Here's the video of the 787 destructive wing break test: video. Nowhere close to touching. Looks like they broke at about 20 degrees above the horizontal.
You are dead on right. In Texas, the legislature has been eating away at state support for higher education after eliminating caps on state university tuition. The legislature said with a straight face that this would not increase tuition, but it doubled over the last decade. The Texas GOP views higher education as "liberal brainwashing", so I expect the GOP controlled government to continue down this path.
In Texas, all the education you need you get on Sunday morning in the pew.
Subby was confusing the President's salary with the football and basketball coaches salary. A public university president earns approximately between a third and a half million per year. Coaches earn 1 to 2 million per year.
Most IT workers should go to tech / trade schools and apprenticeships.
And not forcing them to go 4 year (that trun out to be longer then 4 due to the high number of needed credits in the past you needed less)
It's worse than that. They graduate after 4 or 5 years without the right skill set and can't get a job, so they then apply for a Masters program and get even more education that's not useful to their career plan.
Same for me. I moved my 60-something mother over to Ubuntu years ago, and I haven't had a tech support call in probably 2 years now. I actually have to periodically ask her if she's still using the computer because I don't hear any complaints about it not working. She says she uses it daily (as evidenced by her rambling posts on my Facebook page).
Just put the person on the LTS release, show them how to enter their password when prompted that updates are available, and you'll never hear from them again.
Just look at how quickly Apple's iPhone took off, with its walled-garden app store.
How soon we forget. The iPhone took off without an app store at all: Apple said "web apps are good enough for everyone". They only added installable apps a year later after they realized they could make money from other people's software development.
Because it doesn't provide full automatic memory management (smart pointers don't handle cycles), and because you have to write reams and reams of angle brackets to use them.
Then maybe you need to look at shared_ptr from boost and the equivalent introduced in C++0x? The very classes designed for the situation you are talking about? Oh right, it's more fun to make ignorant comments!
You don't have that right, and you're probably writing code with memory leaks. From the Boost documentation: "Because the implementation uses reference counting, cycles of shared_ptr instances will not be reclaimed." You need to specially craft your cycle with a weak_ptr.
Power without accountability to the people that you're exercising power over is dangerous.
I'd go further and argue that editors should disclose their real names, too, as that provides some accountability for content. Some people really more qualified to edit an article than others.
In November 2009 a Man-In-the-Middle vulnerability for SSL/TLS/https was made public (CVE-2009-3555), and shortly afterwards demonstrated to be exploitable.
Isn't a vulnerability, by definition, exploitable?
"Demonstrated to be exploitable" means "actually wrote the exploit, and it worked". It's a step beyond simply thinking about it hypothetically.
It sounds like a rebranding of MobileMe (which was a rebranding of.mac). See it in action by signing up for MobileMe, and then wonder why all your email disappeared.
As trollish as that looks, I was sort of thinking it too. I didn't realize how far behind the times Apple had gotten, until I saw the list of coming features and thought to myself, "I've had that for years".
It is amusing to see the comments here which excuse the problem at the Japanese nuclear plant because the earthquake was really big.
The issue was the tsunami, not the earthquake. The plant handled the quake just fine, the reactors automatically scrammed. However, the tsunami knocked out the fallbacks because it well exceeded any expectations: in Japan, a 3-meter high tsunami triggers their highest warning level. This tsunami was 10-meters high. It's a once-in-1000-years event, which in engineering is a rather acceptable risk to take.
the big error was in having the diesel generators in the basement. they got swamped by the tsunami. lesson: put the back up generators on the roof. or one on the roof and one in the basement
It wasn't just a matter of swamped equipment, the tanks holding diesel fuel were also washed away.
1) If you are a security researcher, do you want to win/pwn the MacBook Air or some random brand Winders notebook? To me, the Mac is the bigger/more fun target in an event like this.
You win the device *and* $15,000. You're going to focus on the weakest device (not the sexiest device) because the major portion of the win is cash.
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Here's the video of the 787 destructive wing break test: video. Nowhere close to touching. Looks like they broke at about 20 degrees above the horizontal.
You are dead on right. In Texas, the legislature has been eating away at state support for higher education after eliminating caps on state university tuition. The legislature said with a straight face that this would not increase tuition, but it doubled over the last decade. The Texas GOP views higher education as "liberal brainwashing", so I expect the GOP controlled government to continue down this path.
In Texas, all the education you need you get on Sunday morning in the pew.
Subby was confusing the President's salary with the football and basketball coaches salary. A public university president earns approximately between a third and a half million per year. Coaches earn 1 to 2 million per year.
Most IT workers should go to tech / trade schools and apprenticeships.
And not forcing them to go 4 year (that trun out to be longer then 4 due to the high number of needed credits in the past you needed less)
It's worse than that. They graduate after 4 or 5 years without the right skill set and can't get a job, so they then apply for a Masters program and get even more education that's not useful to their career plan.
A bathyscaphe isn't tethered to anything either. (You're thinking of a bathysphere.)
Well, the summary also references breaking a "world record" of 7000m, which isn't at all accurate.
Same for me. I moved my 60-something mother over to Ubuntu years ago, and I haven't had a tech support call in probably 2 years now. I actually have to periodically ask her if she's still using the computer because I don't hear any complaints about it not working. She says she uses it daily (as evidenced by her rambling posts on my Facebook page).
Just put the person on the LTS release, show them how to enter their password when prompted that updates are available, and you'll never hear from them again.
Just look at how quickly Apple's iPhone took off, with its walled-garden app store.
How soon we forget. The iPhone took off without an app store at all: Apple said "web apps are good enough for everyone". They only added installable apps a year later after they realized they could make money from other people's software development.
Because it doesn't provide full automatic memory management (smart pointers don't handle cycles), and because you have to write reams and reams of angle brackets to use them.
Then maybe you need to look at shared_ptr from boost and the equivalent introduced in C++0x? The very classes designed for the situation you are talking about? Oh right, it's more fun to make ignorant comments!
You don't have that right, and you're probably writing code with memory leaks. From the Boost documentation: "Because the implementation uses reference counting, cycles of shared_ptr instances will not be reclaimed." You need to specially craft your cycle with a weak_ptr.
Where did I write that qualification means level of education?
Power without accountability to the people that you're exercising power over is dangerous.
I'd go further and argue that editors should disclose their real names, too, as that provides some accountability for content. Some people really more qualified to edit an article than others.
That doesn't make it OK.
But how do you fix this?
Require admins, and anyone else who's privilege level is above the basic editor, to use their real names.
3 minutes here (college campus).
People have varying needs to make use of your products. Step up to offer the solution, or get out of the way.
You will use your computer the way Apple wants you to use your computer.
You need to look up the difference between "volt" and "watt".
In November 2009 a Man-In-the-Middle vulnerability for SSL/TLS/https was made public (CVE-2009-3555), and shortly afterwards demonstrated to be exploitable.
Isn't a vulnerability, by definition, exploitable?
"Demonstrated to be exploitable" means "actually wrote the exploit, and it worked". It's a step beyond simply thinking about it hypothetically.
For Snow Leopard, the $30 upgrade disks were good for up to 5 systems, if I remember. Probably similar for Lion.
It sounds like a rebranding of MobileMe (which was a rebranding of .mac). See it in action by signing up for MobileMe, and then wonder why all your email disappeared.
Just go anywhere on the web. Anywhere. Everybody's covering this today, finding more information isn't exactly hard.
As trollish as that looks, I was sort of thinking it too. I didn't realize how far behind the times Apple had gotten, until I saw the list of coming features and thought to myself, "I've had that for years".
It is amusing to see the comments here which excuse the problem at the Japanese nuclear plant because the earthquake was really big.
The issue was the tsunami, not the earthquake. The plant handled the quake just fine, the reactors automatically scrammed. However, the tsunami knocked out the fallbacks because it well exceeded any expectations: in Japan, a 3-meter high tsunami triggers their highest warning level. This tsunami was 10-meters high. It's a once-in-1000-years event, which in engineering is a rather acceptable risk to take.
the big error was in having the diesel generators in the basement. they got swamped by the tsunami. lesson: put the back up generators on the roof. or one on the roof and one in the basement
It wasn't just a matter of swamped equipment, the tanks holding diesel fuel were also washed away.
1) If you are a security researcher, do you want to win/pwn the MacBook Air or some random brand Winders notebook? To me, the Mac is the bigger/more fun target in an event like this.
You win the device *and* $15,000. You're going to focus on the weakest device (not the sexiest device) because the major portion of the win is cash.
Was the Mac the first to fall? Yes. The headline is accurate.