Never mind that if a site lets first N visits free, it can always be free just by deleting all cookies for that site (and ancillary cookies).
I happen to enjoy reading some of the NYT's oped writers. Every now and then, I just need to delete all "*.nytimes.*" cookies to continue enjoying the articles.
But this is what those crafty markets dreamed up. Doesn't mean it isn't difficult to bypass.
Chances are that QA could use some code (often in some scripting language) to automate this, verify that, configure something else. Maybe it is performance testing.
So go for it.
If the QA manager doesn't have any obvious coding positions or tasks, find your own. Be successful at it. When it works, show it off.
You may find coding inside QA more rewarding than inside the Dev team. You know the desired result, and don't have to jump through the same hoops. It may even be rewarding. If it isn't, it gives you that experience to jump inside the company or outside it.
Since they (PTB) can revoke certain keys, couldn't somebody attack a specific brand or model of player by simply finding its keys and publishing them so they get revoked?
So somebody could squash PS3 and subsequently Blu-Ray by getting existing models' keys revoked? Repeatedly?
Monty Python quote by a king of a sinking kingdom - his son wants to sing instead of marry a princess with "huge tracts of land" - dad wanted more/better land for his kingdom.
I tire of hearing how everything leads to perl. I've seen it, used it, debugged it - and it aint that great.
Perl's 50,000 ways to do a given thing is not that great. The assumption is that those 50000 ways, like the nuts & bolts in her article, are identical, and no one way (or bolt) is superior to the others. That is wrong.
If you read/., you probably think that the Unix Way (TM) is a Good Thing. What is the Unix Way? It is to have small programs that do one thing and do it well. Those small programs can be chained together to do almost anything. Where in that philosophy does it mention to have 12 programs to do the same thing? It doesn't.
Instead, it relies upon a hand-full of usefull and consistent commands and programs that a person can feel comfortable with. Not the latest fad for completing a task that you forget or change in 6 months. Perl leads to un-maintainable code. All languages do, but some become un-maintainable quicker than others.
Kansas.
Bucking hay. Means tightly stacking the bales on a moving trailer so they won't come off at highway speeds. In the summer, which means 110+ degrees, 30+ % humidity. And a storm had recently come through, so the bales were wet, making them heavier.
I was 15 years old lifting 90 pound bales of wet alfalfa above my head. You pick up the bale, kick it with your knee (of course the twigs in the bales poke through your jeans) to help swing it up, then jamm it in place. After a trailer load, you get to unload and re-stack the bales in a barn with no moving air. And lay salt between layers to soak up the excess moisture - otherwise the bales would spontaneously combust during decomposition. Hardest work I ever did.
About 100% of living organisms die off every few hundred years.
Bzzt! There are trees that live thousands of years.
And the rest of your post assumes that interbreeding is impossible between different species. For instance, I would assume that you would agree that a horse and a donkey are different species. They can breed, and the result is called a mule (although mules are sterile). This is an extreme case of different species. More common are highly specialized species that happen in butterflies or frogs - on different sides of a given mountain.
Might be time to go back to that zoology course.
Since when are forest fires referred to as "El Nino"?
The forest fires are happening because of 75-100 years of forest management policy where we didn't tolerate any fires - which were a normal phenomena. This broke down the natural system. So the fires, which will happen anyway, have been getting systematically worse.
Where did these policies come from? Poor science environementalists who have no idea of the consequences. They see one bad thing, and do the knee-jerk reaction to "fix" it, frequently making things worse.
Is there any proof this guy even had the capabilities he claimed? Extortionists can bluff, also. What he did was plainly extortion.
If he was trying to improve the security, then he could write a letter to the OP/ED section of the newspaper(s) warning that Best Buy's web site isn't secure, without telling the method to break it. Put on the heat as a legitimate consumer to get it fixed. Separately, he could email the webmaster/store offering security consulting services.
Maybe he doesn't get credit for any of these flights since they were all downhill.
The Wright Brothers are the first to land at an altitude at or above the take off point. Pearse did fly - but landed well below his take off point.
An engineer is walking along and runs across a talking frog.
The frog says "I am a princess, and if you kiss me, I will turn back into a princess and be your girlfriend."
Then engineer mutters "Neat", picks up the frog, puts it in his back pocket, and continues walking.
The frog kicked the engineer, prompting him to pull the frog out. The frog said, "My daddy is rich, and if you kiss me, he will reward you handsomely." The engineer shrugged his shoulders and replaced the frog in his pocket.
A couple minutes later, the frog kicked him again. This time the frog asked, "Why won't you kiss me? I will make you rich and be your girlfriend."
The engineer replied "Look, lady. I am an engineer and have no use for a girlfriend. But a talking frog is cool!"
Here is one for you: I hate the Matrix franchise because it keeps spewing its crap into discussions about LOTR.
Never mind that the sequals don't live up to the first Matrix movie, or that people who scream that religion is crap, but fail to notice that the drive behind religion is philosophy, and the Matrix doesn't drive philosophy at all (assuming one can get past the cultural dictates of religious behaviors - it fundamentally is an exercise in philosophy - why am I here? what should I do? how do I get to know any higher power(s)?).
Keep discussion about your flaming turd of a movie inside discussions of the Matrix, and focus on this discussing LOTR here.
Do you remember a little ship called the Cole? One that was bombed in direct response to Clinton's decision to launch missiles into Afganistan and Africa?
Get a clue! Trying to pass all ill-feelings the world has on the current president is worse than naive. There are those who hate those who have or simply have more. They will always want their cut, whethere they earned/deserve/can make use of it. This won't change.
Oh, and it isn't always the fault of the have's that the have not's don't have.
So environmentalists are the only ones who can "err on the side of caution", huh?
I don't take a stance on the validity of global warming. It likely is getting warmer, but there isn't sufficient proof of what is causing it. Not to mention, it may have been hotter in the past (hard to prove or disprove). And we do know that global temperatures are cyclic.
However, has it occurred to you that capitalists also want to "err on the side of caution"? After all, Kyoto is damn expensive to implement. And there is no proof of the economic benefits. Not to mention the richer countries have stricter controls placed on them while 3rd world can continue to pollute away.
When you want something, it usually means you don't have what you want, and you need to find a way to convince those who DO have "it" to willingly give "it" to you. I get money from my employer for providing a service they want. I can't just take it from them because they have more. Same with environmentalism - where is the incentives to comply? Those pushing for change don't have a vested interest in the solutions - only the outcome. Yet, strangely enough, they are driving their Excursions, H2's and other large barges around while telling me what to do.
Germany had a history of growth, already annexing Czechoslovakia.
03SEP1939 - France and Britain both declare war. France borders Germany and is an obvious target. Britain had a 20 mile gap of water protecting its borders from the Blitzkrieg, so it would be just a matter of time for them.
Chamberlain still was preaching placation to avoid war. Didn't work, so he got the boot in favor of Churchill, who was unpopular for pointing out Germany's aggressions.
The US resented involvement in WWI (a European affair) and really resented her children coming home in caskets. Not to mention our military at the time was woefully inadequate. Pacifists make a statement to try to keep us out of war. Hawks agree because the military wasn't ready yet. Build up capabilities so we can take part (hawks) or in case they are needed (pacifists). Then Pearl Harbor forces our hands, catapulting us into a 2 front war.
What is your weasel point? As a democracy, the majority rules - and the majority can change positions as public opinion changes.
You start with a valid point - over protecting kids. I agree with that. Someday, they will face a "bad thing" and need to be prepared to deal with it. Overprotecting them prevents them from developing methods for dealing with bad stuff.
Unfortunately, you then moved on and spent the bulk of your message in something completely different - pretending that porn is a good thing in and of itself. It is NOT "good clean fun" for all parties. You may not feel the pain of it - but the woman who is objectified feels the pain. Do you want your daughter to learn that her only value or worth is her appearance or her ability to get people to look at her in a way for their own desires?
Society can not pick itself up by pushing others down. Women (who are the subject of 90+% of porn) are being degraded. Sure they can make money, but what about their dignity? Are they given a chance to do anything else? They are just as capable, given the training, of doing anything you do.
Oh, and porn and "open sexuality" are not the same thing.
Has it ever occurred to you that there IS conflict between cultures? Attempting to ignore it does NOT change reality. The problem with PC is that it attempts to white-wash perception without doing a thing about reality.
And it isn't just Islamic vs. the West. There is conflict between Europe and the USA. Between the US and hispanics. Between Western Europe and Slavic peoples. Between Africans. Between Muslims (they fight themselves as much as fighting "external" cultures). Cultures are the borders of conflicts - and wishing that away is naive.
And since you dragged the red herring, let's get back to the point. Profiling. Every one of those terrorist acts was committed by 20-30 year old single (I think) males. Not someone's grandma. Sure, someone outside the demographic can be duped into assisting the real bad guys. But assisting is different from committing.
Seriously, if you have the money, you should be able to purchase any toy you want, providing playing with said toy doesn't endanger anyone else.
Most Porsche owners I meet are at the track. There are plenty of posers on the street driving numerous brands of cars. Those at the track are learning how to drive better or practicing for races.
However, since I like to play devil's advocate, have you ever made a mistake?
If what we told computers to do was so 'error free', then it would be a lot easier to write programs. Most people tell computers to do the wrong thing a fair amount. I would even hazard to say (that today) all people tell their computer to do the wrong thing at least some of the time.
People create/study computer languages to make it easier to tell the computer the right thing to do. This is just a higher level of abstraction.
Imagine 'Kompil-E' - the Visual Studio assistant pointing out "Dave - you don't want to leave that buffer overflow in your code, do you?"
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I happen to enjoy reading some of the NYT's oped writers. Every now and then, I just need to delete all "*.nytimes.*" cookies to continue enjoying the articles.
But this is what those crafty markets dreamed up. Doesn't mean it isn't difficult to bypass.
Chances are that QA could use some code (often in some scripting language) to automate this, verify that, configure something else. Maybe it is performance testing.
So go for it.
If the QA manager doesn't have any obvious coding positions or tasks, find your own. Be successful at it. When it works, show it off.
You may find coding inside QA more rewarding than inside the Dev team. You know the desired result, and don't have to jump through the same hoops. It may even be rewarding. If it isn't, it gives you that experience to jump inside the company or outside it.
So somebody could squash PS3 and subsequently Blu-Ray by getting existing models' keys revoked? Repeatedly?
It hasn't and can't kill that avenue for growth, but it can reduce how much M$ can practically grow. This makes it darned hard for M$.
People listening to it hear "We can't explain how, so don't even bother. Big bad voodoo." Which is why ID so so viruntly anti-science.
Monty Python quote by a king of a sinking kingdom - his son wants to sing instead of marry a princess with "huge tracts of land" - dad wanted more/better land for his kingdom.
Perl's 50,000 ways to do a given thing is not that great. The assumption is that those 50000 ways, like the nuts & bolts in her article, are identical, and no one way (or bolt) is superior to the others. That is wrong.
If you read /., you probably think that the Unix Way (TM) is a Good Thing. What is the Unix Way? It is to have small programs that do one thing and do it well. Those small programs can be chained together to do almost anything. Where in that philosophy does it mention to have 12 programs to do the same thing? It doesn't.
Instead, it relies upon a hand-full of usefull and consistent commands and programs that a person can feel comfortable with. Not the latest fad for completing a task that you forget or change in 6 months. Perl leads to un-maintainable code. All languages do, but some become un-maintainable quicker than others.
Sorry for the rant.
Thou shalt always claim that Apple is about to go the way of the dodo...
your karma will be adjusted appropriately.
and Muslims try to bind to Islam
and Buddists try to bind to Budha
and atheists try to bind to atheism
Notice a trend?
Kansas.
Bucking hay. Means tightly stacking the bales on a moving trailer so they won't come off at highway speeds. In the summer, which means 110+ degrees, 30+ % humidity. And a storm had recently come through, so the bales were wet, making them heavier.
I was 15 years old lifting 90 pound bales of wet alfalfa above my head. You pick up the bale, kick it with your knee (of course the twigs in the bales poke through your jeans) to help swing it up, then jamm it in place. After a trailer load, you get to unload and re-stack the bales in a barn with no moving air. And lay salt between layers to soak up the excess moisture - otherwise the bales would spontaneously combust during decomposition. Hardest work I ever did.
You mean you found a remedy for more than one problem?
Brilliant!
Bzzt! There are trees that live thousands of years.
And the rest of your post assumes that interbreeding is impossible between different species. For instance, I would assume that you would agree that a horse and a donkey are different species. They can breed, and the result is called a mule (although mules are sterile). This is an extreme case of different species. More common are highly specialized species that happen in butterflies or frogs - on different sides of a given mountain.
Might be time to go back to that zoology course.
The forest fires are happening because of 75-100 years of forest management policy where we didn't tolerate any fires - which were a normal phenomena. This broke down the natural system. So the fires, which will happen anyway, have been getting systematically worse.
Where did these policies come from? Poor science environementalists who have no idea of the consequences. They see one bad thing, and do the knee-jerk reaction to "fix" it, frequently making things worse.
Is there any proof this guy even had the capabilities he claimed? Extortionists can bluff, also. What he did was plainly extortion.
If he was trying to improve the security, then he could write a letter to the OP/ED section of the newspaper(s) warning that Best Buy's web site isn't secure, without telling the method to break it. Put on the heat as a legitimate consumer to get it fixed. Separately, he could email the webmaster/store offering security consulting services.
Maybe he doesn't get credit for any of these flights since they were all downhill.
The Wright Brothers are the first to land at an altitude at or above the take off point. Pearse did fly - but landed well below his take off point.
The frog says "I am a princess, and if you kiss me, I will turn back into a princess and be your girlfriend."
Then engineer mutters "Neat", picks up the frog, puts it in his back pocket, and continues walking.
The frog kicked the engineer, prompting him to pull the frog out. The frog said, "My daddy is rich, and if you kiss me, he will reward you handsomely." The engineer shrugged his shoulders and replaced the frog in his pocket.
A couple minutes later, the frog kicked him again. This time the frog asked, "Why won't you kiss me? I will make you rich and be your girlfriend."
The engineer replied "Look, lady. I am an engineer and have no use for a girlfriend. But a talking frog is cool!"
Never mind that the sequals don't live up to the first Matrix movie, or that people who scream that religion is crap, but fail to notice that the drive behind religion is philosophy, and the Matrix doesn't drive philosophy at all (assuming one can get past the cultural dictates of religious behaviors - it fundamentally is an exercise in philosophy - why am I here? what should I do? how do I get to know any higher power(s)?).
Keep discussion about your flaming turd of a movie inside discussions of the Matrix, and focus on this discussing LOTR here.
Get a clue! Trying to pass all ill-feelings the world has on the current president is worse than naive. There are those who hate those who have or simply have more. They will always want their cut, whethere they earned/deserve/can make use of it. This won't change.
Oh, and it isn't always the fault of the have's that the have not's don't have.
I don't take a stance on the validity of global warming. It likely is getting warmer, but there isn't sufficient proof of what is causing it. Not to mention, it may have been hotter in the past (hard to prove or disprove). And we do know that global temperatures are cyclic.
However, has it occurred to you that capitalists also want to "err on the side of caution"? After all, Kyoto is damn expensive to implement. And there is no proof of the economic benefits. Not to mention the richer countries have stricter controls placed on them while 3rd world can continue to pollute away.
When you want something, it usually means you don't have what you want, and you need to find a way to convince those who DO have "it" to willingly give "it" to you. I get money from my employer for providing a service they want. I can't just take it from them because they have more. Same with environmentalism - where is the incentives to comply? Those pushing for change don't have a vested interest in the solutions - only the outcome. Yet, strangely enough, they are driving their Excursions, H2's and other large barges around while telling me what to do.
Germany had a history of growth, already annexing Czechoslovakia. 03SEP1939 - France and Britain both declare war. France borders Germany and is an obvious target. Britain had a 20 mile gap of water protecting its borders from the Blitzkrieg, so it would be just a matter of time for them.
Chamberlain still was preaching placation to avoid war. Didn't work, so he got the boot in favor of Churchill, who was unpopular for pointing out Germany's aggressions.
The US resented involvement in WWI (a European affair) and really resented her children coming home in caskets. Not to mention our military at the time was woefully inadequate. Pacifists make a statement to try to keep us out of war. Hawks agree because the military wasn't ready yet. Build up capabilities so we can take part (hawks) or in case they are needed (pacifists). Then Pearl Harbor forces our hands, catapulting us into a 2 front war.
What is your weasel point? As a democracy, the majority rules - and the majority can change positions as public opinion changes.
You start with a valid point - over protecting kids. I agree with that. Someday, they will face a "bad thing" and need to be prepared to deal with it. Overprotecting them prevents them from developing methods for dealing with bad stuff.
Unfortunately, you then moved on and spent the bulk of your message in something completely different - pretending that porn is a good thing in and of itself. It is NOT "good clean fun" for all parties. You may not feel the pain of it - but the woman who is objectified feels the pain. Do you want your daughter to learn that her only value or worth is her appearance or her ability to get people to look at her in a way for their own desires?
Society can not pick itself up by pushing others down. Women (who are the subject of 90+% of porn) are being degraded. Sure they can make money, but what about their dignity? Are they given a chance to do anything else? They are just as capable, given the training, of doing anything you do.
Oh, and porn and "open sexuality" are not the same thing.
Instead, I use dialup when I am installing Gentoo from stage one like a true geek should.
Has it ever occurred to you that there IS conflict between cultures? Attempting to ignore it does NOT change reality. The problem with PC is that it attempts to white-wash perception without doing a thing about reality.
And it isn't just Islamic vs. the West. There is conflict between Europe and the USA. Between the US and hispanics. Between Western Europe and Slavic peoples. Between Africans. Between Muslims (they fight themselves as much as fighting "external" cultures). Cultures are the borders of conflicts - and wishing that away is naive.
And since you dragged the red herring, let's get back to the point. Profiling. Every one of those terrorist acts was committed by 20-30 year old single (I think) males. Not someone's grandma. Sure, someone outside the demographic can be duped into assisting the real bad guys. But assisting is different from committing.
Seriously, if you have the money, you should be able to purchase any toy you want, providing playing with said toy doesn't endanger anyone else.
Most Porsche owners I meet are at the track. There are plenty of posers on the street driving numerous brands of cars. Those at the track are learning how to drive better or practicing for races.
However, since I like to play devil's advocate, have you ever made a mistake?
If what we told computers to do was so 'error free', then it would be a lot easier to write programs. Most people tell computers to do the wrong thing a fair amount. I would even hazard to say (that today) all people tell their computer to do the wrong thing at least some of the time.
People create/study computer languages to make it easier to tell the computer the right thing to do. This is just a higher level of abstraction.
Imagine 'Kompil-E' - the Visual Studio assistant pointing out "Dave - you don't want to leave that buffer overflow in your code, do you?"