Our 3 letter agencies don't spy on Americans, they spy on the Austrailians, the Austrailians spy on the British, then the British spy on the Americans. When anybody discovers anything interesting, an anonomous file is sent through back channels to the respective government.
No need for that. Even before USA PATRIOT when the barriers came down, they didn't need any back channels. For instance, the Australians would tap American traffic, and the NSA would tap the Australians tap.
The problem with that argument is that 90%+ of any given application is not performance critical. In many cases I'd argue almost none of the code is performance critical because the limitation sits between the keyboard and the chair, particularly when it comes to writing desktop apps like KDE, Gnome, Firefox, OpenOffice and so on.
This sort of reasoning is what gets us bloated and slow desktop apps.
Far from all tings are critical on the back end either, as long as they get done on time.
Except that CPU you're wasting is CPU you can't use for other things. It's expensive to build a data center twice as big because your code performs poorly.
1200 calories so low that you can't help but lose weight on a diet that restricted, no matter what other factors are involved. If someone is claiming to eat only 1200 calories a day and not losing weight, either they've learned to photosynthesize or they're not really eating only 1200 calories a day.
Geeks only hate easy to use things which are "an extension of the mind" when those things fail to extend geeks minds. If the geek tries to use the device and finds it inadequate but with just a small modification it would be great, and then finds the device is not amenable to modification, that's when the geek hates it for lack of customizability.
They ferment the agave, then distill it: this process removes all of the harmful sugars, and leaves only the healthful components.
Alas, fermented sugar is 7 calories per gram. But I agree that's the best use of agave syrup. They have another version where they leave in only the unhealthful components and it tastes licking a racing tire after a wreck; I'm not sure if this is a Mexican joke on gringos or if they play it on other Mexicans as well.
Recruiter sitting at his desk with his head in his hands and a half-empty bottle of cheap Scotch nearby, just waiting for the axe to come down. The phone rings. He picks it up to stop the noise and
"Hello, Facebook recruiting. I think you have the wrong number."
"No, I'm looking for a job at Facebook."
"Hey, that's great, my first one since...uhh you do know Facebook already had the IPO, right? I tried not telling people that but the boss got mad."
I hear the NRA thinks we should be investigating video games and movie.
LaPierre attacked video games and movies, but did not call for an investigation of them. I'm more concerned about his calls for a "national database" of the mentally ill, which sounds rather authoritarian.
Step 1: National database of mentally ill. Step 2: No rights for anyone who is on the list. Step 3: Everyone gets put on the list.
That's what the NRA wants: No bounds on any weaponry but Tom and Jerry can be blamed for the violence in the country.
Fortunately I can pick and choose and be for what the NRA wants for guns, but against what they want (if restrictions are indeed what they want) for speech. And since the NRA spends the lions share of its lobbying money on gun-related stuff and not speech-related stuff, that's still a big plus for the NRA.
There were also pellets that looked like little stones. I would put them in a paint can with drops of water. I would hurry and slam the paint can lid on because a gas was quickly released by the stones and water. I would put my foot on the can and light a match to the pinhole in the back of the can. It is still the loudest boom I have ever heard. I cannot remember what the pellets were.
The picture I see is a bunch of yellow containers and a pan filled with a white powder. Photo credit is "NOEL JABBOUR/AP". A search for Noel Jabbour reveals a Palestinian photographer "based in Berlin and Nazareth". Unless this is some OTHER "Noel Jabbour", I'm guessing the picture has nothing to do with the story.
A search for "Noel Jabbour" on apimages.com turns up a very similar picture, labeled "mideast palestinian bomb factory". The Daily News image is a crop from that image. In other words, the NY Daily News is sensationalizing the story. Surprise, surprise, surprise.
A constant theme around these is that plenty of people noticed "red flags" in the person, and yet none of them did anything about it to get them help.
Well, apparently two people on the U of Iowa admissions committee saw something wrong with him before the fact -- the program director, Daniel Tranel, said "Do NOT offer admission under any circumstances". I don't think Tranel has ever said what he saw, though.
But in general, if you want to maintain anything approaching a free society, you can neither lock up everyone you think might be a homicidal nutcase, nor restrict everyone to the level of freedom appropriate to homicidal nutcases.
This isn't a known-key attack. You start off with a large set of data that you know to contain the key.
Assume you have a full memory dump and you know the key is in there in some known format. How long will a brute force attack based on trying every possible key in the memory dump take?
Answer: Not long at all. Your encryption scheme may take 2^128 or worse time to hack brute force, but trying every possible key in memory is going to be less than 2^40. And it doesn't really take much to do it smarter than that.
I've had compilers miscompile my code, assemblers mis-assemble it, and even on a few cases CPUs mis-execute it consistently (look up CPU6 and msp430). Random crashes due to bad memory/cpu... yep. But on very rare occasions, I find that the bug is indeed in my own code, so I check there first.
On a more serious note though, some comments on this thread are along the lines of "Fuck you!! Don't you dare touch my guns - I'll own as many as I want" - unfortunately, until your attitude changes (for whatever reason), or until you are able to sit down and have a rational discussion about the topic, your country will always have the problem it has now.
A "rational discussion" on the topic does not start with waving of the bloody shirt and demanding we accept as a baseline the premise that we need more gun control, and that's almost always what is demanded.
Secondly, as a compromise, why not involve gun clubs more in the purchase and use of guns.
The right to bear arms is an individual right. Many gun owners aren't even members of gun clubs, nor want to be.
Hell, it's your community, but it seems to want to distance itself from any members that go postal.
There is no "community" of gun owners. Gun owners are individuals, and gun owners as a whole have neither the authority nor responsibility to police each other. Non-car analogy: imagine if there were said to be a "community" of people who use email, and it was suggested that this community be held responsible for spammers or idiots who forward chain letters.
As for "going postal", one major problem with denying guns to those considered "crazy" but not adjudicated mentally incompetent is that inevitably it is seriously suggested that anyone who wants to own a gun is too unstable to have one. This makes gun owners and gun rights advocates very wary of psychological tests.
Mmmm, a national database of writing samples collected from everyone in school... that sounds like fun.
I never thought not doing my homework would pay off so well:-).
There's definitely going to be false positives. I've seen other people's writing that was nearly word-for-word identical with my own, and there's no way they saw mine (nor I theirs) before writing it.
I don't think they would be any easier to detect. How many times have you heard people who knew the perpetrators say things like "oh he was such a nice fellow, I never would have thought..."
You also hear that every kid killed in a drug deal was an honor student with exemplary behavior. Even if they had a record as long as your arm.
I think in many cases, people know something's up. But they don't want to say so afterwards, for fear people will blame them for not stopping it.
Example, what about that boy scout leader / church deacon -- Dennis Rader -- who was actually a serial killer? Such a nice fellow.:/ [cough]
The Wikipedia page for Rader indicates he known to not be such a nice fellow; he had three restraining orders against him (though after most of the murders)
Of course, stopping homicidal crazy people before the fact even if you do suspect something is up is still a problem, if you want to maintain anything approaching a free society.
Seriously though; universities have to prove overseas students are actually attending the university. How would other suggest we do this?
I'd suggest GPS anklets for all overseas students. If that doesn't work, shock collars. Seriously, do you think a mandate justifies any means necessary to fulfill it?
No, for certain the problem isn't firearms, or banning them. The problem is we have crazy people. Outright crazy fucktards. Raving loonies. Who we simply can't detect.
They'd be easier to detect if left-wingers wouldn't label anyone to the right of Mao, or who merely wishes to own guns and drive a pickup truck, as a nutcase. And if right-wingers wouldn't consider anyone with tattoos, outre piercings and listening to the wrong music the same way.
...but not all the people at the same time. What do you do when you have a huge number of people who from birth to death who simply cannot produce enough to provide for their own survival, despite the cost of that survival being quite low due to the same automation which lowered their worth?
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This sort of reasoning is what gets us bloated and slow desktop apps.
Except that CPU you're wasting is CPU you can't use for other things. It's expensive to build a data center twice as big because your code performs poorly.
It's not irrational, or at least probably isn't. C++ is a horrible language, and I say this as a professional C++ programmer.
1200 calories so low that you can't help but lose weight on a diet that restricted, no matter what other factors are involved. If someone is claiming to eat only 1200 calories a day and not losing weight, either they've learned to photosynthesize or they're not really eating only 1200 calories a day.
Geeks only hate easy to use things which are "an extension of the mind" when those things fail to extend geeks minds. If the geek tries to use the device and finds it inadequate but with just a small modification it would be great, and then finds the device is not amenable to modification, that's when the geek hates it for lack of customizability.
Yes. They're deluding themselves about how much they're actually eating.
Alas, fermented sugar is 7 calories per gram. But I agree that's the best use of agave syrup. They have another version where they leave in only the unhealthful components and it tastes licking a racing tire after a wreck; I'm not sure if this is a Mexican joke on gringos or if they play it on other Mexicans as well.
It started out like this
Recruiter sitting at his desk with his head in his hands and a half-empty bottle of cheap Scotch nearby, just waiting for the axe to come down. The phone rings. He picks it up to stop the noise and
"Hello, Facebook recruiting. I think you have the wrong number."
"No, I'm looking for a job at Facebook."
"Hey, that's great, my first one since...uhh you do know Facebook already had the IPO, right? I tried not telling people that but the boss got mad."
And it was all downhill from there.
LaPierre attacked video games and movies, but did not call for an investigation of them. I'm more concerned about his calls for a "national database" of the mentally ill, which sounds rather authoritarian.
Step 1: National database of mentally ill.
Step 2: No rights for anyone who is on the list.
Step 3: Everyone gets put on the list.
Fortunately I can pick and choose and be for what the NRA wants for guns, but against what they want (if restrictions are indeed what they want) for speech. And since the NRA spends the lions share of its lobbying money on gun-related stuff and not speech-related stuff, that's still a big plus for the NRA.
Probably lye (e.g. "crystal Drano").
The picture I see is a bunch of yellow containers and a pan filled with a white powder. Photo credit is "NOEL JABBOUR/AP". A search for Noel Jabbour reveals a Palestinian photographer "based in Berlin and Nazareth". Unless this is some OTHER "Noel Jabbour", I'm guessing the picture has nothing to do with the story.
A search for "Noel Jabbour" on apimages.com turns up a very similar picture, labeled "mideast palestinian bomb factory". The Daily News image is a crop from that image. In other words, the NY Daily News is sensationalizing the story. Surprise, surprise, surprise.
Well, apparently two people on the U of Iowa admissions committee saw something wrong with him before the fact -- the program director, Daniel Tranel, said "Do NOT offer admission under any circumstances". I don't think Tranel has ever said what he saw, though.
But in general, if you want to maintain anything approaching a free society, you can neither lock up everyone you think might be a homicidal nutcase, nor restrict everyone to the level of freedom appropriate to homicidal nutcases.
Assume you have a full memory dump and you know the key is in there in some known format. How long will a brute force attack based on trying every possible key in the memory dump take?
Answer: Not long at all. Your encryption scheme may take 2^128 or worse time to hack brute force, but trying every possible key in memory is going to be less than 2^40. And it doesn't really take much to do it smarter than that.
I've had compilers miscompile my code, assemblers mis-assemble it, and even on a few cases CPUs mis-execute it consistently (look up CPU6 and msp430). Random crashes due to bad memory/cpu... yep. But on very rare occasions, I find that the bug is indeed in my own code, so I check there first.
If China controls a CA (such as CNNIC), they can do that anyway.
Last I heard, Verizon isn't building any more FIOS because they get higher ROI on mobile.
A "rational discussion" on the topic does not start with waving of the bloody shirt and demanding we accept as a baseline the premise that we need more gun control, and that's almost always what is demanded.
The right to bear arms is an individual right. Many gun owners aren't even members of gun clubs, nor want to be.
There is no "community" of gun owners. Gun owners are individuals, and gun owners as a whole have neither the authority nor responsibility to police each other. Non-car analogy: imagine if there were said to be a "community" of people who use email, and it was suggested that this community be held responsible for spammers or idiots who forward chain letters.
As for "going postal", one major problem with denying guns to those considered "crazy" but not adjudicated mentally incompetent is that inevitably it is seriously suggested that anyone who wants to own a gun is too unstable to have one. This makes gun owners and gun rights advocates very wary of psychological tests.
I never thought not doing my homework would pay off so well :-).
There's definitely going to be false positives. I've seen other people's writing that was nearly word-for-word identical with my own, and there's no way they saw mine (nor I theirs) before writing it.
Googlefight works fine.
You also hear that every kid killed in a drug deal was an honor student with exemplary behavior. Even if they had a record as long as your arm.
I think in many cases, people know something's up. But they don't want to say so afterwards, for fear people will blame them for not stopping it.
The Wikipedia page for Rader indicates he known to not be such a nice fellow; he had three restraining orders against him (though after most of the murders)
Of course, stopping homicidal crazy people before the fact even if you do suspect something is up is still a problem, if you want to maintain anything approaching a free society.
I'd suggest GPS anklets for all overseas students. If that doesn't work, shock collars. Seriously, do you think a mandate justifies any means necessary to fulfill it?
They'd be easier to detect if left-wingers wouldn't label anyone to the right of Mao, or who merely wishes to own guns and drive a pickup truck, as a nutcase. And if right-wingers wouldn't consider anyone with tattoos, outre piercings and listening to the wrong music the same way.
We have automated shark-jumping MACHINES with frickin' lasers.
Easy enough when you're just a simulation anyway.
...but not all the people at the same time. What do you do when you have a huge number of people who from birth to death who simply cannot produce enough to provide for their own survival, despite the cost of that survival being quite low due to the same automation which lowered their worth?