Yeah, but DC to NY is already a pretty short trip. Only 1 hour 10 in a plane, and it has rates starting from $156 (source, new Google maps). The problem with air travel is the security lines. If they could get rid of that, at least for short commuter flights, then flying would be much more enjoyable. The road trip time is 3 hours 43 minutes. Which isn't short, but easily something you could do if you needed to go there and back in the same day. A reasonable speed train (doesn't even have to be that fast) could probably do the trip in 2-3 hours if there wasn't a thousand stops. And trains don't have crazy security checks. Most of the time you can just walk right on 10 minutes before the train leaves. Something like this just isn't needed as it wouldn't take appreciably less time.
But then you no longer have a secret ballot. If you can prove that you voted for a specific person, you can be coerced by others (your boss, the mob, some guy giving you money) to prove that you voted for who they wanted you to vote for. A system has to be verifiable in the sense that you can be reasonably sure that all the votes are counted correctly, without being altered, and without being able to attach the votes to who cast them. This is why paper ballots work. Start with an empty sealed box, verified by multiple people. Watch individual voters put individual ballots in to the sealed box. Keep the box sealed until counting. Watch the box be opened and verify things are counted correctly. Watch the ballots be put into another sealed box for recounting later if necessary, with signatures on the seals to ensure they aren't broken. Very simple for even not to bright people to verify. Anything based on computers is many times harder to verify and adds extra complications. Also, putting things in a centralized computer makes a large number of votes changable by a small number of people (or even a single person). With paper ballots, in small boxes, you have to get a lot of people to collude to contaminate a large number of the votes.
How does Apple have forced obsolecense? They actually release upgrades for their phones. Even the 3GS can run IOS 6. For the new IOS 7 they're dropping support for the iphone 3GS, but that phone's getting pretty old now. Sure there will be problems with running programs that require faster processors on the old phones, but Android has the same problem. Android has the additional problem of developers having to support 3 or 4 different OS versions in order to support all the devices. Also, with Android, there's the problem that if your phone wasn't one of the popular ones, there's a lot of stuff that doesn't work with it, and finding accessories for them can be almost impossible. Even getting unofficial upgrades for unpopular phones using things like Cyanogenmod is impossible since they only support popular phones models.
I wonder if anything like this is going on internally. Let's say a developer at Google knows about a problem. He could either fix it, and get his regular pay, or he could tell his friend about the bug, and split the bounty with his friend who "discovered" the bug. Either way the bug gets fixed. And it probably get's fixed faster this way, since it's now an externally known vulnerability.
Exactly. I think if you found the right kind of employee and told them to hunt for bugs all day long and get paid for it, They'd probably uncover quite a few bugs. Give them complete access to the code, source control, and test suites, and they could probably find bugs much more efficiently than getting somebody to find vulnerabilities from the outside.
They are angular velocity sensors. At launch, their angular velocity is 0. Although there probably should be a check pre-launch to determine if all the sensors are indeed facing the correct way, or better yet, make it impossible to install them upside down.
But one could argue that a polygamist should be entitled to have all his wives covered by the insurance offered by his job and that the polygamist should be able to use income splitting on his taxes with all his wives. That's the point trying to be made here. Why is one type of relationship the only valid one. Why not allow marriages between more than 2 people?
There's a hard coded default, and that's bad enough. In order to do stuff like this correctly, the system should not have a default code, and it should not start until a new securely generated key has been created.
The rate of all crimes are going down. The question is, did the murder rate go down as much as the rate of all crime, or did it decline less or more. I realize that there's no clear evidence either way, as to which causes which, but the US is one of the few countries that allows concealed carry by regular citizens, and it also has a very high rate of second degree murders. If nobody was carrying guns, it's likely that many of them could be avoided.
I've heard that a lot of the reason for such a high homicide rate in the US is that it has an unusually high level of second degree murder. That's defined as murder that is unplanned and happens in the heat of the moment. If you don't even own a gun, there's a smaller chance you're going to murder someone with a gun, because by the time you get around to buying one, you've had some time to cool off a bit and think about what you're doing. Same goes for a gun that's locked away at home in a gun safe. By the time you drive home, unlock the safe, go to the other safe with the bullets, unlock that, and drive back to where the person was, assuming they haven't left, you've had some time go cool down and think it over. But if you carry one in a holster, you can literally pull out the gun and kill someone in seconds. I think about all the bar fights i've seen in my younger years, and if those people had guns, I'm sure the gun could have come in a couple of those instances.
I think that charging of batteries is mostly limited by the plug that it's connected to. Looking at cars like the Tesla, the reason they take so long to charge is because you have to hook it up to a really big power source to get all that energy in such a short period of time. You could have a capacitor that slowly charged off the mains so that when you wanted to refill your car it had all the energy needed, but there would still need to be some way to connect the two capacitors.
Granted it was only 6 trips, not hundreds, but I understand what you're saying, if there's no time limit, and no limit on stops, then somebody who ran across the country could say they flew across the country as there were just thousands of very short flights. When running, both feet leave the ground, so you could almost argue that it's a very short flight.
Although I realize this is probably a big achievement, I was a little disappointed to find out that this wasn't done in a single flight, but rather many smaller trips with stops in between. I can't believe this wasn't mentioned in the summary, Makes the news sound much more spectacular than it actually was. I really don't think you can count this as a cross-country flight when it had to make multiple stops along the way. Really, it's just a series of short flights in the same direction. It's not like when somebody runs across the country, and we just all assume it wasn't non-stop, with a plane we kind of assume that there wasn't any stops.
Yeah, Having a DVD or a CD in the case of music is the best thing for the public domain. There's so many works out there that were lost, or that we just don't have a good copy of. CDs and DVDs (after we broke the encryption) allow us to keep pristine copies of the original material. Many of the records that my parents had in their young adult years are unplayable, or don't sound as good as they originally did. People complain about the sounds quality of mp3s but they sound a lot better than a record that got left out in the sun. In 100 years It might be hard for artists to make money, because they'll be so much stuff in the public domain and there will be awesome copies of all of it. Imagine if copyright was only 14 years as originally was. Basically everything before 1999. Think about all that free content you could listen to and watch to your hearts content. Would you really want to spend a significant amount of money on music or movies?
But maybe that's just how society portrays the men, and therefore women have a natural bias against the men. When I was in university, I literally had a woman walk away after I told her I was in Engineering, even though up until that time we were having a great time, and she showed no signs of not liking me. Many women will go after strong, good looking, macho guys, who have no other good qualities, even after repeatedly having bad experiences with these types of people.
While it's probably not just a Japanese thing, there's definitely a lot of something to do with the parent's allowing them to do this. I mean, it's one thing to live with your parents, but another story completely when you refuse to leave your room. I liken it to those people who end up being 800 lbs and bedridden. You don't get that way without somebody helping you out along the way. Usually it's a spouse or child that supplies these people with the buckets of fried chicken and gallons of soda that's needed to maintain such a high body weight.
For most people, it's not the layout of the keyboard that's slowing them down, but rather the lack of effort in trying to learn proper typing techniques. You could probably put the keyboard in the worst possible configuration ever, with all Q,Z, V, and X all in the home row, and people could still learn to type sufficiently fast on it.
Let them teach themselves. That's how many of the current generation of programmers got started. And it's even easier now than it was before. There are so many free resources on the internet to get you started. If there is any direct teaching, it should be in programs outside the regular school curriculum. More free day-camps and stuff where teachers can teach without having to worry about state imposed curricula. Students are free to be there or not to attend so you have kids who (mostly) want to be there, which creates a better learning environment for all. Most people I know who are good at anything aren't good because of what they learned about it in school, but rather what they did outside school to further their own learning.
I agree with you. However, I don't see why taxis get to be a protected business. If I have a car and want to charge people to drive them around the city, why shouldn't I be allowed to? Sure there's some safety aspects about getting into a car with a stranger, but there's safety aspects with many things in life. You don't need a special license to watch over people's kids, you shouldn't need a special license to drive someone around town.
Kind of this this Collapsible bike helmet made by a guy who rides a brakeless fixie in slip-on shoes. But what you say is really right. Most of the breaches are from just that, people getting remote desktop or SSH access to the servers. Weak passwords, services accessible directly from the internet, and other easily solvable problems means that this kind of stuff just shouldn't happen. But it still does on quite a regular basis.
But was the hotel advertising the wrong number? If not, there's really not much they can do. Sure the hotel could change their number, but that would be a lot more hassle than you may suspect. They'd have to reprint business cards. They'd have to reprint advertisements, which could get expensive.
Since they aren't really doing anything illegal in the first place, you'll probably see a lot of companies get creative, like offering shared web hosting which just happens to come with a feature that allows you to use it as a VPN, but they don't advertise it as a VPN, so they are still able to continue accepting payments. Worst case scenario you lose the ability to collect payments using VISA and MasterCard. But you can probably still accept payments via PayPal. You could sell magazine which happen to contain free access codes to VPN services. There's a million ways to get around this kind of stuff. I guess the idea is they just want to make it hard enough for the average person to not be able to figure it out.
This is why I loved WordPerfect 5.1 so much. Because of the simple text based interface, you didn't spend so much time worrying about how your document looked, and just spent time typing up the actual document. All the features were available from the keyboard which meant that it was faster to do any kind of formatting that you needed to do because you never had to move your hands away from the keyboard.
No, because then it would have been giving the wrong answer most of the time. The fact that the wrong answer is good enough in certain situations is not something the compiler would be able to determine.
One of the companies we work with has a mandatory fax number on their system. This is truly annoying as there are a fair number of people who have absolutely no access to a fax machine. However, I think the purpose of mandatory address fields is to prevent people from not entering anything at all. People will place orders from stores without putting in their full address, making the item undeliverable. Or they'll leave out both email and phone number (OMG Privacy, Can't give these awasy, might get spam or robocalled) leaving no way whatsoever to contact the person in the event that there's problem fulfilling the order (out of stock, etc.).
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Yeah, but DC to NY is already a pretty short trip. Only 1 hour 10 in a plane, and it has rates starting from $156 (source, new Google maps). The problem with air travel is the security lines. If they could get rid of that, at least for short commuter flights, then flying would be much more enjoyable. The road trip time is 3 hours 43 minutes. Which isn't short, but easily something you could do if you needed to go there and back in the same day. A reasonable speed train (doesn't even have to be that fast) could probably do the trip in 2-3 hours if there wasn't a thousand stops. And trains don't have crazy security checks. Most of the time you can just walk right on 10 minutes before the train leaves. Something like this just isn't needed as it wouldn't take appreciably less time.
But then you no longer have a secret ballot. If you can prove that you voted for a specific person, you can be coerced by others (your boss, the mob, some guy giving you money) to prove that you voted for who they wanted you to vote for. A system has to be verifiable in the sense that you can be reasonably sure that all the votes are counted correctly, without being altered, and without being able to attach the votes to who cast them. This is why paper ballots work. Start with an empty sealed box, verified by multiple people. Watch individual voters put individual ballots in to the sealed box. Keep the box sealed until counting. Watch the box be opened and verify things are counted correctly. Watch the ballots be put into another sealed box for recounting later if necessary, with signatures on the seals to ensure they aren't broken. Very simple for even not to bright people to verify. Anything based on computers is many times harder to verify and adds extra complications. Also, putting things in a centralized computer makes a large number of votes changable by a small number of people (or even a single person). With paper ballots, in small boxes, you have to get a lot of people to collude to contaminate a large number of the votes.
How does Apple have forced obsolecense? They actually release upgrades for their phones. Even the 3GS can run IOS 6. For the new IOS 7 they're dropping support for the iphone 3GS, but that phone's getting pretty old now. Sure there will be problems with running programs that require faster processors on the old phones, but Android has the same problem. Android has the additional problem of developers having to support 3 or 4 different OS versions in order to support all the devices. Also, with Android, there's the problem that if your phone wasn't one of the popular ones, there's a lot of stuff that doesn't work with it, and finding accessories for them can be almost impossible. Even getting unofficial upgrades for unpopular phones using things like Cyanogenmod is impossible since they only support popular phones models.
I wonder if anything like this is going on internally. Let's say a developer at Google knows about a problem. He could either fix it, and get his regular pay, or he could tell his friend about the bug, and split the bounty with his friend who "discovered" the bug. Either way the bug gets fixed. And it probably get's fixed faster this way, since it's now an externally known vulnerability.
Exactly. I think if you found the right kind of employee and told them to hunt for bugs all day long and get paid for it, They'd probably uncover quite a few bugs. Give them complete access to the code, source control, and test suites, and they could probably find bugs much more efficiently than getting somebody to find vulnerabilities from the outside.
They are angular velocity sensors. At launch, their angular velocity is 0. Although there probably should be a check pre-launch to determine if all the sensors are indeed facing the correct way, or better yet, make it impossible to install them upside down.
But one could argue that a polygamist should be entitled to have all his wives covered by the insurance offered by his job and that the polygamist should be able to use income splitting on his taxes with all his wives. That's the point trying to be made here. Why is one type of relationship the only valid one. Why not allow marriages between more than 2 people?
There's a hard coded default, and that's bad enough. In order to do stuff like this correctly, the system should not have a default code, and it should not start until a new securely generated key has been created.
The rate of all crimes are going down. The question is, did the murder rate go down as much as the rate of all crime, or did it decline less or more. I realize that there's no clear evidence either way, as to which causes which, but the US is one of the few countries that allows concealed carry by regular citizens, and it also has a very high rate of second degree murders. If nobody was carrying guns, it's likely that many of them could be avoided.
I've heard that a lot of the reason for such a high homicide rate in the US is that it has an unusually high level of second degree murder. That's defined as murder that is unplanned and happens in the heat of the moment. If you don't even own a gun, there's a smaller chance you're going to murder someone with a gun, because by the time you get around to buying one, you've had some time to cool off a bit and think about what you're doing. Same goes for a gun that's locked away at home in a gun safe. By the time you drive home, unlock the safe, go to the other safe with the bullets, unlock that, and drive back to where the person was, assuming they haven't left, you've had some time go cool down and think it over. But if you carry one in a holster, you can literally pull out the gun and kill someone in seconds. I think about all the bar fights i've seen in my younger years, and if those people had guns, I'm sure the gun could have come in a couple of those instances.
I think that charging of batteries is mostly limited by the plug that it's connected to. Looking at cars like the Tesla, the reason they take so long to charge is because you have to hook it up to a really big power source to get all that energy in such a short period of time. You could have a capacitor that slowly charged off the mains so that when you wanted to refill your car it had all the energy needed, but there would still need to be some way to connect the two capacitors.
Granted it was only 6 trips, not hundreds, but I understand what you're saying, if there's no time limit, and no limit on stops, then somebody who ran across the country could say they flew across the country as there were just thousands of very short flights. When running, both feet leave the ground, so you could almost argue that it's a very short flight.
Although I realize this is probably a big achievement, I was a little disappointed to find out that this wasn't done in a single flight, but rather many smaller trips with stops in between. I can't believe this wasn't mentioned in the summary, Makes the news sound much more spectacular than it actually was. I really don't think you can count this as a cross-country flight when it had to make multiple stops along the way. Really, it's just a series of short flights in the same direction. It's not like when somebody runs across the country, and we just all assume it wasn't non-stop, with a plane we kind of assume that there wasn't any stops.
Yeah, Having a DVD or a CD in the case of music is the best thing for the public domain. There's so many works out there that were lost, or that we just don't have a good copy of. CDs and DVDs (after we broke the encryption) allow us to keep pristine copies of the original material. Many of the records that my parents had in their young adult years are unplayable, or don't sound as good as they originally did. People complain about the sounds quality of mp3s but they sound a lot better than a record that got left out in the sun. In 100 years It might be hard for artists to make money, because they'll be so much stuff in the public domain and there will be awesome copies of all of it. Imagine if copyright was only 14 years as originally was. Basically everything before 1999. Think about all that free content you could listen to and watch to your hearts content. Would you really want to spend a significant amount of money on music or movies?
But maybe that's just how society portrays the men, and therefore women have a natural bias against the men. When I was in university, I literally had a woman walk away after I told her I was in Engineering, even though up until that time we were having a great time, and she showed no signs of not liking me. Many women will go after strong, good looking, macho guys, who have no other good qualities, even after repeatedly having bad experiences with these types of people.
While it's probably not just a Japanese thing, there's definitely a lot of something to do with the parent's allowing them to do this. I mean, it's one thing to live with your parents, but another story completely when you refuse to leave your room. I liken it to those people who end up being 800 lbs and bedridden. You don't get that way without somebody helping you out along the way. Usually it's a spouse or child that supplies these people with the buckets of fried chicken and gallons of soda that's needed to maintain such a high body weight.
For most people, it's not the layout of the keyboard that's slowing them down, but rather the lack of effort in trying to learn proper typing techniques. You could probably put the keyboard in the worst possible configuration ever, with all Q,Z, V, and X all in the home row, and people could still learn to type sufficiently fast on it.
Let them teach themselves. That's how many of the current generation of programmers got started. And it's even easier now than it was before. There are so many free resources on the internet to get you started. If there is any direct teaching, it should be in programs outside the regular school curriculum. More free day-camps and stuff where teachers can teach without having to worry about state imposed curricula. Students are free to be there or not to attend so you have kids who (mostly) want to be there, which creates a better learning environment for all. Most people I know who are good at anything aren't good because of what they learned about it in school, but rather what they did outside school to further their own learning.
I agree with you. However, I don't see why taxis get to be a protected business. If I have a car and want to charge people to drive them around the city, why shouldn't I be allowed to? Sure there's some safety aspects about getting into a car with a stranger, but there's safety aspects with many things in life. You don't need a special license to watch over people's kids, you shouldn't need a special license to drive someone around town.
Kind of this this Collapsible bike helmet made by a guy who rides a brakeless fixie in slip-on shoes. But what you say is really right. Most of the breaches are from just that, people getting remote desktop or SSH access to the servers. Weak passwords, services accessible directly from the internet, and other easily solvable problems means that this kind of stuff just shouldn't happen. But it still does on quite a regular basis.
But was the hotel advertising the wrong number? If not, there's really not much they can do. Sure the hotel could change their number, but that would be a lot more hassle than you may suspect. They'd have to reprint business cards. They'd have to reprint advertisements, which could get expensive.
Since they aren't really doing anything illegal in the first place, you'll probably see a lot of companies get creative, like offering shared web hosting which just happens to come with a feature that allows you to use it as a VPN, but they don't advertise it as a VPN, so they are still able to continue accepting payments. Worst case scenario you lose the ability to collect payments using VISA and MasterCard. But you can probably still accept payments via PayPal. You could sell magazine which happen to contain free access codes to VPN services. There's a million ways to get around this kind of stuff. I guess the idea is they just want to make it hard enough for the average person to not be able to figure it out.
This is why I loved WordPerfect 5.1 so much. Because of the simple text based interface, you didn't spend so much time worrying about how your document looked, and just spent time typing up the actual document. All the features were available from the keyboard which meant that it was faster to do any kind of formatting that you needed to do because you never had to move your hands away from the keyboard.
No, because then it would have been giving the wrong answer most of the time. The fact that the wrong answer is good enough in certain situations is not something the compiler would be able to determine.
One of the companies we work with has a mandatory fax number on their system. This is truly annoying as there are a fair number of people who have absolutely no access to a fax machine. However, I think the purpose of mandatory address fields is to prevent people from not entering anything at all. People will place orders from stores without putting in their full address, making the item undeliverable. Or they'll leave out both email and phone number (OMG Privacy, Can't give these awasy, might get spam or robocalled) leaving no way whatsoever to contact the person in the event that there's problem fulfilling the order (out of stock, etc.).