You may hate it when people name logical fallacies which back up their opinion but it's necessary all to often. We name the fallacies because most people are too stupid to recognize them in the first place and at least given a name to it they can look it up. It's not terribly helpful or informative to tell somebody they've made a bad argument if you don't at least give them a hint as to what the problem is.
It's happened before. I'm sure you're really enjoying your current generation Atari and Sega consoles, wait, you mean they were put out of business by the competition? I hope something bad doesn't happen to Neo-Geo and Turbo-Grafix while we're at it.
The point is that the industry goes through phases and Nintendo is pretty much the last man standing from the 80s. Definitely the only ones still producing hardware.
All sorts of things can, from free radicals, to cell duplication to sun exposure. But in this case they aren't interested in that so much as what about his DNA might have contributed to him surviving that much abuse.
It's hard to say, but he could always just happen to represent the long tail of the distribution.
The problem is that we more or less already have that. It's a type of URI plus some sort of permalink. While the engineering aspect is presumably what the hubbub is about, the reality is that this isn't really any different than creating a link to a short snippet of XML for some bit of info. Similar to I don't know an HTML webpage for a single paragraph or less.
In the entirety of human history there've only been 2 earthquakes that one would even consider suggesting had been predicted. And those two were predicted on an extremely tenuous basis one involving missing pets and the other under the as yet unproven radon releases. Perhaps in the future there will be a reasonable means to do so, but I doubt it will happen anytime soon.
I'm writing this sitting in an area that's been predicted to have a massive 8.0+ earthquake for at least the last 30 years. It has yet to hit and while it probably will, that's not a particularly useful prediction.
I'm guessing that they got exactly what they want. Now when they're doing business and somebody asks, the can say the technically correct thing that they won their lawsuit against Spamhaus. Sure it's somewhat misleading, but the amount of money that they aren't losing as a result of this makes up for the fact that the likely won't see a dime from all of this.
Actually, it's the internet so the US could have jurisdiction over it. In this case since they're a British company, it's doubtful that the US has any jurisdiction. This is in contrast to the McKinnon affair where the machines he broke into were located in the US. Now, if Spamhaus has servers outside of Britain, then they'd possibly be in a position to be sued in those parts of the world as well.
But, if you make it more accurate then it actually is a reasonable position. If somebody asks you what you think of Bob and you say that "He's an untrustworthy cheat" and they choose not to do business. You're still lliable for defamation provided you can't cough up evidence that Bob is indeed and untrustworthy cheat.
Which is essentially what happened here, when Spamhaus didn't show up to defend itself the court was forced to rule against it. But even if they had shown up it wouldn't necessarily have been a win as they'd've had to demonstrate that the assertion was reasonable to the relevant legal standard. Or a that the plaintiff hadn't done all they could to minimize the damages (Not sure about Illinois, I know that's the case here in WA)
That's why some health insurance companies provide a complimentary consulting nurse. Basically somebody that's available around the clock to answer those, should I call 911, go to the emergency room, make an appointment or just ignore it suggestions. Obviously they tend to be a bit action biased as doing a screening over the phone isn't easy, but it does help people make better decisions about what is urgent and what can wait.
Depends how it's done. If they manage to make it more of a tricorder eventually including some testing equipment or the photos are sent to somebody with knowledge hen probably not. It's not likely to replace an exam any time soon, but it would be helpful for contacting the consulting nurse as to whether or not to come in for an appointment.
But yes, if it just looks things up without any kind of smarts, then it's most likely just going to make things worse.
I don't think you can do that. You can turn it off for applications, but I don't believe that it's completely deactivated. If I'm not mistaken, it's still available to the carrier and to 911 should you call it. Which depending upon the situation might be exactly the people you don't want to know where you are. Which really defeats the purpose of deactivating it. Even before phones came with software for GPS use, phones were already being shipped with GPS. I had a Samsung several years back, which had GPS, all it was for was 911 calls and signal quality. Not sure why they needed GPS for that, but I did notice that my cell reception mysteriously got much worse whenever I'd turn it off.
Once the company has the information they have little choice but to provide it in cases where there's been a subpoena served. Failing to do so comes with legal consequences. The better question is why are they storing the information in the first place. There's really no valid reason for them to be doing so beyond what's immediately necessary for the transaction. Assuming the user has opted in.
Getting it right is tough. But it isn't really an all or nothing proposition. The problem has been that while lowering taxes does end up lowering funds for the government, all taxes are not created equally. For instance lowering the income tax and increasing the sales tax is a net loss of revenue typically because sales tax inhibits the resource that it taxes. And there's some sort of relationship involving all the way in which the government can tax.
The problem that got us into trouble with the Clinton tax cuts was that there was a corresponding incompetence of the Federal reserve. As in even as the tax rates were going down, the interest rates were also going down because quite frankly supply side economics only works in the specific case where there's insufficient liquidity in the markets. Which most certainly wasn't the case during most of the 90s.
What they should've done was raise personal income tax on high income earners to offset most of the cuts to the capital gains rate. Choked up a bit on the federal reserve rates and applied tax credits for sales tax. Balance that out correctly and you get growth without a lot of unnecessary inflation or deficit spending.
Why it is that we let Federal Reserve, as in the same Federal Reserve that's responsible for creating inflation, regulate inflation is utterly beyond me. Since the quantity of money is the only factor that influences inflation it seems completely insane to let the Federal Reserve blink money into existence without any oversight. It's not terribly surprising that we end up with inflation showing up at the end of recessions. The fact is that the inflation was already there, it just wasn't counted because the money had been removed from the system on a temporary basis.
Yes, you indeed are. What you're missing is that we're already using that energy. Rather than taking energy that's been stored chemically and re-releasing it into the atmosphere along with the emissions, we're somewhat reducing the Albedo. So while it does somewhat increase warming on that front, the overall picture is either no change or a small decline in warming from energy use.
Actually, he tried to give them 60 days, but when it became obvious after 5 that they weren't taking it seriously, he released the exploit. I don't think anybody really believes that he'd report it then release it in that kind of a time span if there wasn't more going on than just that. 60 days is more than enough time for MS to release a proper fix, but the reality is that MS does sit on bug fixes because they can't or won't spend the time to take it seriously.
Whether it's their idea or not, it's a horrible idea. Patches should be released as soon as they're finish, as in finished and received reasonable review. Holding back patches for known flaws is ultimately irresponsible behavior. If a corporation doesn't want to do so constantly, then so be it, give them a tool to do it in that fashion. But as is it's terribly irresponsible.
Given the prevalence of bots in corporate networks, perhaps they shouldn't be given that kind of pull over the security of everybody else.
He's right about that. If they do that then they'll never get onto that nasty virus infested interweb I keep hearing about. Seeing as most OSes have relied upon the open source TCP/IP stack from BSD and a significant portion of websites are served via the likes of Apache and similar open source programs.
If you read the article, the Google security engineer tried for 5 days to negotiate a fixed time table for it to be fixed within. I think it was something like 60 days. MS apparently wasn't too keen on doing it and so he posted the flaw online.
That's the thing MS cries and whines whenever they're outed for being insecure, but when they aren't it seems to take an interminable period of time for them to actually patch the bug. Now, were they to be taking it super seriously so as not to introduce a new flaw that would be understandable. The problem though is that they haven't learned anything from these incidents. They still expect to be able to hold onto fixes until patch Tuesday and hope that nobody notices till then.
Well, they were making a bet that they'd either need the additional power or that they'd get there first eliminating things more quickly. The problem though was that there wasn't any definitive evidence that they needed the extra power and the technology was sufficiently advanced that they screwed up in a few places, giving the guys over in the US the chance to keep plugging away at it. Since technically speaking the Higgs Boson still hasn't been found, the LHC still might do it, but they've lost a lot of time in the search.
I wish I could mod you insightful for that. I'd chock it up to homophobia and women being less enlightened about genitals than men. Despite all the incessant screeching about sexual harassment, women expect an awful lot of tolerance out of men in terms of what we're expected to put up with. TV alone shows a lot of things that I don't want to see about female genitalia and basically nothing about male. Not that I'm complaining about not enough penises on TV, but perhaps less explicit talk about female genitalia is in order.
But then again, supposedly the vagina is in some fashion less freakish than a penis. Don't know why, perhaps it's related to why men need to subsidize women only sexual health care.
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You may hate it when people name logical fallacies which back up their opinion but it's necessary all to often. We name the fallacies because most people are too stupid to recognize them in the first place and at least given a name to it they can look it up. It's not terribly helpful or informative to tell somebody they've made a bad argument if you don't at least give them a hint as to what the problem is.
It's happened before. I'm sure you're really enjoying your current generation Atari and Sega consoles, wait, you mean they were put out of business by the competition? I hope something bad doesn't happen to Neo-Geo and Turbo-Grafix while we're at it.
The point is that the industry goes through phases and Nintendo is pretty much the last man standing from the 80s. Definitely the only ones still producing hardware.
Isn't that a bit like being between a cock and a hard place?
All sorts of things can, from free radicals, to cell duplication to sun exposure. But in this case they aren't interested in that so much as what about his DNA might have contributed to him surviving that much abuse.
It's hard to say, but he could always just happen to represent the long tail of the distribution.
The problem is that we more or less already have that. It's a type of URI plus some sort of permalink. While the engineering aspect is presumably what the hubbub is about, the reality is that this isn't really any different than creating a link to a short snippet of XML for some bit of info. Similar to I don't know an HTML webpage for a single paragraph or less.
I would recommend against mocking Christian Fundamentalists. Let's see how far you'd progress in 6,000 without benefit of evolution.
In the entirety of human history there've only been 2 earthquakes that one would even consider suggesting had been predicted. And those two were predicted on an extremely tenuous basis one involving missing pets and the other under the as yet unproven radon releases. Perhaps in the future there will be a reasonable means to do so, but I doubt it will happen anytime soon.
I'm writing this sitting in an area that's been predicted to have a massive 8.0+ earthquake for at least the last 30 years. It has yet to hit and while it probably will, that's not a particularly useful prediction.
I'm guessing that they got exactly what they want. Now when they're doing business and somebody asks, the can say the technically correct thing that they won their lawsuit against Spamhaus. Sure it's somewhat misleading, but the amount of money that they aren't losing as a result of this makes up for the fact that the likely won't see a dime from all of this.
Actually, it's the internet so the US could have jurisdiction over it. In this case since they're a British company, it's doubtful that the US has any jurisdiction. This is in contrast to the McKinnon affair where the machines he broke into were located in the US. Now, if Spamhaus has servers outside of Britain, then they'd possibly be in a position to be sued in those parts of the world as well.
But, if you make it more accurate then it actually is a reasonable position. If somebody asks you what you think of Bob and you say that "He's an untrustworthy cheat" and they choose not to do business. You're still lliable for defamation provided you can't cough up evidence that Bob is indeed and untrustworthy cheat.
Which is essentially what happened here, when Spamhaus didn't show up to defend itself the court was forced to rule against it. But even if they had shown up it wouldn't necessarily have been a win as they'd've had to demonstrate that the assertion was reasonable to the relevant legal standard. Or a that the plaintiff hadn't done all they could to minimize the damages (Not sure about Illinois, I know that's the case here in WA)
That's why some health insurance companies provide a complimentary consulting nurse. Basically somebody that's available around the clock to answer those, should I call 911, go to the emergency room, make an appointment or just ignore it suggestions. Obviously they tend to be a bit action biased as doing a screening over the phone isn't easy, but it does help people make better decisions about what is urgent and what can wait.
Depends how it's done. If they manage to make it more of a tricorder eventually including some testing equipment or the photos are sent to somebody with knowledge hen probably not. It's not likely to replace an exam any time soon, but it would be helpful for contacting the consulting nurse as to whether or not to come in for an appointment.
But yes, if it just looks things up without any kind of smarts, then it's most likely just going to make things worse.
And fifteen minutes later, the DHS responds bundling Chrisq up to whatever black site they're currently using for being an al-Qaeda operative.
I don't think you can do that. You can turn it off for applications, but I don't believe that it's completely deactivated. If I'm not mistaken, it's still available to the carrier and to 911 should you call it. Which depending upon the situation might be exactly the people you don't want to know where you are. Which really defeats the purpose of deactivating it. Even before phones came with software for GPS use, phones were already being shipped with GPS. I had a Samsung several years back, which had GPS, all it was for was 911 calls and signal quality. Not sure why they needed GPS for that, but I did notice that my cell reception mysteriously got much worse whenever I'd turn it off.
Or better yet, pay some homeless guy $50 bucks to carry it on the bus all over the city.
Once the company has the information they have little choice but to provide it in cases where there's been a subpoena served. Failing to do so comes with legal consequences. The better question is why are they storing the information in the first place. There's really no valid reason for them to be doing so beyond what's immediately necessary for the transaction. Assuming the user has opted in.
Getting it right is tough. But it isn't really an all or nothing proposition. The problem has been that while lowering taxes does end up lowering funds for the government, all taxes are not created equally. For instance lowering the income tax and increasing the sales tax is a net loss of revenue typically because sales tax inhibits the resource that it taxes. And there's some sort of relationship involving all the way in which the government can tax.
The problem that got us into trouble with the Clinton tax cuts was that there was a corresponding incompetence of the Federal reserve. As in even as the tax rates were going down, the interest rates were also going down because quite frankly supply side economics only works in the specific case where there's insufficient liquidity in the markets. Which most certainly wasn't the case during most of the 90s.
What they should've done was raise personal income tax on high income earners to offset most of the cuts to the capital gains rate. Choked up a bit on the federal reserve rates and applied tax credits for sales tax. Balance that out correctly and you get growth without a lot of unnecessary inflation or deficit spending.
Why it is that we let Federal Reserve, as in the same Federal Reserve that's responsible for creating inflation, regulate inflation is utterly beyond me. Since the quantity of money is the only factor that influences inflation it seems completely insane to let the Federal Reserve blink money into existence without any oversight. It's not terribly surprising that we end up with inflation showing up at the end of recessions. The fact is that the inflation was already there, it just wasn't counted because the money had been removed from the system on a temporary basis.
Yes, you indeed are. What you're missing is that we're already using that energy. Rather than taking energy that's been stored chemically and re-releasing it into the atmosphere along with the emissions, we're somewhat reducing the Albedo. So while it does somewhat increase warming on that front, the overall picture is either no change or a small decline in warming from energy use.
Actually, he tried to give them 60 days, but when it became obvious after 5 that they weren't taking it seriously, he released the exploit. I don't think anybody really believes that he'd report it then release it in that kind of a time span if there wasn't more going on than just that. 60 days is more than enough time for MS to release a proper fix, but the reality is that MS does sit on bug fixes because they can't or won't spend the time to take it seriously.
Whether it's their idea or not, it's a horrible idea. Patches should be released as soon as they're finish, as in finished and received reasonable review. Holding back patches for known flaws is ultimately irresponsible behavior. If a corporation doesn't want to do so constantly, then so be it, give them a tool to do it in that fashion. But as is it's terribly irresponsible.
Given the prevalence of bots in corporate networks, perhaps they shouldn't be given that kind of pull over the security of everybody else.
He's right about that. If they do that then they'll never get onto that nasty virus infested interweb I keep hearing about. Seeing as most OSes have relied upon the open source TCP/IP stack from BSD and a significant portion of websites are served via the likes of Apache and similar open source programs.
If you read the article, the Google security engineer tried for 5 days to negotiate a fixed time table for it to be fixed within. I think it was something like 60 days. MS apparently wasn't too keen on doing it and so he posted the flaw online.
That's the thing MS cries and whines whenever they're outed for being insecure, but when they aren't it seems to take an interminable period of time for them to actually patch the bug. Now, were they to be taking it super seriously so as not to introduce a new flaw that would be understandable. The problem though is that they haven't learned anything from these incidents. They still expect to be able to hold onto fixes until patch Tuesday and hope that nobody notices till then.
Well, they were making a bet that they'd either need the additional power or that they'd get there first eliminating things more quickly. The problem though was that there wasn't any definitive evidence that they needed the extra power and the technology was sufficiently advanced that they screwed up in a few places, giving the guys over in the US the chance to keep plugging away at it. Since technically speaking the Higgs Boson still hasn't been found, the LHC still might do it, but they've lost a lot of time in the search.
I wish I could mod you insightful for that. I'd chock it up to homophobia and women being less enlightened about genitals than men. Despite all the incessant screeching about sexual harassment, women expect an awful lot of tolerance out of men in terms of what we're expected to put up with. TV alone shows a lot of things that I don't want to see about female genitalia and basically nothing about male. Not that I'm complaining about not enough penises on TV, but perhaps less explicit talk about female genitalia is in order.
But then again, supposedly the vagina is in some fashion less freakish than a penis. Don't know why, perhaps it's related to why men need to subsidize women only sexual health care.