So what does one do when at least some studies indicate that you can't fix stupid? Seems like giving up.
https://science.slashdot.org/s...
This is one of those areas where personal liberty might just need to step aside. I know that sounds bad but when you consider that the result of exemption is statistically correlated to death and we have laws to discourage and punish homicide, it doesn't seem like that much of a jump to sacrifice personal liberty here...
An "original" classifier is someone who deems a new type of information as a certain classification level. For instance, if we invented a new technology to address a new threat -- information associated with that technology and threat will need to be assessed for classification. An original classifier would be responsible for assessing, at a high-level, whether the release of that information would constitute damage to the government and, depending on severity of damage it would cause, would deem it unclassified, confidential, secret, or top secret. Original classification tends to be more categorical than specific.
Once an original classifier makes that determination for a type of information, a "derivative" classifier would use that information to officially classy a specific document. As such, derivative classification is much more common.
Unfortunately, my guess is Hillary was neither and was just depending on the information being classified (and marked accordingly as it came in). As an information generator, however, my opinion is that she should have reached out to a classifier to determine the proper classification if there was any chance at all the information was classified.
I haven't dove into the bug system, but Notepad++ recently switched to Source Code Pro but then switched back in its most recent release "due to several incompatibility issues". Unsure if the problems were Source Code Pro, Notepad++, Windows, or a combination.
Honestly, I've seen some of the most successful implementations of asset tracking implemented in trivial homegrown spreadsheets and databases. I'll also seen complete disaster and disarray in multi-million dollar commercial applications.
The difference: the people and process. When it comes to asset tracking in a dynamic, uncontrolled environment (e.g., not an Amazon warehouse), no tool is going to replace good process and procedure since there will be error-prone and lazy humans in the process. You need to get religious about these sorts of things if you want them to work. No nifty tool will substitute.
I am not a doctor nor did I completely follow the article, but I assume the cell lifetimes differ between blood and organ tissues. Given this, would we not expect some some sort of micro-evolution going on in frequently-reproducing cell types?
Unusual behavior. I follow the link you sent and if I continuously click 'Search Trends' on slashdot.org (as you provided), I see a noticeably larger spike randomly appear in 2007 Q4. Maybe a graphic rendering issue? Can anyone reproduce this?
I don't see how this would be fundamentally different from the local megastore putting their brand painkiller right next to Tylenol with a big 'Compare to Tylenol' on the front of the box.
I think it's difficult to classify a company based a single set of drive failures. All it takes is one engineer to overlook some very improbable interrupt processing race condition or some bus contention issue and you've got bad firmware on a million drives that have shipped. If you don't test setup that can exercise EVERY possible condition, it's tough to find this stuff. Not that it's excuse, but just saying...
I just recently finished probably some firmware for a high speed serial card for internal use at our company. However, it's still suffering from a lock-up after transmitting about an 100 terabytes of data (average) -- from an 'unknown' interrupt!
Given your first $50K is taxed at 15% for a $7.5K in taxes and a %50 raise results in a doubling of taxes ($15K), the $25K raise was actually taxed at %30 ($7.5K/$25K). No where in the current tax system do we see such an unrealistic 100% increase in tax rate per bracket.
GCC 3.4 is quite outdated.
2.95 is just plain old. Why not code in Fortran while you're at it?
My development group is also stuck with gcc 2.9x series because it's only compiler our toolchain maker (WindRiver) supports for VxWorks 5.X. I'm guessing he's in a similar situation. I can't complain though -- we've never had an issue with it.
With texting continually on the rise, is it possible that less airtime minutes are being used? To keep steady (or steadily rising) profit margins, is it possible they're raising prices to balance things out?
Does he ever disconnect the input to his induction motor? Just because the motor doesn't normally bring the system to an super-accelerated state, doesn't mean that it can't pull in extra energy to cancel the induced magnetic fields within the motor. He needs to have an amp meter on the input to the motor to see if he's pulling additional power into his system while it accelerates.
I can't say this with certainly, but with the type of advanced hardware they use to extract data, I imagine you could still extract information from a bent or cracked platter. And if they were 'monitoring' the fellow, that's something they probably would have picked out of the trash.
It is also worth mentioning that all US reactors have been designed (or re-designed) to have a negative temperature proficient. I don't want to go into the physics, but what it boils down to is that as the reactors gets hotter, it's reactivity decreases.
Even when it comes to waste handling, the shipping castes that are used for shipping must withstand somewhere around a 100 foot fall unto an unyielding surface, then being submerged under water at a certain level of pressure, and then being engulfed in fire for 30 minutes without losing containment. The big issue of waste is where to put it. Yucca Mountain (in Nevada) is eager to open but the politicians are holding things up (for years and years).
It's disappointing that today's presidential candidates aren't more informed about nuclear power.
I was simply stating that it was a lose-lose scenario for the airport guard. If they act aggressive (as they were), we condemn them as unintelligent. If they act lenient, they leave themselves liable if something actually does happen. I'm not questioning the stupidity of it all. The perception of security in this country far outweighs the actual effectiveness of it. These security practices have been analyzed for cost/benefit just like everything else. Cost: bunch of underpaid, GED-at-best guys in a uniform. Benefit: deter the uncreative terrorists and give people the impression that they are safe.
I always like to look at these events in the what-if worst case scenario. In this situation, what if the gadgetry she had been wearing was actually a bomb? Had something bad happened on the terminal or a plane, many of us would probably be looking at this slightly differently:
Authority to cognizant TSA Officer: "You mean you saw a woman carrying a possible homemade explosive and disregarded it? You even questioned her about it and she walked away? Don't you think you should have escalated the situation? Hundreds of people are dead now...".
For Windows NT and later the patch is simple as two registry keys. I ran the 'approved' service pack and exported the two keys that changed. (Since I did this before Microsoft published the relevant registry keys on their website, I had to use a registry capture program to find the affected keys).
The same generated registry patch works on all Windows NT+ versions of Windows. However, you may have to convert file back from Unicode to get it to work on Windows NT. For me, the problem was convincing the anal-retentive management that this 'fix' was legitimate. Took me 15 minutes. $4000? Screw you Microsoft.
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So what does one do when at least some studies indicate that you can't fix stupid? Seems like giving up. https://science.slashdot.org/s... This is one of those areas where personal liberty might just need to step aside. I know that sounds bad but when you consider that the result of exemption is statistically correlated to death and we have laws to discourage and punish homicide, it doesn't seem like that much of a jump to sacrifice personal liberty here...
An "original" classifier is someone who deems a new type of information as a certain classification level. For instance, if we invented a new technology to address a new threat -- information associated with that technology and threat will need to be assessed for classification. An original classifier would be responsible for assessing, at a high-level, whether the release of that information would constitute damage to the government and, depending on severity of damage it would cause, would deem it unclassified, confidential, secret, or top secret. Original classification tends to be more categorical than specific. Once an original classifier makes that determination for a type of information, a "derivative" classifier would use that information to officially classy a specific document. As such, derivative classification is much more common. Unfortunately, my guess is Hillary was neither and was just depending on the information being classified (and marked accordingly as it came in). As an information generator, however, my opinion is that she should have reached out to a classifier to determine the proper classification if there was any chance at all the information was classified.
I haven't dove into the bug system, but Notepad++ recently switched to Source Code Pro but then switched back in its most recent release "due to several incompatibility issues". Unsure if the problems were Source Code Pro, Notepad++, Windows, or a combination.
Honestly, I've seen some of the most successful implementations of asset tracking implemented in trivial homegrown spreadsheets and databases. I'll also seen complete disaster and disarray in multi-million dollar commercial applications.
The difference: the people and process. When it comes to asset tracking in a dynamic, uncontrolled environment (e.g., not an Amazon warehouse), no tool is going to replace good process and procedure since there will be error-prone and lazy humans in the process. You need to get religious about these sorts of things if you want them to work. No nifty tool will substitute.
My two cents.
While it wouldn't help for colors, I'd vote for sonar-based vision processing.
Think guitar string for 1D. Think ripple from rock being dropped in water for 2D. Think cell phone transmission for 3D.
I am not a doctor nor did I completely follow the article, but I assume the cell lifetimes differ between blood and organ tissues. Given this, would we not expect some some sort of micro-evolution going on in frequently-reproducing cell types?
Unusual behavior. I follow the link you sent and if I continuously click 'Search Trends' on slashdot.org (as you provided), I see a noticeably larger spike randomly appear in 2007 Q4. Maybe a graphic rendering issue? Can anyone reproduce this?
I don't see how this would be fundamentally different from the local megastore putting their brand painkiller right next to Tylenol with a big 'Compare to Tylenol' on the front of the box.
Last time I checked the term was "General Availability". Generally available sounds more like it'd be hit-or-miss downloading it...
I think it's difficult to classify a company based a single set of drive failures. All it takes is one engineer to overlook some very improbable interrupt processing race condition or some bus contention issue and you've got bad firmware on a million drives that have shipped. If you don't test setup that can exercise EVERY possible condition, it's tough to find this stuff. Not that it's excuse, but just saying...
I just recently finished probably some firmware for a high speed serial card for internal use at our company. However, it's still suffering from a lock-up after transmitting about an 100 terabytes of data (average) -- from an 'unknown' interrupt!
Given your first $50K is taxed at 15% for a $7.5K in taxes and a %50 raise results in a doubling of taxes ($15K), the $25K raise was actually taxed at %30 ($7.5K/$25K). No where in the current tax system do we see such an unrealistic 100% increase in tax rate per bracket.
GCC 3.4 is quite outdated. 2.95 is just plain old. Why not code in Fortran while you're at it?
My development group is also stuck with gcc 2.9x series because it's only compiler our toolchain maker (WindRiver) supports for VxWorks 5.X. I'm guessing he's in a similar situation. I can't complain though -- we've never had an issue with it.
With texting continually on the rise, is it possible that less airtime minutes are being used? To keep steady (or steadily rising) profit margins, is it possible they're raising prices to balance things out?
I hope this is the case. I've been playing Literati on yahoo for close to a decade now.
Does he ever disconnect the input to his induction motor? Just because the motor doesn't normally bring the system to an super-accelerated state, doesn't mean that it can't pull in extra energy to cancel the induced magnetic fields within the motor. He needs to have an amp meter on the input to the motor to see if he's pulling additional power into his system while it accelerates.
I believe the flight control system runs VxWorks.
I can't say this with certainly, but with the type of advanced hardware they use to extract data, I imagine you could still extract information from a bent or cracked platter. And if they were 'monitoring' the fellow, that's something they probably would have picked out of the trash.
typo: proficient = coefficient
It is also worth mentioning that all US reactors have been designed (or re-designed) to have a negative temperature proficient. I don't want to go into the physics, but what it boils down to is that as the reactors gets hotter, it's reactivity decreases. Even when it comes to waste handling, the shipping castes that are used for shipping must withstand somewhere around a 100 foot fall unto an unyielding surface, then being submerged under water at a certain level of pressure, and then being engulfed in fire for 30 minutes without losing containment. The big issue of waste is where to put it. Yucca Mountain (in Nevada) is eager to open but the politicians are holding things up (for years and years). It's disappointing that today's presidential candidates aren't more informed about nuclear power.
I was simply stating that it was a lose-lose scenario for the airport guard. If they act aggressive (as they were), we condemn them as unintelligent. If they act lenient, they leave themselves liable if something actually does happen. I'm not questioning the stupidity of it all. The perception of security in this country far outweighs the actual effectiveness of it. These security practices have been analyzed for cost/benefit just like everything else. Cost: bunch of underpaid, GED-at-best guys in a uniform. Benefit: deter the uncreative terrorists and give people the impression that they are safe.
I always like to look at these events in the what-if worst case scenario. In this situation, what if the gadgetry she had been wearing was actually a bomb? Had something bad happened on the terminal or a plane, many of us would probably be looking at this slightly differently: Authority to cognizant TSA Officer: "You mean you saw a woman carrying a possible homemade explosive and disregarded it? You even questioned her about it and she walked away? Don't you think you should have escalated the situation? Hundreds of people are dead now...".
It'll be interesting to see how application licensing works for something like this...
"(The 64-bit edition is still showing as a release candidate on the site.)"
FYI: It may not be showing up on the site, but it's showing up on my wife's computer via Windows Update. (The Windows XP x64 version, at least).
For Windows NT and later the patch is simple as two registry keys. I ran the 'approved' service pack and exported the two keys that changed. (Since I did this before Microsoft published the relevant registry keys on their website, I had to use a registry capture program to find the affected keys).
The same generated registry patch works on all Windows NT+ versions of Windows. However, you may have to convert file back from Unicode to get it to work on Windows NT. For me, the problem was convincing the anal-retentive management that this 'fix' was legitimate. Took me 15 minutes. $4000? Screw you Microsoft.