We've seen the knockdown blow... but this is proof that they are not answering the bell anymore and that means they're out.
If there's any consumers left thinking their machines still work, get out. Next MacOS security hole to be announced will be unpatched on these Hackintoshes, and they'll be unsafe to put on the Internet as a result.
every time you get data from a user/outside process you should be able to handle values that make you go Eh WOT?? and then chuck those values out (and emit the correct error code)"
Computers aren't very good at generating data, just analyzing it. You've got to get your data from somewhere.
So, when something unlikely comes up for a report... the question isn't just whether the number is accurate, but also why did it happen?
I was once working at a catalog outfit where there was a question as why some days there were massive return numbers, others where there was a zero, and usually it stayed within the acceptable range. I looked into it... there was one guy who specialized in returns. When he took a day off for any reason, nobody stepped up to take his place. So that's where the zero-return days came from. Following any time off, there was a backlog which he quickly processed, creating the big days. The stat was accurate... there were just some irregularities in the data.
I didn't have much trouble with statistics in college after having studied physics the year before in high school, and firmly formulas are being taught because they've been proven true, so you just need to remember the steps to get something done, and the numbers were just filling in the variables. More numbers involved, but still there's formulas.
I had such an easy time with the course, and had trouble hiding that, that I would regularly be visited by students asking for help on Sunday on the homework that I had completed after class on Friday. Doing the homework within minutes of it being taught helped greatly. It led me to be totally free of work over the weekend while others put it off, and some waiting for me to return from my hometown.
I believe randomness doesn't exist. In its place stands "too complicated to understand".
Take the typical state lotto. If you knew all of the variables in the machine that draws the numbers, you can solve for which numbers will land in the winning numbers area. As a result, the lottery keeps details of the machine secret. Is the ball marked 43 the same ball (with the same weight and other properties) as the 43 in the previous or next drawing? Where is the machine located and what elevation is it at? When exactly does the drawing machine go into motion? If you know the answers to these secrets, you're not allowed to play.
Take any casino card game. Shuffling is a complex possible that's hard to technically observe. Do it right and repeatedly you've got uncertainty as to what card is going to come off the deck.
Take any slot machine. It's got a PRNG but it needs a seed value. It measures the time in between button presses measured to an annoyingly tight accuracy to get the complex number to run through its complex formula to create unpredictability.
Random just doesn't exist if you're going to believe everything moves according to the laws of physics.
My point seems to have become lost. Suppose MS wants to audit you and you refuse. They try to take you to arbitration. You refuse. So they try to sue you. In court, you present the arbitration agreement...
and then you look stupid. You just submitted proof that you agreed to participate in arbitration, and Microsoft shows them a arbitrator who is saying you won't comply. Summary Judgment for the plattiff, and that's not you. You then forfeit the arbitration. You lose.
In the town next to the one I sit... there's a old police officer who has a "quota" of traffic fines he needs to collect in the budget. Miss his income number, and he's unemployed. The budget number is public record as and in as a separate line item in the official budget. He's authorized to put up a "Speed Limit 30" sign at any intersection because that's the state law at all intersections marked or not.
Now, on the way out of this town, there's a highway interchange. That's an intersection, but the state highway people don't want you going as slow as 30 miles per hour there... you won't be up to 55 on the short ramp to the highway if you do. So they've rigged this intersections with enough signs that the traffic officer is locked out... if he puts his sign up, it's not properly displayed because it's either blocked from view or too far from the intersection. He still writes tickets there, and if you take him to traffic court you can get it kicked. He's hoping you confess or just send in the check. There's even a state website where you can pay your fine with a credit card.
If enough people do get his tickets kicked, he'll be done.
You consent to the audits if you have any volume licensing at all. You also gave up your right to sue and have consented to going to arbitration. In that, BSA claiming they have a report you licensed X and you are using Y copies (from the upset employee you fired a month ago) and unless you present a defense, you lose. So, you've got to let the auditors do their count of computers... You can slow them down and get into compliance in the meantime, but you can't keep them
Can we have the mail addresses in the "ad" changed to MailTo: links so the spam bots that troll/. have an easier time rendering the contact info useless?
And it's been proven the best way to make money if you think Twitter is hot is to make something that makes Twitter better... there's no way you're going build your own networking site and get as much traffic, so siphon off what you can building on top of the existing sites.
Around 1999/2000 there was a thought that tech was going the highest paying major in college, and that attracted a few people who would have otherwise gone into other fields. The best tech people are the ones who live around it, read tech news such as this site here, and come home to more pixels than they have at work. Anybody who believes the only tech they need to know is the one or two programs they use at work is blindsided by world events too often.
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Bad news: What operating system or BIOS doesn't? You even have to register your Linux distro.
We've seen the knockdown blow... but this is proof that they are not answering the bell anymore and that means they're out.
If there's any consumers left thinking their machines still work, get out. Next MacOS security hole to be announced will be unpatched on these Hackintoshes, and they'll be unsafe to put on the Internet as a result.
every time you get data from a user/outside process you should be able to handle values that make you go Eh WOT?? and then chuck those values out (and emit the correct error code)"
Computers aren't very good at generating data, just analyzing it. You've got to get your data from somewhere.
So, when something unlikely comes up for a report... the question isn't just whether the number is accurate, but also why did it happen?
I was once working at a catalog outfit where there was a question as why some days there were massive return numbers, others where there was a zero, and usually it stayed within the acceptable range. I looked into it... there was one guy who specialized in returns. When he took a day off for any reason, nobody stepped up to take his place. So that's where the zero-return days came from. Following any time off, there was a backlog which he quickly processed, creating the big days. The stat was accurate... there were just some irregularities in the data.
I didn't have much trouble with statistics in college after having studied physics the year before in high school, and firmly formulas are being taught because they've been proven true, so you just need to remember the steps to get something done, and the numbers were just filling in the variables. More numbers involved, but still there's formulas.
I had such an easy time with the course, and had trouble hiding that, that I would regularly be visited by students asking for help on Sunday on the homework that I had completed after class on Friday. Doing the homework within minutes of it being taught helped greatly. It led me to be totally free of work over the weekend while others put it off, and some waiting for me to return from my hometown.
I believe randomness doesn't exist. In its place stands "too complicated to understand".
Take the typical state lotto. If you knew all of the variables in the machine that draws the numbers, you can solve for which numbers will land in the winning numbers area. As a result, the lottery keeps details of the machine secret. Is the ball marked 43 the same ball (with the same weight and other properties) as the 43 in the previous or next drawing? Where is the machine located and what elevation is it at? When exactly does the drawing machine go into motion? If you know the answers to these secrets, you're not allowed to play.
Take any casino card game. Shuffling is a complex possible that's hard to technically observe. Do it right and repeatedly you've got uncertainty as to what card is going to come off the deck.
Take any slot machine. It's got a PRNG but it needs a seed value. It measures the time in between button presses measured to an annoyingly tight accuracy to get the complex number to run through its complex formula to create unpredictability.
Random just doesn't exist if you're going to believe everything moves according to the laws of physics.
Modded Redundant? Who else posted this? This was First Post!
Are you saying an orbit in an atom is not round? It's at least an oval...
WA returns a page on a 1990s horror movie when you ask it about "The Number of The Beast", therefore that number must not exist.
Depends... was the allegation greater or less than your actual violations total?
Wow... the mods really hate this thread. I say they may be the irrational ones.
My point seems to have become lost. Suppose MS wants to audit you and you refuse. They try to take you to arbitration. You refuse. So they try to sue you. In court, you present the arbitration agreement...
and then you look stupid. You just submitted proof that you agreed to participate in arbitration, and Microsoft shows them a arbitrator who is saying you won't comply. Summary Judgment for the plattiff, and that's not you. You then forfeit the arbitration. You lose.
I knew that. But that fact interfered with the joke.
Since we know Google is never wrong, the Golden Ratio is exactly 1.61803399, not 1.618 as stated in the summary.
1, 1, 2, 3, 5, Eureka!
Yep. You have a right to sue when you have no chance of winning. It just isn't a very profitable right to exercise.
Yep, nobody would threaten to sue you for using Linux.
Excuse me, jcr, you've got a phone call from a SCO on line 3. I think you might want tot take it.
They show the clickwrap contract, and then you've got to prove the Microsoft EULA is invalid. Good luck with that.
In the town next to the one I sit... there's a old police officer who has a "quota" of traffic fines he needs to collect in the budget. Miss his income number, and he's unemployed. The budget number is public record as and in as a separate line item in the official budget. He's authorized to put up a "Speed Limit 30" sign at any intersection because that's the state law at all intersections marked or not.
Now, on the way out of this town, there's a highway interchange. That's an intersection, but the state highway people don't want you going as slow as 30 miles per hour there... you won't be up to 55 on the short ramp to the highway if you do. So they've rigged this intersections with enough signs that the traffic officer is locked out... if he puts his sign up, it's not properly displayed because it's either blocked from view or too far from the intersection. He still writes tickets there, and if you take him to traffic court you can get it kicked. He's hoping you confess or just send in the check. There's even a state website where you can pay your fine with a credit card.
If enough people do get his tickets kicked, he'll be done.
Here's where the nonsense starts...
You consent to the audits if you have any volume licensing at all. You also gave up your right to sue and have consented to going to arbitration. In that, BSA claiming they have a report you licensed X and you are using Y copies (from the upset employee you fired a month ago) and unless you present a defense, you lose. So, you've got to let the auditors do their count of computers... You can slow them down and get into compliance in the meantime, but you can't keep them
Can you hear me now? Uhm, this is not good. Can you hear me now?
Can we have the mail addresses in the "ad" changed to MailTo: links so the spam bots that troll /. have an easier time rendering the contact info useless?
Devices don't have 5th Amendment rights... only people do. You don't have to testify at your own trial, but your computer does.
Nah, it's just an effective way to kill time between gigs.
And it's been proven the best way to make money if you think Twitter is hot is to make something that makes Twitter better... there's no way you're going build your own networking site and get as much traffic, so siphon off what you can building on top of the existing sites.
Around 1999/2000 there was a thought that tech was going the highest paying major in college, and that attracted a few people who would have otherwise gone into other fields. The best tech people are the ones who live around it, read tech news such as this site here, and come home to more pixels than they have at work. Anybody who believes the only tech they need to know is the one or two programs they use at work is blindsided by world events too often.