The digital letdown was when many of the top ideas generated by the process were to legalize marijuana, solve tax issues and to reinvestigate Obama's birth origins.
So, in other words, they didn't get the answers they wanted to hear. What a "letdown."
I don't know what "solve tax issues" means, but legalizing marijuana and investigating Obama's birth certificate are hardly innovative ideas promoting more effective governance, even if you think they're worthwhile it's stuff everyone has heard of, and the intent wasn't to give tired ideas a new platform
Would they? I know the Liberal party right now is under leadership that is practically unelectable and has a backwards stance towards climate change, but I wasn't aware that they wanted a stronger filter. Can I get a citation?
The real problem is that the randomness might be biased one way or another. If a flip-flop doesn't have a 50:50 chance of settling on one or the other (something that seems more likely than not) then it'd be a much, much worse source for entropy than what we use now.
I really don't think we need any dangerous new entropy source, we have collect plenty of entropy already, and when dealing with something as important as getting random numbers from an RNG if it ain't broke don't fix it
I agree to an extent, but Microsoft definitely had a very good virtual globe software long before Google Earth, back in the days of Encarta (I forget what it was called though), and had mapping software too. If anything Google took that and put it online and made it free.
Also Microsoft Photosynth, the precursor to this street-view enhancement, was a pretty innovative idea straight out of Microsoft R&D, where quite a few good ideas come from.
There are many examples of things Microsoft got to first, some would say too early. Their reputation isn't undeserved but it is more complicated than that.
The whole point of it is that it's flat rate, so it doesn't matter how many things you click you'll still pay the same, and this encourages people to spread their fixed fee around to all the places they like.
80pc back web filter: poll
Unfortunately this isn't so much a failure of democracy as a failure of education. A failure of the media, and those of us who understand why it's such a dangerous waste of money, to get the message out to everyone.
Seeing that article knocked my confidence a bit, I just hope that the 1000 calls made were an unrepresentative sample..
We used to be able to say "look at Paint.NET", which was the ultimate photoshop-for-the-small-stuff legal replacement, but because his software got repeatedly plagiarized and sold and no-one seemed to care he switched to free closed source (partially open, but mostly not).
A real shame, and all because of some asshole plagiarizing software.
The NRC isn't a business, it's a government regulatory organization, if they had to pay liabilities it would be directly from the taxpayer, not from the actual official who made the check.
It wouldn't affect the NRC at all, and would be absurd.
Do you fine the guy who you pay to look for problems when he finds a problem? That's a genius idea, what could go wrong with that?
775,000 picocuries per liter = 775,000 * 10^-12 * 3.7 * 10^10 decays/second per liter = 28 675 decays/sec per liter
I'm not sure how energetically tritium decays and cbf looking it up, but I doubt that's enough to emit anything close to enough photons to be visible, which means that compared to those glow sticks the tritium is incredibly dilute.
I expect the expense in commercial tritium production is creating it in concentrated form, I really doubt the leaked tritium had any significant value.
It is all workable, once you get Eclipse working it'll work from that point on. I wrote a guide on setting up debugging, it took a while but once you've done it once you're set, and you're not out by $xxx dollars per year.
All that stuff also applies to Eclipse, but the advantage Eclipse has is that if I want to switch over to C development with OpenGL no problem (with a gdb-shell debugging), if I want to work on a large perl/SQLite script I can (with debugging), same for python, etc. The only other IDE you need is Visual Studio for writing.NET apps, no need to have an IDE for PHP which can't be used for anything else.
I support Zend in their quest to get money, because it lets them create great things like the Zend Framework (which is free). Those are business guy prices, for busy/lazy/rich IT staff who don't even want to configure Apache or set up debugging in Eclipse with Xdebug.
Want debugging? Eclipse and Xdebug, you can even get Zend's own debugging system by downloading their shared object file which is free. Same goes for profiling, auto-completion, etc, you can get it yourself with a bit of work if you don't want to pay.
If someone with too much money supports Zend out of laziness I'm okay with that.
I use notepad++ for text files etc but it's not an IDE, is it? Does it have debugging, project management, variable tracking, object/namespace browsing and auto-completion? You're wasting your own time if you don't use a good IDE.
You need to use Xdebug (you could use Zend's commercial platform software, but that's expensive and you don't need it). You activate it, and it'll log all sessions to profile data files if you configure it to. Then you download "WinCacheGrind" or something, which will open these profile data files for analysis.
However WinCacheGrind is an old piece of software that hasn't got new features for a long time. It does the job, but it's not great. It's a clone of a more advanced KDE application which does the same thing, but it definitely has fewer features.
I had the misfortune of having to work with someone who bragged about being a bully during her high school years. It wasn't hard to believe her, but I consoled myself that she was 15-20 years older than I was and we were earning the same money doing the same god-awful data entry job.
Do you know what the word "hostile" means? It doesn't usually refer to something that makes and sells you products for I.O.U credits that are worth less and less every day.
Doesn't Firefox warn you if a key for a certain domain suddenly changes to something different? Remember these guys sign keys, they say "this guy is who he says he is", does that really give them the power to listen in on people?
They can only do so by replacing the key with something new, which probably generates a big security warning, and then they have to reencrypt it with the old key, so they do have to intercept communication and not just listen in.
I don't know if you should be concerned about that yet, unless you're Chinese (in which case what is the alternative? only trust American businesses with American CAs?)
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So, in other words, they didn't get the answers they wanted to hear. What a "letdown."
I don't know what "solve tax issues" means, but legalizing marijuana and investigating Obama's birth certificate are hardly innovative ideas promoting more effective governance, even if you think they're worthwhile it's stuff everyone has heard of, and the intent wasn't to give tired ideas a new platform
Getting stoned off your balls is always a worthwhile and viable policy objective.
Would they? I know the Liberal party right now is under leadership that is practically unelectable and has a backwards stance towards climate change, but I wasn't aware that they wanted a stronger filter. Can I get a citation?
The real problem is that the randomness might be biased one way or another. If a flip-flop doesn't have a 50:50 chance of settling on one or the other (something that seems more likely than not) then it'd be a much, much worse source for entropy than what we use now.
I really don't think we need any dangerous new entropy source, we have collect plenty of entropy already, and when dealing with something as important as getting random numbers from an RNG if it ain't broke don't fix it
A black guy that doesn't like Obama?! Is that even possible? Good grief that gives you a lot of credibility!
And if none of those work you can always give succeeding a shot
I hope every citizen of the US gets a million bucks from the district. That'll show that pesky district!
Sucks that he couldn't put his abilities to better use.. Too bad for him
I agree to an extent, but Microsoft definitely had a very good virtual globe software long before Google Earth, back in the days of Encarta (I forget what it was called though), and had mapping software too. If anything Google took that and put it online and made it free.
Also Microsoft Photosynth, the precursor to this street-view enhancement, was a pretty innovative idea straight out of Microsoft R&D, where quite a few good ideas come from.
There are many examples of things Microsoft got to first, some would say too early. Their reputation isn't undeserved but it is more complicated than that.
The whole point of it is that it's flat rate, so it doesn't matter how many things you click you'll still pay the same, and this encourages people to spread their fixed fee around to all the places they like.
My right to use violence to influence the government is protected by free speech isn't it? :-(
You do need to register to get elected of course, but I doubt getting elected fits SCs definition of "overthrow" (or anyone elses)
80pc back web filter: poll
Unfortunately this isn't so much a failure of democracy as a failure of education. A failure of the media, and those of us who understand why it's such a dangerous waste of money, to get the message out to everyone.
Seeing that article knocked my confidence a bit, I just hope that the 1000 calls made were an unrepresentative sample..
We used to be able to say "look at Paint.NET", which was the ultimate photoshop-for-the-small-stuff legal replacement, but because his software got repeatedly plagiarized and sold and no-one seemed to care he switched to free closed source (partially open, but mostly not).
A real shame, and all because of some asshole plagiarizing software.
The NRC isn't a business, it's a government regulatory organization, if they had to pay liabilities it would be directly from the taxpayer, not from the actual official who made the check.
It wouldn't affect the NRC at all, and would be absurd.
Do you fine the guy who you pay to look for problems when he finds a problem? That's a genius idea, what could go wrong with that?
775,000 picocuries per liter = 775,000 * 10^-12 * 3.7 * 10^10 decays/second per liter = 28 675 decays/sec per liter
I'm not sure how energetically tritium decays and cbf looking it up, but I doubt that's enough to emit anything close to enough photons to be visible, which means that compared to those glow sticks the tritium is incredibly dilute.
I expect the expense in commercial tritium production is creating it in concentrated form, I really doubt the leaked tritium had any significant value.
The NRC has to pay liabilities for cancer caused by fuel leaks? That'd be like the health inspector paying when a fast food chain poisons someone.
It is all workable, once you get Eclipse working it'll work from that point on. I wrote a guide on setting up debugging, it took a while but once you've done it once you're set, and you're not out by $xxx dollars per year.
All that stuff also applies to Eclipse, but the advantage Eclipse has is that if I want to switch over to C development with OpenGL no problem (with a gdb-shell debugging), if I want to work on a large perl/SQLite script I can (with debugging), same for python, etc. The only other IDE you need is Visual Studio for writing .NET apps, no need to have an IDE for PHP which can't be used for anything else.
I support Zend in their quest to get money, because it lets them create great things like the Zend Framework (which is free). Those are business guy prices, for busy/lazy/rich IT staff who don't even want to configure Apache or set up debugging in Eclipse with Xdebug.
Want debugging? Eclipse and Xdebug, you can even get Zend's own debugging system by downloading their shared object file which is free. Same goes for profiling, auto-completion, etc, you can get it yourself with a bit of work if you don't want to pay.
If someone with too much money supports Zend out of laziness I'm okay with that.
I use notepad++ for text files etc but it's not an IDE, is it? Does it have debugging, project management, variable tracking, object/namespace browsing and auto-completion? You're wasting your own time if you don't use a good IDE.
You need to use Xdebug (you could use Zend's commercial platform software, but that's expensive and you don't need it). You activate it, and it'll log all sessions to profile data files if you configure it to. Then you download "WinCacheGrind" or something, which will open these profile data files for analysis.
However WinCacheGrind is an old piece of software that hasn't got new features for a long time. It does the job, but it's not great. It's a clone of a more advanced KDE application which does the same thing, but it definitely has fewer features.
I had the misfortune of having to work with someone who bragged about being a bully during her high school years. It wasn't hard to believe her, but I consoled myself that she was 15-20 years older than I was and we were earning the same money doing the same god-awful data entry job.
Do you know what the word "hostile" means? It doesn't usually refer to something that makes and sells you products for I.O.U credits that are worth less and less every day.
Doesn't Firefox warn you if a key for a certain domain suddenly changes to something different? Remember these guys sign keys, they say "this guy is who he says he is", does that really give them the power to listen in on people?
They can only do so by replacing the key with something new, which probably generates a big security warning, and then they have to reencrypt it with the old key, so they do have to intercept communication and not just listen in.
I don't know if you should be concerned about that yet, unless you're Chinese (in which case what is the alternative? only trust American businesses with American CAs?)