Britain/Northern Europe does not owe its climate status to spot heating. Britain is usually warmer than it should be given its northern position due to the gulf stream. The oceans serve as blocks to cold air from up north coming south. There are incredible global circulation systems which see warm air rise in the mid-latitudes tot he upper atmosphere then cool and return to the ground at the poles. This is the cause of the cold winds that come down from the north. These winds find it easier to come south over land, which cools more easily than water which retains heat better, has its own top/bottom circulation as well as global circulation. Normally the warm currents keep the cold air away.
Global Warming means global warming. The oceans make 3/4 of the surface area to 4' cooling of the land is easily offset by 2' warming of the ocean. 4 * 1/4 = 1 is less than 2 * 3/4 = 1.5. Do not take any specific location changes to mean global stuff.
What global warming does mean is more intense weather systems. Do not go jumping onto local cooling/warming like Europes/US east coast and claim it is getting colder. You need to look at the whole globe. Not just the areas man is in.
If problems with the client can lead to problems with the server then the server system lacks robustness. For applications like this the servers should be practically immune to any client state much ups.
Seems to me skype needs to work on their server side state machines.
If we could call foreign leaders openly on corruption and wrong doing we would all be better off. Unfortunately we have problems with being open, it seems it would affect business to call some foreign leaders corrupt or even suggest that the state sponsors terrorism. We live behind the curtains of our own creation.
Here is your introductory sort lesson, complete with graphs
octave-3.2.3:18> x=rand(100,1)*100; octave-3.2.3:19> size(x) ans =
100 1
octave-3.2.3:20> plot(x); % see we have 100 values, all from 0 to 100 in a random order octave-3.2.3:21> for j=1:99; for i=j+1:100; if x(i) plot(x); % see we now have 100 values in a nondecreasing order octave-3.2.3:23>
Granted most will not think of it as a programming environment. But it has all that is needed.
http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/
If then, else for....
It has all the fundamentals. It allows you to plot all those high school math functions. It has a persistent environment/cut-and-paste commands for debugging and looking at your state space.
And it is free to all, so great for the education system.
1) no type declarations
- it gets in the way of learning how to do stuff 2) interactive command line
- you need to be able to see the variables and change them
- edit run debug is part of the learning process we don't want them separated yet 3) persistent environment
- being able to interact with the variable and program set is part of the learning process
Suitable base types: basic, logo, lisp, matlab/octave
I would really suggest Matlab/Octave for high school math.
For those that hate basic because of the lack of structure, use COMAL. Similar substitutions may be made for the other languages.
(smash (1351)) >> Problem with programming these days is that to get anything useful done you're buried under a hundred layers of toolkits and abstraction from what is actually going on.
"Glider itself doesn't send or receive any data across the network, only the client does and that traffic is no different in nature or content than what could be generated by a human accessing the game client."
The same could be said of using ssh to connect to a server, it is no different in nature or content from what a human could send. Yet if you used the ssh connection and a client side script to cause the server to send lots of spam that would be improper use of the connection.
It is not the connection nor the data stream, it is the entire interlocked system that is meant to be used for a specific purpose and in a specific way. The data stream between client and server is to be driven by a human in at the client controls. Fudging with the client end generates out of specification traffic for the system and represents a violation of the terms of access given to the account holder. The account access is authorized to only operate the client with human hands. The account access is not authorized to stick glider in control.
Also when we are given accounts on systems we are not authorized to "do anything" we are authorized to only do specific things. There are many things we could do which would mess up the system. These things are considered sabotage of the system.
sudo rm -rf /
#!/bin/sh # This script is called "die" die & die & die & die &
As Blizzard I would have gone with a case about improper access and interfering with the operation of computer system. The game clients are authorized to access and interact with the servers, the bots are an unauthorized access mechanism to the game servers. Simple plain and shut and clearly puts the bot runners in with the people that do destructive access to systems.
-- and not enough characters to put "with a computer" in the title:(
This to me says it will push foreign governments to non-intel machines. Can't risk the US government getting control of something like this. Or any other power for that matter. No government or military would really want this on their systems. They might think they want it to "stop theft" but the consequences of someone else getting control are way to much.
Can some enterprising person divide up the budget of the House of Congress itself onto a YouCut type site. I am sure some people would like less brass in the new bathrooms. Or perhaps cuts to "fact finding" missions. Maybe we could do with fewer congress critters. Save lots of $ there.
-- Or perhaps the salaries could be cut -- In 2006, congresspersons received a yearly salary of $165,200.[173] Congressional leaders were paid $183,500 per year. The Speaker of the House of Representatives earns $212,100 annually. The salary of the President pro tempore for 2006 was $183,500, equal to that of the majority and minority leaders of the House and Senate.[174] Privileges include having an office and paid staff.[122] In 2008, non-officer members of Congress earned $169,300 annually
I suspect this list would also be used be used by various agencies to flag people who are engaged in "undesireable" activity. "Only those with something to hide will be using the Do Not Track" feature.
*sigh*
This all at the same time that they are requiring ISP's to keep 2 year records of IP logs.
So how does this new "Do Not Track" bill merge with the other bill. I presume that everyone will just sign up under the 2 year bill and say "we need to keep records" and are thus exempt from the DoNotTrack feature.
The Internet Stopping Adults Facilitating the Exploitation of Today's Youth (SAFETY) Act of 2009 also known as H.R. 1076 and S.436 would require providers of "electronic communication or remote computing services" to "retain for a period of at least two years all records or other information pertaining to the identity of a user of a temporarily assigned network address the service assigns to that user."[22]
So do we need a new way of describing DNS servers ? We also probably also need a new way of describing DNS entries so you can tell the difference between an actual DNS for a site and a DNS for an edge caching site.
So where are the political people who promised us it was "impossible" for the images from these scanners to be saved? It was clearly a manufacturing possibility that the images could be stored. And the rule of operation is that "if it can be done, it will be".
Geeky systems observation:
There needs to be a better political process where, when the political message is later proven to be a lie, we can shoot the original messenger. Because without negative feedback the system will continue to run amok. The current political process is not good enough and has a large enough time lag that corrective factors build up and sever oscillations occur.
Can we please have the terrorists try laptops next. There have even been instances of spontaneous laptop suicide yet they are still allowed on planes. If we can separate people form their cherished toys perhaps we can convince people of how stupid the whole security theatre thing is.
Microsoft just rode the wave of open IBM hardware specifications for the business PC. A little knife in the back of things like DRDOS and Microsoft had no competition.
Here is a comment from the article. I have not tested this.
bearymore::: ""Wow! I have a Firefox addon which spoofs the user agent. When I go to Capitalone with the default Firefox as the user agent I get 3.50%. When set the addon to tell Capitalone I'm using Internet Explorer, I get 2.70%. When I switch back to Firefox, I get 3.50% again. Keep in mind, I'm using the same browser and simply opening the site in different tabs""
So either deliberate or incredibly bad coding for a financial site.
They state the payload in pounds. Boring. Where are the weapon systems?
Where is the shoulder mounted gun with HUD fire control?
This thing needs a shoulder mounted heavy gun with auto-stability and HUD based targeting. Not to mention vertical launch munitions with precision placement.
So a previous president lost the biscuit for months at a time. That is the president would have been unable to authenticate to military command that he was giving a launch order. Why was that not considered a problem? When 50 missiles going into a still usable but wacky state is?
Profs will then just put together a set of "notes" and sell it as an e-text book directly to the students. The institution will take a cut and more $$ to the core and less for the publishers.
All the publishers ever added was printing and distribution. That is not needed for e-books.
Poor kid, cannot use a cell phone. Cannot use a bank machine. Cannot use a bus or subway with automatic ticketing.
If you want to force the definition of "encryption" to character encoding there are going to be microwaves, refrigerators and washing machines he cant' use.
802.11n directionality is achieved by phase summing the signals from 2 or more dipoles. Yawn.
Oh yeah the patent for 2 or more phase locked receivers on one chips is pretty old. So even getting it onto one chip is not new. http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7636554.html A MIMO radio transceiver to support processing of multiple signals for simultaneous transmission via corresponding ones of a plurality of antennas and to support receive processing of multiple signals detected by corresponding ones of the plurality of antennas. The radio transceiver provides, on a single semiconductor integrated circuit, a receiver circuit or path for each of a plurality of antennas and a transmit circuit or path for each of the plurality of antennas. Each receiver circuit downconverts the RF signal detected by its associated antenna to a baseband signal. Similarly, each transmit path upconverts a baseband signal to be transmitted by an assigned antenna.
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When has dumping a chemical into our biosphere such that it reaches many times the natural level been a good thing?
Please give one example. I can site many, many cases where it was a bad.
Britain/Northern Europe does not owe its climate status to spot heating. Britain is usually warmer than it should be given its northern position due to the gulf stream. The oceans serve as blocks to cold air from up north coming south. There are incredible global circulation systems which see warm air rise in the mid-latitudes tot he upper atmosphere then cool and return to the ground at the poles. This is the cause of the cold winds that come down from the north. These winds find it easier to come south over land, which cools more easily than water which retains heat better, has its own top/bottom circulation as well as global circulation. Normally the warm currents keep the cold air away.
Global Warming means global warming. The oceans make 3/4 of the surface area to 4' cooling of the land is easily offset by 2' warming of the ocean. 4 * 1/4 = 1 is less than 2 * 3/4 = 1.5. Do not take any specific location changes to mean global stuff.
What global warming does mean is more intense weather systems. Do not go jumping onto local cooling/warming like Europes/US east coast and claim it is getting colder. You need to look at the whole globe. Not just the areas man is in.
If problems with the client can lead to problems with the server then the server system lacks robustness. For applications like this the servers should be practically immune to any client state much ups.
Seems to me skype needs to work on their server side state machines.
If we could call foreign leaders openly on corruption and wrong doing we would all be better off. Unfortunately we have problems with being open, it seems it would affect business to call some foreign leaders corrupt or even suggest that the state sponsors terrorism. We live behind the curtains of our own creation.
Here is your introductory sort lesson, complete with graphs
octave-3.2.3:18> x=rand(100,1)*100;
octave-3.2.3:19> size(x)
ans =
100 1
octave-3.2.3:20> plot(x); % see we have 100 values, all from 0 to 100 in a random order
octave-3.2.3:21> for j=1:99; for i=j+1:100; if x(i) plot(x); % see we now have 100 values in a nondecreasing order
octave-3.2.3:23>
Granted most will not think of it as a programming environment. But it has all that is needed.
http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/
If then, else for ....
It has all the fundamentals.
It allows you to plot all those high school math functions.
It has a persistent environment/cut-and-paste commands for debugging and looking at your state space.
And it is free to all, so great for the education system.
1) no type declarations
- it gets in the way of learning how to do stuff
2) interactive command line
- you need to be able to see the variables and change them
- edit run debug is part of the learning process we don't want them separated yet
3) persistent environment
- being able to interact with the variable and program set is part of the learning process
Suitable base types: basic, logo, lisp, matlab/octave
I would really suggest Matlab/Octave for high school math.
For those that hate basic because of the lack of structure, use COMAL. Similar substitutions may be made for the other languages.
(smash (1351))
>> Problem with programming these days is that to get anything useful done you're buried under a hundred layers of toolkits and abstraction from what is actually going on.
"Glider itself doesn't send or receive any data across the network, only the client does and that traffic is no different in nature or content than what could be generated by a human accessing the game client."
The same could be said of using ssh to connect to a server, it is no different in nature or content from what a human could send.
Yet if you used the ssh connection and a client side script to cause the server to send lots of spam that would be improper use of the connection.
It is not the connection nor the data stream, it is the entire interlocked system that is meant to be used for a specific purpose and in a specific way. The data stream between client and server is to be driven by a human in at the client controls. Fudging with the client end generates out of specification traffic for the system and represents a violation of the terms of access given to the account holder. The account access is authorized to only operate the client with human hands. The account access is not authorized to stick glider in control.
Also when we are given accounts on systems we are not authorized to "do anything" we are authorized to only do specific things. There are many things we could do which would mess up the system. These things are considered sabotage of the system.
sudo rm -rf /
#!/bin/sh
# This script is called "die"
die &
die &
die &
die &
As Blizzard I would have gone with a case about improper access and interfering with the operation of computer system. The game clients are authorized to access and interact with the servers, the bots are an unauthorized access mechanism to the game servers. Simple plain and shut and clearly puts the bot runners in with the people that do destructive access to systems.
-- and not enough characters to put "with a computer" in the title :(
This to me says it will push foreign governments to non-intel machines. Can't risk the US government getting control of something like this.
Or any other power for that matter. No government or military would really want this on their systems. They might think they want it to "stop theft" but the consequences of someone else getting control are way to much.
Can some enterprising person divide up the budget of the House of Congress itself onto a YouCut type site.
I am sure some people would like less brass in the new bathrooms.
Or perhaps cuts to "fact finding" missions.
Maybe we could do with fewer congress critters. Save lots of $ there.
-- Or perhaps the salaries could be cut --
In 2006, congresspersons received a yearly salary of $165,200.[173] Congressional leaders were paid $183,500 per year. The Speaker of the House of Representatives earns $212,100 annually. The salary of the President pro tempore for 2006 was $183,500, equal to that of the majority and minority leaders of the House and Senate.[174] Privileges include having an office and paid staff.[122] In 2008, non-officer members of Congress earned $169,300 annually
rather than intimidation and manipulation.
But how do the big multinational arms conglomerates make money off co-operation? Where are the backscatter-xray machine sales in that?
I suspect this list would also be used be used by various agencies to flag people who are engaged in "undesireable" activity. "Only those with something to hide will be using the Do Not Track" feature.
*sigh*
This all at the same time that they are requiring ISP's to keep 2 year records of IP logs.
So how does this new "Do Not Track" bill merge with the other bill. I presume that everyone will just sign up under the 2 year bill and say "we need to keep records" and are thus exempt from the DoNotTrack feature.
The Internet Stopping Adults Facilitating the Exploitation of Today's Youth (SAFETY) Act of 2009 also known as H.R. 1076 and S.436 would require providers of "electronic communication or remote computing services" to "retain for a period of at least two years all records or other information pertaining to the identity of a user of a temporarily assigned network address the service assigns to that user."[22]
So do we need a new way of describing DNS servers ?
We also probably also need a new way of describing DNS entries so you can tell the difference between an actual DNS for a site and a DNS for an edge caching site.
And if the app framework and packaging system really need 500 pages to describe how to use do you really want to use them?
So where are the political people who promised us it was "impossible" for the images from these scanners to be saved? It was clearly a manufacturing possibility that the images could be stored. And the rule of operation is that "if it can be done, it will be".
Geeky systems observation:
There needs to be a better political process where, when the political message is later proven to be a lie, we can shoot the original messenger. Because without negative feedback the system will continue to run amok. The current political process is not good enough and has a large enough time lag that corrective factors build up and sever oscillations occur.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_margin
Can we please have the terrorists try laptops next. There have even been instances of spontaneous laptop suicide yet they are still allowed on planes.
If we can separate people form their cherished toys perhaps we can convince people of how stupid the whole security theatre thing is.
Microsoft just rode the wave of open IBM hardware specifications for the business PC. A little knife in the back of things like DRDOS and Microsoft had no competition.
Here is a comment from the article. I have not tested this.
bearymore::: ""Wow! I have a Firefox addon which spoofs the user agent. When I go to Capitalone with the default Firefox as the user agent I get 3.50%. When set the addon to tell Capitalone I'm using Internet Explorer, I get 2.70%. When I switch back to Firefox, I get 3.50% again. Keep in mind, I'm using the same browser and simply opening the site in different tabs""
So either deliberate or incredibly bad coding for a financial site.
They state the payload in pounds. Boring. Where are the weapon systems?
Where is the shoulder mounted gun with HUD fire control?
This thing needs a shoulder mounted heavy gun with auto-stability and HUD based targeting.
Not to mention vertical launch munitions with precision placement.
It's not like the DNA in-situ was already functioning perfectly. Opps, I guess it was.
So what did the pharma company "invent" to earn the patent?
So a previous president lost the biscuit for months at a time. That is the president would have been unable to authenticate to military command that he was giving a launch order. Why was that not considered a problem? When 50 missiles going into a still usable but wacky state is?
Profs will then just put together a set of "notes" and sell it as an e-text book directly to the students. The institution will take a cut and more $$ to the core and less for the publishers.
All the publishers ever added was printing and distribution. That is not needed for e-books.
Poor kid, cannot use a cell phone. Cannot use a bank machine. Cannot use a bus or subway with automatic ticketing.
If you want to force the definition of "encryption" to character encoding there are going to be microwaves, refrigerators and washing machines he cant' use.
802.11n directionality is achieved by phase summing the signals from 2 or more dipoles.
Yawn.
Oh yeah the patent for 2 or more phase locked receivers on one chips is pretty old. So even getting it onto one chip is not new.
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7636554.html
A MIMO radio transceiver to support processing of multiple signals for simultaneous transmission via corresponding ones of a plurality of antennas and to support receive processing of multiple signals detected by corresponding ones of the plurality of antennas. The radio transceiver provides, on a single semiconductor integrated circuit, a receiver circuit or path for each of a plurality of antennas and a transmit circuit or path for each of the plurality of antennas. Each receiver circuit downconverts the RF signal detected by its associated antenna to a baseband signal. Similarly, each transmit path upconverts a baseband signal to be transmitted by an assigned antenna.