What was the risk of shooting it down? It seems close to "none." The missile used would surely have a mechanism to self-destruct in the event of a miss, and even if it didn't, I don't see how its falling could be any more dangerous than the hydrazine. Plus, it was probably a useful training exercise, should they ever need to shoot down a "really" dangerous satellite.
Of course, since it was done months ago, it's all hypothetical anyway.
I don't necessarily agree with it, but I also realize that stupid or not, it would be a much *worse* mistake to pack up and go home without a stable Iraqi government to replace the US presence there. As you said, "getting out of it in the short term is even more stupid". So, you agree with me, you just like to rail on about the mistakes of the past even when they don't influence the decisions of the present... great.
In all seriousness, the real problem is that there are *so many* people on the Internet who simply hate everything the US does, ever, that it's almost hard to take any of them seriously. Someone on this thread brought up Michael Moore-- can you think of a single time Moore has pointed out something he actually *likes* about the US? It's all bashing, everything we do is wrong, and a lot of people are getting damned sick of it.
Frankly, it seems like you're in the same mold. Why not forget how stupid the decision to invade Iraq is, and help the US face the problems it has right now in the present? For example, what to do with Iraq. Griping about something that's already happened is pointless.
The main point here is that no, there is no nice justification to invading and killing people in Irak,
The justification was to get rid of a bastard dictator who had already killed more people than the US Army could ever hope to.
or nuking japan when it was already defeated
Japan wasn't defeated.
just to test the new gizmo.
Actually, we tested it in New Mexico. Maybe you've heard of the Trinity Project?
There might be good reasons, but it shouldn't be justified in any way: ujjustified murder is what it is, why try to find ways to feel better about it instead of realizing mistakes so that you don't go fuck it up again.
Has the US done bad things? Yes, duh. Has it done good things? Sure. You have to decide the balance, but to say something like "the Bay of Pigs invasion was a failure, therefore the US should never do anything ever" is just putting your head in the sand.
You need it. You have a loop-within-a-loop, and it needs to jump out of itself *and* the parent loop... how else do you do it? Even Javascript has labels for this purpose.
But on the plus side it has the word "pro" so you can make that old joke about how "progress" is the opposite of "congress." Ha. Get it? Pro? Con? Haha! It's hilarity!
That is a good idea, thanks. You could probably do the same thing in Windows using the "Run As..." service, I'll have to work out the shortcut for that.
There's very very little difference in how IE's JScript engine works, and how Firefox/Safari/Opera's various Javascript engines work. JScript isn't 100% ECMA-compliant, but it's hovering around 95%+ and if you're following the same specs as the other engines, you're going to implement it in fundamentally the same way. In short, if JScript in IE can do it, Javascript in Firefox, Safari and Opera probably can, too. (Maybe with slight modifications to the attacking code.)
I think this article is bunk, though. I'll be hugely surprised if this turns out to be anything at all.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. The linked article provides... vagueness. It mentions that used a browser (which one?) And that it has something to do with defeating the NX bit. I'm guessing that it's not nearly as severe as this article's hyperbole makes it seem.
While you have a point, I'd just like to point out that out-of-the-box IE is in a sandbox in Vista. Frankly, I don't even know how to run it otherwise.
IOW, the fact that there are no "fairly" produced products in the electronics world and even people who are sensitive to this issue have no option but to buy parts that were manufactured by armies of workers on a pittance wage strengthens the point of the GP and the GGGP.
What do you mean no option? The option is: "don't buy parts that were manufactured by armies of workers on a pittance wage." How could you miss an option that obvious?
Of course, you might need to go without a computer. And without a cellphone, and probably without a TV as well. You'd actually have to... make a sacrifice to support something you believe strongly in? Amazing!
(Sorry, I love the hypocrisy of those who are "dedicated" to a cause, yet not dedicated enough to actually make any sacrifices for it.)
10 years? It's one of the oldest desktop interface paradigms, "spatial computing" as implemented by Apple in 1984, defined by letting people put shit where-ever they want, and it stays there. The "browser" metaphor used by virtually everyone, but especially Microsoft in Windows 98 and later, doesn't work as well because it allows a lot of strange situations that have no analogue in real life, like having the same "folder" open in multiple "windows" at the same time
The reason these videos are cluttered is because most people don't organize stuff at all; they're aiming for the normal average user, not the Slashdotter who can keep 14-level directory paths straight in their mind. (I know I can't; I have trouble remembering whether to use DIR or LS most of the time.)
I'm sorry, have you ever tried to write payroll software for a business/entity which thousands, or even hundred of thousands, of employees, dozens of different unions (all with different pay rules), hundreds of relevant laws (especially in CA!) Then consider it's a financial system, so it all has to be double-checked, triple-checked, and audited. Then consider it's temporary, so it also has to keep track of the old pay-rate so the difference between the two can be calculated.
Eastern MMOs tend to reward hard work and perseverance, whereas western players tend to dislike excessive grind.
These two things are mutually-exclusive... how?
WOW has lots of quests that take "hard work and perseverance" but have nothing to do with grind. For example, the quests to get Epic Flying Form for a level 70 druid are really challenging and rewarding if you solo them, but they aren't grind at all.
Before they require hardware based encryption for drives containing this sort of data? It seems completely ridiculous to me that they would keep sensitive data like this on an unencrypted drive.
What makes you think it's not required now? Out of curiosity.
Their not having done it has nothing to do with whether or not it's required, it just means:
You forgot one - for a modern device in a culture that is bent on style, the kindle is quite hideous. iPhone, iPod, iMac, etc...though I'm not a big Apple fan (I do own an iPod), the style factor is why these things sell. The Kindle looks like it's still a prototype.
I think the Kindle has a really slick, cutting-edge look!
On a related note, I just woke up from a 20-year coma; can somebody tell me how to get this "Amazon" thing on my Commodore 64 so I can buy some bad-ass New Kids on the Block cassettes?
Just make a friend at Blockbuster, or slide them a few bucks, to let you borrow their $250+ cleaners for an hour. The solution to your problem was in your description of the problem.:)
MS SQL Server is good and relatively cheap. The type of problem the grandparent mentioned exists in ALL DBMSes from ALL vendors. But there's nothing that DB2 can do that MS SQL can't, and MS SQL has great data-flow tools that come along with it to make actual use of the data.
Now, Microsoft's graphical DB tools (SQL Server Management Studio) has gone backwards in many ways from the older Query Analyzer/Enterprise Manager toolset, but oh well.
Ditto. I downloaded it to take a look and see how good it was at parsing T-SQL, since we have a few saved T-SQL queries with WHILE loops in them. I gave up after seeing it's... nothing. Just a Python script. It requires Graphviz, Python, and Pyparsing (even though it comes with pyparsing!? WTF!), and even more damning is that you can't use it for ad-hoc queries, the query has to be saved into a file first.
Someone slap a GUI on this that lets you paste in a query, and bundle all the requirements along with the package, and then we might have something. Right now, I'll just stick with MS SQL Server's query grapher.
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What was the risk of shooting it down? It seems close to "none." The missile used would surely have a mechanism to self-destruct in the event of a miss, and even if it didn't, I don't see how its falling could be any more dangerous than the hydrazine. Plus, it was probably a useful training exercise, should they ever need to shoot down a "really" dangerous satellite.
Of course, since it was done months ago, it's all hypothetical anyway.
I don't necessarily agree with it, but I also realize that stupid or not, it would be a much *worse* mistake to pack up and go home without a stable Iraqi government to replace the US presence there. As you said, "getting out of it in the short term is even more stupid". So, you agree with me, you just like to rail on about the mistakes of the past even when they don't influence the decisions of the present... great.
In all seriousness, the real problem is that there are *so many* people on the Internet who simply hate everything the US does, ever, that it's almost hard to take any of them seriously. Someone on this thread brought up Michael Moore-- can you think of a single time Moore has pointed out something he actually *likes* about the US? It's all bashing, everything we do is wrong, and a lot of people are getting damned sick of it.
Frankly, it seems like you're in the same mold. Why not forget how stupid the decision to invade Iraq is, and help the US face the problems it has right now in the present? For example, what to do with Iraq. Griping about something that's already happened is pointless.
The main point here is that no, there is no nice justification to invading and killing people in Irak,
The justification was to get rid of a bastard dictator who had already killed more people than the US Army could ever hope to.
or nuking japan when it was already defeated
Japan wasn't defeated.
just to test the new gizmo.
Actually, we tested it in New Mexico. Maybe you've heard of the Trinity Project?
There might be good reasons, but it shouldn't be justified in any way: ujjustified murder is what it is, why try to find ways to feel better about it instead of realizing mistakes so that you don't go fuck it up again.
Has the US done bad things? Yes, duh. Has it done good things? Sure. You have to decide the balance, but to say something like "the Bay of Pigs invasion was a failure, therefore the US should never do anything ever" is just putting your head in the sand.
You need it. You have a loop-within-a-loop, and it needs to jump out of itself *and* the parent loop... how else do you do it? Even Javascript has labels for this purpose.
Your link is even more vague than the original story. Jackass.
Christ, it was a joke. Lighten up, all of you. I can't help the fact that my obvious joke was modded "insightful."
Well, shucks, Mr Frankie! You sure edjumacated my brainpan this morning! I'm so glad my ignorance was revealed by you!
Of course, a 19x19 board has 361 spaces, so maybe you ought to tone down the condescension a notch, eh?
But on the plus side it has the word "pro" so you can make that old joke about how "progress" is the opposite of "congress." Ha. Get it? Pro? Con? Haha! It's hilarity!
Go, Congress!!
but you have to agree with apple for yanking it..
What if you're a Libertarian?
That is a good idea, thanks. You could probably do the same thing in Windows using the "Run As..." service, I'll have to work out the shortcut for that.
Sacrificing access to *all* electronics is not an option in reality.
Why not?
If you're going to make such a sacrifice, you'd pretty much have to also sacrifice just about all brands of clothes and shoes.
Probably, yes.
Saying "do without electronics" is a deliberately obtuse response to my point.
No it's not. It's saying I don't have much respect for hypocrites who go on and on about how something is evil, then keep doing that thing!
Uh, before you make this argument we should stick around and see if this Slashdot story is even remotely accurate. My guess? No, it's not.
There's very very little difference in how IE's JScript engine works, and how Firefox/Safari/Opera's various Javascript engines work. JScript isn't 100% ECMA-compliant, but it's hovering around 95%+ and if you're following the same specs as the other engines, you're going to implement it in fundamentally the same way. In short, if JScript in IE can do it, Javascript in Firefox, Safari and Opera probably can, too. (Maybe with slight modifications to the attacking code.)
I think this article is bunk, though. I'll be hugely surprised if this turns out to be anything at all.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. The linked article provides... vagueness. It mentions that used a browser (which one?) And that it has something to do with defeating the NX bit. I'm guessing that it's not nearly as severe as this article's hyperbole makes it seem.
While you have a point, I'd just like to point out that out-of-the-box IE is in a sandbox in Vista. Frankly, I don't even know how to run it otherwise.
IOW, the fact that there are no "fairly" produced products in the electronics world and even people who are sensitive to this issue have no option but to buy parts that were manufactured by armies of workers on a pittance wage strengthens the point of the GP and the GGGP.
What do you mean no option? The option is: "don't buy parts that were manufactured by armies of workers on a pittance wage." How could you miss an option that obvious?
Of course, you might need to go without a computer. And without a cellphone, and probably without a TV as well. You'd actually have to... make a sacrifice to support something you believe strongly in? Amazing!
(Sorry, I love the hypocrisy of those who are "dedicated" to a cause, yet not dedicated enough to actually make any sacrifices for it.)
What do you suggest paving the road with? Grass? Good intentions?
10 years? It's one of the oldest desktop interface paradigms, "spatial computing" as implemented by Apple in 1984, defined by letting people put shit where-ever they want, and it stays there. The "browser" metaphor used by virtually everyone, but especially Microsoft in Windows 98 and later, doesn't work as well because it allows a lot of strange situations that have no analogue in real life, like having the same "folder" open in multiple "windows" at the same time
The reason these videos are cluttered is because most people don't organize stuff at all; they're aiming for the normal average user, not the Slashdotter who can keep 14-level directory paths straight in their mind. (I know I can't; I have trouble remembering whether to use DIR or LS most of the time.)
I'm sorry, have you ever tried to write payroll software for a business/entity which thousands, or even hundred of thousands, of employees, dozens of different unions (all with different pay rules), hundreds of relevant laws (especially in CA!) Then consider it's a financial system, so it all has to be double-checked, triple-checked, and audited. Then consider it's temporary, so it also has to keep track of the old pay-rate so the difference between the two can be calculated.
6 months is *quick* for something like this, IMO.
Eastern MMOs tend to reward hard work and perseverance, whereas western players tend to dislike excessive grind.
These two things are mutually-exclusive... how?
WOW has lots of quests that take "hard work and perseverance" but have nothing to do with grind. For example, the quests to get Epic Flying Form for a level 70 druid are really challenging and rewarding if you solo them, but they aren't grind at all.
Before they require hardware based encryption for drives containing this sort of data? It seems completely ridiculous to me that they would keep sensitive data like this on an unencrypted drive.
What makes you think it's not required now? Out of curiosity.
Their not having done it has nothing to do with whether or not it's required, it just means:
One word of this: Incompetent.
You forgot one - for a modern device in a culture that is bent on style, the kindle is quite hideous. iPhone, iPod, iMac, etc...though I'm not a big Apple fan (I do own an iPod), the style factor is why these things sell. The Kindle looks like it's still a prototype.
I think the Kindle has a really slick, cutting-edge look!
On a related note, I just woke up from a 20-year coma; can somebody tell me how to get this "Amazon" thing on my Commodore 64 so I can buy some bad-ass New Kids on the Block cassettes?
Just make a friend at Blockbuster, or slide them a few bucks, to let you borrow their $250+ cleaners for an hour. The solution to your problem was in your description of the problem. :)
MS SQL Server is good and relatively cheap. The type of problem the grandparent mentioned exists in ALL DBMSes from ALL vendors. But there's nothing that DB2 can do that MS SQL can't, and MS SQL has great data-flow tools that come along with it to make actual use of the data.
Now, Microsoft's graphical DB tools (SQL Server Management Studio) has gone backwards in many ways from the older Query Analyzer/Enterprise Manager toolset, but oh well.
Ditto. I downloaded it to take a look and see how good it was at parsing T-SQL, since we have a few saved T-SQL queries with WHILE loops in them. I gave up after seeing it's... nothing. Just a Python script. It requires Graphviz, Python, and Pyparsing (even though it comes with pyparsing!? WTF!), and even more damning is that you can't use it for ad-hoc queries, the query has to be saved into a file first.
Someone slap a GUI on this that lets you paste in a query, and bundle all the requirements along with the package, and then we might have something. Right now, I'll just stick with MS SQL Server's query grapher.