They often create laws just so they have more stuff to charge you with. For instance if you rob a store with a hand gun wearing a mask, they can change you with A) robbing the store, B) Committing a felony with a gun, even if the gun was not fired C) Wearing a mask while commiting a crime. There's probably some other things they could charge you with. Really all you did was rob a store, and use a weapon to intimidate the person. The mask was to try to stop them from catching you. But they are able to charge you with 3 things what is effectively 1 crime. The fact that crimes exist that are only crimes when done in conjunction with another crime shows that they are crimes. You are allowed to wear a mask and have a gun. But if you are doing these things while commiting a crime, they are also crimes. Seems like things just to lay more charges and have longer jail times.
Yes, if they just took their numbers and plotted a single data point for each week, with the sum, instead of putting a datapoint for each day, it would solve most of their problems. A neat thing that this shows, is that most of the searches are done during the week, when we are working. Does this lead us to believe that people really do spend all their time at work, just browsing the internet?
I think we should start a distributed computing project to get weird searches on next years list. Stuff like "How do I join al qaeda" or "What is 1+1" or "HEIRHENO#*(_#()*_#". It would be interesting to see how many searches would need to be done to take down the searches.
4) I said it would be nice if they had the option. It wouldn't take that much effort to implement, and it would let them see how much interest there really is in a system like this. They would only send out signed/encrypted emails to those who opted in, and send the regular old emails to everyone else. They'd just have to have a way of letting people know about the new feature. A story on slashdot would probably go a long way in notifying interested people.
You like all the other people in favour of ID fail to realize the difference between "Scientific Theory" and "Theory" and "Cockamamie Theory". Scientific theories have to stand up to tests, and have to match what actually happens in real life. I could say that I have a theory that the earth was built by thousands of elves. But there's no hard evidence to prove this. It's just an idea I thought up. There's lots of evidence to backup evolution. There is no evidence backing up ID. Just because we don't fully understand evolution, doesn't mean that ID is the explanation. We used to not understand how the earth orbits the sun, so we said this mercury guy dragged it accross the sky in a chariot, even though we had no proof of this either. Just because we can't explain something, doesn't mean that it is proof that God, or another inteligent being did it.
It does. It's called PGP. The problem is, nobody uses it. Most webmail clients don't work well with it, how could they? they'd need to store your private key, which I wouldn't trust any free webmail client with. I'm surprised that EBay and Paypal don't support PGP encrypted/signed email. I get tons of phishing messages with their names on it. They also send out a lot of email, as it's often the only way to communicate with their customers. I think it would help out their customers a lot if they provided a way to verify that a message was actually from Paypal/Ebay. Maybe not everyone would be savvy enough to take advantage of it, but it would be nice for those who knew how it worked.
That's not something you should blame on open source software. You should either blame the developers of the website that only works on IE, or blame it on Microsoft for making a browser that is not standards compliant. In the case where saying firefox can't work with an IE only website, well, that's really not Mozilla's fault. Maybe it's activeX, maybe it's something else. You can't expect Mozilla to copy ActiveX, or some other non-standard technology that microsoft has built into the web browser. And maybe you shouldn't have bought into a solution that relies on some proprietary piece of software. It really sucks that many things require Microsoft products to work, even though we know that they don't need MS to program similar software. The best thing we can do is to stop buying solutions that require things such as IE and MS Office.
But this really doesn't help at all in cryptography. So we can spend thousands of computing hours finding big primes with known algorithms. What we really need would either be new algorithms which could find large primes as this, or a new algorithm to factor large primes in order to defeat encryption. Another thought is, what use for encryption is using large primes such as these. If we decide we are now using 1,000,000 bit primes for encryption, because we have an easy way of finding them, then maybe encryption would be easier to break. As the size of the prime number gets bigger, the number of primes of that size also decrease. If we are using primes so big, that there are only 100 prime number to use of that size, couldn't they just figure out all the possible numbers that are products of those primes, by multiplying each prime by each of the other primes? It probably wouldn't take much to multiply 100 numbers by 99 other numbers, no matter how big the numbers were.
1. Many companies buy computers and don't touch them and don't install any new software. They run windows update once a week, and their computers stay relatively stable. They just type up documents.
2. Depending on where you work, there may or may not be 1 computer per person. Think of a grocery store, there's a computer at every checkout, and maybe a couple in the office. But there is far from every employee using their own computer. It works the same in many other non-computer oriented businesses.
3. Many computers don't require a network. It's probably best that you keep them off a network unless absolutely necessary in order to avoid getting infected by network viruses, or having employees waste time on the internet.
4. Again this depends on what percenage of your staff can't work without a computer. Not all businesses have all staff on computers.
Obviously if you have 100 staff, and 100 computers, you should probably hire someone to look after them, but if you have 100 staff and 10 computers maybe not. It's based on the best interests of the company. Not every company with computers needs someone full time to work on them.
That really depends on where you work. In Canada (ontario at least), daycare workers can make as little as $8 an hour (minimum wage) to as much as $20 per hour, depending on which daycare they work in, and what responsibilities they have, such as being a head teacher. They also may get benefits, and often get lots of vacation and sick time, as their work as stressful, and being around sick kids all day tends to make you sick more often. It's only 2 years of college, and if you like the work, it isn't all that bad. Many daycares also provide 2 free snacks and a healthy lunch each day, because they are feeding the kids anyway.
It's not that she's a girl, it's that she's a person. Many computer geeks think they are all that, and won't take anybody elses opinion, regardless of their gender.
Actually, i've heard about this. My GF works in daycare, and although nobody has reactions like you mentioned, parents do think it's a little weird, and sometimes have a few issues with male daycare workers. I wonder if there's any statistics showing how many men are child molesters compared to women, and if their fears actually do have any justification. Not that it matters, since they do a police check before they let you work in daycare. At least in Canada.
Also, they rarely ever talk about the lack of men in female dominated jobs. Some of these fields are pretty stable, and growing. Think of nursing, daycare, and many other female dominated professions. Maybe it's just that women aren't interested in computers, just like men aren't interested in taking care of children.
Exactly. A photocopier is just a tool, most places don't have people who know how to fix them, or even use them properly. Only big organizations with many photocopiers can afford to have someone on staff that knows how to fix them. It works the same way with computers. Many companies don't have enough computers or enough problems with them to make it worthwile to have an employee, or department devoted to it. It's just easier/cheaper for them to call in someone else when they need something fixed or set up.
I'm pretty sure that graphics are not part of the code, and therefore aren't covered by the GPL. Most of the time, icons in free software are covered by the Creative Commons License, and therefore, I think, Microsoft would have no legal problems using them, and not releasing their source code.
Really? Because it could just as well stand for Information Security. Or Informix Systems. Or Instant Satisfaction. There's nothing in the text about what "IS" is suppose to stand for. I don't really see how Information Systems fits in with the context. Information Systems main job isn't really connectivity. That's really more the job of the networking people who connect the information systems together. Information Systems should only have to deal with setting up systems to provide information, and not really with connecting them to the rest of the company.
This really won't solve anything. All it will do is raise prices for consumers who have to buy new stuff. The manufacturers will pass the costs on to the customers. Meanwhile, all the old equipment will continue to be used for another 100 years to break their system. There's some really old electronics that still work, and there's no reason why they couldn't continue to work, for many years to come. I'd like to see the cost of implementing this on cheap (read $50 and under) video devices, in a way that couldn't be tampered with. If you can just get a mod chip to bypass the system, or maybe even just solder a few connections, what will be the use of the law. And what will be the effects when only US electronics need to have the system in place. Could there be tons of Americans jumping the Canadian border, to get their hands on unprotected canadian merchandise?
The other issue is that many of these Dell and Gateway boxes ship with 256 MB RAM. So, not only do they have less Memory than we all know they should, but they are wasting it all running tons of processes that people don't need. You could probably have a Dell box running pretty good on 256 MB if you disable all the stuff that you didn't need, but with all the junk they have installed, which most people don't know how to disable, it's no wonder people think they need a $2000 PC just to get it to run quickly. You should be able to buy the $500 machine, and it should fly. But instead, they bog it down with tons of crap. I think the reason that Bill Gates' dream of a PC on every desk hasn't really become true is because people still think you have to spend thousands of dollars to get a useable PC.
Infogrames also made the Alone In The Dark Games. At least the first 2 or 3, when they were really good. Every game production company has their good games, and their bad games.
5 years maybe, but what about 20 years, what about 30 years. Obviously it takes some time to learn the stuff and get into the groove, but eventually that levels off, and you aren't doing more than anyone else. With programming, obviously you can offer a lot if you've been with the same company for many years. But what about moving to a new company, where you aren't as familiar with the code, and may not be as useful to the company to someone who's already been around 5 years. With things like driving a bus, it may take 4 or 5 years to get really good at it, but at some point you plateau. And since you run a schedule, as long as you keep to that schedule, and don't get in any accidents, and are nice to the passengers, you're pretty much doing about as much for the company as you can. Obviously they should be making more than the new guys, but eventually you should reach some sort of limit.
The problem is that everyone, not just programmers, expects to be getting paid a lot of money, just because they've been doing their job a long time. Take a look a bus drivers. They get a raise every year, and by the end of their career are making twice as much as the newer guys. Are they really bringing any more to the organization just because they've been doing it longer? Obviously in programming it helps you to provide more for a company once you've been around a while, but eventually you top out in what you provide to the company, and therefore so should your salary. Similarly, if you start at a new company, you may be less useful than those who although they have only been programming 5 years, all of it has been with that company, and they are able to provide a lot to the company. If you're doing the exact same thing you were doing 5 years ago, what makes you think you should be getting more than cost of living increases every year?
Viewtiful Joe is a nice 2D game if you're looking for one. I think there's a couple other 2D games out there. If you want to go back to 2D, you might want to try This controller haven't tried it myself, but it looks like it would be good for all those old-style games that don't require analog control, and where analog controls end up causing more harm than good.
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They often create laws just so they have more stuff to charge you with. For instance if you rob a store with a hand gun wearing a mask, they can change you with A) robbing the store, B) Committing a felony with a gun, even if the gun was not fired C) Wearing a mask while commiting a crime. There's probably some other things they could charge you with. Really all you did was rob a store, and use a weapon to intimidate the person. The mask was to try to stop them from catching you. But they are able to charge you with 3 things what is effectively 1 crime. The fact that crimes exist that are only crimes when done in conjunction with another crime shows that they are crimes. You are allowed to wear a mask and have a gun. But if you are doing these things while commiting a crime, they are also crimes. Seems like things just to lay more charges and have longer jail times.
Yes, if they just took their numbers and plotted a single data point for each week, with the sum, instead of putting a datapoint for each day, it would solve most of their problems. A neat thing that this shows, is that most of the searches are done during the week, when we are working. Does this lead us to believe that people really do spend all their time at work, just browsing the internet?
I think we should start a distributed computing project to get weird searches on next years list. Stuff like "How do I join al qaeda" or "What is 1+1" or "HEIRHENO#*(_#()*_#". It would be interesting to see how many searches would need to be done to take down the searches.
4) I said it would be nice if they had the option. It wouldn't take that much effort to implement, and it would let them see how much interest there really is in a system like this. They would only send out signed/encrypted emails to those who opted in, and send the regular old emails to everyone else. They'd just have to have a way of letting people know about the new feature. A story on slashdot would probably go a long way in notifying interested people.
You like all the other people in favour of ID fail to realize the difference between "Scientific Theory" and "Theory" and "Cockamamie Theory". Scientific theories have to stand up to tests, and have to match what actually happens in real life. I could say that I have a theory that the earth was built by thousands of elves. But there's no hard evidence to prove this. It's just an idea I thought up. There's lots of evidence to backup evolution. There is no evidence backing up ID. Just because we don't fully understand evolution, doesn't mean that ID is the explanation. We used to not understand how the earth orbits the sun, so we said this mercury guy dragged it accross the sky in a chariot, even though we had no proof of this either. Just because we can't explain something, doesn't mean that it is proof that God, or another inteligent being did it.
It does. It's called PGP. The problem is, nobody uses it. Most webmail clients don't work well with it, how could they? they'd need to store your private key, which I wouldn't trust any free webmail client with. I'm surprised that EBay and Paypal don't support PGP encrypted/signed email. I get tons of phishing messages with their names on it. They also send out a lot of email, as it's often the only way to communicate with their customers. I think it would help out their customers a lot if they provided a way to verify that a message was actually from Paypal/Ebay. Maybe not everyone would be savvy enough to take advantage of it, but it would be nice for those who knew how it worked.
That's not something you should blame on open source software. You should either blame the developers of the website that only works on IE, or blame it on Microsoft for making a browser that is not standards compliant. In the case where saying firefox can't work with an IE only website, well, that's really not Mozilla's fault. Maybe it's activeX, maybe it's something else. You can't expect Mozilla to copy ActiveX, or some other non-standard technology that microsoft has built into the web browser. And maybe you shouldn't have bought into a solution that relies on some proprietary piece of software. It really sucks that many things require Microsoft products to work, even though we know that they don't need MS to program similar software. The best thing we can do is to stop buying solutions that require things such as IE and MS Office.
But this really doesn't help at all in cryptography. So we can spend thousands of computing hours finding big primes with known algorithms. What we really need would either be new algorithms which could find large primes as this, or a new algorithm to factor large primes in order to defeat encryption. Another thought is, what use for encryption is using large primes such as these. If we decide we are now using 1,000,000 bit primes for encryption, because we have an easy way of finding them, then maybe encryption would be easier to break. As the size of the prime number gets bigger, the number of primes of that size also decrease. If we are using primes so big, that there are only 100 prime number to use of that size, couldn't they just figure out all the possible numbers that are products of those primes, by multiplying each prime by each of the other primes? It probably wouldn't take much to multiply 100 numbers by 99 other numbers, no matter how big the numbers were.
1. Many companies buy computers and don't touch them and don't install any new software. They run windows update once a week, and their computers stay relatively stable. They just type up documents.
2. Depending on where you work, there may or may not be 1 computer per person. Think of a grocery store, there's a computer at every checkout, and maybe a couple in the office. But there is far from every employee using their own computer. It works the same in many other non-computer oriented businesses.
3. Many computers don't require a network. It's probably best that you keep them off a network unless absolutely necessary in order to avoid getting infected by network viruses, or having employees waste time on the internet.
4. Again this depends on what percenage of your staff can't work without a computer. Not all businesses have all staff on computers.
Obviously if you have 100 staff, and 100 computers, you should probably hire someone to look after them, but if you have 100 staff and 10 computers maybe not. It's based on the best interests of the company. Not every company with computers needs someone full time to work on them.
That really depends on where you work. In Canada (ontario at least), daycare workers can make as little as $8 an hour (minimum wage) to as much as $20 per hour, depending on which daycare they work in, and what responsibilities they have, such as being a head teacher. They also may get benefits, and often get lots of vacation and sick time, as their work as stressful, and being around sick kids all day tends to make you sick more often. It's only 2 years of college, and if you like the work, it isn't all that bad. Many daycares also provide 2 free snacks and a healthy lunch each day, because they are feeding the kids anyway.
It's not that she's a girl, it's that she's a person. Many computer geeks think they are all that, and won't take anybody elses opinion, regardless of their gender.
Actually, i've heard about this. My GF works in daycare, and although nobody has reactions like you mentioned, parents do think it's a little weird, and sometimes have a few issues with male daycare workers. I wonder if there's any statistics showing how many men are child molesters compared to women, and if their fears actually do have any justification. Not that it matters, since they do a police check before they let you work in daycare. At least in Canada.
Also, they rarely ever talk about the lack of men in female dominated jobs. Some of these fields are pretty stable, and growing. Think of nursing, daycare, and many other female dominated professions. Maybe it's just that women aren't interested in computers, just like men aren't interested in taking care of children.
Exactly. A photocopier is just a tool, most places don't have people who know how to fix them, or even use them properly. Only big organizations with many photocopiers can afford to have someone on staff that knows how to fix them. It works the same way with computers. Many companies don't have enough computers or enough problems with them to make it worthwile to have an employee, or department devoted to it. It's just easier/cheaper for them to call in someone else when they need something fixed or set up.
I'm pretty sure that graphics are not part of the code, and therefore aren't covered by the GPL. Most of the time, icons in free software are covered by the Creative Commons License, and therefore, I think, Microsoft would have no legal problems using them, and not releasing their source code.
Really? Because it could just as well stand for Information Security. Or Informix Systems. Or Instant Satisfaction. There's nothing in the text about what "IS" is suppose to stand for. I don't really see how Information Systems fits in with the context. Information Systems main job isn't really connectivity. That's really more the job of the networking people who connect the information systems together. Information Systems should only have to deal with setting up systems to provide information, and not really with connecting them to the rest of the company.
This really won't solve anything. All it will do is raise prices for consumers who have to buy new stuff. The manufacturers will pass the costs on to the customers. Meanwhile, all the old equipment will continue to be used for another 100 years to break their system. There's some really old electronics that still work, and there's no reason why they couldn't continue to work, for many years to come. I'd like to see the cost of implementing this on cheap (read $50 and under) video devices, in a way that couldn't be tampered with. If you can just get a mod chip to bypass the system, or maybe even just solder a few connections, what will be the use of the law. And what will be the effects when only US electronics need to have the system in place. Could there be tons of Americans jumping the Canadian border, to get their hands on unprotected canadian merchandise?
The other issue is that many of these Dell and Gateway boxes ship with 256 MB RAM. So, not only do they have less Memory than we all know they should, but they are wasting it all running tons of processes that people don't need. You could probably have a Dell box running pretty good on 256 MB if you disable all the stuff that you didn't need, but with all the junk they have installed, which most people don't know how to disable, it's no wonder people think they need a $2000 PC just to get it to run quickly. You should be able to buy the $500 machine, and it should fly. But instead, they bog it down with tons of crap. I think the reason that Bill Gates' dream of a PC on every desk hasn't really become true is because people still think you have to spend thousands of dollars to get a useable PC.
Infogrames also made the Alone In The Dark Games. At least the first 2 or 3, when they were really good. Every game production company has their good games, and their bad games.
No, we need polariod of polar bears. Waterwings are a pool-side fashion faux-pas.
5 years maybe, but what about 20 years, what about 30 years. Obviously it takes some time to learn the stuff and get into the groove, but eventually that levels off, and you aren't doing more than anyone else. With programming, obviously you can offer a lot if you've been with the same company for many years. But what about moving to a new company, where you aren't as familiar with the code, and may not be as useful to the company to someone who's already been around 5 years. With things like driving a bus, it may take 4 or 5 years to get really good at it, but at some point you plateau. And since you run a schedule, as long as you keep to that schedule, and don't get in any accidents, and are nice to the passengers, you're pretty much doing about as much for the company as you can. Obviously they should be making more than the new guys, but eventually you should reach some sort of limit.
Using Linux is protection enough from those casual snoopers. Casual snoopers wouldn't even know where to find the file.
The problem is that everyone, not just programmers, expects to be getting paid a lot of money, just because they've been doing their job a long time. Take a look a bus drivers. They get a raise every year, and by the end of their career are making twice as much as the newer guys. Are they really bringing any more to the organization just because they've been doing it longer? Obviously in programming it helps you to provide more for a company once you've been around a while, but eventually you top out in what you provide to the company, and therefore so should your salary. Similarly, if you start at a new company, you may be less useful than those who although they have only been programming 5 years, all of it has been with that company, and they are able to provide a lot to the company. If you're doing the exact same thing you were doing 5 years ago, what makes you think you should be getting more than cost of living increases every year?
Viewtiful Joe is a nice 2D game if you're looking for one. I think there's a couple other 2D games out there. If you want to go back to 2D, you might want to try This controller haven't tried it myself, but it looks like it would be good for all those old-style games that don't require analog control, and where analog controls end up causing more harm than good.
So, Which consoles is this available for?