TFA says 40% have “no recognized terrorist group affiliation.” So the Unabomber would fall into this category, as would someone who had expressed a desire to set of a bomb, or someone who says "as a member of the blah blah group I am committed to terrorism" (if there is no recognised blah blah group).
Because no language ever makes use of characters from other languages, I mean surely Latin capital letter R is only used by latin speakers. Seriously you should get a better understanding of what you are saying before you make bold claims about how 'easy' something is going to be, could it be done, maybe, will there be oversights, bugs and glitches for people to exploit, almost definitely.
Actually Unicode does make a good effort of classifying characters into scripts, with some "common" characters that can appear in any scripts and some "inherited" characters (like diacritics) that belong to the character that they are applied to. Thus the Cyrillic"Es" looks like a Latin "C" but is a different Unicode character, one belonging to the Cyrillic scripts and the other to the Latin script. The different languages using the same scriptis a red-herring, it doesn't matter that both French and English use the capital "R", what does matter is that you can't put a Cyrillic character into the middle of a Latin script string to make something that looks like a certain name but isn't. Checking whether a name contains characters from more than one script is easy. there are methods in some languages that trivialise this.
gmail.ru (or its equivalent) will find a way to support cyrillic
gmail.qc.ca and gmail.fr will find ways to support French accents (otherwise, Google will get sued or blocked by Quebec or France)
These details will get worked out at the local level. It will take time, but they'll get there eventually.
I don't think that would work in protecting users against attacks unless you said that only users if gmail.ru could receive emails from users with Cyrillic characters in the name, etc.
How on earth am I supposed to email someone when I don't even have a key that corresponds to a letter in their email address. And do I'm not keeping a huge chart of Alt+number combinations handy.
Of course there is probably someone in China or Korea thinking "why do I have to use this special keyboard mode with characters I don't understand to write emails".
I think that's the way to go - only allow characters from a single unicode script in the username and in the domain name. The domain name part is currently handled by registras so that may not need any additional rules.
However this really should be part of the RFC, or else anyone banning mixed names would be "non compliant". If the RCF does not specify this then the best that gmail (or any other system could do) would be to prevent people registering mixed names themselves and giving a warning (and maybe colour characters) if email is recieived from an address with mixed scripts.
This is a real concern,and probably why gmail is not yet allowing internationalised gmail addresses. Most email names could be spoofed using Cyrillic characters which look exactly the same as latin ones. How could you tell if the "c" in chrisq@gmal.com really was a latin 'c' or a cyrillic Es?
No. The terrorists might deserve it but the innocents do not. And there are innocents in Gaza, lots of them. The civilian casualties so far have been terrible despite Israel's attempts to limit them*. There is not much that can be done to protect civilians beyond what Israel has already done.
But to nuke them is reprehensible even if it were feasible. The current option is bad but possibly the only method to secure innocent Israelis. That option would be murder.
*And despite Hamas inflating numbers and adding their own dead combatants to the list. And of course adding at least twenty-five people who they executed for suspected collusion with Israel, whom they then listed as martyrs.
maybe not but it would save a lot of suffering and reduce total deaths if they did this one and got it over with. Hell it may even persuade some other Muslims not to try and attack people with different beliefs
Why do we call it race top the bottom and we are sad when we are talking cost of software but we call it economies of scale when we buy hardware and we are happy ?
I think because economies of scale don't apply to software production. When designing some large system the overheads associated by having different teams working together increase (this is described well in The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering). The same is true of physical systems, producing the design and prototype of a new airliner will be a large project - and if you got each engineer to design a small "one person" project (an electric bicycle, a better toaster, etc) the output in terms of components would be much bigger.
In physical systems, however, there is then a production phase where the product is produced over and over. The larger the volume the better the economies of scale - when Ford produce a volume car they know they will be producing millions so they put a lot of effort in making the assembly quick and automating. For airliners it is less so, there will be much more manual assembly involved as they may be in the 100s.
With software, however there is very little in the production stage, essentially the copying and distribution costs are much lower than the design cost. This means the only benefit of volume is dilution of the original design cost.
This is a normal cyclical occurrence in companies such as Microsoft, they'll have skimmed off the kids who can actually write C++ compiled binary and assembler software well, and thrown the rest out. I know from years of experience, you'll think you are in a room full of programmers but in reality there will approximately two brainy kids amongst 200. This is the nature of human intelligence, it's a rare commodity and MOST people are “wannabes.”
Then there's the people who can do it but spend all day on Slahsd... oh shit I'd better get some work done!
using secret ink so the paper blank until you hold it over a candle. We used to do that as kids.
I suggest, since they are going back to "old school tech" they should use the "Mission impossible" reel to reel taprecorder that catches alight once played. Maybe Apple are working on a digital version.
the creepy part is the car knowing your health and determining whether it would be more fit to drive than you.
In this case I disagree. The creepy part is that all those intoxicated and fatigued people still take their car. This kind of techonology should not be necessary but clearly it is.
I once knew someone who would drive 400 yards to a pub and quite seriously said that it was because he often couldn't walk properly when he came out, and that just driving down the road "wasn't a problem"!
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TFA says 40% have “no recognized terrorist group affiliation.” So the Unabomber would fall into this category, as would someone who had expressed a desire to set of a bomb, or someone who says "as a member of the blah blah group I am committed to terrorism" (if there is no recognised blah blah group).
Take "mathematical letter kappa" and "latin k" for example, do you think your mom will be able to tell the difference?
To be fair they do have different script values so would be identified by the proposal
Because no language ever makes use of characters from other languages, I mean surely Latin capital letter R is only used by latin speakers. Seriously you should get a better understanding of what you are saying before you make bold claims about how 'easy' something is going to be, could it be done, maybe, will there be oversights, bugs and glitches for people to exploit, almost definitely.
Actually Unicode does make a good effort of classifying characters into scripts, with some "common" characters that can appear in any scripts and some "inherited" characters (like diacritics) that belong to the character that they are applied to. Thus the Cyrillic"Es" looks like a Latin "C" but is a different Unicode character, one belonging to the Cyrillic scripts and the other to the Latin script. The different languages using the same scriptis a red-herring, it doesn't matter that both French and English use the capital "R", what does matter is that you can't put a Cyrillic character into the middle of a Latin script string to make something that looks like a certain name but isn't. Checking whether a name contains characters from more than one script is easy. there are methods in some languages that trivialise this.
Most email names could be spoofed using Cyrillic characters which look exactly the same as latin ones. How could you tell if the "c" in chrisq@gmal.com really was a latin 'c' or a cyrillic Es?
gmail.ru (or its equivalent) will find a way to support cyrillic gmail.qc.ca and gmail.fr will find ways to support French accents (otherwise, Google will get sued or blocked by Quebec or France) These details will get worked out at the local level. It will take time, but they'll get there eventually.
I don't think that would work in protecting users against attacks unless you said that only users if gmail.ru could receive emails from users with Cyrillic characters in the name, etc.
you cannot use solely international characters, the first one need to be simple ascii
What?Where do you get that from? TFA gives examples where the whole email address is in international characters (katakana)
How on earth am I supposed to email someone when I don't even have a key that corresponds to a letter in their email address. And do I'm not keeping a huge chart of Alt+number combinations handy.
Of course there is probably someone in China or Korea thinking "why do I have to use this special keyboard mode with characters I don't understand to write emails".
I think that's the way to go - only allow characters from a single unicode script in the username and in the domain name. The domain name part is currently handled by registras so that may not need any additional rules.
However this really should be part of the RFC, or else anyone banning mixed names would be "non compliant". If the RCF does not specify this then the best that gmail (or any other system could do) would be to prevent people registering mixed names themselves and giving a warning (and maybe colour characters) if email is recieived from an address with mixed scripts.
This is a real concern,and probably why gmail is not yet allowing internationalised gmail addresses. Most email names could be spoofed using Cyrillic characters which look exactly the same as latin ones. How could you tell if the "c" in chrisq@gmal.com really was a latin 'c' or a cyrillic Es?
I would imagine that there they implemented RFC6532, which involves a lot more than changing a regular expression
I'm not so sure that's true.
It isn't true now, you just have to look at Red Hat. It was true in the 1980s when Tiemann started his business.
Ok, Imagine that I say in person:
"Skepticism of open source?" *with a look on my face*
And then say:
"I am not so sure that's true." *with another look on my face*
I would hope that you'd take it as a joke.
Get it: skepticism and then being skeptic about the skepticism?
And explaining jokes means I have failed.
Mother, leave me alone!
Fair enough ... I deserve a "whooshh..."
I'm not so sure that's true.
It isn't true now, you just have to look at Red Hat. It was true in the 1980s when Tiemann started his business.
1 - will there be cheap sales of Sony e-readers now?
2 - If so, what can you do with a PRS T-3 without the sony store? Can you root it? Can you side-load content?
No. The terrorists might deserve it but the innocents do not. And there are innocents in Gaza, lots of them. The civilian casualties so far have been terrible despite Israel's attempts to limit them*. There is not much that can be done to protect civilians beyond what Israel has already done. But to nuke them is reprehensible even if it were feasible. The current option is bad but possibly the only method to secure innocent Israelis. That option would be murder. *And despite Hamas inflating numbers and adding their own dead combatants to the list. And of course adding at least twenty-five people who they executed for suspected collusion with Israel, whom they then listed as martyrs.
maybe not but it would save a lot of suffering and reduce total deaths if they did this one and got it over with. Hell it may even persuade some other Muslims not to try and attack people with different beliefs
uhm were talking Muslims here. Its a bit saying if the mouse doesn't want to make the cat an enemy it should be polite and not run.
Is it a democracy?
No. Yo can vote for which party the corporations will tell what to do.
Why do we call it race top the bottom and we are sad when we are talking cost of software but we call it economies of scale when we buy hardware and we are happy ?
I think because economies of scale don't apply to software production. When designing some large system the overheads associated by having different teams working together increase (this is described well in The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering). The same is true of physical systems, producing the design and prototype of a new airliner will be a large project - and if you got each engineer to design a small "one person" project (an electric bicycle, a better toaster, etc) the output in terms of components would be much bigger.
In physical systems, however, there is then a production phase where the product is produced over and over. The larger the volume the better the economies of scale - when Ford produce a volume car they know they will be producing millions so they put a lot of effort in making the assembly quick and automating. For airliners it is less so, there will be much more manual assembly involved as they may be in the 100s.
With software, however there is very little in the production stage, essentially the copying and distribution costs are much lower than the design cost. This means the only benefit of volume is dilution of the original design cost.
Jack Chick will be recasting Jesus as a woman to appeal to the female audience.
No my mother, but your mom seems to like it.
Dad?
This is a normal cyclical occurrence in companies such as Microsoft, they'll have skimmed off the kids who can actually write C++ compiled binary and assembler software well, and thrown the rest out. I know from years of experience, you'll think you are in a room full of programmers but in reality there will approximately two brainy kids amongst 200. This is the nature of human intelligence, it's a rare commodity and MOST people are “wannabes.”
Then there's the people who can do it but spend all day on Slahsd... oh shit I'd better get some work done!
it's about time that any one useing any h1b's must lay them off first.
What's the betting that the layoffs will be followed by lobbying for more h1bs because of the shortage of skilled staff.
Actually, many people don't want to work with Linux, given the abysmal choices of desktop environments, each with their own style of suck.
I've one word for you. Metro.
Seriously? There is a business called 'Big Ass Fans'?
I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
Some donkeys get quite hot - they're filling a niche
using secret ink so the paper blank until you hold it over a candle. We used to do that as kids.
I suggest, since they are going back to "old school tech" they should use the "Mission impossible" reel to reel taprecorder that catches alight once played. Maybe Apple are working on a digital version.
the creepy part is the car knowing your health and determining whether it would be more fit to drive than you.
In this case I disagree. The creepy part is that all those intoxicated and fatigued people still take their car. This kind of techonology should not be necessary but clearly it is.
I once knew someone who would drive 400 yards to a pub and quite seriously said that it was because he often couldn't walk properly when he came out, and that just driving down the road "wasn't a problem"!
Why not create an UK team ? You would have more chances of success.
double zero is still zero!