People that buy Apple stuff "because it just works" are just like people who voted for Hitler because "at least he'll make the trains run on time". Worse in fact.
In show overlay advertising has reached such disruptive levels I cannot even watch TV shows on TV anymore. It is simply impossible for me to concentrate and get into the show. Sorry, my brain does not multi-task like that naturally and it takes effort.
The thing you don't get is that most people aren't like you. I'm running Opera now - I've installed AdBlock but I actually disabled it - presumably some site didn't work and it did that to see if it would fix the problem. The thing is ads don't bother me enough for me to re-enable it.
Totally dude. When my grandfather was storming the beaches at Normandy I'm sure one of the rights he was sure he was defending was the right to say publicly "NE1 ELSE FEEL LIKE JOINING ME ROBBIN JB SPROTS IN TEH EAST END AN STEELIN XBOXEZ AN PSFREES(LOL) FROM CURRIES?!?". Also as someone who was not exactly a teetotaller but was not keen on alcohol I'm sure he'd be very keen to allow kids to smoke heroin around the subway station instead of going to school.
No way dude. If twitter and facebook are inaccessible for even one minute because they are rebooting their servers it is way worse than 1984 or V for Vendetta because access to twitter is a basic human right. Not having access to them would be like if North Korea was run by Hitler disguised as Big Brother. And like you know how everyone is smoking dope and shit. Well that's exactly like soma in Brave New World. We should totally legalize it. And if you like put on a mask and try and blow up Parliament people call you a terrorist.
No he's not. Any communications network operator in the UK or US will honour a lawful intercept request from the authorities.
If you're doing something illegal or even if you are being investigated for doing something illegal you should assume the police can listen to every phone call and read every single email or instant message.
You hereby authorise RIM to cooperate with: (i) law enforcement authorities in the investigation of suspected criminal violations; (ii) third parties in investigating acts in violation of this Agreement; and (iii) system administrators at Internet service providers, networks or computing facilities in order to enforce this Agreement. Such cooperation may include RIM disclosing Your or Your Authorised Users' username, IP address, or other personal information
Console security is cracked. Console vendor patches with downgrade protection. Now admittedly if you're willing to spend an hour cracking the per console key you can override the downgrade protection. Even that might not be possible if they use a version of memcmp which doesn't exit early if the comparison fails.
Oh and to run cracked software you need a patched DVD drive. And Microsoft can stop you connecting to XBox live if you do that. And they might brick your console in a future update.
So on a PC the game developer spends time on security. It is inevitably cracked and then the game ends up on Pirate Bay. Hopefully they've managed to sell a few copies in the meantime. Or they can not spend time on security in which case they'll end up on Pirate Bay immediately.
On a console the console vendor fights the pirates and the games vendor can leave it to them. Or, if a platform is too badly cracked, only release on the other console.
Don't mention BMI around here. Lots of morbidly obese network admins who've never seen the inside of a gym and live off junk food will point out that since BMI gives the wrong answers for professional athletes it is a worthless measure when applied to them.
In our analysis of Mann's FTP archive we found some remnant computer code files that turned out to be the Fortran routines he used to compute his principal components. In these we discovered why his PCs could not be replicated. In a conventional PC analysis, if the data are in differing units it is common to "standardize" them by subtracting the mean of each column and dividing by the standard error. This re-centers and re-scales all the data to a mean of zero and a variance of 1. With tree ring data no such re-scaling is needed since the data are pre-scaled before archiving.
In Mann's program, he applied a scaling, but with a difference. Rather than subtract the mean of the entire series length, he subtracted the mean of the 20th century portion, then divided by the standard error of the 20th century portion.11 Most of his proxy series do not look like hockey sticks, they look like flat static, and since they don't change in the 20th century this procedure did not make much difference. The mean of the last section is roughly the same as the mean of the whole series (as is the standard error) so either way of standardizing yields more or less the same result. But some of the series trend upwards in the 20th century. For these, the Mann method has a huge effect. Since the mean of the 20th century portion is higher than the mean of the whole series, subtracting the 20th century mean 'de-centers' the series, shifting it off a zero mean. This, in turn, inflates the variance of these series.
PC algorithms choose weights to maximize the explained variance of a group of data series. If one series in the group has a relatively high variance, its weight in the PC1 gets inflated. The Mann algorithm did just this. It would, in effect, look through a data set and identify series with a 20th century trend, then load all the weight on them. In effect it 'data-mines' for hockey sticks. Figure 5 gives an example of the effect. It shows 2 of the 90 full-length series in Mann's data base. Both are part of the North America ("NOAMER") proxy roster, whose PC1 is the most influential series on the hockey stick's final shape. The top panel is a tree ring chronology from a stand of bristlecone pines at Sheep Mountain, California. The bottom panel is a tree ring chronology from Mayberry Slough, Arkansas. In the bottom panel, the mean over the last 80 years is roughly equal to the mean for the previous 500 years, but in the top panel the post-1900 mean is above that for the pre-1900 portion. Mann's algorithm gives 390 times as much weight to the top series as to the bottom series in the PC1.
Figure 6 shows the contrasting results. The top panel is the MBH98 PC1 for North America, which they call the "dominant pattern" in the data, and which has a distinct hockey stick shape. The second panel shows the simple average of the NOAMER proxies. Note that most proxies look more like Mayberry Sloughâ"only a handful have the 20th century growth spurt. The third panel shows the PC1 computed using a common statistical package, in which the data are standardized in the usual way. It looks like the simple mean, indicating that the dominant pattern in the data does not have a hockey stick shape. I will explain the bottom panel ("Censored") shortly.
To test the power of Mann's data-mining algorithm we ran an experiment in which we developed sequences of random numbers tuned to have the same autocorrelation pattern as the NOAMER tree ring data. In an autocorrelated process a random shock takes a few periods to drift back to the mean. Initially we used a simple first-order autocorrelation model, but later we implemented a more sophisticated ARFIMA12 routine that more accurately represents the entire autocorrelation function associated with tree ring data. In statistics these kinds of models are called "red
They ought to calm down though. When the word "Alarmist" appears 14 times in a short news article, there can't be many who don't realise they are reading propaganda rather than news.
What about when the word "Denier" appears over and over again and the argument consists entirely of ad hominems?
One of the first major decisions regarding equipment came prior to the establishment of TFR and involved the use of airpower. Upon initiating his secret manhunt for Aidid, Admiral Howe, through General Montgomery, requested and received four AC-130H Spectre Gunships. Upon arrival, the AC-130H's were used to surgically strike and destroy key SNA targets, and also flew support for the QRF while they conducted raids to disarm the SNA militia. However, within less than a month of their arrival, operational control of the AC-130H's was relinquished by Montgomery in order to incite Aidid to give himself up. At the time, this was probably a good idea, however, when Aidid only increased the ferociousness and number of his attacks, Howe and Montgomery never recalled the aircraft. Had the AC-130H's been in Mogadishu at the time of the 3 October raid, they could have flown an offensive air mission to support the tactical withdrawal of TFR. As such, the only air support TFR received during the raid was from the MH-60's and AH-6J's, and they were not enough.
Another important decision relating to equipment that might have saved many lives during the raid was that of armor. Following the September shoot down of an MH-53 by RPG's, General Montgomery requested help in the form of armor. Montgomery's superiors, CINC CENTCOM, General Hoar, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Powell, relayed the request but did not support it strongly enough to keep Secretary of Defense Les Aspin from stopping it. The reason Aspin gave was that sending armor could result in a military escalation which would hamper any chance of a political settlement with Aidid. Little did Aspin know that this decision would turn out to be a costly error. But what about the military leadership in Somalia? Why did they simply take no for an answer? The military leadership should have shown enough nerve to hammer the point home with General Powell, and if this still did not produce results, then they should have terminated the hunt for Aidid until they were able to receive the armor they so desperately needed. If TFR would have had tanks, even with the ambush, they would have gone in, knocked over the mud huts, put a steel cable around the tail of Super 61, and pulled the thing out. Instead, political and military leadership decisions needlessly put their troops in harms way without the proper equipment to successfully complete the mission.
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Apple is not gaming the system. Apple is playing by the rules, and the rules are utterly stupid.
So if you were running a concentration camp and the rules said you could kill innocent women and children, that would make it OK to do it?
People that buy Apple stuff "because it just works" are just like people who voted for Hitler because "at least he'll make the trains run on time". Worse in fact.
In show overlay advertising has reached such disruptive levels I cannot even watch TV shows on TV anymore. It is simply impossible for me to concentrate and get into the show. Sorry, my brain does not multi-task like that naturally and it takes effort.
The thing you don't get is that most people aren't like you. I'm running Opera now - I've installed AdBlock but I actually disabled it - presumably some site didn't work and it did that to see if it would fix the problem. The thing is ads don't bother me enough for me to re-enable it.
Stinky piss fingers! Poo breath!
Are you a virgin?
The Greens got 0.12% of the vote during the 2008 Presidential election. All the smaller parties together got 0.18%
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2008#Nationwide_results
So good luck with trying to get a party that isn't the Democrats or the Republicans any political power.
They should have some pictures of him doing charitable work with the Gates Foundation.
Totally dude. When my grandfather was storming the beaches at Normandy I'm sure one of the rights he was sure he was defending was the right to say publicly "NE1 ELSE FEEL LIKE JOINING ME ROBBIN JB SPROTS IN TEH EAST END AN STEELIN XBOXEZ AN PSFREES(LOL) FROM CURRIES?!?". Also as someone who was not exactly a teetotaller but was not keen on alcohol I'm sure he'd be very keen to allow kids to smoke heroin around the subway station instead of going to school.
No way dude. If twitter and facebook are inaccessible for even one minute because they are rebooting their servers it is way worse than 1984 or V for Vendetta because access to twitter is a basic human right. Not having access to them would be like if North Korea was run by Hitler disguised as Big Brother. And like you know how everyone is smoking dope and shit. Well that's exactly like soma in Brave New World. We should totally legalize it. And if you like put on a mask and try and blow up Parliament people call you a terrorist.
Here's their market for Gaddaffi no longer be Libyan leader by the end of August 2011
https://data.intrade.com/graphing/jsp/closingPricesForm.jsp?contractId=750841&tradeURL=https://www.intrade.com
The value of the contract can be interpreted as the market's perception of the probability of the event.
No he's not. Any communications network operator in the UK or US will honour a lawful intercept request from the authorities.
If you're doing something illegal or even if you are being investigated for doing something illegal you should assume the police can listen to every phone call and read every single email or instant message.
In fact Blackberry specifically say
http://us.blackberry.com/legal/pdfs/BBSLA_UnitedKingdom_English_UK.pdf
You hereby authorise RIM to cooperate with: (i) law enforcement authorities in the investigation of suspected criminal violations; (ii) third parties in investigating acts in violation of this Agreement; and (iii) system administrators at Internet service providers, networks or computing facilities in order to enforce this Agreement. Such cooperation may include RIM disclosing Your or Your Authorised Users' username, IP address, or other personal information
Yeah, they could just release on Xbox360 and PS3 where the security is all done by Microsoft and Sony.
Best thing about that is that if the security in the console is cracked it's up to console vendor to patch it. E.g.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDa-qpsrc4c
Console security is cracked. Console vendor patches with downgrade protection. Now admittedly if you're willing to spend an hour cracking the per console key you can override the downgrade protection. Even that might not be possible if they use a version of memcmp which doesn't exit early if the comparison fails.
Oh and to run cracked software you need a patched DVD drive. And Microsoft can stop you connecting to XBox live if you do that. And they might brick your console in a future update.
So on a PC the game developer spends time on security. It is inevitably cracked and then the game ends up on Pirate Bay. Hopefully they've managed to sell a few copies in the meantime. Or they can not spend time on security in which case they'll end up on Pirate Bay immediately.
On a console the console vendor fights the pirates and the games vendor can leave it to them. Or, if a platform is too badly cracked, only release on the other console.
Don't mention BMI around here. Lots of morbidly obese network admins who've never seen the inside of a gym and live off junk food will point out that since BMI gives the wrong answers for professional athletes it is a worthless measure when applied to them.
I have no voice in where my corporation spends it's dollars. That is the CEO and the Boards decision.
Surely it's the shareholders' decision?
http://www.uoguelph.ca/~rmckitri/research/McKitrick-hockeystick.pdf page 8
3.2 The bent principal components
In our analysis of Mann's FTP archive we found some remnant computer code files that turned out to be the Fortran routines he used to compute his principal components. In these we discovered why his PCs could not be replicated. In a conventional PC analysis, if the data are in differing units it is common to "standardize" them by subtracting the mean of each column and dividing by the standard error. This re-centers and re-scales all the data to a mean of zero and a variance of 1. With tree ring data no such re-scaling is needed since the data are pre-scaled before archiving.
In Mann's program, he applied a scaling, but with a difference. Rather than subtract the mean of the entire series length, he subtracted the mean of the 20th century portion, then divided by the standard error of the 20th century portion.11 Most of his proxy series do not look like hockey sticks, they look like flat static, and since they don't change in the 20th century this procedure did not make much difference. The mean of the last section is roughly the same as the mean of the whole series (as is the standard error) so either way of standardizing yields more or less the same result. But some of the series trend upwards in the 20th century. For these, the Mann method has a huge effect. Since the mean of the 20th century portion is higher than the mean of the whole series, subtracting the 20th century mean 'de-centers' the series, shifting it off a zero mean. This, in turn, inflates the variance of these series.
PC algorithms choose weights to maximize the explained variance of a group of data series. If one series in the group has a relatively high variance, its weight in the PC1 gets inflated. The Mann algorithm did just this. It would, in effect, look through a data set and identify series with a 20th century trend, then load all the weight on them. In effect it 'data-mines' for hockey sticks.
Figure 5 gives an example of the effect. It shows 2 of the 90 full-length series in Mann's data base. Both are part of the North America ("NOAMER") proxy roster, whose PC1 is the most influential series on the hockey stick's final shape. The top panel is a tree ring chronology from a stand of bristlecone pines at Sheep Mountain, California. The bottom panel is a tree ring chronology from Mayberry Slough, Arkansas. In the bottom panel, the mean over the last 80 years is roughly equal to the mean for the previous 500 years, but in the top panel the post-1900 mean is above that for the pre-1900 portion. Mann's algorithm gives 390 times as much weight to the top series as to the bottom series in the PC1.
Figure 6 shows the contrasting results. The top panel is the MBH98 PC1 for North America, which they call the "dominant pattern" in the data, and which has a distinct hockey stick shape. The second panel shows the simple average of the NOAMER proxies. Note that most proxies look more like Mayberry Sloughâ"only a handful have the 20th century growth spurt. The third panel shows the PC1 computed using a common statistical package, in which the data are standardized in the usual way. It looks like the simple mean, indicating that the dominant pattern in the data does not have a hockey stick shape. I will explain the bottom panel ("Censored") shortly.
To test the power of Mann's data-mining algorithm we ran an experiment in which we developed sequences of random numbers tuned to have the same autocorrelation pattern as the NOAMER tree ring data. In an autocorrelated process a random shock takes a few periods to drift back to the mean. Initially we used a simple first-order autocorrelation model, but later we implemented a more sophisticated ARFIMA12 routine that more accurately represents the entire autocorrelation function associated with tree ring data. In statistics these kinds of models are called "red
They ought to calm down though. When the word "Alarmist" appears 14 times in a short news article, there can't be many who don't realise they are reading propaganda rather than news.
What about when the word "Denier" appears over and over again and the argument consists entirely of ad hominems?
Malthusian apocalypse.
So too many people
I might be paranoid
Well you might
but the impending Peak Oil
So not enough oil to burn
along with possible Global Warming
Caused by too much oil being burned
may cut off our life support systems.
Leading to too few people
Looks like it all balances out to me.
It doesn't have drive letters internally - they're just symbolic links into the Object Manager's namespace
http://www.osronline.com/article.cfm?article=381
So the "C:" seen by Win32 code is really a link to \Device\HardiskVolume1
And a native application doesn't have the restrictions on filenames.
NT based OSs have a VMS like kernel with a Win64, Win32 and originally Win16/Dos, Posix and character mode OS/2 subsystems on top.
an tasty microbeagle
FTFY given it's Korea.
It did.
Leave it up to a bunch of pencil pushing DEMOCRATS to fuck up a military operation. RLTW.
FTFY.
The sad thing is at least Clinton seemed to do ok with the economy. Obama can't even get that right.
You could block the requests by port not by IP address. E.g.
http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?PHPSESSID=acve3puv31mdfooc1b4ckuvq94&topic=9396.msg62747#msg62747
Of course you could avoid that by setting up a VPN tunnel and doing everything over that.
At that point they'd need to block all VPN connections to stop you getting at bad content and that does seem to be non trivial.
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB63/doc10.pdf
One of the first major decisions regarding equipment came prior to the establishment of TFR and involved the use of airpower. Upon initiating his secret manhunt for Aidid, Admiral Howe, through General Montgomery, requested and received four AC-130H Spectre Gunships. Upon arrival, the AC-130H's were used to surgically strike and destroy key SNA targets, and also flew support for the QRF while they conducted raids to disarm the SNA militia. However, within less than a month of their arrival, operational control of the AC-130H's was relinquished by Montgomery in order to incite Aidid to give himself up. At the time, this was probably a good idea, however, when Aidid only increased the ferociousness and number of his attacks, Howe and Montgomery never recalled the aircraft. Had the AC-130H's been in Mogadishu at the time of the 3 October raid, they could have flown an offensive air mission to support the tactical withdrawal of TFR. As such, the only air support TFR received during the raid was from the MH-60's and AH-6J's, and they were not enough.
Another important decision relating to equipment that might have saved many lives during the raid was that of armor. Following the September shoot down of an MH-53 by RPG's, General Montgomery requested help in the form of armor. Montgomery's superiors, CINC CENTCOM, General Hoar, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Powell, relayed the request but did not support it strongly enough to keep Secretary of Defense Les Aspin from stopping it. The reason Aspin gave was that sending armor could result in a military escalation which would hamper any chance of a political settlement with Aidid. Little did Aspin know that this decision would turn out to be a costly error. But what about the military leadership in Somalia? Why did they simply take no for an answer? The military leadership should have shown enough nerve to hammer the point home with General Powell, and if this still did not produce results, then they should have terminated the hunt for Aidid until they were able to receive the armor they so desperately needed. If TFR would have had tanks, even with the ambush, they would have gone in, knocked over the mud huts, put a steel cable around the tail of Super 61, and pulled the thing out. Instead, political and military leadership decisions needlessly put their troops in harms way without the proper equipment to successfully complete the mission.
Your post a verb missing.
The ISPs could block any DNS server but their own.