The legislators have thought of that. It's an infraction, rather than a misdemeanor, so it's an administrative fine -- it goes on your driving record, but not your criminal record.
I don't know about where you are, but in Ohio automatic speed camera fines do not go on your driving record.
Mod me offtopic, but I'm still contemplating the subtle difference between "dis-enabling" and "disabling".
"disabling" carries an implication of disability, that is, a loss of function from the base state. The "dis" prefix is applied to "able", you are removing the "able". If you pull the wires off the spark plugs of your car, you have disabled the car, but you hadn't "enabled" the spark plug function of the car originally. No one would ever have said "this car comes with the spark plug function enabled by default".
"dis-enabling" carries an implication that a additional function had been enabled, and then this enabling is then turned off. The "dis" prefix is applied to "enable", you are removing the "enable".
When data binding is enabled (which is the default state), it is possible under certain conditions for an object to be released without updating the array length, leaving the potential to access the deleted object's memory space.
I don't use IE, but from the summary, doesn't it sound like simply dis-enabling data binding would keep the hole from being exploited?
And this reader points out that these two news bits are not, in fact, related.
Virgin Galactic is great, and I'm all in favor of their business (and if I had the money I'd even buy a ticket)... but their vehicle is not designed to get to orbit, and has little or nothing to do with orbital flight.
1. Large Hadron Collider becomes fully functional June 2009.
2. Large Hadron Collider experiences an electrical fault-July 2009
3. Large Hadron Collider sucks approx. 7.347 7 × 1022 kg of material from billions of random places around the globe.
4. Large Hadron Collider creates a wormhole 1 millisecond after gathering the material.
5. Large Hadron Collider takes approx. 7.347 7 × 1022 kg of material and throws it back in time approx 4.5 billion years.
6. Large Hadron Collider decides its work is done, and rest on the seventh day, eating a turkey sandwich.
I have to say, that us that did vote for Bush were fooled into thinking he was a conservative,
Well, if "conservative" to your means "smaller government and reduced spending, then Bush was not your man.
just as it seems many on the ultra-left have been fooled by Obama.
Odd. What I noticed in his campaign was continously repeated statements to the effect "look, I'm not a hard-left idealogue; I want to get people together and solve problems, not push an agenda." You're saying that the hard-left fooled themselves by ignoring what he actually was saying?
The war in Iraq was his main selling point throughout the primaries and most of the general, then he appoints people to his staff that will continue the course that has been set by Bush.
You seem to be predicting the future a little early. Where did you buy your crystal ball? I'm less concerned which people he's using then I am as to what he's going to use them to accomplish.
It seems more and more that us (Americans) have been being repeatedly fooled by Democrats and Republicans to believe that there is an actual difference in what they will actually do, but whenever either side gets elected, they just continue the status quo set by the previous administration,
Let's see, the last "previous administration," was the Clinton administration, which passed a budget reconciliation bill and actually balanced the budget. You know, if the Bush administration had actually continued that status quo, I'd be cheering him on.
There are two ways out of a recession as large as what we are facing:
We can have a World War.
We cam have a massive Public Works program
That's a myth. War is not good for an economy.
What the Second World War did for the U.S. economy was to turn the nation into a place of shortages and rationing-- food rationing, gas rationing, even tire rationing... a lot of things didn't have to be rationed, because nobody had money to buy things like new cars.
The one "good" thing that the war did for the U.S. was to give people a rationalization for the shortages and ration-coupons: they were sacrificing to win the war. The economy was terrible, but people felt good about scarcity, because it was for a cause.
Anybody here old enough to remember the candidates talking about what they were going to do with the budget surplus, back in 2000? Or is that just some forgotten ancient history? Surplus... what a concept!
Not to encourage this line of thought, but I wonder: If someone who was screwed over by the RIAA went berserk and murdered one of their lawyers/execs, how would that affect their willingness to continue blindly suing the hell out of people?
If that happened, this would be instantly seized as "proof" that not only are the people RIAA sues criminals, they are dangerous criminals.
Disposing of dead batteries, however, is a bit of a nuisance for us. There's only so much room for waste, especially hazardous waste.
Well, true enough, but ideally you don't want to dispose of the dead batteries, you want to either refurbish them, or else disassemble them to recover and recycle the materials, and that would be best done on-site (to avoid the shipping costs, which otherwise could make it uneconomic).
Lithium batteries shouldn't generate hazardous waste to dispose of, although that will depend slightly on which technology ends up being optimal.
Actually, Key West would be another absolutely perfect spot. (as long as you put up a sign saying "you try to drive this back across the bridge, and first you'll run out of energy, and then we'll charge you with grand theft"). But, heck, for Key West golf carts would be fine.
Ideal location for an electric car network. First, the islands are each relatively small-- thus, you won't have to worry about cars being driven out of state, and out of reach of the charging network.
Second, it's warm all the time. Cold temperatures are a real battery lifetime and performance killer, and this may become a real problem with electric cars in the mainland 48, since people in Minnesota are going to want electric cars. It's a good idea to deploy the technology in the favorable places, like Hawaii, first.
The market share is (as plenty others have already mentioned) is a myth. Both Apple and *nix have enough units connected to the internet to be a valuable target.
Google "percolation theory".
Basically, in order to replicate, every newly-infected machine has to infect at least one other machine, or the virus dies out.
If the OS of a randomly-chosen machine is, say, 95% likely to be Windows. and 5% likely to be Mac, then it is e to the (20N) times easier for a virus to survive in the Windows environment than the mac environment (where "N" is the product of the number of times each virus tries to replicate, times the probability of success).
"They" have known the economy was in trouble for at LEAST a year and likely longer. But they knew one thing for sure -- if they announced or reported it as such, the economy's floor would have dropped out. So instead, the news and other outlets have been dropping hints and skirting the big picture by talking about failing elements of the economy hoping everyone will start to form their own conclusions. And every time the word recession was asked far beyond a year ago, the only answer was "not yet" and they kept hoping things would get better.
The Bush economic stimulus package worked to some degree....
Huh? The April hand-out? As far as I've heard, it had almost no effect at all.
(it was too small and too untargeted to have any significant effect on the economy-- it essentially was a very small tax cut, primarily at the lower income levels. Might have prevented one or two bankrupcies, if it happened to hit somebody right on the razor's edge, but wasn't enough to save anybody's house.)
Not multiple antivirus products on the same machine!
Having multiple products deployed mean that the virus programmers have different applications to circumvent. But that's multiple products on different machines-- you wouldn't expect one user to run all of the anti virus products on one machine.
I don't know whose bright idea it was to put a link to Ann Coulter in a slashdot article, but if there were any kind of moderation of the top-level, the article should be moderated "Troll".
(If it were about slashdot comments, would there have been a link to goatse?)
Tesla is asking for a loan, which means it will be payed back,
While I agree with the overall concept that it's important to distinguish between a loan and a give-away, this statement should be "...which means that they claim that they will pay it back."
The whole genesis of the financial crisis is that it turns out that it's not true that all loans are paid back.
The whole bailout issue is like a chain of dominoes; where is it supposed to stop? It's certainly not fair to "bail out" the bad performers and not the good performers, but if you then go and bail out the good performers as well, where does it end?
But, with that said, I'm a lot happier with a government loan to Tesla, which is actually making electric cars, than to GM, which made electric cars once but decided to abandon the technology with extreme prejudice, going out of their way to make sure that every single one of their electric cars was pounded into scrap metal and melted down.
A real problem with NASA is that the directives from the top keep being jerked around. Instead of announcing one direction, then just sticking to that direction until something flies, the way things keep getting done is to announce something, do that program for a couple of years, and then before anything actually flies, kill that program in favor of the next golden goose.
Brownian motion gets nowhere. Stick to one direction, and actually fly something.
Since Greenpeace already said that they were targeting Apple not because Apple was worse than any other manufacturer, but because they get the most headlines when they slam Apple, I don't see why we should pay any attention to them at all.
This argument seems to get the Intelligent Design argument backwards. The ID people argue that complexity can't arise from simplicity, and thus complexity is the signature of design. This guy seems to be arguing that simplicity is the signature of design.
Neither one is particulary a good argument. Complex things can arise from simple ones-- a snowflake can arise from water vapor. And simple thing can arise from complex ones: water vapor can arise from a snowflake.
In either case entropy increases, and heat, ultimately, is dissipated into space.
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The legislators have thought of that. It's an infraction, rather than a misdemeanor, so it's an administrative fine -- it goes on your driving record, but not your criminal record.
I don't know about where you are, but in Ohio automatic speed camera fines do not go on your driving record.
Mod me offtopic, but I'm still contemplating the subtle difference between "dis-enabling" and "disabling".
"disabling" carries an implication of disability, that is, a loss of function from the base state. The "dis" prefix is applied to "able", you are removing the "able". If you pull the wires off the spark plugs of your car, you have disabled the car, but you hadn't "enabled" the spark plug function of the car originally. No one would ever have said "this car comes with the spark plug function enabled by default".
"dis-enabling" carries an implication that a additional function had been enabled, and then this enabling is then turned off. The "dis" prefix is applied to "enable", you are removing the "enable".
The difference is in implication, not denotation.
When data binding is enabled (which is the default state), it is possible under certain conditions for an object to be released without updating the array length, leaving the potential to access the deleted object's memory space.
I don't use IE, but from the summary, doesn't it sound like simply dis-enabling data binding would keep the hole from being exploited?
Its my understanding that SCI is lateral to Top Secret, not above. Can anyone refute my claim or substantiate the authors?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._security_clearance_terms
Reader clarkes1 points out related news...
And this reader points out that these two news bits are not, in fact, related.
Virgin Galactic is great, and I'm all in favor of their business (and if I had the money I'd even buy a ticket)... but their vehicle is not designed to get to orbit, and has little or nothing to do with orbital flight.
Anybody else think that these people were reading too many Superman comics? They're basically describing the destruction of Krypton!
1. Large Hadron Collider becomes fully functional June 2009.
2. Large Hadron Collider experiences an electrical fault-July 2009
3. Large Hadron Collider sucks approx. 7.347 7 × 1022 kg of material from billions of random places around the globe.
4. Large Hadron Collider creates a wormhole 1 millisecond after gathering the material.
5. Large Hadron Collider takes approx. 7.347 7 × 1022 kg of material and throws it back in time approx 4.5 billion years.
6. Large Hadron Collider decides its work is done, and rest on the seventh day, eating a turkey sandwich.
You missed:
7. ???
8. Profit!
http://cbo.gov/budget/historical.shtml http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/during_the_clinton_administration_was_the_federal.html
The government wouldn't have $400 million per day if it stopped the Iraq war. It would just not have to borrow or print as much.
You say that almost like it's trivial: "just four hundred million dollars per day that the government wouldn't be borrowing."
Well, yeah. Four hundred million dollars that we're not getting deeper into the hole by. Every day.
Certainly it wouldn't be able to spend it on other things.
And if we keep on spending that four hundred million dollars day?
Well, if "conservative" to your means "smaller government and reduced spending, then Bush was not your man.
just as it seems many on the ultra-left have been fooled by Obama.
Odd. What I noticed in his campaign was continously repeated statements to the effect "look, I'm not a hard-left idealogue; I want to get people together and solve problems, not push an agenda." You're saying that the hard-left fooled themselves by ignoring what he actually was saying?
The war in Iraq was his main selling point throughout the primaries and most of the general, then he appoints people to his staff that will continue the course that has been set by Bush.
You seem to be predicting the future a little early. Where did you buy your crystal ball? I'm less concerned which people he's using then I am as to what he's going to use them to accomplish.
It seems more and more that us (Americans) have been being repeatedly fooled by Democrats and Republicans to believe that there is an actual difference in what they will actually do, but whenever either side gets elected, they just continue the status quo set by the previous administration,
Let's see, the last "previous administration," was the Clinton administration, which passed a budget reconciliation bill and actually balanced the budget. You know, if the Bush administration had actually continued that status quo, I'd be cheering him on.
There are two ways out of a recession as large as what we are facing:
That's a myth. War is not good for an economy.
What the Second World War did for the U.S. economy was to turn the nation into a place of shortages and rationing-- food rationing, gas rationing, even tire rationing... a lot of things didn't have to be rationed, because nobody had money to buy things like new cars.
The one "good" thing that the war did for the U.S. was to give people a rationalization for the shortages and ration-coupons: they were sacrificing to win the war. The economy was terrible, but people felt good about scarcity, because it was for a cause.
And where are we getting the money for this, again?
Given that the Iraq war has cost a bit over six hundred billion dollars so far, and is estimated to top out at over 1.2 trillion dollars, "from stopping the Iraq war" is a good start to answering the question where the money will come from. You know, you could do a lot with four hundred million dollars a day.
Anybody here old enough to remember the candidates talking about what they were going to do with the budget surplus, back in 2000? Or is that just some forgotten ancient history? Surplus... what a concept!
Not to encourage this line of thought, but I wonder: If someone who was screwed over by the RIAA went berserk and murdered one of their lawyers/execs, how would that affect their willingness to continue blindly suing the hell out of people?
If that happened, this would be instantly seized as "proof" that not only are the people RIAA sues criminals, they are dangerous criminals.
Disposing of dead batteries, however, is a bit of a nuisance for us. There's only so much room for waste, especially hazardous waste.
Well, true enough, but ideally you don't want to dispose of the dead batteries, you want to either refurbish them, or else disassemble them to recover and recycle the materials, and that would be best done on-site (to avoid the shipping costs, which otherwise could make it uneconomic).
Lithium batteries shouldn't generate hazardous waste to dispose of, although that will depend slightly on which technology ends up being optimal.
No love for the south east?
Actually, Key West would be another absolutely perfect spot. (as long as you put up a sign saying "you try to drive this back across the bridge, and first you'll run out of energy, and then we'll charge you with grand theft"). But, heck, for Key West golf carts would be fine.
Second, it's warm all the time. Cold temperatures are a real battery lifetime and performance killer, and this may become a real problem with electric cars in the mainland 48, since people in Minnesota are going to want electric cars. It's a good idea to deploy the technology in the favorable places, like Hawaii, first.
The market share is (as plenty others have already mentioned) is a myth. Both Apple and *nix have enough units connected to the internet to be a valuable target.
Google "percolation theory".
Basically, in order to replicate, every newly-infected machine has to infect at least one other machine, or the virus dies out.
If the OS of a randomly-chosen machine is, say, 95% likely to be Windows. and 5% likely to be Mac, then it is e to the (20N) times easier for a virus to survive in the Windows environment than the mac environment (where "N" is the product of the number of times each virus tries to replicate, times the probability of success).
"They" have known the economy was in trouble for at LEAST a year and likely longer. But they knew one thing for sure -- if they announced or reported it as such, the economy's floor would have dropped out. So instead, the news and other outlets have been dropping hints and skirting the big picture by talking about failing elements of the economy hoping everyone will start to form their own conclusions. And every time the word recession was asked far beyond a year ago, the only answer was "not yet" and they kept hoping things would get better.
The Bush economic stimulus package worked to some degree. ...
Huh? The April hand-out? As far as I've heard, it had almost no effect at all.
(it was too small and too untargeted to have any significant effect on the economy-- it essentially was a very small tax cut, primarily at the lower income levels. Might have prevented one or two bankrupcies, if it happened to hit somebody right on the razor's edge, but wasn't enough to save anybody's house.)
is this a scare tactic for apple to push some payfor software and get people to buy it
No, it's just common sense. Macs are not immune to viruses, and it's wise to keep up to date.
Having multiple products deployed mean that the virus programmers have different applications to circumvent. But that's multiple products on different machines-- you wouldn't expect one user to run all of the anti virus products on one machine.
(If it were about slashdot comments, would there have been a link to goatse?)
Tesla is asking for a loan, which means it will be payed back,
While I agree with the overall concept that it's important to distinguish between a loan and a give-away, this statement should be "...which means that they claim that they will pay it back."
The whole genesis of the financial crisis is that it turns out that it's not true that all loans are paid back.
The whole bailout issue is like a chain of dominoes; where is it supposed to stop? It's certainly not fair to "bail out" the bad performers and not the good performers, but if you then go and bail out the good performers as well, where does it end?
But, with that said, I'm a lot happier with a government loan to Tesla, which is actually making electric cars, than to GM, which made electric cars once but decided to abandon the technology with extreme prejudice, going out of their way to make sure that every single one of their electric cars was pounded into scrap metal and melted down.
Brownian motion gets nowhere. Stick to one direction, and actually fly something.
Since Greenpeace already said that they were targeting Apple not because Apple was worse than any other manufacturer, but because they get the most headlines when they slam Apple, I don't see why we should pay any attention to them at all.
This argument seems to get the Intelligent Design argument backwards. The ID people argue that complexity can't arise from simplicity, and thus complexity is the signature of design. This guy seems to be arguing that simplicity is the signature of design.
Neither one is particulary a good argument. Complex things can arise from simple ones-- a snowflake can arise from water vapor. And simple thing can arise from complex ones: water vapor can arise from a snowflake.
In either case entropy increases, and heat, ultimately, is dissipated into space.