Nobody is really offering a means to suicide are they. The problem with keyword matching on a webpage to a particular ad is that it's not context sensitive. That page had used the word sleep or even more likely 'eternal sleep' as a phrase and the highest paying match was for sleeping pills.
And thats not even what the article is about. What you described is simple keyword matching of the webpage you are viewing. What the article is descibing is an ad system which has nothing to with the webpage you are visiting and everything to do with you and your previous web browsing habits. For example, you browse information on unwanted pregenacy on one page, then a few days later on a car selling site you get an ad for aborbtion clinics.
Hawking Radiation would cause the blackhole to get smaller and smaller, and with it the diameter of the event horizon, you wouldn't get a naked blackhole.
yeah, lets face it, with all the off-shoring that goes on, the idea of increasing your income by being better trained in any given field of IT has been shown to not work. Management don't want the best trained, they want the cheapest who can do the job.
Maybe Safety Critical applications should be restricted to 'Chartered' status employees, that would provide a reason for the BCS to exist and provide a benefit to being a member.
Until then, they are nothing more than a University Alumni type of organisation. Networking and conferences which although might be interesting aren't actually useful to the members.
It wants to be an important professional organization, but I hardly know anyone who actually is a member or employers who ask for accredited training courses from them.
Surely the confidentiality agreement only comes into force once you have signed the contract? Especially since you had no previous relationship with the law firm and as such it would effectively be spam.
What if someone has stolen your identity and is actively using it?
At the moment once it's been established that your identity is stolen and you are who you say you are, you can get new identifying documents with new reference numbers and from that point on you would have no further problems; The old documents can be flagged as being stolen and the holder should be held (ok, we aren't talking about library cards here, but how about passports?) but if the identifying property is something that can not be changed then you are stuffed... for the rest of your life.
Biometrics makes it more expensive to steal an identity (using todays technology) but if it is stolen how do I prove that I am in fact the mild mannered geek I say I am, rather than the internationally wanted drug trafficer the computer says I am?
Mach 10 is the goal of engines burning Hydrogen as a fuel.
This aircraft is using almost standard jet fuel which is a lot more compact and easier to handle.
With each year less games are developed primarily for PC and more are developed for consoles with PC ports a secondary consideration.
Consoles don't have to catch up with PC, PCs will fall back to the level of consoles.
And if those sentient animals fought back, we'd probably just stop them as easily as we'd stop a groundhog invasion of New York City.
An interest choice of animal (a rodent) given you haven't managed to remove rats from the city despite the damage they cause the infrastructure of a city and the disease they carry - although I grant you they don't affect the human population as badly as they used to and so maybe you don't really care if the rats are there or not.
What he's saying is; if there is a choice between DVD and Blu-ray for a particular Title, set the PS3 to only play the Blu-Ray version - because the profit margins on Blu-Ray are higher and so are more valuable to a media company like Sony.
I agree much more with Plaid Cymru and the Green Party, but between them they only got 8.7% of the votes last time. Neither stands a chance of getting in this time, so a vote for them would be wasted.
I had this debate with a political studies student at university in 1997. How can voting for the party which best represents your views be a wasted vote? They may not get into power in the next government, but increasing vote percentage will make the main parties take notice and tailor their policies to the voters of those smaller parties and so the main parties will better represent your views..
If you only ever vote for Conservative/Labour because those are the only 2 parties likely to get power in the next government (at any given election, not just this one), is it any wonder you can bearly squeeze a cigarette paper between their policies as they both fight for where they all think the voters want the policies to be (i.e. halfway between the 2 parties that get votes). It's a feedback loop.
The only reason I can see for voting with one party over a different party which better reflect your views is if you want to ensure the current party are kicked out - as happened in 1997 when labour was expected to win the previous election but the conservatives got in by the skin of their teeth, in the 97 election there was a massive swing to labour as everyone wanted to make sure the Cons didn't get in again.
I suppose the question is, are you trying to vote to reflect your views, or are you voting to get the incumbant party out? note: those aren't necessarily exclusive aims
Sorry to drag up an old thread but here in the UK both Channel 4 news and The Guardian had stories/articles saying that wikileaks had this video and gave some background to attack.
Mainstream media has picked up on the story, at least in the UK, it just took them a day to do the fact checking.
Oyster can be paid for with cash at ticket shops and some of the larger automated machines. The only form of payment which is accepted in all locations is debit/creditcard.
Obviously there are good techincal reasons why cash can only be accepted in some places - not least the phyiscal size of the automated ticket machines in very confined spaces if cash dispensers are needed, but there is still a little voice at the back of my mind saying that a link between your oyster card and the name/address of the credit card used to pay for it would be trival to pull together for anyone in power, and only a little harder to pull together for something with illegal access to 2 databases (even assuming the credit card details are permantely stored in the same DB once a credit card payment is made).
personally I think life lasting very long in the center of the galaxy if it could even start there is lower than the possibility of life starting and lasting in the spiral arms at the edge of the galaxy. Higher Star Density towards the center increases the changes of an energy burst from a Supernova occuring nearby, or a passing object distrubing an asteriod belt sending more debris into the habital area of a star system which reduces the period of time a species would have to develop to the point where it could get out of the first star system.
If my gut feeling (and thats all it is - I'm not even going to call it a theory) is right, then intelligent life could well have started in multiple places and survived but about as far away from each other as possible.
Of course my gut feeling is countered by the arguement that that would mean the spiral arms should be loaded with life if those are the areas which provide the greatest stability and therefore any civilisations should be really near to us.
"Although there were other magnetic tape cartridge systems, the Compact Cassette became dominant as a result of Philips's decision in the face of pressure from Sony to license the format free of charge."
You try and figure it out. I'm still at a complete loss to explain this. Were the Sony execs really THAT short-sighted? And still?
Sony Launched the Walkman in 1979, but didn't get into the content production side of the business until 1988 with the purchase of CBS Records.
It's behaviour early on was inline with it's business at the time which was the manufacture of tape players. It's only when it started trying to produce content that its business model start conflicting with itself.
Actually it's not quite as good of a decision as was being made out once you get past the headlines.
The decision in question was specific to a few paragraphs in a report which the UK government had said had to be censored because the US asked us to keep out of the public - so we did.
At some point, a report in the US publically quoted those paragraphs and so UK courts ruled that since the information was now in the public domain there was no reason not to publish the censored paragraphs ourselves
The decision did however go against the UK governments continued wish to keep the paragraphs censored since those paragraphs basically said the UK knew about and supported torture of a UK citizen.
[It was reported that a new series of interviews was conducted by the United States authorities prior to 17 May 2001 as part of a new strategy designed by an expert interviewer.
v) It was reported that at some stage during that further interview process by the United States authorities, BM had been intentionally subjected to continuous sleep deprivation. The effects of the sleep deprivation were carefully observed.
vi) It was reported that combined with the sleep deprivation, threats and inducements were made to him. His fears of being removed from United States custody and "disappearing" were played upon.
vii) It was reported that the stress brought about by these deliberate tactics was increased by him being shackled in his interviews
viii) It was clear not only from the reports of the content of the interviews but also from the report that he was being kept under self-harm observation, that the inter views were having a marked effect upon him and causing him significant mental stress and suffering.
ix) We regret to have to conclude that the reports provide to the SyS made clear to anyone reading them that BM was being subjected to the treatment that we have described and the effect upon him of that intentional treatment.
x) The treatment reported, if had been administered on behalf of the United Kingdom, would clearly have been in breach of the undertakings given by the United Kingdom in 1972. Although it is not necessary for us to categorise the treatment reported, it could readily be contended to be at the very least cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment by the United States authorities]"
Another vote for Jupiter here, plus take viewings over a couple of nights and the students will be able to track the changing positions of the 4 largest moons and Jupiters position against the background stars.
The average programmer either completed the Masters, or went straight from Undergraduate into work and has 2-3 years more real world experience and pay-rises to increase their salary.
Europe keeps coming up in documentaries and articles about green city designs.
I suspect that is because the core of the cities were designed before the car was invented and the idea of walking from A to B was how the cities organically grew. Even if the Upper Classes were using Horse/Horse and Carriage the speed of travel wasn't that different from walking and so the distances had to be kept small
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Nobody is really offering a means to suicide are they. The problem with keyword matching on a webpage to a particular ad is that it's not context sensitive. That page had used the word sleep or even more likely 'eternal sleep' as a phrase and the highest paying match was for sleeping pills.
And thats not even what the article is about. What you described is simple keyword matching of the webpage you are viewing. What the article is descibing is an ad system which has nothing to with the webpage you are visiting and everything to do with you and your previous web browsing habits. For example, you browse information on unwanted pregenacy on one page, then a few days later on a car selling site you get an ad for aborbtion clinics.
Hawking Radiation would cause the blackhole to get smaller and smaller, and with it the diameter of the event horizon, you wouldn't get a naked blackhole.
yeah, lets face it, with all the off-shoring that goes on, the idea of increasing your income by being better trained in any given field of IT has been shown to not work. Management don't want the best trained, they want the cheapest who can do the job.
Maybe Safety Critical applications should be restricted to 'Chartered' status employees, that would provide a reason for the BCS to exist and provide a benefit to being a member.
Until then, they are nothing more than a University Alumni type of organisation. Networking and conferences which although might be interesting aren't actually useful to the members.
It wants to be an important professional organization, but I hardly know anyone who actually is a member or employers who ask for accredited training courses from them.
Surely the confidentiality agreement only comes into force once you have signed the contract? Especially since you had no previous relationship with the law firm and as such it would effectively be spam.
What if someone has stolen your identity and is actively using it?
At the moment once it's been established that your identity is stolen and you are who you say you are, you can get new identifying documents with new reference numbers and from that point on you would have no further problems; The old documents can be flagged as being stolen and the holder should be held (ok, we aren't talking about library cards here, but how about passports?) but if the identifying property is something that can not be changed then you are stuffed... for the rest of your life.
Biometrics makes it more expensive to steal an identity (using todays technology) but if it is stolen how do I prove that I am in fact the mild mannered geek I say I am, rather than the internationally wanted drug trafficer the computer says I am?
Mach 10 is the goal of engines burning Hydrogen as a fuel. This aircraft is using almost standard jet fuel which is a lot more compact and easier to handle.
OK, I won't ask.
Umm, where did you get that from?
With each year less games are developed primarily for PC and more are developed for consoles with PC ports a secondary consideration. Consoles don't have to catch up with PC, PCs will fall back to the level of consoles.
An interest choice of animal (a rodent) given you haven't managed to remove rats from the city despite the damage they cause the infrastructure of a city and the disease they carry - although I grant you they don't affect the human population as badly as they used to and so maybe you don't really care if the rats are there or not.
What he's saying is; if there is a choice between DVD and Blu-ray for a particular Title, set the PS3 to only play the Blu-Ray version - because the profit margins on Blu-Ray are higher and so are more valuable to a media company like Sony.
Today, I have emailed my conservative MP to ask a) why he didn't vote and b) which way he would have voted if he had been bothered to turn up.
eh? if voting for the party/standing MP that best represents your views is tactical voting, then yes.
I had this debate with a political studies student at university in 1997. How can voting for the party which best represents your views be a wasted vote? They may not get into power in the next government, but increasing vote percentage will make the main parties take notice and tailor their policies to the voters of those smaller parties and so the main parties will better represent your views..
If you only ever vote for Conservative/Labour because those are the only 2 parties likely to get power in the next government (at any given election, not just this one), is it any wonder you can bearly squeeze a cigarette paper between their policies as they both fight for where they all think the voters want the policies to be (i.e. halfway between the 2 parties that get votes). It's a feedback loop.
The only reason I can see for voting with one party over a different party which better reflect your views is if you want to ensure the current party are kicked out - as happened in 1997 when labour was expected to win the previous election but the conservatives got in by the skin of their teeth, in the 97 election there was a massive swing to labour as everyone wanted to make sure the Cons didn't get in again.
I suppose the question is, are you trying to vote to reflect your views, or are you voting to get the incumbant party out? note: those aren't necessarily exclusive aims
Sorry to drag up an old thread but here in the UK both Channel 4 news and The Guardian had stories/articles saying that wikileaks had this video and gave some background to attack.
Mainstream media has picked up on the story, at least in the UK, it just took them a day to do the fact checking.
wouldn't ID4-2 be ID2?
Oyster can be paid for with cash at ticket shops and some of the larger automated machines. The only form of payment which is accepted in all locations is debit/creditcard.
Obviously there are good techincal reasons why cash can only be accepted in some places - not least the phyiscal size of the automated ticket machines in very confined spaces if cash dispensers are needed, but there is still a little voice at the back of my mind saying that a link between your oyster card and the name/address of the credit card used to pay for it would be trival to pull together for anyone in power, and only a little harder to pull together for something with illegal access to 2 databases (even assuming the credit card details are permantely stored in the same DB once a credit card payment is made).
personally I think life lasting very long in the center of the galaxy if it could even start there is lower than the possibility of life starting and lasting in the spiral arms at the edge of the galaxy. Higher Star Density towards the center increases the changes of an energy burst from a Supernova occuring nearby, or a passing object distrubing an asteriod belt sending more debris into the habital area of a star system which reduces the period of time a species would have to develop to the point where it could get out of the first star system.
If my gut feeling (and thats all it is - I'm not even going to call it a theory) is right, then intelligent life could well have started in multiple places and survived but about as far away from each other as possible.
Of course my gut feeling is countered by the arguement that that would mean the spiral arms should be loaded with life if those are the areas which provide the greatest stability and therefore any civilisations should be really near to us.
I wish I had mod points
Sony Launched the Walkman in 1979, but didn't get into the content production side of the business until 1988 with the purchase of CBS Records.
It's behaviour early on was inline with it's business at the time which was the manufacture of tape players. It's only when it started trying to produce content that its business model start conflicting with itself.
Actually it's not quite as good of a decision as was being made out once you get past the headlines.
The decision in question was specific to a few paragraphs in a report which the UK government had said had to be censored because the US asked us to keep out of the public - so we did.
At some point, a report in the US publically quoted those paragraphs and so UK courts ruled that since the information was now in the public domain there was no reason not to publish the censored paragraphs ourselves
The decision did however go against the UK governments continued wish to keep the paragraphs censored since those paragraphs basically said the UK knew about and supported torture of a UK citizen.
Another vote for Jupiter here, plus take viewings over a couple of nights and the students will be able to track the changing positions of the 4 largest moons and Jupiters position against the background stars.
The average programmer either completed the Masters, or went straight from Undergraduate into work and has 2-3 years more real world experience and pay-rises to increase their salary.
I suspect that is because the core of the cities were designed before the car was invented and the idea of walking from A to B was how the cities organically grew. Even if the Upper Classes were using Horse/Horse and Carriage the speed of travel wasn't that different from walking and so the distances had to be kept small