If an individual could break SSL, yes, they would be going after your bank accounts not your hentai porn collection. But you have to keep in mind who the enemy is here and mega's enemy is the government. The government who basically runs the ISPs and could middle-man SSL very easily these days. In this case, the enemy is more interested in your data than your bank accounts and so the flaws in SSL are relevant and an alternate solution is probably not a bad idea.
I concur. I went to a very wealthy public high school where there were multiple "tracks" one could be in mathematics. Your placement in one of these "tracks" depended on the teacher's recommendations from 6-8th grade. I did no homework, never raised my hand, never studied and still pulled down B+ averages through innate ability. Frankly, I was bored by the material. I was placed in lower tracks by the teachers. Meanwhile these girls who tested at C levels but stayed after school every day, kissed ass had tutors bought by their parents were placed in the advanced tracks.
To this day I am extremely biter about the outcome. I had to take extra courses and summer classes to get myself back into the AP tracks in high school. I went on to graduate with honors in mathematics and received a PhD in Computer Science. I imagine the girls who struggled with 6th grade mathematics material aren't still in technical fields but hey, they were the ones who "worked hard" and accepted the system so they got accelerated.
You mock those who rely on the "old" paper system and then suggest relying on an long-unsupported proprietary computer architecture from the late 1980's.
Yes, except in this case, the patent office allowed someone to patent a process and not an invention so general legal logic goes out the window right there.
That and those fines appear to fall just beneath what it would cost to get a patent lawyer to fight the charge so on a pure revenue basis, it's cheaper to pay the ransom.
It's T-3 hours from a tragic killing of 18 kids and you're already throwing politics into this discussion? Please. If 18 kids were stabbed would you be talking about banning kitchen knives? No amount of written law is going to prevent psychopaths who want to kill innocent kids.
Your political trolling makes me sicker than this news story.
We all did this once, that's how we got here. We weren't all born admins. At one point in time you were in the same boat. Unless he does it himself, he's never gonna learn and then when shit hits the fan he's not gonna have the tools to fix it.
Actually, if you read the original NYT article and Mark Hachman's "critique" of it, you'll find that the NYT article technically didn't contain any inaccuracies. Hachman points out (rather bitterly) that the article doesn't talk about recent improvements in PUE, visualization, and other green movements in data center design. While I agree, the article left out some "techy" points, none of this changes the fact that data centers consume enormous amounts of energy whether you have a good PUE or not and that is the point of the article. The more data you store, the more energy you consume and it's on an enormous scale at this point and growing every day. Whether your PUE is 1 or 5, data costs energy and money and that's what the article is about.
And please, do not compare Fox News with an organization that still has journalistic integrity like the New York Times.
Filing as an LLC is much easier depending on what US state you are in. LLC's were designed for this. I own several of them. I recommend filing in Delaware. It's very easy and you get charged a flat tax of $250 a year. If you do business in your own state you still have to pay state tax there but for me, I run an internet business and have no office or servers in my own state so one could argue I only need to pay taxes in Delaware.
There are two major benefits to incorporating as I see it, 1) it allows you to write off expenses against your earnings on your taxes 2) it allows you to protect your personal assets. Now, you could just file your taxes as a DBA with a schedule C without incorporating which would allow you to write off expenses without the corporation but without a corporation, if you get sued, they could come after your house, your car, your savings accounts. It's almost an insurance policy. That and it gives you a little more legitimacy with the IRS and other businesses.
To answer the original post: if you are making enough money to pay $250 a year in tax for a corporation, you should probably file for incorporation.
The summary is misleading. There's no "by appointment only" system. If you RTFA it says microsoft is releasing the API to all developers who have previously released apps. I don't think this is such a big "FU" to developers as you're making it out to be. If anything, they probably did it to reward early adopters which should be applauded. It's like saying "Hey, we're sorry we've gone and modified the entire API after you built an app so we're giving you a little extra time to upgrade your apps so that some other hot shot company can't come in and steal your product before you get a chance to upgrade". I see nothing wrong with this.
If the courses carry no credit, why do you care that they are plagiarizing? I'm not a fan of ripping others work but if professors can't develop unique questions then don't expect unique answers.
The algorithm was trying to optimize a model (i.e. find the maximum value attainable). The binomial or bisection method works well for linear and binomial equations but with polynomial equations, there can be multiple local min/max apexes in the curve. Using a binomial solver may work some of the time but often it will give a false positive by becoming "trapped" into a localized root and ignoring the larger, more optimal solution.
i work in Finance so perhaps I'm a little bit of an outlier but I use high-level mathematics every day. The other day I caught two programmers (who lacked mathematical backgrounds) attempting to use a binary solver to find a solution to a polynomial algorithm. They had spent two months of time and energy trying to figure out why their model sporadically failed. I had to pull a numerical methods textbook off the shelf and show them the Newton-Raphson iterative method.
You don't use it often but there are definitely occasions when a lack of understanding leads to pitfalls.
Firefox already uses more memory than any OS I own so what the hell, go for it. Maybe Windows 8 can become a light-weight browser that runs on top of it.
Sim City destroyed their brand with Sim City 3000. Like many simulation games, they focused too much on graphics and 3D imagery and compromised usability and basic game play. Sim City 2000 is still their best version and it was built in 1993. IMO they should return to a basic tile-based game engine and start over.
A server name needs to directly correspond to a server's function. I'm not saying you can't be creative but don't be stupid. When you grow beyond ~10 servers, cutesie names are going to cause you to work weekends trying to track down basic networking issues. Here's what I do: if it's a web server, start the name with a "W". MySQL server, start the name with an "M" and so on. If it's paired or load balanced, put a numeral on the end of it to identify it's system. Beyond that, I let the interns name the servers using whatever new-age cultural references their little inexperienced hearts desire.
Eventually you may outgrow any naming convention but by then you hope to be on an island sipping margaritas while someone else worries about these things.
Actually that whole 49% figure is misleading. The element of "time" is conveniently left out. 49% of Americans at any given "time" do not pay income tax, not because they are lazy, poor, freeloading citizens but because they are either too young to earn income or retired. In actuality, over 90% of Americans pay income tax at some point in their lifetimes.
Ah, but the problem lies in that most Christians prefer the "Top Down" theory: The words of the bible may have been written by imperfect men but those men were merely acting upon a divine intervention which chose the words for them without their knowledge. Hence, the bible is the word of the lord, not of disciples three generations removed from Jesus who were telling stories to help children recall astrological events.
You cannot combat "devine" logic because it does not follow the rules of "real" logic.
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Yo Dawg, I heard you like Windows, so I decided to put Windows inside yo' Android being emulated on yo' Windows.
If the requests went up by 70% and the the amount of "no"s dropped by 20%. They are not "getting better at saying no" on a raw numerical basis.
Think about it.
If an individual could break SSL, yes, they would be going after your bank accounts not your hentai porn collection. But you have to keep in mind who the enemy is here and mega's enemy is the government. The government who basically runs the ISPs and could middle-man SSL very easily these days. In this case, the enemy is more interested in your data than your bank accounts and so the flaws in SSL are relevant and an alternate solution is probably not a bad idea.
At least until you buy drugs
I concur. I went to a very wealthy public high school where there were multiple "tracks" one could be in mathematics. Your placement in one of these "tracks" depended on the teacher's recommendations from 6-8th grade. I did no homework, never raised my hand, never studied and still pulled down B+ averages through innate ability. Frankly, I was bored by the material. I was placed in lower tracks by the teachers. Meanwhile these girls who tested at C levels but stayed after school every day, kissed ass had tutors bought by their parents were placed in the advanced tracks.
To this day I am extremely biter about the outcome. I had to take extra courses and summer classes to get myself back into the AP tracks in high school. I went on to graduate with honors in mathematics and received a PhD in Computer Science. I imagine the girls who struggled with 6th grade mathematics material aren't still in technical fields but hey, they were the ones who "worked hard" and accepted the system so they got accelerated.
You mock those who rely on the "old" paper system and then suggest relying on an long-unsupported proprietary computer architecture from the late 1980's.
I think you're missing the point.
Yes, except in this case, the patent office allowed someone to patent a process and not an invention so general legal logic goes out the window right there.
That and those fines appear to fall just beneath what it would cost to get a patent lawyer to fight the charge so on a pure revenue basis, it's cheaper to pay the ransom.
It's T-3 hours from a tragic killing of 18 kids and you're already throwing politics into this discussion? Please. If 18 kids were stabbed would you be talking about banning kitchen knives? No amount of written law is going to prevent psychopaths who want to kill innocent kids.
Your political trolling makes me sicker than this news story.
We all did this once, that's how we got here. We weren't all born admins. At one point in time you were in the same boat. Unless he does it himself, he's never gonna learn and then when shit hits the fan he's not gonna have the tools to fix it.
Follow this tutorial. If you don't like ISPConfig, try another setup on howtoforge and see how it works for you: http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-ubuntu-12.04-lts-apache2-bind-dovecot-ispconfig-3
XBox?
Microsoft may fail often but every now and then they hit it out of the park.
Actually, if you read the original NYT article and Mark Hachman's "critique" of it, you'll find that the NYT article technically didn't contain any inaccuracies. Hachman points out (rather bitterly) that the article doesn't talk about recent improvements in PUE, visualization, and other green movements in data center design. While I agree, the article left out some "techy" points, none of this changes the fact that data centers consume enormous amounts of energy whether you have a good PUE or not and that is the point of the article. The more data you store, the more energy you consume and it's on an enormous scale at this point and growing every day. Whether your PUE is 1 or 5, data costs energy and money and that's what the article is about.
And please, do not compare Fox News with an organization that still has journalistic integrity like the New York Times.
This is why we need to tax the rich more more than 10%.
Filing as an LLC is much easier depending on what US state you are in. LLC's were designed for this. I own several of them. I recommend filing in Delaware. It's very easy and you get charged a flat tax of $250 a year. If you do business in your own state you still have to pay state tax there but for me, I run an internet business and have no office or servers in my own state so one could argue I only need to pay taxes in Delaware.
There are two major benefits to incorporating as I see it, 1) it allows you to write off expenses against your earnings on your taxes 2) it allows you to protect your personal assets. Now, you could just file your taxes as a DBA with a schedule C without incorporating which would allow you to write off expenses without the corporation but without a corporation, if you get sued, they could come after your house, your car, your savings accounts. It's almost an insurance policy. That and it gives you a little more legitimacy with the IRS and other businesses.
To answer the original post: if you are making enough money to pay $250 a year in tax for a corporation, you should probably file for incorporation.
Now this is truly "News for Nerds"
Speaking of, what the hell happened to the motto? When did that happen?
The summary is misleading. There's no "by appointment only" system. If you RTFA it says microsoft is releasing the API to all developers who have previously released apps. I don't think this is such a big "FU" to developers as you're making it out to be. If anything, they probably did it to reward early adopters which should be applauded. It's like saying "Hey, we're sorry we've gone and modified the entire API after you built an app so we're giving you a little extra time to upgrade your apps so that some other hot shot company can't come in and steal your product before you get a chance to upgrade". I see nothing wrong with this.
If the courses carry no credit, why do you care that they are plagiarizing? I'm not a fan of ripping others work but if professors can't develop unique questions then don't expect unique answers.
In unrelated news: Apple sued by DOJ for breaking anti-trust laws. Suit settled out of court for unknown damages.
....Soon thereafter, US Homeland Security Agency states "we have no more concerns regarding apple's encryption systems".
The algorithm was trying to optimize a model (i.e. find the maximum value attainable). The binomial or bisection method works well for linear and binomial equations but with polynomial equations, there can be multiple local min/max apexes in the curve. Using a binomial solver may work some of the time but often it will give a false positive by becoming "trapped" into a localized root and ignoring the larger, more optimal solution.
i work in Finance so perhaps I'm a little bit of an outlier but I use high-level mathematics every day. The other day I caught two programmers (who lacked mathematical backgrounds) attempting to use a binary solver to find a solution to a polynomial algorithm. They had spent two months of time and energy trying to figure out why their model sporadically failed. I had to pull a numerical methods textbook off the shelf and show them the Newton-Raphson iterative method.
You don't use it often but there are definitely occasions when a lack of understanding leads to pitfalls.
Firefox already uses more memory than any OS I own so what the hell, go for it. Maybe Windows 8 can become a light-weight browser that runs on top of it.
Sim City destroyed their brand with Sim City 3000. Like many simulation games, they focused too much on graphics and 3D imagery and compromised usability and basic game play. Sim City 2000 is still their best version and it was built in 1993. IMO they should return to a basic tile-based game engine and start over.
A server name needs to directly correspond to a server's function. I'm not saying you can't be creative but don't be stupid. When you grow beyond ~10 servers, cutesie names are going to cause you to work weekends trying to track down basic networking issues. Here's what I do: if it's a web server, start the name with a "W". MySQL server, start the name with an "M" and so on. If it's paired or load balanced, put a numeral on the end of it to identify it's system. Beyond that, I let the interns name the servers using whatever new-age cultural references their little inexperienced hearts desire.
Eventually you may outgrow any naming convention but by then you hope to be on an island sipping margaritas while someone else worries about these things.
Since when has the FBI's charter allowed them to operate on foreign soil?
If one of these things crashes in my backyard, on my property, do I have the right to keep it?
Actually that whole 49% figure is misleading. The element of "time" is conveniently left out. 49% of Americans at any given "time" do not pay income tax, not because they are lazy, poor, freeloading citizens but because they are either too young to earn income or retired. In actuality, over 90% of Americans pay income tax at some point in their lifetimes.
Ah, but the problem lies in that most Christians prefer the "Top Down" theory: The words of the bible may have been written by imperfect men but those men were merely acting upon a divine intervention which chose the words for them without their knowledge. Hence, the bible is the word of the lord, not of disciples three generations removed from Jesus who were telling stories to help children recall astrological events.
You cannot combat "devine" logic because it does not follow the rules of "real" logic.