means coal, at least until it runs out, at which point it means rolling blackouts.
Except that as a practical matter coal will never run out. The only thing that could really disrupt the supply of coal is the NIBY crowd and the regulators. Most estimates suggest we have centuries of supply in domestic coal.
I think your ignoring how some of these people get into this criminal line of work. Suppose you had been doing honest work as developer, or maybe even something like a pen tester. Suppose one day you discover a really reliable vulnerability you can exploit in some really really widely used software, maybe the SMB service on Windows or something. It works just about everywhere and gets privileged access.
Now you got choices:
Tell the vendor - who may be happy to hear from you so they can quickly and quietly patch it. They may even pay you a small bounty. The may also do nothing. They could potentially even try and prosecute you. I can tell you I WOULD NEVER CHOOSE THIS OPTION, little possibility for reward lots of potential for pain.
Publish it in the legitimate white had security world -- Probably the best choice. You'll be getting your name out there which can really help you. You might even be able to make some money off it directly by talking about it at the various *cons.. The vendor or project will be forced to fix the vulnerability which is good because that actually makes everyone safe. If you publish in the proper venue at least people who care enough to follow this stuff will be able to take some mitigation steps until a proper fix is available.
Sell it -- risky sure, but might not be all that difficult these days. Could be lots quick money. Awful hard to say no to a quick $50K shot in the arm. You certainly risk jail and could lose everything, but that calculation then depends on your current situation. If you have a good job and are living comfortable with some savings you'd probably be crazy to try it. On the other hand if you're sitting there wondering how your paying the rent this month and contemplating ramen noodles for dinner again; taking your chances on something like that might be pretty appealing.
You want to motivate someone to really learn something show them the power of the thing. If you try to teach programming or math by showing kinds "hey you make 3d animations" many are not going to be interesting; because many won't see value in the application. On the other hand convey this can open endless possibilities its a tool that you can use to accomplish YOUR OWN goals, and kids will take interest.
For one student that might be animating their favorite comic book character, but for another it might be reading in a bunch of statistics and optimizing a fantasy football lineup. So you do need to show them some applications in the real world, but a truly great teacher might let some of the students define what that application is, because that would prove to them and all the others, that isn't about calculating how many swimming pools you can fill in hour with a 3" diameter water pipe, and some given pressure. Its about being empowered to do what you want to get done.
And what about all the mining to provide the rare earths for the high efficiency compact generators that have to go in the turbines. How much harm to birds has the tailing from that done? You don't have a point, other than that basically any activity may do some indirect harm to these birds.
The larger issue here is this is just another case of the administration playing favorites. If you happen to be someone Obama likes for whatever reason the rules don't apply to you. You're a unionized teach oh well you can get an exemption from NCLB, You're a big laybor union and there is an election coming up bye bye employer mandate... You're UAW member forget bankruptcy law and the bond holders rights I'll just give Chrysler away to a foreign company.
OTOH - you're an individual who had trouble buying insurance no relief for you pal, you own a coal plant the EPA is gonna destroy your business fool.
The rules SHOULD be applied as written and uniformly to everyone one. Either it everybody should get exempted from rules protecting eagles or nobody should. The Obama Administration is a blight on not only this nation but the world, for anyone who cares about the rule of law and real democracy.
Not certain buy I would guess FAT32 because of this 'common name space for long and short filenames' as FAT12 and FAT16 did not support LNFs. Hopefully and this what actually matters at this point it also covers exFAT
You can't exercise it off because exercise itself does not burn many calories at least not in proportion to what you can easily consume in a sitting. What it does do though is raise your metabolism. it causes your body to basically use more fuel all the time, so that its ready to support those more frequently occurring higher activity levels. So being physically active for a least a little while every day really is very important for most people to maintain a healthy weight.
Diet and exercise is fine advice for someone like me, who the doctor has suggested could stand to lose 15 pounds. I can accomplish that without drugs, and by doing it now, I'll likely improve my eating habits and not find myself needing to take off even larger amounts of weight later. But my eating habits are already pretty good compared to many, and I get lots of exercise ( I love walking and do walk anywhere I can get on foot safely ). I just need to arrest my sweet tooth a little.
Once people become obese though getting enough exercise to burn any serious calories can be very difficult. They can't walk to the store to do their shopping or spend 20min on the elliptical at home because they'd be exhausted after five. Yet they have all these fat cells their body now thinks it needs to maintain screaming eat constantly. Not impossible to conquer with will power alone perhaps but probably really freaking hard; at to the fact that because they can't get exercise easily their metabolism is probably lower than it should be and they can't burn the extra calories by working out so its going to take a seriously long time before they see any improvement. There is nothing more psychologically challenging then lots of hard work, and discomfort without any short term payoffs.
Yea I agree they did it to themselves and when it comes to who should have to pay more for a plane ticket, medical insurance, and similar where obesity decidedly raises costs, yea I think they should be expected to pay. They should have recognized a problem early and done something about it when it was possible, if they became obese as children their parents should have intervened.
But they are where they are now and if a drug can help them better themselves, why would you want to deny them? Once they get healthy they are going to need to learn good habits to stay healthy but that will be much easier for them if they could get healthy first.
Why does the fact that governments spy mean we, the people who run this country, can't hold them accountable?
We can't because we have demonstrated that we can't as others have pointed out these things only came to light because of Snowden, and most of it has been happening for a decade!
Having programs on the scale the NSA is running them and having them be secret is fundamentally incompatible with representative democracy. How exactly are "We the People" suppose to hold anyone to account, judge their actions as legislators and executives etc when we can't and don't know what is being done with billions of our dollars, and thousands of our people? We can't.
While I do accept some secrecy is needed for the operations of state, I do not think a free society can allow an organization as massive as the the NSA to do so much in secret. Its clearly crossed a line where its no longer under the peoples control. Because nobody who takes the time read the paper is happy about all this.
What can they do though? We don't even really know who supported it, who objected to in legislative committee meetings because they are closed door.
I know your comment was intended to be funny but I think this is serious issue; one our society and our courts have gotten wrong for a long time now.
One of our most basic enumerated rights is that of assembly. In order to assemble that requires being able to go to where the assembly is happening. The right to travel ( at least within the jurisdiction of the United States ) is strongly implied by the first Amendment to the Constitution.
As a practical matter in the modern world flying and even more so driving essential to travel. Having established the right to travel, I think it can and should be argued that flying and driving are in fact not privileges but rights. Rights which cannot and should not be denied anyone but upon conviction of crime.
Which means that lots of things like vehicle check points, and insurance requirements are on shake legal ground too.
Two things should happen when you toss a brick through a store window. First the owner or perhaps the state on the owners behalf should initiate a civil proceeding against you where minimally upon being found liable be compelled to pay the full replacement and installation costs of a new window. Additional you might reasonably be expected to compensate the owner for the temporary loss of use of his property while the windows is being repaired. You must compensate for the harm to the owners property.
Then a criminal charges should be brought against you because its not in societies interest to have people thinking they can go around and break windows. Given throwing bricks through plate glass in public places has a high probability of injuring others that penalty too should be not insignificant. When its all said and does committing a senseless destructive act of vandalism like that should set you back a few thousand dollars; in the interest of justice.
Now lets think about the DDOS attack. Its vandalism pretty similar; but unless you are DDOS a hospital, public utility, or some government sites and similar there is basically no probability of anyone getting hurt as a direct consequence. So if anything the harm is automatically much lower. Unlike the window your computer is still perfectly fine once the DDOS is over and done with. So we are really down to society wanting to discourage vandalism and the short term loss of the use of property. Seems to me the penalty might be tied to the revenue the site nominally generates during the period for the owners and a little wrist for society to remind you not to be a prick.
183K is way out of line for 60 of participation in a DDOS, even if your hitting a site like Amazon.
First you get "convicted" of running a stop sign, then a judge orders a psychiatric evaluation where its determined you need to be locked away indefinitely without appeal.
The system was abused before and certainly would be again now more than ever in fact. In days gone by people just did not go poking the noses about and asking questions. These days eve if someone sees blatant abuse staring them in the face they won't speak out and why would they given how we treat whistle blowers.
The trouble is we can't usually tell the difference between someone who is "a little off" and someone who is likely to be a real danger. The mental health professionals are little better at it than lay people (running schools etc) but not all that much. If we really value the freedom to be an individual still at all than we can't even entertain the idea of going back to the way things were.
Considering that mental health is so subjective and still poorly understood, could you imagine the amount of abuse that would occur? I would measure in seconds the time between such a facility opening and doctors being bribed to incarcerate patients, "for their own good".
We don't need imagine, there is plenty of evidence that there was a great deal of abuse where the old system of institutionalization was concerned. That is one of the reasons society decided to dismantle that system in the 60's. This was the height of the "great society" after all its not as if the objection to the state "caring" for the mentally ill was on anit-socialwelfare spending grounds.
Where your Granpa's lottery ticket is concerned his correct or should be if the lotto is truly random.
Humans picking numbers though are not good sources of random. People tend to do things like choose 0000000, 1111111, 12345..., because they are easy to remember. They also often pick numbers such that the first pairs of digits might represent a valid date because its their dogs birthday or whatever. Knowing this means you try the list of common pattern first (dictionary), then you try the smaller key space of what might be date codes (optimized brute force). Finally you try other numbers. That is if your are trying to guess a value chosen by someone as their pass code.
Actually in the case of the lottery you are probably better off picking something where the first digits cannot represent a date because its just as likely that value will be selected as the winner but far less likely you will have to share the prize because others don't pick those numbers.
If I was some super spy trying to guess US nuclear launch codes for some reason, with no information to go on its very likely I might try something like all zeros, starting with zero, one or something else would likely be determined by how the keypad was arranged.
A properly designed system would not have allowed humans to select the code. A decent PRNG or actual natural random source should have picked a value and forced the operators to simply memorize it.
Intel my be looking at Linux as a "second tier" gaming platform. Steam may very well end up like the Netflix Streaming of video games, and Intel might be happy to have their CPU/GPU package in a low end Steam box.
My bet, and Steam as well as GOG are already showing this is there pretty good market for back catalog titles if you price them cheaply enough and make it super easy customers to purchase/install/play. That includes curating a catalog that will run on inexpensive modest hardware. You can also keep costs down not paying the Windows tax if you can make GNU/Lunux/Wine transparent to the user and work properly.
This is all gravy as far as the publishers are concerned. They are not generating any revenue off five+ year old titles otherwise if they grab additional revenue off their past work why would they pass it up. I don't think they risk cannibalizing their new release AAA catalog either if anything they will cannibalize the used market they don't seem to much care for anyway. So they will be on board.
Intel will be there to sell the chips, which Intel might be able to produce in their second class fabs rather than leasing them out again squeezing a little more revenue from prior investments.
Text "HELP" to 911 with a thug breaking in on you home.
My understanding is in many municipalities this actually will get attention; preciously because there is a recognized need someone might reach out to 911 for help without calling attention to the fact they are doing.
Like if someone was say breaking into your home and you hid the basement or something and did not want to be heard speaking.
I'll agree it might not deserve its place of regard near the apex of American literature but it certainly isn't crap. Maybe it no longer should be one of the five or six books we determinedly cram down every high schoolers throat anymore but someone seriously interested in American literature still needs to pay it a visit for certain.
It was a work of avaunt guard art in its day. There really was little in the way of "modern" coming of age works at the time, and nobody had done a novel length narrative in stream of conscience. The fact he did both and created a book that most people at least like well enough to finish even if they find they can't identify suggests its actually a pretty good book.
Some of its artistic greatness comes from the fact that it was unique. There have been lots of imitators who have created lots of crap since, but the original deserves a little reverence. If in visual arts I took a canvas painted half orange and half yellow and then drew a read smear down the center you'd rightly call it crap; but when Mark Rothko did expressed something and said something nobody had ever done before. What exactly I am not sure but when you see "Orange, Red, Yellow" you do react to it. The fact that someone was willing to put it out there and assert, this can be art, makes it special in a way no derivative work ever can be; its similar with Catcher.
No offense intended but I think its very possible as a foreigner you might not be able to really get it. Its like students today don't seem to get as excited about it as people who read it 20 years ago or more did. Catcher and more specifically Holden's experience everyone so identifies with have a lot to do with him facing the reality of life in mid century America in contrast to what he'd been told to except. That is why he is always up in arms about phonies. The less our nation looks like that less people identify with him.
Sure people still experience adolescent angst and loss of innocence and always will but as time marches on the forms become different and I think readers don't as easily think "hey I once was Holden Caulfield", or depending on your age "I totally get that." So the book does not work its magic so easily anymore. Stream of conscience was brave and innovative. J.D. Salinger deserves lots of credit for trying it and executing it in a way that made it work. I think its a work very tied to a particular age though, and while its had a great 60 year run now, it may be becoming less relevant.
As to his other works "Franny and Zooey" may be a little more timeless. Sure its still set in a very particular time and place, but the familiar struggles and spiritual questions that book asks may be more enduring. Which is not to say I have any interest in exploring the Tolkienesque Glass family history Salinger is supposed to have crafted and locked in safe somewhere when it does come out. At least for me a farther exploration of their history can only take away for the intellectual experience. So even if you though "Catcher in the Rye" was just okay, I'd still recommend "Franny and Zooey" they are characters Salinger himself loved better than Holden by all accounts and themes of the book are more mature; its worth reading. If you did not like Catcher at all than skip "Franny and Zooey" the texture if you will is much the same.
I would not click these links. My understanding is the rights to his unpublished works are held in a trust which may start publishing some of them as early as 2015. The guy was pretty crazy at the end, and the people around him pretty litigious; who knows what the folks managing the trust might do about this. I would not want any IP address I could be associated with anywhere near anyone one of these links.
Maybe Peter Norton will ride on in on a white horse to save Salinger again somehow, that would be fun to see.
I disagree. A lot of job postings really are wishlists. If they have four out of five of the 'requirements' it can still be worth applying at least if you are established in your career and field and are listing some prior experience.
If you have most of what they claim to be looking for and a positive work history with good references its worth a shot anyway. The worst thing that happens to you is you spend half an hour tweaking your cover letter and uploading your CV, and then nobody calls you back. You are out pretty little if you either A need a job or B really think the position is something you like to do.
If you do get to the interview have a story to tell about how you approached something unfamiliar and got up to speed quickly. You'll use this as your answer when the question comes up, "your resume does not mention any experience with $X, what about that?"
The end user can get most of the benefits without even knowing what SSL is or having any understanding at all of cryptography.
When it comes to protection from the common script kiddie possibly. I am not suggesting we should stop aiming at secure by default, it can't hurt. What can hurt though is this idea that you don't need to know anything. IGNORANCE IS ALWAYS DANGEROUS. Sorry for shouting but the point must be driving home. What you don't know can hurt you. Now nobody can know everything but not knowing anything is just lazy and asking for trouble.
I am not suggesting everyone needs to understand all the math behind the cryptography used for a SSL connection. I am suggesting everyone using it could and should understand the trust model, what PKI is, and the relationship between the URL they typed, the DNS name that was looked up, the ip address they connected to and the subject of the server certificate.
Because while "my browser shows a closed lock so It must be secure" is enough to stop your most basic threat, once that same script kiddie moves just one notch up spends $30 on book, and figures out how to get backtraq/kali/whatever to run in vmware player suddenly the coffee house wifi is not longer safe for you. To say nothing of someone with actual means or a dedicated conman who steals identities for a living deciding to victimize you.
To use the car analogy, we don't let people take to the roads until they can show they have some concept of the basic safety rules and procedures, yet we thrust a smart phone or tablet into the hands of children and probably the majority of the adults on the Internets total knowledge of computer security is what Katie Couric relayed to them in a 6min soft news spot.
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means coal, at least until it runs out, at which point it means rolling blackouts.
Except that as a practical matter coal will never run out. The only thing that could really disrupt the supply of coal is the NIBY crowd and the regulators. Most estimates suggest we have centuries of supply in domestic coal.
I think your ignoring how some of these people get into this criminal line of work. Suppose you had been doing honest work as developer, or maybe even something like a pen tester. Suppose one day you discover a really reliable vulnerability you can exploit in some really really widely used software, maybe the SMB service on Windows or something. It works just about everywhere and gets privileged access.
Now you got choices:
Tell the vendor - who may be happy to hear from you so they can quickly and quietly patch it. They may even pay you a small bounty. The may also do nothing. They could potentially even try and prosecute you. I can tell you I WOULD NEVER CHOOSE THIS OPTION, little possibility for reward lots of potential for pain.
Publish it in the legitimate white had security world -- Probably the best choice. You'll be getting your name out there which can really help you. You might even be able to make some money off it directly by talking about it at the various *cons.. The vendor or project will be forced to fix the vulnerability which is good because that actually makes everyone safe. If you publish in the proper venue at least people who care enough to follow this stuff will be able to take some mitigation steps until a proper fix is available.
Sell it -- risky sure, but might not be all that difficult these days. Could be lots quick money. Awful hard to say no to a quick $50K shot in the arm. You certainly risk jail and could lose everything, but that calculation then depends on your current situation. If you have a good job and are living comfortable with some savings you'd probably be crazy to try it. On the other hand if you're sitting there wondering how your paying the rent this month and contemplating ramen noodles for dinner again; taking your chances on something like that might be pretty appealing.
Exactly This ^^^
You want to motivate someone to really learn something show them the power of the thing. If you try to teach programming or math by showing kinds "hey you make 3d animations" many are not going to be interesting; because many won't see value in the application. On the other hand convey this can open endless possibilities its a tool that you can use to accomplish YOUR OWN goals, and kids will take interest.
For one student that might be animating their favorite comic book character, but for another it might be reading in a bunch of statistics and optimizing a fantasy football lineup. So you do need to show them some applications in the real world, but a truly great teacher might let some of the students define what that application is, because that would prove to them and all the others, that isn't about calculating how many swimming pools you can fill in hour with a 3" diameter water pipe, and some given pressure. Its about being empowered to do what you want to get done.
And what about all the mining to provide the rare earths for the high efficiency compact generators that have to go in the turbines. How much harm to birds has the tailing from that done? You don't have a point, other than that basically any activity may do some indirect harm to these birds.
The larger issue here is this is just another case of the administration playing favorites. If you happen to be someone Obama likes for whatever reason the rules don't apply to you. You're a unionized teach oh well you can get an exemption from NCLB, You're a big laybor union and there is an election coming up bye bye employer mandate... You're UAW member forget bankruptcy law and the bond holders rights I'll just give Chrysler away to a foreign company.
OTOH - you're an individual who had trouble buying insurance no relief for you pal, you own a coal plant the EPA is gonna destroy your business fool.
The rules SHOULD be applied as written and uniformly to everyone one. Either it everybody should get exempted from rules protecting eagles or nobody should. The Obama Administration is a blight on not only this nation but the world, for anyone who cares about the rule of law and real democracy.
Not certain buy I would guess FAT32 because of this 'common name space for long and short filenames' as FAT12 and FAT16 did not support LNFs. Hopefully and this what actually matters at this point it also covers exFAT
You can't exercise it off because exercise itself does not burn many calories at least not in proportion to what you can easily consume in a sitting. What it does do though is raise your metabolism. it causes your body to basically use more fuel all the time, so that its ready to support those more frequently occurring higher activity levels. So being physically active for a least a little while every day really is very important for most people to maintain a healthy weight.
Diet and exercise is fine advice for someone like me, who the doctor has suggested could stand to lose 15 pounds. I can accomplish that without drugs, and by doing it now, I'll likely improve my eating habits and not find myself needing to take off even larger amounts of weight later. But my eating habits are already pretty good compared to many, and I get lots of exercise ( I love walking and do walk anywhere I can get on foot safely ). I just need to arrest my sweet tooth a little.
Once people become obese though getting enough exercise to burn any serious calories can be very difficult. They can't walk to the store to do their shopping or spend 20min on the elliptical at home because they'd be exhausted after five. Yet they have all these fat cells their body now thinks it needs to maintain screaming eat constantly. Not impossible to conquer with will power alone perhaps but probably really freaking hard; at to the fact that because they can't get exercise easily their metabolism is probably lower than it should be and they can't burn the extra calories by working out so its going to take a seriously long time before they see any improvement. There is nothing more psychologically challenging then lots of hard work, and discomfort without any short term payoffs.
Yea I agree they did it to themselves and when it comes to who should have to pay more for a plane ticket, medical insurance, and similar where obesity decidedly raises costs, yea I think they should be expected to pay. They should have recognized a problem early and done something about it when it was possible, if they became obese as children their parents should have intervened.
But they are where they are now and if a drug can help them better themselves, why would you want to deny them? Once they get healthy they are going to need to learn good habits to stay healthy but that will be much easier for them if they could get healthy first.
Intrinsic value certainly is real. A chicken has intrinsic value, it can feed me for days and I and everyone else I know likes to eat.
Why does the fact that governments spy mean we, the people who run this country, can't hold them accountable?
We can't because we have demonstrated that we can't as others have pointed out these things only came to light because of Snowden, and most of it has been happening for a decade!
Having programs on the scale the NSA is running them and having them be secret is fundamentally incompatible with representative democracy. How exactly are "We the People" suppose to hold anyone to account, judge their actions as legislators and executives etc when we can't and don't know what is being done with billions of our dollars, and thousands of our people? We can't.
While I do accept some secrecy is needed for the operations of state, I do not think a free society can allow an organization as massive as the the NSA to do so much in secret. Its clearly crossed a line where its no longer under the peoples control. Because nobody who takes the time read the paper is happy about all this.
What can they do though? We don't even really know who supported it, who objected to in legislative committee meetings because they are closed door.
I know your comment was intended to be funny but I think this is serious issue; one our society and our courts have gotten wrong for a long time now.
One of our most basic enumerated rights is that of assembly. In order to assemble that requires being able to go to where the assembly is happening. The right to travel ( at least within the jurisdiction of the United States ) is strongly implied by the first Amendment to the Constitution.
As a practical matter in the modern world flying and even more so driving essential to travel. Having established the right to travel, I think it can and should be argued that flying and driving are in fact not privileges but rights. Rights which cannot and should not be denied anyone but upon conviction of crime.
Which means that lots of things like vehicle check points, and insurance requirements are on shake legal ground too.
Two things should happen when you toss a brick through a store window. First the owner or perhaps the state on the owners behalf should initiate a civil proceeding against you where minimally upon being found liable be compelled to pay the full replacement and installation costs of a new window. Additional you might reasonably be expected to compensate the owner for the temporary loss of use of his property while the windows is being repaired. You must compensate for the harm to the owners property.
Then a criminal charges should be brought against you because its not in societies interest to have people thinking they can go around and break windows. Given throwing bricks through plate glass in public places has a high probability of injuring others that penalty too should be not insignificant. When its all said and does committing a senseless destructive act of vandalism like that should set you back a few thousand dollars; in the interest of justice.
Now lets think about the DDOS attack. Its vandalism pretty similar; but unless you are DDOS a hospital, public utility, or some government sites and similar there is basically no probability of anyone getting hurt as a direct consequence. So if anything the harm is automatically much lower. Unlike the window your computer is still perfectly fine once the DDOS is over and done with. So we are really down to society wanting to discourage vandalism and the short term loss of the use of property. Seems to me the penalty might be tied to the revenue the site nominally generates during the period for the owners and a little wrist for society to remind you not to be a prick.
183K is way out of line for 60 of participation in a DDOS, even if your hitting a site like Amazon.
First you get "convicted" of running a stop sign, then a judge orders a psychiatric evaluation where its determined you need to be locked away indefinitely without appeal.
The system was abused before and certainly would be again now more than ever in fact. In days gone by people just did not go poking the noses about and asking questions. These days eve if someone sees blatant abuse staring them in the face they won't speak out and why would they given how we treat whistle blowers.
The trouble is we can't usually tell the difference between someone who is "a little off" and someone who is likely to be a real danger. The mental health professionals are little better at it than lay people (running schools etc) but not all that much. If we really value the freedom to be an individual still at all than we can't even entertain the idea of going back to the way things were.
Considering that mental health is so subjective and still poorly understood, could you imagine the amount of abuse that would occur? I would measure in seconds the time between such a facility opening and doctors being bribed to incarcerate patients, "for their own good".
We don't need imagine, there is plenty of evidence that there was a great deal of abuse where the old system of institutionalization was concerned. That is one of the reasons society decided to dismantle that system in the 60's. This was the height of the "great society" after all its not as if the objection to the state "caring" for the mentally ill was on anit-socialwelfare spending grounds.
Where your Granpa's lottery ticket is concerned his correct or should be if the lotto is truly random.
Humans picking numbers though are not good sources of random. People tend to do things like choose 0000000, 1111111, 12345..., because they are easy to remember. They also often pick numbers such that the first pairs of digits might represent a valid date because its their dogs birthday or whatever. Knowing this means you try the list of common pattern first (dictionary), then you try the smaller key space of what might be date codes (optimized brute force). Finally you try other numbers. That is if your are trying to guess a value chosen by someone as their pass code.
Actually in the case of the lottery you are probably better off picking something where the first digits cannot represent a date because its just as likely that value will be selected as the winner but far less likely you will have to share the prize because others don't pick those numbers.
If I was some super spy trying to guess US nuclear launch codes for some reason, with no information to go on its very likely I might try something like all zeros, starting with zero, one or something else would likely be determined by how the keypad was arranged.
A properly designed system would not have allowed humans to select the code. A decent PRNG or actual natural random source should have picked a value and forced the operators to simply memorize it.
Never, because bank card PINs are usually 4-digits
Intel my be looking at Linux as a "second tier" gaming platform. Steam may very well end up like the Netflix Streaming of video games, and Intel might be happy to have their CPU/GPU package in a low end Steam box.
My bet, and Steam as well as GOG are already showing this is there pretty good market for back catalog titles if you price them cheaply enough and make it super easy customers to purchase/install/play. That includes curating a catalog that will run on inexpensive modest hardware. You can also keep costs down not paying the Windows tax if you can make GNU/Lunux/Wine transparent to the user and work properly.
This is all gravy as far as the publishers are concerned. They are not generating any revenue off five+ year old titles otherwise if they grab additional revenue off their past work why would they pass it up. I don't think they risk cannibalizing their new release AAA catalog either if anything they will cannibalize the used market they don't seem to much care for anyway. So they will be on board.
Intel will be there to sell the chips, which Intel might be able to produce in their second class fabs rather than leasing them out again squeezing a little more revenue from prior investments.
Text "HELP" to 911 with a thug breaking in on you home.
My understanding is in many municipalities this actually will get attention; preciously because there is a recognized need someone might reach out to 911 for help without calling attention to the fact they are doing.
Like if someone was say breaking into your home and you hid the basement or something and did not want to be heard speaking.
Reminds me of progress quest which frankly was much more clever.
http://progressquest.com/
I'll agree it might not deserve its place of regard near the apex of American literature but it certainly isn't crap. Maybe it no longer should be one of the five or six books we determinedly cram down every high schoolers throat anymore but someone seriously interested in American literature still needs to pay it a visit for certain.
It was a work of avaunt guard art in its day. There really was little in the way of "modern" coming of age works at the time, and nobody had done a novel length narrative in stream of conscience. The fact he did both and created a book that most people at least like well enough to finish even if they find they can't identify suggests its actually a pretty good book.
Some of its artistic greatness comes from the fact that it was unique. There have been lots of imitators who have created lots of crap since, but the original deserves a little reverence. If in visual arts I took a canvas painted half orange and half yellow and then drew a read smear down the center you'd rightly call it crap; but when Mark Rothko did expressed something and said something nobody had ever done before. What exactly I am not sure but when you see "Orange, Red, Yellow" you do react to it. The fact that someone was willing to put it out there and assert, this can be art, makes it special in a way no derivative work ever can be; its similar with Catcher.
No offense intended but I think its very possible as a foreigner you might not be able to really get it. Its like students today don't seem to get as excited about it as people who read it 20 years ago or more did. Catcher and more specifically Holden's experience everyone so identifies with have a lot to do with him facing the reality of life in mid century America in contrast to what he'd been told to except. That is why he is always up in arms about phonies. The less our nation looks like that less people identify with him.
Sure people still experience adolescent angst and loss of innocence and always will but as time marches on the forms become different and I think readers don't as easily think "hey I once was Holden Caulfield", or depending on your age "I totally get that." So the book does not work its magic so easily anymore. Stream of conscience was brave and innovative. J.D. Salinger deserves lots of credit for trying it and executing it in a way that made it work. I think its a work very tied to a particular age though, and while its had a great 60 year run now, it may be becoming less relevant.
As to his other works "Franny and Zooey" may be a little more timeless. Sure its still set in a very particular time and place, but the familiar struggles and spiritual questions that book asks may be more enduring. Which is not to say I have any interest in exploring the Tolkienesque Glass family history Salinger is supposed to have crafted and locked in safe somewhere when it does come out. At least for me a farther exploration of their history can only take away for the intellectual experience. So even if you though "Catcher in the Rye" was just okay, I'd still recommend "Franny and Zooey" they are characters Salinger himself loved better than Holden by all accounts and themes of the book are more mature; its worth reading. If you did not like Catcher at all than skip "Franny and Zooey" the texture if you will is much the same.
I would not click these links. My understanding is the rights to his unpublished works are held in a trust which may start publishing some of them as early as 2015. The guy was pretty crazy at the end, and the people around him pretty litigious; who knows what the folks managing the trust might do about this. I would not want any IP address I could be associated with anywhere near anyone one of these links.
Maybe Peter Norton will ride on in on a white horse to save Salinger again somehow, that would be fun to see.
I disagree. A lot of job postings really are wishlists. If they have four out of five of the 'requirements' it can still be worth applying at least if you are established in your career and field and are listing some prior experience.
If you have most of what they claim to be looking for and a positive work history with good references its worth a shot anyway. The worst thing that happens to you is you spend half an hour tweaking your cover letter and uploading your CV, and then nobody calls you back. You are out pretty little if you either A need a job or B really think the position is something you like to do.
If you do get to the interview have a story to tell about how you approached something unfamiliar and got up to speed quickly. You'll use this as your answer when the question comes up, "your resume does not mention any experience with $X, what about that?"
This has worked for me in the past.
The end user can get most of the benefits without even knowing what SSL is or having any understanding at all of cryptography.
When it comes to protection from the common script kiddie possibly. I am not suggesting we should stop aiming at secure by default, it can't hurt. What can hurt though is this idea that you don't need to know anything. IGNORANCE IS ALWAYS DANGEROUS. Sorry for shouting but the point must be driving home. What you don't know can hurt you. Now nobody can know everything but not knowing anything is just lazy and asking for trouble.
I am not suggesting everyone needs to understand all the math behind the cryptography used for a SSL connection. I am suggesting everyone using it could and should understand the trust model, what PKI is, and the relationship between the URL they typed, the DNS name that was looked up, the ip address they connected to and the subject of the server certificate.
Because while "my browser shows a closed lock so It must be secure" is enough to stop your most basic threat, once that same script kiddie moves just one notch up spends $30 on book, and figures out how to get backtraq/kali/whatever to run in vmware player suddenly the coffee house wifi is not longer safe for you. To say nothing of someone with actual means or a dedicated conman who steals identities for a living deciding to victimize you.
To use the car analogy, we don't let people take to the roads until they can show they have some concept of the basic safety rules and procedures, yet we thrust a smart phone or tablet into the hands of children and probably the majority of the adults on the Internets total knowledge of computer security is what Katie Couric relayed to them in a 6min soft news spot.
The old fashion subway token produces little meta-data the NSA can use to track your every move.