Have you seen what these "correlations" actually look like? r=0.71-0.81 looks like a shotgun blast, with some slight clustering.
As Mark Twain said "Figures don't lie, but liars figure." Statistics are easily pressganged. The real question here is causation: Why believe that vidgames cause low marks when low marks might just as easily cause [frustration] vid.games? Most likely, a third cause [independance] affects both to a very limited extent.
Coming late to the party, people often see pride, arrogance and conceit from one or a few market players. Big Oil, Ma Bell, IBM, Intel, Sony, Microsoft, Google?, and the list goes on.
I think understanding their history is important. The arrogance didn't come from no-where. Each of these is a survivor from a very uncertain start and emerged victorious after bruising competition. This rather naturally makes the managers somewhat self-satisfied and complacent. And sows the seeds of their subsequent demise.
It appears that the HP Charwoman believes that leaks are so wrong as to justify conspiracy, fraud and other felonies. That sounds like a control phreak to me. Perhas we should expect nothing less given the corporate selection process.
However, she is easily indictable and her imprisonment will serve as a fine example for others of her ilk who doubtless think likewise.
... by weak, I mean easily memorizable that doesn't need to get written down on a Post-It Note affixed to the monitor:)
The security of any authentication system is the product of many factors. A "tight" [unbypassable] system facing brute-force has two main factors: the strength of the pw and the cost of bad guesses. ATM PINs can be very weak because the cost of bad guesses is high -- eaten card.
More along these lines should be done for computer systems so security doesn't rest on strong secrets. Increasing the cost of bad guesses is a matter of ingenuity: progressively slower response, IP banning before going to the detested acct lockout. To be sure, these are subject to DoS, but so is everything else. Always a balance.
Correlation does not imply causality. Henry's LaW [Gas solubility] _requires_ steady-state CO2 levels to increase with increasing temperature because of reduced gas solubility. The same beer that only makes a small "psst" when cold will foam all over the place when opened warm.
We have warmer temperatures. Higher CO2 could be an effect more than a cause. Anthropogenic CO2 is averages about 80 g/m3/yr. Rain is 800 kg/m2/yr. 1e4 times more is likely to have a much bigger effect. CO2 might even have a cooling effect if it increases cloud nucleation and increases albeido.
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There actually are fairly complex provisions for the USG licencing materials. Doubly complex for the military. The problem with charging soldiers is that most of the offenses took place in Iraq or elsewhere overseas. That makes them subject to US military law, and perhaps (unlikely) to local law. I do not believe the US Code applies.
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The RIAA & MPAA going after soldiers is a farce: I seriously doubt the US military command would tolerate any such attack against them. It's actually easy enough to render legal: the US govt has the power and authority to use any patents, copyrights and trademarks however it wishes with impunity. An argument could be made they already have by failing to block ports/sites.
People who've never been deployed and only seen movies don't realize that soldiering is 99% boredom and 1% sheer terror. It is just as important (maybe more) to handle the boredom as the terror.
Bah, I'm not interested. Moving data around is just another form of transposition cipher. Proven-good cipher systems use both transposition and substitution, preferably on compressed data.
This only works if the distance between the moved elements is greater than the attacker can cross. Not much different than sending reset passwds unencrypted through emails.
The unfortunate problem with well-meaning pacifists is they are quite reasonably appalled by the horror and waste of war and don't appear to see, weigh or value any benefits. Violence (on various scales) is the main means of human predators. While no-one likes being prey, there are proven ecological benefits (even to the prey species). Artificially reduce predatation, and systems become unstable.
This text appears to allow purely defensive use, like ABM, PATRIOT, design of armor systems. While purely defensive (saving humans from harm), they have an offensive element by permitting the protected humans to take more risks to harm other humans.
Why not hear the man directly? The more you've been inside news stories, the more you know how the press distorts information to sell ink, photons and electrons. Not usually outright lies, but frequent quoting-out-of-context, and occasional lies of omission. It is frankly amazing to see so much editorializing in simple news reporting.
Yes, there's some irony in the internal Iranian restrictions. But I'll take freedom in half steps. Positive movement is still positive. Besides, I think it is extremely important to listen to your critics and even enemies. They will very helpfully point out your flaws so you can fix them. When they lie, they reveal their own insecurities.
"Working in FP math is a lot like moving sandpiles. Everytime to try to move one, you lose some sand, and pick up some dirt."[Kernigan&Plauger]
Floats have their uses, but generally they trade exactness for range. And huge pifalls for the uninitiated, like comparing floats for equality.
AFAIK, accounting systems are still done in COBOL-heretige BCD fixed point math, usually as integer mils (one thousandth of a cent). Spreadsheets run into trouble because they are usually double floats.
Just how do you think Netflix can hope to be profitable? They need to licence every copy they send out. Even if they shuffle disks rather than burn fresh, there's still a licence involved.
Their only hope for profitability is that people sit on their disks and not demand too many new. I wouldn't be at all surprised if they reduced customer service to fast switchers. Dissuasion of unprofitable customers is an art form. Not illegal, but the dissuaded customer get resentful. As desired.
This is mildly interesting, but not because the____
employees did anything wrong. It points out that__
the sysadmins have been keeping horribly unpatched_
systems around that could be infected by data. And
old exploits, at that.
__________________________
Examining data should not lead to altering other___
data. Still less system files. Microsoft is a____
crufty bugfest. Nothing more to see here... move along.
Wasn't some dude prosecuted for doing Black Hat ops, even though he was hired specifically to evaluate security?
Before I'd even think of something like this, I'd want signed original 8.5x11 floppies giving me explicit authorization to attack^Hevaluate systems like this.
Even then, the DHS might come after the evaluators or possession and willful use of destructive tools.
Why do you expect a decent date? The mature dating population is a remainders market. Those people who make better partners have been subratcted, or when thrown back, get hooked up quickly.
You have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find your Prince/ss. So practice "Safe Kissing". A first date is never more than coffee at Starbucks.
Please remember the mature (say 25+) dating population suffers from quality subtraction: those people who make "better" partners have coupled off and are no longer available.
So to a large extent, you are left with dregs (of both sexes), fortunately refreshed by ~one-half the people from breakups. But these "better" partners also tend to hook up fairly quickly, while the dregs just don't quit.
The solution to these poor odds is just numbers: scan quickly and without expectations that will cloud your judgement. Dating sites & their email systems make this very easy.
These dudes are looking at the wrong end: "wouldn't it be nice if..."
One thing Gonzales and Mueller ought to do is ask their own IT people what their own internal [proxy] logs [would] look like. And how much it costs to run. And how searchable it is.
And whether they'd like theor own logs posted for all to see!
Fully agreed. Any law that is widely and perhaps unknowingly broken can only be enforced sporadically, and therefore arbitrarily. This is a fundamental threat to freedom. A totalitarian regime makes everyone a criminal so they can punish arbitrarily. And more importantly, shape behaviour by the mere hint of punishment. Prior restraint.
Very respectfully, I would have hoped that Germany had learned from its recent experience with the Stasi, and their predecessors from 70 years ago.
Every editurd cuts material. Especially/.s moderators:) Why they cut is their choice. There really isn't room for everything, or at least not on prime eyeball real-estate.
I wish people would quit misusing termsfor inflammatory purposes: piracy for unauthorized copying is one example. Censorship for editorial selection is another. _True_ censorship is not failing to publish whole works, but publishing them with the naughty bits cut out. Usually fairly small cuts to preserve a greater part of the authors work, but to twist it's meaning. It _is_ reprehensible, because it's simply theft of ideas.
The standard extraterritoriality mechanism: impound the US-origin loans/CC charges for the non-compliant. RICO. For the extra-overzealous, nab'em at customs. Anything remotely smutty most certainly can be stopped at borders without offending the 1stAm. Imported speech doesn't seem to be Constitutionally protected, so is subject to the tyranny of the majority.
Do _not_ mess with the govt. They have lots of arms. Pr0n is serious business and they would comply. They're mostly in it for the money.
First, the FOIA never was intended to provide information. It was always intended as a sop to people who wanted info. Congress has oversight comittees and gets info that way.
Second, there is very little protection against corporate or governmental employee malfeasance, short of clearly criminal behaviour. Both hide under the doctrine of "vicarious liability" and escape personal consequences. Perhaps this doctrine should be made more porous or pierceable. This would serve as some counter-balance to defacto job security.
Why? I'd be easier to filter with it's own domain. Arguably force sexually explict materials onto that domain specifically. Using other domains could fairly easily be ruled "wilfull and reckless exposure to minors", with the established severe penalties.
I don't think this ringfencing has been ruled unconstitutional.
Many things [like this] are completely different from first appearances.
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As Mark Twain said "Figures don't lie, but liars figure." Statistics are easily pressganged. The real question here is causation: Why believe that vidgames cause low marks when low marks might just as easily cause [frustration] vid.games? Most likely, a third cause [independance] affects both to a very limited extent.
I think understanding their history is important. The arrogance didn't come from no-where. Each of these is a survivor from a very uncertain start and emerged victorious after bruising competition. This rather naturally makes the managers somewhat self-satisfied and complacent. And sows the seeds of their subsequent demise.
In a sense, all victories are Pyrrhic.
Then I moved, and forgot to put my number in the DNC. Several calls per day. Put number on list, calls slowed and stopped ~1 month later.
However, she is easily indictable and her imprisonment will serve as a fine example for others of her ilk who doubtless think likewise.
The security of any authentication system is the product of many factors. A "tight" [unbypassable] system facing brute-force has two main factors: the strength of the pw and the cost of bad guesses. ATM PINs can be very weak because the cost of bad guesses is high -- eaten card.
More along these lines should be done for computer systems so security doesn't rest on strong secrets. Increasing the cost of bad guesses is a matter of ingenuity: progressively slower response, IP banning before going to the detested acct lockout. To be sure, these are subject to DoS, but so is everything else. Always a balance.
We have warmer temperatures. Higher CO2 could be an effect more than a cause. Anthropogenic CO2 is averages about 80 g/m3/yr. Rain is 800 kg/m2/yr. 1e4 times more is likely to have a much bigger effect. CO2 might even have a cooling effect if it increases cloud nucleation and increases albeido.
People who've never been deployed and only seen movies don't realize that soldiering is 99% boredom and 1% sheer terror. It is just as important (maybe more) to handle the boredom as the terror.
This only works if the distance between the moved elements is greater than the attacker can cross. Not much different than sending reset passwds unencrypted through emails.
Yes, there's some irony in the internal Iranian restrictions. But I'll take freedom in half steps. Positive movement is still positive. Besides, I think it is extremely important to listen to your critics and even enemies. They will very helpfully point out your flaws so you can fix them. When they lie, they reveal their own insecurities.
Floats have their uses, but generally they trade exactness for range. And huge pifalls for the uninitiated, like comparing floats for equality.
AFAIK, accounting systems are still done in COBOL-heretige BCD fixed point math, usually as integer mils (one thousandth of a cent). Spreadsheets run into trouble because they are usually double floats.
Their only hope for profitability is that people sit on their disks and not demand too many new. I wouldn't be at all surprised if they reduced customer service to fast switchers. Dissuasion of unprofitable customers is an art form. Not illegal, but the dissuaded customer get resentful. As desired.
Autorun is a bug in itself that needs patching. Users operating with admin privs is another.
__________________________ Examining data should not lead to altering other___ data. Still less system files. Microsoft is a____ crufty bugfest. Nothing more to see here ... move along.
Before I'd even think of something like this, I'd want signed original 8.5x11 floppies giving me explicit authorization to attack^Hevaluate systems like this.
Even then, the DHS might come after the evaluators or possession and willful use of destructive tools.
You have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find your Prince/ss. So practice "Safe Kissing". A first date is never more than coffee at Starbucks.
So to a large extent, you are left with dregs (of both sexes), fortunately refreshed by ~one-half the people from breakups. But these "better" partners also tend to hook up fairly quickly, while the dregs just don't quit.
The solution to these poor odds is just numbers: scan quickly and without expectations that will cloud your judgement. Dating sites & their email systems make this very easy.
And whether they'd like theor own logs posted for all to see!
Very respectfully, I would have hoped that Germany had learned from its recent experience with the Stasi, and their predecessors from 70 years ago.
I wish people would quit misusing termsfor inflammatory purposes: piracy for unauthorized copying is one example. Censorship for editorial selection is another. _True_ censorship is not failing to publish whole works, but publishing them with the naughty bits cut out. Usually fairly small cuts to preserve a greater part of the authors work, but to twist it's meaning. It _is_ reprehensible, because it's simply theft of ideas.
Do _not_ mess with the govt. They have lots of arms. Pr0n is serious business and they would comply. They're mostly in it for the money.
Second, there is very little protection against corporate or governmental employee malfeasance, short of clearly criminal behaviour. Both hide under the doctrine of "vicarious liability" and escape personal consequences. Perhaps this doctrine should be made more porous or pierceable. This would serve as some counter-balance to defacto job security.
I don't think this ringfencing has been ruled unconstitutional.
Many things [like this] are completely different from first appearances.