Nice strawman. Murder or attempted murder requires mens rea. Most people who do this are not trying to kill anyone. They're just being idiots.
I dunno...I doubt this guy thought that shining a laser in a cockpit was the equivalent of assault:
"56-year-old Robert Bruce Jr. was indicted in mid-June for incidents reported on or about April 11 and June 5. He was charged with two counts of interference with flight crew, two counts of aiming a laser pointer at an aircraft, and two counts of assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers or employees." (http://www.wvec.com/my-city/vabeach/18-incidents-of-laser-pointing-at-NAS-Oceana-jets-164398916.html)
DeBeers had an office in the US. They used to own the diamond mine [craterofdi...tepark.com] down in Arkansas. But due to the Apartheid thing, and the price fixing, they were forced out, and on the way out they dynamited the diamond mine rather than leave an operation working mine. Almost all the diamonds coming out of Diamond Crater are gem quality. The Star of Arkansas came from there. A beautiful colored diamond.
Nowhere in the site link you provided was DeBeers mentioned. In fact, there is no "mine" in the traditional sense of a hole in the ground. The area sits atop a kimberlite pipe; the area is continually turned over to expose new material. I've been there several times; it's nothing more than a large mud field (when wet) or furrowed hardpack (when dry).
I've been going around and around with Follett on this one. Under federal US law [1], colleges that receive federal money are REQUIRED to disclose ISBN numbers for course textbooks. However, the law also states that the school has the option of disclosing the ISBN numbers online with course schedules. So guess what? You actually have to register for a class at some colleges before you can get the ISBN. (This is, in fact, the case at Dallas County Community College District campuses.)
Except for Follett. Apparently, even after registering, Follett doesn't seem to want to disclose the ISBN. On top of that, if you call a Follett bookstore for an ISBN (or visit in person), the minimum-wage earning salesperson will politely tell you they are not ALLOWED to disclose the ISBN, you have to go online to get it.
More and more college bookstores are now closing the shelves to casual student browsers, so you don't even have the option of just picking up the book and looking at it for the ISBN.
I'm curious as to how much this operation cost the US taxpayer, and whether or not Amazon et. al. will be asked to foot the bill. I'm sure it's not a cheap operation to kidnap/extradite someone, fly them back to the US, put them on trial in front of a jury of non-peers, and house this sure-to-be convicted individual for an insane number of years.
Do I also get the same courtesy if I were to complain about the sustained DDOS attacks on the small network of servers I maintain?
The approach could help give advanced warning to astronauts and sattelites, which would otherwise be irradiated and fried, respectively.
"Sattelites"? "Irradiated and fried, respectively" like meat? Respective of what? Timothy, please take some free advice: If the editorial duties of/. are becoming too much of a burden for you, please, for the love of <deity_of_your_choice>, share the responsibility. I couldn't help but notice that the last 25 submissions were "edited" by you. Is this now the Timothy Show? Are there no other editors with/. that can provide its readership with a variety of submissions?
And in case you're thinking that I'm jealous, Timothy, I promise you that is not the case. My ID might not be 4 digits, but I've been a faithful reader for the past 16 years, and I find myself slowly slipping away from/. due to your sloppy editorial practices and uninspired editorial selections. The problem here, Timothy, is that while I might be one person, as a teacher I influence hundreds of students, and they in turn influence many. I cannot in all conscience continue to offer up/. as a paragon of IT news so long as you are still given free run of the office. Really, where are the other editors? Are you not willing to share the duties?
...but let's face it, some of us have no interest in management, or consulting. That's why, after a 15-year career in software development, I turned to teaching. And if you're laughing because I'm advocating teaching as an alternative career, you miss my point: Sometimes getting out of the field is a viable option. I grew tired of lining the pockets of CEOs and PHBs and gutless business owners who simply ran their businesses into the ground, businesses built partially on my hard work. Sometimes you have to take a step back and ask yourself "What exactly have I done for society these past years?" Chances are, if you're a software developer at a "large investment bank," not a hell of a lot.
You can't download the binaries (nor post to most of the forums) without a donation.
And what prevents you from distributing the binaries under the GPL? Is this forbidden?
At any rate, I've found LibreOffice to work just fine on my MacBook, and I would suggest others who are disappointed with NeoOffice's bone-headed move switch over as well. This, BTW, from one who truly donated voluntarily to NeoOffice...
You gotta love the crassness that ICANN displays when it comes to objections. Not only are you limited to the grounds upon which you object, but "you must pay a filing fee in the amount set and published by the relevant dispute resolution service provider at the time you file your objection." So IOW, if you can't afford to object (to the tune of USD6200 or more), you're shit out of luck.
For all that's holy, support the alt-roots movement before the Internet is completely consumed by commercial interests.
When I type google.cn in my browser, I'm redirected to google.com.hk. If I then enter 6/4/89, the very first hit is this: Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The last time I checked, HK was a enclave of the Chinese government. So where, exactly, is the censorship?
Which is the one that trips you up? Don't have a time machine so you can have ten years experience in something that's only existed for five? No good at playing the piano? Wrong zodiac sign? Not fluent in Estonian & Maltese?
Oftentimes, job listings such as what you describe are nothing more than an attempt to comply with government regulations for H1B hiring. The government requires companies first attempt to hire qualified individuals in the US before hiring abroad. So they create job listings that are impossible for any single individual to satisfy. It's nothing more than a scam, and when you apply to such a job your resume isn't even considered.
It's great for keeping in touch with distant friends
Unless you have "distant friends" you'd rather not have find you. I don't know about your history, but there are several people in mine I simply don't want showing up in my life. Hence, no FB.
No great loss....I don't consider someone who I once knew 25 years ago a "friend." In fact, FB has served to bastardize the word "friend" into something alien that isn't even close to the original definition. So sad.
The trouble with the pass phrase concept is that the whole words just become tokens. Most people's vocabulary is not that large.
That's why you use a standardized list of tokens (mostly words, but some non-word tokens as well) such as Diceware. With 7776 tokens, the keyspace is far larger than the "normal 7 character" password. The trick is to ensure that you are choosing the tokens randomly. You can use dice, your favorite random number generator, etc.
I use several 4- and 5-token passphrases that I have remembered literally for years, each one unique. Type them enough times, and muscle memory takes care of the rest. Even after a period of non-use, it amazes me how my fingers will remember the passphrase but yet I can't recall the passphrase itself.
How far Rutgers has fallen...anyone remember the old telnet days, prior to IRC? (Talking late 80's here...) quartz.rutgers.edu was one of the mainstays of the telnet scene. Guess times change...
Android doesn't do this. Certain carriers push out custom versions of Android where a small handful of the shovel-ware apps can't be deleted. But Facebook and Twitter can be deleted on all the major carriers (Sprint, AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon).
Not true on AT&T. Just tried it on my SGS2, Facebook is still there.
...and I can't even come close to 32wpm on my smartphone (I tend to fat-finger my letters and spend more time back-spacing or looking for auto-completed words than typing). I've tried all the various gimmicks such as Swype and T9, but if this system is really netting users 30+wpm, I think it's time for me to learn Braille.
...why I contracted a rogueware/rootkit while surfing reddit the other night. I sure as hell didn't click on any executables, I was running FF 8 with noscript, and MSE was running too. I was greeted with a rogueware popup for antivirus program, and knew immediately I had been infected. MSE never made a sound...in fact, it was shut down immediately.
Oh, and I'm running 64-bit W7.
Thanks to the good folks at bleepingcomputer.com for the tools needed to wipe the machine clean. Thumbs down to MSE, which didn't even pick it up.
So yes, there is a vulnerability here, and it sure as hell involves more than Safari.
I have an honest question here. Besides the "gee whiz" factor of these new Jupiter observations (and I do find this stuff incredibly amazing), what is the practical application of such knowledge? What can we use this information for to raise the level of the human condition?
Please, an honest answer here. I know this is/., but I'd appreciate an answer other than "it's for the sake of the advancement of science" or some other derivative.
This is what I love about religious debates: No one can prove their position, so it all boils down to faith. Yes, even atheists profess a faith that there is no Supreme Being.
Which has exactly fuck all to do with Pascal's Wager, but thanks for sharing.
It has everything to do with it, as neither of us has proven anything. We believe our respective position is the correct one, but neither of us has offered definitive proof.
It's not silly at all; a fundamental flaw in Pascal's Wager is the assumption that we can know that any given God values and rewards belief, when the converse is every bit as possible.
If the converse were possible, we wouldn't be talking about the God that is implicit in the conversation (i.e., the God that is presented to us via historical writings). In fact, we would be talking about another being, which Pascal doesn't address in his assertion.
You seem to be making a rather specious argument that the God that we are talking about here, if He doesn't exist, negates Pascal's wager.
In fact, that is the very point of Pascal's wager.
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Nice strawman. Murder or attempted murder requires mens rea. Most people who do this are not trying to kill anyone. They're just being idiots.
I dunno...I doubt this guy thought that shining a laser in a cockpit was the equivalent of assault:
"56-year-old Robert Bruce Jr. was indicted in mid-June for incidents reported on or about April 11 and June 5. He was charged with two counts of interference with flight crew, two counts of aiming a laser pointer at an aircraft, and two counts of assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers or employees." (http://www.wvec.com/my-city/vabeach/18-incidents-of-laser-pointing-at-NAS-Oceana-jets-164398916.html)
DeBeers had an office in the US. They used to own the diamond mine [craterofdi...tepark.com] down in Arkansas. But due to the Apartheid thing, and the price fixing, they were forced out, and on the way out they dynamited the diamond mine rather than leave an operation working mine. Almost all the diamonds coming out of Diamond Crater are gem quality. The Star of Arkansas came from there. A beautiful colored diamond.
Nowhere in the site link you provided was DeBeers mentioned. In fact, there is no "mine" in the traditional sense of a hole in the ground. The area sits atop a kimberlite pipe; the area is continually turned over to expose new material. I've been there several times; it's nothing more than a large mud field (when wet) or furrowed hardpack (when dry).
I've been going around and around with Follett on this one. Under federal US law [1], colleges that receive federal money are REQUIRED to disclose ISBN numbers for course textbooks. However, the law also states that the school has the option of disclosing the ISBN numbers online with course schedules. So guess what? You actually have to register for a class at some colleges before you can get the ISBN. (This is, in fact, the case at Dallas County Community College District campuses.)
Except for Follett. Apparently, even after registering, Follett doesn't seem to want to disclose the ISBN. On top of that, if you call a Follett bookstore for an ISBN (or visit in person), the minimum-wage earning salesperson will politely tell you they are not ALLOWED to disclose the ISBN, you have to go online to get it.
More and more college bookstores are now closing the shelves to casual student browsers, so you don't even have the option of just picking up the book and looking at it for the ISBN.
[1]http://www2.ed.gov/policy/highered/leg/hea08/index.html#dcl
I'm curious as to how much this operation cost the US taxpayer, and whether or not Amazon et. al. will be asked to foot the bill. I'm sure it's not a cheap operation to kidnap/extradite someone, fly them back to the US, put them on trial in front of a jury of non-peers, and house this sure-to-be convicted individual for an insane number of years.
Do I also get the same courtesy if I were to complain about the sustained DDOS attacks on the small network of servers I maintain?
The approach could help give advanced warning to astronauts and sattelites, which would otherwise be irradiated and fried, respectively.
"Sattelites"? "Irradiated and fried, respectively" like meat? Respective of what? Timothy, please take some free advice: If the editorial duties of /. are becoming too much of a burden for you, please, for the love of <deity_of_your_choice>, share the responsibility. I couldn't help but notice that the last 25 submissions were "edited" by you. Is this now the Timothy Show? Are there no other editors with /. that can provide its readership with a variety of submissions?
And in case you're thinking that I'm jealous, Timothy, I promise you that is not the case. My ID might not be 4 digits, but I've been a faithful reader for the past 16 years, and I find myself slowly slipping away from /. due to your sloppy editorial practices and uninspired editorial selections. The problem here, Timothy, is that while I might be one person, as a teacher I influence hundreds of students, and they in turn influence many. I cannot in all conscience continue to offer up /. as a paragon of IT news so long as you are still given free run of the office. Really, where are the other editors? Are you not willing to share the duties?
...but let's face it, some of us have no interest in management, or consulting. That's why, after a 15-year career in software development, I turned to teaching. And if you're laughing because I'm advocating teaching as an alternative career, you miss my point: Sometimes getting out of the field is a viable option. I grew tired of lining the pockets of CEOs and PHBs and gutless business owners who simply ran their businesses into the ground, businesses built partially on my hard work. Sometimes you have to take a step back and ask yourself "What exactly have I done for society these past years?" Chances are, if you're a software developer at a "large investment bank," not a hell of a lot.
You can't download the binaries (nor post to most of the forums) without a donation.
And what prevents you from distributing the binaries under the GPL? Is this forbidden?
At any rate, I've found LibreOffice to work just fine on my MacBook, and I would suggest others who are disappointed with NeoOffice's bone-headed move switch over as well. This, BTW, from one who truly donated voluntarily to NeoOffice...
...at least not on any of my servers, so what's a leap second between friends?
You gotta love the crassness that ICANN displays when it comes to objections. Not only are you limited to the grounds upon which you object, but "you must pay a filing fee in the amount set and published by the relevant dispute resolution service provider at the time you file your objection." So IOW, if you can't afford to object (to the tune of USD6200 or more), you're shit out of luck.
For all that's holy, support the alt-roots movement before the Internet is completely consumed by commercial interests.
When I type google.cn in my browser, I'm redirected to google.com.hk. If I then enter 6/4/89, the very first hit is this: Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The last time I checked, HK was a enclave of the Chinese government. So where, exactly, is the censorship?
Which is the one that trips you up? Don't have a time machine so you can have ten years experience in something that's only existed for five? No good at playing the piano? Wrong zodiac sign? Not fluent in Estonian & Maltese?
Oftentimes, job listings such as what you describe are nothing more than an attempt to comply with government regulations for H1B hiring. The government requires companies first attempt to hire qualified individuals in the US before hiring abroad. So they create job listings that are impossible for any single individual to satisfy. It's nothing more than a scam, and when you apply to such a job your resume isn't even considered.
They still do. Or at least some...others claim to have stopped the practice.
Gaming Cliches That Need To Die
Submission: Gamification of Hiring
How apropos.
It's great for keeping in touch with distant friends
Unless you have "distant friends" you'd rather not have find you. I don't know about your history, but there are several people in mine I simply don't want showing up in my life. Hence, no FB.
No great loss....I don't consider someone who I once knew 25 years ago a "friend." In fact, FB has served to bastardize the word "friend" into something alien that isn't even close to the original definition. So sad.
The trouble with the pass phrase concept is that the whole words just become tokens. Most people's vocabulary is not that large.
That's why you use a standardized list of tokens (mostly words, but some non-word tokens as well) such as Diceware. With 7776 tokens, the keyspace is far larger than the "normal 7 character" password. The trick is to ensure that you are choosing the tokens randomly. You can use dice, your favorite random number generator, etc. I use several 4- and 5-token passphrases that I have remembered literally for years, each one unique. Type them enough times, and muscle memory takes care of the rest. Even after a period of non-use, it amazes me how my fingers will remember the passphrase but yet I can't recall the passphrase itself.
But I'd also look into the Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge comic adventures.
But probably not the adventures of Dolan.
...SEO optimization guide on my websites. Will I now be penalized for doing so?
Rutgers University bans ssh public keys.
How far Rutgers has fallen...anyone remember the old telnet days, prior to IRC? (Talking late 80's here...) quartz.rutgers.edu was one of the mainstays of the telnet scene. Guess times change...
Android doesn't do this. Certain carriers push out custom versions of Android where a small handful of the shovel-ware apps can't be deleted. But Facebook and Twitter can be deleted on all the major carriers (Sprint, AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon).
Not true on AT&T. Just tried it on my SGS2, Facebook is still there.
...and I can't even come close to 32wpm on my smartphone (I tend to fat-finger my letters and spend more time back-spacing or looking for auto-completed words than typing). I've tried all the various gimmicks such as Swype and T9, but if this system is really netting users 30+wpm, I think it's time for me to learn Braille.
...why I contracted a rogueware/rootkit while surfing reddit the other night. I sure as hell didn't click on any executables, I was running FF 8 with noscript, and MSE was running too. I was greeted with a rogueware popup for antivirus program, and knew immediately I had been infected. MSE never made a sound...in fact, it was shut down immediately.
Oh, and I'm running 64-bit W7.
Thanks to the good folks at bleepingcomputer.com for the tools needed to wipe the machine clean. Thumbs down to MSE, which didn't even pick it up.
So yes, there is a vulnerability here, and it sure as hell involves more than Safari.
I have an honest question here. Besides the "gee whiz" factor of these new Jupiter observations (and I do find this stuff incredibly amazing), what is the practical application of such knowledge? What can we use this information for to raise the level of the human condition?
Please, an honest answer here. I know this is /., but I'd appreciate an answer other than "it's for the sake of the advancement of science" or some other derivative.
I've shown adequately that Pascal's wager is a nonsense.
You've made some assertions that might or might not hold true. Nothing has been proven conclusively.
I'm not really sure what your problem is here
No problem, friend. Just friendly debate about an inconclusive topic.
This is what I love about religious debates: No one can prove their position, so it all boils down to faith. Yes, even atheists profess a faith that there is no Supreme Being.
Which has exactly fuck all to do with Pascal's Wager, but thanks for sharing.
It has everything to do with it, as neither of us has proven anything. We believe our respective position is the correct one, but neither of us has offered definitive proof.
And you're welcome.
It's not silly at all; a fundamental flaw in Pascal's Wager is the assumption that we can know that any given God values and rewards belief, when the converse is every bit as possible.
If the converse were possible, we wouldn't be talking about the God that is implicit in the conversation (i.e., the God that is presented to us via historical writings). In fact, we would be talking about another being, which Pascal doesn't address in his assertion.
You seem to be making a rather specious argument that the God that we are talking about here, if He doesn't exist, negates Pascal's wager.
In fact, that is the very point of Pascal's wager.