One 747 exploding over Boston would take 200+ lives and cost (including compensations to families) around 200-300 million USD.
The extra security theatre all around the world is costing every single passenger 2 extra hours of their live and all those extra costs for the extra screenings and detections. Only in the USA more than 2.5 million people travel by air every day. There are 650 000 hours in a human life of 75 years. So the security theatre that this terrorist act caused kills 4-5 people every day in the USA alone. Or around 40 people in the world.
Therefore, if the extra security stays on for a week, it will kill more people and cost more than if this plane would have crashed.
In fact, if we remove almost all security theatre from all airports and the terrorists start crashing one airplane every month, we all as a society would be winners in that.
But now - the terrorists have won: the created terror and caused great self-incured expenses on the Western World. That was their exact goal. And they have fully realised their goals with this attack.
Usind an IDE is more complex than just usind a text editor and a command line. You write the code into a file and then tell python to execute that file. Two separate and very clean actions. All those IDEs and Expresses and Eclipses only get in the way of actual programming.
A simple gedit will work just fine on Linux, then you can move on to Geany. Don't know what reasonable text editor to recommend on Windows as I have not used it (except for gaming) for like 8 years now.
Yeah, right. Sell him to the slave drivers early on. While QuickBasic was a useful educational tool, VB is nothing more than a dead old factory for producing business software in Windows, for Windows. There is no fun in it.
Follow the original posters suggestion - Python all the way. It is much more readable and much more flexible than any basic ever was. AND it does not tie you to the Microsoft universe with a rusty ball and chain.
It is worse - 'spatial' means opening a new window each time you change to another folder, so that each window is tied to a particular folder and actually is a 'spatial' representation of that folder instead of being just one window that travels or 'browses' trough folders.
That being said, I hate that 'spatial' view with a passion and am glad that it is not the default anymore. It was not the default in all the sane distributions anyway.
Have not noticed this thing as Debian and Ubuntu sensibly switched it back to browser mode by default for its releases. That is part of the reason why distributions exist - provide sensible defaults for their users.
Ever heard of DNS cache poisoning? There really should be an investigation into this. One of the attack vectors is pretty simple - use a DDOS to slow down the response time of the real DNS servers of *.amazon.com, use a cache poisoning timing-based attack on some subset of DNS servers further down the chain (like for example at a medium-sized ISP) to replace the IP of Amazon servers with an IP of your specially prepared hijacking servers, a client goes to amazon.com, but get redirected to your server, you proxy their traffic (use a man-in-the-middle attack to defeat SSL or just use human-engineering for that) until they make a purchase and instead of proxing their credit-card info you just keep it for your self and transfer money to your accounts. Profit!
Something like that could have taken place here, but you cann't know that until you analyse logs at Amazon and all the ISP DNS servers that could have beenaffected by this.
Well, most of the 'hot' or 'cold' feeling actually comes from your feet. So it does not matter much what you breathe in (within a few degrees) as long as your feet are warm. That is why floor heating systems are the most economical, because you can comfortably maintain much lower temperatures.
Not much of the power leaves the actual datacenter building. If you think about it, the only useful energy leaving the datacenter is a few volts in the Ethernet cable or a bunch of photons the the optical data line. The rest of the electricity that the datacenter uses is convereted into heat each time a memory cell is reset to the resting state via the flush resistor and such.
Or make it much simpler - city heating systems need a water inlet to compensate for lost water in lines and for hot water usage by the people. Instead of taking cold water (at 20C) from the cold water system, the water is first piped trough a data center where it get heated up to 50C, so the city heating system needs less heat to heat this water to the 95C it uses in its circulation. That's it - simple and almost 100% efficient.
Has been there in Ubuntu since the very beginning. People just have no idea what it means or does. But really, changing the DPI in your OS is the best and most correct answer to this question.
Using SuperGenPass for most of my online passwords. The only problem I have is that it is a pain to use it in Google Chrome (no bookmark toolbar with bookmarklet support), but for IE, Firefox, Safari, Opera and all browsers like them it is perfectly fine. When there is no support, one can use the 'mobile' version. You can even save it to your hard drive as a file.
The best thing about it is that no password is ever stored - it is always generated on the fly from your master password and the domain name of the web site. And that also means that there is no password database to move around.
Even if a terrorist manages to fully detonate a nuclear weapon in a major city, the amount of casualities would be less than the number of people killed by car crashes on the same day. Face it, it is just about US controlling what rest of the world can or can not do.
Meanwhile anyone with a bit of Google-foo and basic knowledge of engineering and nuclear physics can tell you how to build a workable nuclear weapon. We are living in an information age.
Now if Iran would have developed workable technology for a thorium cycle molten salt nuclear reactor, I would be much more interested.
Yep, and EVE itself is the same - CCCP listen too much to hardcore gamers who constitute a tiny percentage of the gaming market and don't cater enough to casuals that bring in the lion share of the revenue for any MMO. Thus they have less money to spend developing the game and everyone looses, including the hardcore players. You can hope that they have realied this fundamental mistake by now, but I would not my breath.
If the frame stays intact, but the body shears away in a shrapnel of sharp metal, then the frame is useless. The frame of the car in the video could have stayed 100% intact, but all the bodywork and engine and all crashed inside the passenger compartment... then all of them are dead anyway. A tank is useless if in a 30 mph crash the engine flys off inside and kills all the crew.
All cars older than 10 years should be banned from the roads and a few best examples should be put in the museums with disabled engines - the rest should be just crushed. The impact on the society from them and the irresposible people drive these cars is way too great: more emmissions, more pollution in cities, more crashes, more maintenance costs, higher healthcare costs for all the injured people, higher insurance premiums from all the dead people,...
If you don't have a University degree in teaching children, you have no business teaching even your own children. You are simply not qualified to do it and not qualified to evaluate the results. After school you may give a bit extra from your area of expertise, but all that is useless without a basic level of knowledge and evaluation given by actual professionals that were trained to do the job. I understand that US education system might so poor that many people thing that they can do better, but in the rest of the world education is much better. That is why US imports most tech workers, for example.
Actually their proposal is equivalent to going to the highway and shooting down all SUVs that drive by with RPGs and selling that effort to the police as a 'move to provide people with a better fuel economy'.
Or go work in a sane country that does not have software patents (all except US and Japan) and donate to organizations that work to stop software patents in US (EFF, FFII).
You fail at understanding then - you are trying out a jet plane, but decide to take of its wings, elerons and the landing gear and then you complain about having problems. You can not pick and choose parts of Scrum - they are interdependent in many soft ways.
Like pair programming is essential for Scrum - it is essential for writing good test before the code, live crosschecking of the code, live design validation (the coder is so deep in the code, that he often forgets the larger picture and he doesn't have empty brain capacity to think about alternative solutions), cross-motivation, cross-training of people (if I have little knowledge of SQL and someone else in the team is a god and we two write some SQL-heavy part together with me coding and him sayingme what to write and why, then I can be confident to modify that part of the code later on even without that person present).
Also in Agile you only write as much code as needed to pass the tests. If you need more later - you refactor depending on the tests to show you that the refactored code works.
You need to implement all the parts of a well developed and tested Agile methodology to really get it going. Picking parts might give you partial benefits, but might also fail spectacularly.
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The funny thing is cost. In human lives.
One 747 exploding over Boston would take 200+ lives and cost (including compensations to families) around 200-300 million USD.
The extra security theatre all around the world is costing every single passenger 2 extra hours of their live and all those extra costs for the extra screenings and detections. Only in the USA more than 2.5 million people travel by air every day. There are 650 000 hours in a human life of 75 years. So the security theatre that this terrorist act caused kills 4-5 people every day in the USA alone. Or around 40 people in the world.
Therefore, if the extra security stays on for a week, it will kill more people and cost more than if this plane would have crashed.
In fact, if we remove almost all security theatre from all airports and the terrorists start crashing one airplane every month, we all as a society would be winners in that.
But now - the terrorists have won: the created terror and caused great self-incured expenses on the Western World. That was their exact goal. And they have fully realised their goals with this attack.
Usind an IDE is more complex than just usind a text editor and a command line. You write the code into a file and then tell python to execute that file. Two separate and very clean actions. All those IDEs and Expresses and Eclipses only get in the way of actual programming.
A simple gedit will work just fine on Linux, then you can move on to Geany. Don't know what reasonable text editor to recommend on Windows as I have not used it (except for gaming) for like 8 years now.
Yeah, right. Sell him to the slave drivers early on. While QuickBasic was a useful educational tool, VB is nothing more than a dead old factory for producing business software in Windows, for Windows. There is no fun in it.
Follow the original posters suggestion - Python all the way. It is much more readable and much more flexible than any basic ever was. AND it does not tie you to the Microsoft universe with a rusty ball and chain.
It is worse - 'spatial' means opening a new window each time you change to another folder, so that each window is tied to a particular folder and actually is a 'spatial' representation of that folder instead of being just one window that travels or 'browses' trough folders.
That being said, I hate that 'spatial' view with a passion and am glad that it is not the default anymore. It was not the default in all the sane distributions anyway.
Have not noticed this thing as Debian and Ubuntu sensibly switched it back to browser mode by default for its releases. That is part of the reason why distributions exist - provide sensible defaults for their users.
Ever heard of DNS cache poisoning? There really should be an investigation into this. One of the attack vectors is pretty simple - use a DDOS to slow down the response time of the real DNS servers of *.amazon.com, use a cache poisoning timing-based attack on some subset of DNS servers further down the chain (like for example at a medium-sized ISP) to replace the IP of Amazon servers with an IP of your specially prepared hijacking servers, a client goes to amazon.com, but get redirected to your server, you proxy their traffic (use a man-in-the-middle attack to defeat SSL or just use human-engineering for that) until they make a purchase and instead of proxing their credit-card info you just keep it for your self and transfer money to your accounts. Profit!
Something like that could have taken place here, but you cann't know that until you analyse logs at Amazon and all the ISP DNS servers that could have beenaffected by this.
Not in Eastern Europe - all ex-soviet systems are hot water based without any steam.
Well, most of the 'hot' or 'cold' feeling actually comes from your feet. So it does not matter much what you breathe in (within a few degrees) as long as your feet are warm. That is why floor heating systems are the most economical, because you can comfortably maintain much lower temperatures.
Most heating systems never reach the boiling point. The working temperature is between 60C and 90C. Noone wants to deal with steam.
Not much of the power leaves the actual datacenter building. If you think about it, the only useful energy leaving the datacenter is a few volts in the Ethernet cable or a bunch of photons the the optical data line. The rest of the electricity that the datacenter uses is convereted into heat each time a memory cell is reset to the resting state via the flush resistor and such.
Or make it much simpler - city heating systems need a water inlet to compensate for lost water in lines and for hot water usage by the people. Instead of taking cold water (at 20C) from the cold water system, the water is first piped trough a data center where it get heated up to 50C, so the city heating system needs less heat to heat this water to the 95C it uses in its circulation. That's it - simple and almost 100% efficient.
Second the Science Museum - at least for the http://www.flickr.com/photos/aigarius/288091449/
Has been there in Ubuntu since the very beginning. People just have no idea what it means or does. But really, changing the DPI in your OS is the best and most correct answer to this question.
Using SuperGenPass for most of my online passwords. The only problem I have is that it is a pain to use it in Google Chrome (no bookmark toolbar with bookmarklet support), but for IE, Firefox, Safari, Opera and all browsers like them it is perfectly fine. When there is no support, one can use the 'mobile' version. You can even save it to your hard drive as a file.
The best thing about it is that no password is ever stored - it is always generated on the fly from your master password and the domain name of the web site. And that also means that there is no password database to move around.
TELE2 have confessed that they supported the hoax as a PR stunt for their phone network.
Even if a terrorist manages to fully detonate a nuclear weapon in a major city, the amount of casualities would be less than the number of people killed by car crashes on the same day. Face it, it is just about US controlling what rest of the world can or can not do.
Meanwhile anyone with a bit of Google-foo and basic knowledge of engineering and nuclear physics can tell you how to build a workable nuclear weapon. We are living in an information age.
Now if Iran would have developed workable technology for a thorium cycle molten salt nuclear reactor, I would be much more interested.
Yep, and EVE itself is the same - CCCP listen too much to hardcore gamers who constitute a tiny percentage of the gaming market and don't cater enough to casuals that bring in the lion share of the revenue for any MMO. Thus they have less money to spend developing the game and everyone looses, including the hardcore players. You can hope that they have realied this fundamental mistake by now, but I would not my breath.
If the frame stays intact, but the body shears away in a shrapnel of sharp metal, then the frame is useless. The frame of the car in the video could have stayed 100% intact, but all the bodywork and engine and all crashed inside the passenger compartment ... then all of them are dead anyway. A tank is useless if in a 30 mph crash the engine flys off inside and kills all the crew.
Modern cars are safer by miles. Deal with it.
Actually all passengers inthe Malibu would have only minor injuries, while all Bel Air passengers would most likely be dead.
All cars older than 10 years should be banned from the roads and a few best examples should be put in the museums with disabled engines - the rest should be just crushed. The impact on the society from them and the irresposible people drive these cars is way too great: more emmissions, more pollution in cities, more crashes, more maintenance costs, higher healthcare costs for all the injured people, higher insurance premiums from all the dead people, ...
BAN THE CLUNKERS!
If you don't have a University degree in teaching children, you have no business teaching even your own children. You are simply not qualified to do it and not qualified to evaluate the results. After school you may give a bit extra from your area of expertise, but all that is useless without a basic level of knowledge and evaluation given by actual professionals that were trained to do the job. I understand that US education system might so poor that many people thing that they can do better, but in the rest of the world education is much better. That is why US imports most tech workers, for example.
Actually their proposal is equivalent to going to the highway and shooting down all SUVs that drive by with RPGs and selling that effort to the police as a 'move to provide people with a better fuel economy'.
Or go work in a sane country that does not have software patents (all except US and Japan) and donate to organizations that work to stop software patents in US (EFF, FFII).
Cat intelligence can approach that of a 5 year old.
You fail at understanding then - you are trying out a jet plane, but decide to take of its wings, elerons and the landing gear and then you complain about having problems. You can not pick and choose parts of Scrum - they are interdependent in many soft ways.
Like pair programming is essential for Scrum - it is essential for writing good test before the code, live crosschecking of the code, live design validation (the coder is so deep in the code, that he often forgets the larger picture and he doesn't have empty brain capacity to think about alternative solutions), cross-motivation, cross-training of people (if I have little knowledge of SQL and someone else in the team is a god and we two write some SQL-heavy part together with me coding and him sayingme what to write and why, then I can be confident to modify that part of the code later on even without that person present).
Also in Agile you only write as much code as needed to pass the tests. If you need more later - you refactor depending on the tests to show you that the refactored code works.
You need to implement all the parts of a well developed and tested Agile methodology to really get it going. Picking parts might give you partial benefits, but might also fail spectacularly.