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You're incorrectly using the term "ad hominem." An ad hominem argument is when you try to invalidate an idea with an irrelevant personal attack. The problematic incentives facing climate change scientists are certainly relevant to their research. I'm not saying we should dismiss their data necessarily, but I am calling into question their motivations. Would we be skeptical of public health research on smoking funded by a tobacco company? I hope so. But just because they would have strong incentives to produce a particular outcome doesn't mean their science is wrong, but it could very well be biased. Same here.
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Not only is it a great platform, but they're improving it regularly. The beta version running Webkit is so nice.
What about stuff like power efficiency, which is 'cool' because your portable device runs cooler, has a smaller battery, and gets a longer runtime between charges?
Speculation, but I think it makes sense:

http://blog.acooper.org/2009/12/speculation-the-real-villain...

tl;dr: Labor are using the filter as a political means to an end, to court the conservative Christian senator Steve Fielding's vote on the ETS (Fielding is more or less a climate change sceptic). Fielding, along with independent Nick Xenophon, hold disproportinate power in the Senate.
I think you have the wrong idea about programming. Programming has always had algorithms (the ability to find its way around a map). This "old-style programming" is called procedural programming, but even that paradigm had capabilities to implement algorithms. This is the computer science aspect of programming. Actually, it's not an aspect at all, it's the foundation of programming.

No, programming is a result of mixing math and linguistics to achieve information processing. Of course that's my inexperience evaluation and I bet a veteran of this field would quickly tell me that I too have an incorrect notion. But see, that's the thing. It shouldn't be this hard to comprehend! Sadly, as Scott Rosenberg says in his book Dreaming in Code, the reason why programming is imperfect is because people made it that way and people are imperfect.
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No, I'm not. However, if my server is compromised, I alone will be affected. When Google's servers are, many more people are affected. That makes Google an attractive target.
Apple is well aware that the make-or-break aspect of software development on the Mac is that the only barrier is programming skill. If they started charging money for the tools, people would just go elsewhere.

The iPhone App Store is so popular and lucrative that Apple can pretty much do whatever they want and we'll put up with it (by and large), but the Mac indie software market is so small and yet so important that they would never do anything to threaten it. If anything, I see this as them opening up their resources via one lower, universal price point, rather than locking them off behind a paywall.
Sounds like a great way to drown the team in process. I don't mean to sound snarky but you often need to find the right balance between process and making sure the team can write code and ship features without having to spin up a ton of paperwork and training.
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Um... no, it might be what drove him to use bitkeeper. Losing bitkeeper is what drove him to create git. This is pretty well documented.
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Yes, but hardware still matters. Look at virtualization - yes, VMWare and co mostly make it work, but it's slow, buggy and full of vulnerabilities. In short, it's a kludge.
This is pretty close to nonsensical, and shows a lack of understanding of how things work in the Apple ecosystem.

Apple has already released a beta version of Xcode that allows you to build "universal" apps: one binary that runs on both iPhone and iPad. That certainly doesn't sound like something they'd be doing if they expected to have a separate developer program for iPad.

and how on earth could they ever charge you to port your iPhone app to Mac? The code that you write for any app is your own, Apple has no control over it.
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absolutely; dont try this at home :)

Dont forget this original conversation was about a trained military guy and whether he should have fought or not.

Im just trying to communicate something interesting.
Why is this specific to Rails?

The beauty of the web and of the internet protocols it's built on is that you can have multiple implementations that respond to the same interface. DNS doesn't care what language it's pointing to.
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I agree - this has got out of hand. And the last thing I would want is to get someone hurt by suggesting they should try it..

However, the kinds of techniques described here can keep you alive in tough countries. Everyone seemed to be expressing the opinion that the guy described in the OP was idiotic or dangerous - Im trying to simply put across information I know that counterpoints that view.
So you need physical access to the server/device, specialized power supply equipment, and then 104 hours on an 81-machine cluster of 2.4 GHz Pentium-4's to do the exploit. All of which can be solved by simply salting an error checking algorithm with a little randomness.

Their definition of 'Severe' is severely lacking.
Good to hear Google being open about the problem. Couple things:

- Doesn't each server has its own UPS? I thought some guy from Google showing the machine design with the battery pack attached to each machine. Why did a data center power outage crash 25% of the machines at the same time?

- Should the servers be restarted and recovered automatically? It said 25% of servers didn't get the UPS power in time and crashed. That implied power was restored shortly and the servers can just be restarted. The servers are just dumb servers that can be shut down, restarted, and recovered in any time. If enough servers were restarted, then BigTable/DataStore would have enough data nodes to continue. The downtime would be couple minutes to tens of minutes.

- Lack of precise monitoring. The first clue of problem was as drop in traffic and outside discussion group posts. Drop-in traffic can be caused by so many things. Shouldn't there be health check monitors on the BigTable and DataStore clusters? Like if more than 10% (25% in this case) of nodes in the clusters are down, raise an alarm and page someone right the way?

- Were there capacity planning and stress testing to determine what percentage of the capacity that can serve traffic in each DC and each cluster? 25% servers down affecting the whole BigTable cluster sounds too little of safety margin.

I don't envy the on-call staff. The pressure must be tremendous.
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Processes and rules are in place because of these kind of painful experience. No one likes process. No one likes to be under the gun to fix a down production server neither.
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Except that you are kinda forced to pay for the iPhone developer portal unless you want to jailbreak your iPhone since you need those certificates and provisioning profiles.

But to develop for the Mac you just sign up for free and download XCode (or get it from the install DVD, albeit outdated).

The only advantage is probably getting access to pre-released versions of OSX so you could test your app but I somehow doubt there is such a large number of people that need to do this that badly and couldn't afford the previous $500.
Very reasoned discussion of the issues.

However, there's no evidence that any inadvertent access is taking place

There is; it just doesn't get reported because no one realises it. It might even be on your "FavouritPornSite.com" of choice. That's the problem - how DO they filter that... (answer, they can't)
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Well, it is the register after all.

Wish they still had the about page that said "We are the corruptibles,...", good times.
It's not specific to Rails, only his example URL is - Rails listens on port 3000 by default. You could equally try http://iwishyouwouldnt.smackaho.st:80/ and get your local web server.
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Sorry I didn't catch it, but jac_no_k posted a much better link to the same story a few minutes before I did. Go read his.

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I think number 2 could be huge, especially with Facebook rolling out it new credits/payment platform. Political campaigns and non-profits would love it for fundraisers. I ran a Congressional campaign and something like this would have been great.

I also now a bunch of people in the music/event promotion business locally that would be the perfect fit for this kind of app.

Some of the issues I think of at first glance for this kind of app regard around the physical ticket.

The process of selling the ticket digitally is simple enough but, getting actual physical tickets that work at the door is another task; especially if you take into consideration fraud prevention and some sort of pos mechanism(QR Codes by phone??) to verify the ticket in the case of larger events.

I'm surprised no one in the online tickets space is making a move to integrate the Facebook platform into their current ticketing offerings. Or are they?

I've got experience with events through politics, music, and some work on a web app for handling event registration for car shows on a car enthusiast social network. Feel free to touch base with me at schaecher.michael at gm if you want to bounce anything off me or whatever
It's probably just a matter of configuring the routers to redirect traffic to the backup data center. All the servers are already running in standby in the backup data center.

The only thing tricky is to hold all writes on backup, and flush all pending updates from primary to backup. That they did: they made backup in readonly mode, and slowly turned on read/write after a while.

I don't understand why they lost so much data. 0.00002% is a lot considering the dataset is really large. Shouldn't there be replication from primary to backup? I assume Google is rich enough to have multiple links and fatpipes.
I didn't say "unlimited" health care, anywhere.

I just believe that in this day and age, the US should join other first world countries in valuing life above military.

>> "I'm pretty sure that your own behavior proves otherwise. (I'm not claiming that your choices are wrong, but they do show that health isn't always your highest priority.)"

Care to elaborate?
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Well to be honest... just do the homework. My experience was that profs are lazy, and recycle a lot. So if you do the homework, you will know how to do the exam. It sucks, some of it won't make sense for ages, I honestly didn't understand what the limit definition of a derivative actually meant until 2 years after I got an A in calc.

Some really good advice, hang out with people you know are smarter than you. They will get off on flaunting their intellect, and you'll get taught by some truly brilliant people... everyone wins?

Finally try and have fun. I found a strong positive correlation between having fun and my performance in my undergrad.
This has the taste of a troll, but I mean it as a sincere question: Why are people still on LiveJournal? I get that they more-or-less invented the blog as we know it, but what do they bring to table today? Doesn't pretty much any other free blog service offer a superior experience?
Perhaps you are already planning this, but I feel that an app of this nature needs to go beyond the usual fine print privacy policy and give a front and center explanation of what it's doing. You could portray this as a feature description rather than a warning, as long as it's crystal clear.

That said, nifty idea. I'd like to see more website extensions like this, if there was a better security model.
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Yes, that is definitely a lesson well leant.
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Denialist? You sound like a member of the Spanish Inquisition. Are we talking science (where constant questioning is [or is that just silly me?] was always supposed to be intrinsic to the investigative process) or religion? The latter, it seems, as far as you're concerned.

Has it dawned on you that use of the word is a kind of own goal? "Hey folks, we believe in the true religion and must rout those non-believers!"
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Good stuff here. :)

I'm going to work on some use cases and put them on the landing page. Thanks again for your time.
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In this competition, if you wanted to use another language, you just needed to make a starter package (a stupid bot) and some instructions to get the compiler working on their end. So in this competition, arbitrary languages where accepted.
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My impression is that as long as you can ignore startup time, Java in general is pretty close to C++ and definitely much faster that Python. I am surprised this would be a problem with Java and not with Python. Did anyone had the same problem with Python?
It could be good under the assumption that other technology - compilers, virtual machines, virtualisation, web apps - has moved on to the extent that a wider variety of instruction sets could bring benefits rather than problems.
Well you obviously missed this part:

"The scientists are also experimenting with the possibility of exploiting the bug using lasers or natural radiation sources, they said."

Where once I could bring my laser or a large piece of radioactive rock to work, now I will be met with suspicion, even outright hostility :-(
Whilst I hated clearcase as a version control system (and I mean 'fire and stakes' hate, not just 'crossO the road') - it did have one good trick up its sleeve:

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Phishing attacks often come in waves or "campaigns", the quicker you can identify a new phishing strain, the quicker you can develop filters for it.

That way, maybe only 25% of the intended recipients even see a particular phishing attack before you eradicate it. Though you probably still got owned, you have a lot less owned machines.
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I think it's fairly relevant. For example as relevant as all the startup visa stuff.

I would never startup in the US, and one of the reasons would be lack of public healthcare.
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Judging by some of the comments there, it was all done in Javascript. So whether it still happens to you or not, might be caused by whether you have that Javascript file in your browser cache.
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Agreed, long term memory usage is what they should measure. Leave the browser up for a while, come back, and compare the usage statistics.
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To each his own, I guess. While I started playing in the 80s and still have a rotting away C64 in the attic (the floppies are probably beyond rot) storing and archiving the media, to me, is just darn painful.

So the fact that I have an implicit backup of all my games with nill re-install headache is the killer argument for Steam.

I'm fully aware of the drawbacks (including the, alas remote, possibility of the service going down, but am willing to chance this for the convenience received.

OTOH: Ubisoft just said hello to Sony (remember the rootkit fiasko, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_rootkit ) and a couple other companies on my eternal shitlist. Since it's eternal there's no escape and they won't see one mor Eurocent from me, no matter what. I also won't pirate anything Ubisoft for that matter.
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There are lots of little communities that are good at this. 4Chan comes to mind. They made boxxy super popular, then subsequently killed her off lol.

Kind of scary when you give a mob mentality to a mob not constrained by numbers, location, or power.
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el'reg love to try and make out interesting exploit stories as "we're all going to die".

Which is a shame because it is an interesting story.
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