Depends on how you keep track of free blocks. It could be O(fragments) or O(filesize). Fragments are usually 1 in a well maintained or smart file-system.
Not attacking a shooter, _is_ putting yourself at risk. If someone has a gun, hide and stay calm and hope he isn't going to use it - if he is using it, you need to rush and overpower him. Hopefully you will live in a place where everybody hasn't been brainwashed from doing the same. Odds of one armed person agains 3 unarmed: One dead armed man, one wounded unarmed ( on average, assuming line-of-sight distances are under 10m).
Then he would have been nodding not slumped. People doesn't pass out in front of a wheel even if they are falling asleep. Hell, for some odd reason, most heart-attacks in cars doesn't occur until the cars has come to a halt, which means that heart-attacks in drivers is not a problem unless the car is an automatic. One more reason to bad automatic gears;)
I must say I am pleasantly surprised that State Farm paid Innes, instead of finding him at fault.
As has been pointed out elsewhere, he likely saved them a truck-load of money, as well as the life of someone they insure.
So, if the unconscious guy in the runaway truck had created the expected mayhem and crashed into someone, they would have had to pay out that settlement. And, if he died and had life insurance, they'd have to pay that.
I'm pretty sure this was overall a far better result than would have otherwise been expected. I suspect they would have a hard time finding the engineer at fault -- I'm sure some form of good samaritan law would apply as well... "yes your honour, I did smash up both cars, but I was doing it to save lives". At least, you'd like to hope that the law would be on his side.
Even if good samaritans laws doesn't apply, any case where human lives is involved means you can use emergency law. Emergency law is not as much a law as a state of law, like martial law, all laws can and must be broken if breaking them saves lives. I believe this is a pretty basic legal principle, but this is basic to danish and probably continental european law. I don't know if it applies to common law, and US law specifically.
Their data, which you agreed to allow them to sell when you signed up is like gold to marketing firms, stock brokers (if they can get trend information out quick enough), event planners, hell even university researchers use Facebook data for real science.
, spammers and identity thieves. So far Facebook has not been caught selling data to identify thieves, (though the thieves could be using a false identity), Facebook does sell data to spammers though and have no qualms about it. Add to that facebook is not the only one mining their users, many of the most popular apps have owners with even less regard to your privacy than facebook does.
Removing the cookie is not enough remove an ever-"cookie", it is not just a cookie, it is similar to cookie, but has multiple ways of storing itself, and if you remove the cookie part it will just recreate it based on one it's many other methods of storing user-data. The reason it is getting so much attention, is because it is really hard to get rid off, and you haven't even come close yet.
Private browsing, using a browser without the stupid HTML5 data-storage spec, disabling all caching, disabling flash, and perhaps a few extra tricks should do it though.
And what the hell is "HTML5 database storage"--and why would I want to give any app persistent storage? Seems like a great way to store malware...
The "HTML5" local storage idea is one of a few trojan horses embedded into HTML5. It is mostly ignored because no one actually is planning on implementing HTML5 in its entirety, but the pure evilness of the idea has made it one of the first that Safari has implemented, and yes: It is similar to cookies, only more powerful (so they more like hash brownies, really) and by being an "experimental" feature Safari is not giving you the option to disallow them or clear them. Nasty stuff.
FWIW, for FaceBook, Privacy is unprofitable which is a bigger sin in capitalism than something merely unethical .
It is not a sin, and there doesn't even have to be culture against it. There is naturally a strong selection bias against things unprofitable, which will inevitably force ideas with those properties out of the market. Don't attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by natural forces.
Huh? You want him to try to prove things that are impossible? That is a nice punishment, but I am afraid that the way you explain it, that other readers would think that what you wrote relates in some way to reality, which it doesn't.
When Linux is still more widely deployed than Mac OS X (*), it think it is fair to say the problems are overrated.
* Ok, I admit that is counting servers, and that Mac Desktop with it's 2% world wide has more users than Linux with its 1.6% world wide, but seriously.. It's not that big a difference.. Outside of the US ofcourse.
It's all about saving money and avoiding unpleasant surprises (patent trolls) after a standard is deployed. What the hell is wrong with that?
The international association of patent trolls takes offense at any legal moves that complicates the business of their clients. This is what this article is about.
It is not opt-out. It is opt-in! (for Christ sake)
There is a formal process to join the church, you have to swear that you actually believe in the church values before they will let you join. After the oath, the priest will typically splash water on your head to signify that you have now entered the church, this is called being baptised. If you are too young to take the oath yourself it is often said on your behalf by your parents or guardians but then it has to be repeated when you are around 13-14, where you are first giving several weeks of education so you know what you are saying yes to. This second opt-in is called confirmation.
So you not only have to opt-in, you have to do twice, and swear that you really believe in God, Jesus and the holy ghost, and THEN you get to pay church tax.
Income tax btw is completely a Christian tradition, kings used to fund themselves and their state using personal estates, trade tariffs and war loot. Income tax was later adopted by the secular state, especially in protestant countries where church and state was merged (the king being the leader of both church and state), therefore the distinction between the church and state doesn't make much sense everywhere because church and state often has NOT been officially separated again (though it might in Finland, since they are newer country with a more modern constitution).
I am not sure if they do the same in other EU countries, but in Denmark we just ignore the data retention regulation. It is common for apartments blocks to have their own intranet with shared internet essentially making them ISPs. When the regulation came out a few years ago there was a large panic on how to possibly abide by it. Fortunately all the large ISPs prepared the systems to do it, but never implemented them, the official stanze is: We are not going to implement these systems until forced to, and with no one else following the regulations, no one wants to be the first.
I assume than even baloon stations will be delivered on (real) trucks and during their inflation will be surrounded by a lot of balloon construction vehicles.
Only in the former soviet east europe, where enforced low prices created more demand than supply. In a free market where businesses are forced to makes as much profit as possible they would never set prices so low that they can not fullfill demand.... except as a gimmick... Then again by planting stories in newspapers, then even have to do that, they can just pretend that is what they have done...
In other words. Unless Apple is secretly communist, then this is a gimmick;)
Any company that couldn't figure out they should get off Carbon and migrate to Cocoa within ten years is too stupid to live.
I was about to argue that point, then I realized that both Final Cut and iTunes are in Carbon, which means you believe Apple is too stupid to live.. Kudos to you, you are smart little Apple-fan.
Except that all Commodore users had 5,25 inch floppies. Jealous much?
Hey!!! My C64 had casettes, thank you very much. Casettes with miles of soft tape. It didn't hurry things along like soft or hard floppies, it took a long time and there was much screaming involved in the process, but damned - it got the job done!
You'd save money by turning up the heat (or insulating your house.) Electric resistance heat is ridiculously expensive.
It is EXACTLY as expensive as any other electric heater.
Not that eletric heaters are the cheapest heat forms available, but many homes are heated by electricity and light bulbs are just as effective as any other electricty to heat converters.
6 results, 24 news articles - same number (I check it probably 6 times already today - one per each comment like yours). Not very impressive and below my personal threshold of belief at Google News.
Yeah, things happing in foreign countries are a hoax. France is probably not even a real country. I mean if this was real, it would be in English.... Right???
That doesn't seem that different, even back with Windows 2000 started the standard post-install/reinstall procedure: * Folder tweaking (show hidden files, file extensions, otherwise it was impossible to see if something was an executable, icon or whatever) * TweakUI to improve responsiveness of the UI (this is an official Microsoft tool though, just not shipped with OS). * Registry tweaking (In win2k and winxp only to disable auto-loading of all useless services installed by required crapware like DVD-players, file archives, PDF readers, etc.) * Enabling useful "eye-candy" (font antialiasing, and more), disable useless eye-candy (oversized borders, slow animations, etc).
So nothing much changed, it only got slightly worse.
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Depends on how you keep track of free blocks. It could be O(fragments) or O(filesize). Fragments are usually 1 in a well maintained or smart file-system.
Not attacking a shooter, _is_ putting yourself at risk. If someone has a gun, hide and stay calm and hope he isn't going to use it - if he is using it, you need to rush and overpower him. Hopefully you will live in a place where everybody hasn't been brainwashed from doing the same. Odds of one armed person agains 3 unarmed: One dead armed man, one wounded unarmed ( on average, assuming line-of-sight distances are under 10m).
Then he would have been nodding not slumped. People doesn't pass out in front of a wheel even if they are falling asleep. Hell, for some odd reason, most heart-attacks in cars doesn't occur until the cars has come to a halt, which means that heart-attacks in drivers is not a problem unless the car is an automatic. One more reason to bad automatic gears ;)
As has been pointed out elsewhere, he likely saved them a truck-load of money, as well as the life of someone they insure.
So, if the unconscious guy in the runaway truck had created the expected mayhem and crashed into someone, they would have had to pay out that settlement. And, if he died and had life insurance, they'd have to pay that.
I'm pretty sure this was overall a far better result than would have otherwise been expected. I suspect they would have a hard time finding the engineer at fault -- I'm sure some form of good samaritan law would apply as well ... "yes your honour, I did smash up both cars, but I was doing it to save lives". At least, you'd like to hope that the law would be on his side.
Even if good samaritans laws doesn't apply, any case where human lives is involved means you can use emergency law. Emergency law is not as much a law as a state of law, like martial law, all laws can and must be broken if breaking them saves lives. I believe this is a pretty basic legal principle, but this is basic to danish and probably continental european law. I don't know if it applies to common law, and US law specifically.
, spammers and identity thieves. So far Facebook has not been caught selling data to identify thieves, (though the thieves could be using a false identity), Facebook does sell data to spammers though and have no qualms about it. Add to that facebook is not the only one mining their users, many of the most popular apps have owners with even less regard to your privacy than facebook does.
Removing the cookie is not enough remove an ever-"cookie", it is not just a cookie, it is similar to cookie, but has multiple ways of storing itself, and if you remove the cookie part it will just recreate it based on one it's many other methods of storing user-data. The reason it is getting so much attention, is because it is really hard to get rid off, and you haven't even come close yet.
Private browsing, using a browser without the stupid HTML5 data-storage spec, disabling all caching, disabling flash, and perhaps a few extra tricks should do it though.
The "HTML5" local storage idea is one of a few trojan horses embedded into HTML5. It is mostly ignored because no one actually is planning on implementing HTML5 in its entirety, but the pure evilness of the idea has made it one of the first that Safari has implemented, and yes: It is similar to cookies, only more powerful (so they more like hash brownies, really) and by being an "experimental" feature Safari is not giving you the option to disallow them or clear them. Nasty stuff.
I think Zuckerberg managed to do exactly that... though that doesn't mean it is good idea.
It is not a sin, and there doesn't even have to be culture against it. There is naturally a strong selection bias against things unprofitable, which will inevitably force ideas with those properties out of the market. Don't attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by natural forces.
Huh? You want him to try to prove things that are impossible? That is a nice punishment, but I am afraid that the way you explain it, that other readers would think that what you wrote relates in some way to reality, which it doesn't.
When Linux is still more widely deployed than Mac OS X (*), it think it is fair to say the problems are overrated.
* Ok, I admit that is counting servers, and that Mac Desktop with it's 2% world wide has more users than Linux with its 1.6% world wide, but seriously.. It's not that big a difference.. Outside of the US ofcourse.
The international association of patent trolls takes offense at any legal moves that complicates the business of their clients. This is what this article is about.
It is not opt-out. It is opt-in! (for Christ sake)
There is a formal process to join the church, you have to swear that you actually believe in the church values before they will let you join. After the oath, the priest will typically splash water on your head to signify that you have now entered the church, this is called being baptised. If you are too young to take the oath yourself it is often said on your behalf by your parents or guardians but then it has to be repeated when you are around 13-14, where you are first giving several weeks of education so you know what you are saying yes to. This second opt-in is called confirmation.
So you not only have to opt-in, you have to do twice, and swear that you really believe in God, Jesus and the holy ghost, and THEN you get to pay church tax.
Income tax btw is completely a Christian tradition, kings used to fund themselves and their state using personal estates, trade tariffs and war loot. Income tax was later adopted by the secular state, especially in protestant countries where church and state was merged (the king being the leader of both church and state), therefore the distinction between the church and state doesn't make much sense everywhere because church and state often has NOT been officially separated again (though it might in Finland, since they are newer country with a more modern constitution).
I am not sure if they do the same in other EU countries, but in Denmark we just ignore the data retention regulation. It is common for apartments blocks to have their own intranet with shared internet essentially making them ISPs. When the regulation came out a few years ago there was a large panic on how to possibly abide by it. Fortunately all the large ISPs prepared the systems to do it, but never implemented them, the official stanze is: We are not going to implement these systems until forced to, and with no one else following the regulations, no one wants to be the first.
I assume than even baloon stations will be delivered on (real) trucks and during their inflation will be surrounded by a lot of balloon construction vehicles.
No, it seems destruction is not assured, so it is not MAD, unfortunately it appears to be MAX - Mutually Assued Crosslicensing :(
Only in the former soviet east europe, where enforced low prices created more demand than supply. In a free market where businesses are forced to makes as much profit as possible they would never set prices so low that they can not fullfill demand.... except as a gimmick... Then again by planting stories in newspapers, then even have to do that, they can just pretend that is what they have done...
In other words. Unless Apple is secretly communist, then this is a gimmick ;)
I don't think my insurrance covers the anti-terrorism team blowing my car up based on a tip I gave them
I was about to argue that point, then I realized that both Final Cut and iTunes are in Carbon, which means you believe Apple is too stupid to live.. Kudos to you, you are smart little Apple-fan.
Hey!!! My C64 had casettes, thank you very much. Casettes with miles of soft tape. It didn't hurry things along like soft or hard floppies, it took a long time and there was much screaming involved in the process, but damned - it got the job done!
True, that is obligatory. Map of the Internet
It is EXACTLY as expensive as any other electric heater.
Not that eletric heaters are the cheapest heat forms available, but many homes are heated by electricity and light bulbs are just as effective as any other electricty to heat converters.
Yeah, things happing in foreign countries are a hoax. France is probably not even a real country. I mean if this was real, it would be in English.... Right???
Idiot..
I doubt anyone in the honors program is able to adjust their behavior to any situation.
Being drunk like a pig reduce most peoples ability to evaluate social appriopiateness, and they ARE college students afterall.
That doesn't seem that different, even back with Windows 2000 started the standard post-install/reinstall procedure:
* Folder tweaking (show hidden files, file extensions, otherwise it was impossible to see if something was an executable, icon or whatever)
* TweakUI to improve responsiveness of the UI (this is an official Microsoft tool though, just not shipped with OS).
* Registry tweaking (In win2k and winxp only to disable auto-loading of all useless services installed by required crapware like DVD-players, file archives, PDF readers, etc.)
* Enabling useful "eye-candy" (font antialiasing, and more), disable useless eye-candy (oversized borders, slow animations, etc).
So nothing much changed, it only got slightly worse.