And it just so happens to benefit transnational corporations tremendously. How do we, as citizens in the rich world, pull some benefit from this situation? If we can't, why would we allow it to continue?
Is there a legitimate reason to have a bomb strapped to your chest? One could argue that this is fairly good evidence of intent to go kill some people. Not so with guns, and the CP in the browser cache thing has already been mentioned.
please explain how this crosses the line into criminal conduct. From his perspective, it would be criminally negligent to turn over the passwords to a bunch of unknowns on a concall.
Of course, the truly badass way to do it would be to have a cron job somewhere that will automatically upload the passphrase to a website unless Assange manually intervenes on a regular basis, like an informational dead-man's-switch. (I'm just idly speculating. That last plan would be overkill, better suited to a movie or something.
To my knowledge, it's happened several places already, usually as a result of someone's attempt at technical job security.
Wow.. yea drivers here are awful. I heard on NPR that the worst drivers are those in the tech industry. I find that hard to believe since everyone on Slashdot goes the speed limit.;)
well, 1) it's common to have people in that situation use your network and 2) they had a moral expectation, I'm sure, but it's still pretty stupid not to back that up with some assurances. My guess is crappy government IT or they just don't get security and see the encrypted tunnel as a chore.
I've got accidental gun deaths at 10% of homicides, not 1% ?
And I've got it at about 100/year for the past decade or more. Really not a problem.
Do suicides and ganbangers not count as gun deaths ?
Of course they do. How are they relevant to the situation?
Anyway, my overall point (aside from this being irrelevant to the discussion on the whole) is that the murder rate is something like 3k/year for the whole country if you manage to stay out of the ghetto, so gun violence isn't particularly common around here. I'm just tired of the stereotype.
The great bulk of underage gun deaths are either suicide or gangbangers. 12 year old girls are almost completely absent from that count, save as random victims. In addition, the number of accidental shootings (the stereotypical 'hey look, it's dad's gun' scenario) runs about 100/year. In the grand scheme of things, it's a nonfactor.
most post secondaries are now teaching students how to properly thread for parallel programming.
No they aren't. Even grad courses are no substitute for doing it. Never mind that parallel processing is a different animal than SIMD-like models that most GPUs use.
I haven't had to deal with any of it myself, but I imagine it'll boil down to knowing what calculations in your program can be done simultaneously, and then setting up a way to dump it off onto the next available core.
No, it's not like that. you set up a warp of threads running the same code on different data and structure it for minimal branching. That's the thumbnail sketch - nvidia has some good tutorials on the subject and you can use your current GPU.
Perhaps your IQ isn't quite high enough then, since it is hard for you to conceive that.
Perhaps you haven't thought this through (heh). My IQ is absurd, and there are a lot of things that are obvious to me that I get to explain to others. Trying to think like someone who's merely smart is near impossible (no reference point), and talking about it often comes off as arrogant, so the only thing to do is deal with it as best you can.
The tone is hostile, so what? MS is behaving in a hostile fashion, so this is warranted. It's not like MS hasn't got a pattern of behavior in this area. Again, read the backstory before calling researchers whiny children.
Spoken like someone who knows nothing of the backstory. MS has a reputation for sitting on these sorts of things until their hand is forced, so the responsible thing is to skip the private notification step and force a resolution more quickly. This isn't malicious - it's just learning from the treatment of others.
Nowadays, if you give notice, the company will probably spend that time getting a gag order. Best to raise the flag, drop the blade, and watch the rolling head.
Oh please, the current feminist movement is campaigning for equal everything while carefully preserving the artifacts of the old world, where women were fragile things that required special handling. Basically, like any other political movement, they want to eat their cake and have it too.
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still believe in this misguided concept of 'trickle down'
That isn't a concept, it's a campaign slogan (really, I'm being serious for once)
And it just so happens to benefit transnational corporations tremendously. How do we, as citizens in the rich world, pull some benefit from this situation? If we can't, why would we allow it to continue?
Is there a legitimate reason to have a bomb strapped to your chest? One could argue that this is fairly good evidence of intent to go kill some people. Not so with guns, and the CP in the browser cache thing has already been mentioned.
The US goes for the letter of the law, with allowances sometimes made for not violating the spirit, so I don't see how this is relevant in any way.
Technicalities == details that I find inconvenient, right?
please explain how this crosses the line into criminal conduct. From his perspective, it would be criminally negligent to turn over the passwords to a bunch of unknowns on a concall.
Of course, the truly badass way to do it would be to have a cron job somewhere that will automatically upload the passphrase to a website unless Assange manually intervenes on a regular basis, like an informational dead-man's-switch. (I'm just idly speculating. That last plan would be overkill, better suited to a movie or something.
To my knowledge, it's happened several places already, usually as a result of someone's attempt at technical job security.
Wow.. yea drivers here are awful. I heard on NPR that the worst drivers are those in the tech industry. I find that hard to believe since everyone on Slashdot goes the speed limit. ;)
Speed limit's 80 now?
How about we shoot or burn any red light cameras we find? Replacing the camera should stimulate some business.
Maybe if the other news shows did their job, it wouldn't be so embarrassing...
well, 1) it's common to have people in that situation use your network and 2) they had a moral expectation, I'm sure, but it's still pretty stupid not to back that up with some assurances. My guess is crappy government IT or they just don't get security and see the encrypted tunnel as a chore.
Great, now I need to call the helldesk to install my dev software. Good thing I can get debug privs separate from admin access.
I've got accidental gun deaths at 10% of homicides, not 1% ?
And I've got it at about 100/year for the past decade or more. Really not a problem.
Do suicides and ganbangers not count as gun deaths ?
Of course they do. How are they relevant to the situation?
Anyway, my overall point (aside from this being irrelevant to the discussion on the whole) is that the murder rate is something like 3k/year for the whole country if you manage to stay out of the ghetto, so gun violence isn't particularly common around here. I'm just tired of the stereotype.
there's the pedosmile - once you recognize it, you can't not see it.
The great bulk of underage gun deaths are either suicide or gangbangers. 12 year old girls are almost completely absent from that count, save as random victims. In addition, the number of accidental shootings (the stereotypical 'hey look, it's dad's gun' scenario) runs about 100/year. In the grand scheme of things, it's a nonfactor.
most post secondaries are now teaching students how to properly thread for parallel programming.
No they aren't. Even grad courses are no substitute for doing it. Never mind that parallel processing is a different animal than SIMD-like models that most GPUs use.
I haven't had to deal with any of it myself, but I imagine it'll boil down to knowing what calculations in your program can be done simultaneously, and then setting up a way to dump it off onto the next available core.
No, it's not like that. you set up a warp of threads running the same code on different data and structure it for minimal branching. That's the thumbnail sketch - nvidia has some good tutorials on the subject and you can use your current GPU.
No, those are applications.
Nobody is arguing that Saddam was a decent guy, just that going in was a really bad mistake.
Everquest? That BS emotional IQ thing? Why not stop being clever and just say that teachers need to connect with their students?
Perhaps your IQ isn't quite high enough then, since it is hard for you to conceive that.
Perhaps you haven't thought this through (heh). My IQ is absurd, and there are a lot of things that are obvious to me that I get to explain to others. Trying to think like someone who's merely smart is near impossible (no reference point), and talking about it often comes off as arrogant, so the only thing to do is deal with it as best you can.
Ain't that the truth. Sad thing is, I want an Italian motorcycle :)
The tone is hostile, so what? MS is behaving in a hostile fashion, so this is warranted. It's not like MS hasn't got a pattern of behavior in this area. Again, read the backstory before calling researchers whiny children.
Spoken like someone who knows nothing of the backstory. MS has a reputation for sitting on these sorts of things until their hand is forced, so the responsible thing is to skip the private notification step and force a resolution more quickly. This isn't malicious - it's just learning from the treatment of others.
Nowadays, if you give notice, the company will probably spend that time getting a gag order. Best to raise the flag, drop the blade, and watch the rolling head.
Oh please, the current feminist movement is campaigning for equal everything while carefully preserving the artifacts of the old world, where women were fragile things that required special handling. Basically, like any other political movement, they want to eat their cake and have it too.