had a quest where you had to solve a murder case by talking to different witnesses and suspect and thinking things through. I thought it was a nice way to capture the sense of Jedi as Mediators instead of just fighters, and it was pretty fun too.
Certificates prove only that you're talking to the website you think you're talking to. That's it. End of story.
The issue isn't what the certificates do and do not mean, the issue is the ethicalness of these companies issuing any kind of certificate at all to criminal enterprises in return for money, and their failure to instantly revoke the certificates as soon as it becomes clear that the site is being used for criminal purposes.
Shrugging your shoulders and saying "we may have sold certs to criminals, but we don't care 'cause we got payed" may be legal, but it's certainly not ethical. And that's not even mentioning the point the article raised which the OP ignored, which is that the cert issuers aren't even doing their due diligence in checking that the person buying the cert is from the site they claim to be from.
It's just the article seems to assume there's something wrong with the SSL cert issuer, and I really see litle fault from them.
Really? I think they can be legitimately criticized for being willing to assist in lending an air of credibility to the scam by issuing certs to a site with no legitimate purposes at all, merely because the scuzzbags who run the site are willing to cut them a cheque.
One) It doesn't "beg the question". Begging the question is a logical fallacy in which you assume, implicitly or explicitly, the very thing you are trying to prove.
Two) Apple primarily switched because the laptop-suitable G4 line speeds had been stagnant forever. Freescale's 7448 is over a year late and counting. PA Semi's everything and the kitchen sink promises are still vapour-ware. And IBM couldn't provide a G5 that ran cool enough to put in a laptop.
This technology won't be out in the Power6 until 2007 if everything goes as planned, a never-safe assumption when it comes to IBM's fabs. Add more time to that for them to retool the Power6 into a desktop-suitable G6. So in return for not switching, Apple would have to leave their desktop speeds stagnant for another year, and still have no guarantee of any new chips to offer in their laptop line.
Selling 1.42 Ghz, 133 Mhz front side bus iBooks is tough enough now. They'd have had to be absolutely suicidal to stick to IBM's roadmap and the near certainty that they be trying to sell the exact some mobile processors in late 2007.
Then what should we do about all those volcanoes that spew out more gases in 1 day than the emissions of all puny motor vehicles within a 3000 mile radius?
Stop adding to the problem by eliminating the vehicle emissions? The planet can obviously handle the amount of emissions it naturally generates, and handle it in such a way as to provide a climate that facilitates our existence. The problem is that the emissions we are adding are tipping the balance towards a climate which does a much poorer job of supporting our existence.
It's foolish to think that motor vehicles are the direct cause of global warming which is a theory anyway.
So is Gravity. They're both very well supported theories, too. If you don't believe me, try walking off the nearest cliff.
The fishing and shells and so forth aren't games, they're too simplistic for that. They're means to a goal. The real game is in paying off your debts, expanding your house, collecting all the items in some set to decorate your house with, collecting all the fully playable NES games (although those are only in the 'Cube version), bettering your village so more people move in, filling the museum by catching one of everything, getting on the good side of everyone in town, getting all the rare items, etc, etc.
There are all kinds of goals you can pursue, but the key is you have to set them for yourself.
It's the Doom 3 Effect -- Millions of people bittorrented the game 3 days before it hit retail shelves, and then felt like they had to justify the reason they didn't want to pay for it. So the overwhelming reaction was negative. Meanwhile, Half-Life 2 was DRM delivered to paying customers, who of course had a overwhelmingly positive reaction.
Yes, that's a much more rational and likely explanation for the opinions on those two games than the fact that Half-Life 2 was good game and that Doom III was a pretty tech demo with shit game-play.
*A "natural" bug could include a series of conditionals and jumps, where the 1 is simply the untested case that falls into random code.
Which this, demonstrably, is not. The program doesn't just get confused and fall into executing the next byte of data after the malformed length field somehow, it displays no incorrect behavior at all if the length is 0 or 2, but if the length is 1 it spins off a new thread and gets that thread to immediately execute the next byte of data, without that data ever being so much as pointed at. Some particularly weird test/jump combinations could, potentially, explain accidentlly executing data in your own thread, but it's hard to construct a scenario in which one "accidently" calls CreateThread.
The class of problems that can be efficiently solved by quantum computers is called BQP, for "bounded error, quantum, polynomial time". Quantum computers only run randomized algorithms, so BQP on quantum computers is the counterpart of BPP on classical computers.
I don't know how much of a background you have in Computational Mathematics, but the gist of it is that the properties that make a quantum computer very, very good at things like encryption make them very, very bad at everyday, deterministic stuff like desktop computing.
but he had to fill out a form because he was requesting an inter-library loan. I don't know how your school works, if the loan department can psychically detect what you want to request and save you the trouble of filling at a form or whatever, but obviously his school works the old-fashioned way.
Not that this excuses the utterly retarded HomeSec nonsense, of course.
This is exactly the problem the record companies are pointing at. The most important group (for them) does not buy music anymore: young people.
When we were younger we used to buy CD's (or records for that matter). We bought more than our parents. We still buy CD's, but less than we used to. This is known phenomenon: the older one becomes, the less music is bought.
Youngsters should buy more CD's than us older folk, according to pre internet expectations. That used to be the case. Nowadays, young people don't buy CD's anymore, they download. The older people's acquisitions still make up the tops of the charts.
You missed the point by a country mile. If what you were saying were true, we would expect the top selling albums to be those that appeal to the "older folk". But this isn't the case. CD album sales are still dominated by youth-oriented groups.
Instead, concert sales were dominated by acts that appeal to the older generation. That, we can hardly blame on the P2P demon, for you cannot download the experience of being at a concert (bootlegs being a poor substitute, and generally only popular with frequent concert goers anyways). What this may tell us is that older groups have a much more powerful and widespread draw than youth-oriented groups, probably through a combination of higher talent and broader demographics.
This, and other shocking stories, in this week's edition of Duh Magazine.
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It's not just you, Pratchett once said his writing only began to mature starting with Sourcery. The early books are pretty amateurish, the latter brilliant.
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The Prisoner, to put it mildly, does not suffer from this problem.
I don't know about that. The original The Prisoner was, to put it mildly, completely ruined by the utterly retarded ending. This is an opportunity to revisit the concept and redeem it by actually giving some meaning to what was going on, rather than just have it degenerate into psychedelic nonsense.
Uh, no. He sued them when the first negative test came back, on (what would normally be) the sound theory that was evidence that the original positive test had been botched. The hospital then did extensive testing on both the positive and negative samples, at which point they came to the stunning conclusion that both results were correct. The lawsuit ended at that point.
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From his link:
"The most probable explanation for the finding of HIV-specific CTL, able to kill virus-infected cells, in apparently uninfected but repeatedly HIV-exposed women is that they have been immunized by exposure to HIV," notes Dr. Sarah Rowland-Jones of the Molecular Immunology Group at Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.
That would seem to contradict your genetic theory.
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had a quest where you had to solve a murder case by talking to different witnesses and suspect and thinking things through. I thought it was a nice way to capture the sense of Jedi as Mediators instead of just fighters, and it was pretty fun too.
some people are sceptical of claims that RFID presages the end of the world. How utterly shocking.
It's 9 o'clock and this is the voice of fate broadcasting on 275 and 285 in the medium wave. It is the fifth of the eleventh, nineteen ninety-seven.
Certificates prove only that you're talking to the website you think you're talking to. That's it. End of story.
The issue isn't what the certificates do and do not mean, the issue is the ethicalness of these companies issuing any kind of certificate at all to criminal enterprises in return for money, and their failure to instantly revoke the certificates as soon as it becomes clear that the site is being used for criminal purposes.
Shrugging your shoulders and saying "we may have sold certs to criminals, but we don't care 'cause we got payed" may be legal, but it's certainly not ethical. And that's not even mentioning the point the article raised which the OP ignored, which is that the cert issuers aren't even doing their due diligence in checking that the person buying the cert is from the site they claim to be from.
It's just the article seems to assume there's something wrong with the SSL cert issuer, and I really see litle fault from them.
Really? I think they can be legitimately criticized for being willing to assist in lending an air of credibility to the scam by issuing certs to a site with no legitimate purposes at all, merely because the scuzzbags who run the site are willing to cut them a cheque.
One) It doesn't "beg the question". Begging the question is a logical fallacy in which you assume, implicitly or explicitly, the very thing you are trying to prove.
Two) Apple primarily switched because the laptop-suitable G4 line speeds had been stagnant forever. Freescale's 7448 is over a year late and counting. PA Semi's everything and the kitchen sink promises are still vapour-ware. And IBM couldn't provide a G5 that ran cool enough to put in a laptop.
This technology won't be out in the Power6 until 2007 if everything goes as planned, a never-safe assumption when it comes to IBM's fabs. Add more time to that for them to retool the Power6 into a desktop-suitable G6. So in return for not switching, Apple would have to leave their desktop speeds stagnant for another year, and still have no guarantee of any new chips to offer in their laptop line.
Selling 1.42 Ghz, 133 Mhz front side bus iBooks is tough enough now. They'd have had to be absolutely suicidal to stick to IBM's roadmap and the near certainty that they be trying to sell the exact some mobile processors in late 2007.
I'm all for increased use of nuclear power. The scare-mongering amongst the scientifically illiterate needs to stop.
Then what should we do about all those volcanoes that spew out more gases in 1 day than the emissions of all puny motor vehicles within a 3000 mile radius?
Stop adding to the problem by eliminating the vehicle emissions? The planet can obviously handle the amount of emissions it naturally generates, and handle it in such a way as to provide a climate that facilitates our existence. The problem is that the emissions we are adding are tipping the balance towards a climate which does a much poorer job of supporting our existence.
It's foolish to think that motor vehicles are the direct cause of global warming which is a theory anyway.
So is Gravity. They're both very well supported theories, too. If you don't believe me, try walking off the nearest cliff.
Cheers for that. I've been using Tomato Torrent, which was Python-based and slow (but not as slow as Azureus), but this is a lot nicer.
I think the general consensus is Voyager and Enterprise, though for my money Enterprise wasn't all that bad.
Voyager was just so awful it sapped out all the strength that the franchise had gained in the last few years of DS9.
Two? Doesn't seem all that durable to me.
Hmm, that leads me to wonder what the new name for the Powermac will be... MacMac?
Based on the MacBook Pro name, the most obvious candidate is Mac Pro.
The fishing and shells and so forth aren't games, they're too simplistic for that. They're means to a goal. The real game is in paying off your debts, expanding your house, collecting all the items in some set to decorate your house with, collecting all the fully playable NES games (although those are only in the 'Cube version), bettering your village so more people move in, filling the museum by catching one of everything, getting on the good side of everyone in town, getting all the rare items, etc, etc.
There are all kinds of goals you can pursue, but the key is you have to set them for yourself.
It's the Doom 3 Effect -- Millions of people bittorrented the game 3 days before it hit retail shelves, and then felt like they had to justify the reason they didn't want to pay for it. So the overwhelming reaction was negative. Meanwhile, Half-Life 2 was DRM delivered to paying customers, who of course had a overwhelmingly positive reaction.
Yes, that's a much more rational and likely explanation for the opinions on those two games than the fact that Half-Life 2 was good game and that Doom III was a pretty tech demo with shit game-play.
Ditto ;)
*A "natural" bug could include a series of conditionals and jumps, where the 1 is simply the untested case that falls into random code.
Which this, demonstrably, is not. The program doesn't just get confused and fall into executing the next byte of data after the malformed length field somehow, it displays no incorrect behavior at all if the length is 0 or 2, but if the length is 1 it spins off a new thread and gets that thread to immediately execute the next byte of data, without that data ever being so much as pointed at. Some particularly weird test/jump combinations could, potentially, explain accidentlly executing data in your own thread, but it's hard to construct a scenario in which one "accidently" calls CreateThread.
From the very article you linked:
The class of problems that can be efficiently solved by quantum computers is called BQP, for "bounded error, quantum, polynomial time". Quantum computers only run randomized algorithms, so BQP on quantum computers is the counterpart of BPP on classical computers.
I don't know how much of a background you have in Computational Mathematics, but the gist of it is that the properties that make a quantum computer very, very good at things like encryption make them very, very bad at everyday, deterministic stuff like desktop computing.
but he had to fill out a form because he was requesting an inter-library loan. I don't know how your school works, if the loan department can psychically detect what you want to request and save you the trouble of filling at a form or whatever, but obviously his school works the old-fashioned way.
Not that this excuses the utterly retarded HomeSec nonsense, of course.
This is exactly the problem the record companies are pointing at. The most important group (for them) does not buy music anymore: young people.
When we were younger we used to buy CD's (or records for that matter). We bought more than our parents. We still buy CD's, but less than we used to. This is known phenomenon: the older one becomes, the less music is bought.
Youngsters should buy more CD's than us older folk, according to pre internet expectations. That used to be the case. Nowadays, young people don't buy CD's anymore, they download. The older people's acquisitions still make up the tops of the charts.
You missed the point by a country mile. If what you were saying were true, we would expect the top selling albums to be those that appeal to the "older folk". But this isn't the case. CD album sales are still dominated by youth-oriented groups.
Instead, concert sales were dominated by acts that appeal to the older generation. That, we can hardly blame on the P2P demon, for you cannot download the experience of being at a concert (bootlegs being a poor substitute, and generally only popular with frequent concert goers anyways). What this may tell us is that older groups have a much more powerful and widespread draw than youth-oriented groups, probably through a combination of higher talent and broader demographics.
This, and other shocking stories, in this week's edition of Duh Magazine.
It's not just you, Pratchett once said his writing only began to mature starting with Sourcery. The early books are pretty amateurish, the latter brilliant.
It should be Small Gods, and it should be higher.
The Prisoner, to put it mildly, does not suffer from this problem.
I don't know about that. The original The Prisoner was, to put it mildly, completely ruined by the utterly retarded ending. This is an opportunity to revisit the concept and redeem it by actually giving some meaning to what was going on, rather than just have it degenerate into psychedelic nonsense.
Uh, no. He sued them when the first negative test came back, on (what would normally be) the sound theory that was evidence that the original positive test had been botched. The hospital then did extensive testing on both the positive and negative samples, at which point they came to the stunning conclusion that both results were correct. The lawsuit ended at that point.
From his link:
"The most probable explanation for the finding of HIV-specific CTL, able to kill virus-infected cells, in apparently uninfected but repeatedly HIV-exposed women is that they have been immunized by exposure to HIV," notes Dr. Sarah Rowland-Jones of the Molecular Immunology Group at Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.
That would seem to contradict your genetic theory.