This isn't people being ripped off, this is everybody getting a fair price. The tickets go at the price people are willing to pay. OK, so we no longer get the chance to get lucky with a good seat for no extra money, but then again we never get unlucky with a crappy seat for the same price that people in good seats pay.
As for the comment that the scalping fee goes to the organizer, is that not better than it going to a scalper? We all talk enthusiastically about the day that the extortion of money from fans with high prices for DRM'd albums will stop and be replaced by artists earning money honestly with performances. This is a step towards making performance a more attractive source of income.
The concept of a patterns book is to facilitate communication between designers, *not* to teach people how to program. The idea was started by Erich Gamma et. al. with their seminal book Design Patterns and taken up by other leading authors like Martin Fowler in Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture.
While these books may contain hands on examples and therefore be useful in teaching people how to design, their real utility comes when I as a software architect say to a new developer "We're using a Plugin object controlled by the Data Mapper to control this behavior". If you know patterns, You know exactly what I'm talking about.
Whether game design is as amenable to splitting into patterns remains to be seen, but don't criticise this effort because it is not a good tutorial; Design Patterns was not a good tutorial either but it was one of the most useful books I ever read.
That's the PostGreSQL philosophy - don't hide the complexity. MySQL did that, and was rewarded by popularity and a generation of people who didn't understand database administration. PostGreSQL makes you pay attention to these options, and educates you in the process.
Digital audio is filtered to remove all sounds below 20Hz before going onto CD, as that increases the dynamic range of remaining frequencies, so unless you have access to the original high bit rate studio recordings, you won't tell much difference.
"collecting societies in smaller European countries fear that they will lose out to larger rivals, potentially restricting the development of new music"
That's like KFC claiming that they need protection from McDonalds or it might "potentially restrict the development of new food"
There is only one solution to this problem under Linux: Adobe GoLive under Wine. OK, so it's closed source, but OS web design programs have lightyears to catch up before a serious designer can use them.
Tit for Tat is outperformed by "Tit for Two Tats", because it is better at avoiding long runs of damaging mutual recrimination. That was 5 years ago.
The performance of any of these strategies is only determined by the opponent strategies that they face, which is arbitrary. It is therefore meaningless to talk of one strategy being 'better' than another - most advanced strategies can beat Tit for Tat given the right opponents.
Since most of the comments so far seem to be negative, here's a sound economic reason why this could be exactly safe drivers need.
This new way of insuring aims to tackle a fundamental flaw in insurance -- that there is an Information Asymmetry between the insurer and the insured. People know more about their driving habits than their insurers, so can tell if a policy is good value for them. People who drive on dangerous roads will flock towards high-value policies, knowing that they are likely to benefit. Safe drivers will choose not to get insured, or will take out less cover, as it is not worth their money. With no-one to subsidise the dangerous drivers, the premiums rise, meaning it is now only profitable for even worse drivers to get insurance, and the whole vicious circle begins again.
The industry has dealt with this by using no-claims bonuses: making everybody pay as if they are a dangerous driver, until they prove otherwise.
Anybody who dislikes the idea of guilty until proven innocent should like this program.
Finally, to those who say that it is a privicy invasion, bear in mind that you still have the old option if you are willing to pay for your privacy by subsidising dangerous drivers.
You can use VoIP with IPSec to secure your phone calls, as long as both sides have the right software installed. The IPSec encryption algorithms are up to you, so if you want to use Elliptic curve cryptography (as donated to OpenSSl by Sun), you can.
OK, so Firefox lets people use XUL to make a fake menu bar. You could do it in IE using a gif image.
From the Bugzilla page:
There's nothing to stop someone from creating a chromeless popup window
containing a styled edit box on top of a GIF that looks like our chrome area, so
this can be done without any XUL support, in any browser.
I recommend that we make this bug public. This is clearly not going to be fixed
anytime soon and it probably affects other major browsers.
Remember it only affects the kind of person who clicks on Phishing emails anyway.
Why in hell would a National high-tech crime unit have a flash website? Worse than that, a single-page, 100% width scaling flash website.
They clearly don't have geeks running the show there, which I'd have throught was the first prerequisite for an effective high-tech crime unit. Looks like Yet Another Paper-Thin Government Initiative to me.
cd to the root directory of the target drive for the cloning operation (i.e. /Volumes/whatever ) do an ls -l of the directory every 4-5 minutes or so
or, if you don't like, RSI, have your clone script do a
while true; do ls -l/Volumes/whatever; sleep 200; done;
replacing `true` with come condition that ends when the clone is done
"clean graffiti" really is an unauthorized message (graffiti).
Unauthorised message? UNAUTHORISED MESSAGE?!? What kind of police state do you think you live in? Graffiti is not a crime because people are not allowed to convey a message without the government's permission, it is a crime because it destroys public or private property. This doesn't, so isn't a crime.
Trying to compare it to racist slurs is a pathetic straw man fallacy". Racist slurs are illegal for an entirely different reason - inciting racial hatred.
There are some fantastic movies. Don't want to kill their server so I've set up a mirror here and the original page is at http://projects.star.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/projects/MEDI A/xv/oc.html.
Anticipating the shitstorm of people lining up to say 'how stupid' without reading the FA, here's a nice little summary.
The paper is not quite as stupid as it sounded by the description, but it misses/ignores a critical flaw in the argument.
His basic premise is that patching is expensive and people don't do it anyway - probably true for the majority of systems. Therefore, he argues, black-hats are alerted to the security holes by the disclosure. He shows that it doesn't really matter whether holes are discovered by black-hats and are fixes are released after the exploit, or discovered by white-hats and exploited after the fix has been released but not applied.
However, his arguments are based on averages. Where he's wrong is that if you have some systems that are simply so valuable that they cannot be comprimised, proactive bug fixing coupled with a manic obsession for patching your system the moment a patch is released is still the best way to stay safe
The ISP is renting YOU the connection, so its arguably your own responsability for the traffic passing through it
You're missing the point. We're geeks. We can see how its your responsibility, but the rest of the world doesn't see it like that, and the courts are part of the rest of the world fellow.
In court, if the defendent said "I just bought this wireless thing from wallmart and now they're telling me that its my fault someone drove by my house and used it for bad things" then the judge/jury would go with them. If the prosecution then said "but purchasing that wireless router gave them a responsibility to learn how to generate and distribute WEP keys" they would be laughed off stage
No, what really screws him is that he WENT AND TOLD THE WHOLE WORLD ABOUT IT! in a Salon article. There goes his alibi...
Slashdot Mirror
I want self-cloning mice!
I use Adobe Golive for this, and it's served me well. It detects errors like broken links, and offers batch fixing.
Failing that, perl is probably your best bet.
Q.) How many feminists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
2, but nobody known how they got in the lightbulb in the first place
... I sue dead people
This isn't people being ripped off, this is everybody getting a fair price. The tickets go at the price people are willing to pay. OK, so we no longer get the chance to get lucky with a good seat for no extra money, but then again we never get unlucky with a crappy seat for the same price that people in good seats pay.
As for the comment that the scalping fee goes to the organizer, is that not better than it going to a scalper? We all talk enthusiastically about the day that the extortion of money from fans with high prices for DRM'd albums will stop and be replaced by artists earning money honestly with performances. This is a step towards making performance a more attractive source of income.
The concept of a patterns book is to facilitate communication between designers, *not* to teach people how to program. The idea was started by Erich Gamma et. al. with their seminal book Design Patterns and taken up by other leading authors like Martin Fowler in Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture.
While these books may contain hands on examples and therefore be useful in teaching people how to design, their real utility comes when I as a software architect say to a new developer "We're using a Plugin object controlled by the Data Mapper to control this behavior". If you know patterns, You know exactly what I'm talking about.
Whether game design is as amenable to splitting into patterns remains to be seen, but don't criticise this effort because it is not a good tutorial; Design Patterns was not a good tutorial either but it was one of the most useful books I ever read.
That's the PostGreSQL philosophy - don't hide the complexity. MySQL did that, and was rewarded by popularity and a generation of people who didn't understand database administration. PostGreSQL makes you pay attention to these options, and educates you in the process.
Digital audio is filtered to remove all sounds below 20Hz before going onto CD, as that increases the dynamic range of remaining frequencies, so unless you have access to the original high bit rate studio recordings, you won't tell much difference.
You'll find all of the pictures here
From TFA:
"collecting societies in smaller European countries fear that they will lose out to larger rivals, potentially restricting the development of new music"
That's like KFC claiming that they need protection from McDonalds or it might "potentially restrict the development of new food"
The study's not right. It's not even wrong.
How can you argue with someone who has such an utter disregard to logic?
There is only one solution to this problem under Linux: Adobe GoLive under Wine. OK, so it's closed source, but OS web design programs have lightyears to catch up before a serious designer can use them.
Tit for Tat is outperformed by "Tit for Two Tats", because it is better at avoiding long runs of damaging mutual recrimination. That was 5 years ago. The performance of any of these strategies is only determined by the opponent strategies that they face, which is arbitrary. It is therefore meaningless to talk of one strategy being 'better' than another - most advanced strategies can beat Tit for Tat given the right opponents.
Since most of the comments so far seem to be negative, here's a sound economic reason why this could be exactly safe drivers need.
This new way of insuring aims to tackle a fundamental flaw in insurance -- that there is an Information Asymmetry between the insurer and the insured. People know more about their driving habits than their insurers, so can tell if a policy is good value for them. People who drive on dangerous roads will flock towards high-value policies, knowing that they are likely to benefit. Safe drivers will choose not to get insured, or will take out less cover, as it is not worth their money. With no-one to subsidise the dangerous drivers, the premiums rise, meaning it is now only profitable for even worse drivers to get insurance, and the whole vicious circle begins again.
The industry has dealt with this by using no-claims bonuses: making everybody pay as if they are a dangerous driver, until they prove otherwise.
Anybody who dislikes the idea of guilty until proven innocent should like this program.
Finally, to those who say that it is a privicy invasion, bear in mind that you still have the old option if you are willing to pay for your privacy by subsidising dangerous drivers.
You can use VoIP with IPSec to secure your phone calls, as long as both sides have the right software installed. The IPSec encryption algorithms are up to you, so if you want to use Elliptic curve cryptography (as donated to OpenSSl by Sun), you can.
OK, so Firefox lets people use XUL to make a fake menu bar. You could do it in IE using a gif image.
From the Bugzilla page:
There's nothing to stop someone from creating a chromeless popup window containing a styled edit box on top of a GIF that looks like our chrome area, so this can be done without any XUL support, in any browser.
I recommend that we make this bug public. This is clearly not going to be fixed anytime soon and it probably affects other major browsers.
Remember it only affects the kind of person who clicks on Phishing emails anyway.
Why in hell would a National high-tech crime unit have a flash website? Worse than that, a single-page, 100% width scaling flash website.
They clearly don't have geeks running the show there, which I'd have throught was the first prerequisite for an effective high-tech crime unit. Looks like Yet Another Paper-Thin Government Initiative to me.
3rd party programs? Man you can use cp -R in the Terminal.
nearly 100 in the first week, a rate that's continued steadily for almost seven years, neither rising nor falling with the growth of the Net
Man is that about to change...
cd to the root directory of the target drive for the cloning operation (i.e.
/Volumes/whatever )
do an ls -l of the directory every 4-5 minutes or so
or, if you don't like, RSI, have your clone script do a /Volumes/whatever; sleep 200; done;
while true; do ls -l
replacing `true` with come condition that ends when the clone is done
"clean graffiti" really is an unauthorized message (graffiti).
Unauthorised message? UNAUTHORISED MESSAGE?!? What kind of police state do you think you live in? Graffiti is not a crime because people are not allowed to convey a message without the government's permission, it is a crime because it destroys public or private property. This doesn't, so isn't a crime.
Trying to compare it to racist slurs is a pathetic straw man fallacy". Racist slurs are illegal for an entirely different reason - inciting racial hatred.
There are some fantastic movies. Don't want to kill their server so I've set up a mirror here and the original page is at http://projects.star.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/projects/MEDI A/xv/oc.html.
:o)
Bernie
Anticipating the shitstorm of people lining up to say 'how stupid' without reading the FA, here's a nice little summary.
The paper is not quite as stupid as it sounded by the description, but it misses/ignores a critical flaw in the argument.
His basic premise is that patching is expensive and people don't do it anyway - probably true for the majority of systems. Therefore, he argues, black-hats are alerted to the security holes by the disclosure. He shows that it doesn't really matter whether holes are discovered by black-hats and are fixes are released after the exploit, or discovered by white-hats and exploited after the fix has been released but not applied.
However, his arguments are based on averages. Where he's wrong is that if you have some systems that are simply so valuable that they cannot be comprimised, proactive bug fixing coupled with a manic obsession for patching your system the moment a patch is released is still the best way to stay safe
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/25/124725 4
BernieThe ISP is renting YOU the connection, so its arguably your own responsability for the traffic passing through it
You're missing the point. We're geeks. We can see how its your responsibility, but the rest of the world doesn't see it like that, and the courts are part of the rest of the world fellow.
In court, if the defendent said "I just bought this wireless thing from wallmart and now they're telling me that its my fault someone drove by my house and used it for bad things" then the judge/jury would go with them. If the prosecution then said "but purchasing that wireless router gave them a responsibility to learn how to generate and distribute WEP keys" they would be laughed off stage
No, what really screws him is that he WENT AND TOLD THE WHOLE WORLD ABOUT IT! in a Salon article. There goes his alibi...