I want to communicate with Server A. I have Server A's public key, so I encrypt a randomly generated session key with the public key; Only someone with the private key can see that session key now.
So anybody out on the big bad internet would not be able to reverse the encryption.
The answer is simple: Application support. That's why desktop linux has failed. Nevermind the rest of the chatter; I can tell you that had I had the applications needed, I would have switched two organizations over to linux desktops by now, possibly more.
And it's not a problem of performance; It's a question of politics. We have to convince enough software vendors to start coding in a cross-platform language/way.
What about university (and other similar instituitions) provided computers with a plethora of licensed software on them...
That's easy: You get a big beefy server, let's call it a main frame, on the back end. In the lab is a cheap little thin client which has no data of it's own and is easily replaceable.
The more things change, the more they stay the same, eh?
...I say let them. There is no way my organization would ever stand for this sort of data mining; They'll leave windows far far behind before this happens.
That said, for a company of MS's financial strength, filing a patent is a trivial process; Therefore they will patent what they think of and consider it a resource to be used for whatever purpose at a later date. I highly doubt they actually have plans to put this in an OS.
Even the most highly ethical hard working person will eventually throw their hands up in disgust and start wasting time if their manager doesn't recognize anything they do. Its human nature. People want to be respected and acknowledge that what they do is important.
No, not quite. It's human nature to want to feel good about yourself; We've been raised to expect that from higher ups ( "parental figures" of sorts ). But let me tell you, from my experience, when the job is it's own reward and you hold yourself to your own standards, work life becomes so much easier; No longer are you at the mercy of whatever idiot boss you have this week.
The key to happiness is doing what you feel is right; to hell with what other's say.
In celebration, a science fiction special edition of Nature on 5 July 2007 explores the symbiosis of science and sf, as exemplified by Everett's hypothesis, its birth, evolution, champions and opponents, in biology, physics, literature and beyond.'
When the companies we work for dont act ethical, and are kept from acting ethical due to shareholder constraint, why should we care if we're not ethical?
Ah, the smell of fresh irony in the morning ( afternoon ).
You act ethically because you hold yourself accountable for your actions. I do a good job because I want to, because at the end of the day I feel good knowing I did the best I could. Not because if I work hard I'll get a "staff appreciation pin". Kudos from employers come and go ( or often are non-existant ).
I think that's the problem with this country: Too many people expect their managers to help them with their self-esteem. No one other than yourself should have any hand in that.
Speaking as someone who has worked the doors, messed around with lots of martial arts, and known some of the foremost self-defence experts in the world, that's complete shit. You have obviously never been in such a situation.
Never been in a rape situation? True. Never been in a situation where I needed to take someone out of a fight? False. It has been my experience that, unless some serious drugs are involved, a knee to the groin and some pepper spray usually disuade any male from doing pretty much anything for the next 10 or so minutes.
It is extremely difficult for a woman to fend off a serious attacker.
Only if she believes that.
Pepper spray is also next to useless. A better option is a spray can of WD40 at the eyes. I'm told that's very nasty, and effective.
Speaking as someone who's been hit with pepper spray, I don't buy it. Even those around the initial impact area experience breathing problems and have a hard time getting their eyes open.
Does it also defeat cancer, cure the common cold, disintegrate warts, and eliminate smelly feet? It seems like a lot of big claims are being made for something just discovered.
They've had theories for a while, and the theories indicate that some of the properties may be useful for these things. Now that they have established them as fact AND can reproduce them in a lab environment, they can determine if their guesses ( I would put any one of the researchers guesses against a million of yours ) are in any way accurate.
Yeah, those rape victims really should try harder next time not to get raped.
No one likes to say it, but often times rape victims should have known better.
Go out with the guy that other girls warn you about? Sure, why not. They must be jealous is all. Walk down a dark alley in a bad neighborhood? Sure, what could possibly happen?
I am not saying these things are their fault; The sick fuck who did it deserves to have his balls chopped off for it. What I am saying is that, from a rational perspective, if you can learn from your previous mistakes you won't repeat them. This obviously doesn't apply to people just minding their own walking down the street, which is a smaller subset of overall rape victims.
Women; Learn how to defend yourselves. A knee to the groin will usually disuade the most aggresive attacker, and pepper spray is always a hit at the parties. You are in control in that confrontation; The attacker has just convinced you otherwise. Don't let him.
This shows how Apple is really good at playing the game, where it's often about cheaper is better. They show style and quality is worth it. Most people will buy Fords, but some with the money will pay a premium to own a Mercedes. Apple is just the Mercedes of computing.
Funny, I was thinking more along the lines of new cloths for the Emperor.
Non-lethal weapons are hardly a waste of money. Nor are they really intended to protect anybody but the people they're being fired at. That's the point - society has all the "protection" it needs provided by police and military using lead bullets, but are we still so barbaric that we want police to shoot lethal weapons into a group of college kids who had a little too much to drink while celebrating their team's championship victory one night and end up a little too rowdy in the streets? Should the penalty for that be death?
You have grown adults acting as barbaric as the society you claim us to be. These are people who know the difference between right and wrong, yet they choose to destroy property and hurt people. All it takes is one drunk getting the grand idea to start kicking someone, and now you have a mob of drunken idiots beating people for the fun of it. I don't know about you, but I'd rather the cops shoot the mob than they beat me.
The other thing is that, with most people just snagging a song or two from an album because they heard it on the radio, they will never really know if they like the rest of the band's work. I've bought cds for one or two songs and ended up liking the rest of the album.
The opposite would happen to me far more often, back when I still bought music. I'd buy the CD, hoping for the same quality out of the rest of it, only to find that the release was the only one worth listening to. This is a large reason I don't buy music anymore ( neither do I acquire it in any other forms ).
While I don't argue that statement on face value, I do argue it's implications. Everyone, deep down, is selfish. They only do what they want to.
Where we diverge is in people's ability to do what's best for others to make themselves feel good. This is the traditional "selfless" definition, and I see this from people every day ( I work with cops and firefighters ).
it is just your administration we don't like.. and your software patents.. and your legal sue happy culture.. oh and the hysterical attitude about sex/nudity.
Keep in mind that most of us on this side of the pond aren't too enamoured with those things either. Wait, that was slanderous!
Is there anything that's wrong with today's world, for which BushCo is not at least partly responsible? In your opinion?..
Thank you.
You know, were this this the story about the lake dissapearing, you'd have a point. But this is about a foreign nation worried that the US isn't trustworthy. A nation who, until fairly recently, we were best buds with ( politically speaking ). Who would you like to believe this was caused by? Toothfairy maybe? Santa?
But none of that means that IQ is *not* a measure of intelligence - it is. It just is not the *only* measure of intelligence.
In it's given context, it's a meaningless statement. As said, IQ is simply a (somewhat)objective observation of certain traits which some people think is intelligent. However, there is no clear cut and dried way of looking at this: there are so many aspects of intelligence as to make basing theory on one aspect a meaningless exercise.
My older brother may have a higher IQ than me, but am observably more intelligent than he is ( can think faster and come up with more elegant solutions in a shorter timeframe ).
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Because you get no karma for funny; You do for insightful.
Nope, this is how it works:
I want to communicate with Server A. I have Server A's public key, so I encrypt a randomly generated session key with the public key; Only someone with the private key can see that session key now.
So anybody out on the big bad internet would not be able to reverse the encryption.
No matter where you go, it's always the same.
Thanks for the laughs, even if they led to a sad realization.
The answer is simple: Application support. That's why desktop linux has failed. Nevermind the rest of the chatter; I can tell you that had I had the applications needed, I would have switched two organizations over to linux desktops by now, possibly more.
And it's not a problem of performance; It's a question of politics. We have to convince enough software vendors to start coding in a cross-platform language/way.
What about university (and other similar instituitions) provided computers with a plethora of licensed software on them...
That's easy: You get a big beefy server, let's call it a main frame, on the back end. In the lab is a cheap little thin client which has no data of it's own and is easily replaceable.
The more things change, the more they stay the same, eh?
...I say let them. There is no way my organization would ever stand for this sort of data mining; They'll leave windows far far behind before this happens.
That said, for a company of MS's financial strength, filing a patent is a trivial process; Therefore they will patent what they think of and consider it a resource to be used for whatever purpose at a later date. I highly doubt they actually have plans to put this in an OS.
I've been wrong before of course.
Block MSN and yahoo.
You can thank me later.
Even the most highly ethical hard working person will eventually throw their hands up in disgust and start wasting time if their manager doesn't recognize anything they do. Its human nature. People want to be respected and acknowledge that what they do is important.
No, not quite. It's human nature to want to feel good about yourself; We've been raised to expect that from higher ups ( "parental figures" of sorts ). But let me tell you, from my experience, when the job is it's own reward and you hold yourself to your own standards, work life becomes so much easier; No longer are you at the mercy of whatever idiot boss you have this week.
The key to happiness is doing what you feel is right; to hell with what other's say.
In celebration, a science fiction special edition of Nature on 5 July 2007 explores the symbiosis of science and sf, as exemplified by Everett's hypothesis, its birth, evolution, champions and opponents, in biology, physics, literature and beyond.'
All of them?
When the companies we work for dont act ethical, and are kept from acting ethical due to shareholder constraint, why should we care if we're not ethical?
Ah, the smell of fresh irony in the morning ( afternoon ).
You act ethically because you hold yourself accountable for your actions. I do a good job because I want to, because at the end of the day I feel good knowing I did the best I could. Not because if I work hard I'll get a "staff appreciation pin". Kudos from employers come and go ( or often are non-existant ).
I think that's the problem with this country: Too many people expect their managers to help them with their self-esteem. No one other than yourself should have any hand in that.
Indeed. I is sthmart, honest!
Some days it's best if I'm not given sharp objects, I swear.
Can you say Oxymoron? I knew you could.
Speaking as someone who has worked the doors, messed around with lots of martial arts, and known some of the foremost self-defence experts in the world, that's complete shit. You have obviously never been in such a situation.
Never been in a rape situation? True. Never been in a situation where I needed to take someone out of a fight? False. It has been my experience that, unless some serious drugs are involved, a knee to the groin and some pepper spray usually disuade any male from doing pretty much anything for the next 10 or so minutes.
It is extremely difficult for a woman to fend off a serious attacker.
Only if she believes that.
Pepper spray is also next to useless. A better option is a spray can of WD40 at the eyes. I'm told that's very nasty, and effective.
Speaking as someone who's been hit with pepper spray, I don't buy it. Even those around the initial impact area experience breathing problems and have a hard time getting their eyes open.
I can't speak for WD40; But whatever works.
Does it also defeat cancer, cure the common cold, disintegrate warts, and eliminate smelly feet? It seems like a lot of big claims are being made for something just discovered.
They've had theories for a while, and the theories indicate that some of the properties may be useful for these things. Now that they have established them as fact AND can reproduce them in a lab environment, they can determine if their guesses ( I would put any one of the researchers guesses against a million of yours ) are in any way accurate.
Science; Gotta love it
Yeah, those rape victims really should try harder next time not to get raped.
No one likes to say it, but often times rape victims should have known better.
Go out with the guy that other girls warn you about? Sure, why not. They must be jealous is all.
Walk down a dark alley in a bad neighborhood? Sure, what could possibly happen?
I am not saying these things are their fault; The sick fuck who did it deserves to have his balls chopped off for it. What I am saying is that, from a rational perspective, if you can learn from your previous mistakes you won't repeat them. This obviously doesn't apply to people just minding their own walking down the street, which is a smaller subset of overall rape victims.
Women; Learn how to defend yourselves. A knee to the groin will usually disuade the most aggresive attacker, and pepper spray is always a hit at the parties. You are in control in that confrontation; The attacker has just convinced you otherwise. Don't let him.
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This shows how Apple is really good at playing the game, where it's often about cheaper is better. They show style and quality is worth it. Most people will buy Fords, but some with the money will pay a premium to own a Mercedes. Apple is just the Mercedes of computing.
Funny, I was thinking more along the lines of new cloths for the Emperor.
To each their own, I guess.
Non-lethal weapons are hardly a waste of money. Nor are they really intended to protect anybody but the people they're being fired at. That's the point - society has all the "protection" it needs provided by police and military using lead bullets, but are we still so barbaric that we want police to shoot lethal weapons into a group of college kids who had a little too much to drink while celebrating their team's championship victory one night and end up a little too rowdy in the streets? Should the penalty for that be death?
You have grown adults acting as barbaric as the society you claim us to be. These are people who know the difference between right and wrong, yet they choose to destroy property and hurt people. All it takes is one drunk getting the grand idea to start kicking someone, and now you have a mob of drunken idiots beating people for the fun of it. I don't know about you, but I'd rather the cops shoot the mob than they beat me.
Personally, I support napalm in these situations.
The other thing is that, with most people just snagging a song or two from an album because they heard it on the radio, they will never really know if they like the rest of the band's work. I've bought cds for one or two songs and ended up liking the rest of the album.
The opposite would happen to me far more often, back when I still bought music. I'd buy the CD, hoping for the same quality out of the rest of it, only to find that the release was the only one worth listening to. This is a large reason I don't buy music anymore ( neither do I acquire it in any other forms ).
people are selfish creatures.
While I don't argue that statement on face value, I do argue it's implications. Everyone, deep down, is selfish. They only do what they want to.
Where we diverge is in people's ability to do what's best for others to make themselves feel good. This is the traditional "selfless" definition, and I see this from people every day ( I work with cops and firefighters ).
it is just your administration we don't like.. and your software patents.. and your legal sue happy culture.. oh and the hysterical attitude about sex/nudity.
Keep in mind that most of us on this side of the pond aren't too enamoured with those things either. Wait, that was slanderous!
You'll be hearing from my lawyers.
Is there anything that's wrong with today's world, for which BushCo is not at least partly responsible? In your opinion?..
Thank you.
You know, were this this the story about the lake dissapearing, you'd have a point. But this is about a foreign nation worried that the US isn't trustworthy. A nation who, until fairly recently, we were best buds with ( politically speaking ). Who would you like to believe this was caused by? Toothfairy maybe? Santa?
Whether you like or hate this administration, there can be little argument that it's caused a great deal of harm to our nations foreign relations.
Do we have any friends left?
But none of that means that IQ is *not* a measure of intelligence - it is. It just is not the *only* measure of intelligence.
In it's given context, it's a meaningless statement. As said, IQ is simply a (somewhat)objective observation of certain traits which some people think is intelligent. However, there is no clear cut and dried way of looking at this: there are so many aspects of intelligence as to make basing theory on one aspect a meaningless exercise.
My older brother may have a higher IQ than me, but am observably more intelligent than he is ( can think faster and come up with more elegant solutions in a shorter timeframe ).
If I can read the disk, I can back it up. It's as simple as that.