The Vatican will simply forgive themselves.... Thank you Oscar Wilde.
Jack. It pains me very much to have to speak frankly to you, Lady Bracknell, about your nephew, but the fact is that I do not approve at all of his moral character. I suspect him of being untruthful.
Lady Bracknell. Untruthful! My nephew Algernon? Impossible! He is an Oxonian.
Jack. I fear there can be no possible doubt about the matter. This afternoon during my temporary absence in London on an important question of romance, he obtained admission to my house by means of the false pretence of being my brother. Under an assumed name he drank, I’ve just been informed by my butler, an entire pint bottle of my Perrier-Jouet, Brut, ‘89; wine I was specially reserving for myself. Continuing his disgraceful deception, he succeeded in the course of the afternoon in alienating the affections of my only ward. He subsequently stayed to tea, and devoured every single muffin. And what makes his conduct all the more heartless is, that he was perfectly well aware from the first that I have no brother, that I never had a brother, and that I don’t intend to have a brother, not even of any kind. I distinctly told him so myself yesterday afternoon.
Lady Bracknell. Ahem! Mr. Worthing, after careful consideration I have decided entirely to overlook my nephew’s conduct to you.
I am somewhat interested in how many people will actually pay for a license; this might be a good way to estimate how many people who download unauthorized software would have paid for the software in the first place.
It's not a good estimate of how many people who download unauthorized software would have paid for the software in the first place. That number is zero, as the people who would have paid for the software in the first place did pay for the software in the first place (removing the need to download unauthorized software).
It's actually a new measurement, one that's long overdue. It's how many people will pay for an authorized copy without resorting to legal threats when caught using an unauthorized copy. Basically they know they've been caught with their hand in the cookie jar, and the options are to stop using the software or pay up. I'll wager a lot of them will pay up the moment they are caught, and only scofflaws and the destitute will continue to use said software without payment.
Spoiler alert! Every thing is genetic.
Everything everyone has ever done was determined by their genetics; that doesn't make infidelity less despicable.
Yeah, I can't wait till they find the gene therapy cure for starvation.
Just because Genetics has the promise to deliver a lot doesn't mean that everything is genetic. There's still a big bad environment out there, and I don't see a "hit by a car" gene or "poisoned by industrial waste" gene working its way into DNA anytime soon.
Step 1) Why only 60mph? Once you have evacuated the air in the tubes I don't see why there would be a speed limit, how about 600mph? Or 6000 mph?
Step 2) Now use it for general cargo.
Step 3) Now put humans in it. I can't help but think they are already thinking of this because a 2m (6 ft 6 inches) capsule is enough to fit most people. Unfortunately, squishy humans are limited to a around 1G of acceleration, but I love the idea of a 15 minute trip from New York to Washington DC.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that if this were really implemented in a major way, it would create the ideal system for a terrorist group to discretely deliver several hundred bombs simultaneously all cross a major city.
Don't worry, we will just ban food. That way we will be safe.
If it's such a free market, set up a TV station that doesn't play loud commercials. Oh wait, you can't because even the existence of TV stations require permission to broadcast which comes from the government. Free market my ass, every detail of what frequency range you can transmit in to how much power your station can output is regulated. You can't even legally say a few "choice" words on the air. You must comply with the emergency broadcast system. You will have to hire according to the current labor laws. Taxes. The list goes on and on...
Basically a "free" market idea exists in the University, where you are supposed to use it as a model to understand a particular point about Economics. It's not a high-fidelity simulation of any real market. Stop the religious belief in the model, learn the point being made, and then see how it can be applied. Many cases it is not the dominating factor in making a decision, but sometimes it is.
Think of the free market model like wind resistance in a physics problem. There's a lot of cases where wind resistance can change the outcome of the simulation; however, if it's an electricity problem, wind resistance really doesn't apply.
I'm sorry, how does "automated testing of the main line via a CI tool after the changes are committed to the main line" assure that your main line stays stable?
"Virtually stable" is not "stable". When you work for a financial services firm whose livelihood depends on the market data and trading systems your team builds, "virtually stable" is nowhere near "stable" and doesn't even begin to approach "good enough".
How are you going to know that the mainline is stable unless you are going to test it?
How are you going to ensure the testing was complete and consistently applied unless you're going to automate it?
You NEED CI to assure the testing is done as part of the process on every mainline check-in. You NEED it because it runs the suites of tests which PROVE the main line is stable.
If your test suite doesn't prove the mainline is stable, then it's a fault of the test suite, not the CI / build / automated testing systems.
Maybe he can go before he decides to redo the series again. Next time hell probably adding yoda and storm trooper teletubbies, and Han won't shoot at all, the bartender will intercede.
The key issue isn't "there was more that could be done." They key issue is that "they did even less than what the normally do."
If you are taking on a high-risk project, and you do even less preparation than you typically do for a low-risk project, you can be proved negligent. If you "just" did what you normally do, then you might have "only" lacked foresight.
Now - they basically want to do the same thing with Face, I assume. No social networking site Can be Face'x'. I don't think the lawyers would be stupid to try and defend its trademark outside the realm of which the company operates.
So I can open an online book store that puts you directly in contact with authors via video streaming and call it "facebook"? Not likely.
I can tell you from working in a dosimetry lab that exposure to radioisotopes over a six month period is not equivalent to the same amount of exposure in one day.
We were developing those film badges that doctors wear, when we got an emergency call. A newly minted MD was flirting with a cute nurse to the point he had been warned by his superiors for lack of actually doing his job. When he saw the bosses coming around the corner, he ducked into a closet. A closet with a two foot by two foot sign saying "WARNING Radioisotopes". He got a full year's exposure in about three minutes.
I don't know if he survived, but once he started feeling bad, he stepped out, read the door, and started vomiting. Fortunately, he was in a hospital and had the good sense to be admitted immediately.
Intense short term exposure is not the same as exposure over time. Hence the match analogy.
Thank you. I just realized a minute ago the mistake of not converting l to m^3. Still, it's a lot more than than the exposure rate at 30,000 feet. 36.8*90 = 3312 times more per second.
But unlike the 3 minutes at 30,000 feet, the radiation is lower power, designed to scatter off your skin.
That means that 3 minutes a 30,000 feet your entire body (insides included) is hit with the same amount of power: in a scanner only your surface area (skin) is hit with 3 minutes of radiation exposure at 30,000 feet in just under two seconds.
Assuming that the radiation needs to penetrate 1 mm or less to scatter, an average male's body surface area is 1.9 m^2 (165 lbs 5'9") making an exposure area of 0.0019 m^3
Likewise an average male weights about 75 kg (165 pounds) with an average conversion factor of 1.015 kg/l coming with a rough value of 70 l for an average male's volume.
A little math and you find out that (0.0019/70) the entire in machine dose is hitting only 1/36842 of your body, or about 0.0027% of your body.
Normalizing for exposure per second E = Rate(at 30000)*180(seconds), and E = Rate2(in machine)*2(seconds). Leads to Rate(at 30000)*180(seconds) = Rate2(in machine)*2(seconds). A little more math, an you realize that the rate of exposure is 90 times faster in the machine.
90 times faster exposure of only 0.0027% of your body means that the "only three minutes" argument is true, but misleading. Such things can only happen in a culture where most people are mathematically illiterate.
To make a mathematical analogy. Assume the exposure in the air is like having a match light each second. You feel the heat of one match for 180 seconds. Then standing in such a machine is like being exposed to 36841 matches being lit 90 time a second for 2 seconds. That's 3315690 matches per second for 2 seconds. It's a 3 million plus fold increase in exposure rate.
By the way, 1 million matches lit creates a fire column 3 to 5 meters in size over 10 meters tall. For the Americans, that's 10 to 16 feet wide and over 40 feet tall. I don't want to know how how big the fire column would be for a 3.3 million match lighting experiment.
Nigel Tufnel: My RAID array are all RAID-11. Look, right across the rack, RAID-11, RAID-11, RAID-11and...
Marty DiBergi: Oh, I see. And most arrays go up to RAID-10?
Nigel Tufnel: Exactly.
Marty DiBergi: Does that mean it's faster? Is it any faster?
Nigel Tufnel: Well, it's one faster, isn't it? It's not RAID-10. You see, most blokes, you know, will be serving files at RAID-10. You're on RAID-10 here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on RAID-10 on your database backup. Where can you go from there? Where?
Marty DiBergi: I don't know.
Nigel Tufnel: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?
Marty DiBergi: Put it up to RAID-11.
Nigel Tufnel: RAID-11. Exactly. One faster.
Marty DiBergi: Why don't you just make RAID-10 faster and make RAID-10 be the top performer and make that a little faster?
Nigel Tufnel: [pause] These go to RAID-11.
What do they mean by "enforce federal cybersecurity standards"?
If that just means new security standards that companies have to meet, then I can't see the harm in that
Demanding exclusive admin access? Now it's complicated.
I think it means two second turnaround time on an unauthorized illegal wiretap. Possibly it means a "data retention" policy of holding all data for two years as DHS can't figure out what they want to access, yet.
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The Vatican will simply forgive themselves.... Thank you Oscar Wilde.
Jack. It pains me very much to have to speak frankly to you, Lady Bracknell, about your nephew, but the fact is that I do not approve at all of his moral character. I suspect him of being untruthful.
Lady Bracknell. Untruthful! My nephew Algernon? Impossible! He is an Oxonian.
Jack. I fear there can be no possible doubt about the matter. This afternoon during my temporary absence in London on an important question of romance, he obtained admission to my house by means of the false pretence of being my brother. Under an assumed name he drank, I’ve just been informed by my butler, an entire pint bottle of my Perrier-Jouet, Brut, ‘89; wine I was specially reserving for myself. Continuing his disgraceful deception, he succeeded in the course of the afternoon in alienating the affections of my only ward. He subsequently stayed to tea, and devoured every single muffin. And what makes his conduct all the more heartless is, that he was perfectly well aware from the first that I have no brother, that I never had a brother, and that I don’t intend to have a brother, not even of any kind. I distinctly told him so myself yesterday afternoon.
Lady Bracknell. Ahem! Mr. Worthing, after careful consideration I have decided entirely to overlook my nephew’s conduct to you.
If you landmine idiots, it just drives evolutionary pressure to creating landmine-proof idiots.
I am somewhat interested in how many people will actually pay for a license; this might be a good way to estimate how many people who download unauthorized software would have paid for the software in the first place.
It's not a good estimate of how many people who download unauthorized software would have paid for the software in the first place. That number is zero, as the people who would have paid for the software in the first place did pay for the software in the first place (removing the need to download unauthorized software).
It's actually a new measurement, one that's long overdue. It's how many people will pay for an authorized copy without resorting to legal threats when caught using an unauthorized copy. Basically they know they've been caught with their hand in the cookie jar, and the options are to stop using the software or pay up. I'll wager a lot of them will pay up the moment they are caught, and only scofflaws and the destitute will continue to use said software without payment.
Spoiler alert! Every thing is genetic. Everything everyone has ever done was determined by their genetics; that doesn't make infidelity less despicable.
Yeah, I can't wait till they find the gene therapy cure for starvation.
Just because Genetics has the promise to deliver a lot doesn't mean that everything is genetic. There's still a big bad environment out there, and I don't see a "hit by a car" gene or "poisoned by industrial waste" gene working its way into DNA anytime soon.
Step 1) Why only 60mph? Once you have evacuated the air in the tubes I don't see why there would be a speed limit, how about 600mph? Or 6000 mph?
Step 2) Now use it for general cargo.
Step 3) Now put humans in it. I can't help but think they are already thinking of this because a 2m (6 ft 6 inches) capsule is enough to fit most people. Unfortunately, squishy humans are limited to a around 1G of acceleration, but I love the idea of a 15 minute trip from New York to Washington DC.
1) Inertia in the corners?
2) Uncertainty concerning package size?
3) The need for life support?
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that if this were really implemented in a major way, it would create the ideal system for a terrorist group to discretely deliver several hundred bombs simultaneously all cross a major city.
Don't worry, we will just ban food. That way we will be safe.
If it's such a free market, set up a TV station that doesn't play loud commercials. Oh wait, you can't because even the existence of TV stations require permission to broadcast which comes from the government. Free market my ass, every detail of what frequency range you can transmit in to how much power your station can output is regulated. You can't even legally say a few "choice" words on the air. You must comply with the emergency broadcast system. You will have to hire according to the current labor laws. Taxes. The list goes on and on...
Basically a "free" market idea exists in the University, where you are supposed to use it as a model to understand a particular point about Economics. It's not a high-fidelity simulation of any real market. Stop the religious belief in the model, learn the point being made, and then see how it can be applied. Many cases it is not the dominating factor in making a decision, but sometimes it is.
Think of the free market model like wind resistance in a physics problem. There's a lot of cases where wind resistance can change the outcome of the simulation; however, if it's an electricity problem, wind resistance really doesn't apply.
Finally they've developed a memory that can keep those race conditions perfect!
Early next year is only five weeks away.
I'm sorry, how does "automated testing of the main line via a CI tool after the changes are committed to the main line" assure that your main line stays stable?
"Virtually stable" is not "stable". When you work for a financial services firm whose livelihood depends on the market data and trading systems your team builds, "virtually stable" is nowhere near "stable" and doesn't even begin to approach "good enough".
How are you going to know that the mainline is stable unless you are going to test it?
How are you going to ensure the testing was complete and consistently applied unless you're going to automate it?
You NEED CI to assure the testing is done as part of the process on every mainline check-in. You NEED it because it runs the suites of tests which PROVE the main line is stable.
If your test suite doesn't prove the mainline is stable, then it's a fault of the test suite, not the CI / build / automated testing systems.
Maybe he can go before he decides to redo the series again. Next time hell probably adding yoda and storm trooper teletubbies, and Han won't shoot at all, the bartender will intercede.
How do you run a deficit without generating debt?
Leprechauns
The key issue isn't "there was more that could be done." They key issue is that "they did even less than what the normally do."
If you are taking on a high-risk project, and you do even less preparation than you typically do for a low-risk project, you can be proved negligent. If you "just" did what you normally do, then you might have "only" lacked foresight.
Strike that, reverse it.
...
Now - they basically want to do the same thing with Face, I assume. No social networking site Can be Face'x'. I don't think the lawyers would be stupid to try and defend its trademark outside the realm of which the company operates.
So I can open an online book store that puts you directly in contact with authors via video streaming and call it "facebook"? Not likely.
Not W. C. Fields, although he did have a movie "Never give a sucker an even break."
"A sucker born every minute" was a call to ridicule P. T. Barnum's slogan of "There's a customer born every minute."
I think by definition Captain Hindsight is incapable of saving anyone.
If only we could have known!
Learn vicariously through others my friend. It's safer. Look up the mythbusters demonstration.
I can tell you from working in a dosimetry lab that exposure to radioisotopes over a six month period is not equivalent to the same amount of exposure in one day.
We were developing those film badges that doctors wear, when we got an emergency call. A newly minted MD was flirting with a cute nurse to the point he had been warned by his superiors for lack of actually doing his job. When he saw the bosses coming around the corner, he ducked into a closet. A closet with a two foot by two foot sign saying "WARNING Radioisotopes". He got a full year's exposure in about three minutes.
I don't know if he survived, but once he started feeling bad, he stepped out, read the door, and started vomiting. Fortunately, he was in a hospital and had the good sense to be admitted immediately.
Intense short term exposure is not the same as exposure over time. Hence the match analogy.
Thank you. I just realized a minute ago the mistake of not converting l to m^3. Still, it's a lot more than than the exposure rate at 30,000 feet. 36.8*90 = 3312 times more per second.
But unlike the 3 minutes at 30,000 feet, the radiation is lower power, designed to scatter off your skin.
That means that 3 minutes a 30,000 feet your entire body (insides included) is hit with the same amount of power: in a scanner only your surface area (skin) is hit with 3 minutes of radiation exposure at 30,000 feet in just under two seconds.
Assuming that the radiation needs to penetrate 1 mm or less to scatter, an average male's body surface area is 1.9 m^2 (165 lbs 5'9") making an exposure area of 0.0019 m^3
Likewise an average male weights about 75 kg (165 pounds) with an average conversion factor of 1.015 kg/l coming with a rough value of 70 l for an average male's volume.
A little math and you find out that (0.0019/70) the entire in machine dose is hitting only 1/36842 of your body, or about 0.0027% of your body.
Normalizing for exposure per second E = Rate(at 30000)*180(seconds), and E = Rate2(in machine)*2(seconds). Leads to Rate(at 30000)*180(seconds) = Rate2(in machine)*2(seconds). A little more math, an you realize that the rate of exposure is 90 times faster in the machine.
90 times faster exposure of only 0.0027% of your body means that the "only three minutes" argument is true, but misleading. Such things can only happen in a culture where most people are mathematically illiterate.
To make a mathematical analogy. Assume the exposure in the air is like having a match light each second. You feel the heat of one match for 180 seconds. Then standing in such a machine is like being exposed to 36841 matches being lit 90 time a second for 2 seconds. That's 3315690 matches per second for 2 seconds. It's a 3 million plus fold increase in exposure rate.
By the way, 1 million matches lit creates a fire column 3 to 5 meters in size over 10 meters tall. For the Americans, that's 10 to 16 feet wide and over 40 feet tall. I don't want to know how how big the fire column would be for a 3.3 million match lighting experiment.
Just put a Gateway 2000 sticker on it.
And a "Windows ME" sticker next to the Gateway one.
I guess you don't care about your vehicle's resale value.
Any dog would have looked at the Oxford Scientist and thought, "Well, of course! Any dog knows that."
A homage to Spinal tap:
Nigel Tufnel: My RAID array are all RAID-11. Look, right across the rack, RAID-11, RAID-11, RAID-11and...
Marty DiBergi: Oh, I see. And most arrays go up to RAID-10?
Nigel Tufnel: Exactly.
Marty DiBergi: Does that mean it's faster? Is it any faster?
Nigel Tufnel: Well, it's one faster, isn't it? It's not RAID-10. You see, most blokes, you know, will be serving files at RAID-10. You're on RAID-10 here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on RAID-10 on your database backup. Where can you go from there? Where?
Marty DiBergi: I don't know.
Nigel Tufnel: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?
Marty DiBergi: Put it up to RAID-11.
Nigel Tufnel: RAID-11. Exactly. One faster.
Marty DiBergi: Why don't you just make RAID-10 faster and make RAID-10 be the top performer and make that a little faster?
Nigel Tufnel: [pause] These go to RAID-11.
What do they mean by "enforce federal cybersecurity standards"?
If that just means new security standards that companies have to meet, then I can't see the harm in that
Demanding exclusive admin access? Now it's complicated.
I think it means two second turnaround time on an unauthorized illegal wiretap. Possibly it means a "data retention" policy of holding all data for two years as DHS can't figure out what they want to access, yet.