There are no large gatherings of organized Vegans with dogma proclaiming that violating Vegan dietary principles is an affront to God, such that ordinary Vegetarians would be moved to radical Veganism simply because of the excess consumption of animal-derived products.
On the other hand, there are lots of people that are only nominally religious until the religion that they only barely believe in and participate with is visibly threatened or demeaned, then they go off the deep end in its defense.
You do not use their religion against the faceless masses. IF you chose to use religion against someone, it has to be personal, and even then, you have to be very careful, such that your choice doesn't motivate others to rally to the cause of the person whom you used it against. If you want to compare this to warfare, you must use it tactically, not strategically.
Every significant world power to ever exist has managed to do its' period's equivalent of bombing the shit out of civilians in colonial or poor places without too much in the way of repercussions. European powers subjugated large portions of Africa and Asia, and essentially conquered North and South America in some form or another. These Empires were brought down through internal strife, not from the outside. Even Rome, ultimately sacked by barbarians, fell from its peak due to internal pressures first before the Visigoths ever got within sight of its walls.
impact is what counts, and groups like Shabaab understand that even if they are incapable of rendering an attack, its the threat that counts most. Commercial targets instituting checkpoints and screening are what these groups are going for, as these hallmarks serve as a consistent reminder that Shabaabs presence is taken seriously by america as a legitimate threat they cannot proactively reduce or mitigate through normal foreign policy to a level that would permit the american "way of life."
Personally I think everyone's overreacting. I was curious so I did searches for "largest mall in America" and "Largest mall in Canada" and the two North American malls were the first hits. This is reminicent of the joke from the first Die Hard movie, where Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is listing terrorist groups that he wants freed in exchange for releasing hostages; one of his mooks questions one of the groups and he quietly replies, "I read about them in Time Magazine." This seems more like someone looked up what the biggest malls are, and made a list, more than having significant targets.
London's Oxford Street is also listed as the largest shopping area in Europe, so I expect that it was similarly found through some kind of search. Granted, if terrorists are operating out of the Middle East then it's probably a little easier to get to London than it is North America, but even still, after The Troubles, the UK has a lot of experience dealing with terrorism even in its own borders, so I doubt that it's any more of a credible threat than the other two.
It doesn't hurt (the Russians, that is) that they sent all of their defective NK-33 engines to us, instead using an entirely different engine for manned spaceflight.
To this point, it appears that SpaceX is the only rocket supplier that has managed to build engines that both can be shutdown instantly when an at-ignition problem is discovered, and can selectively shutdown during the launch sequence to deactivate a problematic engine without destroying the craft. It's only a matter of time before someone other than the Russians are able to deliver and retrieve crews.
If SpaceX manages to get its reusable rocket working, I expect that they'll use new rockets for manned flights and high importance cargo flights, and refurbished rockets for unmanned, lower importance flights. Reducing the cost to orbit should do a lot to make reaching space affordable, relatively speaking, so that greater human use of space can become more routine. It'll also force other companies to figure out how to make reusable rockets if they want to compete, and multiple players is almost always good for a market.
I've read rumors that Russia is getting antsy to reuse the core block for ISS for its own station some day, and that they don't allow non-Russians into the Russian parts of the station without escort. If there's substance to this rumor, is there a plan in the works to have a replacement module so that humanity's most expensive construct ever doesn't become so much floating orbital debris?
Laws are not copyrighted. There have been lawsuits where thinktanks that were paid to draft laws for one jurisdiction tried to enforce copyright claims against other jurisdictions that passed the same law in copycat-fashion and lost.
The problem is when codes and regulations, which are not technically laws, are copyrighted. Things like building codes, electrical codes, and other standards bodies' codes that the public sector rules refer to but are private, so one has to spend money with private entities in order to be legal. It's annoying.
And that's the point, even though cars have significantly more reliable engine controls and fuel delivery systems, we're still accustomed to opening the engine bay. All that the average person can do in there is change the air filter, change the oil/filter, top off the brake fluid, change the coolant, and top off the transmission fluid. All other maintenance tasks are harder- changing the spark plugs can be a real pain, dealing with engine control problems is REALLY a pain, etc.
The GM EV1 electric car used special Michelin high-psi (like 90psi) tires to reduce rolling resistance without overly sacrificing grip.
It's actually quite likely that such a thing could happen with a significant technology shift. In fact, since tires are this weird mish-mash of SAE and SI units, switching to an entirely SI-unit wheel and tire could be a way to enforce a hard-break between the tires for conventional operator-driven internal combustion vehicles and autonomous electric vehicles.
I also fully expect for it to be more difficult to open the hood on an electric as there will be fewer user-serviceable parts inside. Remember, cars now are a legacy of having to regularly change filters, change or top-off fluids, adjust carburetors, adjust valve lash, adjust distributors, and all other manner of maintenance that's often not even necessary on current internal-combustion vehicles anymore, let alone on electrics. If an auto manufacturer wanted to keep the owner away from things that they probably couldn't improve-on and wouldn't need to maintain then they might just make a small user service port for those few fluids that the owner is expected to maintain (windshield washer fluid, possibly brake fluid) while otherwise making it harder to get at the drivetrain and battery system.
If those five people did not take documentation from their former employer to their new employer, then they probably are clear of transferring trade secrets. After all, I'm not barred from using the skills that I learned at one employer at another employer, that's simply how the game works.
As for going for a team, this is not the first time that a team, or a significant portion of a team, has moved as a group from one company to another, and it certainly won't be the last. If A123 wants to retain their employees then they need to sweeten the pot for their employees. That could be more pay, or better working conditions, or more vacation time, or whatever those employees want. If another company makes a better offer then those employees have every right to pursue that offer.
Seems like it would be easy for the marketing people to be singing their own praises while the core network people are quietly instructed to start using this software to catalog and ultimately curtail such practices.
I really would rather not have my ISP QoS anything that I do. I want them to be a common-carrier. I'll shape my own traffic, thanks.
I think the points are though, that first, companies do not do a good job of cybersecurity, or security at all for that matter. This is the issue that allowed another party to gain access to the crypto data for the SIM cards and for other security mechanisms in order to defeat them.
And second, while the NSA and the British equivalent might be unweildy bureaucratic monsters where those in-charge might not even know what the appendages are doing, they're well-enough funded that they can afford to buy people off to socially-engineer their way in to places where they wouldn't otherwise have the right to go. That gives them the ability to get into corporate networks or to get data from individuals working for corporations; they buy their way in and the consequences of the actions of the employee are not the NSA's concern. All they want/need is the data, and if they can buy it for cash or buy their way in for cash then they might just do that.
Security is hard. Ultimately it comes down to the individual employee, who has to have access to what he or she works on, but by having that access, also can be a risk. A multimillion dollar system can be compromised by a single technical employee because that employee needs access through those safeguards to do the job. It's really no different than bribing the guards at the castle to get in.
Working on one terminal. Monitoring pings or other stats on another terminal. Documenting (*gasp!*) on another terminal. I usually have four 132x44 terminal windows open in a quad-layout on each screen in my window manager. Works fine that way.
Though I do admit that when I use the dumb-terminal on my desk (yes, I actually have a Wyse VT52 terminal in-service on my desk) I end up using screen.
I regularly use many of the keys that Apple either leaves off of their keyboards or requires the use of a meta-key to access, which becomes a problem of that key is supposed to be used in key-combinations which don't work well with meta-keys.
I'm also sitting at a computer with five USB ports, four of which are in use for console cables. This is a problem if I don't want to use a USB hub.
It's low-tech I know, but back in my IRC days if one wanted everyone to watch something in real-time together, the link was posted, then someone would count down and everyone would open the link (or more accurately, watch the video file that they pulled down from the link in the pre-streaming days) and watch it...
This wasn't exactly difficult, and it was completely platform independent.
Even for those of us that do have an inclination for digging into the working parts of our devices, times come where we just want the darned thing to work.
I've been using Linux since the 2.0.0 kernel debuted in 1996. I have not rooted my phone, because unlike the Linux boxes that I've set up as my workstations, I need my phone to work 100% of the time. If I break my computer it's not a big deal, I have both other hobbies that don't use computers, and I have other computers themselves. By contrast I have one phone, and based on both the costs for subscribing multiple handsets and the cost of those handsets themselves (and their penchant for only being replaced when they're actually physically broken in my case) I do not have a spare phone to revert to should I break the current one.
I'm a geek that figures out how just about everything works, but I don't necessarily feel a need to take everything apart simply because I know how it works.
Or, you could just e-mail or SMS-message or google-chat or any of a multitude of ways send them a link to the video, so they can open it when they want to, be it now or later...
I can't think of all that many times when this would be useful socially. Such a thing could be useful in a classroom setting if for some reason the instructor doesn't have a projector and wants the students to be done with a video lesson at the same time, but for that to work best some form of central control (to force the video to load and to force the video to the foreground) would be necessary, and would still need students to use their headphones and to pay attention.
How about using PHP or Perl for the backend, and using no scripting at all for the frontend, so that it doesn't bloody well matter what browser one uses?
With the introduction of stylesheets there's really no reason to do scripting on the client anymore. All formatting can be done with the stylesheet and the server can process what it needs.
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Eastasia has always been at war with Eurasia and Oceania is our ally.
Eastasia always been at war with Oceania and Eurasia is our ally.
There are no large gatherings of organized Vegans with dogma proclaiming that violating Vegan dietary principles is an affront to God, such that ordinary Vegetarians would be moved to radical Veganism simply because of the excess consumption of animal-derived products.
On the other hand, there are lots of people that are only nominally religious until the religion that they only barely believe in and participate with is visibly threatened or demeaned, then they go off the deep end in its defense.
You do not use their religion against the faceless masses. IF you chose to use religion against someone, it has to be personal, and even then, you have to be very careful, such that your choice doesn't motivate others to rally to the cause of the person whom you used it against. If you want to compare this to warfare, you must use it tactically, not strategically.
Every significant world power to ever exist has managed to do its' period's equivalent of bombing the shit out of civilians in colonial or poor places without too much in the way of repercussions. European powers subjugated large portions of Africa and Asia, and essentially conquered North and South America in some form or another. These Empires were brought down through internal strife, not from the outside. Even Rome, ultimately sacked by barbarians, fell from its peak due to internal pressures first before the Visigoths ever got within sight of its walls.
Personally I think everyone's overreacting. I was curious so I did searches for "largest mall in America" and "Largest mall in Canada" and the two North American malls were the first hits. This is reminicent of the joke from the first Die Hard movie, where Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is listing terrorist groups that he wants freed in exchange for releasing hostages; one of his mooks questions one of the groups and he quietly replies, "I read about them in Time Magazine." This seems more like someone looked up what the biggest malls are, and made a list, more than having significant targets.
London's Oxford Street is also listed as the largest shopping area in Europe, so I expect that it was similarly found through some kind of search. Granted, if terrorists are operating out of the Middle East then it's probably a little easier to get to London than it is North America, but even still, after The Troubles, the UK has a lot of experience dealing with terrorism even in its own borders, so I doubt that it's any more of a credible threat than the other two.
It doesn't hurt (the Russians, that is) that they sent all of their defective NK-33 engines to us, instead using an entirely different engine for manned spaceflight.
To this point, it appears that SpaceX is the only rocket supplier that has managed to build engines that both can be shutdown instantly when an at-ignition problem is discovered, and can selectively shutdown during the launch sequence to deactivate a problematic engine without destroying the craft. It's only a matter of time before someone other than the Russians are able to deliver and retrieve crews.
If SpaceX manages to get its reusable rocket working, I expect that they'll use new rockets for manned flights and high importance cargo flights, and refurbished rockets for unmanned, lower importance flights. Reducing the cost to orbit should do a lot to make reaching space affordable, relatively speaking, so that greater human use of space can become more routine. It'll also force other companies to figure out how to make reusable rockets if they want to compete, and multiple players is almost always good for a market.
I've read rumors that Russia is getting antsy to reuse the core block for ISS for its own station some day, and that they don't allow non-Russians into the Russian parts of the station without escort. If there's substance to this rumor, is there a plan in the works to have a replacement module so that humanity's most expensive construct ever doesn't become so much floating orbital debris?
Laws are not copyrighted. There have been lawsuits where thinktanks that were paid to draft laws for one jurisdiction tried to enforce copyright claims against other jurisdictions that passed the same law in copycat-fashion and lost.
The problem is when codes and regulations, which are not technically laws, are copyrighted. Things like building codes, electrical codes, and other standards bodies' codes that the public sector rules refer to but are private, so one has to spend money with private entities in order to be legal. It's annoying.
I was wondering if this Tales From and Parallel Universe / LEXX clip was going to appear...
And that's the point, even though cars have significantly more reliable engine controls and fuel delivery systems, we're still accustomed to opening the engine bay. All that the average person can do in there is change the air filter, change the oil/filter, top off the brake fluid, change the coolant, and top off the transmission fluid. All other maintenance tasks are harder- changing the spark plugs can be a real pain, dealing with engine control problems is REALLY a pain, etc.
Maybe I'm thinking of the "Impact" prototype version before they modified it for production.
The GM EV1 electric car used special Michelin high-psi (like 90psi) tires to reduce rolling resistance without overly sacrificing grip.
It's actually quite likely that such a thing could happen with a significant technology shift. In fact, since tires are this weird mish-mash of SAE and SI units, switching to an entirely SI-unit wheel and tire could be a way to enforce a hard-break between the tires for conventional operator-driven internal combustion vehicles and autonomous electric vehicles.
I also fully expect for it to be more difficult to open the hood on an electric as there will be fewer user-serviceable parts inside. Remember, cars now are a legacy of having to regularly change filters, change or top-off fluids, adjust carburetors, adjust valve lash, adjust distributors, and all other manner of maintenance that's often not even necessary on current internal-combustion vehicles anymore, let alone on electrics. If an auto manufacturer wanted to keep the owner away from things that they probably couldn't improve-on and wouldn't need to maintain then they might just make a small user service port for those few fluids that the owner is expected to maintain (windshield washer fluid, possibly brake fluid) while otherwise making it harder to get at the drivetrain and battery system.
If those five people did not take documentation from their former employer to their new employer, then they probably are clear of transferring trade secrets. After all, I'm not barred from using the skills that I learned at one employer at another employer, that's simply how the game works.
As for going for a team, this is not the first time that a team, or a significant portion of a team, has moved as a group from one company to another, and it certainly won't be the last. If A123 wants to retain their employees then they need to sweeten the pot for their employees. That could be more pay, or better working conditions, or more vacation time, or whatever those employees want. If another company makes a better offer then those employees have every right to pursue that offer.
They're not valid here either, if memory serves.
Seems like it would be easy for the marketing people to be singing their own praises while the core network people are quietly instructed to start using this software to catalog and ultimately curtail such practices.
I really would rather not have my ISP QoS anything that I do. I want them to be a common-carrier. I'll shape my own traffic, thanks.
I think the points are though, that first, companies do not do a good job of cybersecurity, or security at all for that matter. This is the issue that allowed another party to gain access to the crypto data for the SIM cards and for other security mechanisms in order to defeat them.
And second, while the NSA and the British equivalent might be unweildy bureaucratic monsters where those in-charge might not even know what the appendages are doing, they're well-enough funded that they can afford to buy people off to socially-engineer their way in to places where they wouldn't otherwise have the right to go. That gives them the ability to get into corporate networks or to get data from individuals working for corporations; they buy their way in and the consequences of the actions of the employee are not the NSA's concern. All they want/need is the data, and if they can buy it for cash or buy their way in for cash then they might just do that.
Security is hard. Ultimately it comes down to the individual employee, who has to have access to what he or she works on, but by having that access, also can be a risk. A multimillion dollar system can be compromised by a single technical employee because that employee needs access through those safeguards to do the job. It's really no different than bribing the guards at the castle to get in.
I never said anything about needing my phone for work 100% of the time.
Working on one terminal. Monitoring pings or other stats on another terminal. Documenting (*gasp!*) on another terminal. I usually have four 132x44 terminal windows open in a quad-layout on each screen in my window manager. Works fine that way.
Though I do admit that when I use the dumb-terminal on my desk (yes, I actually have a Wyse VT52 terminal in-service on my desk) I end up using screen.
I regularly use many of the keys that Apple either leaves off of their keyboards or requires the use of a meta-key to access, which becomes a problem of that key is supposed to be used in key-combinations which don't work well with meta-keys.
I'm also sitting at a computer with five USB ports, four of which are in use for console cables. This is a problem if I don't want to use a USB hub.
Please explain how a web browser is the optimal medium through which to play a 3d first person shooter.
It's low-tech I know, but back in my IRC days if one wanted everyone to watch something in real-time together, the link was posted, then someone would count down and everyone would open the link (or more accurately, watch the video file that they pulled down from the link in the pre-streaming days) and watch it...
This wasn't exactly difficult, and it was completely platform independent.
Even for those of us that do have an inclination for digging into the working parts of our devices, times come where we just want the darned thing to work.
I've been using Linux since the 2.0.0 kernel debuted in 1996. I have not rooted my phone, because unlike the Linux boxes that I've set up as my workstations, I need my phone to work 100% of the time. If I break my computer it's not a big deal, I have both other hobbies that don't use computers, and I have other computers themselves. By contrast I have one phone, and based on both the costs for subscribing multiple handsets and the cost of those handsets themselves (and their penchant for only being replaced when they're actually physically broken in my case) I do not have a spare phone to revert to should I break the current one.
I'm a geek that figures out how just about everything works, but I don't necessarily feel a need to take everything apart simply because I know how it works.
Or, you could just e-mail or SMS-message or google-chat or any of a multitude of ways send them a link to the video, so they can open it when they want to, be it now or later...
I can't think of all that many times when this would be useful socially. Such a thing could be useful in a classroom setting if for some reason the instructor doesn't have a projector and wants the students to be done with a video lesson at the same time, but for that to work best some form of central control (to force the video to load and to force the video to the foreground) would be necessary, and would still need students to use their headphones and to pay attention.
So, what is this for?
How the hell do you think I know how many sites it's trying to cross-site-script to load?
How about using PHP or Perl for the backend, and using no scripting at all for the frontend, so that it doesn't bloody well matter what browser one uses?
With the introduction of stylesheets there's really no reason to do scripting on the client anymore. All formatting can be done with the stylesheet and the server can process what it needs.