Someone, however, who knows the specificities of a dozen DB systems, how to integrate them, who knows how to set up LAMP systems, who codes PHP and/or Perl and/or Python, who also knows the specificities of HTML/CSS/Javascript under IE5/6/7/8, Firefox, Opera, Webkit, who knows the bundled systems a la Joomla, CMS, wordpress, in one word, someone who can setup your company's website quickly, is a valuable asset.
I have revised my opinion on webmasters. It is now a full-time job and an IT specialty. I used to think (and I was right in 2000) that I could become as knowledgeable as a webmonkey in a fistful of hours reading about CSS and HTML. Now this is not true anymore. I don't look down anymore on those people who can't code in C and don't even know what assembly code is. As a developer with a normal ego I still think that I could become a decent webwizard in a three months auto-teaching session, but I acknowledge them as peers in the IT profession. After all, when you know already your fair share of PHP and Javascript, learning Java, C and assembly doesn't take three months either.
Yes. They'll do it in several launches that they will buy from another company/organisation. Putting several tons on orbit is quite easy. I can't find any figure but I think that 1m2 of photovoltaic cells do not weight more than 100 grams. That makes a total of 20 tons. Not really unthinkable. Then they will own a facility that will be able to beam energy to any client anywhere on earth. Including remote islands, remote army bases, mountaintops, etc... Quite a profitable asset I think.
Oh, yes, and an orbital deathray also, which is quite high on the awesomeness scale.
Nuclear fuel is a fossil fuel : limited in quantity, stuck in some dictatorships' soil, produces dangerous wastes. Yes, it is still better than many other techniques and deserves to be praised but only as a transitional power toward solar power. Let's begin this Dyson sphere dammit !
Schneier is a computer security expert, not a geo-strategist, and he was wrong about Iran's lost connectivity a few months ago when we all discovered the high frequency of Internet cables malfunctions.
Somehow, I feel that if a game is good enough to make me go through the process of grabbing my credit card, going to the website, checking for traps, entering the number, etc... a price of 1$ or 15$ doesn't really make a difference.
10-15 is probably the good price range to maximize the number of copies sold. Lower won't make more under our current distribution methods.
Sharealike I can understand, but attribution ? Is that necessary ? Couldn't we just have CC-SA ? I don't care to not be credited for the typo fix I made on Nausicaa's articles or the "PENIS PENIS" I reverted on a Chinese history page...
Most of the government's defense is based on the PATRIOT act. It is one of the worst of Bush's legacy. I thought it would be repelled quite earlier. I am willing to think that Guantanamo is a mess it created and that it can be useful at fixing this mess, but really, the next thing to put governmental efforts on, once Guantanamo is closed, it to repel this shameful pack of laws.
Yep, that's right. 2004 was the highest temperature yet. Before that it was 1997 and yet before 1989. I suggest everyone to look at the graph and make your own conclusion. Some people will want to see that we have reached a peak and began a downward movement, others will see this as a normal part toward our regular rise.
After 4 years of decrease in temperature, we are still at a higher level than the 1880-1980 maximum. I'll seriously consider the global warming theory to be wrong when we will go below a +0.2 anomaly so still color me CO2-hostile
But still, the mass hysteria is really unsettling. People, it is less than a degree increase in a century, it will be a few meters of sea rise max. Yes it has far-reaching consequences, but sheesh, don't make life plans based on Al Gore's movie... I suppose that indifference or mass hysteria are the two only possible reaction for public opinion when confronted with a science subject.
The law was rejected in a vote. 21 no, 15 yes, about 10 no-votes. In an assembly of 577. I am ashamed of my own country. 90% of abstentees on this crucial law. It may be a victory for IT people, it is a defeat of our republican system.
Ok, my sentence was badly worded. But you got it. So here are some older sources : 400 dolphins stranded at zanzibar in 2006 Another one in UK in 2008.
Other cases are mentioned. About the Military not caring, well, in the first article you can read the navy spoke person stating :
"In the U.S. alone, a person is 10 times more likely to be struck by lightning than for sonar to cause a marine mammal stranding,". Such experiments help understanding what happens and help confront deniers.
You don't force a prisoner who is preparing a defense in a trial to watch such movies repeatedly.
Alternately, I am more angry about those marines because they are not doing their best to show prisoners that they were fighting in the wrong camp.
I am not sure that it would really help. It is just a matter of plugging on the good wire. If the protocols used aren't secure, it doesn't make much of a difference whether or not they are connected on the net. As soon as a network is necessary, internet is as good as any...
Be careful however. If the guy is used to spread false alarms, this could be pure coincidence. If he makes a prediction a day in a zone of heavy seismic ability, his predictions are of zero values. Maybe he just comes winning now that one prediction over dozens was right. Having a small earthquake right is no big feat in such a zone.
I can predict a 4.6 or bigger earthquake on April 7th in Japan with a fair chance of being right and if I predict a big one every week, I'll finally be right. I am not saying that this is what happened, I am saying that we need to know how many false alarms he spread before being right.
I'm safe : I noted locally the IPs of Google, Slashdot, the wikipedia, my mail servers and... hem... some sites. Sure they do change, but not every day. It will be enough for me to stay connected. Now that disk space is cheap. There should be a DNS mirror on most machines, it would greatly reduce our dependence on these main machines. Wasn't there a project to make a P2P DNS that exchanged cryptographically signed informations ?
Before a bad law is changed, it is often challenged first, it is first violated. I think that Google didn't follow a law that was pretty bad. On the scale of wrong illegal behaviors from companies that goes unpunished, it rates pretty low on my scope.
The people who made it a Google monopoly are those who signed a deal where no competitor could challenge Google. Was that an exclusivity deal ? If so that is stupid. But just slightly less than letting these works disappear.
This is strange... In every climate change report I have seen, people talk about the antarctic region as an anomaly (contrary to most of the globe's surface, temperatures are decreasing there). So how does this fit ? I first thought it was about the arctic region, which has seen quite some change these years, but the antarctic region ? Isn't it caused by some sort of tectonic activity like another poster suggested ?
Well, every other news site has a bit more context : no one ever believed that it really was a satellite launch. It was a missile test. But NK agreed to stop doing missiles test flight (Japan was not too happy with these prototype missiles flying over its territory). When it said it would put a satellite in orbit (a thing they are allowed to do) no one really believed it. The missile went a bit shorter than what it was expected (it could reach Alaska in theory)
Oh, and NK claims that it has successfully launched a satellite in orbit by the way...
Well, if it is all that it takes to denuclearize a country, well, it sounds like a fair prize...
But don't be too optimistic, it won't be as easy as you propose.
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Someone, however, who knows the specificities of a dozen DB systems, how to integrate them, who knows how to set up LAMP systems, who codes PHP and/or Perl and/or Python, who also knows the specificities of HTML/CSS/Javascript under IE5/6/7/8, Firefox, Opera, Webkit, who knows the bundled systems a la Joomla, CMS, wordpress, in one word, someone who can setup your company's website quickly, is a valuable asset.
I have revised my opinion on webmasters. It is now a full-time job and an IT specialty. I used to think (and I was right in 2000) that I could become as knowledgeable as a webmonkey in a fistful of hours reading about CSS and HTML. Now this is not true anymore. I don't look down anymore on those people who can't code in C and don't even know what assembly code is. As a developer with a normal ego I still think that I could become a decent webwizard in a three months auto-teaching session, but I acknowledge them as peers in the IT profession. After all, when you know already your fair share of PHP and Javascript, learning Java, C and assembly doesn't take three months either.
Yes. They'll do it in several launches that they will buy from another company/organisation. Putting several tons on orbit is quite easy. I can't find any figure but I think that 1m2 of photovoltaic cells do not weight more than 100 grams. That makes a total of 20 tons. Not really unthinkable. Then they will own a facility that will be able to beam energy to any client anywhere on earth. Including remote islands, remote army bases, mountaintops, etc... Quite a profitable asset I think.
Oh, yes, and an orbital deathray also, which is quite high on the awesomeness scale.
Nuclear fuel is a fossil fuel : limited in quantity, stuck in some dictatorships' soil, produces dangerous wastes. Yes, it is still better than many other techniques and deserves to be praised but only as a transitional power toward solar power. Let's begin this Dyson sphere dammit !
Maybe was it the first time they were confronted with a regression in free speech in a country where they operate...
Schneier is a computer security expert, not a geo-strategist, and he was wrong about Iran's lost connectivity a few months ago when we all discovered the high frequency of Internet cables malfunctions.
Somehow, I feel that if a game is good enough to make me go through the process of grabbing my credit card, going to the website, checking for traps, entering the number, etc... a price of 1$ or 15$ doesn't really make a difference.
10-15 is probably the good price range to maximize the number of copies sold. Lower won't make more under our current distribution methods.
Sharealike I can understand, but attribution ? Is that necessary ? Couldn't we just have CC-SA ? I don't care to not be credited for the typo fix I made on Nausicaa's articles or the "PENIS PENIS" I reverted on a Chinese history page...
Most of the government's defense is based on the PATRIOT act. It is one of the worst of Bush's legacy. I thought it would be repelled quite earlier. I am willing to think that Guantanamo is a mess it created and that it can be useful at fixing this mess, but really, the next thing to put governmental efforts on, once Guantanamo is closed, it to repel this shameful pack of laws.
Then, the wiretapping will become indefensible.
Yep, that's right. 2004 was the highest temperature yet. Before that it was 1997 and yet before 1989. I suggest everyone to look at the graph and make your own conclusion. Some people will want to see that we have reached a peak and began a downward movement, others will see this as a normal part toward our regular rise.
After 4 years of decrease in temperature, we are still at a higher level than the 1880-1980 maximum. I'll seriously consider the global warming theory to be wrong when we will go below a +0.2 anomaly so still color me CO2-hostile
But still, the mass hysteria is really unsettling. People, it is less than a degree increase in a century, it will be a few meters of sea rise max. Yes it has far-reaching consequences, but sheesh, don't make life plans based on Al Gore's movie... I suppose that indifference or mass hysteria are the two only possible reaction for public opinion when confronted with a science subject.
The law was rejected in a vote. 21 no, 15 yes, about 10 no-votes. In an assembly of 577. I am ashamed of my own country. 90% of abstentees on this crucial law. It may be a victory for IT people, it is a defeat of our republican system.
Ok, my sentence was badly worded. But you got it. So here are some older sources :
400 dolphins stranded at zanzibar in 2006
Another one in UK in 2008.
Other cases are mentioned. About the Military not caring, well, in the first article you can read the navy spoke person stating : "In the U.S. alone, a person is 10 times more likely to be struck by lightning than for sonar to cause a marine mammal stranding,". Such experiments help understanding what happens and help confront deniers.
You don't force a prisoner who is preparing a defense in a trial to watch such movies repeatedly.
Alternately, I am more angry about those marines because they are not doing their best to show prisoners that they were fighting in the wrong camp.
If that can help regulate the use of military sonars who seem to not care about mass-killing dolphins, I say it is worth it.
I am not sure that it would really help. It is just a matter of plugging on the good wire. If the protocols used aren't secure, it doesn't make much of a difference whether or not they are connected on the net. As soon as a network is necessary, internet is as good as any...
Actually, epic fails in communication have already resulted in major events (skip the first two paragraphs)
Why not ? I worked in an army lab that does that. One screen, one keyboard, one mouse, two PCs, a KVM switch.
Science : Don't believe it. Do it.
Be careful however. If the guy is used to spread false alarms, this could be pure coincidence. If he makes a prediction a day in a zone of heavy seismic ability, his predictions are of zero values. Maybe he just comes winning now that one prediction over dozens was right. Having a small earthquake right is no big feat in such a zone.
I can predict a 4.6 or bigger earthquake on April 7th in Japan with a fair chance of being right and if I predict a big one every week, I'll finally be right. I am not saying that this is what happened, I am saying that we need to know how many false alarms he spread before being right.
I'm safe : I noted locally the IPs of Google, Slashdot, the wikipedia, my mail servers and... hem... some sites. Sure they do change, but not every day. It will be enough for me to stay connected. Now that disk space is cheap. There should be a DNS mirror on most machines, it would greatly reduce our dependence on these main machines. Wasn't there a project to make a P2P DNS that exchanged cryptographically signed informations ?
Before a bad law is changed, it is often challenged first, it is first violated. I think that Google didn't follow a law that was pretty bad. On the scale of wrong illegal behaviors from companies that goes unpunished, it rates pretty low on my scope.
The people who made it a Google monopoly are those who signed a deal where no competitor could challenge Google. Was that an exclusivity deal ? If so that is stupid. But just slightly less than letting these works disappear.
To be considered like a journalist ?
There are already some memes in this form. Pieces of history ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkCNJRfSZBU
Leeeeeeroy !
This is strange... In every climate change report I have seen, people talk about the antarctic region as an anomaly (contrary to most of the globe's surface, temperatures are decreasing there). So how does this fit ? I first thought it was about the arctic region, which has seen quite some change these years, but the antarctic region ? Isn't it caused by some sort of tectonic activity like another poster suggested ?
Well, every other news site has a bit more context : no one ever believed that it really was a satellite launch. It was a missile test. But NK agreed to stop doing missiles test flight (Japan was not too happy with these prototype missiles flying over its territory). When it said it would put a satellite in orbit (a thing they are allowed to do) no one really believed it. The missile went a bit shorter than what it was expected (it could reach Alaska in theory)
Oh, and NK claims that it has successfully launched a satellite in orbit by the way...
Well, if it is all that it takes to denuclearize a country, well, it sounds like a fair prize...
But don't be too optimistic, it won't be as easy as you propose.