In general, the games I want to play are not available on other OSes, and I have to run Visual Studio at work, so I'd rather have the matching software at home. (They give us an MSDN license, so it doesn't cost me anything extra.) My old W7 laptop kinda died, and what they had to replace it with was W10.
Strange. I've used Ubuntu for quite a few years, and found it excellent for someone who wants a Unixy environment and doesn't want to put in system admin work. I've found the desktop software available to fully suit my needs.
YMMV, of course, and the fact that I've been using Ubuntu doesn't mean other distros aren't just as good or better. (As I implied earlier, I'm kinda lazy, and haven't tried others).
Windows 10 Pro is not what I'd call a professional version. It's like the home version with some added features, including more control over mandatory updates. You have to go to Windows 10 Enterprise for that.
I've decided that, for my personal definitions, Pluto is a planet, a planet being something big enough that gravity makes it spherical and not so big as to do its own internal fusion. (Fusion reactors on the surface don't count.) I figure there's eight major planets in the Solar System.
Simulated annealing is a tradeoff of speed and accuracy. It can be proven to find the optimal solution if you're willing to take long enough, but that's usually way too long. (SA is not a way around NP-hardness, so a guaranteed optimal solution takes at least as much time as any more conventional method.)
There weren't 700 planes flying to Pearl. The Japanese task force carried nowhere near that number of aircraft, they launched in two waves that struck independently, and they kept some aircraft back for defense. However, there was a flight of B-17s coming in from the mainland, and that's what the radar returns were attributed to. IIRC, it was on when it wasn't scheduled for training purposes, and the people to report to might have been unavailable. Given that nobody in particular cared that the destroyer USS Ward had just sunk a midget submarine trying to get into the anchorage, I'm sure the US defenders would have found some way to ignore the radar information.
I'm not saying he had no chance to win in November, just that he had a lot less of a chance than Clinton. The polls are meaningless because they were done without a massive Republican attack on Sanders. He was great at energizing his base, but that's not sufficient to win elections.
Sure it would have. Sanders would have been a worse candidate. The polls showed him in a better position, but that didn't account for the attacks that would come after the nomination. He describes himself as a socialist, and that word would frighten millions of people. The Republicans would make him out like Mao or Stalin given that.
Sanders was allowed to win the nomination. He had an uphill climb, but with more votes he would have won. The primaries and caucuses were run fairly, if the campaigning wasn't, and Sanders did get a lot of delegates.
The role of the party in the nomination process is to get the best candidate nominated. It isn't to run a popularity contest with inconsistent rules on who can vote.
Except that we've had some cases of Trump associates having dealings with the Russians that only showed up later under investigation. Had they had contacts, and said they'd had contacts, and said what they were about, there would have been no grounds for suspicion (assuming they told the truth and didn't overstep).
Ukraine is not an ally of the US, true. That doesn't mean we should favor Russian attack and annexation. That's behavior we want to discourage in general.
This hurts the CIA a lot. Already, one AV researcher has told me that a virus they once suspected came from the Russians or Chinese can now be attributed to the CIA, as it matches the description perfectly to something in the leak. We can develop anti-virus and intrusion-detection signatures based on this information that will defeat much of what we read in these documents. This would put a multi-year delay in the CIA's development efforts.
What's the big deal? Nobody who's been paying attention is going to be surprised that the CIA and/or NSA developed viruses.
While I assume the CIA and NSA employ very good malware writers, I don't see any reason to think they're the best out there. It wouldn't surprise me at all to find out that the Russian ones are better. By putting a virus out there, without even a copyright notice, the CIA is asking for people to reverse-engineer it and understand it. Not all of these people have pure hearts and good intentions, and it's almost certainly possible to repurpose such malware. Improved malware defense means that the Russians and Chinese and Israelis and other people have more trouble hacking into our computers.
Also, once such a virus is published, it will become less effective. If the CIA/NSA efforts were competent, they'd have more and different malware waiting around to be used, so this wouldn't set CIA operations back for years.
It doesn't seem weird to me. Wikileaks leaked information about government operations in one case, and information about internal political party affairs in the other. One is more political than the other.
I'm not an expert on this, but you may have the role of porn reversed. I find that a life-sized three-dimensional woman who I can touch and smell and who touches me is much better than any porn video. For singles, it might be that staying home with a computer and hand lotion is better than going out and getting shot down, but I'm not sure of the same effect on married couples. I'm inclined to think that porn is more likely to be a substitute for sex that's unavailable or unsatisfying.
Underprescribing antidepressants isn't going to help either. Depression is really bad on the sex life. Has the number of people with serious depression gone up?
None of the non-binaries I've run into insist that I should be confused. I just treat them like everybody else whose sex life is none of my business, and things are fine.
There are very few people in the world whose sex, gender, or sexual orientation actually affect me directly, and the same is likely true of you. The sooner you realize that, the happier you'll be.
Not quite. Some people will have more potentially damaging secrets than others. Alternately, #THEY might release such information only against the people $THEY don't like.
burn the property of small business owners and beat people bloody on college campuses are upset that she didn't win
The evidence for that is very scanty. Just because something is destroyed in a left-wing demonstration doesn't mean it was destroyed by someone from the left wing. They let just anybody into those demonstrations, without checking political credentials, and the most obvious motive for violence is to discredit the people holding the demonstrations.
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And we continue to speculate. We'd add the votes Sanders would inspire, and subtract the ones he'd repel. We seem to disagree about which is larger.
I have to work with an insecure site. I don't want to tell everyone where there's an easy site to hack into.
In general, the games I want to play are not available on other OSes, and I have to run Visual Studio at work, so I'd rather have the matching software at home. (They give us an MSDN license, so it doesn't cost me anything extra.) My old W7 laptop kinda died, and what they had to replace it with was W10.
Strange. I've used Ubuntu for quite a few years, and found it excellent for someone who wants a Unixy environment and doesn't want to put in system admin work. I've found the desktop software available to fully suit my needs.
YMMV, of course, and the fact that I've been using Ubuntu doesn't mean other distros aren't just as good or better. (As I implied earlier, I'm kinda lazy, and haven't tried others).
Windows 10 Pro is not what I'd call a professional version. It's like the home version with some added features, including more control over mandatory updates. You have to go to Windows 10 Enterprise for that.
I've decided that, for my personal definitions, Pluto is a planet, a planet being something big enough that gravity makes it spherical and not so big as to do its own internal fusion. (Fusion reactors on the surface don't count.) I figure there's eight major planets in the Solar System.
Simulated annealing is a tradeoff of speed and accuracy. It can be proven to find the optimal solution if you're willing to take long enough, but that's usually way too long. (SA is not a way around NP-hardness, so a guaranteed optimal solution takes at least as much time as any more conventional method.)
There weren't 700 planes flying to Pearl. The Japanese task force carried nowhere near that number of aircraft, they launched in two waves that struck independently, and they kept some aircraft back for defense. However, there was a flight of B-17s coming in from the mainland, and that's what the radar returns were attributed to. IIRC, it was on when it wasn't scheduled for training purposes, and the people to report to might have been unavailable. Given that nobody in particular cared that the destroyer USS Ward had just sunk a midget submarine trying to get into the anchorage, I'm sure the US defenders would have found some way to ignore the radar information.
I have to do financial transactions on a site that only 6-8 alphanumeric characters, not starting with a digit.
I'm not saying he had no chance to win in November, just that he had a lot less of a chance than Clinton. The polls are meaningless because they were done without a massive Republican attack on Sanders. He was great at energizing his base, but that's not sufficient to win elections.
Sure it would have. Sanders would have been a worse candidate. The polls showed him in a better position, but that didn't account for the attacks that would come after the nomination. He describes himself as a socialist, and that word would frighten millions of people. The Republicans would make him out like Mao or Stalin given that.
Sanders was allowed to win the nomination. He had an uphill climb, but with more votes he would have won. The primaries and caucuses were run fairly, if the campaigning wasn't, and Sanders did get a lot of delegates.
The role of the party in the nomination process is to get the best candidate nominated. It isn't to run a popularity contest with inconsistent rules on who can vote.
That ignores the problems that an old-heavy population will create. Currently, Western reproduction rates are below replacement level.
Except that we've had some cases of Trump associates having dealings with the Russians that only showed up later under investigation. Had they had contacts, and said they'd had contacts, and said what they were about, there would have been no grounds for suspicion (assuming they told the truth and didn't overstep).
Ukraine is not an ally of the US, true. That doesn't mean we should favor Russian attack and annexation. That's behavior we want to discourage in general.
So, you're basing your belief in Wikileaks on the observed behavior of intelligence agencies?
I stopped writing complicated bash (well, back in those days, ksh) scripts when I learned Perl.
What's the big deal? Nobody who's been paying attention is going to be surprised that the CIA and/or NSA developed viruses.
While I assume the CIA and NSA employ very good malware writers, I don't see any reason to think they're the best out there. It wouldn't surprise me at all to find out that the Russian ones are better. By putting a virus out there, without even a copyright notice, the CIA is asking for people to reverse-engineer it and understand it. Not all of these people have pure hearts and good intentions, and it's almost certainly possible to repurpose such malware. Improved malware defense means that the Russians and Chinese and Israelis and other people have more trouble hacking into our computers.
Also, once such a virus is published, it will become less effective. If the CIA/NSA efforts were competent, they'd have more and different malware waiting around to be used, so this wouldn't set CIA operations back for years.
Wikileaks has a 100% accurate record? How is that determined? By assuming Wikileaks is 100% accurate?
It doesn't seem weird to me. Wikileaks leaked information about government operations in one case, and information about internal political party affairs in the other. One is more political than the other.
I'm not an expert on this, but you may have the role of porn reversed. I find that a life-sized three-dimensional woman who I can touch and smell and who touches me is much better than any porn video. For singles, it might be that staying home with a computer and hand lotion is better than going out and getting shot down, but I'm not sure of the same effect on married couples. I'm inclined to think that porn is more likely to be a substitute for sex that's unavailable or unsatisfying.
Underprescribing antidepressants isn't going to help either. Depression is really bad on the sex life. Has the number of people with serious depression gone up?
None of the non-binaries I've run into insist that I should be confused. I just treat them like everybody else whose sex life is none of my business, and things are fine.
There are very few people in the world whose sex, gender, or sexual orientation actually affect me directly, and the same is likely true of you. The sooner you realize that, the happier you'll be.
Not quite. Some people will have more potentially damaging secrets than others. Alternately, #THEY might release such information only against the people $THEY don't like.
I've had devices that apparently managed to connect to the Internet at some time that I never gave the WiFi password to.
The evidence for that is very scanty. Just because something is destroyed in a left-wing demonstration doesn't mean it was destroyed by someone from the left wing. They let just anybody into those demonstrations, without checking political credentials, and the most obvious motive for violence is to discredit the people holding the demonstrations.
Assume the Russians did all that hacking. What risk did they run, assuming Putin was OK with it? Who was going to retaliate?