vizeroth

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by vizeroth 9y ago
Just because no one managed to create WannaCry for Flash doesn't mean the security problems are overstated. They've published over 50 vulnerabilities in Flash this year, when the installed base is in the toilet. Java may be worse
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by vizeroth 9y ago
Kids make stupid and dangerous decisions because their brains aren't fully developed, they don't have the same sense of perspective that they will (hopefully) have as adults. Once upon a time, this was part of why we had a separat
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by vizeroth 9y ago
This is where it can be difficult for people to understand the culture in which people are operating. From the outside, a public University is the ivory tower, but from the inside, it's just short of chaos. Sometimes faculty have direc
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by vizeroth 9y ago
While on the surface this is true, the amount of work required as a developer to learn how to do this is insignificant compared to the total time required to really understand your craft. While you may have to spend more time testing access
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by vizeroth 9y ago
I think people underestimate the difficulty of getting this done in a University environment, but I also think people are too quick to side with Berkeley in this particular case. One of the points made by the DoJ was that Berkeley makes res
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by vizeroth 9y ago
I feel like I could come up with some examples if I had kept up with German after high school. I remember it being difficult for a year or two, then it seemed more helpful as we got into more complex language mechanics. In any case, German
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by vizeroth 9y ago
If a system gives you two options for storing a date (using 2-digit or 4-digit years), how many dates do you need to store and use in calculations before you end up saving space by creating a new data type and all of the supporting operatio
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by vizeroth 9y ago
Another solution was to set the prefix for 2-digit years on a sliding scale, so they are interpreted as a date within a specific 100-year period (date windowing). For example, see the 2029 rule: https://support.microsoft.com&#x2F
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by vizeroth 9y ago
Most countries apply intellectual property law to anything published on the internet. In other words, when it comes to something you pull down via http, you should assume that, if you attempt to republish it in any form, someone out there m
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by vizeroth 9y ago
So why did the U.S. sign the Mexican Farm Labor Agreement in 1942? The Migrant Labor Agreement of 1951? Why did the UFW hold protests at the U.S. border in 1969-1973? Why did the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 specifically addre
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by vizeroth 9y ago
There's a significant gap between the bottom end of people with other sources of income and those who will "accumulate it with no intent to spend it". Further, even if you give it to everyone across the board, most of the peo
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by vizeroth 9y ago
I realize this is days later, but I felt the need to respond even though I didn't feel the need to check for responses earlier. I do see how it can be easy to believe that ratings have more influence than students. At the same time, ma
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by vizeroth 9y ago
The key is to avoid the extreme of a wizard design where the user clicks through multiple pages with little value in what is displayed on each page.
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by vizeroth 9y ago
Many colleges are being pressured (by accreditation committees, donors, government, etc.) to provide methods for students to acquire connections that make it easier to succeed. Networking opportunities, guest lecturers from industry, intern
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by vizeroth 9y ago
HIPAA does not make your medical information private, it makes it Portable. Whether it has improved the protection of your digitized medical records is debatable, but it definitely forced almost every industry remotely related to medical ca
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by vizeroth 9y ago
Though El Salvador is no stranger to having popular governments overthrown by corporate interests.
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by vizeroth 9y ago
Mixed-use streets and a mis-guided desire to build urban and suburban areas on grids of wide straight roads are the root cause of the problem. Fast cars are just a symptom. In my area the state and/or county went to great lengths to cr
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by vizeroth 9y ago
This depends somewhat on the number of lanes and the situation. In California it is possible that you could be ticketed for impeding the flow of traffic, although most officers are unlikely to pull you over for this as long as you get out o
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by vizeroth 9y ago
If you're developing on Apple hardware in Xcode, you have a number of simulators available in the development environment to test/optimize most of that. I'm sure someone will come up with plenty of reasons that this isn'
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by vizeroth 9y ago
You hire junior developers for those roles because you can pay them less and find the people who work well in your environment, get rid of the ones who don't, and leave the rest to decide for themselves whether they can find something
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by vizeroth 9y ago
Other than the appearance, a great deal of the design goes into cooling and noise reduction. Many Macs can do quite a bit without spinning up a fan, and the more powerful machines usually have more complicated mechanisms to make this possib
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by vizeroth 9y ago
Although 1 person driving another person from point A to point B reduces the number of single-occupancy vehicle trips, it doesn't necessarily reduce congestion. It could even increase congestion because all of those "private shutt
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by vizeroth 9y ago
More importantly, at the backbone level, the phone system has been run through the same type of SONET fiber optic networks as the internet for the last couple of decades, at least. In most cases the only reasons the two were isolated from o
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by vizeroth 9y ago
The national infrastructure for the internet and POTS is the same, and has been since the mid-1990s, if not always. Internet PoP sites and telephone PoP sites in the U.S. are housed in the same building, usually in the same rack. The fiber
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by vizeroth 9y ago
SOPA/PIPA was not as clearly Republican vs. Democrat as you make it out to be, either. Whenever a law is dressed up as IP protections and backed by the entertainment industry, you will probably see a lot of support from CA's repre
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by vizeroth 9y ago
PSR-2: http://www.php-fig.org/psr/psr-2/ Of course, these have little to do with core PHP, but PSR-1, PSR-0/4, and large portions of PSR-2 have been widely adopted within the PHP development community. The mo
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by vizeroth 10y ago
but there are 10 other circuits on an equal footing and dissenting opinion even within the court, so, while it is a federal matter and could be applicable throughout the country, you probably don't want to be the person who has to go t
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by vizeroth 10y ago
While circuits disagree, their rulings still hold weight outside of their district or circuit. A case comes to them because it is federal in nature or because there was a reason to remove the case from a state court. By the very nature of a
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by vizeroth 10y ago
American adults read so little that this attitude only comes from a minority of the minority. For the most part, people see it as a waste of time because they may only read 1-4 books a year, so they might feel those books should have some m
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by vizeroth 10y ago
It's not necessarily that the FSF spends a lot of resources on this page, but that Stallman appears to spend a lot of his time and resources on the issues that are repeated throughout this page (or the whole "Philosophy" sect

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