Another unexpected nding was the relationship between risk and security
investment. One might expect that as US banks are liable for fraudulent transac-
tions, they would spend more on security than British banks do; but our research
showed that precisely the reverse is the case: while UK banks and building soci-
eties now use hardware security modules to manage PINs, most US banks just
encrypt PINs in software.
Thus we conclude that the real function of these hardware security modules
is due diligence rather than security. British bankers want to be able to point
to their security modules when ghting customer claims, while US bankers, who
can only get the advertised security benet from these devices, generally do not
see any point in buying them. Given that the British strategy did not work -
no-one has yet been able to construct systems which bear hostile examination -
it is quite unclear that these devices add any real value at all.
The point of number line is not to teach numbers but to show the analogy between numbers and distances/segments, connecting geometry and arithmetics. And for that purpose, it's perfect.
But it is pretty good at demonstrating why addition and subtraction are inverse operations, and getting started on negative numbers.
Your ten year old probably doesn't understand the number line. Sure, he can put a few numbers on a line, but ask him to put a million, and a thousand on the line. Try it yourself, you may be surprised.
At ten my kid was doing this - and negatives. It was part of the national curriculum so I expect most would be able to.
We're talking about an intermediate representation. Both Google and Oracle's virtual machines take their respective bytecode formats and convert them to a register-based machine language prior to execution.
No shit - they run on an intel processor... in fact any processor since the HP 3000 as far as I know.
We're talking about an intermediate representation. Both Google and Oracle's virtual machines take their respective bytecode formats and convert them to a register-based machine language prior to execution.
No shit - they run on an intel processor... in fact any processor since the HP 3000 as far as I know.
The architects don't usually write requirements, they write "solution architectures" describing how the system will interact with other systems and people (something that is important to get write early on).
Some do, we call them solution or technology architects. Others just write principles that are obvious "all confidential data should be kept securely" and so on, and produce pretty powerpoints that keep the management happy. These pretty diagrams again state the obvious and feed nothing useful downwards, for example a replacement of an email system might have boxes for all systems with the old email coloured red (remove) and the new one green (new system). We call these people "Enterprise architects".
That seems to be the basic idea now. I have worked on projects where there were more managers than developers. The project started to slip, so the (contract hired) project manager came to the conclusion that what they needed was to employ...... another manager from his company experienced in turning around projects.
The extreme that I have come across was one person doing some specialised coding work under a dedicated project manager, program manager (managing 2 other projects), and with a line manager (managing one other staff member).
Our "corporate firewall" frequently gets things wrong. A site on "Sharp calculators" was classified as a weapons site, though I would imagine that stabbing anyone with one would be difficult. A "security software slap-down" was classed as "tasteless and violence", though no security software was injured. In short robo-graders are probably only any good for politicians, where the content doesn't matter as long as its delivered right.
...actually the Watford Gap, about 50 miles north of Watford the Town, although even that is pushing it for most people who work in London, to them many parts of Outer London are in "the North"!
The new UK, should be the home counties, the Square mile, and docklands... and the the rest of the country would be southern Scotland...
Think maybe you're confusing the English with the much smaller bunch of Londoners who dominate our media and other elites. Speaking as a Northerner who's worked in London I can guarantee that they are just as patronising to us as they probably are to you Scots.
I also know a number of Northerners who wish that the Scottish border would move south if Scotland got independence, as they are fed up of being governed by people who think the country stops at Watford (a couple of miles North of Greater London) and allocate spending accordingly.
Lamborghinis are notorious for having very low mileage in the real world. You can't drive a status symbol, it might get dirty. Porsche 911, on the other hand, they get driven every day.
You mean not everyone has a backup lambo for when the first is in the garage?
#3 In the extremely unlikely event that they somehow figured it all out - why on earth would you tell everyone ?
It increases status, and is a deterrent. Win on all sides.
Its something in the Muslim psyche, shout that you have a bigger stick. Remember Saddam Hussain saying that he had hundreds of WMDs when when he didn't and was being invaded because of this claim?
"Open Rather than Free" implies that there is some charge. Both licenses are "free" in terms of you can use the software without paying. The difference is that any works derived or using GPL type licenses also have to be released on the same license. Whether this is more or less open depends on your point of view.
Are you SURE it doesn't apply to US courts for UK convictions?
IANAL and I am not 100% sure, but my understanding is that in a UK criminal court (and most others) if you are convicted you can ask for other cases to be taken into consideration, which means that the sentence included these. My understanding from extradition cases where people ask to be charged in the UK to avoid being extradited somewhere else is that if you are convicted and punished in one country for an offence you can not be extradited and charged criminally for the same offence somewhere else
So I am reasonably certain that (providing all cases where taken into account) having been convicted in a UK court they could not be charged for the criminal case for a second time in the US court.
Africa needs infrastructure built and maintained by locals. You can still find the ruins of plenty of bridges, roads, etc. built by the British, the French, etc. People only value infrastructure if they had to bleed themselves to build it.
Not necessarily true. I value a lot of roads that were built before I was born. I think that what is important is the expectation that people's work and taxes will have to maintain it. I could extend that to say that if someone built a road out of charity to a remote region this could be good for the locals, and if the expectation was that the new trade paid for the upkeep it would increase the economy.
They have already faced criminal charges in the UK, so they cannot face them again in the USA. What the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has done is bring a civil case against them. Now I am not sure why this feels wrong to me, because I would be very happy for the UK investors who lost out to bring a civil case against them, but having a government agency do it to someone who has already faced criminal charges just feels wrong.
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Lets just hope that it doesn't become European law. Actually I hope the judge loses a million
The point of number line is not to teach numbers but to show the analogy between numbers and distances/segments, connecting geometry and arithmetics. And for that purpose, it's perfect.
But it is pretty good at demonstrating why addition and subtraction are inverse operations, and getting started on negative numbers.
Ah but did he "get" it or did his eternal soul "remember" it? Hmm? hmm?
We can test him in his next reincarnation and find out
Your ten year old probably doesn't understand the number line. Sure, he can put a few numbers on a line, but ask him to put a million, and a thousand on the line. Try it yourself, you may be surprised.
At ten my kid was doing this - and negatives. It was part of the national curriculum so I expect most would be able to.
With frequencies being grabbed left, right and center, for whatever reason, I wonder how much frequencies are left out there for future use?
An infinite number ..... of zero bandwidth!
We're talking about an intermediate representation. Both Google and Oracle's virtual machines take their respective bytecode formats and convert them to a register-based machine language prior to execution.
No shit - they run on an intel processor ... in fact any processor since the HP 3000 as far as I know.
Maybe you meant the Transputer.
Believe it or not the HP-3000 was still being sold up to 2003, so though being introduced much earlier than the transputer it was produced later.
We're talking about an intermediate representation. Both Google and Oracle's virtual machines take their respective bytecode formats and convert them to a register-based machine language prior to execution.
No shit - they run on an intel processor ... in fact any processor since the HP 3000 as far as I know.
The architects don't usually write requirements, they write "solution architectures" describing how the system will interact with other systems and people (something that is important to get write early on).
Some do, we call them solution or technology architects. Others just write principles that are obvious "all confidential data should be kept securely" and so on, and produce pretty powerpoints that keep the management happy. These pretty diagrams again state the obvious and feed nothing useful downwards, for example a replacement of an email system might have boxes for all systems with the old email coloured red (remove) and the new one green (new system). We call these people "Enterprise architects".
Cool, so everyone should be a manager?
That seems to be the basic idea now. I have worked on projects where there were more managers than developers. The project started to slip, so the (contract hired) project manager came to the conclusion that what they needed was to employ ...... another manager from his company experienced in turning around projects.
The extreme that I have come across was one person doing some specialised coding work under a dedicated project manager, program manager (managing 2 other projects), and with a line manager (managing one other staff member).
What kind of company fires people by e-mail? Uh, low, disgusting & inhuman! If i were an employee there, I'd really try to find another job.
Those who don't use text messages
Our "corporate firewall" frequently gets things wrong. A site on "Sharp calculators" was classified as a weapons site, though I would imagine that stabbing anyone with one would be difficult. A "security software slap-down" was classed as "tasteless and violence", though no security software was injured. In short robo-graders are probably only any good for politicians, where the content doesn't matter as long as its delivered right.
...actually the Watford Gap, about 50 miles north of Watford the Town, although even that is pushing it for most people who work in London, to them many parts of Outer London are in "the North"!
The new UK, should be the home counties, the Square mile, and docklands ... and the the rest of the country would be southern Scotland ...
Please make Slough an enclave of England!
the sad truth is that the former UK will no longer be able to afford a military either.
You mean we can afford them at the moment?
Think maybe you're confusing the English with the much smaller bunch of Londoners who dominate our media and other elites. Speaking as a Northerner who's worked in London I can guarantee that they are just as patronising to us as they probably are to you Scots.
I also know a number of Northerners who wish that the Scottish border would move south if Scotland got independence, as they are fed up of being governed by people who think the country stops at Watford (a couple of miles North of Greater London) and allocate spending accordingly.
Lamborghinis are notorious for having very low mileage in the real world. You can't drive a status symbol, it might get dirty. Porsche 911, on the other hand, they get driven every day.
You mean not everyone has a backup lambo for when the first is in the garage?
Why would China want it? China make their own planes, UAVs, satellites... They don't need obsolete American schtuff.
Even if this dubious claim were true, it is always an advantage to know exactly what your opposition has in their armoury.
#3 In the extremely unlikely event that they somehow figured it all out - why on earth would you tell everyone ?
It increases status, and is a deterrent. Win on all sides.
Its something in the Muslim psyche, shout that you have a bigger stick. Remember Saddam Hussain saying that he had hundreds of WMDs when when he didn't and was being invaded because of this claim?
True. Anybody with half a brain knew this of course.
And now the Mac fanbois know it too.
saying "well technically" at the beginning of a statement is just plain silly, it doesn't make it either more technical or more correct.
Technically skilled people all need at least a basic knowledge of computing. (take off the "technically" and try and sell it to a French Polisher)
"Open Rather than Free" implies that there is some charge. Both licenses are "free" in terms of you can use the software without paying. The difference is that any works derived or using GPL type licenses also have to be released on the same license. Whether this is more or less open depends on your point of view.
Are you SURE it doesn't apply to US courts for UK convictions?
IANAL and I am not 100% sure, but my understanding is that in a UK criminal court (and most others) if you are convicted you can ask for other cases to be taken into consideration, which means that the sentence included these. My understanding from extradition cases where people ask to be charged in the UK to avoid being extradited somewhere else is that if you are convicted and punished in one country for an offence you can not be extradited and charged criminally for the same offence somewhere else
So I am reasonably certain that (providing all cases where taken into account) having been convicted in a UK court they could not be charged for the criminal case for a second time in the US court.
Africa needs infrastructure built and maintained by locals. You can still find the ruins of plenty of bridges, roads, etc. built by the British, the French, etc. People only value infrastructure if they had to bleed themselves to build it.
Not necessarily true. I value a lot of roads that were built before I was born. I think that what is important is the expectation that people's work and taxes will have to maintain it. I could extend that to say that if someone built a road out of charity to a remote region this could be good for the locals, and if the expectation was that the new trade paid for the upkeep it would increase the economy.
They have already faced criminal charges in the UK, so they cannot face them again in the USA. What the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has done is bring a civil case against them. Now I am not sure why this feels wrong to me, because I would be very happy for the UK investors who lost out to bring a civil case against them, but having a government agency do it to someone who has already faced criminal charges just feels wrong.
And all water is risky, and all vegetables are risky, and all air is risky...
Next you're going to be telling us that death is inevitable