Just like the bombing attempt that lead to the liquid ban.
Oh wait, that attempt involved hydrogen peroxide and tang, which at worst would mean whoever sat next to the perp would have to get a few stitches. Ever filled a soda bottle with vinegar and baking soda? Same concept.
Bombs work two ways, either via explosive force, or by creating shrapnel. A bomb that does not have sufficient explosive force to breach the cabin, and that does not have sufficient force to propel small objects throughout the cabin will NEVER be a serious threat.
"We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now. There will be no loyalty, except loyalty towards the Party. There will be no love, except the love of Big Brother. There will be no laughter, except the laugh of triumph over a defeated enemy. There will be no art, no literature, no science." - 1984
Waiter covers 70% of the Earth's surface. Now, if we exclude areas that would cause catastrophic flooding the number gets smaller, but I'll bet we could find someplace out in the middle of the ocean to deflect it.
Easy. Just pander to the people who a) don't drink, or b) pretend that they don't. "Sin taxes" are becoming increasingly popular among the holier-than-thou voting crowd who look at it as a way to get everyone else to pay a tax increase while they get off free because "it's bad for you! You deserve it!"
Our Mayor has already recently implemented a drink tax.
The problem is that our mayor has no respect for college students. During the G20 there was a HUGE backlack because on multiple occasions the police ordered people to disperse, then gave them no means. One youtube video I saw showed a well known pedestrian brige. This bridge crosses a major road and leads to the largest of Pitt dorms.
A large number of students were trapped on the brige - riot cops on both end refused to let anyone pass. They were then tear gassed (and some arrested) for "failure to disperse".
They may not be legally disallowed from calling the poster's employer, but one could make the argument this violates their privacy policy.
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Question: how can you tell GPL code is GPL code unless you know that it's GPL code? My point is that code reviews are cool, but they cannot catch things that the reviewers don't know to look for. And it's impossible for anyone to be familiar with every piece of GPL'd code out there, and it's impossible to build a database of such code. The best way to handle it was the way that they handled it. Someone found the error, told MS, and MS became compliant by releasing the code.
It's called MOSS. Free for educational use, though a company like Microsoft would need a site license, but it would probably pay for itself when you factor in the money paid to PR firms to compensate for blunders like this.
I mean, I don't think anyone seriously thinks MS intended to steal GPL code. But if you have subcontractors writing shitty code, and you're forced to acknowledge this publicly, that have a very real cost - it undermimes your image as a respectable software company.
If you just want to track weight loss, the Hacker's Dietonline weight tracker is great. It's by John Walker (one of he creaters of AutoCad)
One of the things that can be discouraging when losing weight is the daily fluctuations. The Hacker's Diet log software provides a nice weighted average so even if you gain a bit (say, 180.5 one day and 181.2 the next) you can see that the trend is still downwards.
There's also excel sheets with macros for those of you dislike the idea of putting your weight info into the cloud.
NOTE: The diet itself is crap - get your actual diet elsewhere. In fact, diet is a horrible term - think of it as a lifestyle change: Less bad food. More good running.
I think Cringley is defining "security expert" as someone who is in the process of completing or has completed a doctorate in computer science and done significant peer reviewed research in the area of network security, while the government is seeing a "security expert" as someone with a CS background and some coursework in security or someone with advanced security certs (Eg: CISSP)
The term "expert" has a very different meanings in acadmenia than in industry/government.
When you take into a ccount that any time they try and lay fiber it gets stolen and sold for it's scrap value, this is a great idea. Less chance of the infrastructure being stolen/damaged.
If it's 840x480 and ~400 bucks now, imagine what they'll be like in a year or two. Can you imagina a netbook with a relatively small screen, but that you can dim the lights and instantly have a 24' screen projected on the wall?
So basically replacing water with a mixture of salt, sugar, and corn syrup will cause health problems?
NO SHIT? REALLY?/sarcasm
The dehydration effects of that much soda mixed with the effects of that much of a caloric overload (My conservative estimate pegs it at about 425 calories per liter for cola. So someone consuming seven liters a day would be consuming almost 3000 calories a day, and that's before we factor in food intake. (Keep in mind the average person needs between 2000 and 2200 calories to maintain body weight, anything more becomes fat.)
As it currently stands, a human operator makes all kill orders, be it dropping a bomb from an F117 to ordering a predator drone to open fire. DoD culture simply does not presently allow for autonomous robots with lethal weaponry. (Though it could be argues this is less about ethical issues and more about preserving the current way of life in the armed services)
A summer camp I worked at was using software called gigapan. Basically a tripod with a servo on it and some custom software to take a shit load of ~4MP pictures and stitch them together to create an extremely high resolution panorama.
The CMU project page has more details, and the commercial arm of the project is here.
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Yes I'm sure it was _quite_ sophisticated.
Just like the bombing attempt that lead to the liquid ban.
Oh wait, that attempt involved hydrogen peroxide and tang, which at worst would mean whoever sat next to the perp would have to get a few stitches. Ever filled a soda bottle with vinegar and baking soda? Same concept.
Bombs work two ways, either via explosive force, or by creating shrapnel. A bomb that does not have sufficient explosive force to breach the cabin, and that does not have sufficient force to propel small objects throughout the cabin will NEVER be a serious threat.
Anyone remember Yahooligans?
"We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now. There will be no loyalty, except loyalty towards the Party. There will be no love, except the love of Big Brother. There will be no laughter, except the laugh of triumph over a defeated enemy. There will be no art, no literature, no science." - 1984
Waiter covers 70% of the Earth's surface. Now, if we exclude areas that would cause catastrophic flooding the number gets smaller, but I'll bet we could find someplace out in the middle of the ocean to deflect it.
You can create a custom browser user agent .
Easy. Just pander to the people who a) don't drink, or b) pretend that they don't. "Sin taxes" are becoming increasingly popular among the holier-than-thou voting crowd who look at it as a way to get everyone else to pay a tax increase while they get off free because "it's bad for you! You deserve it!"
Our Mayor has already recently implemented a drink tax.
The problem is that our mayor has no respect for college students. During the G20 there was a HUGE backlack because on multiple occasions the police ordered people to disperse, then gave them no means. One youtube video I saw showed a well known pedestrian brige. This bridge crosses a major road and leads to the largest of Pitt dorms.
A large number of students were trapped on the brige - riot cops on both end refused to let anyone pass. They were then tear gassed (and some arrested) for "failure to disperse".
Any other mayoy wou ld have been down on his knees begging for forgiveness that close to re-election. Our mayor's response, directed at the ACLU state legal chief : "I heard we're going to face a free-speech lawsuit. Well, I have some free speech for you -- fuck you, Vic Walczak!"
They may not be legally disallowed from calling the poster's employer, but one could make the argument this violates their privacy policy.
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Most people don't even understand the concept of a browser, let alone a search provider.
This is solely because IE8 has bing included.
Question: how can you tell GPL code is GPL code unless you know that it's GPL code? My point is that code reviews are cool, but they cannot catch things that the reviewers don't know to look for. And it's impossible for anyone to be familiar with every piece of GPL'd code out there, and it's impossible to build a database of such code. The best way to handle it was the way that they handled it. Someone found the error, told MS, and MS became compliant by releasing the code.
It's called MOSS. Free for educational use, though a company like Microsoft would need a site license, but it would probably pay for itself when you factor in the money paid to PR firms to compensate for blunders like this.
I mean, I don't think anyone seriously thinks MS intended to steal GPL code. But if you have subcontractors writing shitty code, and you're forced to acknowledge this publicly, that have a very real cost - it undermimes your image as a respectable software company.
If the malicious content is served by the site, then even using a whitelist ala Flashblock won't work, will it? That's pretty scary.
Contrary to the article (at CMU at least) we _are_ required to run our Mturk studies past the IRB.
They all get rubber stamped 99% of the time, but it's still an important formality.
If you just want to track weight loss, the Hacker's Dietonline weight tracker is great. It's by John Walker (one of he creaters of AutoCad)
One of the things that can be discouraging when losing weight is the daily fluctuations. The Hacker's Diet log software provides a nice weighted average so even if you gain a bit (say, 180.5 one day and 181.2 the next) you can see that the trend is still downwards.
There's also excel sheets with macros for those of you dislike the idea of putting your weight info into the cloud.
NOTE: The diet itself is crap - get your actual diet elsewhere. In fact, diet is a horrible term - think of it as a lifestyle change: Less bad food. More good running.
I think Cringley is defining "security expert" as someone who is in the process of completing or has completed a doctorate in computer science and done significant peer reviewed research in the area of network security, while the government is seeing a "security expert" as someone with a CS background and some coursework in security or someone with advanced security certs (Eg: CISSP)
The term "expert" has a very different meanings in acadmenia than in industry/government.
The judge "vacated" the jury's decision? How is that legal?
I have never heard of this concept that a judge can tell a jury "you're wrong, I'm finding the defendant guilty"
In fact, a major legal concept, jury nullification relies on the idea that a jury can disobey a judge.
Insert obligatory "Bruce Schneier says it's ok to write down your password" link here
When you take into a ccount that any time they try and lay fiber it gets stolen and sold for it's scrap value, this is a great idea. Less chance of the infrastructure being stolen/damaged.
Looks like they're trying to take on Clusty.
Time for the obligatory "Bill Gates' wife was the project manager for Microsoft Bob" post.
(Though, to be fair, she was "only" his girlfriend at the time of Bob's development and release of Microsoft Bob.)
It's probably a bandwidth issue... VLC is 16 megs for a windows install, which is pretty big when not on broadband.
If it's 840x480 and ~400 bucks now, imagine what they'll be like in a year or two.
Can you imagina a netbook with a relatively small screen, but that you can dim the lights and instantly have a 24' screen projected on the wall?
So basically replacing water with a mixture of salt, sugar, and corn syrup will cause health problems?
NO SHIT? REALLY? /sarcasm
The dehydration effects of that much soda mixed with the effects of that much of a caloric overload (My conservative estimate pegs it at about 425 calories per liter for cola. So someone consuming seven liters a day would be consuming almost 3000 calories a day, and that's before we factor in food intake. (Keep in mind the average person needs between 2000 and 2200 calories to maintain body weight, anything more becomes fat.)
Anyone ever wonder if maybe Apple might see all these rumors, and interpret them as a large demand for a product, then create said product?
I wouldn't rule out the possibility that inital rumors were false, but got the heads talking in Cupertino.
As it currently stands, a human operator makes all kill orders, be it dropping a bomb from an F117 to ordering a predator drone to open fire. DoD culture simply does not presently allow for autonomous robots with lethal weaponry. (Though it could be argues this is less about ethical issues and more about preserving the current way of life in the armed services)
A summer camp I worked at was using software called gigapan. Basically a tripod with a servo on it and some custom software to take a shit load of ~4MP pictures and stitch them together to create an extremely high resolution panorama.
The CMU project page has more details, and the commercial arm of the project is here.
Are you seriously implying that corporations refusing to let you surf porn at work are being unreasonable?