Logic elements being in non-deterministic states is not new. In fact, often enough considerable effort must be spent to make sure they _don't_ go into nondeterministic states. And some troll Phillips has actually already patented this, in 2003 (6631390).
A caveat is that such non-deterministic states are often not completely random; they're influenced by such things as the previous value of the flip-flop, variations in the power supply, the state of nearby circuits, etc.
Which is an illegal act. We can imprison or deport Chinese citizens, but the Constitution does not allow you to do things like this to chinese-American citizens (like my coworkers and best friend and his wife). The Constitution is the Supreme Law of the land and you can not simply ignore it.
You can if you can get the Supreme Court to go along.
You may be "social", but I guarantee most people find you obnoxious and annoying when you are trying to be "social". Look at the way you introduced yourself. QED.
What's your point? The most social guy I know (large circle of friends, lots of parties -- if you drew one of those connection diagrams he'd be a hub) is also obnoxious and annoying. Seems to work for him.
That statement can only be true if you're talking about the original download. Distribution rights are far more expensive.
Reproduction rights are expensive too, but it doesn't make sense to consider the damages from unauthorized reproduction of one copy to be equivalent to the cost of a license to reproduce some large number of copies. If he distributed one copy, the actual damages are at most the price of one copy.
Is a CD ripper-and-sharer so much more culpable than an MP3 downloader-and-re-sharer that all of the blame for downstream economic harm should be pegged to the CD ripper-and-sharer?
They'll just make it joint-and-several -- that is, everyone in the swarm is 100% liable for every download.
Never underestimate the amount of injustice the courts can dish out.
Because Date of Birth is a completely legal question to ask and then decide upon during an interview process, and they're totally going to be able to tell the difference between a 20 year old that just graduated that Spring and a 21 or 22 year old.
I graduated at 20, and got a job with IBM right out of college. Only real effect it had is amusing me a few times the company did things which were technically against its policy or against the law because of my age. For instance, management had an after-work party for the department once, and bought everyone a drink. Drinking age being 21, I of course refu... no, wait, who am I kidding; I took their free drink and laughed my ass off.
The true value of college for the most successful people in the country is not education, it's networking. Who you befriend in college and the contacts and connections you form are the greatest value you can gain from college. Successfully taking advantage of networking opportunities requires one NOT be socially inept or awkward.
Great. So if you're ultimately headed for business school and you're buddy-buddy with the important set in your little high school pond, perhaps you should stick out the four years now to make the most of the networking opportunities at Harvard or Yale or whatever.
On the other hand, if you're a classic slashdot geek without much social life in high school... guess what, you're going to be socially inept in two years, too. Might as well get out now. With any luck, at least at college (in some sort of technical problem) you'll find other socially inept geeks you can get along with, even if that means hanging out in the computer labs rather than getting blasted at frat parties.
Further, if you're not Ivy League bound anyway, none of those networking-with-rich-kids advantages apply, and again there's little reason to stick around in high school.
I went to college (a 4-year state school) at age 16, after 3 years of high school. I fit in there a damned sight better than I ever fit into high school. Methinks the principal objecting is probably more worried about losing per-student funding than he is about the maturity level of the students.
If unarmed, once downed,go to the garage and use some petrochemical and a rag to wipe one of your own down and squeeze his dead hand around on it a few times, wearing gloves yourself, then set it close to the body.
Only do this if you know the forensics people who will be investigating it are idiots. (So if you live in Oakland or LAPD jurisdiction, you're fine). Otherwise, you've not only screwed up a possible self defense verdict, but you'll also be charged with tampering with the evidence.
For one thing, when someone is shot, the blood tends to spray everywhere. Including on any weapons they might be holding. Your planted prybar is going to be lacking in blood spray, which will immediately tell them the dead guy wasn't holding it when he was shot.
In general, introducing complicated languages (like shell script, or SQL) is a good way to absolutely fuck yourself. God damn SQL for making it so freaking hard to just STICK DATA INTO A DATABASE SAFELY.
Use prepared statements. A prepared "INSERT INTO FOO (BAR, BAZ, BIFF) VALUES (?, ?,?)", along with parameters from the user, is safe from SQL injection attacks, no matter the parameters.
Unfortunately there are a few cases you can't do that. No way to use a prepared statement for an "IN" clause, for instance.
The model contract smacks of the customer attempting to micromanage the vendor's development process. You might get away with that if you're IBM or the Federal Government, but most smaller customers aren't going to have that kind of clout.
And of course, the "security training" section is pure self-promotion for SANS itself.
At some point, only older folks will even know what a good CRT looks like, and how little motion blur it has.
You're confusing motion blur (which is in the source material, a function of the shutter speed and the motion of the subject with respect to the camera) with telecine/interlace artifacts. A 120Hz CRT given a progressive image (either 30fps or 24fps "progressive telecine") can reproduce the original material with no telecine artifacts and no judder (which exists on CRTs as well). Some of them can do good job doing inverse telecine as well, but there are limitations there.
Deliberate destruction of property to collect insurance is called "insurance fraud" and is illegal, no matter how cool someone thinks it is to stick it to the man.
What do you call it when an insurance company deliberately refuses to pay a legitimate claim?
Oh, right, "Standard Operating Procedure".
When the laws are tilted in favor of the insurance companies, people aren't going to have a lot of outrage if those laws are broken.
I could be wrong, but H1B workers seem to work in many of the low-level and entry positions. Workers over age 40 often aren't applying for those positions.
Employers often think quantity makes up for quality when it comes to H1Bs and outsourced programmers. They think hiring a whole bunch of dirt-cheap programmers rather than a few more expensive programmers will work just as well, and cheaper. So the older workers won't be applying for the positions taken by the H1Bs, but they would have been be applying for the positions that those positions displaced.
Seriously, why the hell do people stop doing good work and become bosses. Why isn't there a bachelors degree in management with entry level boss positions. Why are bosses paid more?
The bachelor's degree in management exists (the Bachelor of Business Administration, known from the expression "The limit as GPA approaches 0 of the Computer Science Student is the Business Student"). But to get an entry level boss job without experience you usually need the MBA. Knowing the owners/board members/executives doesn't hurt either.
Why are bosses paid more? Well, because they're bosses. They're making the decisions on salaries.
Fact is, positions where you _do_ something will always be at the bottom of the hierarchy. To be a "higher up", you have to be higher than someone -- those who report to you. So unless you want to be on the bottom forever, basically just doing what you're told and with no real input into any corporate decisions, you have to go into management. Or into business for yourself.
Militaries make this explicit: you can be the best infantryman, combat engineer, tank driver, or whatever, but it doesn't matter; you're still an enlisted person and you still have to grovel to the most junior officer (manager) in the service. It's the same way in the corporate world, they're just less obvious about it, and there's more mobility from grunt to manager in most cases.
Look, guys, I can (sort of) appreciate all this carping about "correctness" and "having to learn something new", but you need to accept that people have a right to define themselves. They also have a right to resist definition by others. Nobody cares if you think it's stupid, you just come across as a little bit racist.
No, I don't have to accept that. I can reject it, on the grounds these redefinitions are an attempt to make people look racist and therefore put them on the defensive. Taking offense where none is given is a pretty common way of gaining advantage, and I see no reason to acquiesce to it.
Which is IMO about as dumb as a box of rocks. Once posting on K5 several years ago I was flamed for using the word "Chinaman" which was seen as a slur.
Thing is, "chinaman" has at least been regularly used as a slur. As far as I know, "Oriental" was banished by the PC crowd for no reason at all... the racists tended to use other words, such as that for a small crevice or opening for Chinese people, or a shortening of the word "Japanese" for Japanese people, or a homonym for a word meaning sludge for Koreans (sometimes Vietnamese). More educated racists, or those attacking based on nationality rather than race, would sometimes use a shortening of "Nippon" for Japanese people.
One complaint I've heard is that "Oriental is for rugs, not for people". Which makes about as much sense as Italians objecting to being called Italian because Italian food is too.
Oh well. They haven't gotten to "Eastasian" yet, which leaves Southasian for those hailing from the Indian Subcontinent. And if that makes me an Oceanian, so be it.
Does Google not want Microsoft to scoop them on their new blacksploitation search engine?
Too late. If you search for "Shaft" in Google, the top result is the IMDB page for the 2000 remake, which no one wants to see. Bing brings up the wikipedia page for the 1971 original.
Nothing good (from the perspective of the companies involved) could come from the release of the data. Only harm would be likely to result. If the data didn't show anything the Mercury-News could capitalize on for a story about those evil racist sexist tech firms, nothing at all would come of it; that's the best case scenario.
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Logic elements being in non-deterministic states is not new. In fact, often enough considerable effort must be spent to make sure they _don't_ go into nondeterministic states. And some troll Phillips has actually already patented this, in 2003 (6631390).
A caveat is that such non-deterministic states are often not completely random; they're influenced by such things as the previous value of the flip-flop, variations in the power supply, the state of nearby circuits, etc.
You can if you can get the Supreme Court to go along.
I believe Korematsu v. United States is still good (in the technical sense) law.
One's a source of slanted news and shallow analysis which toes the Democratic Party line, and the other's a blog.
Calling that hypothetical scenario an example of actual damages from distribution of a single copy is rather a stretch.
What's your point? The most social guy I know (large circle of friends, lots of parties -- if you drew one of those connection diagrams he'd be a hub) is also obnoxious and annoying. Seems to work for him.
Research says the brain doesn't achieve a steady state until one is dead and thoroughly rotted.
Reproduction rights are expensive too, but it doesn't make sense to consider the damages from unauthorized reproduction of one copy to be equivalent to the cost of a license to reproduce some large number of copies. If he distributed one copy, the actual damages are at most the price of one copy.
They'll just make it joint-and-several -- that is, everyone in the swarm is 100% liable for every download.
Never underestimate the amount of injustice the courts can dish out.
I graduated at 20, and got a job with IBM right out of college. Only real effect it had is amusing me a few times the company did things which were technically against its policy or against the law because of my age. For instance, management had an after-work party for the department once, and bought everyone a drink. Drinking age being 21, I of course refu... no, wait, who am I kidding; I took their free drink and laughed my ass off.
Great. So if you're ultimately headed for business school and you're buddy-buddy with the important set in your little high school pond, perhaps you should stick out the four years now to make the most of the networking opportunities at Harvard or Yale or whatever.
On the other hand, if you're a classic slashdot geek without much social life in high school... guess what, you're going to be socially inept in two years, too. Might as well get out now. With any luck, at least at college (in some sort of technical problem) you'll find other socially inept geeks you can get along with, even if that means hanging out in the computer labs rather than getting blasted at frat parties.
Further, if you're not Ivy League bound anyway, none of those networking-with-rich-kids advantages apply, and again there's little reason to stick around in high school.
I went to college (a 4-year state school) at age 16, after 3 years of high school. I fit in there a damned sight better than I ever fit into high school. Methinks the principal objecting is probably more worried about losing per-student funding than he is about the maturity level of the students.
Only do this if you know the forensics people who will be investigating it are idiots. (So if you live in Oakland or LAPD jurisdiction, you're fine). Otherwise, you've not only screwed up a possible self defense verdict, but you'll also be charged with tampering with the evidence. For one thing, when someone is shot, the blood tends to spray everywhere. Including on any weapons they might be holding. Your planted prybar is going to be lacking in blood spray, which will immediately tell them the dead guy wasn't holding it when he was shot.
Use prepared statements. A prepared "INSERT INTO FOO (BAR, BAZ, BIFF) VALUES (?, ?,?)", along with parameters from the user, is safe from SQL injection attacks, no matter the parameters.
Unfortunately there are a few cases you can't do that. No way to use a prepared statement for an "IN" clause, for instance.
The model contract smacks of the customer attempting to micromanage the vendor's development process. You might get away with that if you're IBM or the Federal Government, but most smaller customers aren't going to have that kind of clout.
And of course, the "security training" section is pure self-promotion for SANS itself.
You're confusing motion blur (which is in the source material, a function of the shutter speed and the motion of the subject with respect to the camera) with telecine/interlace artifacts. A 120Hz CRT given a progressive image (either 30fps or 24fps "progressive telecine") can reproduce the original material with no telecine artifacts and no judder (which exists on CRTs as well). Some of them can do good job doing inverse telecine as well, but there are limitations there.
What do you call it when an insurance company deliberately refuses to pay a legitimate claim?
Oh, right, "Standard Operating Procedure".
When the laws are tilted in favor of the insurance companies, people aren't going to have a lot of outrage if those laws are broken.
If they didn't care what I thought, they wouldn't object to the words I use.
Employers often think quantity makes up for quality when it comes to H1Bs and outsourced programmers. They think hiring a whole bunch of dirt-cheap programmers rather than a few more expensive programmers will work just as well, and cheaper. So the older workers won't be applying for the positions taken by the H1Bs, but they would have been be applying for the positions that those positions displaced.
The bachelor's degree in management exists (the Bachelor of Business Administration, known from the expression "The limit as GPA approaches 0 of the Computer Science Student is the Business Student"). But to get an entry level boss job without experience you usually need the MBA. Knowing the owners/board members/executives doesn't hurt either.
Why are bosses paid more? Well, because they're bosses. They're making the decisions on salaries.
Fact is, positions where you _do_ something will always be at the bottom of the hierarchy. To be a "higher up", you have to be higher than someone -- those who report to you. So unless you want to be on the bottom forever, basically just doing what you're told and with no real input into any corporate decisions, you have to go into management. Or into business for yourself.
Militaries make this explicit: you can be the best infantryman, combat engineer, tank driver, or whatever, but it doesn't matter; you're still an enlisted person and you still have to grovel to the most junior officer (manager) in the service. It's the same way in the corporate world, they're just less obvious about it, and there's more mobility from grunt to manager in most cases.
No, I don't have to accept that. I can reject it, on the grounds these redefinitions are an attempt to make people look racist and therefore put them on the defensive. Taking offense where none is given is a pretty common way of gaining advantage, and I see no reason to acquiesce to it.
That's a dysphemism, actually, both for the tabloid and the sanitary napkin.
Thing is, "chinaman" has at least been regularly used as a slur. As far as I know, "Oriental" was banished by the PC crowd for no reason at all... the racists tended to use other words, such as that for a small crevice or opening for Chinese people, or a shortening of the word "Japanese" for Japanese people, or a homonym for a word meaning sludge for Koreans (sometimes Vietnamese). More educated racists, or those attacking based on nationality rather than race, would sometimes use a shortening of "Nippon" for Japanese people.
One complaint I've heard is that "Oriental is for rugs, not for people". Which makes about as much sense as Italians objecting to being called Italian because Italian food is too.
Oh well. They haven't gotten to "Eastasian" yet, which leaves Southasian for those hailing from the Indian Subcontinent. And if that makes me an Oceanian, so be it.
I wouldn't relax yet. A controlled leak to discredit critics is quite likely.
Too late. If you search for "Shaft" in Google, the top result is the IMDB page for the 2000 remake, which no one wants to see. Bing brings up the wikipedia page for the 1971 original.
Nothing good (from the perspective of the companies involved) could come from the release of the data. Only harm would be likely to result. If the data didn't show anything the Mercury-News could capitalize on for a story about those evil racist sexist tech firms, nothing at all would come of it; that's the best case scenario.