A bomb that was apparently in a laptop casing blew a hole in the fuselage and injured two people aside from the suicide bomber. The plane returned safely to the airport. The CNN article says there was a danger to the entire plane, bu the Wikipedia article doesn't. The apparent laptop did not board the plane by normal means, but was given to the bomber by airport workers.
In this case, the "laptop" needed to pass as one only to a cursory inspection. It didn't have to function, or even open up. The bombers apparently didn't trust it to get on board normally.
First point: airplanes fly with holes in the fuselage, sometimes big ones. It isn't good, and a big enough hole can suck someone out who isn't buckled in, but it isn't going to bring the plane down.
Second point: shaped charges are, well, shaped. Laptops are thin, and particularly if they have to still look functional there's not much room for shapes.
Third point: pressed against the fuselage how? Explosions tend to vent in the easiest way, so you really do have to hold it to the fuselage pretty tightly. Assuming it's open, so the attacker can press a key, that means holding it with one hand.
I'm not an explosives expert, but these claims are really dubious-looking in addition to being unsourced.
First, we ban discrimination against religion at a more fundamental level than discrimination against race. The First Amendment bans government discrimination by religion.
Second, the executive orders were so unclear that people didn't know what they meant. What of someone who was born in Iraq but was a Canadian citizen? Courts don't like unclear orders with the force of law. Also, since border regulation is Congress's responsibility according to the Constitution, Trump would have to justify any such order by reference to Acts of Congress.
No, it's a way of saying "These two things are different", a concept that is apparently lost on the right wing. Unfortunately, the right-wing conflation of two things in order to do inept liberal-bating doesn't amaze me anymore.
Thiel's problem is that he contributed a large amount of money to the government's ability to pick winners and losers, which doesn't sound libertarian to me.
I'm fine with getting the government out of the marriage business, and I suspect most libertarians would agree with me there. There do need to be ways to establish legal family relationships (adoption is another one), but there's no reason that can't be separate from marriage. If the government is in the marriage business, the government needs to stop picking exactly who can get married to whom.
Every year, National Novel Writing Month provides structure for hundreds of thousands of 50K-word novels. Read the forums sometimes. Writers ask the strangest questions, not always about legal things.
Until Congress changed the law a year after Clinton left the State Department, there was no reason the Secretary of State couldn't use an outside email service for official business. Her server may have been ill-advised and badly administered, and there were certainly things on it that shouldn't have been, but the server itself was legal and needed no authorization.
Computer science is about computers in the same way that astronomy is about telescopes. You don't have to be a decent programmer to be a good computer scientist. It does help, though.
Is that a [double] number of cents, or a [double] number of dollars? Anything that will retain integer precision is usually fine when using cents, but using a floating-point binary representation for dollars won't work. It's not necessarily any less accurate, but it will not get the same nearly accurate results as conventional processing.
The current eInk Nook is supposed to be waterproof down to a meter, which is deeper than any bathtub I've seen. Besides, it's better for reading on than a phone or tablet.
IIRC, Comey said she would not be prosecuted, and that prosecuting her for what she did would be unprecedented, as previous such offenses had been handled administratively. He didn't make the actual decision (although the Attorney General decided to go with his recommendation).
Post-election, this has caused bad people to say that Trump only won because of Comey's intervention when it's obvious his huge win had nothing to do with it.
What is this "huge win" you speak of? Trump's victory in the Electoral College wasn't anything special, and he lost badly in the popular vote. He did win, and he is President, but there's nothing impressive about it.
I don't have a separate work-related device, and I don't want to have to sync my work computer with anything I own. This means I have to have one password memorized for work. What I do is base my passwords on my role-playing games or my fiction, and my password sticky note isn't going to mean anything to anyone else.
If I keep my sticky note on my desk it's pretty secure. They don't allow the public into my area, and my desk is pretty darn messy, so it's hard to find things on it if you're not me.
That doesn't work for a 30-day password rotation policy. You'll find yourself having to use 0217 at the end of January, and it will just keep getting out of sync.
Test-driven development can be a good thing. The developer can frequently use it to develop better software, so that it's better when it reaches the QA people.
Separate QA can have people who are great at breaking things, and who cares if they can't fix things? It will have at least someone who isn't necessarily making the same wrong assumptions as the developer(s). (My reaction to a bug report I got last year: "They're doing WHAT! I never thought they'd do it that way." Then I made it work the way they did it, of course.) They can have a reasonably stable environment for integration testing. There's plenty of advantages.
Right now, we've got a user in the role of finding out what's wrong and telling us about it. He's great, and we get a lot of value from him.
Do you get subcontractors who are already experienced with your operations and code base who know they'll have to maintain what they're doing, or do you just intend to get interchangeable cogs who don't give a crap about anything past their last paycheck?
No company thinks only about the employees' interests. There are companies that respect their employees, and want to get them all focused on the right things, so they communicate company goals and show loyalty to the employees. That way, they get better productivity and lower turnover. If one of the poor saps who works for you leaves, do you have a good estimate of what it will cost to replace that person? Replacing someone at my level will cost tens of thousands of dollars at the very least.
When Mom died, I inherited half of her stock portfolio. She picked companies on the basis of how they treated employees, customer service, and R&D. They're doing great.
It would appear that your knowledge of the companies out there is as limited as your management abilities. There are reasonably sized and large companies in Frobnicator's second class. They're worth finding.
Good. Treating "socialism" like a trump card marks the user as an ideological idiot currently incapable of rational thought and almost certainly devoid of support for his or her position. This is true of all such shibboleths that save the user the trouble of actually considering what is being discussed.
This is not to say that socialism is good or bad, but maligning a position because it has some (possibly real) connection with socialism (and the UBI doesn't) contributes nothing to the discussion.
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A bomb that was apparently in a laptop casing blew a hole in the fuselage and injured two people aside from the suicide bomber. The plane returned safely to the airport. The CNN article says there was a danger to the entire plane, bu the Wikipedia article doesn't. The apparent laptop did not board the plane by normal means, but was given to the bomber by airport workers.
In this case, the "laptop" needed to pass as one only to a cursory inspection. It didn't have to function, or even open up. The bombers apparently didn't trust it to get on board normally.
First point: airplanes fly with holes in the fuselage, sometimes big ones. It isn't good, and a big enough hole can suck someone out who isn't buckled in, but it isn't going to bring the plane down.
Second point: shaped charges are, well, shaped. Laptops are thin, and particularly if they have to still look functional there's not much room for shapes.
Third point: pressed against the fuselage how? Explosions tend to vent in the easiest way, so you really do have to hold it to the fuselage pretty tightly. Assuming it's open, so the attacker can press a key, that means holding it with one hand.
I'm not an explosives expert, but these claims are really dubious-looking in addition to being unsourced.
First, we ban discrimination against religion at a more fundamental level than discrimination against race. The First Amendment bans government discrimination by religion.
Second, the executive orders were so unclear that people didn't know what they meant. What of someone who was born in Iraq but was a Canadian citizen? Courts don't like unclear orders with the force of law. Also, since border regulation is Congress's responsibility according to the Constitution, Trump would have to justify any such order by reference to Acts of Congress.
No, it's a way of saying "These two things are different", a concept that is apparently lost on the right wing. Unfortunately, the right-wing conflation of two things in order to do inept liberal-bating doesn't amaze me anymore.
Thiel's problem is that he contributed a large amount of money to the government's ability to pick winners and losers, which doesn't sound libertarian to me.
I'm fine with getting the government out of the marriage business, and I suspect most libertarians would agree with me there. There do need to be ways to establish legal family relationships (adoption is another one), but there's no reason that can't be separate from marriage. If the government is in the marriage business, the government needs to stop picking exactly who can get married to whom.
Every year, National Novel Writing Month provides structure for hundreds of thousands of 50K-word novels. Read the forums sometimes. Writers ask the strangest questions, not always about legal things.
Until Congress changed the law a year after Clinton left the State Department, there was no reason the Secretary of State couldn't use an outside email service for official business. Her server may have been ill-advised and badly administered, and there were certainly things on it that shouldn't have been, but the server itself was legal and needed no authorization.
Computer science is about computers in the same way that astronomy is about telescopes. You don't have to be a decent programmer to be a good computer scientist. It does help, though.
Is that a [double] number of cents, or a [double] number of dollars? Anything that will retain integer precision is usually fine when using cents, but using a floating-point binary representation for dollars won't work. It's not necessarily any less accurate, but it will not get the same nearly accurate results as conventional processing.
The current eInk Nook is supposed to be waterproof down to a meter, which is deeper than any bathtub I've seen. Besides, it's better for reading on than a phone or tablet.
IIRC, Comey said she would not be prosecuted, and that prosecuting her for what she did would be unprecedented, as previous such offenses had been handled administratively. He didn't make the actual decision (although the Attorney General decided to go with his recommendation).
There was no requirement to authorize them. Clinton had the authority to do that herself.
It isn't all their fault, given the job the Republicans did at gerrymandering.
You seem awfully sure of her motives.
What is this "huge win" you speak of? Trump's victory in the Electoral College wasn't anything special, and he lost badly in the popular vote. He did win, and he is President, but there's nothing impressive about it.
I don't have a separate work-related device, and I don't want to have to sync my work computer with anything I own. This means I have to have one password memorized for work. What I do is base my passwords on my role-playing games or my fiction, and my password sticky note isn't going to mean anything to anyone else.
If I keep my sticky note on my desk it's pretty secure. They don't allow the public into my area, and my desk is pretty darn messy, so it's hard to find things on it if you're not me.
How do I authenticate myself to the password manager? How do I log in so I can access the password manager?
With one exception that I know of, my password is the same everywhere in the company already.
That doesn't work for a 30-day password rotation policy. You'll find yourself having to use 0217 at the end of January, and it will just keep getting out of sync.
Test-driven development can be a good thing. The developer can frequently use it to develop better software, so that it's better when it reaches the QA people.
Separate QA can have people who are great at breaking things, and who cares if they can't fix things? It will have at least someone who isn't necessarily making the same wrong assumptions as the developer(s). (My reaction to a bug report I got last year: "They're doing WHAT! I never thought they'd do it that way." Then I made it work the way they did it, of course.) They can have a reasonably stable environment for integration testing. There's plenty of advantages.
Right now, we've got a user in the role of finding out what's wrong and telling us about it. He's great, and we get a lot of value from him.
Do you get subcontractors who are already experienced with your operations and code base who know they'll have to maintain what they're doing, or do you just intend to get interchangeable cogs who don't give a crap about anything past their last paycheck?
No company thinks only about the employees' interests. There are companies that respect their employees, and want to get them all focused on the right things, so they communicate company goals and show loyalty to the employees. That way, they get better productivity and lower turnover. If one of the poor saps who works for you leaves, do you have a good estimate of what it will cost to replace that person? Replacing someone at my level will cost tens of thousands of dollars at the very least.
When Mom died, I inherited half of her stock portfolio. She picked companies on the basis of how they treated employees, customer service, and R&D. They're doing great.
It would appear that your knowledge of the companies out there is as limited as your management abilities. There are reasonably sized and large companies in Frobnicator's second class. They're worth finding.
Man, you get serious nightmares. Management will let our code be on someone else's servers some time after the heat death of the universe.
Good. Treating "socialism" like a trump card marks the user as an ideological idiot currently incapable of rational thought and almost certainly devoid of support for his or her position. This is true of all such shibboleths that save the user the trouble of actually considering what is being discussed.
This is not to say that socialism is good or bad, but maligning a position because it has some (possibly real) connection with socialism (and the UBI doesn't) contributes nothing to the discussion.