Russia & China got nothing from Snowden. His material is being carefully vetted by journalists and experts before any is released. Snowden, rightly, chose others to decide what was safe to be released and how/what to redact parts. Bruce Schneier is one helping them in their analysis. 6 members of congress had Schneier brief them on some of the material because the NSA wouldn't answer their questions.
good point. however, it makes me wonder how applicable the recent software which mimics how birds and fish travel in flocks/schools will be to this problem
How many attractive women are going to be plowed down by idiots who can't take their off them?
Re:This kind of hype was exactly the problem
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I agree completely. I did the Y2K change testing and many of the changes for accounting/trading software for a large multinational bank. I ran parallel old software/new software comparison testing using production data on a dedicated Y2K system. I can say, unequivocally, that failure to do the changes would have been a disaster.
And guess what, not everything was caught. We had some failures after 2000 rolled in. We missed "some stuff". They were ALL attributed to other causes. No one could afford to admit to management that a single Y2K bug was missed. I should imagine this was not uncommon in most industries.
The commentators were mostly assholes with no real understanding, but it wasn't really hype. It would have been a disaster. We just fixed ( most of ) it.
A Certain Ambiguity: A Mathematical Novel
by Gaurav Suri (Author), Hartosh Singh Bal (Author)
This is a wonderful book I enjoyed reading myself ( 60 years old ). The main characters are college students - I think high schoolers can identify. The math in the story is presented in a very understandable way. woven in is a discussion of the different infinities and the basics of Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometries.
Actually the most enthusiastic football fans I know are women. My mother was always a huge fan and my sister has followed suit. My daughter enjoys watching. Many women friends love watching football. The only person I know who actually has season tickets ( 49ers ) is a woman.
Without endorsing or contradicting your remarks, I think you missed at least one entire group: Women who enjoy watching football
I used to enjoy watching myself until one season I bet on games every weekend. I was lucky and made a few bucks over the season, but unlucky in that it spoiled the game for me. If my daughter is around I'll always join her. But by myself, I'll catch the occasional game or part of one.
First, one of the reasons we take a variety of subjects in college is to discover just what we enjoy and find interesting. One doesn't know ahead of time what's going to "float one's boat".
Who knows, if she takes some real math she might find something that turns her on. Maybe not. No loss.
Secondly, I think today's generation needs to be mindful of the need for flexibility. You're probably going to have several careers, not A career. Y'all should get as good a general education as you can. It will give you more options later.
The young woman in question is obviously a very bright person. I wish her happiness and a fulfilling life. She should go to a good school. I'm sure she will. If she doesn't have a guess what she wants to concentrate on, she should go to a school with lots of options so she can experiment and explore her interests. This probably means a large University.
To repeat. This is just the beginning of a ( hopefully ) long life. Take your time. Explore. Find what you enjoy learning.
This is a major, important election, I'll be watching on the HD big screen with friends. laptop atop my lap. I'll probably redo my "favotires" settings for the night.
1. Any species will place its own survival before that of a different species.
2. Any species that has made it to the top on its planet of origin will be intelligent, alert, aggressive, and ruthless when necessary.
3. They will assume that the first two rules apply to us.
Add to this the facts of relativistic bombardment. A missile approaching at a speed close to that of light is hard to detect, leaves very little time to react, is next to impossible to intercept, and is utterly devastating on impact. In short, once a civilization has achieved the technological level necessary for relativistic bombardment it can erase a neighboring civilization in a single strike.
This book scared the hell out of me. And from such a neat, amusing fellow.
With the double planets Pluto and Charon they are both orbiting around a point that is between the two. However, the point around which earth and it's moon orbit is within the earth, therefore it's a moon, not a planet
"The Eye Ball is a spherical, throwable WiFi camera designed to proceed police into areas where there's no direct line of sight". don't you mean "precede"
I posted this on the Sunday/. space elevator article, I'm going to repost here.
Thoughts on Space Elevators [mit.edu] by Blaise Gassend has a lot of good info & links on space elevators
I'm surprised there is no mention of radio shack. Tandy was a leather/crafts store until it became one with radio shack ( I forget who bought who ). I always thought it was amusing that the half I used to buy moccasin kits from was the brand name used for the computers
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Russia & China got nothing from Snowden. His material is being carefully vetted by journalists and experts before any is released. Snowden, rightly, chose others to decide what was safe to be released and how/what to redact parts. Bruce Schneier is one helping them in their analysis. 6 members of congress had Schneier brief them on some of the material because the NSA wouldn't answer their questions.
where are the studies of the effect of men's tears on women's libidos? very sexist not to study both effects. ;)
A wild guess, but maybe they're considering the android OS on kindles.
good point. however, it makes me wonder how applicable the recent software which mimics how birds and fish travel in flocks/schools will be to this problem
How many attractive women are going to be plowed down by idiots who can't take their off them?
I agree completely. I did the Y2K change testing and many of the changes for accounting/trading software for a large multinational bank. I ran parallel old software/new software comparison testing using production data on a dedicated Y2K system. I can say, unequivocally, that failure to do the changes would have been a disaster.
And guess what, not everything was caught. We had some failures after 2000 rolled in. We missed "some stuff". They were ALL attributed to other causes. No one could afford to admit to management that a single Y2K bug was missed. I should imagine this was not uncommon in most industries.
The commentators were mostly assholes with no real understanding, but it wasn't really hype. It would have been a disaster. We just fixed ( most of ) it.
a good suggestion and also available FREE from google books.
A Certain Ambiguity: A Mathematical Novel by Gaurav Suri (Author), Hartosh Singh Bal (Author)
This is a wonderful book I enjoyed reading myself ( 60 years old ). The main characters are college students - I think high schoolers can identify. The math in the story is presented in a very understandable way. woven in is a discussion of the different infinities and the basics of Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometries.
amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/Certain-Ambiguity-Mathematical-Novel/dp/0691127093/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1234194672&sr=8-1
Actually the most enthusiastic football fans I know are women. My mother was always a huge fan and my sister has followed suit. My daughter enjoys watching. Many women friends love watching football. The only person I know who actually has season tickets ( 49ers ) is a woman.
Without endorsing or contradicting your remarks, I think you missed at least one entire group: Women who enjoy watching football
I used to enjoy watching myself until one season I bet on games every weekend. I was lucky and made a few bucks over the season, but unlucky in that it spoiled the game for me. If my daughter is around I'll always join her. But by myself, I'll catch the occasional game or part of one.
First, one of the reasons we take a variety of subjects in college is to discover just what we enjoy and find interesting. One doesn't know ahead of time what's going to "float one's boat".
Who knows, if she takes some real math she might find something that turns her on. Maybe not. No loss.
Secondly, I think today's generation needs to be mindful of the need for flexibility. You're probably going to have several careers, not A career. Y'all should get as good a general education as you can. It will give you more options later. The young woman in question is obviously a very bright person. I wish her happiness and a fulfilling life. She should go to a good school. I'm sure she will. If she doesn't have a guess what she wants to concentrate on, she should go to a school with lots of options so she can experiment and explore her interests. This probably means a large University.
To repeat. This is just the beginning of a ( hopefully ) long life. Take your time. Explore. Find what you enjoy learning.
I'll admit I'm a bleeding heart liberal political junkie.
on TV I'll be mostly MSNBC & PBS along with Daily Show/Colbert Report, CNN, and Current ( Al Gore's news channel )
on the net:
try DIGG's US Elections 2008 tabs both popular and upcoming.
pollster.com - http://www.pollster.com/ - is a good aggregater of polls it's what the TV guys use
Hufington post updates/changes frequently and has lots of videos http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
a news tab on igoogle with lots of feeds is good to have in another of your firefox tabs ( BBC, newspapers, TV channel websites, tec. )
I like Salon http://www.salon.com/?source=refresh ( I have a long time premium account ) - it updates a lot, but not as fast as huffington
This is a major, important election, I'll be watching on the HD big screen with friends. laptop atop my lap. I'll probably redo my "favotires" settings for the night.
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I fear if they are, Charlie Pelligrino might have been right in The Killing Star http://sites.inka.de/mips/reviews/TheKillingStar.html
that is:Paraphrased from the book:
1. Any species will place its own survival before that of a different species.
2. Any species that has made it to the top on its planet of origin will be intelligent, alert, aggressive, and ruthless when necessary.
3. They will assume that the first two rules apply to us.
Add to this the facts of relativistic bombardment. A missile approaching at a speed close to that of light is hard to detect, leaves very little time to react, is next to impossible to intercept, and is utterly devastating on impact. In short, once a civilization has achieved the technological level necessary for relativistic bombardment it can erase a neighboring civilization in a single strike.
This book scared the hell out of me. And from such a neat, amusing fellow.
With the double planets Pluto and Charon they are both orbiting around a point that is between the two. However, the point around which earth and it's moon orbit is within the earth, therefore it's a moon, not a planet
"The Eye Ball is a spherical, throwable WiFi camera designed to proceed police into areas where there's no direct line of sight". don't you mean "precede"
I posted this on the Sunday /. space elevator article, I'm going to repost here.
Thoughts on Space Elevators [mit.edu] by Blaise Gassend has a lot of good info & links on space elevators
Thoughts on Space Elevators by Blaise Gassend has a lot of good info & links on space elevators
I'm surprised there is no mention of radio shack. Tandy was a leather/crafts store until it became one with radio shack ( I forget who bought who ). I always thought it was amusing that the half I used to buy moccasin kits from was the brand name used for the computers
there's nothing for you to see here
Physicists look to crystal device for future of fusion
I can see why they were forced to be anonymous
does it bother anyone else that the /. "icon" for worm stories is actually a caterpillar.
I'll go back to picking my nits.
"give it the finger"
above link is from Linux Magazine Online - January 2005
I have to think that this sort of unit will ultimately mean more drivers written for Linux, which, IMHO, would be a very good thing.