I can confirm that a meteorite was seen at least. Several people pointed it out at a BBQ I was at last night. It was visible for a enough time for several to point it out to others, and sit around wondering what it was, make jokes about aliens, etc.
I went outside and looked up too late because I assumed it was fireworks from the Christmas in the Park show that was on at the same time. Turned out the fireworks display was on the other side of town.
So how does a person find you? Or how does a person get found by you?
I did a degree in NZ that gave you the flexibility to learn about serious CS, or learn how to write SQL and Java. I've coded VHDL, C Kernel code, I understand the bottom layers of the OSI networking model in depth, I've designed and simulated a CPU, I've written a (trivial assembly) multi-tasking kernel, tackled IEE754 floating point concerns at the CPU multiplier level. I have the grounding in CS theory, and I've applied it to little. Sure, I understand how encryption and associated security principles work, that doesn't stop projects I'm involved in designing and implementing their security incorrectly. I hit most of the things you require and many more, but right now I'm effectively writing business solutions in Java web layers.
I'd be happier with heavy backend Java based servers, happier still with embedded C, happier the more technical the task. But the market is for Java. In the UK technical job offers seem concerned at the door with whether you attended a UK red brick university, or perhaps Stanford. When I put a technical CV in the market, the typical response is that the advanced subjects I understand demonstrate "too basic a knowledge" or "a sign that I don't understand enough Java". Which is kind of fair, as most recruiters don't know squat about CS, let alone software - and the market is for Java (which I also understand, right through to the virtual machine).
So help us out, where does a person with the right training and skills find these jobs that demand them?
The game plays out on the screens of the main command centre at NORAD and, unable to tell that what they are seeing is not real, a retaliatory strike is nearly launched I haven't seen the film in years, but I still can't imagine how someone could misremember it like that. Perhaps someone could 'misremember' it like that because, in the movie, NORAD did freak out until it was cleared up that WOPR was the cause. And even then all the other targets continued to freak out while they all hoped they had it right and bombs were not about to rain down on everyone - despite their screens updating in real time assuring them they would. They were so unsure about whether the threat was real that they had retaliatory actions taking place and fighters scrambling to scout out the missiles - which the fighters of course couldn't see because they weren't real.
... costs the UK economy £1.3bn a year... only 10% of this crime is attributed to on-line activities, then we're talking a paltry £1.3 million a year.
The figure you arrived at is suitable for 0.1%, 10% would mean $130 million GBP a year which seems a much more serious number, especially considering the current rate of growth. I'm living in the UK myself, and I have to say I don't think much of their security practices. They are just now heralding a "Chip and PIN" system for their point of sale debit transactions, until that happens you can still sign for a debit transaction with most retailers here. Address history is the backbone of security here, and it's unfortunately very easy to fake and tamper with.
As for online fraud, the banking systems I've used so far have appalling standards of security both online, over the phone and at the teller. For both phone and internet a 6-10 digit PIN is used. For phone, two of those digits are requested to gain access, for internet three are requested as well as your birth date. To change this number, you must ring the bank and dictate it to the operator to input it into the system.
I recall on arriving here I had to have my credit PIN reset, as it had never arrived. I did it in person and I changed my address (which is where the active PIN is delivered to), but never had to show any ID. This was certainly human error going against policy at least one security policy but regardless of that, most of security policies don't stand up to rudimentary inspection.
In my experience, most consumers accept fraud and 'identity theft' as something unavoidable, minor and most of all presume there are no better systems. The general thinking seems to be that if there were, they'd be in place already. I think this is an issue that needs to be seriously addressed, and I don't mean by the companies that have started selling 'identity theft' insurance now.
"If I leave a loaded gun lying on the sidewalk and someone picks it up and shoots someone else, I think I may get some bad karma."
Indeed you might. I'd like to try a hypothetical to look at this differently:
Lets say you live in a world where everyone wears a bullet proof vest because people being shot is something you expect to see every day...
If you discover that the most popular vests are actually vulnerable to... I dunno... being shot? By publishing this you inform all the people that the protection they depend on is flawed, and they can fix it. You also inform all criminals of the problem and that makes them a bigger threat in the interim.
Is this bad karma? I would think it would be your responsibility to demonstrate the flaw.
The ACLU article you provided is really quite excellent, but details my rights in the US. Does anyone have an equivalent UK guide to an individuals rights that includes changes made by the Terriorist Act?
I'm pretty sure I knew what my rights were before the Act. I'd like to know what I have left.
You had a Maxtor 540MB that had no problems. What sizes were the other drives? If they were more modern drives, they would have been FAR more susceptible to heat. While much R&D goes into improving capacity without side effects, a lot of the progress has been increasing density (especially beyond the 8-10GB barrier) while it has been reducing the stability of the drives.
Older drives were much more dependable, newer drives have fancy shock absorption and parking mechanisms. But it's hard to escape heat unless you add a $20-50 cooling system on to the drive, which stops it from being competitively priced. Competition was really fierce a couple of years back, and the drives stopped just being unreliable, they started being melted bricks.
So you had three Western Digitals that died. It might have been faulty drives, it's more likely it was your box. The same has happened with modern Seagates, Maxtors (I think Maxtor had a very bad track record in their early 80GB days, but I have no reference) and all the other brands. 80-120GB 7200rpm SATA Drives came on the market at what seemed insanely cheap prices, onboard SATA raids were available, people would stack them on top of each other just like they had done with all previous drives they ever owned, and failure rates skyrocketed.
There are other complicating factors, for instance early Seagate SATA's were running too fast which made the heat problem worse. But the conclusion to your statement is the same, dead drives.
They're finding permafrost is melting. What's usually all year round ice beneath the lakes is melting. Lakes are getting bigger because of other areas of ice melting, and it might be the cause of the warming of permafrost. They at least appear to be symptoms of the same overall problem, a change in climate.
"As temperatures rise, ice and snow melt and put more water into Arctic lakes." and "They now believe additional lake surface brought on by melting is just the first part of the process. In the southern parts of the Siberia study area, the permafrost itself is believed to be melting."
So perhaps an accurate headline might have been Arctic Warming Is Causing Lakes To Grow Bigger, And The Drying Up Of Lakes Due To The Melting Of Permafrost. The Former May Be Causing The Latter.
Their original headline still appears perfectly accurate to me though and, while I'm no journalist, it also seems more effective.
One solution, beside plugins (that do the same thing for you automatically, if I'm not mistaken) is to increase or decrease the font size in Firefox, then return it to normal. (CTRL+= or CTRL+- then CTRL+0)
Whatever part of the rendering causes the bug is not recalled when fields are resized for text size changes.
I hope this helps, it's what I use when Slashdot becomes completely uninterpretable.
The entire floating ice pack in the arctic could melt and it wouldn't effect the water level one bit. Why? BECAUSE IT'S FLOATING ALREADY.
The grandparent in fact mentioned ice that is not floating. ("ice packs that are currently *not* floating begin to melt"). That is ice that is still attached to land, which is still a significant mass. Introducing it to the ocean would indeed increase the sea level.
The money flow is pretty much a closed system. We spend money, our own contractors (and their millions of employees/families) get money.
From your comments it sounds like you think that's a good, healthy process. But it's not the full circle. Your government borrows money from it's own trusts and private investors, then spends it on weapons and supplies. So that money goes into your local economy after a corporation takes their own massive profit margin. So you build weapons, get paid as an employee and work in a shiny building.
But you're looking at the money in your hand and not thinking about the massive debt your country has right? Out of sight, out of mind? All the interest involved in the loan system, and the fact that most of the money spent goes into the hands of the owners of the corporation who sit on the money as an investment. The future is it will be paid back, by you and the generations that follow. Only your economy will be screwed by then, and the weapons industry isn't going to save it by getting your government to borrow more money and bomb other countries - though they might yet try.
It's all far more complicated than that, this is a very simple view. Unfortunately that works in your favour, and the real picture is much, much worse.
I don't live in America, and I grew up watching an amazing economy and system that was modelled and followed by others. But many things that made your country great, a long time ago, have been manipulated and squeezed by greed. The people doing this will do fine when your economy slumps though, and if they don't mind bombing other countries, do you really think they'll care about your hardship in the future?
could force MS/Bungie to push up the release date
The poster means that it may bring the release date forward, to reduce lost sales. That's assuming people downloading the game translates to lost sales, which itself is of course an unresolved ever-raging debate.
"It attracts people to come and engage with your campaign in a way that is fun and interesting," Noble said.
I agree he's trying a gimmick, but is it necessarily a bad one? He's recieving press, he's getting his name out, and if he continues with schedules like the ones suggested in the article, he could make a very good name for himself.
No harm in him trying to make himself stand out from candidates that do sleep in, don't attend events, but have enough money to advertise their campaign to death. Don't communities want leaders that get involved rather than sit idly by?
MPAA is just doing their duty for the owners IP everywhere.
Actually I was trying to say the MPAA were doing a favour for other owners of IP in other industries, such as the BSA. Except I missed the word "of" between "owners" and "IP".
That, and I was taking the tact that using an imaginery number would make my sarcastic tone clear. Clearly I was mistaken.
Everyone knows Linux Australia are pirating Unix on a massive scale and owe Eleventy Billion Dollars to SCO for every piece of intellectual property downloaded.
MPAA is just doing their duty for the owners IP everywhere.
How exactly were these figures reached? Is a 'machine reboot' when Windows completely hangs and the power must be cut, or when things run sluggish and you shutdown? If I run my box for a month until it dies, does that mean it requires a 'machine reboot' 100% of the time?
Surely there must be an imbalance between what kind of tasks are performed and what run times are reached by machines running Win98 vs Win2000 or WinXP.
I don't know if these details are in the article, my French isn't too hot and the translation is a tad unclear. If someone more familiar with the language could enlighten me, that might help.
I am disappointed that in such a huge study, Microsofts now recognised competitor isn't even considered for comparison.
You said yourself that large amounts of explosive materials can cause a mushroom cloud. The article states that there is a huge military missile and personel base in that area.
Was the train related explosion not similar, if only smaller, to this?
What reason would there be for a nuclear explosion? Testing: The major effects of radiation are now known, and Korea don't have massive deserts to dispose of. Who would ever test above ground. _On_the_border_? Attack: A single strike at one military installation for two countries that have a small land mass and have been on the brink of war and worse for decades on end? Accident: It's possible. But it sure seems unlikely.
"First of all, no doubt its a nuke."
An extremely large explosion has occurred in Korea. I think everything else speculated is completely shrouded in doubt.
From the article indeed. The article mentions there is a missile base with up to a million troops in that area. Missiles don't have to be nuclear, and nuclear explosions aren't required to create massive mushroom clouds.
While the possiblity of a nuclear explosion cannot be discounted, an accident is more likely. The recent train accident created a cloud similar to this, and any number of explosive materials could have caused this accident.
A nuclear test would never take place above ground, let alone on the border between these two countries. A first strike on the border makes little sense, despite such a large number troops in occupation there when there are more tactically valuable places to mount such an attack - and it wouldn't be a single strike.
The only thing clear from this news is that a massive, and no doubt tragic, event has occurred. Much speculation beyond that seems a little foolish to me when details are so scarce.
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I went outside and looked up too late because I assumed it was fireworks from the Christmas in the Park show that was on at the same time. Turned out the fireworks display was on the other side of town.
So how does a person find you? Or how does a person get found by you?
I did a degree in NZ that gave you the flexibility to learn about serious CS, or learn how to write SQL and Java. I've coded VHDL, C Kernel code, I understand the bottom layers of the OSI networking model in depth, I've designed and simulated a CPU, I've written a (trivial assembly) multi-tasking kernel, tackled IEE754 floating point concerns at the CPU multiplier level. I have the grounding in CS theory, and I've applied it to little. Sure, I understand how encryption and associated security principles work, that doesn't stop projects I'm involved in designing and implementing their security incorrectly. I hit most of the things you require and many more, but right now I'm effectively writing business solutions in Java web layers.
I'd be happier with heavy backend Java based servers, happier still with embedded C, happier the more technical the task. But the market is for Java. In the UK technical job offers seem concerned at the door with whether you attended a UK red brick university, or perhaps Stanford. When I put a technical CV in the market, the typical response is that the advanced subjects I understand demonstrate "too basic a knowledge" or "a sign that I don't understand enough Java". Which is kind of fair, as most recruiters don't know squat about CS, let alone software - and the market is for Java (which I also understand, right through to the virtual machine).
So help us out, where does a person with the right training and skills find these jobs that demand them?
... costs the UK economy £1.3bn a year ... only 10% of this crime is attributed to on-line activities, then we're talking a paltry £1.3 million a year.
The figure you arrived at is suitable for 0.1%, 10% would mean $130 million GBP a year which seems a much more serious number, especially considering the current rate of growth. I'm living in the UK myself, and I have to say I don't think much of their security practices. They are just now heralding a "Chip and PIN" system for their point of sale debit transactions, until that happens you can still sign for a debit transaction with most retailers here. Address history is the backbone of security here, and it's unfortunately very easy to fake and tamper with.
As for online fraud, the banking systems I've used so far have appalling standards of security both online, over the phone and at the teller. For both phone and internet a 6-10 digit PIN is used. For phone, two of those digits are requested to gain access, for internet three are requested as well as your birth date. To change this number, you must ring the bank and dictate it to the operator to input it into the system.
I recall on arriving here I had to have my credit PIN reset, as it had never arrived. I did it in person and I changed my address (which is where the active PIN is delivered to), but never had to show any ID. This was certainly human error going against policy at least one security policy but regardless of that, most of security policies don't stand up to rudimentary inspection.
In my experience, most consumers accept fraud and 'identity theft' as something unavoidable, minor and most of all presume there are no better systems. The general thinking seems to be that if there were, they'd be in place already. I think this is an issue that needs to be seriously addressed, and I don't mean by the companies that have started selling 'identity theft' insurance now.
"If I leave a loaded gun lying on the sidewalk and someone picks it up and shoots someone else, I think I may get some bad karma."
...
... I dunno ... being shot? By publishing this you inform all the people that the protection they depend on is flawed, and they can fix it. You also inform all criminals of the problem and that makes them a bigger threat in the interim.
Indeed you might. I'd like to try a hypothetical to look at this differently:
Lets say you live in a world where everyone wears a bullet proof vest because people being shot is something you expect to see every day
If you discover that the most popular vests are actually vulnerable to
Is this bad karma? I would think it would be your responsibility to demonstrate the flaw.
The ACLU article you provided is really quite excellent, but details my rights in the US. Does anyone have an equivalent UK guide to an individuals rights that includes changes made by the Terriorist Act?
I'm pretty sure I knew what my rights were before the Act. I'd like to know what I have left.
You had a Maxtor 540MB that had no problems. What sizes were the other drives? If they were more modern drives, they would have been FAR more susceptible to heat. While much R&D goes into improving capacity without side effects, a lot of the progress has been increasing density (especially beyond the 8-10GB barrier) while it has been reducing the stability of the drives.
Older drives were much more dependable, newer drives have fancy shock absorption and parking mechanisms. But it's hard to escape heat unless you add a $20-50 cooling system on to the drive, which stops it from being competitively priced. Competition was really fierce a couple of years back, and the drives stopped just being unreliable, they started being melted bricks.
So you had three Western Digitals that died. It might have been faulty drives, it's more likely it was your box. The same has happened with modern Seagates, Maxtors (I think Maxtor had a very bad track record in their early 80GB days, but I have no reference) and all the other brands. 80-120GB 7200rpm SATA Drives came on the market at what seemed insanely cheap prices, onboard SATA raids were available, people would stack them on top of each other just like they had done with all previous drives they ever owned, and failure rates skyrocketed.
There are other complicating factors, for instance early Seagate SATA's were running too fast which made the heat problem worse. But the conclusion to your statement is the same, dead drives.
So were your WD's 540MB or 80GB drives?
They're finding permafrost is melting. What's usually all year round ice beneath the lakes is melting. Lakes are getting bigger because of other areas of ice melting, and it might be the cause of the warming of permafrost. They at least appear to be symptoms of the same overall problem, a change in climate.
To quote from this article.
"As temperatures rise, ice and snow melt and put more water into Arctic lakes." and "They now believe additional lake surface brought on by melting is just the first part of the process. In the southern parts of the Siberia study area, the permafrost itself is believed to be melting."
So perhaps an accurate headline might have been Arctic Warming Is Causing Lakes To Grow Bigger, And The Drying Up Of Lakes Due To The Melting Of Permafrost. The Former May Be Causing The Latter.
Their original headline still appears perfectly accurate to me though and, while I'm no journalist, it also seems more effective.
One solution, beside plugins (that do the same thing for you automatically, if I'm not mistaken) is to increase or decrease the font size in Firefox, then return it to normal. (CTRL+= or CTRL+- then CTRL+0)
Whatever part of the rendering causes the bug is not recalled when fields are resized for text size changes.
I hope this helps, it's what I use when Slashdot becomes completely uninterpretable.
The entire floating ice pack in the arctic could melt and it wouldn't effect the water level one bit. Why? BECAUSE IT'S FLOATING ALREADY.
The grandparent in fact mentioned ice that is not floating. ("ice packs that are currently *not* floating begin to melt"). That is ice that is still attached to land, which is still a significant mass. Introducing it to the ocean would indeed increase the sea level.
The money flow is pretty much a closed system. We spend money, our own contractors (and their millions of employees/families) get money.
From your comments it sounds like you think that's a good, healthy process. But it's not the full circle. Your government borrows money from it's own trusts and private investors, then spends it on weapons and supplies. So that money goes into your local economy after a corporation takes their own massive profit margin. So you build weapons, get paid as an employee and work in a shiny building.
But you're looking at the money in your hand and not thinking about the massive debt your country has right? Out of sight, out of mind? All the interest involved in the loan system, and the fact that most of the money spent goes into the hands of the owners of the corporation who sit on the money as an investment. The future is it will be paid back, by you and the generations that follow. Only your economy will be screwed by then, and the weapons industry isn't going to save it by getting your government to borrow more money and bomb other countries - though they might yet try.
It's all far more complicated than that, this is a very simple view. Unfortunately that works in your favour, and the real picture is much, much worse.
I don't live in America, and I grew up watching an amazing economy and system that was modelled and followed by others. But many things that made your country great, a long time ago, have been manipulated and squeezed by greed. The people doing this will do fine when your economy slumps though, and if they don't mind bombing other countries, do you really think they'll care about your hardship in the future?
could force MS/Bungie to push up the release date The poster means that it may bring the release date forward, to reduce lost sales. That's assuming people downloading the game translates to lost sales, which itself is of course an unresolved ever-raging debate.
"It attracts people to come and engage with your campaign in a way that is fun and interesting," Noble said.
I agree he's trying a gimmick, but is it necessarily a bad one? He's recieving press, he's getting his name out, and if he continues with schedules like the ones suggested in the article, he could make a very good name for himself.
No harm in him trying to make himself stand out from candidates that do sleep in, don't attend events, but have enough money to advertise their campaign to death. Don't communities want leaders that get involved rather than sit idly by?
MPAA is just doing their duty for the owners IP everywhere.
Actually I was trying to say the MPAA were doing a favour for other owners of IP in other industries, such as the BSA. Except I missed the word "of" between "owners" and "IP".
That, and I was taking the tact that using an imaginery number would make my sarcastic tone clear. Clearly I was mistaken.
Everyone knows Linux Australia are pirating Unix on a massive scale and owe Eleventy Billion Dollars to SCO for every piece of intellectual property downloaded. MPAA is just doing their duty for the owners IP everywhere.
Music and movie collections definitly flourish.
I do agree with them however, network technology such as p2p is important.
How exactly were these figures reached? Is a 'machine reboot' when Windows completely hangs and the power must be cut, or when things run sluggish and you shutdown? If I run my box for a month until it dies, does that mean it requires a 'machine reboot' 100% of the time?
Surely there must be an imbalance between what kind of tasks are performed and what run times are reached by machines running Win98 vs Win2000 or WinXP.
I don't know if these details are in the article, my French isn't too hot and the translation is a tad unclear. If someone more familiar with the language could enlighten me, that might help.
I am disappointed that in such a huge study, Microsofts now recognised competitor isn't even considered for comparison.
You said yourself that large amounts of explosive materials can cause a mushroom cloud. The article states that there is a huge military missile and personel base in that area.
Was the train related explosion not similar, if only smaller, to this?
What reason would there be for a nuclear explosion?
Testing: The major effects of radiation are now known, and Korea don't have massive deserts to dispose of. Who would ever test above ground. _On_the_border_?
Attack: A single strike at one military installation for two countries that have a small land mass and have been on the brink of war and worse for decades on end?
Accident: It's possible. But it sure seems unlikely.
"First of all, no doubt its a nuke."
An extremely large explosion has occurred in Korea. I think everything else speculated is completely shrouded in doubt.
From the article indeed. The article mentions there is a missile base with up to a million troops in that area. Missiles don't have to be nuclear, and nuclear explosions aren't required to create massive mushroom clouds. While the possiblity of a nuclear explosion cannot be discounted, an accident is more likely. The recent train accident created a cloud similar to this, and any number of explosive materials could have caused this accident. A nuclear test would never take place above ground, let alone on the border between these two countries. A first strike on the border makes little sense, despite such a large number troops in occupation there when there are more tactically valuable places to mount such an attack - and it wouldn't be a single strike. The only thing clear from this news is that a massive, and no doubt tragic, event has occurred. Much speculation beyond that seems a little foolish to me when details are so scarce.
Isn't "Funny" a more appropriate Mod to this posts parents and siblings than "Insightful"?