If I were the employee, I'd use Facebook's activation feature to temporarily remove my account from the system. "What account? Facebook? Don't have one."
Well, you'd be out of a job if your employer finds a cached copy of your Facebook page in Google, for instance. Would you want to risk that?
Even if I thought sharing your facebook login with your employer was reasonable (which I don't), why would they need your password? So they could post crap on your account?
I think it's so they can access the private parts of your Facebook account. Stuff that only friends can see for instance.
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.
- Jamie Zawinski
I think the point is that what separates the true Unix gurus from the wannabees are that the gurus have no problems with their regular expressions.
Still, it's sad though. I remember the day when regular expressions were considered basic knowledge, and what distinguished the true Unix gurus was the ability to read and write sendmail configuration files by hand.
So when students post disparaging comments about their teachers on their Facebook pages and they are disciplined for doing that, everyone seems to get all up in arms about the students' First Amendment rights.
But when a teacher does the same to their students, it is justifiable to suspend them?
This guy isn't being fined or sued for his comments. Someone just said he wasn't qualified to make the statements he made.
A good analogy would be if I get out of my car and a random passerby complains that it isn't properly parked and I respond by saying "Are you a traffic cop or a driving instructor? If not, shut up, it isn't any of your business." Yes, that would be kind of rude of me, especially if the passerby was merely trying to be helpful, but would it really be newsworthy?
Supposedly matter cannot move faster than light. But the expansion of the universe following the Big Bang involves the dimensions of space-time. It's not the movement of matter, but the movement of existence itself in which that matter exists which can produce FTL expansion.
It's not just matter that can't travel faster than light. Information can't travel faster than light either. And the "edge" of the big bang certainly carries information, namely that the big bang took place. So I'm still puzzled as to what's going on here.
If the universe started with a big bang, with all matter originated in an extremely compact volume, and if it's radius can't expand faster than light, then there should be no points in the universe beyond what we can see (as limited by light speed.) What am I missing?
This just in - people still make vinyl records, and people buy them because (they think) vinyl records sound better than any other recording medium.
Also, all those 386 processors that are still in active use need to be replaced occasionally.
Have any of those people compared vinyl to super audio CD's (SACD)? I agree that vinyl can carry details that conventional CDs lack (at the expense of dynamic range and some distortion), but I always understood SACD to be the best of both words: the low amplitude detail of vinyl (which adds warmth, spacial definition, detail, and good blending of orchestral instruments (especially in classical music)), and the clarity, low noise floor, dynamic range, and consistency of CDs. Has anyone seriously claimed vinyl sounds better than SACD (assuming good playback equipment, of course)?
Surely the car wouldn't send the data anywhere; it would just be used to disable the ignition. How is this an invasion of privacy?
Yeah. And I also don't see how this is any more of an invasion of privacy than existing breathalyzer ignition interlock devices. Isn't this just a more efficient way of doing the same thing?
Because 90% of women bombers are forced to do it. the scumbag Islamic terrorists either start killing their children, or threaten to kill their kids to make the woman do the deed. In fact a cellphone detonator means she could not be trusted to blow herself up so her Islamic torturer needed to have control of her death to make them happy.
All you flag wavers saying "dumb bitch" are uninformed as to how Utterly Disgraceful and lack of Honor these Islamic Terrorists are.
So, it is morally justifiable to kill a bunch of other people's kids if someone threatens to harm or kill your own. Sorry I don't buy it.
They broke a contract with a client with no valid reason and with the intent to hurt them. It is illegal, this is not a lawful way of doing business. Wikileaks will probably attack them.
If that's the case, the correct remedy is for Wikileaks to take them to court over the breach of contract. A breach of contract doesn't license third parties to launch denial of service attacks against the party breaching the contract.
It's not the degree that shows competency. It's the drive required to get the degree that tells you what you need to know about a potential employee. For example, a high school drop out is probably not a high school drop out because he's stupid. He's a high school drop out because he is lazy, has a problem with authority, can't/won't follow rules or some other issue that prevented him from finishing high school. (Yes, I understand that there are special circumstances that force some people to drop out of high school that are beyond the person's control; like a sick mother or something.)
In my own experience, people who drop out of school to get a job are some of the hardest working people I know. And college students are some of the laziest. It takes a good deal of self awareness and drive to leave the relative comfort of school and enter the working world. Digging ditches or waiting on tables is much harder work than sitting at a desk taking notes.
I have a Ph.D., and I can tell you the reason I went to grad school was simply that I was too lazy to get out and look for work. That explains in part why it took me so many years to get a Ph.D. I have gained a lot of knowledge and skills, but I'm still a terrible worker.
And the people who leave school for "special circumstances" as you describe them make up a much greater fraction of the population of dropouts than you might think. And they're precisely the kind of people I'd want working for me.
The ISP could still proxy the connection though. Proxy to FB and Proxy to client would still be encrypted but the proxy would get the username and password. The client may have to click through a warning about a mismatched certificate but I reckon most would.
Probably not even necessary. How hard would it be for the Tunisian government to get a CA in Tunisia to sign a fake Facebook cert? Then there'd be no warnings at all. I mean SSL only works if you trust every CA whose root cert is in your browser, and really, why the hell should anyone do that?
You do get 1 = 1, but you don't get 1 = 0.999... like you claim you do. By analogy with limits, the limit of an equation as x approaches y is not the same as the same equation evaluated at x = y.
True. But real numbers happened to be defined as limits. More precisely, they are equivalence classes of Cauchy sequences of rational numbers, which two such being considered equivalent if they converge to the same limit, i.e. |a_n - b_m| < epsilon, where m, n > some k which depends on epsilon. By this definition, 0.9999... is exactly equal to 1.
Having email on your phone, or your computer, gives the company authorization to scan the whole thing including your personal data. That was already ruled in court.
Everyone will get invited to the our next office party, but the Windows users will read that they are to come in clown costumes.
It's hard to know whether this should be modded Funny or Insightful, because it's both. And that is precisely what makes these PDF "features" so disturbing.
You don't capitalize "checkers" or "chess"; you shouldn't capitalize "go".
The difference is, the words "checkers" and "chess" do not have any other meanings in the English language besides the games, so there is no ambiguity. The word "go", however, is a very common verb in the English language, so capitalizing the name of the game helps to clarify the meaning.
You know that the starting velocity is zeroish(maybe a little bit of taxiing; but negligible) and that the end velocity is 240mph; this makes calculating average acceleration over those 300 feet trivial;
Actually, it doesn't. Average acceleration is defined as the change in velocity divided by the time interval over which the velocity changes: a_avg = delta v / delta t. The problem here is that you aren't given delta t, but rather the distance through which the jet accelerates. Now, if you know the acceleration is constant, it is easy to calculate the acceleration by means of the formula v_f^2 = v_i^2 + 2a delta x, but for non-constant acceleration, delta t over a fixed distance will depend on the shape of the acceleration curve. Therefore the average acceleration will also depend on the shape of the curve.
but you can turn that around. You ask the judge "what's an ottoman?", and he can tell you that it's the BDSM thing, because he wants to see the defendant found guilty.
Yes, but a judge's instructions to the jury become part of the record, and can be used as a grounds for appeal. Judge's therefore have to be very careful of what they say to a jury. Many a verdict has been overturned as a result of bad jury instructions.
They actually found a worse solution than socialism to the problem.
Really? At least with this solution, the buyer has some choice. If there was only one government option, and you don't happen to like your provider, you're screwed. We don't need more monopolies!
Except that by default, when a law is unconstitutional it is struck down in its entirety, to prevent such unintended consequences.
If Congress doesn't want this to happen, they can include a severability clause that says 'hey, we don't mind if this part stands on its own.' But Congress didn't do that. If mandatory insurance falls, so does the entire bill.
Actually, if you read the ruling, you'll see that he addressed the issue of severability and decided not to throw out the entire law, only the mandate part.
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If I were the employee, I'd use Facebook's activation feature to temporarily remove my account from the system. "What account? Facebook? Don't have one."
Well, you'd be out of a job if your employer finds a cached copy of your Facebook page in Google, for instance. Would you want to risk that?
Even if I thought sharing your facebook login with your employer was reasonable (which I don't), why would they need your password? So they could post crap on your account?
I think it's so they can access the private parts of your Facebook account. Stuff that only friends can see for instance.
An anti-green-laser pointer would be nice.
Yes. This would make a perfect Christmas gift for airline pilots!
wielding regular expressions like weapons
Reminds me of:
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems. - Jamie Zawinski
I think the point is that what separates the true Unix gurus from the wannabees are that the gurus have no problems with their regular expressions.
Still, it's sad though. I remember the day when regular expressions were considered basic knowledge, and what distinguished the true Unix gurus was the ability to read and write sendmail configuration files by hand.
So when students post disparaging comments about their teachers on their Facebook pages and they are disciplined for doing that, everyone seems to get all up in arms about the students' First Amendment rights.
But when a teacher does the same to their students, it is justifiable to suspend them?
You can't have it both ways!
This guy isn't being fined or sued for his comments. Someone just said he wasn't qualified to make the statements he made.
A good analogy would be if I get out of my car and a random passerby complains that it isn't properly parked and I respond by saying "Are you a traffic cop or a driving instructor? If not, shut up, it isn't any of your business." Yes, that would be kind of rude of me, especially if the passerby was merely trying to be helpful, but would it really be newsworthy?
Supposedly matter cannot move faster than light. But the expansion of the universe following the Big Bang involves the dimensions of space-time. It's not the movement of matter, but the movement of existence itself in which that matter exists which can produce FTL expansion.
It's not just matter that can't travel faster than light. Information can't travel faster than light either. And the "edge" of the big bang certainly carries information, namely that the big bang took place. So I'm still puzzled as to what's going on here.
If the universe started with a big bang, with all matter originated in an extremely compact volume, and if it's radius can't expand faster than light, then there should be no points in the universe beyond what we can see (as limited by light speed.) What am I missing?
This just in - people still make vinyl records, and people buy them because (they think) vinyl records sound better than any other recording medium.
Also, all those 386 processors that are still in active use need to be replaced occasionally.
Have any of those people compared vinyl to super audio CD's (SACD)? I agree that vinyl can carry details that conventional CDs lack (at the expense of dynamic range and some distortion), but I always understood SACD to be the best of both words: the low amplitude detail of vinyl (which adds warmth, spacial definition, detail, and good blending of orchestral instruments (especially in classical music)), and the clarity, low noise floor, dynamic range, and consistency of CDs. Has anyone seriously claimed vinyl sounds better than SACD (assuming good playback equipment, of course)?
Surely the car wouldn't send the data anywhere; it would just be used to disable the ignition. How is this an invasion of privacy?
Yeah. And I also don't see how this is any more of an invasion of privacy than existing breathalyzer ignition interlock devices. Isn't this just a more efficient way of doing the same thing?
Because 90% of women bombers are forced to do it. the scumbag Islamic terrorists either start killing their children, or threaten to kill their kids to make the woman do the deed. In fact a cellphone detonator means she could not be trusted to blow herself up so her Islamic torturer needed to have control of her death to make them happy.
All you flag wavers saying "dumb bitch" are uninformed as to how Utterly Disgraceful and lack of Honor these Islamic Terrorists are.
So, it is morally justifiable to kill a bunch of other people's kids if someone threatens to harm or kill your own. Sorry I don't buy it.
They broke a contract with a client with no valid reason and with the intent to hurt them. It is illegal, this is not a lawful way of doing business. Wikileaks will probably attack them.
If that's the case, the correct remedy is for Wikileaks to take them to court over the breach of contract. A breach of contract doesn't license third parties to launch denial of service attacks against the party breaching the contract.
It's not the degree that shows competency. It's the drive required to get the degree that tells you what you need to know about a potential employee. For example, a high school drop out is probably not a high school drop out because he's stupid. He's a high school drop out because he is lazy, has a problem with authority, can't/won't follow rules or some other issue that prevented him from finishing high school. (Yes, I understand that there are special circumstances that force some people to drop out of high school that are beyond the person's control; like a sick mother or something.)
In my own experience, people who drop out of school to get a job are some of the hardest working people I know. And college students are some of the laziest. It takes a good deal of self awareness and drive to leave the relative comfort of school and enter the working world. Digging ditches or waiting on tables is much harder work than sitting at a desk taking notes.
I have a Ph.D., and I can tell you the reason I went to grad school was simply that I was too lazy to get out and look for work. That explains in part why it took me so many years to get a Ph.D. I have gained a lot of knowledge and skills, but I'm still a terrible worker.
And the people who leave school for "special circumstances" as you describe them make up a much greater fraction of the population of dropouts than you might think. And they're precisely the kind of people I'd want working for me.
The ISP could still proxy the connection though. Proxy to FB and Proxy to client would still be encrypted but the proxy would get the username and password. The client may have to click through a warning about a mismatched certificate but I reckon most would.
Probably not even necessary. How hard would it be for the Tunisian government to get a CA in Tunisia to sign a fake Facebook cert? Then there'd be no warnings at all. I mean SSL only works if you trust every CA whose root cert is in your browser, and really, why the hell should anyone do that?
You don't go near airports to watch the stars.
You do if you live near an airport.
You do get 1 = 1, but you don't get 1 = 0.999... like you claim you do. By analogy with limits, the limit of an equation as x approaches y is not the same as the same equation evaluated at x = y.
True. But real numbers happened to be defined as limits. More precisely, they are equivalence classes of Cauchy sequences of rational numbers, which two such being considered equivalent if they converge to the same limit, i.e. |a_n - b_m| < epsilon, where m, n > some k which depends on epsilon. By this definition, 0.9999... is exactly equal to 1.
Having email on your phone, or your computer, gives the company authorization to scan the whole thing including your personal data. That was already ruled in court.
Citation please?
What a great feature!
Everyone will get invited to the our next office party, but the Windows users will read that they are to come in clown costumes.
It's hard to know whether this should be modded Funny or Insightful, because it's both. And that is precisely what makes these PDF "features" so disturbing.
You don't capitalize "checkers" or "chess"; you shouldn't capitalize "go".
The difference is, the words "checkers" and "chess" do not have any other meanings in the English language besides the games, so there is no ambiguity. The word "go", however, is a very common verb in the English language, so capitalizing the name of the game helps to clarify the meaning.
For those of us who do not speak Japanese, anyone care to explain what the above two comments actually mean?
You know that the starting velocity is zeroish(maybe a little bit of taxiing; but negligible) and that the end velocity is 240mph; this makes calculating average acceleration over those 300 feet trivial;
Actually, it doesn't. Average acceleration is defined as the change in velocity divided by the time interval over which the velocity changes: a_avg = delta v / delta t. The problem here is that you aren't given delta t, but rather the distance through which the jet accelerates. Now, if you know the acceleration is constant, it is easy to calculate the acceleration by means of the formula v_f^2 = v_i^2 + 2a delta x, but for non-constant acceleration, delta t over a fixed distance will depend on the shape of the acceleration curve. Therefore the average acceleration will also depend on the shape of the curve.
but you can turn that around. You ask the judge "what's an ottoman?", and he can tell you that it's the BDSM thing, because he wants to see the defendant found guilty.
Yes, but a judge's instructions to the jury become part of the record, and can be used as a grounds for appeal. Judge's therefore have to be very careful of what they say to a jury. Many a verdict has been overturned as a result of bad jury instructions.
This would apply to hosted services, free or paid, as well, such as Gmail or Yahoo.
Maybe I'm being ridiculous, but I'd be more comfortable with the federal government reading my mail than Google.
Really? Google doesn't have the power to prosecute you based on the contents of your e-mail, and deprive you of your liberty.
They actually found a worse solution than socialism to the problem.
Really? At least with this solution, the buyer has some choice. If there was only one government option, and you don't happen to like your provider, you're screwed. We don't need more monopolies!
Except that by default, when a law is unconstitutional it is struck down in its entirety, to prevent such unintended consequences.
If Congress doesn't want this to happen, they can include a severability clause that says 'hey, we don't mind if this part stands on its own.' But Congress didn't do that. If mandatory insurance falls, so does the entire bill.
Actually, if you read the ruling, you'll see that he addressed the issue of severability and decided not to throw out the entire law, only the mandate part.