The article is very quick to point out that just because a correlation was shown does not mean a causation was proven. One example is that a person on a cell four hours a day could also be very sedentary, which could also lead to low sperm count and/or low sperm mobility. So props to the BBC for publishing an article not all breathless and hysterical.
I'd like to see why Sony has gotten the idea that it is better to sue it out of existence.
Since Weird Al's label is owned by Sony, our friend Al decided to use that relationship to send a parody message to Sony executives. (NOTE: Youtube link, time sensitive). Sony executives, having no sense of humor, took the song at face value.
I'd like to take all of the IEEE journals and other scientific journals, plus the scientific works from Springer-Verlag, and put them on wiki. Of course, I would also like that to be continuous as well, so that new papers are also freed.
You know, I can understand all those attempted logins -- core, visitor, ftpuser, and so on -- except for the first one. "tony"?! Is this some kind of default login name?
I think "pwned" or even "0wnz0rd" has come into geek-speak due to its humorous value, rather then genuinely trying to sound 133t. I'm sure there are better words to describe "(verb transitive, past tense) Gained access and control over, sometimes for malicious purposes, sometimes to prove a point".
No matter how neatly programmed or how much time people spend writing a program, truth is software is highly unreliable.
Yes and no. I agree with you, that software TODAY is highly unreliable. Software TOMORROW will not be. Why, just the other day... okay, ten years ago... I wrote a program that evolved to find the square root of two. I knew the ultimate answer, of course, but the computer didn't, so effectively the program it used to generate the answer was filled with bugs. It guessed wrong, mostly, but it converged on the correct answer within a few generations.
Unfortunately, I have to ding them on this - if the password is wrong, it hides the error message from you (you get something generic like "connection failed").
Well, yeah, but that's because it's Good Security Practice (TM). If J. Random H4x0r knew that the username was correct but the password was wrong, then he knows he's already halfway there. You're not supposed to give away that some of the information is right, but some is wrong. You're just supposed to say, "No. Try Again."
See, for example, IETF RFC 1939 section 13 (for POP3) and RFC 2060 section 11 (for IMAP4).
It seems kind of weird that they'd target Apple, especially when there are far worse companies out there with much more draconian DRM policies they could make an example of. (Sony, anyone?)
That's because the Sony Store is online, and it would be kinda ineffective to set up a computer, go to the Sony Store, and demonstrate at the screen.
I've been trying to read it. Each time I get a little farther, probably due to all the jumping around. At times I laugh out loud. So yes, I enjoy the parts that I've been able to read, but no, I haven't enjoyed the whole book. Yet.
Well, I didn't believe you, and checked myself. That article talks about the middle class change in 2003. What about in 2004 and 2005? Turns out that in 2004 and 2005 the middle class gained by +0.4% and +0.2%, respectively, while the lower-income group changed by 0.0% and -0.5%, respectively, using the same measures of middle and lower class as used in the referenced article.
These were certainly surprising results to me. I'm no Bush apologist, which is why I found these results surprising.
There wasn't any trading at all on ITJOBS over the past 30 days. It's pretty well-known that the fewer people trading in something, the less accurate a reflection the price is of the value. So given the sparsity of traders, I wouldn't put any faith in this prediction.
It's not just mommy and daddy filling up the family sedan. It's everything that depends on petroleum products. Asphalt, for example. Heating oil. Plastics. And, as the summary points out, transportation of *everything*.
Gas prices is one of those easily understood metrics that happens to affect everything we do (in developed countries).
No, scientists modify tomatoes so that they will have more cellulose in them, which makes them take longer to ripen and go soft. That way they can be transported farther without spoilage. Of course, it also makes them sort of taste like a piece of celery.
Well... I guess that could be a good thing if you happen to enjoy a tasty piece of celery?
What we've actually been doing is breeding tobacco varieties that taste better and tomato plants with larger fruit and soybean with better nutritional value as livestock feed.
I thought what we've actually been doing is breeding tomato plants with fruit that ships better, lasts in warehouses longer, and looks redder, and screw the taste and nutrition because they don't pay. Heritage varieties, anyone?
Culture isn't static. It changes, sometimes not in the way you'd like it. Tough. I'd be surprised if culture didn't change when the world around changed. This is just another "get off my lawn" guy. Now get off my lawn and let me put my overalls and straw hat on, sweep the barn floor and then harvest some corn.
Mundie said companies have long been concerned that schools aren't churning out graduates with the skills and know-how that businesses require in employees to compete globally...
That is, the skills and know-how to work 80-hour weeks at slave wages.
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Since Weird Al's label is owned by Sony, our friend Al decided to use that relationship to send a parody message to Sony executives. (NOTE: Youtube link, time sensitive). Sony executives, having no sense of humor, took the song at face value.
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Nasssty hobbissssts!
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Thanks for turning me off to Sirius!
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Yes and no. I agree with you, that software TODAY is highly unreliable. Software TOMORROW will not be. Why, just the other day... okay, ten years ago... I wrote a program that evolved to find the square root of two. I knew the ultimate answer, of course, but the computer didn't, so effectively the program it used to generate the answer was filled with bugs. It guessed wrong, mostly, but it converged on the correct answer within a few generations.
Now generalize this to, "I know what I want the program to do. I just don't know exactly how to get it to do that." At least SEVEN years ago, programs evolved to come up with electronic circuit architectures for amplifiers with various parameters.
The machines will program better than we ever could.
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Well, yeah, but that's because it's Good Security Practice (TM). If J. Random H4x0r knew that the username was correct but the password was wrong, then he knows he's already halfway there. You're not supposed to give away that some of the information is right, but some is wrong. You're just supposed to say, "No. Try Again."
See, for example, IETF RFC 1939 section 13 (for POP3) and RFC 2060 section 11 (for IMAP4).
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That's because the Sony Store is online, and it would be kinda ineffective to set up a computer, go to the Sony Store, and demonstrate at the screen.
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Well, I'd consider that to be overly friendly, but not inappropriate.
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Well, I didn't believe you, and checked myself. That article talks about the middle class change in 2003. What about in 2004 and 2005? Turns out that in 2004 and 2005 the middle class gained by +0.4% and +0.2%, respectively, while the lower-income group changed by 0.0% and -0.5%, respectively, using the same measures of middle and lower class as used in the referenced article.
These were certainly surprising results to me. I'm no Bush apologist, which is why I found these results surprising.
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Gas prices is one of those easily understood metrics that happens to affect everything we do (in developed countries).
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Well... I guess that could be a good thing if you happen to enjoy a tasty piece of celery?
--Rob
I thought what we've actually been doing is breeding tomato plants with fruit that ships better, lasts in warehouses longer, and looks redder, and screw the taste and nutrition because they don't pay. Heritage varieties, anyone?
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Never mind.
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(quick montage of knights dancing and kicking chickens)
No, on second thought, let's not go to Camelot. It is a silly place.
That is, the skills and know-how to work 80-hour weeks at slave wages.
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