This is so stupid. Everyone bitches when the 80 year old grandma gets searched, but random is the best.
If there is any "methodology" at all to doing this profiling there is a danger that you would just probe the system till you discover the "right" person to send through.
Keep sending through different kinds off people until you know who you can send that would never get checked.
Random is the way to go.
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I remember multi-line BBSs in the early 80's doing this. I think the Citadel systems could do this arround 84.
Since the current crop of HDTV sets do not have built in tuners they use external set-top boxes.
The RGB outputs of the set-top box are then hooked up to the HDTV set which is basically a monitor.
The problem is that since the RGB ouputs can be copied they will use the broadcast flag to determine when you can really get a 1080i signal from your set-top box. Anything with the broadcast flag set will come out in 480i.
That will make the current round of HDTV sets junk since most good programming will only show up as 480i. To bad for all of the early adopters.
been given a written test at every interview I have ever had.
I have also given a written test at every interview I have ever tormented someone with. I really think that the interview process should be evil for the interviewee. It is as much about seeing how they will cope with stress as it is about assessing their tech skills.
So how is my statement inacurate? If XFree86 ships with almost every distribution and Multi-head/Xinerama support comes with XF86 then my statement is still correct.
Unix/Linux can do this with adjtime, but for daylight saving time that seems like the wrong behavior. This is normally how things like ntp keep the systems time in check without having jumps.
But, daylight saving time is really a jump and I wouldn't want my clock to say 8:30PM at 8:00
Being from Germany and imigrating to the US there are some differences.
In the US I am free from Church Tax.
In the US I have freedom of speech and assembly that is far beyone what I would in Germany.
I was in Germany this summer visiting my family and while I was there they were arresting people for being in a neo-nazi organization. They had commited no crime other than being raving idiots. My point is, in europe they are much more willing to take away free speech rights when they disagree with you than in the US.
In Germany you also don't have the right to be protected from self-incrimination the way you do in the US.
I could keep rambling, but it really dosn't matter. The people in europe are OK with the fact that their Govmts are more restrictive, so to bad for them it is their choice.
Both the RCA and the Dishnetwork unit do over the air. They are really the most cost effective STBs. The problem is that you need the sat service and that they can update the software.
Basically the entertainment industry is pushing TV manufacturers to switch to, I think, DVI.
If you look in some of the HDTV forums( avsforum.com ) you can get more of the details. I am not going to worry about it until the TV that was sold to me as "HDTV ready" is no longer able to take 1080I because it only has RGB inputs.
Don't count on it. Mine is a set-top tunner/ satelite combo. Without the satalite it will not work and they can upgrade the software at any time to downgrade the RGB outputs.
Most people use either the RCA/Direct-TV STB or the DishNetwork 6000. Both have the same problem.
I am not suggesting that the STBs stop working. Just that they will output 480P instead of 1080I for protected shows.
The worst part about this is that they are actually thinking about phasing out RGB outputs on STBs. That would render most of the current HDTV sets obsolete.
The worst part is that they were all advertised as being HDTV ready and because they can not protect the RGB outputs/inputs they must go.
I assume it is meant as a porting tool to allow people to migrate to DotNet from Java. Why would someone want to? Who knows, smokin a lot of crack I suspect.
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If you discuss the crime before hand you have commit the extra crime of conspiracy.
If peoplesoft can not use HTTPS without problems. Use a proxy that supports it and then don't let anyone HTTP directly at the peoplesoft machine.
This is so stupid. Everyone bitches when the 80 year old grandma gets searched, but random is the best.
If there is any "methodology" at all to doing this profiling there is a danger that you would just probe the system till you discover the "right" person to send through.
Keep sending through different kinds off people until you know who you can send that would never get checked.
Random is the way to go.
I remember multi-line BBSs in the early 80's doing this. I think the Citadel systems could do this arround 84.
You do need to have to boot file if you want the latest. Most of them can be booted localy at the original prompt if you just want plain old X.
Since the current crop of HDTV sets do not have built in tuners they use external set-top boxes.
The RGB outputs of the set-top box are then hooked up to the HDTV set which is basically a monitor.
The problem is that since the RGB ouputs can be copied they will use the broadcast flag to determine when you can really get a 1080i signal from your set-top box. Anything with the broadcast flag set will come out in 480i.
That will make the current round of HDTV sets junk since most good programming will only show up as 480i. To bad for all of the early adopters.
To bad it can't go to 16k.
I've been using one of the buckeling spring versions for the last year and a half and it is still working very well.
been given a written test at every interview I have ever had.
I have also given a written test at every interview I have ever tormented someone with. I really think that the interview process should be evil for the interviewee. It is as much about seeing how they will cope with stress as it is about assessing their tech skills.
I hate Everyone!!!
So how is my statement inacurate? If XFree86 ships with almost every distribution and Multi-head/Xinerama support comes with XF86 then my statement is still correct.
X will do this without any extra drivers.
The Xinerama extention ships with every current distribution that I know of. You just need to configure it.
It is not true that you are running one process per thread on Linux.
Linux process monitorinng tools just display them that way.
You are actually running real threads that share the space of their parent process.
It is interesting to see how the funding of benchmarks/reports can impact the outcome.
.net version and its over inflated LOC difference.
Look at Ibatis JPetstore to see what one guy did with jpetstore in response to the
When looking at his example and documentation you can really see how easily you can sawy one of these benchmarks/reports.
Unix/Linux can do this with adjtime, but for daylight saving time that seems like the wrong behavior. This is normally how things like ntp keep the systems time in check without having jumps.
But, daylight saving time is really a jump and I wouldn't want my clock to say 8:30PM at 8:00
Why not let us read it? Maybe it would help out some other people.
But you are right about databases. Most DBAs( that I have worked with ) are not away of the TZs effect on the database.
Being from Germany and imigrating to the US there are some differences.
In the US I am free from Church Tax.
In the US I have freedom of speech and assembly that is far beyone what I would in Germany.
I was in Germany this summer visiting my family and while I was there they were arresting people for being in a neo-nazi organization. They had commited no crime other than being raving idiots. My point is, in europe they are much more willing to take away free speech rights when they disagree with you than in the US.
In Germany you also don't have the right to be protected from self-incrimination the way you do in the US.
I could keep rambling, but it really dosn't matter. The people in europe are OK with the fact that their Govmts are more restrictive, so to bad for them it is their choice.
Usually some real world events are used to feed the etropy for the randomness.
For example the typing you do or the network packets generated on the network are used to make the deterministic random number generator more random.
Iff it is trying to get you it is female. Only the girls are blood-suckers.
You write the code that controls your robot which then battle against one another.
Hey Remember core wars anyone?
If I were going to go after mchines I would much rather go after linux boxes.
Although they are harder to compromise they are more versitile when you do.
You know you will have a compiler, an easy to use over the network environment.
They are just more usfull to you.
Both the RCA and the Dishnetwork unit do over the air. They are really the most cost effective STBs. The problem is that you need the sat service and that they can update the software.
Basically the entertainment industry is pushing TV manufacturers to switch to, I think, DVI.
If you look in some of the HDTV forums( avsforum.com ) you can get more of the details. I am not going to worry about it until the TV that was sold to me as "HDTV ready" is no longer able to take 1080I because it only has RGB inputs.
Don't count on it. Mine is a set-top tunner/ satelite combo. Without the satalite it will not work and they can upgrade the software at any time to downgrade the RGB outputs.
Most people use either the RCA/Direct-TV STB or the DishNetwork 6000. Both have the same problem.
I am not suggesting that the STBs stop working. Just that they will output 480P instead of 1080I for protected shows.
The worst part about this is that they are actually thinking about phasing out RGB outputs on STBs. That would render most of the current HDTV sets obsolete.
The worst part is that they were all advertised as being HDTV ready and because they can not protect the RGB outputs/inputs they must go.
Class action anyone?
I assume it is meant as a porting tool to allow people to migrate to DotNet from Java. Why would someone want to? Who knows, smokin a lot of crack I suspect.