Ostensibly, when you buy a ticket for a given seat in a given flight, you're actually hiring a transportation service from one airport to another.
Airline companies usually have a tiered fare structure, having a fixed amount of tickets for each fare-class in a given flight. Quite naturally, the cheapest tickets get bought earlier, and the company gets the money quite in advance of the actual flight. Should a company allow their tickets to be transferred at no cost, a lot of front-running would occur, setting a higher price-point to the end buyer, and skimming the profit of company towards the front-runner. However, if said front-runners somehow ADDED value to the process (e.g. by setting up web sites that actually work), it wouldn't be unfair.
The article is talking about the possibility of there being billions of inhabitable planets on the Milky Way Galaxy alone. The Milky Way galaxy is very finite.
One should consider how the humanoid cylons were created: they are a result of cooperation between the arrived-from-nuked-earth-final-five (who had resurrection) and and the centurions (who had hybrids). Cavil hacked the centurions so that they wouldn't be capable of sentience and critical judgement. He did so by installing the "telencephalic inhibitors". It is quite clear that the centurions did not appreciate the idea, given what happened when the other cylon-humanoid faction removed the inhibitor from a centurion by season 4.
There are several methods I have seen in my life as a young student:
1) have the teacher take a roll call - boring, slow, but some teachers assign numbers to each student to have it go faster 2) class mirror - teacher has a paper in his desk indicating where each student is supposed to seat. A quick glance for empty desks will tell who is absent 3) by one student - every week a different student is responsible for taking attendance of his peers and report absences to the teacher. Of course, this method only works well if there is some way the teacher can cast doubt on the student's report (class mirror or no extraneous desks). I've only seen this work in military schools, both because of stricter punishments and sense of camaraderie.
Or is he assuming that Adam and Eve's sin has somehow tainted the aliens across interstellar distance (after all, it is supposed to taint us across thousands of years of time, why not distance as well)?
Also, how fast is this taint travelling? It certainly couldn't go faster than light - otherwise we would just build spaceships fueled by taint.
At any rate, we still need pilots, and will need for quite a long time, because:
1) not all airports have category 3 ILS systems 2) such systems are awesomely expensive; in fact, they are only installed on heavy-traffic locations with visibility problems 3) even if both airports have cat 3, you still need to account for alternate landing plans
But how would (all of) your associates ensure you are in a situation that warrants the release of the key?
Also, just so that we agree on the wording:
"neutralized" would mean your enemies killed or cut the server that would publish the key. This could be avoided by having several hosts able to publish the key, checking each other's status continually.
"spoofed" would mean that your enemies faked your keep-alive signal and the key doesn't get released. This could be avoided by having the keep-alive be a nonce extracted from a One Time Pad.
If at all possible, one could make the keep-alive fly unsuspected by mixing it with lots of noise, throwing off sniffers. One could send thousands or millions of UDP packets to multiple hosts on random ports. Only some of those hosts would be the hot servers.
1) Assange could have someone he trusts hold the key and release it should he die (or worse)
2) Assange could have a dead-man switch setup: every X days, he presses a button somewhere (over ssh or something) that keeps the key from being released. If he doesn't press the button for X+1 days, the dead-man switch system releases the key.
Of course, I think method two works the best, as it doesn't depend on a third-party (that could be killed by his opponents before the key gets released). Also, depending on how you design for method two, the key-releasing system script and the button script could be in different hosts, so that if the opposers killed one system, the other would fail safely.
Well, I actually do some month-shopping, and I actually load/unload most big items the way I described. Also, I live on the fourth floor (no elevators). As you said it yourself, it's a hell of an exercise.
My point is: do not use and dispose of perfectly good, first-rate plastic just because it will "speed things up" (wtf is with this accelerated life anyway) or because it's cheap (free). At least consider purchasing some of those reusable, sturdier bags, and leave those in the trunk of you car.
I perfectly understand you being forced to shop with a car - it is a "feature" brought to you by US suburban sprawl and nazi zoning rules. I don't, however, see how it justifies the usage of dozens of plastic bags. Think about it: you could just checkout your groceries, put them back on the supermarket cart, pull it right next to your car's trunk, and dump your stuff there. At home, park the car, unload items and voilá: no bags needed. Of course, some small stuff require bags, but you could greatly minimize your plastic bag usage this way.
Regarding the 800 bags estimate: we have some sort of mixed supermarket usage, id est, some people go every other day, some others leave it for the weekend/month. At any rate, the free bags the supermarkets provide are very very flimsy, and people end up putting multiple bags to carry heavier items (think large soda bottles). Also, some chains employ "bag boys" to pack your stuff upon checkout - some of them just pack stuff a lot. So, in our context, this estimation of bag usage per yer per person is quite reasonable. Also, noone reuses those bags for shopping - most people use it to pack their trash afterwards. This is not a good idea, given that those bags use "first-rate" plastic. It's always better to use garbage bags, as they are down-cycled plastic. I heard someone created a biodegradable garbage bags, but have not seem them yet.
Some initiative is underway to this regard: some Wal-Mart stores give a small discount whenever you bring your own bags or totes. Some locales are also talking of forbidding free bags on supermarkets, enforcing some Germany-like scheme.
Of course, US has bigger eco-problems than bag reuse can solve: suburban sprawl is a BITCH, and something should be done about it.
They're much more durable than the flimsy plastic bags they've been making for the last 7-8 years but they still break and they often get forgotten at home or in the car. Which means more are made and sold. More money for the corps, but the environment gets fucked.
I lived a year in Germany, where no supermarket would give you plastic bags for free. As a result, everyone carried their own sturdier plastic bags, or stored their groceries in their backpacks. Also, their cities are walkable - supermarkets are at walking distance for most people.
I have then returned to Brazil where, used to reusable bags, I have purchased a dozen of them (also brought some from Germany). I keep some at work, some in the car, some at home. In these last three years, not a single such bag broke on me. Some of them support weights up to 12 kilograms.
Compared to my fellow countrymates, who use and dispose of something around 800 plastic bags a year, I think I'm good.
I call your anecdote a fake. My last ubuntu install was by far the longest I ever had, it consisted:
- less than 1 hour backing up stuff - 4 hours repartitioning (I had ordered all the copy/move/resize operations in the worst manner possible:) - 40 minutes tops with the installer itself - zero minutes restoring backups - I had separated a/home partition
> If there's no copyright there are no (enforceable) software licenses.
That will only grante me "gratis" software, id est, I would have the binaries free for copying and re-distribution, but would not necessarily get the source.
The brazilian game mentioned by the GP is quite more complicated, and has some regional variations. But it is quite entertaining and somewhat hard to master. Wikipedia
From what I read of androi api, some time ago, it ain't that open.
Android has a intent-based security model. An intent is any action that requires data from outside the application or that involves doing things outside the app's jail. In this model, reading a contact list would require an Intent.
In order to load, an application must always carry a manifest, in which the application's intents are listed. When a user loads an application, this manifest is read by the runtime, and the user may allow or disallow access to each intent for that application.
Also, Android helps reuse and standardization, in that "activities" can be requested by the application. One such activity would be selecting one contact. For example, a homebrewed SMS app, in order to send a message, needs a number. This number is to be retrieved from the contact list. The app then requests a "select one contact" activity, and the runtime calls the appropriate GUI, returning the selected contacted to the calling app once the user selects it. Quite interesting:)
If I remember correctly, the "Tuborg" brand sold beer in plastic bottles. Regarding aluminium cans: never saw those in Germany, but they are quite common here in Brazil (mostly due to a strong recycling program).
At any rate, if wine has taught us anything, it is that the best container is glass. But I've seen plastic and Tetra Pak wine too.
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Ostensibly, when you buy a ticket for a given seat in a given flight, you're actually hiring a transportation service from one airport to another.
Airline companies usually have a tiered fare structure, having a fixed amount of tickets for each fare-class in a given flight. Quite naturally, the cheapest tickets get bought earlier, and the company gets the money quite in advance of the actual flight. Should a company allow their tickets to be transferred at no cost, a lot of front-running would occur, setting a higher price-point to the end buyer, and skimming the profit of company towards the front-runner. However, if said front-runners somehow ADDED value to the process (e.g. by setting up web sites that actually work), it wouldn't be unfair.
The article is talking about the possibility of there being billions of inhabitable planets on the Milky Way Galaxy alone. The Milky Way galaxy is very finite.
One should consider how the humanoid cylons were created: they are a result of cooperation between the arrived-from-nuked-earth-final-five (who had resurrection) and and the centurions (who had hybrids). Cavil hacked the centurions so that they wouldn't be capable of sentience and critical judgement. He did so by installing the "telencephalic inhibitors". It is quite clear that the centurions did not appreciate the idea, given what happened when the other cylon-humanoid faction removed the inhibitor from a centurion by season 4.
There are several methods I have seen in my life as a young student:
1) have the teacher take a roll call - boring, slow, but some teachers assign numbers to each student to have it go faster
2) class mirror - teacher has a paper in his desk indicating where each student is supposed to seat. A quick glance for empty desks will tell who is absent
3) by one student - every week a different student is responsible for taking attendance of his peers and report absences to the teacher. Of course, this method only works well if there is some way the teacher can cast doubt on the student's report (class mirror or no extraneous desks). I've only seen this work in military schools, both because of stricter punishments and sense of camaraderie.
This would be vulnerable to MITM.
Or is he assuming that Adam and Eve's sin has somehow tainted the aliens across interstellar distance (after all, it is supposed to taint us across thousands of years of time, why not distance as well)?
Also, how fast is this taint travelling? It certainly couldn't go faster than light - otherwise we would just build spaceships fueled by taint.
At any rate, we still need pilots, and will need for quite a long time, because:
1) not all airports have category 3 ILS systems
2) such systems are awesomely expensive; in fact, they are only installed on heavy-traffic locations with visibility problems
3) even if both airports have cat 3, you still need to account for alternate landing plans
I said "pilot" because, at any given time, there is only one pilot touching the controls.
Wrong. Cat 3 ILS means you can land the aircraft with zero visibility. You still need a human pilot.
But how would (all of) your associates ensure you are in a situation that warrants the release of the key?
Also, just so that we agree on the wording:
"neutralized" would mean your enemies killed or cut the server that would publish the key. This could be avoided by having several hosts able to publish the key, checking each other's status continually.
"spoofed" would mean that your enemies faked your keep-alive signal and the key doesn't get released. This could be avoided by having the keep-alive be a nonce extracted from a One Time Pad.
If at all possible, one could make the keep-alive fly unsuspected by mixing it with lots of noise, throwing off sniffers. One could send thousands or millions of UDP packets to multiple hosts on random ports. Only some of those hosts would be the hot servers.
There are two methods I can think of:
1) Assange could have someone he trusts hold the key and release it should he die (or worse)
2) Assange could have a dead-man switch setup: every X days, he presses a button somewhere (over ssh or something) that keeps the key from being released. If he doesn't press the button for X+1 days, the dead-man switch system releases the key.
Of course, I think method two works the best, as it doesn't depend on a third-party (that could be killed by his opponents before the key gets released). Also, depending on how you design for method two, the key-releasing system script and the button script could be in different hosts, so that if the opposers killed one system, the other would fail safely.
Well, I actually do some month-shopping, and I actually load/unload most big items the way I described. Also, I live on the fourth floor (no elevators). As you said it yourself, it's a hell of an exercise.
My point is: do not use and dispose of perfectly good, first-rate plastic just because it will "speed things up" (wtf is with this accelerated life anyway) or because it's cheap (free). At least consider purchasing some of those reusable, sturdier bags, and leave those in the trunk of you car.
I perfectly understand you being forced to shop with a car - it is a "feature" brought to you by US suburban sprawl and nazi zoning rules. I don't, however, see how it justifies the usage of dozens of plastic bags. Think about it: you could just checkout your groceries, put them back on the supermarket cart, pull it right next to your car's trunk, and dump your stuff there. At home, park the car, unload items and voilá: no bags needed. Of course, some small stuff require bags, but you could greatly minimize your plastic bag usage this way.
Regarding the 800 bags estimate: we have some sort of mixed supermarket usage, id est, some people go every other day, some others leave it for the weekend/month. At any rate, the free bags the supermarkets provide are very very flimsy, and people end up putting multiple bags to carry heavier items (think large soda bottles). Also, some chains employ "bag boys" to pack your stuff upon checkout - some of them just pack stuff a lot. So, in our context, this estimation of bag usage per yer per person is quite reasonable. Also, noone reuses those bags for shopping - most people use it to pack their trash afterwards. This is not a good idea, given that those bags use "first-rate" plastic. It's always better to use garbage bags, as they are down-cycled plastic. I heard someone created a biodegradable garbage bags, but have not seem them yet.
Some initiative is underway to this regard: some Wal-Mart stores give a small discount whenever you bring your own bags or totes. Some locales are also talking of forbidding free bags on supermarkets, enforcing some Germany-like scheme.
Of course, US has bigger eco-problems than bag reuse can solve: suburban sprawl is a BITCH, and something should be done about it.
I lived a year in Germany, where no supermarket would give you plastic bags for free. As a result, everyone carried their own sturdier plastic bags, or stored their groceries in their backpacks. Also, their cities are walkable - supermarkets are at walking distance for most people. I have then returned to Brazil where, used to reusable bags, I have purchased a dozen of them (also brought some from Germany). I keep some at work, some in the car, some at home. In these last three years, not a single such bag broke on me. Some of them support weights up to 12 kilograms. Compared to my fellow countrymates, who use and dispose of something around 800 plastic bags a year, I think I'm good.
My spanish may be failing me, but "tres amiga" is just wrong. Should've been "tres amigas"
I have been using chromium-browser (installed as a ubuntu package) for two months already without crashes.
I call your anecdote a fake. My last ubuntu install was by far the longest I ever had, it consisted:
:) /home partition
- less than 1 hour backing up stuff
- 4 hours repartitioning (I had ordered all the copy/move/resize operations in the worst manner possible
- 40 minutes tops with the installer itself
- zero minutes restoring backups - I had separated a
> If there's no copyright there are no (enforceable) software licenses.
That will only grante me "gratis" software, id est, I would have the binaries free for copying and re-distribution, but would not necessarily get the source.
I am rather curious about your sig...
/dev/mem | strings | grep -i llama /dev/mem: Operation not allowed
/dev/mem | strings
/dev/mem | strings > test /dev/mem: Operation not allowed
$ sudo su
$ cat
cat:
$ cat
[really long dump of strings]
$ cat
cat:
Why is this happening?
>>> import soul
>>> import sys
>>> sys.modules["soul"]
<module 'soul' from 'soul.py'>
The brazilian game mentioned by the GP is quite more complicated, and has some regional variations. But it is quite entertaining and somewhat hard to master. Wikipedia
by the way, apache2, in my default installation, runs as www-data.
From what I read of androi api, some time ago, it ain't that open.
Android has a intent-based security model. An intent is any action that requires data from outside the application or that involves doing things outside the app's jail. In this model, reading a contact list would require an Intent.
In order to load, an application must always carry a manifest, in which the application's intents are listed. When a user loads an application, this manifest is read by the runtime, and the user may allow or disallow access to each intent for that application.
Also, Android helps reuse and standardization, in that "activities" can be requested by the application. One such activity would be selecting one contact. For example, a homebrewed SMS app, in order to send a message, needs a number. This number is to be retrieved from the contact list. The app then requests a "select one contact" activity, and the runtime calls the appropriate GUI, returning the selected contacted to the calling app once the user selects it. Quite interesting :)
Yeah, because the same happened in the webserver market. Apache installations get rooted every single minute.
If I remember correctly, the "Tuborg" brand sold beer in plastic bottles. Regarding aluminium cans: never saw those in Germany, but they are quite common here in Brazil (mostly due to a strong recycling program).
At any rate, if wine has taught us anything, it is that the best container is glass. But I've seen plastic and Tetra Pak wine too.