...I just wish they had better advisors. There's simply no way to prevent a determined group from communicating in secret. Certainly this proposed legislation isn't going to help one bit. Perhaps they'll catch the dumbest of the groups, but then, they're probably the least dangerous anyway.I'm not suggesting they give up, but perhaps a radical change in tactics is in order.
There is a place for a whole multitude of media. Television news didn't eliminate the newspaper, and neither will the internet. Change it, of course, eliminate, no way !
A bug by device vendor A (twiddling a framis panel instead of sparting the glinbo interface) patted a bug from device vendor B (elevating ALP packets when deferring some GALAS modifiers with size benath 176), yielding a domino effect that caused widespread universal switching instability last week. The flaw lay dormant until one of vendor A's systems was deployed in an autonomous system whose LKM, divisor 965, was less than 1250. At that point, the Internet was one typo away from disaster. Other router vendors, who were not affected by the bug, happily propagated the trigger message to every vulnerable system on the planet in about 30 seconds. Few people appreciate how fragile and unsecured the Internet's trust-based critical infrastructure really is -- this is just the latest example.
Reads just about the same to me. I can't make any sense of either description of the bug
I think your definition of 'Rocket' is too restrictive. There is such a thing as an Air Augmented Rocket, which has all the characteristices of a rocket except it also uses air as additional propellant mass (not as a fuel) This is not the same as a RamJet. Also, from my understanding a Rocket is a type of Jet - an engine which relies up the dischage of a fluid jet for propulsion.
I'll admit that skepticism alone does not produce anything. I'll also admit that being skeptical is not the same as taking a position. But, then, that's not the point of being a skeptic. The point of skepticism is to not take an argument at face value, but to question its precepts, and conclusions. If that skepticism leads one to realise that an argument or position is fatally flawed, then that argument is dismissed in favour of a better one, or the status quo. In the case of anthopomgenic climate change, so far I haven't heard a single compelling argument which would make me believe that humans producing CO2 are somehow more devastating to the climate than a few volcanoes (over which we have absolutely no control), or the number of Sun spots. Nor has the case been resolved that greenhouse gas levels are a result of, rather than the cause of, the warming trend. In these cases I am skeptical of the argument that we are to blame, and I see no reason to elevate Al Gore to world saviour status based upon his argument that we are.
Please allow me to comment (ignoring all the obvious grammatical mistakes ):
There is a lot of people interested in denying climate change whatever it takes.
I think the word is skepticism, not denial.
Taking a single error from a single study about climate change as proof of a non-existent climate problem is obtuse. Hmm, that mentality always works fine for the Global Warming camp, why can't skeptics use it too ?
The global warming shows itself in so many ways that no one can tell it isn't happening at all.
Climate change does not equal Anthropomorphic Global Warming, see, we're skeptical
Do you mean climate change Of course we can sit to discuss how are we responsible for this change and how much of the change will occur as part of a natural process. But there is no such discussion. Not from the Global Warming camp anyway, from where I sit, those who are skeptical keep insisting this is required, but the Global Warming camp insists it's not a question of 'If' any more.
Instead you see a bunch of corporations claiming "there is no such climate change, let us keep burning oil"
Can you name one of these corporations ?.
...when are those responsible for supplying the bribes going to be punished. I suspect there should be at least a dozen people who knew of said scheme, and did nothing to stop it, and another dozen who instigated and profited from it directly. Ship them some KY, they're gonna need it.
It's the NASCAR mentality. You know, the same ass-hats who can't pay their rent, or feed their children, but manage a two pack a day cigarette habit, and put shiney rims on their Camaro.
Chinless, buck-toothed, crack-heads should be shot on sight !
I don't use Linux becuase I'm a man, I use it because I'm not so tied to specific behaviour that I can't be arsed to learn something new. Unlike my wife (of 20 years) who struggles to understand that the little Excel icon on the desktop runs the same program as the one in the start menu. She's a computer user, but she just barely copes, and simply won't change becuase it something new and (to her) unnecessarily confusing. She gets along (just) with XP, and won't change no matter how hard I try to get her to.
She started using computers with MS products, and there's little hope of moving her onto Linux. My daughter simply follows suit.
...idiotic contraption to make noise, and spoil the serenity of my local lake. Fricking manufacturers should be stopped from producing these things that serve no purpose other than to encourage stupid people to waste their money.
The same retards buy 500 hp speedboats to drive at 60 miles an hour on a mile long lake. Shit-for-brains people like that should be buried young.
...how many of you have completely switched to Linux.
I have three machines at home, the older two (laptops, both) of which are still running XP, but I only use them to fix problems caused by shitty Microsoft apps. The rest of the time, my silly wife, and daughter use them and leave me and my son to use Fedora on the *good* (purchased only a few months ago) machine.
I'd eliminate Windows entirely, but it's not worth the ear-ache I'd get if I tried.
Nobody is telling them not to. This isn't about the workers (directly anwyay)
It's an indictment of the employment practices of western owned corporations, who by rights should be subject to western employment law no matter where their factories operate. When the rest of the world catches up, and the workers have unshackled themselves from the exploitative practices that result in offshoring, the world will be a much better place. Won't happen in my lifetime. BTW - I'm not a Marxist.
Ahh, if only what you said was true. This is not about arrogance, or about some poor workers choice in employer. It's about WESTERN companies taking advantage of non-existant labor laws to maximize profits at the expense of human misery.
Did you never read 'The Jungle' by Upton Sinclair. It was required reading when I went to school, and it showed the truth about what can (and does) happen when employers are allowed to operate unchecked.
P.S. They are indeed slaves, in almost every sense of the word.
... could (and probably has) happen with almost any source. The advantage of Wikipedia is that it's self-correcting (not the same as auto-correcting), and shows a history, something not (freely) available with other private knowledge-bases.
Yet another attempt to discredit Wikipedia - Oh well, I know I'll keep using it, as long as it's available, in the same way I use any source of information - with due skepticism.
... this can only lead to one thing. A huge project costing many hundreds of millions, which will then run over budget by at least a multiple of two, as well as be delivered years late, and finally be scrapped when it can't handle anywhere near the number of records it was designed to handle; as well as having no meaning querying facility.
I just love it when the government wastes my money like this. It's so much more interesting to watch than when they build stuff that's actually needed like clean waste disposal sites, fresh water reserviours, and public transportation infrastructure. That stuff is usually completed on time, under budget, and works as advertised - how boring.
That has not been my experience. After hours of painful reading/research and attempts at ensuring my developer user has the correct permission, I give up fighting, and make that user a member of the admin group. If this is somehow not the same as being administrator, forgive me, I don't see the distinction. In *nix, this would simply not happen.
This issue is exacerbated by the stupid security policies that Microsoft introduced (I think they came with the UAC) which prevent developers from debugging stuff unless they're an administrator. So you see, it's not all the developers fault after all.
Sure, but $1 Billion is one hell of a lot of goodwill. Besides, they'll only keep the staff as long as they treat them right (and the economy is in the shitter). That's doesn't mean just money. These are superior quality developers who need to be working on innovative, challenging projects. I suppose they got some infrastructure guys, and perhaps even a Marketing guy or two, I don't know what MySQL had in terms of labour, but the majority of it would have been very technical.
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...I just wish they had better advisors. There's simply no way to prevent a determined group from communicating in secret. Certainly this proposed legislation isn't going to help one bit. Perhaps they'll catch the dumbest of the groups, but then, they're probably the least dangerous anyway.I'm not suggesting they give up, but perhaps a radical change in tactics is in order.
There is a place for a whole multitude of media. Television news didn't eliminate the newspaper, and neither will the internet. Change it, of course, eliminate, no way !
A bug by device vendor A (twiddling a framis panel instead of sparting the glinbo interface) patted a bug from device vendor B (elevating ALP packets when deferring some GALAS modifiers with size benath 176), yielding a domino effect that caused widespread universal switching instability last week. The flaw lay dormant until one of vendor A's systems was deployed in an autonomous system whose LKM, divisor 965, was less than 1250. At that point, the Internet was one typo away from disaster. Other router vendors, who were not affected by the bug, happily propagated the trigger message to every vulnerable system on the planet in about 30 seconds. Few people appreciate how fragile and unsecured the Internet's trust-based critical infrastructure really is -- this is just the latest example.
Reads just about the same to me. I can't make any sense of either description of the bug
Is it time for a new prescription ?
I think your current one might be a bit too weak.
.. do IRL and AFK stand for ?
I think your definition of 'Rocket' is too restrictive. There is such a thing as an Air Augmented Rocket, which has all the characteristices of a rocket except it also uses air as additional propellant mass (not as a fuel) This is not the same as a RamJet. Also, from my understanding a Rocket is a type of Jet - an engine which relies up the dischage of a fluid jet for propulsion.
I'll admit that skepticism alone does not produce anything. I'll also admit that being skeptical is not the same as taking a position. But, then, that's not the point of being a skeptic. The point of skepticism is to not take an argument at face value, but to question its precepts, and conclusions. If that skepticism leads one to realise that an argument or position is fatally flawed, then that argument is dismissed in favour of a better one, or the status quo. In the case of anthopomgenic climate change, so far I haven't heard a single compelling argument which would make me believe that humans producing CO2 are somehow more devastating to the climate than a few volcanoes (over which we have absolutely no control), or the number of Sun spots. Nor has the case been resolved that greenhouse gas levels are a result of, rather than the cause of, the warming trend. In these cases I am skeptical of the argument that we are to blame, and I see no reason to elevate Al Gore to world saviour status based upon his argument that we are.
Please allow me to comment (ignoring all the obvious grammatical mistakes ):
There is a lot of people interested in denying climate change whatever it takes.
I think the word is skepticism, not denial.
Taking a single error from a single study about climate change as proof of a non-existent climate problem is obtuse.
Hmm, that mentality always works fine for the Global Warming camp, why can't skeptics use it too ?
The global warming shows itself in so many ways that no one can tell it isn't happening at all.
Climate change does not equal Anthropomorphic Global Warming, see, we're skeptical
Do you mean climate change Of course we can sit to discuss how are we responsible for this change and how much of the change will occur as part of a natural process. But there is no such discussion.
Not from the Global Warming camp anyway, from where I sit, those who are skeptical keep insisting this is required, but the Global Warming camp insists it's not a question of 'If' any more.
Instead you see a bunch of corporations claiming "there is no such climate change, let us keep burning oil"
Can you name one of these corporations ?.
...try to use this to predict the next Lottery numbers, or even choose stocks.
Didn't you ever listen to Jodie Foster in 'Contact' ?
CQ, this is W9GFO. CQ, this is W9GFO here. Come back
Advocacy groups for victims of domestic violence are concerned
What about ?
...when are those responsible for supplying the bribes going to be punished. I suspect there should be at least a dozen people who knew of said scheme, and did nothing to stop it, and another dozen who instigated and profited from it directly. Ship them some KY, they're gonna need it.
It's the NASCAR mentality. You know, the same ass-hats who can't pay their rent, or feed their children, but manage a two pack a day cigarette habit, and put shiney rims on their Camaro.
Chinless, buck-toothed, crack-heads should be shot on sight !
I don't use Linux becuase I'm a man, I use it because I'm not so tied to specific behaviour that I can't be arsed to learn something new. Unlike my wife (of 20 years) who struggles to understand that the little Excel icon on the desktop runs the same program as the one in the start menu. She's a computer user, but she just barely copes, and simply won't change becuase it something new and (to her) unnecessarily confusing. She gets along (just) with XP, and won't change no matter how hard I try to get her to.
She started using computers with MS products, and there's little hope of moving her onto Linux. My daughter simply follows suit.
...idiotic contraption to make noise, and spoil the serenity of my local lake. Fricking manufacturers should be stopped from producing these things that serve no purpose other than to encourage stupid people to waste their money.
The same retards buy 500 hp speedboats to drive at 60 miles an hour on a mile long lake. Shit-for-brains people like that should be buried young.
...how many of you have completely switched to Linux.
I have three machines at home, the older two (laptops, both) of which are still running XP, but I only use them to fix problems caused by shitty Microsoft apps. The rest of the time, my silly wife, and daughter use them and leave me and my son to use Fedora on the *good* (purchased only a few months ago) machine.
I'd eliminate Windows entirely, but it's not worth the ear-ache I'd get if I tried.
How many of you are in the same boat ?
Nobody is telling them not to. This isn't about the workers (directly anwyay)
It's an indictment of the employment practices of western owned corporations, who by rights should be subject to western employment law no matter where their factories operate. When the rest of the world catches up, and the workers have unshackled themselves from the exploitative practices that result in offshoring, the world will be a much better place. Won't happen in my lifetime. BTW - I'm not a Marxist.
... if it weren't for the fact that I'm skeptical enough to know better.
Ignoring the fact that they spend twice as much on advertising as on R&D, routinely dump their toxic crap in underdeveloped countries; the truth is that the majority of their products are worthless, and may do more harm than good
Ahh, if only what you said was true. This is not about arrogance, or about some poor workers choice in employer. It's about WESTERN companies taking advantage of non-existant labor laws to maximize profits at the expense of human misery.
Did you never read 'The Jungle' by Upton Sinclair. It was required reading when I went to school, and it showed the truth about what can (and does) happen when employers are allowed to operate unchecked.
P.S. They are indeed slaves, in almost every sense of the word.
... the Wine widget set is faster than the GNOME widget set. News at 11.
... could (and probably has) happen with almost any source. The advantage of Wikipedia is that it's self-correcting (not the same as auto-correcting), and shows a history, something not (freely) available with other private knowledge-bases.
Yet another attempt to discredit Wikipedia - Oh well, I know I'll keep using it, as long as it's available, in the same way I use any source of information - with due skepticism.
... this can only lead to one thing. A huge project costing many hundreds of millions, which will then run over budget by at least a multiple of two, as well as be delivered years late, and finally be scrapped when it can't handle anywhere near the number of records it was designed to handle; as well as having no meaning querying facility.
I just love it when the government wastes my money like this. It's so much more interesting to watch than when they build stuff that's actually needed like clean waste disposal sites, fresh water reserviours, and public transportation infrastructure. That stuff is usually completed on time, under budget, and works as advertised - how boring.
That has not been my experience. After hours of painful reading/research and attempts at ensuring my developer user has the correct permission, I give up fighting, and make that user a member of the admin group. If this is somehow not the same as being administrator, forgive me, I don't see the distinction. In *nix, this would simply not happen.
This issue is exacerbated by the stupid security policies that Microsoft introduced (I think they came with the UAC) which prevent developers from debugging stuff unless they're an administrator. So you see, it's not all the developers fault after all.
Sure, but $1 Billion is one hell of a lot of goodwill. Besides, they'll only keep the staff as long as they treat them right (and the economy is in the shitter). That's doesn't mean just money. These are superior quality developers who need to be working on innovative, challenging projects. I suppose they got some infrastructure guys, and perhaps even a Marketing guy or two, I don't know what MySQL had in terms of labour, but the majority of it would have been very technical.