you cannot loose:
- your gray hairs (unless you can command them somehow)
- control
- the big game
- your way
List of things you could be loosing:
- the hounds
- your belt
- an arrow
- responsibility
That's one thing that's always irked me about Paul Graham: Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley, Silicon Valley. He reminds me of an annoying New Yorker talking about Broadway and then maybe about the "flyover states" and how grand New York is and how the rest of the world wishes they had a place as grand as New York, where "the rest of the world" means "everywhere outside of New York."
You should keep a dollar folded up in a safe place in your wallet, and just use the serial number on it as your password.
The article for neutrality was pretty good, but it failed to catch some counter-arguments. The first-class plane ticket or "toll road" analogies are false - you can already pay more for better service overall. ISPs charge more for extra bandwidth and higher consumer speeds. Now they want to charge providers for bandwidth on both ends: bandwidth for the amount of data they send and tier fees for being accessible. It would be more like collecting tolls from trucks AND collecting taxes from their destination. Your destination/company doesn't pay the fee, you can't drive on the toll road. It's like charging for stamps AND having the recipient pay.
I use a simple shot of cocaine, seven per-cent solution, to keep my brain stimulated.
"If either party disputes the outcome of this engagement, an appeal may be filed and a hearing will be held at 8:30 A.M. on Friday, July 7, 2006 before the undersigned in Courtroom 3, George C. Young United States Courthouse and Federal Building, 80 North Hughey Avenue, Orlando, Florida 32801."
You know they'll spend at least 2 hours arguing over on what count to shoot, what hand gestures constitute "scissor", "paper" and "rock", how to dispute ties, etc., etc.
All three features are in MySQL.
1) Referential Integrity has been in it since version 4 with InnoDB tables.
2) Subselects (MySQL calls them "subqueries") have been in it since 4.1.
3) Transactions/triggers have been in since 5.0 (5.1?).
At least it's somewhat fitting. The new design could be considered one of the 25 worst tech products.
If you want to win, simply copy this approach to political cartooning.
I realize that it is a more effective way to shut down piracy, but they are dragging down people who are (in my opinion, should be) innocent to do it. My point was that being able to prosecute these people doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
Your counterexample would have made sense if it had anything to do with the kind of speech I was talking about.
Nice PHP code.
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The Netherworld!?! Is Beetlejuice hosting the servers now?
They don't have free speech, either: making disparaging remarks about minority groups is illegal. For example, a pastor in Sweden said that "all gays are a cancer on society." Got fined/imprisoned (i forget which).
You know, ordinarily, police would love it if someone was distributing locations and phone numbers for drug dealers. Why doesn't the *AA thank them for giving them the IP addresses of illegal filesharers?
I used to work for a therapist practice where all the therapists would do their notes on their laptop. Unfortunately, that mean HIPAA-regulated client data was floating all around on their laptops. Should one of them get stolen, there goes privacy information. The problem is, therapists, and barely computer-literate people in general, do not have the patience nor the technical inclination to encrypt their personal laptops. These are usually their personal computers as well, so we say that it's up to them to delete their files, just to put up a small barrier of protection, and that they shoulder the loss should anything get out.
Eventually we switched to storing notes on a central server so the only thing stored on their computer is in the browser cache, which we tell them to clear when they can. There's just no cost-effective, user-friendly way yet to do full-disk encryption.
I would think that critical systems (power grids and such) do not need to be administered remotely, nor should they. Which means that if the computer you have to control such critical systems is somehow wired to the Internet, you should probably unplug it. I find it hard to believe that people running those systems somehow need the Internet as opposed to their own private network. I can't think of a case where this would be necessary, but maybe other Slashdot folk can enlighten me?
Which is exactly why law enforcement and Homeland Security need to be instructive and helpful to those entities that need protection. By protection, I mean against any kind of threat - sabotage, inside sabotage, terrorism, and even gross negligence. I don't care if it's Enron or Osama. Protecting industry against one threat should protect against all. But that doesn't involve stricter laws or invasive police procedures - all it need involve is education and vigilance.
Letting manufacturers or industry people know what kind of problems they have to be prepared for is one thing, but this is just the administration grandstanding about terrorism and is more of a way to get people scared about more things so the government can more tightly control those.
This doesn't seem like strictly "cyber" terror. My guess is that things like power plants valves and switches, prescription formulas, and car design specifications are NOT ON THE INTERNET. This is industrial sabotage, which requires physical access to the resources. The "cyber" part just means that computers are somehow involved. So what we have here is just a new way terrorists can fuck with us that we need to pay attention too.
Certainly people running power plants or pharmaceuticals need to secure their own internal computer network to keep some guy from reaching over a secretary's desk and altering the recipe for Prozac. But calling it "cyber" terrorism is just going to scare people into allowing the government to monitor their Internet traffic. After all, you wouldn't want a terrorist breaking into a nuclear powerplant over the Internet would you?! It's just another power grab instead of sanely alerting the respective authorities.
While Amir might be deserving of some kind of punishment, the buyer who posted the pictures is a complete asshole.
Maybe the ads are just misleading me, but I think Asahi sells a robot like that in Japan.
Feh. People who are stupid enough to waste money on the lottery can fuck themselves over for all I care.
What a mediocre article. He could've at least brought up the "double-dipping" nature of the tiered system.
At least do some better research:
The blogging phenomenon is possible because individuals can create Web sites with the World Wide Web prefix, www, that can be seen by anyone with Internet access.
No wonder my site isn't working: I forgot to add the www prefix!!
Asking if philosophy should have a role in computer science is like asking "Should economics play a role in computer science?" You don't need to know anything about economics to learn about computer science - but there may be parts of computer science that are similar to economics, and you might even use economics in a potential job in computer science. You might even borrow ideas from economics.
Similarly with philosophy: some concepts are similar (halting problem), you can borrow ideas from philosohpy, and you might even use philosophy in a potential job.
Basically, it doesn't need to play a role in computer science, it just shows that a liberal education will prepare you for life and make your skills in computer science more complete than any single-track course ever could.