I am reminded of the anti-piratbyran (anti-pirate bureau) terrorizing Sweden, to which the response was for that nation's people to create piratbyran (pirate bureau).
If there is a "serious organized crime agency" terrorizing the UK, perhaps it is time for that nation's people to create an anti serious organized crime agency?
You mean people should become ineligible for extradition if they flee to a country where their act is legal? If someone has underage sex in the U.S. he can then flee to a country where the act would be legal, and he would be in the clear?
That's a sickening but very powerful argument. My instant reaction is that they should extradite in that case, but that would make me a hypocrite regarding my previous statement.
Can't we extradite all child rapists to Saudi-Arabia , so they can't torture and kill them, and leave journalists alone ?
What I find most despicable, is that Interpol did this. I assume tweeting the above text is not a felony in Kuala Lumpur, so they have no business doing this.
Does this mean that Interpol could arrest me, just for posting the following text :
"'I have loved things about you and I have hated things about you and there is a lot I don't understand about you I will not pray for you"
It's not even clear it's talking about Saudi-Arabia.
I don't think it's a good idea too automate it, and it also shouldn't be used as a selection process, because then people start to be afraid of commiting, causing them to delay it, which will result in more merge conflicts.
On the other hand, it can be very useful at the end of a project, to discussed the lessons learned, since you have the full history.
As a developer, I want to code efficiently, and meet my deadlines. I have a much cheaper suggestion : 'The Clean Coder' , by Robert C Martin .
Regarding you age-ist comment : I'm 25 , and I have known since before I was 18, how bad my government is at investing money. The banks are not much better. Anyway, nothing we can do about it. It's not like voting will change anything about the laws the EU passes. They decide and that's the end of it.
If they don't peek inside the software, how will they know how safe it is ? If someone comes to check the electric wiring in your house, would you accept it if they only looked at the outside ?
I have seen enough software to know that just because 'experts' created them , it doesn't mean i'd trust my life with it. I would certainly not go with the latest and greatest device for my heart. It should be as rigorously tested as a Debian stable release.
So because it's difficult, we should just trust the manufacturers ?
She is not saying that all pacemakers should be open sourced btw , she just wants to be sure the device is safe. You need an external party that reviews the device and software thoroughly ( which is not happening for the software currently ).
That's the only way to insure that it's safe ( you cannot just trust the company on this, there are too many lives at stake ).
It depends on what you mean with 'repressing violence' :
Showing violent cartoons to kids is bad, not directly because it's violence, but because they don't yet think critically about it. So if they see a mouse achieve something trough violence, they will make the connection violence solves problems.
On the other hand, the topic of violence should not be avoided either : too many people are ignorant of violence, until they get robbed,stabbed, etc... And then they don't know how to react. So I think it's a topic that should be studied, if only to better protect yourself from it
No, it doesn't make any difference : TPB has been using magnets for about a year, and i have always used that. Most clients just integrate with the magnet link , so you don't even have to store it anywhere seperately.
Not sure why they bother though : a torrent file is not much bigger than a magnet link ( infact they kind of due the same thing ).
It's not wrong to believe that what's bad for you , must be bad for someone else also , and therefore not wishing it upon that other person. It's called the Golden Rule , and it concerns every breathing thing on the planet.
People in different places have different opinions. But that also includes us ( strange that you don't want to enforce freedom of expression on them, but you have no problem enforcing it on us. Did you ever consider that us and them might be the same ).
Sorry to mention these sad facts, but there were cases of cut fingers to steal an expensive car with biometrics security, to get pension money instead of a dead man, etc.
Biometrics are known to turn a trivial crime into serious one.
That will only happen, if you use biometrics to authenticate ( which is stupid) . Use it to identify , and there is no reason anyone should cut off your fingers, because they would still need your password. And as I said, biometrics can fail , so there should always be a fallback system.
I never said you need biometrics for identification, it's a choice. A badge requiring a pin is a very good example of identification and authentication used correctly.
An advantage of biometrics could be that you don't have to worry about losing your badge. You always have your eyes and fingers with you ? Offcourse, there should always be a fallback where you can type your username, incase something goes wrong ( biometrics can fail to detect you , and a badge can malfunction ).
Biometrics are a form of identification , not authentication. It should always be used in conjunction with authentication, not to replace authentication.
It's still very usefull , because it saves time : you don't have to fill in your login id : the systems knows who you claim to be, and just requires your password to confirm it.
So it can replace the userid , but never the password.
It also depends on previous skills : if you know other programming languages, it's not that hard to learn a new one, because the concepts are familiar. However, if you never did any sort of programming, you first need to learn that.
However, to be a professional programmer, you need practice, otherwise it's going to take too long for you to write any production code.
It's like muscle memory : You should no longer have to think about syntax : you just think ' i need to iterate this list ' , and your fingers write a for loop . It's similar to martial arts , in that there you will think : evade, defend low, counter attack , floor , etc... but you shouldn't have to think about the separate techniques.
Regarding the article : The idea of CodeAcademy is great for teaching programming , but it shouldn't be just to get a high pay job. That feels like cheating your boss.
Blocking The Pirate Bay, is also suppressing freedom of speech. There's a blog on it, for example. Someone could also use it too hosts it's own creations, and ask feedback on it trough the comments. And it could be used to host content criticizing a regime, controversial opinions , etc...
The Pirate Bay does advocate free speech, though obviously they see it broader ( freedom of information ).
So any country blocking TPB , is fighting piracy ( though very unsuccessfully ) , and is suppressing freedom of speech at the same time. Any file sharer will find a way to work around it, so this does nothing to stop piracy. Torrents and magnet links remain accessible.
However, actual free speech, like the opinions of users, blog entries, are now inaccessible to the user just wants to visit the site . So it does a lot more harm to free speech, then that it does anything against piracy.
No, actually the guy is a racist moron. No where is that OP lamenting the fact that her race had to be pointed out. He's saying the reason the manned space program went to hell was because of "diversity" which is dog whistle language for "affirmative action". We say "the first man in space, the first Israeli in space, etc; so what's wrong with pointing out that this was the first black female to go in to space?
I see no evidence of it of the above post. It's probably meant as sarcasm, which is often misinterpreted here. The point is, race is not valid in this case : expertise is.
So the people who say : 'Look : we have a first African American astronaut ' , are making a distinction based on race, which is also racism.
A real problem would be, if they start selecting people on the basis of race ( quota ) , instead of expertise . I'm not saying that's what happened here, but it does happen in other places. This is not fair to other candidates, and makes it much harder for the selected to proof themselves ( as everyone thinks they got the job due to their race ).
Anyway, i wish her well, and i hope she can ignore this nonsense and do a great job there.
It's been very clear for me, that climate is behaving very strangely the last years where i live : ( a very wet previous autumn, a very cold winter with a lot more snow , a very warm spring , a very cold summer , a very dry autumn , a very mild winter , with occasional heavy storms )
My guess is that out of balance now, which is why we get such strange weather.
Through a cooperative partnership with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), TSA personnel assist us at some of the inspection sites. There[sic; emphasis mine] authority to assist is derived from 49 U.S.C. Â 114(d). Pub.L. 107-71
Ah, I see English education is alive and well in the great Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The same school system that taught me American history through just before, but not including, the Civil War. (Really. Although said history teacher was later fired about a decade later for unrelated reasons. So there's that?)
I make those mistakes myself sometimes, but I wonder : Are they saying : "The authority of the TSA personnel is derived from.. " => Their Or are they saying : " On the inspection sites , the authority to assist is derived from " => There
No need : Suing over something as trivial as a search result, certainly defines them as crooked to me.
I mean, that's just a combination of words, right . I'm sure you can type any company name, and some bad word in Google , and you will find a search result on it.
you do know that could evaluate to false as well right?
If workers are productive, and they feel that they are ( they feel their work really amounts to something ) , they will in fact be much happier then if their works seems pointless.
Well , thunder and lightning 'outside the office' also helps . There's nothing like looking out the window at rain,wind and lightning, to remind you that office job really isn't so bad.
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I am reminded of the anti-piratbyran (anti-pirate bureau) terrorizing Sweden, to which the response was for that nation's people to create piratbyran (pirate bureau).
If there is a "serious organized crime agency" terrorizing the UK, perhaps it is time for that nation's people to create an anti serious organized crime agency?
Ludicrous Organized Crime Agency : LOCA
You mean people should become ineligible for extradition if they flee to a country where their act is legal? If someone has underage sex in the U.S. he can then flee to a country where the act would be legal, and he would be in the clear?
That's a sickening but very powerful argument.
My instant reaction is that they should extradite in that case, but that would make me a hypocrite regarding my previous statement.
Can't we extradite all child rapists to Saudi-Arabia , so they can't torture and kill them, and leave journalists alone ?
What I find most despicable, is that Interpol did this.
I assume tweeting the above text is not a felony in Kuala Lumpur, so they have no business doing this.
Does this mean that Interpol could arrest me, just for posting the following text :
"'I have loved things about you and I have hated things about you and there is a lot I don't understand about you I will not pray for you"
It's not even clear it's talking about Saudi-Arabia.
I don't think it's a good idea too automate it, and it also shouldn't be used as a selection process, because then people start to be afraid of commiting, causing them to delay it, which will result in more merge conflicts.
On the other hand, it can be very useful at the end of a project, to discussed the lessons learned, since you have the full history.
As a developer, I want to code efficiently, and meet my deadlines.
I have a much cheaper suggestion : 'The Clean Coder' , by Robert C Martin .
"It is our policy , not to negotiate with terrorists".
I'm pretty sure that was sarcasm.
Regarding you age-ist comment : I'm 25 , and I have known since before I was 18, how bad my government is at investing money. The banks are not much better.
Anyway, nothing we can do about it. It's not like voting will change anything about the laws the EU passes. They decide and that's the end of it.
If they don't peek inside the software, how will they know how safe it is ?
If someone comes to check the electric wiring in your house, would you accept it if they only looked at the outside ?
I have seen enough software to know that just because 'experts' created them , it doesn't mean i'd trust my life with it.
I would certainly not go with the latest and greatest device for my heart. It should be as rigorously tested as a Debian stable release.
So because it's difficult, we should just trust the manufacturers ?
She is not saying that all pacemakers should be open sourced btw , she just wants to be sure the device is safe.
You need an external party that reviews the device and software thoroughly ( which is not happening for the software currently ).
That's the only way to insure that it's safe ( you cannot just trust the company on this, there are too many lives at stake ).
It depends on what you mean with 'repressing violence' :
Showing violent cartoons to kids is bad, not directly because it's violence, but because they don't yet think critically about it. So if they see a mouse achieve something trough violence, they will make the connection violence solves problems.
On the other hand, the topic of violence should not be avoided either : too many people are ignorant of violence, until they get robbed,stabbed, etc... And then they don't know how to react. So I think it's a topic that should be studied, if only to better protect yourself from it
No, it doesn't make any difference : TPB has been using magnets for about a year, and i have always used that.
Most clients just integrate with the magnet link , so you don't even have to store it anywhere seperately.
Not sure why they bother though : a torrent file is not much bigger than a magnet link ( infact they kind of due the same thing ).
When you get that copy, let me know. I'll help seed it.
It's not wrong to believe that what's bad for you , must be bad for someone else also , and therefore not wishing it upon that other person.
It's called the Golden Rule , and it concerns every breathing thing on the planet.
People in different places have different opinions. But that also includes us ( strange that you don't want to enforce freedom of expression on them, but you have no problem enforcing it on us. Did you ever consider that us and them might be the same ).
You always have your eyes and fingers with you ?
Sorry to mention these sad facts, but there were cases of cut fingers to steal an expensive car with biometrics security, to get pension money instead of a dead man, etc.
Biometrics are known to turn a trivial crime into serious one.
That will only happen, if you use biometrics to authenticate ( which is stupid) . Use it to identify , and there is no reason anyone should cut off your fingers, because they would still need your password. And as I said, biometrics can fail , so there should always be a fallback system.
I never said you need biometrics for identification, it's a choice.
A badge requiring a pin is a very good example of identification and authentication used correctly.
An advantage of biometrics could be that you don't have to worry about losing your badge. You always have your eyes and fingers with you ?
Offcourse, there should always be a fallback where you can type your username, incase something goes wrong ( biometrics can fail to detect you , and a badge can malfunction ).
Biometrics are a form of identification , not authentication.
It should always be used in conjunction with authentication, not to replace authentication.
It's still very usefull , because it saves time : you don't have to fill in your login id : the systems knows who you claim to be, and just requires your password to confirm it.
So it can replace the userid , but never the password.
It also depends on previous skills : if you know other programming languages, it's not that hard to learn a new one, because the concepts are familiar.
However, if you never did any sort of programming, you first need to learn that.
However, to be a professional programmer, you need practice, otherwise it's going to take too long for you to write any production code.
It's like muscle memory : You should no longer have to think about syntax : you just think ' i need to iterate this list ' , and your fingers write a for loop . ... but you shouldn't have to think about the separate techniques.
It's similar to martial arts , in that there you will think : evade, defend low, counter attack , floor , etc
Regarding the article : The idea of CodeAcademy is great for teaching programming , but it shouldn't be just to get a high pay job. That feels like cheating your boss.
How do you write such a large post, and still end up first ?
Blocking The Pirate Bay, is also suppressing freedom of speech. There's a blog on it, for example.
Someone could also use it too hosts it's own creations, and ask feedback on it trough the comments.
And it could be used to host content criticizing a regime, controversial opinions , etc...
The Pirate Bay does advocate free speech, though obviously they see it broader ( freedom of information ).
So any country blocking TPB , is fighting piracy ( though very unsuccessfully ) , and is suppressing freedom of speech at the same time.
Any file sharer will find a way to work around it, so this does nothing to stop piracy. Torrents and magnet links remain accessible.
However, actual free speech, like the opinions of users, blog entries, are now inaccessible to the user just wants to visit the site .
So it does a lot more harm to free speech, then that it does anything against piracy.
No, actually the guy is a racist moron. No where is that OP lamenting the fact that her race had to be pointed out. He's saying the reason the manned space program went to hell was because of "diversity" which is dog whistle language for "affirmative action". We say "the first man in space, the first Israeli in space, etc; so what's wrong with pointing out that this was the first black female to go in to space?
I see no evidence of it of the above post. It's probably meant as sarcasm, which is often misinterpreted here.
The point is, race is not valid in this case : expertise is.
So the people who say : 'Look : we have a first African American astronaut ' , are making a distinction based on race, which is also racism.
A real problem would be, if they start selecting people on the basis of race ( quota ) , instead of expertise . I'm not saying that's what happened here, but it does happen in other places. This is not fair to other candidates, and makes it much harder for the selected to proof themselves ( as everyone thinks they got the job due to their race ).
Anyway, i wish her well, and i hope she can ignore this nonsense and do a great job there.
It's been very clear for me, that climate is behaving very strangely the last years where i live : ( a very wet previous autumn, a very cold winter with a lot more snow , a very warm spring , a very cold summer , a very dry autumn , a very mild winter , with occasional heavy storms )
My guess is that out of balance now, which is why we get such strange weather.
From the same link:
Through a cooperative partnership with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), TSA personnel assist us at some of the inspection sites. There [sic; emphasis mine] authority to assist is derived from 49 U.S.C. Â 114(d). Pub.L. 107-71
Ah, I see English education is alive and well in the great Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The same school system that taught me American history through just before, but not including, the Civil War. (Really. Although said history teacher was later fired about a decade later for unrelated reasons. So there's that?)
I make those mistakes myself sometimes, but I wonder : .. " => Their
Are they saying : "The authority of the TSA personnel is derived from
Or are they saying : " On the inspection sites , the authority to assist is derived from " => There
No need : Suing over something as trivial as a search result, certainly defines them as crooked to me.
I mean, that's just a combination of words, right . I'm sure you can type any company name, and some bad word in Google , and you will find a search result on it.
I hope the Streisand Effect gets them good.
Still Alive, Still Alive ...
Keep workers happy == keep workers productive.
you do know that could evaluate to false as well right?
If workers are productive, and they feel that they are ( they feel their work really amounts to something ) , they will in fact be much happier then if their works seems pointless.
Well , thunder and lightning 'outside the office' also helps . There's nothing like looking out the window at rain,wind and lightning, to remind you that office job really isn't so bad.