I hear this, that the US are a "christian" nations, but I must ask, which christians? The evangelists who are convinced all the catholics will burn in hell because they follow the pope, or the catholics who are convinced all the protestants will burn in hell because they don't follow the pope?
This strange belief that doing things "the hard way" is in some unfathomable way "better" has always been interesting to me.
A self-respecting coder is a strange beast indeed if it acts the way you describe it doing. A competent coder would just use any tool it has access to (including metasploit) in order to achieve its goals. A nice, competent coder would use this tool or any other to check the applications he uses or writes for security holes. Ignoring this tool because it's "too easy" is stupid.
And regarding those "self-respecting coders", I don't think they intersect much with the kind of malicious hackers who would be willing to use this exploit for nefarious reasons.
Even if it has errors, or is wrong, it's progress. At the very least, we have an incorrect proof we know is the wrong way. But most likely, we might still have new and interesting, possibly insightful ways of looking at the problem which could inspire others to find a proof, or maybe some partial results are applicable to certain fields.
That is entirely normal. Think about the Annus Mirabilis, and the consequences of Einstein's papers to modern life even now.
Who now routinely remembers what else happened in 1905, like the Russo-japanese war? Those events, although important, do not change the way we see the world the way relativity has. And yet in that year, more people certainly cared about that war than read (and understood!) Einstein's papers. Nowadays, even though few people care or may understand P ?= NP, if it is in fact proven today, in 100 years it will certainly have a greater impact on the way we see the world than the Iraqi war.
About the only organisation that never abused any of those is probably the Catholic Church. Unfortunately they support pedophiles, sexual abusers, and asking for favors from invisible friends in the sky.
That's weird. I'm a guy, all my characters are female, but I think I've had that happen to me once in the past 5 years, and that was on a low-level character in Goldshire.
Do not discount the effects of the consumerism mindset ("You have to buy rotten banana peels or the economy will fail!") combined with the psychological effect of marketing ("Buy now! Cheaper rotten banana peels than ever before! Your life isn't complete without a yearly supply for easy payments of 19.95$ + S&H!") and neighbouritis ("Honey, the neighbour already has banana peels, why don't we?") on what customers are willing to buy.
People who insist fidelity is a necessity for marriage and think founding a family and an exclusive sexual relationship obligatorily go together cause divorce.
I had the same thoughts. Then someone used the method used in the "Bible Code" on "War and Peace" and found similar results.
The fact is that in any corpus of significant size (and the writings of Plato that have been handed down to us from history are sizable) you can use similar methods to find anything you are looking for, it's actually statistically inevitable that you can find it.
I collided with a retarded validation system last year where I never managed to register with my real last name. The thing was filtering for "obscenities" and didn't like my last name (Asselin) because it begins with "ass".
This judgement is that the government must at the very least consider the alternatives like Linux in an "appel d'offres", a bid request, and evaluate if it is the better, cheaper alternative. Instead the government agency in question had purposefully derided and torpedoed the Linux option and made the bid request essentially "Microsoft product only", which the judge declared was illegal.
The judge didn't force the government to go with Linux, and indeed in many situations it would not make sense economically. But there are situations where it might, and this judgement simply says that the current do indeed require the government and governmental agencies to make efforts to enable a proper comparison of solutions.
Actually it should have said Windows Vista or equivalent.
RFPs from the Quebec government can specify products (say an HP server) but must accept equivalent products in the bid (an IBM or Dell server with the same characteristics and capabilities).
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I hear this, that the US are a "christian" nations, but I must ask, which christians? The evangelists who are convinced all the catholics will burn in hell because they follow the pope, or the catholics who are convinced all the protestants will burn in hell because they don't follow the pope?
"Who is this Jefferson you are quoting?"
- A Texas High School graduate.
This strange belief that doing things "the hard way" is in some unfathomable way "better" has always been interesting to me.
A self-respecting coder is a strange beast indeed if it acts the way you describe it doing. A competent coder would just use any tool it has access to (including metasploit) in order to achieve its goals. A nice, competent coder would use this tool or any other to check the applications he uses or writes for security holes. Ignoring this tool because it's "too easy" is stupid.
And regarding those "self-respecting coders", I don't think they intersect much with the kind of malicious hackers who would be willing to use this exploit for nefarious reasons.
No, that's the radio station you heard it on!
Even if it has errors, or is wrong, it's progress. At the very least, we have an incorrect proof we know is the wrong way. But most likely, we might still have new and interesting, possibly insightful ways of looking at the problem which could inspire others to find a proof, or maybe some partial results are applicable to certain fields.
That is entirely normal. Think about the Annus Mirabilis, and the consequences of Einstein's papers to modern life even now.
Who now routinely remembers what else happened in 1905, like the Russo-japanese war? Those events, although important, do not change the way we see the world the way relativity has. And yet in that year, more people certainly cared about that war than read (and understood!) Einstein's papers. Nowadays, even though few people care or may understand P ?= NP, if it is in fact proven today, in 100 years it will certainly have a greater impact on the way we see the world than the Iraqi war.
The city may be losing money, but the officials, judges and the people working in that system aren't.
About the only organisation that never abused any of those is probably the Catholic Church. Unfortunately they support pedophiles, sexual abusers, and asking for favors from invisible friends in the sky.
That's weird. I'm a guy, all my characters are female, but I think I've had that happen to me once in the past 5 years, and that was on a low-level character in Goldshire.
I've known a man doing #1 using a voice modification program passing for female for about 3 years to other players.
Do not discount the effects of the consumerism mindset ("You have to buy rotten banana peels or the economy will fail!") combined with the psychological effect of marketing ("Buy now! Cheaper rotten banana peels than ever before! Your life isn't complete without a yearly supply for easy payments of 19.95$ + S&H!") and neighbouritis ("Honey, the neighbour already has banana peels, why don't we?") on what customers are willing to buy.
AFAIK almost anything that can cure cancer will, in the wrong dosage also kill you, in most cases by giving you cancer.
Funny how it works :-)
People who insist fidelity is a necessity for marriage and think founding a family and an exclusive sexual relationship obligatorily go together cause divorce.
You are wrong.
I have a proof of that, but it's too long to type into this comment box.
I had the same thoughts. Then someone used the method used in the "Bible Code" on "War and Peace" and found similar results.
The fact is that in any corpus of significant size (and the writings of Plato that have been handed down to us from history are sizable) you can use similar methods to find anything you are looking for, it's actually statistically inevitable that you can find it.
I collided with a retarded validation system last year where I never managed to register with my real last name. The thing was filtering for "obscenities" and didn't like my last name (Asselin) because it begins with "ass".
ro or rw?
Enjoying your corporate oligarchy are you?
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Indeed, sovereign entity, considering that if you had the sum you'd have the 9th highest GDP in the world, just behind Brazil and above Spain.
Civil suit?
I haven't heard anyone sensible ask for a civil suit against BP. What we want is criminal charges brought against the corporation's leaders.
This judgement is that the government must at the very least consider the alternatives like Linux in an "appel d'offres", a bid request, and evaluate if it is the better, cheaper alternative. Instead the government agency in question had purposefully derided and torpedoed the Linux option and made the bid request essentially "Microsoft product only", which the judge declared was illegal.
The judge didn't force the government to go with Linux, and indeed in many situations it would not make sense economically. But there are situations where it might, and this judgement simply says that the current do indeed require the government and governmental agencies to make efforts to enable a proper comparison of solutions.
Actually it should have said Windows Vista or equivalent.
RFPs from the Quebec government can specify products (say an HP server) but must accept equivalent products in the bid (an IBM or Dell server with the same characteristics and capabilities).
Since heaven is a fantasy, then he obviously isn't going there. I vote for option #2.
That was also my thought.
The falsely prude american point of view is so hypocritical, too. I could write a long tirade on it, but I find it too disgusting.