I like the way my company handles this. One partner (primary caregiver) gets 12 weeks. The other (secondary caregiver) gets 2 weeks. It addresses all the discrimination/same-sex issues, while also handling the "someone who just had another person come out of them should get more time off" common sense. If the mother works, the father is automatically considered to be the secondary caregiver unless he can provide documentation from her employer saying she only was able to get 2 weeks off. I know fathers who have been able to take 12 weeks off because their wife's employer only allowed 2 weeks of maternity leave.
1. I haven't run into user-agent blocking where I live, maybe it is a regional thing. I have the user-agent on Opera mobile set to use the desktop version without issues. Additionally a few weeks ago my power was out for a couple days and my phone became my primary home internet connection, no browser on 1 windows and 2 linux PCs was blocked.
2. I doubt they would be able to see the TTL. The TTL of the ssh packet would be unchanged, and the TTL of the tunneled packet would be encrypted.
Our algorithm works by adding a high-frequency pattern to the image with an amplitude carefully selected to cause maximum quantization error on recompression at a chosen target JPEG quality factor.
The key here is JPEG quality factor. This only works on a specific quality factor. Just pick a different one. I just tried it using their example image. At some quality factors you can see somthing funny going on (spots on image). But, at any factor you would use to actually compress a photo (above 90) the image looks fine.
This could work for the bandwith-saving proxy mentioned in the article since they will have low quality factors. But what would be the point then? Mangling images when viewed on a cellphone?
I believe the article said their solution algorithm did not search for optimal solutions, only for those that are 20 moves or less. (It has already been proven that there exist positions that can not be solved in less than 20 moves)
So, they can probably give an upper bound on the number of positions solvable in 20 moves, but not an exact number.
Good point. My guess is that is how this tool actually works. It relies on the assumption that any statistically psuedorandom files (or maybe even partitions) must be encrypted, since every other file will contain some sort of pattern.
I know some of the negative things about GoDaddy have been mentioned on Slashdot. But, I have a few domains registered with them and they include a free (I think it is 1GB now) email account with a domain purchase. I know they support POP3, SMTP, and have a nice web interface. I am not sure about IMAP. They have upgrades to better (non-free) accounts available as well.
hmmm.... What is to prevent me for coming up with some crazy impossible routine that would give a starting score of 20 points? Then, just sitting down and doing nothing so that my "execution" score would be 0, but I would still have the extremely high 20 point score.
Have you considered a position in Quality Assurance? I started my career there and someone with the knowledge to test the boundary conditions and intelligently describe a bug as well as the steps needed to reproduce it is very valuable. Unless you are doing test automation there is little to no programming involved. The bad side is the salary is not that great and the job can be tedious.
The author of this analysis seems to have missed the fact that each TCP session in a P2P application is communicating with a different network user and may not be experiencing the same congestion as other sessions. In most cases (those where the congestion is not on the first hop) It doesn't make sense to throttle all connections when one is effected by congestion.
EBay investigated, concluding that Monroe's phantom employer had tied her PayPal account to a fraudulent auction. The auction site's verdict: She was responsible for repaying the full amount to the blameless auction winner. Monroe is now working two part-time jobs to pay the bills and to make the other victim whole.
Since when does EBay get to decide who is responsible for fraud?
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I think there is a misconception in the way I have seen many people think of "using" water. We use it but we don't "use it up." There is with small exceptions almost the same amount of water on the planet as there was thousands or ten thousands of years ago. The problem is that in some areas not enough of it is in a form we can use (water vapor, salt water, ice, etc.) This device simply converts it from a form we can't use to one we can. We then can use it and it flows down the drain/comes off our skin as sweat/is pissed out behind the bushes where it can evaporate and then re-enter the water cycle. I don't see this "drying out" the areas around it.
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I like the way my company handles this. One partner (primary caregiver) gets 12 weeks. The other (secondary caregiver) gets 2 weeks. It addresses all the discrimination/same-sex issues, while also handling the "someone who just had another person come out of them should get more time off" common sense. If the mother works, the father is automatically considered to be the secondary caregiver unless he can provide documentation from her employer saying she only was able to get 2 weeks off. I know fathers who have been able to take 12 weeks off because their wife's employer only allowed 2 weeks of maternity leave.
The alt-text on that comic is one of my favorite quotes ever.
2 things:
1. I haven't run into user-agent blocking where I live, maybe it is a regional thing. I have the user-agent on Opera mobile set to use the desktop version without issues. Additionally a few weeks ago my power was out for a couple days and my phone became my primary home internet connection, no browser on 1 windows and 2 linux PCs was blocked.
2. I doubt they would be able to see the TTL. The TTL of the ssh packet would be unchanged, and the TTL of the tunneled packet would be encrypted.
Pshhh.... qzjkh is a perfectly cromulent word.
Let's just call 1970 year 0 and be done with it. Previous years are negative, following years are positive.
and he will cook in a similar way to how he would on re-entry without a heat shield.
Our algorithm works by adding a high-frequency pattern to the image with an amplitude carefully selected to cause maximum quantization error on recompression at a chosen target JPEG quality factor.
The key here is JPEG quality factor. This only works on a specific quality factor. Just pick a different one. I just tried it using their example image. At some quality factors you can see somthing funny going on (spots on image). But, at any factor you would use to actually compress a photo (above 90) the image looks fine.
This could work for the bandwith-saving proxy mentioned in the article since they will have low quality factors. But what would be the point then? Mangling images when viewed on a cellphone?
I believe the article said their solution algorithm did not search for optimal solutions, only for those that are 20 moves or less. (It has already been proven that there exist positions that can not be solved in less than 20 moves)
So, they can probably give an upper bound on the number of positions solvable in 20 moves, but not an exact number.
with characters such as RBS, Linus, Guido Python, Larry Perl, etc.
Um..... RMS, Linus Torvalds, Guido van Rossum, Larry Wall
Good point. My guess is that is how this tool actually works. It relies on the assumption that any statistically psuedorandom files (or maybe even partitions) must be encrypted, since every other file will contain some sort of pattern.
New phrase: "font-snob"
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Too bad there isn't a "-1 Incoherent" mod.
I know some of the negative things about GoDaddy have been mentioned on Slashdot.
But, I have a few domains registered with them and they include a free (I think it is 1GB now) email account with a domain purchase. I know they support POP3, SMTP, and have a nice web interface. I am not sure about IMAP.
They have upgrades to better (non-free) accounts available as well.
Uh oh, some poor sysadmin at Baidu is in need of "re-education".
hmmm....
What is to prevent me for coming up with some crazy impossible routine that would give a starting score of 20 points? Then, just sitting down and doing nothing so that my "execution" score would be 0, but I would still have the extremely high 20 point score.
Have you considered a position in Quality Assurance? I started my career there and someone with the knowledge to test the boundary conditions and intelligently describe a bug as well as the steps needed to reproduce it is very valuable. Unless you are doing test automation there is little to no programming involved. The bad side is the salary is not that great and the job can be tedious.
What? You didn't say it had to print only 1 or 2.
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My dad used to say that all the time. Something about a code phrase he used in the Navy. What is it from?
You are trying to switch off a Microsoft sponsored show. Cancel or Abort?
There... fixed that for you.
The author of this analysis seems to have missed the fact that each TCP session in a P2P application is communicating with a different network user and may not be experiencing the same congestion as other sessions. In most cases (those where the congestion is not on the first hop) It doesn't make sense to throttle all connections when one is effected by congestion.
A) What is a bamalance?
2) This is Columbus, GA not Columbus, OH.
No, that would be Pyg Latin!
You are assuming P/NP is solvable.
I think there is a misconception in the way I have seen many people think of "using" water. We use it but we don't "use it up." There is with small exceptions almost the same amount of water on the planet as there was thousands or ten thousands of years ago. The problem is that in some areas not enough of it is in a form we can use (water vapor, salt water, ice, etc.) This device simply converts it from a form we can't use to one we can.
We then can use it and it flows down the drain/comes off our skin as sweat/is pissed out behind the bushes where it can evaporate and then re-enter the water cycle. I don't see this "drying out" the areas around it.