Alex Hutchinson writes at Runner's World that runners have cut the distance to the sub-two marathon in half since 1998, but it will get progressively harder to trim the remaining seconds.
Writing fail. Don't use the term "distance" to discuss intervals in time, especially when the topic specifically involves covering a specific distance as fast as possible. At first I thought they meant that the distance the runners have to race has been reduced in order to be able to run it in two hours.
I bet you're peeved when astronomers or physicists use seconds to measure distance.
Nope, the wording of the Constitution is that the patent and copyright system is to promote progress (of science and the useful arts). It doesn't matter if you follow half a law, if you broke the other half you're just as guilty as if you broke it all.
Their first mission is to protect the constitution, from all threats foreign or domestic. This includes the part of the Constitution where copyright is for "a limited time" and for the purpose of "promoting the progress of science and the useful arts". Maybe they should exclude from the hiring pool anyone who owns copyright for an absurd period of time, or who uses copyright or patents to prevent progress?
So, they have stolen/hacked the passwords for... public hotspots? In any case, interfering with other people's connections/data could land you in a heap of trouble. You're not being a hero. Your software will not detect whether someone got permission to use bittorrent on that network. This is a job for the owners of the router, so the proper person can do the banning. And if the owner is OK with bittorrent being used on the network, then you have to deal with it.
I think you're minimizing things just a bit, aren't you? While trolls may not focus specifically on women (my opinion, is that they do), women certainly face much more intense and prolonged harassment in the form of campaigns. How many men have had death/rape threats against them AND their families AND have been forced to move AND taken a 7-year hiatus?
Trolling 101: go after a vulnerable victim. For whatever reason, women react more strongly to rape threats. For whatever reason, women react more strongly to death threats. A man in her situation would have been told to "Suck it up, you big pussy" especially if he had quit his job or moved as a reaction. And most people leave clues to the extent of their reaction when they respond to a troll (another reason not to feed the trolls).
And while I'm not a fan of the "traditional male traits" of being a stupid violent dick, it does lead to a different type of trolling. I have seen trolls gleefully extracting "I will hunt you down..." responses from their (presumably male) victims. (No, I am not suggesting that this is what happened with Kathy -- actually hunting someone down is the sort of thing mostly trolls have time for.) Really, trolls don't care about the specifics of the reaction they provoke, only that the stronger the reaction, the happier the troll.
Even if the speed test website is not associated with the ISP, there is nothing to stop the ISP from prioritizing the request because the ISP knows it's a test.
My recommendation: make your own test. For latency, send pings to various websites, disregarding any that are slow (since those are likely the website's fault). For bandwidth, use utorrent to download a large file with lots of seeds (such as a Linux iso).
Get as much information about the playing field as possible, and also the opponent robots. Study multiple strategies, and play them against each other. The optimum would identify the enemy's strategy and play the one strongest against that, but you may be unable to reliably identify it. When choosing a strategy, consider the rules and whether it is better to score as many flags as possible, or win as many games as possible.
Governmental officials are subject to the same criminal and civil laws as anyone else. But some have immunity to prosecution while they hold office.
The NSA hold no such immunity, legally speaking. Practically speaking, they have permanent immunity because they know all the dirt on all the politicians, so no politician dare cause them problems unless they don't mind ending up in jail or losing the next election. Hence the NSA are caught lying to congress and face no consequences, are caught spying on congress and face no consequences, are caught spying on the American public and everyone else, and face no consequences. And it's not because congress doesn't mind the NSA spying on them.
As always, no matter how non-obvious or convoluted the law, a regular person would face jail time if what they did were found to be illegal. And for government officials, they will merely be told "from now on, you may no longer do that".
Problem is that a lot of vendors will immediately turn around and sue for libel/slander, as in the case of places that got one star reviews on websites, and part of the injunctive relief asked is to retract all statements, true or no.
A good idea is to be absolutely sure to keep things about statements of fact, without a shred of subjective opinion. For example,
I've had huge problems with a security appliance since its installation. Specifically, the VPN SSL client is causing a problem for the majority of my remote clients. The company acknowledged the bug, but they are jerking me around, and no resolution is in sight. I tried third-party clients, but I'm wary of using them since they are not distributed by the manufacturer, and they require some maintenance to keep working properly.
I also talked to various executives at the company and besides giving me apologies, nothing good is coming my way. It's been more than two years (on a three-year subscription that I can't terminate early), and this is continually causing me trouble and aggravation. It also makes my internal customers unhappy. How do you deal with a manufacturer who doesn't fix bugs in a reasonable time frame?
I've had [specific list of] problems with a security appliance since its installation, impacting my business in [specific, verifiable way]. The bug was reported on [date] via [method], and has not been resolved as of [date].
Don't add anything subjective, keep it to easily verifiable facts, and you can complain with much fewer fears of liability.
Who cares if someone uses the internet to murder my Facebook account? On the other hand, if it's real world murder, then it's just as much murder regardless of how it was done.
The US government constantly abuses the law by ignoring it until a test case comes up and a judge says a particular method is illegal.
Nope, the US government constantly abuses the law by ignoring it until a test case comes up and a judge says a particular method may no longer be used. If the judge had the balls to say it was illegal, then there would be jail time involved for the criminals who broke the law.
I have in fact seen adverts I was glad to see. Once (yes only once) I saw an advert for something I didn't know existed but was very useful. Theoretically, targeted ads could do this consistently, but they really really don't. In fact, the targeting is so bad that they've yet to figure out that they should have been serving me static, non-distracting ads.
Historically, gluttonous kings were carbon neutral. In the not-so-distant future, the world as a whole will be carbon neutral once more. And all the space colonies will be carbon neutral from the start.
Can't they commit crimes without having a bureaucratic agency in charge? Though I suppose something as big as constantly spying on everyone might require a National Crime Agency, as it is too difficult for small time criminals.
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Alex Hutchinson writes at Runner's World that runners have cut the distance to the sub-two marathon in half since 1998, but it will get progressively harder to trim the remaining seconds.
Writing fail. Don't use the term "distance" to discuss intervals in time, especially when the topic specifically involves covering a specific distance as fast as possible. At first I thought they meant that the distance the runners have to race has been reduced in order to be able to run it in two hours.
I bet you're peeved when astronomers or physicists use seconds to measure distance.
Nope, the wording of the Constitution is that the patent and copyright system is to promote progress (of science and the useful arts). It doesn't matter if you follow half a law, if you broke the other half you're just as guilty as if you broke it all.
I'm sorry, this is the Center for Dismay Control. The Center for Disease Control is down the hall, third door on the left.
A million year copyright or patent will not promote any kind of progress.
Their first mission is to protect the constitution, from all threats foreign or domestic. This includes the part of the Constitution where copyright is for "a limited time" and for the purpose of "promoting the progress of science and the useful arts". Maybe they should exclude from the hiring pool anyone who owns copyright for an absurd period of time, or who uses copyright or patents to prevent progress?
So, they have stolen/hacked the passwords for... public hotspots? In any case, interfering with other people's connections/data could land you in a heap of trouble. You're not being a hero. Your software will not detect whether someone got permission to use bittorrent on that network. This is a job for the owners of the router, so the proper person can do the banning. And if the owner is OK with bittorrent being used on the network, then you have to deal with it.
I think you're minimizing things just a bit, aren't you? While trolls may not focus specifically on women (my opinion, is that they do), women certainly face much more intense and prolonged harassment in the form of campaigns. How many men have had death/rape threats against them AND their families AND have been forced to move AND taken a 7-year hiatus?
Trolling 101: go after a vulnerable victim. For whatever reason, women react more strongly to rape threats. For whatever reason, women react more strongly to death threats. A man in her situation would have been told to "Suck it up, you big pussy" especially if he had quit his job or moved as a reaction. And most people leave clues to the extent of their reaction when they respond to a troll (another reason not to feed the trolls).
And while I'm not a fan of the "traditional male traits" of being a stupid violent dick, it does lead to a different type of trolling. I have seen trolls gleefully extracting "I will hunt you down..." responses from their (presumably male) victims. (No, I am not suggesting that this is what happened with Kathy -- actually hunting someone down is the sort of thing mostly trolls have time for.) Really, trolls don't care about the specifics of the reaction they provoke, only that the stronger the reaction, the happier the troll.
Even if the speed test website is not associated with the ISP, there is nothing to stop the ISP from prioritizing the request because the ISP knows it's a test.
My recommendation: make your own test. For latency, send pings to various websites, disregarding any that are slow (since those are likely the website's fault). For bandwidth, use utorrent to download a large file with lots of seeds (such as a Linux iso).
Get as much information about the playing field as possible, and also the opponent robots. Study multiple strategies, and play them against each other. The optimum would identify the enemy's strategy and play the one strongest against that, but you may be unable to reliably identify it. When choosing a strategy, consider the rules and whether it is better to score as many flags as possible, or win as many games as possible.
Governmental officials are subject to the same criminal and civil laws as anyone else. But some have immunity to prosecution while they hold office.
The NSA hold no such immunity, legally speaking. Practically speaking, they have permanent immunity because they know all the dirt on all the politicians, so no politician dare cause them problems unless they don't mind ending up in jail or losing the next election. Hence the NSA are caught lying to congress and face no consequences, are caught spying on congress and face no consequences, are caught spying on the American public and everyone else, and face no consequences. And it's not because congress doesn't mind the NSA spying on them.
As always, no matter how non-obvious or convoluted the law, a regular person would face jail time if what they did were found to be illegal. And for government officials, they will merely be told "from now on, you may no longer do that".
If any of them use the internet to violate copyright, would that make the wheelchair a mobile pirate base?
Problem is that a lot of vendors will immediately turn around and sue for libel/slander, as in the case of places that got one star reviews on websites, and part of the injunctive relief asked is to retract all statements, true or no.
A good idea is to be absolutely sure to keep things about statements of fact, without a shred of subjective opinion. For example,
I've had huge problems with a security appliance since its installation. Specifically, the VPN SSL client is causing a problem for the majority of my remote clients. The company acknowledged the bug, but they are jerking me around, and no resolution is in sight. I tried third-party clients, but I'm wary of using them since they are not distributed by the manufacturer, and they require some maintenance to keep working properly.
I also talked to various executives at the company and besides giving me apologies, nothing good is coming my way. It's been more than two years (on a three-year subscription that I can't terminate early), and this is continually causing me trouble and aggravation. It also makes my internal customers unhappy. How do you deal with a manufacturer who doesn't fix bugs in a reasonable time frame?
I've had [specific list of] problems with a security appliance since its installation, impacting my business in [specific, verifiable way]. The bug was reported on [date] via [method], and has not been resolved as of [date].
Don't add anything subjective, keep it to easily verifiable facts, and you can complain with much fewer fears of liability.
I really hate these "security" features that are based on the assumption that you've always got phone service available.
You misunderstand... its a data-gathering feature.
I bet there's a joke somewhere about "blind as a bat".
My car is better, it gets 571000 atto-lightyears per mutchkin.
Department of Defense May Give Private Cloud Vendors Access To Top Secret Data
In Soviet Russia, private cloud vendors give government access to top secret data. Wait...
Who cares if someone uses the internet to murder my Facebook account? On the other hand, if it's real world murder, then it's just as much murder regardless of how it was done.
When the ATM is rebooting, would be a good time to mark the camera footage as in need of review.
The US government constantly abuses the law by ignoring it until a test case comes up and a judge says a particular method is illegal.
Nope, the US government constantly abuses the law by ignoring it until a test case comes up and a judge says a particular method may no longer be used. If the judge had the balls to say it was illegal, then there would be jail time involved for the criminals who broke the law.
I have in fact seen adverts I was glad to see. Once (yes only once) I saw an advert for something I didn't know existed but was very useful. Theoretically, targeted ads could do this consistently, but they really really don't. In fact, the targeting is so bad that they've yet to figure out that they should have been serving me static, non-distracting ads.
There's no doubt they're coordinating their attacks on our freedom, but who is driving the campaign and what is their end goal?
The terrorists. They hate our freedom.
Historically, gluttonous kings were carbon neutral. In the not-so-distant future, the world as a whole will be carbon neutral once more. And all the space colonies will be carbon neutral from the start.
Can't they commit crimes without having a bureaucratic agency in charge? Though I suppose something as big as constantly spying on everyone might require a National Crime Agency, as it is too difficult for small time criminals.
What would be the car analogy here?
Your car starts faster but now the brakes and steering are dependent on the ignition?