Evolution is a FACT. Get that right, or the creationists will bury us in our own confusion. The mechanism that Darwin proposed (natural selection) is a theory.
The first part of 'On the Origin of Species' is deadly boring because Darwin went to a great deal of trouble to present an ironclad case for something completely obvious where two or three paragraphs might have done.
How true. IIRC, it was meant to gather information, not destroy it. I also recall that rate-limiting logic was present, but with such bad numerical assumptions as to be bogus.
Let's reiterate this one more time, and again and again until everyone gets it right:
copyright infringement != theft
copyright infringement != piracy
This is true even if the infringers are assholes like Diebold.
Boy do I feel stupid and misinformed. I must have, at some point in the past, taken a tutorial's reccommendation as gospel truth.
From http://docs.python.org/ref/indentation.html we have
At the beginning of each logical line, the line's indentation level is compared to the top of the stack. If it is equal, nothing happens. If it is larger, it is pushed on the stack, and one INDENT token is generated. If it is smaller, it must be one of the numbers occurring on the stack; all numbers on the stack that are larger are popped off, and for each number popped off a DEDENT token is generated.
I sit corrected, and now have to look at learning python next year instead of Tcl.
Look, I'm all for mandating readability (some scripts i've had to debug at work seem to be commented in Pure Acronymic Goo), but can we settle this once and for all? Forcing the indentation to (1) a fixed value of (2) two spaces was a dumb move.
(1) A possible way around this would have been to have an internal variable indicating the preferred number of spaces or tabs (think PERL's assignable record and word separators, $/ and $: ), but then you have to get everyone's editor and the python interpreter communicating with each other in some standardized way.
(2)It's been a while since I was in college, but I recall that the issue of indent spacing has been studied with values from one to eight: all other things being equal, four space indent results in the least errors per LOC.
OK, now I get to spend the day dodging flames. brb, got an asbestos tie in my closet.
I guess in my mad dash for brevity I lost a bit of clarity.
You're right, the world is not neatly divided into rich and poor, unless we go down the road of false dichotomies.
I wasn't trying to ignore other classes, just pointing out that class envy exists because class exists. Just let me go get my asbestos suit, be right back...:) About 1/3 of those reporting U.S. income in 2005 made less than 25,000. About 1/3 made more than 65,000. I know, a trichotomy isn't much better than a dichotomy, but it is better. Disclaimer: I'm Canadian, and we have socio-economic classes here, too.
BTW, my wife's a doctor and our family cars are a 2003 minivan and an Oldsmobile. This fat-cat doctor meme needs to die as the unjustified expression of class envy that it is.
This meme comes about because there is a fatcat class and a starvingmouse class. Doctors have a tendancy to be in the former.
What's so unjustified about expressing a real socio-economic distinction?
How the HELL did you get a BSc in mathematics without learning physics?
Geometry - setting up static load problems.
Calculus - too many to itemize. Area, rates, and vibrating things as starting points.
Linear Algebra - Optimization problems, filtering, translating co-ordinate systems.
Probability - Quantum ElectroDynamics.
Group theory / Abstract algebra - Quantum ChromoDynamics, and proof methodologies. Admittedly, engineers aren't usually interested in proof, just what works. However, physicists are generally uneasy about using mathematical techniques that lack proofs.
If I recall correctly, it was VisiCalc who first said, "Here's our spreadsheet software. And if anyone dies because some engineer actually trusted the results, don't come running to us." I'm open to correction on this.
You seem ignorant of history. The issues with the South American ( and Central American ) governments have been and are lethal, anti-democratic, and certainly not less evil. Please note that The School of the Americas has not disbanded, but merely been renamed to The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation.
Benevolent doesn't belong anywhere near this picture.
Any chance that the reset packets could be sent from someone else? If AT&T can send a reset packet that looks like it's from the person on BT you are communicating with, what's to stop other users from sending a similar packet[?]
Chances are less than slim that they'll get all these things right:
source IP
source port
destination IP [1]
destination port [2]
sequence number [3]
So don't hold your breath. If they can tell what hosts you are communicating with, they can determine everything else. They are either at an ISP or a backbone provider (or in your basement, if you're the paranoid type).
1. a freebie, we presume the forger knows the IP of the machine to interfere with
2. the destination port is straightforward to guess
3. the sequence number is easy to fake out due to widespread use of TCP size windows.
See http://kerneltrap.org/node/3072 for some math on it. It's still less than one in a billion without attracting attention to yourself on some level.
This has to be said explicitly rather than hinted at. That's an idiotic statement.
"It is rational to consider future enemy capabilities and try to preempt them."
You might get upset at me for holding a different opinion than you, and you might figure out how to weild a knife and become my enemy; is rational that I cut off both your hands right now? That should preempt you. How about because I might learn how to build a neutron bomb (I already know the math, but not the construction techniques), you break my lathe (fashioned primitively in my backyard) before I even start?
It wasn't preemption, it was murder. Operation Iraqi Freedom scanned a whole lot better than Largest Act of War Ever Even Counting What We Threw At Bin Laden. The decision to invade Iraq was made with the knowledge that the Iraqi standing army posed no serious threat to anyone. Period. Don't take my word for it, take
Colin Powell's.
You bring up the weak Iraqi missile program, and then explain why it wouldn't have been needed to deliver `WMD'. Drop one letter grade right there. Perhaps you didn't know that the missle program existed mostly on the back of cocktail napkins after initial attempts to break the 150 km limit were discovered and destroyed, see http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2004/01/07/AR2005040204936_5.html. But you completely forgot to mention that there were no WMD in Iraq at the time of the invasion, nor any long range missiles, and officials in both the White House and the Pentagon knew it.
You're mistaken. They are not "standing up for their right to break traffic laws", they're standing up for safer roads. The end result of putting in the cameras has been the government getting more money, the citizens getting less traffic police (and less money), and the roads demonstrably NOT getting safer. There's a problem with this, and that the problem has little to do with obeying or breaking traffic laws.
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Less ice in Greenland, thicker ice elsewhere.
Where is the [ -1, Scary ] mod when you need it?
You were afraid for weeks? How do you think the bees feel about it -all- -the- -time- ...
No there isn't.
Evolution is a FACT. Get that right, or the creationists will bury us in our own confusion. The mechanism that Darwin proposed (natural selection) is a theory.
The first part of 'On the Origin of Species' is deadly boring because Darwin went to a great deal of trouble to present an ironclad case for something completely obvious where two or three paragraphs might have done.
How true. IIRC, it was meant to gather information, not destroy it. I also recall that rate-limiting logic was present, but with such bad numerical assumptions as to be bogus.
Did nothing?? What planet were you on?
The machine took out more than a lot of mail servers, bringing them to a grinding halt for the duration.
Excuse me? That's the one blue C.
Your kung fu is better than mine.
Did you mean aleph--aught?
Let's reiterate this one more time, and again and again until everyone gets it right:
copyright infringement != theft
copyright infringement != piracy
This is true even if the infringers are assholes like Diebold.
"If you can't get the name right, what else are you getting wrong?" - a CBC announcer.
ISO 9660 anyone?
From http://docs.python.org/ref/indentation.html we have
I sit corrected, and now have to look at learning python next year instead of Tcl.
(1) A possible way around this would have been to have an internal variable indicating the preferred number of spaces or tabs (think PERL's assignable record and word separators, $/ and $: ), but then you have to get everyone's editor and the python interpreter communicating with each other in some standardized way.
(2)It's been a while since I was in college, but I recall that the issue of indent spacing has been studied with values from one to eight: all other things being equal, four space indent results in the least errors per LOC.
OK, now I get to spend the day dodging flames. brb, got an asbestos tie in my closet.
You're right, the world is not neatly divided into rich and poor, unless we go down the road of false dichotomies. I wasn't trying to ignore other classes, just pointing out that class envy exists because class exists. Just let me go get my asbestos suit, be right back...
Source: Visualizing Economics and I admit that I eyeballed the percentages.
This meme comes about because there is a fatcat class and a starvingmouse class. Doctors have a tendancy to be in the former.
What's so unjustified about expressing a real socio-economic distinction?
I think tgd did it wrong - even apologized.
Perhpas you could demonstrate for tgd (and the rest of us) how it's _really_ done?
If I recall correctly, it was VisiCalc who first said, "Here's our spreadsheet software. And if anyone dies because some engineer actually trusted the results, don't come running to us." I'm open to correction on this.
Benevolent doesn't belong anywhere near this picture.
So don't hold your breath. If they can tell what hosts you are communicating with, they can determine everything else. They are either at an ISP or a backbone provider (or in your basement, if you're the paranoid type).
1. a freebie, we presume the forger knows the IP of the machine to interfere with
See http://kerneltrap.org/node/3072 for some math on it. It's still less than one in a billion without attracting attention to yourself on some level.2. the destination port is straightforward to guess
3. the sequence number is easy to fake out due to widespread use of TCP size windows.
It wasn't preemption, it was murder. Operation Iraqi Freedom scanned a whole lot better than Largest Act of War Ever Even Counting What We Threw At Bin Laden. The decision to invade Iraq was made with the knowledge that the Iraqi standing army posed no serious threat to anyone. Period. Don't take my word for it, take Colin Powell's.
You bring up the weak Iraqi missile program, and then explain why it wouldn't have been needed to deliver `WMD'. Drop one letter grade right there. Perhaps you didn't know that the missle program existed mostly on the back of cocktail napkins after initial attempts to break the 150 km limit were discovered and destroyed, see http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2004/01/07/AR2005040204936_5.html. But you completely forgot to mention that there were no WMD in Iraq at the time of the invasion, nor any long range missiles, and officials in both the White House and the Pentagon knew it.
You're mistaken. They are not "standing up for their right to break traffic laws", they're standing up for safer roads. The end result of putting in the cameras has been the government getting more money, the citizens getting less traffic police (and less money), and the roads demonstrably NOT getting safer. There's a problem with this, and that the problem has little to do with obeying or breaking traffic laws.
No, they run NetBSD.