I have my home page configured as a list of bookmarks. It's slightly more effort to maintain than a proper list of bookmarks, but it's trivial to back up or to shuttle between computers. I probably use it a few times a day.
Firstly, the London bombs in 2005 were Underground trains (metro, if that's a more familiar term), so in the context of trains vs planes that is irrelevant.
Also both of those bombings were carried out by physically carrying the bombs onto the trains in rucksacks. In other words the vulnerability wasn't inherent in trains vs planes, but rather due to the lack of screening. In typical security theatre, London police searched bags in the mornings for a few weeks afterwards but have now (AFAIA) stopped; I believe Spanish police still conduct some screening for long-distance trains - I've certainly seen a queue for screening in my local RENFE station, but I didn't have to join it to catch a local train.
If you look at the history of terrorism, planes feature a lot more than trains. There's probably a psychological factor, aiming to work on the fear of flying that many people have. However, London railway stations were binless for many years because of the fear that a bin (trash can for Americans) could conceal an IRA bomb. So the question of what is a valid threat model isn't straightforward.
Seriously, is there some shortage on Java dicumentation out there or something? Granted, I don't know the language as I never had a need for it, but I can't trip over without falling into a pile of Java tutorials.
That is precisely the point of the question. You could quite easily spend 6 months solidly reading the stuff out there, so what OP is looking for is a recommendation or two to save him spending months finding the stuff that's worth reading in the piles of dross. I'm hoping there are some good answers, because I to would quite like to get a handle on the more enterprisey side of Java.
It is worth keeping in mind that N.O, was the site of a revolutionary war with the Brits, back in the day.
That made no sense to me, since Louisiana was never part of the British Empire, so I looked up New Orleans' history. You're actually thinking of the War of 1812, although it appears you're correct to say that the battle was due to the significance of N.O. as a port.
I haven't thought about this much, but while the auth/central billing approach seems more secure (if you fix the key problem), it's got a single point of failure that brings down your entire transit system, where the lower security value-store approach does not. Maybe in the real world that's not a big deal, I don't know.
That reminds me of an interview question I was asked a few years back which basically wanted me to sketch a design for an ATM network. As in all things engineering, there's a trade-off to be made. What you can do is have each terminal store a copy of the transaction. If the central billing system is up it validates the user's credit in real time: if not, it commits the transaction later. You can get free travel, but only if you can bring down the connection to the centre.
Here's a newsflash: C++ also has support libraries, just like Java, Perl, Python and Ruby. They may not be part of the language specification (and I still think that's a weird idea to begin with, but I'm old-fashioned that way), but that doesn't mean they don't exist.
I can't speak for Perl, Python or Ruby but I can say that the Java Language Specification only specifies a very small part of the standard libraries - some of the java.lang package. There's a distinction between Java the language and Java the environment.
Anything you could want for in a modern language is there. And nobody is holding a gun to your head and making you write those scary templates if you don't want to.
Everything I could want may be in there (although I doubt it - I want garbage collection without having to explicitly do anything) but so is a load of stuff which I don't want in a modern language. Maintaining other people's code is bad enough in Java: I dread to think what the people who wrote the project I'm currently trying to fix would have done in a language with pointers.
And then either log out and log in again or manually edit the address bar to change the current session to https. For some reason if you just tell it that you always want to use https and save preferences, it doesn't switch.
I think he must be saying that Kubuntu's default KDE settings aren't the ones he wants. I'm not sure what stops him exporting his settings from a "good KDE" and importing them to a "bad KDE".
Okay, I'm officially confused. You're clearly responding to my post, but your argument is with the grandparent of my post, not with mine. The flow as I read it goes:
Slashdot Mirror
even if the text is online (which it is in the UK)
[citation needed] Legislation since 1980 is available from opsi.gov.uk, but I'm not aware that the government publishes anything older than that.
I have my home page configured as a list of bookmarks. It's slightly more effort to maintain than a proper list of bookmarks, but it's trivial to back up or to shuttle between computers. I probably use it a few times a day.
What happened to the slashdot I used to know?!
It may not be dead, amccaf1, but it's not as you know it.
Firstly, the London bombs in 2005 were Underground trains (metro, if that's a more familiar term), so in the context of trains vs planes that is irrelevant.
Also both of those bombings were carried out by physically carrying the bombs onto the trains in rucksacks. In other words the vulnerability wasn't inherent in trains vs planes, but rather due to the lack of screening. In typical security theatre, London police searched bags in the mornings for a few weeks afterwards but have now (AFAIA) stopped; I believe Spanish police still conduct some screening for long-distance trains - I've certainly seen a queue for screening in my local RENFE station, but I didn't have to join it to catch a local train.
If you look at the history of terrorism, planes feature a lot more than trains. There's probably a psychological factor, aiming to work on the fear of flying that many people have. However, London railway stations were binless for many years because of the fear that a bin (trash can for Americans) could conceal an IRA bomb. So the question of what is a valid threat model isn't straightforward.
Why go to all the hassle of throwing that exception? It's totally unnecessary: the stack is filled in on construction. Just write
stack = new IllegalStateException();
or do it "properly" (with phantom references rather than finalize).
Seriously, is there some shortage on Java dicumentation out there or something? Granted, I don't know the language as I never had a need for it, but I can't trip over without falling into a pile of Java tutorials.
That is precisely the point of the question. You could quite easily spend 6 months solidly reading the stuff out there, so what OP is looking for is a recommendation or two to save him spending months finding the stuff that's worth reading in the piles of dross. I'm hoping there are some good answers, because I to would quite like to get a handle on the more enterprisey side of Java.
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. -- Albert Einstein
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If you're not "modelling with maths" then you're modelling with something else (astrology? guesswork? religon?)
Clay?
You're thinking of capacity. Bandwidth is the difference between the highest and lowest frequencies of the channel.
It is worth keeping in mind that N.O, was the site of a revolutionary war with the Brits, back in the day.
That made no sense to me, since Louisiana was never part of the British Empire, so I looked up New Orleans' history. You're actually thinking of the War of 1812, although it appears you're correct to say that the battle was due to the significance of N.O. as a port.
A quick Google search suggests last year. But it also suggests that high winds have caused major loss of life in the Netherlands due to dykes being breached.
...or it was completely without any value
I wouldn't be hasty to discount that possibility, given another of Lehrer's characterisations of "New Math":
[i]n the new approach, as you know, the important thing is to understand what you're doing rather than to get the right answer.
The discussion of casual relationships is further up the page, in replies to a post about carbon dating.
I haven't thought about this much, but while the auth/central billing approach seems more secure (if you fix the key problem), it's got a single point of failure that brings down your entire transit system, where the lower security value-store approach does not. Maybe in the real world that's not a big deal, I don't know.
That reminds me of an interview question I was asked a few years back which basically wanted me to sketch a design for an ATM network. As in all things engineering, there's a trade-off to be made. What you can do is have each terminal store a copy of the transaction. If the central billing system is up it validates the user's credit in real time: if not, it commits the transaction later. You can get free travel, but only if you can bring down the connection to the centre.
I use it three times, in encrypt-decrypt-encrypt mode. It works for DES, so it must be good!
Here's a newsflash: C++ also has support libraries, just like Java, Perl, Python and Ruby. They may not be part of the language specification (and I still think that's a weird idea to begin with, but I'm old-fashioned that way), but that doesn't mean they don't exist.
I can't speak for Perl, Python or Ruby but I can say that the Java Language Specification only specifies a very small part of the standard libraries - some of the java.lang package. There's a distinction between Java the language and Java the environment.
Anything you could want for in a modern language is there. And nobody is holding a gun to your head and making you write those scary templates if you don't want to.
Everything I could want may be in there (although I doubt it - I want garbage collection without having to explicitly do anything) but so is a load of stuff which I don't want in a modern language. Maintaining other people's code is bad enough in Java: I dread to think what the people who wrote the project I'm currently trying to fix would have done in a language with pointers.
Assuming that the relevant memory isn't paged out, or that you have encrypted swap.
Whereas distinguishing between armed troops and roadside bombs is easy. If it has arms and legs, it's probably not a roadside bomb.
You forgot the link.
Question: so what am I doing here?
What you just did.
And then either log out and log in again or manually edit the address bar to change the current session to https. For some reason if you just tell it that you always want to use https and save preferences, it doesn't switch.
I think he must be saying that Kubuntu's default KDE settings aren't the ones he wants. I'm not sure what stops him exporting his settings from a "good KDE" and importing them to a "bad KDE".
A pedant could argue that if you're using your fingers it's already digital.
When you write your test, write your code, and don't understand why your test still fails, what do you use instead of a debugger?