When I go to the supermarket here in France and buy Nestle baby food for my little boy, the supermarket system prints and hands me 1 discount tickets for "Bledina baby food" for each Nestle product I bought.
The sites on top of Google searches for pifts.exe are just standard malware sites which populate themselves automatically with keywords from google trends.
Well, Microsoft started doing this with Windows a long time ago..
Remember the company which did real-time disk compression ? Microsoft demamnded the code and then used it in the next release of windows, got sued and the Bill Gates committed Perjury by claiming that MIcrosoft engineers had not copied any code.
Please correct me if I'm wrong but I think Apple is no better when it comes to the iPhone, if you want to sell your application you have to submitt the sourcecode.
I think you misunderstood the author's logic. More college-interested girls take the test than boys. The author suggests that these extra girls are not drawn uniformly across all ability levels. These "extra" girls may be disproportionately drawn from lower ability levels, pulling down girls averages.
That's called a 'hypothesis', it's not a theory, and if you are going to base results on some research on this unprooven 'hypothesis', then you have just ejected yourself from serious research.
It's easy to imagine cultural mechanisms that could lead to this phenomena. For example, perhaps lower-ability girls are more often encouraged to apply for college than boys.
Another portion of the study did confirm that boys still tend to outscore girls on the mathematics section of the SAT test taken by 1.5 million students interested in attending college. In 2007, for instance, boys' scores were about 7% higher on average than girls'. But Hyde's team argues that the gap is a statistical illusion, created by the fact that more girls take the test. "You're dipping farther down into the distribution of female talent, which brings down the score," Hyde says. It's not clear that statisticians at the College Board, which produces the SAT, will agree with that explanation. But Hyde says it's good news, because it means the test isn't biased against girls.
Duhhh, this explanation does not pass Occam's Razor.
She is suggesting that the distribution of girls mathematical skills is somehow different than the boy's skills distribution who take the test.
If both groups (boys and girls) both follow the normal curve, as they should do, for each sex, then the difference between boys and girls is real.
For the sake of getting the "right" results, Janet Hyde seems to have made up a totally unprooven factor, "skewed math skills distibution in groups", to be able to still get the results of "no difference between boys and girls"
If this invalidates most business patents as well (since they do not transform an physical object) as required.
The famous Overture's PPC patent which microsoft is trying to accuire through Yahoo should become invalid as well, resulting in "interesting times" to say the least.
Malory sends NS requests for ulam00001.com, ulam00002.com... to ns.polya.com.
Malory then sends a forged answer from the.com server, saying that the NS for www.ulam00002.com is ns.google.com *AND* puts a glue record saying that ns.google.com is 66.6.6.6
Because the glue records corresponds with the answer record, (same domain) the targetted nameserver will cache or replace it's curent record of ns.google.com to be 66.6.6.6
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This is like ... well .. 18 years to late ..
So the EU fines Intel. Exactly who is paying the fine?
Well, Intel has been paying bribes.. Whoose pocket do you think they came from ?
Even then it's a hollow victory. The people will be the ones paying the fine via increased prices.
Until now people have been paying Intels bribes and anti-competitive cost on top of the hardware prices.
I'd say the prices will stay the same for Intel and AMD should finally be able to compete.
Does anyone think he would get away with creating "CryslerArt.com" ?
WikipediaArt.org is not different.
Decreasing something by 0.5 is equivalent to multiplying it by 2.
So if I ask you to decrease my wealth by half, you would actually double it ?
Sir, I would love to do some business with you :)
Their price needs to decrease by 3-3000 times for them to make sense.
How do you decrease something 0.5 times ?
Then how do you decrease it 3000 times ?
When I go to the supermarket here in France and buy Nestle baby food for my little boy, the supermarket system prints and hands me 1 discount tickets for "Bledina baby food" for each Nestle product I bought.
"Authentic FrobozzCo Bottle o' Berzio" costs 10 Coconuts and gives you 200 "Action points" which you will easily spend in an hour or two ..
If those 200 points are one-time-shot, then this is the most expensive game I have ever seen.
No more biased than any of the other stations. They all have agendas.
That's like saying that all cars are alike, since they all do the same thing.
What's wrong with the l4d servers ?
The sites on top of Google searches for pifts.exe are just standard malware sites which populate themselves automatically with keywords from google trends.
The first one links to a blank page which will redirect in about 20 seconds to a malware site.
The second one is immediately flagged by Firefox as being a "Reported attack site".
This slashdot article is possibly a attack on the /. community.
You mean Chewbacca crap.
You do not make sense !
From the decaptcher.com website:
"DeCaptcher CAPTCHA solving is processed by humans. So the accuracy is way more better than an automated capctha solver ones.
So, whatever a human can read, decaptcher.com will also.
Nuff said !
The popup would say something like "In order to improve the quality of Wikipedia, please specify your ISP (or company) and general location"
I'm sure someone would eventually give away their location.
That should have been 'ex' see here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_(text_editor)
I hear you. Fuck emacs, vi for life!
'vi' is actually just a bunch of additional routines build on top of 'ed' (a editor for "real" men !)
Remember the company which did real-time disk compression ? Microsoft demamnded the code and then used it in the next release of windows, got sued and the Bill Gates committed Perjury by claiming that MIcrosoft engineers had not copied any code.
Please correct me if I'm wrong but I think Apple is no better when it comes to the iPhone, if you want to sell your application you have to submitt the sourcecode.
Yep, protect jobs. Time to become a copyright lawyer...
Or a Jail Warden..
It's gonna be shitty to be an artist though ..
I think you misunderstood the author's logic. More college-interested girls take the test than boys. The author suggests that these extra girls are not drawn uniformly across all ability levels. These "extra" girls may be disproportionately drawn from lower ability levels, pulling down girls averages.
That's called a 'hypothesis', it's not a theory, and if you are going to base results on some research on this unprooven 'hypothesis', then you have just ejected yourself from serious research.
It's easy to imagine cultural mechanisms that could lead to this phenomena. For example, perhaps lower-ability girls are more often encouraged to apply for college than boys.
Say WHAT ??
What would anyone do that ?
Another portion of the study did confirm that boys still tend to outscore girls on the mathematics section of the SAT test taken by 1.5 million students interested in attending college. In 2007, for instance, boys' scores were about 7% higher on average than girls'. But Hyde's team argues that the gap is a statistical illusion, created by the fact that more girls take the test. "You're dipping farther down into the distribution of female talent, which brings down the score," Hyde says. It's not clear that statisticians at the College Board, which produces the SAT, will agree with that explanation. But Hyde says it's good news, because it means the test isn't biased against girls.
Duhhh, this explanation does not pass Occam's Razor.
She is suggesting that the distribution of girls mathematical skills is somehow different than the boy's skills distribution who take the test.
If both groups (boys and girls) both follow the normal curve, as they should do, for each sex, then the difference between boys and girls is real.
For the sake of getting the "right" results, Janet Hyde seems to have made up a totally unprooven factor, "skewed math skills distibution in groups", to be able to still get the results of "no difference between boys and girls"
That means that Microsoft has, for the very first time, invented something useful.
No, please, I'm dead serious about this !
The famous Overture's PPC patent which microsoft is trying to accuire through Yahoo should become invalid as well, resulting in "interesting times" to say the least.
Malory wants to poison the server ns.polya.com
Malory sends NS requests for ulam00001.com, ulam00002.com ... to ns.polya.com.
Malory then sends a forged answer from the .com server, saying that the NS for www.ulam00002.com is ns.google.com *AND* puts a glue record saying that ns.google.com is 66.6.6.6
Because the glue records corresponds with the answer record, (same domain) the targetted nameserver will cache or replace it's curent record of ns.google.com to be 66.6.6.6
Hmmm, can't be that simple, can it ?