To all the Americans bashing the UN, how about you pay your fees before you start attacking an institution that you yourselves were instrumental in creating.
"I love French wine, I like the French language. I have sampled every language, French is my favorite. Fantastic language. Especially to curse with. Nom de dieu de putain de bordel de merde de saloperie de connard d'enculé de ta mère. It's like wiping your arse with silk. I love it."
So we have to take the master offline (actually just acquire a write lock on the DB, it can still answer SELECTs), tar up its (massive) database, scp it to the slaves, start the master, stop the slaves, untar the database, restart the slaves, and restart replication.
You forgot the part where you have to take the chicken across first, because the fox won't eat the grain if you leave them alone.
I get the feeling that part of the problem here wasn't that the book didn't cover the bare minimum of what the title implied it would cover, but that it had little value above that which is already available as PDFs. From what I could tell, the reviewer was hoping for a more in-depth discussion of OCTAVE and security threats - something more interesting and meaty that would make it worth paying sixty American ducats for it.
Fortunately, your grandmother has no clue what a.rar file is or how to open one, leaving her safe from infection by this new method. In fact, it's fairly safe to say that the only people who will get owned by.rar file viruses are lamer hax0r wannabes desperate for more pr0n.
Of course, this situation is a concern only for marketroids, and shouldn't concern developers (in a perfect world, anyway). Is it a nice marketing gimmick to be able to advertise a movie and a game at the same time? Sure, I guess. But you're just as well off advertising the game during the trailers as "coming soon" just like all the other movies that get advertised during the trailers.
See, the problem, she is solved, and it doesn't involve developers compromising quality to meet ridiculous ship dates.
By that logic, a significant portion of pure science wouldn't be considered worthwhile (most of astronomy, large portions of mathematics and physics, small portions of biology). And why should we even bother expending human resources on the arts, when there are lives to save?
Calling this a "sixth sense" is very misleading. The normal five senses - sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell, for those few who don't already know - involve the intake of information through specialized organs or tissues (eyes, ears, skin, etc.) in addition to the processing of those stimuli. This so-called "sixth sense" is simply the subconscious reprocessing of the same information obtained by the regular five senses (and that description misses the real point of the discovery anyway*), and so it hardly qualifies as a sense.
* The point of the discovery is that the region of the brain discussed in the article helps to determine, based on past experience and the current situation, whether something is a bad idea or not.
What I mean is a mainstream media report not sourced from an organization with political motivations. This excludes most news bloggers, and pretty much all press releases. An AP or Reuters story would be acceptable.
"Of course they didn't have final absolute say over whether the street bum bought drugs or not, but they provided the spare change that was used to help buy those drugs. They damn well should have had a good idea of what sorts of things street bums buy with the money they panhandle, and are therefore pretty complicit in the act."
Actually, my idea was different. Services such as Equifax, TransUnion, and the other one whose name I can't remember right now would still run their operations for maintaining ratings and records on credit info and such, just as they do today. The government operation would *solely* serve to verify identity.
Except the portion you quoted actually says that ChoicePoint/DBT did not make any decisions as to whether a particular person was a felon or not. So, the statement by the parent of my earlier post - "this is the same company that essentially handed over the 2000 election to George W. Bush" - is actually refuted (at the very least, denied) by the link you provided.
In combination with mandating that companies actually verify the identity of a person before doing sensitive business transactions with them, the government should operate an independent "identity clearinghouse" of sorts. The process would go something like this:
1. Consumer requests (for example) a new line of credit from Bank X. In the process, Consumer provides contact information to Bank X. 2. Bank X contacts Government's Identity Clearinghouse (ICH) with the provided contact information. 3. ICH (a) compares the provided contact information with that in their records, and (b) uses that contact information to contact the consumer and verify that the credit request was valid. 4. ICH informs Bank X of the validity of the credit request.
To fund the system, a small charge would be paid by the consumer, the bank, or both. Other more secure measures (such as personal appearance at a local office) would be involved in changing the information in the clearinghouse. The consumer would then inform their bank(s)/utilities/whatever of their updated mailing information, and the bank would then ask the clearinghouse to verify the correctness of that info.
She's avoiding the fact that her son already needed serious psychiatric help, with or without MMOGs as a conduit for his self-destructive actions. It's pretty much the exact same thing with D&D, where various kids who committed suicide and played D&D were also on drugs and/or severely depressed already (yet the supposed connection between suicide and D&D has been shown to be total bunk - and D&D and other pen-and-paper RPGs are on the rise).
The really sad part is that she herself is in need of psychiatric counseling now as well. By pinning her grief on a game company, she's preventing herself from moving on.
Doesn't this just serve to legitimize leetspeak as a form of communication? Kids today are already getting flunked out of their English classes for typing their papers the same way they text message their friends, with "u" and "r" instead of "you" and "are".
Parents don't really need a guide to leetspeak - all they really need is to tell their kids that the more leet you try to be, the more ass you actually suck.
Actually, "letting them drop" isn't very far from the truth. Of course, we don't just let our feet fall straight down. We swing our legs forward and let our feet catch ourselves before we fall flat on our faces. We actually let a lot of the motion during swing phase happen via gravity, as our lower legs rotate down and forward around the knee joint.
Probably more to the point of what the blurb was talking about, but didn't really explain: human walking uses dynamic stability. During the period of time where one foot is off the ground, our center of mass is not stably supported by the other foot. Compare this to the insect tripod gait, where at all times the center of mass is within the triangle formed by drawing a line between the three stanced feet - thus making it *statically* stable. And compare this to Asimo and the other famous bipedal robots out of Japan - they maintain a statically stable support by balancing the center of mass directly over one of the legs, but they aren't dynamically stable like humans can be.
In other news, U.S. President George W. Bush strongly urged the European Union to embrace basic human freedoms by abandoning its current dictatorial regime for a representative form of government.
No kidding. Everybody's going apeshit over evil Blizzard/VU abusing the rights of this poor consumer, and nobody's stopping to think that maybe the actual wrongdoer here was the person who pawned the used CD-key off onto him in the first place.
The game is used goods. Caveat emptor, and all that.
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To all the Americans bashing the UN, how about you pay your fees before you start attacking an institution that you yourselves were instrumental in creating.
We'd rather mismanage our own money, thanks.
"I love French wine, I like the French language. I have sampled every language, French is my favorite. Fantastic language. Especially to curse with. Nom de dieu de putain de bordel de merde de saloperie de connard d'enculé de ta mère. It's like wiping your arse with silk. I love it."
So we have to take the master offline (actually just acquire a write lock on the DB, it can still answer SELECTs), tar up its (massive) database, scp it to the slaves, start the master, stop the slaves, untar the database, restart the slaves, and restart replication.
You forgot the part where you have to take the chicken across first, because the fox won't eat the grain if you leave them alone.
I get the feeling that part of the problem here wasn't that the book didn't cover the bare minimum of what the title implied it would cover, but that it had little value above that which is already available as PDFs. From what I could tell, the reviewer was hoping for a more in-depth discussion of OCTAVE and security threats - something more interesting and meaty that would make it worth paying sixty American ducats for it.
Fortunately, your grandmother has no clue what a .rar file is or how to open one, leaving her safe from infection by this new method. In fact, it's fairly safe to say that the only people who will get owned by .rar file viruses are lamer hax0r wannabes desperate for more pr0n.
Of course, this situation is a concern only for marketroids, and shouldn't concern developers (in a perfect world, anyway). Is it a nice marketing gimmick to be able to advertise a movie and a game at the same time? Sure, I guess. But you're just as well off advertising the game during the trailers as "coming soon" just like all the other movies that get advertised during the trailers.
See, the problem, she is solved, and it doesn't involve developers compromising quality to meet ridiculous ship dates.
Relying on a cellphone as your 'main' communication device is stupid. A cellphone is nothing but a glorified walkie-talkie.
Okay, so why exactly does that make it stupid?
By that logic, a significant portion of pure science wouldn't be considered worthwhile (most of astronomy, large portions of mathematics and physics, small portions of biology). And why should we even bother expending human resources on the arts, when there are lives to save?
Can you tell for certain there isn't another, yet undiscovered organ or tissue specialised on receiving and forwarding sensory input?
I can tell you that there's no evidence suggesting this to be the case - including from the study mentioned in the original post.
Good point (the sense of body location is called proprioception). My apologies for leaving those out.
Calling this a "sixth sense" is very misleading. The normal five senses - sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell, for those few who don't already know - involve the intake of information through specialized organs or tissues (eyes, ears, skin, etc.) in addition to the processing of those stimuli. This so-called "sixth sense" is simply the subconscious reprocessing of the same information obtained by the regular five senses (and that description misses the real point of the discovery anyway*), and so it hardly qualifies as a sense.
* The point of the discovery is that the region of the brain discussed in the article helps to determine, based on past experience and the current situation, whether something is a bad idea or not.
What I mean is a mainstream media report not sourced from an organization with political motivations. This excludes most news bloggers, and pretty much all press releases. An AP or Reuters story would be acceptable.
Get ready for an analogy.
"Of course they didn't have final absolute say over whether the street bum bought drugs or not, but they provided the spare change that was used to help buy those drugs. They damn well should have had a good idea of what sorts of things street bums buy with the money they panhandle, and are therefore pretty complicit in the act."
Actually, my idea was different. Services such as Equifax, TransUnion, and the other one whose name I can't remember right now would still run their operations for maintaining ratings and records on credit info and such, just as they do today. The government operation would *solely* serve to verify identity.
Except the portion you quoted actually says that ChoicePoint/DBT did not make any decisions as to whether a particular person was a felon or not. So, the statement by the parent of my earlier post - "this is the same company that essentially handed over the 2000 election to George W. Bush" - is actually refuted (at the very least, denied) by the link you provided.
I'd just like to pitch my identity clearinghouse idea again. (Most of this post is copied from my linked post.)
In combination with mandating that companies actually verify the identity of a person before doing sensitive business transactions with them, the government should operate an independent "identity clearinghouse" of sorts. The process would go something like this:
1. Consumer requests (for example) a new line of credit from Bank X. In the process, Consumer provides contact information to Bank X.
2. Bank X contacts Government's Identity Clearinghouse (ICH) with the provided contact information.
3. ICH (a) compares the provided contact information with that in their records, and (b) uses that contact information to contact the consumer and verify that the credit request was valid.
4. ICH informs Bank X of the validity of the credit request.
To fund the system, a small charge would be paid by the consumer, the bank, or both. Other more secure measures (such as personal appearance at a local office) would be involved in changing the information in the clearinghouse. The consumer would then inform their bank(s)/utilities/whatever of their updated mailing information, and the bank would then ask the clearinghouse to verify the correctness of that info.
Does anyone else realize that this is the same company that essentially handed over the 2000 election to George W. Bush?
I suppose you have some unbiased media reports to back this up?
She's avoiding the fact that her son already needed serious psychiatric help, with or without MMOGs as a conduit for his self-destructive actions. It's pretty much the exact same thing with D&D, where various kids who committed suicide and played D&D were also on drugs and/or severely depressed already (yet the supposed connection between suicide and D&D has been shown to be total bunk - and D&D and other pen-and-paper RPGs are on the rise).
The really sad part is that she herself is in need of psychiatric counseling now as well. By pinning her grief on a game company, she's preventing herself from moving on.
Thanks much for the clarification. Like, mod parent up and stuff. :)
Doesn't this just serve to legitimize leetspeak as a form of communication? Kids today are already getting flunked out of their English classes for typing their papers the same way they text message their friends, with "u" and "r" instead of "you" and "are".
Parents don't really need a guide to leetspeak - all they really need is to tell their kids that the more leet you try to be, the more ass you actually suck.
Actually, "letting them drop" isn't very far from the truth. Of course, we don't just let our feet fall straight down. We swing our legs forward and let our feet catch ourselves before we fall flat on our faces. We actually let a lot of the motion during swing phase happen via gravity, as our lower legs rotate down and forward around the knee joint.
Probably more to the point of what the blurb was talking about, but didn't really explain: human walking uses dynamic stability. During the period of time where one foot is off the ground, our center of mass is not stably supported by the other foot. Compare this to the insect tripod gait, where at all times the center of mass is within the triangle formed by drawing a line between the three stanced feet - thus making it *statically* stable. And compare this to Asimo and the other famous bipedal robots out of Japan - they maintain a statically stable support by balancing the center of mass directly over one of the legs, but they aren't dynamically stable like humans can be.
In other news, U.S. President George W. Bush strongly urged the European Union to embrace basic human freedoms by abandoning its current dictatorial regime for a representative form of government.
No kidding. Everybody's going apeshit over evil Blizzard/VU abusing the rights of this poor consumer, and nobody's stopping to think that maybe the actual wrongdoer here was the person who pawned the used CD-key off onto him in the first place.
The game is used goods. Caveat emptor, and all that.
Well, that concept is not exactly new.
It's just like quatloos, but in Final Fantasy.