I think the OP has been working too many hours. That summary was gibberish. Everyone seems to have reacted to the title and ignored the incoherence in the summary. So, my reaction to 'Are 12-16 hour days productive?' Yes, when they are necessary, but no more so than an eight hour day. Let's face it, we work to get things done and sometimes that takes more than the traditional eight hour work day. I don't condone excessive periods of 12-16 hour days, but I always find I am pulling them from time to time. Hey, if four 12 hour days a week work for you, go for it. To each his/her own. But don't expect everyone to want the same, all the time. Nor, should management expect that all the time. That's just poor management, period.
I hate to say this, but computer science is applied mathematics. If you're not up to taking higher level math courses then you're not going to be a computer scientist. If you really want to go into gaming but don't want to learn math, then I hope you can draw as concept artist may be your only other hope to get into the design side. Otherwise, you're going to have a good time in college trying to figure out what you're gonna be when you grow up. Or, you just won't grow up. Either way, mission accomplished and you get to choose how much math you take. Enjoy!
Neither is what is labeled Agile. Those techniques I learned in architecture school in the early 1990s. We just learned those techniques as how you get things done when designing for other people. No slick name for them. I suspect those techniques had been taught to architects (at the school I went to, anyway) for decades before I got there. Honestly, when I first heard of Agile software development a few years ago I looked it up and went, "Huh, those guidelines are the same 'common-sense' things they taught us in architecture."
What's old is new again, just with a different name. We were using what is now being referenced as Agile and Scrum techniques in the creative world (1990s architecture and art curriculum) long before the CS geeks discovered them and renamed them to try and make them new and exciting. We just called it "the way you get things done when designing for someone else." I have been applying those problem solving techniques in everything I do for years, since deciding architect was not the career for me after getting the degree. The practices are sound and when managed well help to keep projects on track and yet flexible to last minute changes (have you ever worked with a home designer?). I just wish they would ditch the names as with any process that involves best practices and continuous change a label for one set of practices quickly becomes outdated. Why not just call them development best practices with a version or date (kind of like BOCA codes and graphic standards in architecture) and trade in new ones as they arise? That way you're not stuck with a silly name and trying to explain why the old techniques aren't Agile (or Scrum) and the new ones are. Or just Agile 2.0, or something. But then some governing body would have to be formed and approve it. Then the back biting and infighting begins over what is best... Maybe this is why I am going back to the creative world?
Of course their sales are on the rise when there aren't many alternatives if you want a decent new TV. That's like saying TVs with digital tuners are on the rise, duh! 3D has some uses, but it's mostly another ploy by the manufacturers to keep their price points up by making it seem they are adding value to the device. Also, why they still put tuners in monitors (let's face it TVs are just big LCD monitors) by default these days is a little silly if you ask me.
They went through relationship after relationship, meeting asshole after asshole, and finally they decided that if they couldn't have someone who was intelligent, kind, humorous, and compassionate...
Ok, show me these women. I have been looking for one for a long time and can tell you they are as rare as an open source Microsoft product. You either got lucky with your choice or believed everything Mom told you as a kid growing up and are still living in fantasyland. In my experience, most women settle for the least assholish asshole and make due. Us intelligent, kind, humorous and compassionate men usually get used and thrown to the curb for the next exciting bad boy that comes along. I keep looking for those rare gems, so if you know where they are let us all know.
How about, Oh, I dunno. A pictorial map? With a human skull marking each site?
They may dig up one, but after that they should be able to figure out what the other sites are.
I was going to suggest asking Tufte but your idea definitely deserves a "6" because it was certainly one smarter than the rest so far...
Once docked its really not a tablet anymore is it?
Ummm, yeah, why not? It's a wireless keyboard. The same one I use with my Mac mini, and my ps3. So, pairing it with my iPad no longer makes my iPad an iPad? If I also have power and the hdmi output hooked up to my projector, it's no longer an iPad? How's that?
Plus those docks (and BT keyboards) are an overpriced added expense that I've only seen on high end tablets. We are talking about supplies for millions of students at all grade levels. Do you really think its a good idea to have young kids walking class to class with such expensive equipment?
Yes. And, the cost of the iPad and the keyboard are still about as much as a netbook. And when I don't want it hooked up, or if I want to use the good Bluetooth keyboard I paid for with my other devices I will. It's worth it to me. Just like outrageous graphics cards are worth it to serious gamers. And cushy chairs are for people who care about their backs. It's all a matter of opinion and what works for you. Let the student use what works for them. Make content and tools that work everywhere.
Umm, you are completely wrong, sir. There already exists laws on the books for campfires that say if the fire gets out of control it's your fault. There is already precedent in case law for idiots that throw lit cigarettes out of cars and start fires that they are responsible. Quit trying to duck responsibility for your actions. If something *YOU* did started a fire, *YOU* are responsible. Period. Nothing "superficial" about it. And the people that are caught aren't usually turned in or self-sacrificing either. There's usually an investigation into who did it because the responsible party must face justice for their actions. The ones who get caught certainly face stiff fines, bills for cleanup and jail time. I don't see a logical reason why a gun owner would get a pass.
Replace computing with driving and you have an old problem that just carried over from one area to another. I'm sorry, but with age comes experience and those of us that got our hard knocks in the 1990s when the Internet was new (and honestly a lot less scary) know better because we *KNOW* what can happen. Why does it surprise anyone that inexperience and hubris would lead to problems like lax security? Wow!
if the fake accounts were loading ads, yes, otherwise no way
I'm sorry, but I'm not gonna buy that from anyone who isn't a lawyer, and that might be true where you live but might not in every locale. If you pretend to be something else for monetary gain with the express purpose of manipulation, that's fraud. Not acting, fraud. Something tells me this admission by the co-founder may come back to bite him and Reddit. I know I will never go there after this. BTW, how do you separate fake account posts and non-fake posts from ads when they appear on the same page? I've been developing websites for a long time and don't know a way to do that. You can have ads not appear for some users, but the ads will display to everyone else that also has a post on the page. So, yeah, fraud. And you can't tell me they "filtered" out their hits from the impressions either, or did they tell all their advertisers that some of their posts were fake? Yeah, right.
Wouldn't what they did constitute fraud and manipulation and put them in an actionable position from their advertisers and/or actual human users, if not criminal in some locales? It's wholly unethical at best and I have been asked to create fake accounts and posts by some of my web clients and have told them so. That's just so wrong on so many levels.
My college required me to take four semesters of calc as a CS major and that was a harsh reality indeed.
HUH?!?!? I don't even have anything to liken that utterly mind boggling statement to. Computer Science *IS* applied mathematics. Did you expect to take basket weaving for four semesters? Why was it surprising that as a CS major you would have to take a lot of math classes?
The lad is going to college and probably be away from home for the first time. He needs to get to know people at the department where he will be for the next four to ten years depending on his career. He should be asking them what they might have to do with respect to your first suggestion, do the second one if he feels like it and has something to contribute at this stage of his career, and good luck with the third suggestion. It's either something he could get expelled for (depending on the institution) or just not have access to unless you're enrolled in the class. Most schools are NOT like MIT and give their stuff away for free. I worked for a major research university for almost 20 years and they didn't give a whole lot of homework and last year's info out for free let alone to anyone not enrolled in the class. Most of them cut the students off from access to Sakai (Course Management System) for all but grades when the course ends, actually.
He should talk to the school. Find out if there is something he can get involved with THERE this summer so he knows people when he gets there. Nothing is more valuable for an incoming student than knowing people in the administration or faculty day one of classes. I should know, I was a student, a faculty member and an administrator.
Seriously. Talk to the CS department at the school where you were accepted. If they have summer sessions or camps, there might be something you can get involved in and get paid. It would be a tremendous opportunity for you to meet different professors, the administration you will be dealing with and get to know some people still in high school that might be in summer camps offered at the school. The only other thing I could add would have already been suggested. This might have too! But, the bottom line is you will have plenty of summers to get experience working ahead of you, and those opportunities might be better if you befriend the right people and do good work. Or, you might get inside, not like CS and save yourself a lot of hassle changing majors now rather than later.
E = mc. How long did it take to find that formula, and how long does it take to describe it to the pupils?
That's not describing meaning. Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared (the description), takes longer to write and say than E = mc^2. Try again!
The judge has clearly anticipated the appeal, even devoting an entire section to explaining how utterly trivial the 9 lines of actually copied code are...
It is amusing. The judge probably spent several orders of magnitude longer explaining why the lines were trivial than the time it would take to the write the function in the first place.
Why is that insightful? Everything takes longer to describe than it does to create. Duh
I'm not saying I *want* the judges to be ignorant of the topics they preside over, but having well-informed judges is a sticky problem.
I know a bunch of lawyers and some judges and I (and they) would disagree with you on that point wholeheartedly. Why, because with knowledge comes the ability to recognize shenanigans going on, like in this case particularly. The judge was a programmer, not as a trade but as a hobby, and that familiarity was an asset to the outcome of the decision and not a liability. Now the plantiff might argue that they may have won with a less informed judge, but then that's not justice is it. That's getting away with something wrong. I don't see this getting an appeal. Another court would have a hard time justifying hearing the case if all or at least some of the judges in the appeal weren't also programmers. Judges aren't usually dummies, and will only hear an appeal if THEY feel that the previous court did not consider something or may have mishandled something. Plus, there are often long instructive periods that lawyers will go through to get judges up to speed that may not be as savvy as Alsup. There's been a case a buddy of mine has been working on for years now and most of that has been in discovery and educating the judge. I just don't see any grounds for appeal from this case, and if a court did decide to hear the appeal I can imagine that several other higher courts would be watching very intently due to the nature of the original decision.
I agree, but what makes me ponder is that the European court said to allow copyright on an API would allow monopolizing ideas. Isn't that what allowing business rules patents does? Ie patent ideas? Hopefully, somehow, Alsup's logic pervades into the business rule / software patent realm and blots out this travesty of justice too.
Patents do expire, where copyright has been continuously extended (in the U.S. anyway) to near eternity.
Who is God's most valuable employee?
Satan.
Obviously still in the old man's employ, otherwise he would have setup a paradise to reward those who turned against the Big Beard, not inflict endless agony on (only!) those who didn't tow the party line.
There is plenty of silliness in the Abrahamic religions (just like all the rest), but this flaw shows up before you can even utter 'In the beginning...'
Ummm, me thinks you need to read the Bible again. Satan doesn't just punish those that stray. He is actively trying to get people to stray, AND he enjoys torturing people and making them suffer in Hell. Hell is Lucifer's paradise, duh. I may not believe, but I know.
First, let me say that your post was nice, well written and well thought out, but let me address a couple of things.
The interesting thing is that choosing go(o)d requires explicit choice and effort from us, while choosing (d)evil pretty much just happens like a default setting.
Ummm, no. Every action by man (good or not) requires choice. By deciding not to choose, you still have chosen.
And please do not underestimate the fairy tales. They hold much truth. It is just too often that people from fields related to hard sciences find in hard to accept that there might be message in between the lines.
Again, you are on a slippery slope. If you are saying all fairy tales contain "truth", you are correct. If you are saying all fairy tales contain "fact", you are in a fix. Most fairy tales are based on legend or mythology. Both legend and mythology (another name for an outdated religion, GASP!) contain bits of fact; real people, real places, real deeds, etc. But, like any good story they contain... imbelishments. Now, these imbelishments are added either as part of the oral telling of the story as it changes over time as people forget or add pieces, or are added just to make the story more appealing or relevant. In the case of the Christian Bible we have a book of parables that was compiled from legend and mythology. To believe ALL of it as "fact" is naive at best, but to see the "truth" in the stories does not require belief in the God that they supposedly honor just as morality does not require religious belief.
Not sure how exciting this is, as they needed physical access to the chip to get anything out of it.
If the EEPROM was reprogrammed/wiped wouldn't the backdoor in the hardware be closed (except for the physical access hole)? Call me crazy, but doesn't a backdoor need to be activated in order to work? Again, you might be able to tease it open with physical access, but I am not seeing how this could be a major deal for operational gear unless the EEPROM contained a trigger. Can anyone with an FPGA background elaborate?
These changes, if spatially large enough, might have noticeable impacts on local to regional weather and climate.
I think the implication is that a world covered in wind farms would experience climate change, which is improbably indeed
Umm, no. From a few sentences around the quote you cherry picked FTFA:
However Prof Zhou pointed out the most extreme changes were just at night and the overall changes may be smaller.
Also, it is much smaller than the estimated change caused by other factors such as man made global warming.
“Overall, the warming effect reported in this study is local and is small compared to the strong background year-to-year land surface temperature changes,” he added.
The study read: "Despite debates regarding the possible impacts of wind farms on regional to global scale weather and climate, modelling studies agree that they can significantly affect local scale meteorology."
The effect is localized, remains localized, and does not have anywhere near the same impact as "other factors such as man made global warming". The use of the word "extreme" to categorize a 1.37F change in overnight temperatures in a ten year period is a bit, well, extreme. It's good that they did notice this effect and my guess is something will be done to the turbine design to mitigate this 0.72C (1.37F) over ten years change in localized, overnight temperatures near wind turbines. This is much ado about nothing but I am sure the climate change extremists will be all over it, while the rest of us who do believe and are trying to do something rational about climate change will put this on a low priority. The benefits of renewable energy still outweigh that ridiculously low cost with current turbine designs. If things stay static this might be a problem. Given that the research is out, I am sure there will be a reaction. The important thing is not to come unhinged and react a bit too wildly to every bit of negative data that comes up. This is really not that big a problem it can't be designed or engineered around, and I believe even Prof. Zhou would agree.
Avoiding anti-malware in order to "enhance performance" is about as rational and well-planned as avoiding condoms for the same reason, and generally produces the same results.
My machine could get pregnant? What?! What?! What?!
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I think the OP has been working too many hours. That summary was gibberish. Everyone seems to have reacted to the title and ignored the incoherence in the summary. So, my reaction to 'Are 12-16 hour days productive?' Yes, when they are necessary, but no more so than an eight hour day. Let's face it, we work to get things done and sometimes that takes more than the traditional eight hour work day. I don't condone excessive periods of 12-16 hour days, but I always find I am pulling them from time to time. Hey, if four 12 hour days a week work for you, go for it. To each his/her own. But don't expect everyone to want the same, all the time. Nor, should management expect that all the time. That's just poor management, period.
I hate to say this, but computer science is applied mathematics. If you're not up to taking higher level math courses then you're not going to be a computer scientist. If you really want to go into gaming but don't want to learn math, then I hope you can draw as concept artist may be your only other hope to get into the design side. Otherwise, you're going to have a good time in college trying to figure out what you're gonna be when you grow up. Or, you just won't grow up. Either way, mission accomplished and you get to choose how much math you take. Enjoy!
Neither is what is labeled Agile. Those techniques I learned in architecture school in the early 1990s. We just learned those techniques as how you get things done when designing for other people. No slick name for them. I suspect those techniques had been taught to architects (at the school I went to, anyway) for decades before I got there. Honestly, when I first heard of Agile software development a few years ago I looked it up and went, "Huh, those guidelines are the same 'common-sense' things they taught us in architecture."
What's old is new again, just with a different name. We were using what is now being referenced as Agile and Scrum techniques in the creative world (1990s architecture and art curriculum) long before the CS geeks discovered them and renamed them to try and make them new and exciting. We just called it "the way you get things done when designing for someone else." I have been applying those problem solving techniques in everything I do for years, since deciding architect was not the career for me after getting the degree. The practices are sound and when managed well help to keep projects on track and yet flexible to last minute changes (have you ever worked with a home designer?). I just wish they would ditch the names as with any process that involves best practices and continuous change a label for one set of practices quickly becomes outdated. Why not just call them development best practices with a version or date (kind of like BOCA codes and graphic standards in architecture) and trade in new ones as they arise? That way you're not stuck with a silly name and trying to explain why the old techniques aren't Agile (or Scrum) and the new ones are. Or just Agile 2.0, or something. But then some governing body would have to be formed and approve it. Then the back biting and infighting begins over what is best ... Maybe this is why I am going back to the creative world?
and while 3-D television sales are rising
Of course their sales are on the rise when there aren't many alternatives if you want a decent new TV. That's like saying TVs with digital tuners are on the rise, duh! 3D has some uses, but it's mostly another ploy by the manufacturers to keep their price points up by making it seem they are adding value to the device. Also, why they still put tuners in monitors (let's face it TVs are just big LCD monitors) by default these days is a little silly if you ask me.
They went through relationship after relationship, meeting asshole after asshole, and finally they decided that if they couldn't have someone who was intelligent, kind, humorous, and compassionate...
Ok, show me these women. I have been looking for one for a long time and can tell you they are as rare as an open source Microsoft product. You either got lucky with your choice or believed everything Mom told you as a kid growing up and are still living in fantasyland. In my experience, most women settle for the least assholish asshole and make due. Us intelligent, kind, humorous and compassionate men usually get used and thrown to the curb for the next exciting bad boy that comes along. I keep looking for those rare gems, so if you know where they are let us all know.
How about, Oh, I dunno. A pictorial map? With a human skull marking each site? They may dig up one, but after that they should be able to figure out what the other sites are.
I was going to suggest asking Tufte but your idea definitely deserves a "6" because it was certainly one smarter than the rest so far...
...but not much data on anyone else in the country back then, even your local lord, let alone Bob the village idiot.
I thought his name was Jorge Manuel? See it was only 18 minutes between comments and that info decayed!
Once docked its really not a tablet anymore is it?
Ummm, yeah, why not? It's a wireless keyboard. The same one I use with my Mac mini, and my ps3. So, pairing it with my iPad no longer makes my iPad an iPad? If I also have power and the hdmi output hooked up to my projector, it's no longer an iPad? How's that?
Plus those docks (and BT keyboards) are an overpriced added expense that I've only seen on high end tablets. We are talking about supplies for millions of students at all grade levels. Do you really think its a good idea to have young kids walking class to class with such expensive equipment?
Yes. And, the cost of the iPad and the keyboard are still about as much as a netbook. And when I don't want it hooked up, or if I want to use the good Bluetooth keyboard I paid for with my other devices I will. It's worth it to me. Just like outrageous graphics cards are worth it to serious gamers. And cushy chairs are for people who care about their backs. It's all a matter of opinion and what works for you. Let the student use what works for them. Make content and tools that work everywhere.
Umm, you are completely wrong, sir. There already exists laws on the books for campfires that say if the fire gets out of control it's your fault. There is already precedent in case law for idiots that throw lit cigarettes out of cars and start fires that they are responsible. Quit trying to duck responsibility for your actions. If something *YOU* did started a fire, *YOU* are responsible. Period. Nothing "superficial" about it. And the people that are caught aren't usually turned in or self-sacrificing either. There's usually an investigation into who did it because the responsible party must face justice for their actions. The ones who get caught certainly face stiff fines, bills for cleanup and jail time. I don't see a logical reason why a gun owner would get a pass.
Replace computing with driving and you have an old problem that just carried over from one area to another. I'm sorry, but with age comes experience and those of us that got our hard knocks in the 1990s when the Internet was new (and honestly a lot less scary) know better because we *KNOW* what can happen. Why does it surprise anyone that inexperience and hubris would lead to problems like lax security? Wow!
if the fake accounts were loading ads, yes, otherwise no way
I'm sorry, but I'm not gonna buy that from anyone who isn't a lawyer, and that might be true where you live but might not in every locale. If you pretend to be something else for monetary gain with the express purpose of manipulation, that's fraud. Not acting, fraud. Something tells me this admission by the co-founder may come back to bite him and Reddit. I know I will never go there after this. BTW, how do you separate fake account posts and non-fake posts from ads when they appear on the same page? I've been developing websites for a long time and don't know a way to do that. You can have ads not appear for some users, but the ads will display to everyone else that also has a post on the page. So, yeah, fraud. And you can't tell me they "filtered" out their hits from the impressions either, or did they tell all their advertisers that some of their posts were fake? Yeah, right.
Wouldn't what they did constitute fraud and manipulation and put them in an actionable position from their advertisers and/or actual human users, if not criminal in some locales? It's wholly unethical at best and I have been asked to create fake accounts and posts by some of my web clients and have told them so. That's just so wrong on so many levels.
My college required me to take four semesters of calc as a CS major and that was a harsh reality indeed.
HUH?!?!? I don't even have anything to liken that utterly mind boggling statement to. Computer Science *IS* applied mathematics. Did you expect to take basket weaving for four semesters? Why was it surprising that as a CS major you would have to take a lot of math classes?
The lad is going to college and probably be away from home for the first time. He needs to get to know people at the department where he will be for the next four to ten years depending on his career. He should be asking them what they might have to do with respect to your first suggestion, do the second one if he feels like it and has something to contribute at this stage of his career, and good luck with the third suggestion. It's either something he could get expelled for (depending on the institution) or just not have access to unless you're enrolled in the class. Most schools are NOT like MIT and give their stuff away for free. I worked for a major research university for almost 20 years and they didn't give a whole lot of homework and last year's info out for free let alone to anyone not enrolled in the class. Most of them cut the students off from access to Sakai (Course Management System) for all but grades when the course ends, actually.
He should talk to the school. Find out if there is something he can get involved with THERE this summer so he knows people when he gets there. Nothing is more valuable for an incoming student than knowing people in the administration or faculty day one of classes. I should know, I was a student, a faculty member and an administrator.
Seriously. Talk to the CS department at the school where you were accepted. If they have summer sessions or camps, there might be something you can get involved in and get paid. It would be a tremendous opportunity for you to meet different professors, the administration you will be dealing with and get to know some people still in high school that might be in summer camps offered at the school. The only other thing I could add would have already been suggested. This might have too! But, the bottom line is you will have plenty of summers to get experience working ahead of you, and those opportunities might be better if you befriend the right people and do good work. Or, you might get inside, not like CS and save yourself a lot of hassle changing majors now rather than later.
E = mc. How long did it take to find that formula, and how long does it take to describe it to the pupils?
That's not describing meaning. Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared (the description), takes longer to write and say than E = mc^2. Try again!
The judge has clearly anticipated the appeal, even devoting an entire section to explaining how utterly trivial the 9 lines of actually copied code are...
It is amusing. The judge probably spent several orders of magnitude longer explaining why the lines were trivial than the time it would take to the write the function in the first place.
Why is that insightful? Everything takes longer to describe than it does to create. Duh
I'm not saying I *want* the judges to be ignorant of the topics they preside over, but having well-informed judges is a sticky problem.
I know a bunch of lawyers and some judges and I (and they) would disagree with you on that point wholeheartedly. Why, because with knowledge comes the ability to recognize shenanigans going on, like in this case particularly. The judge was a programmer, not as a trade but as a hobby, and that familiarity was an asset to the outcome of the decision and not a liability. Now the plantiff might argue that they may have won with a less informed judge, but then that's not justice is it. That's getting away with something wrong. I don't see this getting an appeal. Another court would have a hard time justifying hearing the case if all or at least some of the judges in the appeal weren't also programmers. Judges aren't usually dummies, and will only hear an appeal if THEY feel that the previous court did not consider something or may have mishandled something. Plus, there are often long instructive periods that lawyers will go through to get judges up to speed that may not be as savvy as Alsup. There's been a case a buddy of mine has been working on for years now and most of that has been in discovery and educating the judge. I just don't see any grounds for appeal from this case, and if a court did decide to hear the appeal I can imagine that several other higher courts would be watching very intently due to the nature of the original decision.
I agree, but what makes me ponder is that the European court said to allow copyright on an API would allow monopolizing ideas. Isn't that what allowing business rules patents does? Ie patent ideas? Hopefully, somehow, Alsup's logic pervades into the business rule / software patent realm and blots out this travesty of justice too.
Patents do expire, where copyright has been continuously extended (in the U.S. anyway) to near eternity.
Who is God's most valuable employee? Satan. Obviously still in the old man's employ, otherwise he would have setup a paradise to reward those who turned against the Big Beard, not inflict endless agony on (only!) those who didn't tow the party line. There is plenty of silliness in the Abrahamic religions (just like all the rest), but this flaw shows up before you can even utter 'In the beginning...'
Ummm, me thinks you need to read the Bible again. Satan doesn't just punish those that stray. He is actively trying to get people to stray, AND he enjoys torturing people and making them suffer in Hell. Hell is Lucifer's paradise, duh. I may not believe, but I know.
First, let me say that your post was nice, well written and well thought out, but let me address a couple of things.
The interesting thing is that choosing go(o)d requires explicit choice and effort from us, while choosing (d)evil pretty much just happens like a default setting.
Ummm, no. Every action by man (good or not) requires choice. By deciding not to choose, you still have chosen.
And please do not underestimate the fairy tales. They hold much truth. It is just too often that people from fields related to hard sciences find in hard to accept that there might be message in between the lines.
Again, you are on a slippery slope. If you are saying all fairy tales contain "truth", you are correct. If you are saying all fairy tales contain "fact", you are in a fix. Most fairy tales are based on legend or mythology. Both legend and mythology (another name for an outdated religion, GASP!) contain bits of fact; real people, real places, real deeds, etc. But, like any good story they contain ... imbelishments. Now, these imbelishments are added either as part of the oral telling of the story as it changes over time as people forget or add pieces, or are added just to make the story more appealing or relevant. In the case of the Christian Bible we have a book of parables that was compiled from legend and mythology. To believe ALL of it as "fact" is naive at best, but to see the "truth" in the stories does not require belief in the God that they supposedly honor just as morality does not require religious belief.
A
"And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death." It doesn't "kill your children", it says they'll die.
B
The sooner an atheist can parse a sentence without reading shit into it htat isn't actually there, the better.
A. Put to death means kill. Yep. Look it up.
B. The pot called and said, "You're black!"
Not sure how exciting this is, as they needed physical access to the chip to get anything out of it.
If the EEPROM was reprogrammed/wiped wouldn't the backdoor in the hardware be closed (except for the physical access hole)? Call me crazy, but doesn't a backdoor need to be activated in order to work? Again, you might be able to tease it open with physical access, but I am not seeing how this could be a major deal for operational gear unless the EEPROM contained a trigger. Can anyone with an FPGA background elaborate?
These changes, if spatially large enough, might have noticeable impacts on local to regional weather and climate.
I think the implication is that a world covered in wind farms would experience climate change, which is improbably indeed
Umm, no. From a few sentences around the quote you cherry picked FTFA:
However Prof Zhou pointed out the most extreme changes were just at night and the overall changes may be smaller.
Also, it is much smaller than the estimated change caused by other factors such as man made global warming.
“Overall, the warming effect reported in this study is local and is small compared to the strong background year-to-year land surface temperature changes,” he added.
The study read: "Despite debates regarding the possible impacts of wind farms on regional to global scale weather and climate, modelling studies agree that they can significantly affect local scale meteorology."
The effect is localized, remains localized, and does not have anywhere near the same impact as "other factors such as man made global warming". The use of the word "extreme" to categorize a 1.37F change in overnight temperatures in a ten year period is a bit, well, extreme. It's good that they did notice this effect and my guess is something will be done to the turbine design to mitigate this 0.72C (1.37F) over ten years change in localized, overnight temperatures near wind turbines. This is much ado about nothing but I am sure the climate change extremists will be all over it, while the rest of us who do believe and are trying to do something rational about climate change will put this on a low priority. The benefits of renewable energy still outweigh that ridiculously low cost with current turbine designs. If things stay static this might be a problem. Given that the research is out, I am sure there will be a reaction. The important thing is not to come unhinged and react a bit too wildly to every bit of negative data that comes up. This is really not that big a problem it can't be designed or engineered around, and I believe even Prof. Zhou would agree.
Avoiding anti-malware in order to "enhance performance" is about as rational and well-planned as avoiding condoms for the same reason, and generally produces the same results.
My machine could get pregnant? What?! What?! What?!