Yes, I got woke up at 6am this morning with a repeating swiffer comercial. I know what the solution is though, and am about to implement it. On a windows machine go to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc edit the host file and add this line to the bottom.
127.0.0.1 slashdot.org
This should improve my general productivity as well.
The only one I've looked into is the Nook, but it seems to me like it is fundamentally flawed. It has a lot of bits so it can't be brute forced. But, they use a pass phrase to generate the key. The phrase is your name and credit card number, so it's not as many bits. But if I get a hold of your Nook I can get your name from one of your screens. And the last four digits of your credit card. The first 6 digits of your card are not secret either and are determined by your bank and card company. If you don't know it at least many can be eliminated. So the only really secret part is the middle section of 6 numeric digits. I'm not sure how long it would take to brute force but it doesn't seem like it would be too long and it's easily parallelizable. So if you leave your Nook somewhere not only could I copy your books, I can have your credit card and name as well.
According to the article NASDAQ made 10.8 million profit by shorting Facebook in just one of their rule violations. So they aren't even getting fined as much as the profits they made violating the rules.
The other 2 central principles of Discoverability and Visibility, Metro fails at both of these as well. I accidentally opened a PDF in metro and after 5 minutes had to google how to close the app.
Roads are usually paid for with a gasoline tax. This worked out great when everyone drove cars as the more you drove the more you paid. The problem is as we move to alternative fuels there will be no one left to pay for the roads.
Bike lanes cost money to build, and money to maintain. They may not get worn out by the bicyclists but they still need to have the street sweeper run, the lines painted, signs posted, cracks sealed, etc. Around here the bike lanes are not used nearly as much as the rest of the street, I would say probably the bike lanes cost more per mile used than the rest of the street.
Invented the intermittent windshield wiper. Showed it to the big 3, they said no thanks, but then installed them anyway. Successfully sued Ford, but it took 12 years. Spent the entire amount suing Chrysler who took it all the way to the supreme court. Lawsuits against other manufacturers were dismissed for technicalities (by then he was acting as his own lawyer).
In this community SCO is as well known as Wal-Mart. It's been mentioned literally thousands of times on this site. (8300) vs. only 5000 hits for Wal-mart.
A generation or two ago they probably said the same thing about cars. Used to be you could overhaul your engine in your garage and people often did. The technology improved and you didn't have to know anything about a car to use it. People moved from tinkerers to consumers, the old timers complained about the kids who couldn't change a tire or set of points, and the kids saw no reason to learn it as there was more interesting things to learn in the world.
The cycle continues. The things we spent a lifetime learning don't seem valuable to our kids. And that's probably the way it should be. By now computers, like cars, should be a solved problem for most people.
If he's the only one complaining then he's probably the only one on the team who knows what code is supposed to look like. Getting standards written and having code reviews could very well make things worse. You'll have to write your code like him.
I missed a meeting one time and the team decided to write some standards. I came back and found some great new standards. e.g. Always declare all variables at the top of the method. Every function must have a try catch. All variables are set to nothing at the end of the method. etc. etc.
I accidentally opened a metro app and had to google how to close it. There is no excuse for that. But other than that I've been fine with just ignoring the metro part and treating it like a win 7 machine.
I think the main difference is it wasn't a drug company involved, it was technically a pharmacy that botched it. So it's traveling down an entirely different path.
You can say the same about leaches. Over the course of a life time the few cc of blood won't make a difference. It might just as easily be good for you if you happen to have certain medical conditions.
You can protect yourself easily with antibiotics, so why worry.
Finally, it could make someone else sick, and you'd be in a great position to pick up stuff cheap at the estate sale.
I'm confused. How can it the government be selling off massive stockpiles and driving the price down and there be a shortage at the same time. Surely they can't both be true.
Thing is, this isn't a politician, scientists, or institution saying this, it is the insurance companies. They tend to do a pretty good job of cutting through the BS since their profits are directly connected to actually things right.
On the other hand the insurance companies would benefit if we all went 20 MPH everywhere and never had a major accident. Actually getting to a destination in a reasonable amount of time is of no benefit to them. So maybe they aren't the most objective.
Not really much point, they are already capable of going faster than humanly possible to race. The rules seem to mostly be about slowing them down. Any changes or opening of the rules will just cost teams money on R&D that could be going into their pocket. I like NASCAR but it's all about the money and having everyone drive a 1965 Chevy pickup with generic sheet metal makes everyone the most money.
I like to watch Australian racing as well. They do actually have stock cars like NASCAR had in the 60's. I think I would prefer the Australian way to the US way if I had a choice.
I've always liked the idea. It's very similar to battery power. A lot of the negatives are the same, but you gain some things. Quick recharge, and you'd probably get free air conditioning.
I think the real problem is there's no upside potential. It's all mechanical, so there's not really much chance of a big improvement like there is with batteries. They can keep tweaking the motors and compressors but realistically there's not much to gain. With electricity storage, who knows what the limit is?
Yes, I'm moving so I wanted to sell my 1000+ sci fi books. Couldn't even get any inquires about titles or anything from craigslist, I thought at least someone would want to come in and cherry pick a few. I bought a scanner and scanned in my favorites, the rest went to the thrift store for the tax deduction.
I don't think the problem was a software bug at all, or that they deployed without enough testing. Another article mentioned they deployed their test system with the production software. I think this was probably a packaging issue. Or even a network issue, where they plugged their test system in to the live network accidentally.
It's entirely possible the problem is too much software testing.
I wish I had taken a statistics course and some accounting courses instead of all the calculus that I've never once used. I suspect most programming jobs are like that.
Don't forget the Kudzu disaster in the South. Around here there's a smaller nuisance of wild rose bushes the conservation department had everyone planting at one time. It will take over pastures and nothing will eat it.
There's probably a list of things like this somewhere, and it's probably huge. But it's different this time, they know what they're doing now.
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Yes, I got woke up at 6am this morning with a repeating swiffer comercial. I know what the solution is though, and am about to implement it. On a windows machine go to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc edit the host file and add this line to the bottom.
127.0.0.1 slashdot.org
This should improve my general productivity as well.
The only one I've looked into is the Nook, but it seems to me like it is fundamentally flawed. It has a lot of bits so it can't be brute forced. But, they use a pass phrase to generate the key. The phrase is your name and credit card number, so it's not as many bits. But if I get a hold of your Nook I can get your name from one of your screens. And the last four digits of your credit card. The first 6 digits of your card are not secret either and are determined by your bank and card company. If you don't know it at least many can be eliminated. So the only really secret part is the middle section of 6 numeric digits. I'm not sure how long it would take to brute force but it doesn't seem like it would be too long and it's easily parallelizable. So if you leave your Nook somewhere not only could I copy your books, I can have your credit card and name as well.
I'm pretty sure Nook uses adobe.
Maybe he can get the Boeing engineers to help him figure it out.
According to the article NASDAQ made 10.8 million profit by shorting Facebook in just one of their rule violations. So they aren't even getting fined as much as the profits they made violating the rules.
Because when most of started watching it, it was THE SciFi show. There really wasn't much else.
The other 2 central principles of Discoverability and Visibility, Metro fails at both of these as well. I accidentally opened a PDF in metro and after 5 minutes had to google how to close the app.
Roads are usually paid for with a gasoline tax. This worked out great when everyone drove cars as the more you drove the more you paid. The problem is as we move to alternative fuels there will be no one left to pay for the roads.
Bike lanes cost money to build, and money to maintain. They may not get worn out by the bicyclists but they still need to have the street sweeper run, the lines painted, signs posted, cracks sealed, etc. Around here the bike lanes are not used nearly as much as the rest of the street, I would say probably the bike lanes cost more per mile used than the rest of the street.
More likely, he has 12 of them in the back they just aren't selling, and $20 to have it cleaned and $20 to have it framed, $10 tops.
Robert Kearns http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kearns
Invented the intermittent windshield wiper. Showed it to the big 3, they said no thanks, but then installed them anyway. Successfully sued Ford, but it took 12 years. Spent the entire amount suing Chrysler who took it all the way to the supreme court. Lawsuits against other manufacturers were dismissed for technicalities (by then he was acting as his own lawyer).
In this community SCO is as well known as Wal-Mart. It's been mentioned literally thousands of times on this site. (8300) vs. only 5000 hits for Wal-mart.
A generation or two ago they probably said the same thing about cars. Used to be you could overhaul your engine in your garage and people often did. The technology improved and you didn't have to know anything about a car to use it. People moved from tinkerers to consumers, the old timers complained about the kids who couldn't change a tire or set of points, and the kids saw no reason to learn it as there was more interesting things to learn in the world.
The cycle continues. The things we spent a lifetime learning don't seem valuable to our kids. And that's probably the way it should be. By now computers, like cars, should be a solved problem for most people.
If he's the only one complaining then he's probably the only one on the team who knows what code is supposed to look like. Getting standards written and having code reviews could very well make things worse. You'll have to write your code like him.
I missed a meeting one time and the team decided to write some standards. I came back and found some great new standards. e.g. Always declare all variables at the top of the method. Every function must have a try catch. All variables are set to nothing at the end of the method. etc. etc.
I accidentally opened a metro app and had to google how to close it. There is no excuse for that. But other than that I've been fine with just ignoring the metro part and treating it like a win 7 machine.
I think the main difference is it wasn't a drug company involved, it was technically a pharmacy that botched it. So it's traveling down an entirely different path.
You can say the same about leaches. Over the course of a life time the few cc of blood won't make a difference. It might just as easily be good for you if you happen to have certain medical conditions.
You can protect yourself easily with antibiotics, so why worry.
Finally, it could make someone else sick, and you'd be in a great position to pick up stuff cheap at the estate sale.
I'm confused. How can it the government be selling off massive stockpiles and driving the price down and there be a shortage at the same time. Surely they can't both be true.
Thing is, this isn't a politician, scientists, or institution saying this, it is the insurance companies. They tend to do a pretty good job of cutting through the BS since their profits are directly connected to actually things right.
On the other hand the insurance companies would benefit if we all went 20 MPH everywhere and never had a major accident. Actually getting to a destination in a reasonable amount of time is of no benefit to them. So maybe they aren't the most objective.
Not really much point, they are already capable of going faster than humanly possible to race. The rules seem to mostly be about slowing them down. Any changes or opening of the rules will just cost teams money on R&D that could be going into their pocket. I like NASCAR but it's all about the money and having everyone drive a 1965 Chevy pickup with generic sheet metal makes everyone the most money.
I like to watch Australian racing as well. They do actually have stock cars like NASCAR had in the 60's. I think I would prefer the Australian way to the US way if I had a choice.
The ironic thing is that even with the fuel injection NASCAR cars still have more in common with a mid 60's Chevrolet pickup than a modern stock car.
I've always liked the idea. It's very similar to battery power. A lot of the negatives are the same, but you gain some things. Quick recharge, and you'd probably get free air conditioning.
I think the real problem is there's no upside potential. It's all mechanical, so there's not really much chance of a big improvement like there is with batteries. They can keep tweaking the motors and compressors but realistically there's not much to gain. With electricity storage, who knows what the limit is?
Yes, I'm moving so I wanted to sell my 1000+ sci fi books. Couldn't even get any inquires about titles or anything from craigslist, I thought at least someone would want to come in and cherry pick a few. I bought a scanner and scanned in my favorites, the rest went to the thrift store for the tax deduction.
I don't think the problem was a software bug at all, or that they deployed without enough testing. Another article mentioned they deployed their test system with the production software. I think this was probably a packaging issue. Or even a network issue, where they plugged their test system in to the live network accidentally. It's entirely possible the problem is too much software testing.
I wish I had taken a statistics course and some accounting courses instead of all the calculus that I've never once used. I suspect most programming jobs are like that.
Don't forget the Kudzu disaster in the South. Around here there's a smaller nuisance of wild rose bushes the conservation department had everyone planting at one time. It will take over pastures and nothing will eat it. There's probably a list of things like this somewhere, and it's probably huge. But it's different this time, they know what they're doing now.