The bullies are to be blamed for the death, not facebook. May be facebook with its detailed logs can help us find the passive audience who watched the bullying and did nothing to stop. May be we can teach the passive by standers how they could help assuage the hurt feelings of the bully victim behind the scenes etc. I think the by standers are the real key in solving bullying issue. If we could find a way to make them side with the victim without exposing themselves bullying might eventually get solved
Holland is a tiny homogenous country. Singapore is a tiny multi-ethnic (Chinese, Malay & Tamil) country. That you mention Holland but not Singapore is telling. Anyway, what is possible for these tiny countries is not possible for big countries.
We have stopped maintaining our bridges and roads, and we have reduced infrastructure spending drastically. By the time you Iranians figure out how to destroy American infrastructure, there will be nothing left for you to destroy. Fools on you Iranians.
Wish Bloomberg will pick fights with opponents his size, like the NRA. A billionaire getting pissed off at some stupid cab company? NRA's power at the polls is a little over stated. Smart thing to do is to find something that is ripe for a fall, throw a stone at it and claim full credit for the fall.
Is Spain straining under some delusion of greatness? Knowing how well their Armada against Britain did one would think Spain would have given up the ghost and resigned itself to being a small player it is, and stay far from naval equipment. Building submarines? Why?
Basic problem here is non-programmers in the management visualize software "product" being manufactured somewhat like a very sophisticated assembly line or teams of workers putting together a product like they did before the assembly line was invented. But software is organic, it is grown. It is not grown like rows and rows of corn in a field but more like growing a city from a village. You are not going to plunk down a new 80 story skyscraper in downtown without huge disturbance to existing structures and users near by. You are not going to add a new Lorentz transform based asymptotic wave form expansion feature in the middle of the simulation sequence without huge disturbance. Or add payroll processing of German employees to you American HR system without serious disturbance.
If you do agile correctly it will beat waterfall hollow. If it does not, then you are not doing agile right. Because the very definition of agile is "something that is better than waterfall". If it is worse than waterfall it is not agile. Typically you need to ply millions of dollars to consultants who will come in and talk about the Toyota assembly line, about toasting bread slices to black and scraping off excess black to get the correct color of brown, etc. Then they will make all the top managers to stick dots on paper and stuff envelops and write addresses. Then they will point out how horribly wrong and incompetent the top managers are in sticking dots and stuffing envelops. And from these exercises somehow you should understand something and make something better than waterfall. That will be called agile. If it is not better then you are not doing agile right. Rinse, lather and repeat.
Funny thing, our agile development service provider is something called Rally. Some of the trivial things I ask for takes them two releases to implement and release. The entire code runs on their servers, and they have all the data with them. Still it takes them two releases to implement "I want to clone my queries and make minor changes". Then our top management wants our shrink wrapped software, installed on our customer's machine, who won't show us the data because it is proprietary, to ship with brand new features every three months without any regression. I used to call it insane. Now I know the right name for it. It is called agile development.
The fundamental problem here is that the user logs into a fake twitter site and gives the login credentials. Then gives the second factor authentication too. This scenario can not be protected against no matter how many factors you use. In fact if I keep logging into a fake google site and keep entering all the credentials how can google stop it?
Yes, the user was violating the ToS. He was caught. There will be many who casually share a broadband over wifi with their neightbors. The company is going to lose their revenue and it will be very difficult to spot such violators of the ToS. So it is not in the best interests of the company to really call it unlimited. Why do they do it?
Why these companies insist on calling their plans unlimited? It is not like an all-you-can-eat-buffet where there is very good known upper limit for the amount of food one can consume. On a computer, technically a person could buy "all-you-can-eat-buffet" and make a T-junction at the throat and splice in multiple stomachs to the (lone visible to the provider) mouth, so to speak. Yeah, yeah, you can add clauses to the ToS and try to ferret out these users, but unless one does something so egregious like this, they won't be caught. As more and more people with "unlimited" service share bandwidth with friends and neighbors, the average usage goes up and it is more and more difficult to find people violating "ToS". So basically it is detrimental to the ISP to sell anything labeled "unlimited". Why do they do that? There are still people out there who would refuse to buy "Super premium 1 TB/month" connection unless it is called "unlimited"?
Remember that judge who pwned the patent troll attorney? The scammers make an settlement offer carefully calculated to be just a tad under the cost of litigation. The judge smacked them down and awarded a judgement against the lawyer, "carefully calculated to be a tad under the cost of mounting an effective appeal". AT&T is hoping people would not find it worthwhile to fight charges under 1$. But it adds up to several hundred million dollars for them.
Steal a million dollars from someone, they will fight back hard. Steal 1$ each from a million people, most wont care and the rest wont matter. Wish there would be a class action lawsuit and that judge would get it.
The guy is calling himself Andrea Rossi. And he says he gets free energy by transmuting nickel into copper. Everyone knows free energy comes from Atmospheric engine. And the inventor's name should be John Galt. In about a decade all the Atlases who are holding up the Earth are going to shrug and move to gold currency in Galt's Gulch. All because all these Atlases and genii could not build themselves a stupid railway track to some stupid copper mine after the railroad company refused to build one. Makes one wonder were they really the Atlases holding up the world? Or some stupid self important sanctimonious a holes.
In what way guarding a block of glass different from guarding a telephone book? Easiest one time pads are to get two copies of the same yellow pages. The caller specifies a page number. The receiver turns to that page. Ignore all alphabets and collect all the phone numbers write them down in sequence. You got a one time pad.
Yes, plain scrambler was insecure. I just read the wiki about the project. They did a lot more than simply adding noise. They did some pulse code modulation, frequency shifting etc.
I thought there was a similar technique used in WWII for communication between Churchill and FDR. Identical pairs of phonograph records were kept on both sides. Both sides would play a pair simultaneously, or as nearly as they could. Then technicians would use electronic delay and tune it so that they both are synchronized. Then add voice communication to the recorded sounds and transmit. On the receiving side they subtract the phonograph record sound and get the voice alone back. Each pair of phonograph records would be a one time pad. The encryption and decryption was analog, not digital. But apart from that, adding a "noise" as encryption and subtracting identical noise for decryption would be very similar to what the article is describing.
Was it really used? Or am I hazily recalling some spy novel stuff from Irwin Wallace or Alistair MacLean and mistaking it for real history?
Despite all that talk and hype, despite guns being printed by 3D printers, it is not what the poorer nations need. Simple technology well designed cheap to make and maintain. That is what they need. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_hardware_projects
My major issues with Chrome is, it is a resource hog. When google drive wants to sync, or when google talk plug in misbehaves it drags the whole computer, not just the browser down. When some stupid site writes a ridiculous javascript all hogging cpu, Chrome isolates it to a chrome process and allows me to bottle it. But who will bell the cat, when Chrome itself hogs the mouse pointer or locks the event queue stopping refresh, mouse clicks and focus changes?
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The bullies are to be blamed for the death, not facebook. May be facebook with its detailed logs can help us find the passive audience who watched the bullying and did nothing to stop. May be we can teach the passive by standers how they could help assuage the hurt feelings of the bully victim behind the scenes etc. I think the by standers are the real key in solving bullying issue. If we could find a way to make them side with the victim without exposing themselves bullying might eventually get solved
Holland is a tiny homogenous country. Singapore is a tiny multi-ethnic (Chinese, Malay & Tamil) country. That you mention Holland but not Singapore is telling. Anyway, what is possible for these tiny countries is not possible for big countries.
We have stopped maintaining our bridges and roads, and we have reduced infrastructure spending drastically. By the time you Iranians figure out how to destroy American infrastructure, there will be nothing left for you to destroy. Fools on you Iranians.
It is the best "open" code language. Used in the Pacific theatre in WWII.
Why not regular surveillance cameras? Why should it be air borne?
Why bathing was rare in medieval times
Wish Bloomberg will pick fights with opponents his size, like the NRA. A billionaire getting pissed off at some stupid cab company? NRA's power at the polls is a little over stated. Smart thing to do is to find something that is ripe for a fall, throw a stone at it and claim full credit for the fall.
Then it took 3 weeks to open the first hello world document.
Is Spain straining under some delusion of greatness? Knowing how well their Armada against Britain did one would think Spain would have given up the ghost and resigned itself to being a small player it is, and stay far from naval equipment. Building submarines? Why?
Basic problem here is non-programmers in the management visualize software "product" being manufactured somewhat like a very sophisticated assembly line or teams of workers putting together a product like they did before the assembly line was invented. But software is organic, it is grown. It is not grown like rows and rows of corn in a field but more like growing a city from a village. You are not going to plunk down a new 80 story skyscraper in downtown without huge disturbance to existing structures and users near by. You are not going to add a new Lorentz transform based asymptotic wave form expansion feature in the middle of the simulation sequence without huge disturbance. Or add payroll processing of German employees to you American HR system without serious disturbance.
Funny thing, our agile development service provider is something called Rally. Some of the trivial things I ask for takes them two releases to implement and release. The entire code runs on their servers, and they have all the data with them. Still it takes them two releases to implement "I want to clone my queries and make minor changes". Then our top management wants our shrink wrapped software, installed on our customer's machine, who won't show us the data because it is proprietary, to ship with brand new features every three months without any regression. I used to call it insane. Now I know the right name for it. It is called agile development.
The fundamental problem here is that the user logs into a fake twitter site and gives the login credentials. Then gives the second factor authentication too. This scenario can not be protected against no matter how many factors you use. In fact if I keep logging into a fake google site and keep entering all the credentials how can google stop it?
Come on guys, we slashdotters practically worship the UI that allows commands like sudo \rm -rf /. Foolproof UI, bah! humbug. Meant for fools anyway.
Yes, the user was violating the ToS. He was caught. There will be many who casually share a broadband over wifi with their neightbors. The company is going to lose their revenue and it will be very difficult to spot such violators of the ToS. So it is not in the best interests of the company to really call it unlimited. Why do they do it?
Why these companies insist on calling their plans unlimited? It is not like an all-you-can-eat-buffet where there is very good known upper limit for the amount of food one can consume. On a computer, technically a person could buy "all-you-can-eat-buffet" and make a T-junction at the throat and splice in multiple stomachs to the (lone visible to the provider) mouth, so to speak. Yeah, yeah, you can add clauses to the ToS and try to ferret out these users, but unless one does something so egregious like this, they won't be caught. As more and more people with "unlimited" service share bandwidth with friends and neighbors, the average usage goes up and it is more and more difficult to find people violating "ToS". So basically it is detrimental to the ISP to sell anything labeled "unlimited". Why do they do that? There are still people out there who would refuse to buy "Super premium 1 TB/month" connection unless it is called "unlimited"?
Steal a million dollars from someone, they will fight back hard. Steal 1$ each from a million people, most wont care and the rest wont matter. Wish there would be a class action lawsuit and that judge would get it.
You flatterer!
Remember the herbal petrol guy?
The guy is calling himself Andrea Rossi. And he says he gets free energy by transmuting nickel into copper. Everyone knows free energy comes from Atmospheric engine. And the inventor's name should be John Galt. In about a decade all the Atlases who are holding up the Earth are going to shrug and move to gold currency in Galt's Gulch. All because all these Atlases and genii could not build themselves a stupid railway track to some stupid copper mine after the railroad company refused to build one. Makes one wonder were they really the Atlases holding up the world? Or some stupid self important sanctimonious a holes.
In what way guarding a block of glass different from guarding a telephone book? Easiest one time pads are to get two copies of the same yellow pages. The caller specifies a page number. The receiver turns to that page. Ignore all alphabets and collect all the phone numbers write them down in sequence. You got a one time pad.
Yes, plain scrambler was insecure. I just read the wiki about the project. They did a lot more than simply adding noise. They did some pulse code modulation, frequency shifting etc.
It was real , my memory has not been addled. Not yet.
Was it really used? Or am I hazily recalling some spy novel stuff from Irwin Wallace or Alistair MacLean and mistaking it for real history?
Despite all that talk and hype, despite guns being printed by 3D printers, it is not what the poorer nations need. Simple technology well designed cheap to make and maintain. That is what they need. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_hardware_projects
My major issues with Chrome is, it is a resource hog. When google drive wants to sync, or when google talk plug in misbehaves it drags the whole computer, not just the browser down. When some stupid site writes a ridiculous javascript all hogging cpu, Chrome isolates it to a chrome process and allows me to bottle it. But who will bell the cat, when Chrome itself hogs the mouse pointer or locks the event queue stopping refresh, mouse clicks and focus changes?