I think this probably is a result of the change in scoring. With the addition of "difficulty" as a separate score which is added to the execution score, to remain competitive with each other, each gymnast is trying to really push the difficulty of their routine.
With increased difficulty, seeing some greater number of mistakes seems reasonable. Your potential score is higher because your routine is more difficult an mistakes are easier to make. Risk vs. Reward, etc...
Just went through the company's logs on the spam filter appliance to check the traffic, and we're still consistently filtering 3000 messages a day, Same as last month.
Consider yourself lucky, I suppose... There doesn't seem to be any systemic reduction in spam volume. I'd recommend having another word with your ISP.
Insisting that Apple's separately sold software has to be run on Apple's hardware is an unenforceable and illegal tying arrangement under US antitrust law.
What if the software has to be modified in order to run, and that modified version is then redistributed as these "Restore" discs?
I can understand that a tying provision might not be enforceable, but if the OS is being modified against the EULA, and then the modified version is redistributed at a profit... isn't that what's really at issue here?
That guy was wrong anyway. I just drove from Phoenix to Dallas, and there were way more people leaving Dallas than going towards it... he must have counted wrong.
I don't blame the academy for wanting tighter security, and they have a valid reason for WANTING to know the identity, but security at the Oscars isn't Craigslist's responsibility, and they're not ENTITLED to that identity.
Forcing Craig's to stop the auction and prevent the sale? Reasonable. I would think that the extent of their liability would be to remove the auction of (what are presumably) non-transferrable tickets. Had they actually shown up in court, they could have had a good shot at protecting the sellers identity.
There's potential here for an unfortunate precedent.
Whatever.
I think the court should have made him legally change his name to 5cr1pt k1dd13. Lets see how many viruses he writes (ah.. or steals and re-releases) with THAT.
There are a lot of other ways that this site more or less shows signs of being a forgery.
A traceroute reveals that this site is located with rackspace.com's ip space, located on one of their Red Hat servers running Apache. A pretty robust webserving platform, right?
Let me get this straight. The site's webmistress "Dana" has "tried everything within her power" (according to the blog), including deleting the entire site and rewriting it... but she hasn't contacted the hosting company, to inform them that they're the victims of an ongoing attack?
visit Rackspace's Security Page. Gee, you'd think they MIGHT have a resource or two when it comes to tracking down a persistent hack. Think they might be interested? If not, then I'm sure as hell never going to do business with them. Unless, of course, there is no hack...I SUPPOSE that would explain their apparent disinterest... But maybe its something a little more obvious... Perhaps she's got some crazy man in a bee suit hiding in the basement tapping into her DSL connection, packet sniffing and decrypting all her passwords so he can make changes to the images in his spare time between mini-bosses in Metroid Prime, 24 hours a day.. (I can just HEAR the old scary story punchline...."Get out! The call is coming from INSIDE THE HOUSE!")
Next, every single one of the bee facts on the Fun Stuff page has been plagiarized from elsewhere on the internet, though many of them have a typo or two just in the right place to make it tougher to find a source. If this isn't a hoax, then this is simply poor and sloppy web design. NO contact info whatsoever, anywhere on the page, except for a HOTMAIL address..(gosh, isn't hotmail OWNED by microsoft?), but she "usually doesn't check it very often"? Yeah. No proofreading whatsoever? (You'd think a bee aficionado who's TRYING TO RUN A BUSINESS, wouldn't misspell the name of "the Varrao Mite"[sic] infestation that's destroying her livelihood, and her business. This site has never been proofed by anyone who knows bees.
There are a LOT of mistakes. The average worker bee makes 1 1/2 teaspoons of honey in its life? Nope. Try 1/12. Off by 1800%.. Totally unnoticeable typo to a layperson, but wouldn't someone who HARVESTS HONEY as a livelihood and business pick up on that kind of mistake instantly? Sure. I know. They're probably just typos... but there are SO MANY of them, that i simply can't believe the whole site wasn't whipped up in five minutes by some shill at Microsoft.
Then there's the real giveaway, which is that the site's URL is in the Trailer for Halo 2. Obviously Microsoft (who has done this before) has SOMETHING to do with this. So either A) M$ is behind the whole thing, ilovebees.com and all, or B) M$ has started targeting Red Hat / Apache servers to hack into, including little Auntie M's bee site, which I'd think would give her pretty decent grounds for a massive lawsuit, considering the company is publicizing the hack in theaters...
That said, This is obviously a markedly effective marketing technique. I mean.. we're all talking about it... right? And it's going straight to the core halo audience. Direct marketing at its phreakish phinest.
Yeah. Either way, if I were Auntie M. (and if Auntie M. existed), I'd be proofreading that site... and i'd think twice about heaping web design praise on little niece Dana. Then, if Dana is real, Then I do believe she HAS tried everything within her power to fix the broken site. I just believe that the extent of her troubleshooting ability consists of repeatedly clicking "reload" and hoping the problem goes away. Ok. That's unfair. Maybe she's tried deleting her cookies, too.
Besides which, kilobyte and megabyte and gigabyte is not jargon. It is a computer term.
Uhh, Jargon is defined in more than one way. It can mean:
The specialized or technical language of a trade, profession, or similar group.
OR
Nonsensical, incoherent, or meaningless talk.
Think about both those definitions. They're the exact same definition, just seen from both sides of the technical support check-in desk.
Words. some of them are meaningless to some people no matter what, and insider terms are present in every industry. I don't think you can really defer a word's validity simply because its definition can't be universally inferred.
in fact, doesn't that expressly qualify these words AS jargon?
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If you'd read the article, you'd have seen that the spreadsheets have already been removed, which is why people are only looking at the search cache.
Regarding increased number of mistakes:
I think this probably is a result of the change in scoring. With the addition of "difficulty" as a separate score which is added to the execution score, to remain competitive with each other, each gymnast is trying to really push the difficulty of their routine.
With increased difficulty, seeing some greater number of mistakes seems reasonable. Your potential score is higher because your routine is more difficult an mistakes are easier to make. Risk vs. Reward, etc...
FTFA: "George Bush's 'Axis of Evil' is reduced to a spinner in the middle of the board, which determines which player is designated a terrorist state.
I don't know, I sometimes feel like this is close to the actual method that George Bush uses to make some of his foreign policy decisions.
I'm not huge McCain fan either, but I at least feel like no matter who wins the election, it'll be a marked improvement.
Just went through the company's logs on the spam filter appliance to check the traffic, and we're still consistently filtering 3000 messages a day, Same as last month.
Consider yourself lucky, I suppose... There doesn't seem to be any systemic reduction in spam volume. I'd recommend having another word with your ISP.
Insisting that Apple's separately sold software has to be run on Apple's hardware is an unenforceable and illegal tying arrangement under US antitrust law.
What if the software has to be modified in order to run, and that modified version is then redistributed as these "Restore" discs?
I can understand that a tying provision might not be enforceable, but if the OS is being modified against the EULA, and then the modified version is redistributed at a profit... isn't that what's really at issue here?
That guy was wrong anyway. I just drove from Phoenix to Dallas, and there were way more people leaving Dallas than going towards it... he must have counted wrong.
What's the motivation to write better hardware drivers if any time the system blue screens, people will just blame the OS anyway?
Then why is there so much variation between judges?
So they go from making a Lemon of an OS to a Melon of an OS?
The acronym brains at MS have been working overtime.
You're right, I should have said "sale". Apologies on the misstatement.
I don't blame the academy for wanting tighter security, and they have a valid reason for WANTING to know the identity, but security at the Oscars isn't Craigslist's responsibility, and they're not ENTITLED to that identity.
Forcing Craig's to stop the auction and prevent the sale? Reasonable. I would think that the extent of their liability would be to remove the auction of (what are presumably) non-transferrable tickets. Had they actually shown up in court, they could have had a good shot at protecting the sellers identity.
There's potential here for an unfortunate precedent.
On the bright side, finally a justification for drinking beer at work.
"I swear officer, It's for the Space program, and they need 8 gallons a day!"
Whatever. I think the court should have made him legally change his name to 5cr1pt k1dd13. Lets see how many viruses he writes (ah.. or steals and re-releases) with THAT.
There are a lot of other ways that this site more or less shows signs of being a forgery.
A traceroute reveals that this site is located with rackspace.com's ip space, located on one of their Red Hat servers running Apache. A pretty robust webserving platform, right?
Let me get this straight. The site's webmistress "Dana" has "tried everything within her power" (according to the blog), including deleting the entire site and rewriting it... but she hasn't contacted the hosting company, to inform them that they're the victims of an ongoing attack?
visit Rackspace's Security Page . Gee, you'd think they MIGHT have a resource or two when it comes to tracking down a persistent hack. Think they might be interested? If not, then I'm sure as hell never going to do business with them. Unless, of course, there is no hack...I SUPPOSE that would explain their apparent disinterest... But maybe its something a little more obvious... Perhaps she's got some crazy man in a bee suit hiding in the basement tapping into her DSL connection, packet sniffing and decrypting all her passwords so he can make changes to the images in his spare time between mini-bosses in Metroid Prime, 24 hours a day.. (I can just HEAR the old scary story punchline...."Get out! The call is coming from INSIDE THE HOUSE!")
Next, every single one of the bee facts on the Fun Stuff page has been plagiarized from elsewhere on the internet, though many of them have a typo or two just in the right place to make it tougher to find a source. If this isn't a hoax, then this is simply poor and sloppy web design. NO contact info whatsoever, anywhere on the page, except for a HOTMAIL address..(gosh, isn't hotmail OWNED by microsoft?), but she "usually doesn't check it very often"? Yeah. No proofreading whatsoever? (You'd think a bee aficionado who's TRYING TO RUN A BUSINESS, wouldn't misspell the name of "the Varrao Mite"[sic] infestation that's destroying her livelihood, and her business. This site has never been proofed by anyone who knows bees.
There are a LOT of mistakes. The average worker bee makes 1 1/2 teaspoons of honey in its life? Nope. Try 1/12. Off by 1800%.. Totally unnoticeable typo to a layperson, but wouldn't someone who HARVESTS HONEY as a livelihood and business pick up on that kind of mistake instantly? Sure. I know. They're probably just typos... but there are SO MANY of them, that i simply can't believe the whole site wasn't whipped up in five minutes by some shill at Microsoft.
Then there's the real giveaway, which is that the site's URL is in the Trailer for Halo 2. Obviously Microsoft (who has done this before) has SOMETHING to do with this. So either A) M$ is behind the whole thing, ilovebees.com and all, or B) M$ has started targeting Red Hat / Apache servers to hack into, including little Auntie M's bee site, which I'd think would give her pretty decent grounds for a massive lawsuit, considering the company is publicizing the hack in theaters...
That said, This is obviously a markedly effective marketing technique. I mean.. we're all talking about it... right? And it's going straight to the core halo audience. Direct marketing at its phreakish phinest.
Yeah. Either way, if I were Auntie M. (and if Auntie M. existed), I'd be proofreading that site... and i'd think twice about heaping web design praise on little niece Dana. Then, if Dana is real, Then I do believe she HAS tried everything within her power to fix the broken site. I just believe that the extent of her troubleshooting ability consists of repeatedly clicking "reload" and hoping the problem goes away. Ok. That's unfair. Maybe she's tried deleting her cookies, too.
Besides which, kilobyte and megabyte and gigabyte is not jargon. It is a computer term.
Uhh, Jargon is defined in more than one way. It can mean:
The specialized or technical language of a trade, profession, or similar group.
OR
Nonsensical, incoherent, or meaningless talk.
Think about both those definitions. They're the exact same definition, just seen from both sides of the technical support check-in desk.
Words. some of them are meaningless to some people no matter what, and insider terms are present in every industry. I don't think you can really defer a word's validity simply because its definition can't be universally inferred.
in fact, doesn't that expressly qualify these words AS jargon?