It depends. Do you consider the person innocent until proven guilty or guilty until proven innocent? As far as I'm concerned, the burden of proof is on Microsoft to show that this person cheated.
Microsoft's anti-cheating team have handled this in the same way as any other case. Which is exactly as they should do. There aren't any mitigating factors.
And how, exactly, do you know that? The fact that it went in for human review meant that this was a borderline case. If the team hadn't known that this boy was autistic (and if they hadn't seen autistic kids game), maybe the human team made the same mistake as the automated anti-cheat system.
The problem with the wall is exactly that. Its not a long term solution, since it enforces a state of apartheid between the Israelis and the Palestinians. Eventually, the wall will have to come down, but the longer the wall stays up, the harder that process will be. The short term reductions in violence are seductive, but I worry that Israel may be losing its democratic character by de facto annexing Palestinian territories without giving the citizens of those territories voting rights.
No. Israel is trying to do that unilaterally with its containment wall. The only result (so far) is that the hard-liners on both sides (settlement movement, Hamas) have gained power at the expense of the moderates. Its a lot easier to demonize people you can't see.
I remember back when Blizzard was an awesome company with great customer service. Well, that, and when the gamers buying their games were the "customers" they were so great to.
What timeline were you living in? Blizzard has been known to be quite hostile to modders and independent developers for some time now. Just look at the original map editor for Starcraft. Look at what they did to bnetd. Heck, I'm surprised to no end that the makers of bwapi have been allowed to continue with the project, given that the project relies on hacking the Starcraft client via DLL injection.
IT isn't the only industry where this is the case. This (lack of raises) is a byproduct of the change from the old world, where companies guaranteed raises and promotions and workers promised loyalty in return. Corporations have broken that bargain - promotions, raises, even employment are no longer as secure as they used to be. As workers, then, we'd be fools to give corporations the same amount of loyalty workers used to give in the sixties and seventies.
Its a new world now, with new rules. As a worker, you're more free to move about and find the best offer. As a corporation, you're more free to hire and lay off workers as necessary. But it is a drastic change from how it used to be, and both workers and corporations need to make adjustments.
I didn't really see the author mention anything about discarding data. Rather, it seems like he's saying that existing databases (which attempt to commit data to persistent storage as soon as possible) will be marginalized as the speed gap between persistent storage and RAM widens. Instead, business applications are going to hold data in RAM, and rely on redundancy to prevent data loss when a system fails before its data has been backed up to the database.
You're misinterpreting the post. No one said anything about long term data storage being marginalized or eliminated. Instead, the author is talking about the difference between persistent and non-persistent storage. He's saying that existing database technologies that rely on persistent storage are being marginalized as the speed difference between spinning disks and RAM widens, and the low cost of RAM makes it practical to hold large data sets entirely in memory. According to the author, data processing and analysis will increasingly move towards in-memory systems, while traditional databases will be relegated to a "backup and restore" role for these in-memory systems.
Forget running on Linux, many of those apps don't even play well with versions of Windows other than the one for which they were written. That's one of the reasons that Vista/7 is being adopted so slowly in corporate America - it has relatively less backwards compatibility than XP.
We vote for representatives to run our government. These representatives, and their hired staffers, are the ones that need access. Not us.
How do we evaluate our representatives fairly if all their misdeeds are cloaked under a veil of state security?
We only need to know when when there is malfeasance that is being kept secret.
If governmental secrecy is guaranteed, the one's judging malfeasance and the ones keeping secrets are the same. Sure, I'd like to believe that there are more Daniel Ellsbergs out there, but I'd hardly rely on their existence in keeping my government accountable.
... cuts in SOCIAL BENEFITS! Reduced wealth redistribution. This is actually happening in Europe as we speak. It would be UNIMAGINABLE in the USA still, there is no way in hell there will be ever be any reduction in welfare or unemployment or healthcare benefits.... at least not while Obama and Pelosi and Reid are still alive.
You seem to be missing how much more in social benefits Europeans get compared to Americans. Single payer healthcare. Subsidized child care. Actual pensions rather than 401(k)/IRA plans that leave the majority of your benefits to the whims of the stock market. Even with the cuts, Europeans nations redistribute significantly more wealth using these programs than America does.
Then there's the fact that a lot of social programs that would be administered federally in Europe are administered on a state-by-state basis here in the 'States. Things like welfare and Medicaid have been hit substantially. Essentially the reason we're not seeing the federal government cut is because the responsibility for cutting has been pushed onto individual states by virtue of the balanced budget provisions in state constitutions.
Its a myth that hashed passwords cannot be unhashed. Yes, if the password is secure (lots of random alpha-numeric characters) it will be difficult to find the password that corresponds to a particular hash. However, if the password is not secure (e.g. password="password"), or if the keyspace is small (e.g. limiting passwords to 8 characters), then its fairly trivial to build a rainbow table of all possible passwords or all common passwords. Then, when you want to crack the password, you look at the hash, and then look at your rainbow table to figure out which password corresponds to that hash.
I certainly do, with an exception for children of the deceased that are still minors. Other than that, if you didn't earn it, its not yours. I don't believe in the rights of the dead - after you're gone, you don't have any rights.
But, if it isn't in Orleans parish... it is NOT New Orleans and should not be referred to as such.
False. The borders of a metropolitan area can extend well beyond the limits of a single county or parish. For example, I live in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area. That metro area encompasses seven counties: Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott, and Washington. The city of Minneapolis is contained entirely within Hennepin county, but the housing markets of these counties are interlinked enough that a similar disruption would disrupt the entire market.
The same thing applies here. Even though the city of New Orleans isn't within Jefferson parish, enough of the New Orleans metropolitan area is within Jefferson Parish for this hardware failure to disrupt the New Orleans housing market.
Maybe its because Jefferson parish holds a significant amount of the New Orleans metropolitan area, even if it doesn't hold the actual city of New Orleans.
The presence of a negative externality doesn't mean the person or organization responsible gets off scot-free. It means that they aren't hit with the full cost of the problem they've caused. I would argue that security holes are a classic case of a negative externality as the organizations responsible for creating them pay a very small amount compared to the economic damage that these security holes cause.
Security holes, like illegal toxic waste dumps are negative externalities. Without some kind of regulation and enforcement, rational individuals and companies will continue to create more security holes simply because they're not paying the true cost of insecure software.
There's also the fact that it hammers the network connection incessantly, which absolutely kills the battery. I have a Galaxy S (T-Mobile Vibrant) and Firefox made the top three in the list of energy users after about ten minutes. This phone doesn't have an especially stellar battery to begin with. I don't need my web browser adding to the strain unnecessarily.
Disclaimer: this comes from a guy who works at a company whose idea of putting information on the Intranet is to post a link to a Word document. *facepalm*
You know, that might actually be *more* accessible than trying to have the user code up the information in HTML, since whatever HTML a user like that produces is probably going be unparseable in anything other than IE6.
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Well, if you wanted to sneak malicious code into an open-source project, cracking its repository might be a good way to do so.
It depends. Do you consider the person innocent until proven guilty or guilty until proven innocent? As far as I'm concerned, the burden of proof is on Microsoft to show that this person cheated.
Microsoft's anti-cheating team have handled this in the same way as any other case. Which is exactly as they should do. There aren't any mitigating factors.
And how, exactly, do you know that? The fact that it went in for human review meant that this was a borderline case. If the team hadn't known that this boy was autistic (and if they hadn't seen autistic kids game), maybe the human team made the same mistake as the automated anti-cheat system.
The problem with the wall is exactly that. Its not a long term solution, since it enforces a state of apartheid between the Israelis and the Palestinians. Eventually, the wall will have to come down, but the longer the wall stays up, the harder that process will be. The short term reductions in violence are seductive, but I worry that Israel may be losing its democratic character by de facto annexing Palestinian territories without giving the citizens of those territories voting rights.
No. Israel is trying to do that unilaterally with its containment wall. The only result (so far) is that the hard-liners on both sides (settlement movement, Hamas) have gained power at the expense of the moderates. Its a lot easier to demonize people you can't see.
I remember back when Blizzard was an awesome company with great customer service. Well, that, and when the gamers buying their games were the "customers" they were so great to.
What timeline were you living in? Blizzard has been known to be quite hostile to modders and independent developers for some time now. Just look at the original map editor for Starcraft. Look at what they did to bnetd. Heck, I'm surprised to no end that the makers of bwapi have been allowed to continue with the project, given that the project relies on hacking the Starcraft client via DLL injection.
IT isn't the only industry where this is the case. This (lack of raises) is a byproduct of the change from the old world, where companies guaranteed raises and promotions and workers promised loyalty in return. Corporations have broken that bargain - promotions, raises, even employment are no longer as secure as they used to be. As workers, then, we'd be fools to give corporations the same amount of loyalty workers used to give in the sixties and seventies.
Its a new world now, with new rules. As a worker, you're more free to move about and find the best offer. As a corporation, you're more free to hire and lay off workers as necessary. But it is a drastic change from how it used to be, and both workers and corporations need to make adjustments.
Grab some Oaty-Os and you could get to this pretty easily.
I didn't really see the author mention anything about discarding data. Rather, it seems like he's saying that existing databases (which attempt to commit data to persistent storage as soon as possible) will be marginalized as the speed gap between persistent storage and RAM widens. Instead, business applications are going to hold data in RAM, and rely on redundancy to prevent data loss when a system fails before its data has been backed up to the database.
You're misinterpreting the post. No one said anything about long term data storage being marginalized or eliminated. Instead, the author is talking about the difference between persistent and non-persistent storage. He's saying that existing database technologies that rely on persistent storage are being marginalized as the speed difference between spinning disks and RAM widens, and the low cost of RAM makes it practical to hold large data sets entirely in memory. According to the author, data processing and analysis will increasingly move towards in-memory systems, while traditional databases will be relegated to a "backup and restore" role for these in-memory systems.
Forget running on Linux, many of those apps don't even play well with versions of Windows other than the one for which they were written. That's one of the reasons that Vista/7 is being adopted so slowly in corporate America - it has relatively less backwards compatibility than XP.
We vote for representatives to run our government. These representatives, and their hired staffers, are the ones that need access. Not us.
How do we evaluate our representatives fairly if all their misdeeds are cloaked under a veil of state security?
We only need to know when when there is malfeasance that is being kept secret.
If governmental secrecy is guaranteed, the one's judging malfeasance and the ones keeping secrets are the same. Sure, I'd like to believe that there are more Daniel Ellsbergs out there, but I'd hardly rely on their existence in keeping my government accountable.
... cuts in SOCIAL BENEFITS! Reduced wealth redistribution. This is actually happening in Europe as we speak. It would be UNIMAGINABLE in the USA still, there is no way in hell there will be ever be any reduction in welfare or unemployment or healthcare benefits.... at least not while Obama and Pelosi and Reid are still alive.
You seem to be missing how much more in social benefits Europeans get compared to Americans. Single payer healthcare. Subsidized child care. Actual pensions rather than 401(k)/IRA plans that leave the majority of your benefits to the whims of the stock market. Even with the cuts, Europeans nations redistribute significantly more wealth using these programs than America does.
Then there's the fact that a lot of social programs that would be administered federally in Europe are administered on a state-by-state basis here in the 'States. Things like welfare and Medicaid have been hit substantially. Essentially the reason we're not seeing the federal government cut is because the responsibility for cutting has been pushed onto individual states by virtue of the balanced budget provisions in state constitutions.
Its a myth that hashed passwords cannot be unhashed. Yes, if the password is secure (lots of random alpha-numeric characters) it will be difficult to find the password that corresponds to a particular hash. However, if the password is not secure (e.g. password="password"), or if the keyspace is small (e.g. limiting passwords to 8 characters), then its fairly trivial to build a rainbow table of all possible passwords or all common passwords. Then, when you want to crack the password, you look at the hash, and then look at your rainbow table to figure out which password corresponds to that hash.
I certainly do, with an exception for children of the deceased that are still minors. Other than that, if you didn't earn it, its not yours. I don't believe in the rights of the dead - after you're gone, you don't have any rights.
But, if it isn't in Orleans parish... it is NOT New Orleans and should not be referred to as such.
False. The borders of a metropolitan area can extend well beyond the limits of a single county or parish. For example, I live in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area. That metro area encompasses seven counties: Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott, and Washington. The city of Minneapolis is contained entirely within Hennepin county, but the housing markets of these counties are interlinked enough that a similar disruption would disrupt the entire market.
The same thing applies here. Even though the city of New Orleans isn't within Jefferson parish, enough of the New Orleans metropolitan area is within Jefferson Parish for this hardware failure to disrupt the New Orleans housing market.
Maybe its because Jefferson parish holds a significant amount of the New Orleans metropolitan area, even if it doesn't hold the actual city of New Orleans.
The presence of a negative externality doesn't mean the person or organization responsible gets off scot-free. It means that they aren't hit with the full cost of the problem they've caused. I would argue that security holes are a classic case of a negative externality as the organizations responsible for creating them pay a very small amount compared to the economic damage that these security holes cause.
Security holes, like illegal toxic waste dumps are negative externalities. Without some kind of regulation and enforcement, rational individuals and companies will continue to create more security holes simply because they're not paying the true cost of insecure software.
There's also the fact that it hammers the network connection incessantly, which absolutely kills the battery. I have a Galaxy S (T-Mobile Vibrant) and Firefox made the top three in the list of energy users after about ten minutes. This phone doesn't have an especially stellar battery to begin with. I don't need my web browser adding to the strain unnecessarily.
So does that mean that Apple will disallow VNC apps? Because, you know, those can also be used to manage BitTorrent downloads.
The house counterpart is worded a bit more broadly. It would extend the provisions described to cover text based messages as well.
Disclaimer: this comes from a guy who works at a company whose idea of putting information on the Intranet is to post a link to a Word document. *facepalm*
You know, that might actually be *more* accessible than trying to have the user code up the information in HTML, since whatever HTML a user like that produces is probably going be unparseable in anything other than IE6.
%s/right/standards compliant/g
Does that sit better?
The information isn't classified. It stopped being classified the moment that first printing was made. See New York Times vs. United States.