Comment Re:100 more will die today (Score 5, Insightful) 1719
"Improving mental health care" and access to it.
"Improving mental health care" and access to it.
Probably more, but in much smaller packets and with confounding factors. With current proliferation of guns, accidental deaths come in on the order of 1300 per year, with guns in every classroom, I'd expect that to climb substantially as the untrained and risk blind currently insulated from interaction with firearms have ready, albeit unintended, access to them. Conflating that would be a further shift in suicides towards using firearms.
If this incident were typical, you would need one a week to match the current accidental death from firearms rate.
Personally, I would think pervasive gun safety training would be cheaper, less constitutionally troublesome and save more lives than further proliferation or further restriction.
A knife works just as well, especially if you have any other physical advantage, as we tragically learned here in Seattle a while back.
It has the same claim that the US had to Washington Territory or that China has to Tibet or that Pakistan and India have to Kashmir. If China left Tibet under treaty, would that not be a concession?
It's was a concession in exchange for a cessation of attacks. We all negotiate from the circumstances we find ourselves in. There is no base truth with regards to ownership, only the current de facto arrangement. How many ply you choose to look back into history to formulate your lie of justice can greatly shift your perspective.
Consider for a moment the infinite series formed by SUM(-1^n,-inf,inf)
Which event you pick out as precipitating will change your perspective as all others seem to cancel out, but even that choice is a lie,any event could have been chosen, it all chains back in blood, suffering and joy throughout history.
The only non free (as in beer) source control I'd recommend is Perforce, but really, gitstack or svn will work just fine.
The cost should be the cost of a server with enough space for the repository and the S3 account for backups. You probably already have a server you can use, and S3 storage is cheap.
Experiment design and analysis uses math. Systems monitoring uses quite a bit of math (or pages you for false alarms at 2am). Scheduling uses math. Stress test analysis uses math.
For game programming, physics uses LOTS of math, and since that math is expensive to perform, you often end up needing to do even more of it to come up with alternatives that feel 'right' while being better adapted to your physics processor. Then there is analysis of what your players are doing, AI (and learning!).
Unfortunately, in this case, at least on the Amazon side, it doesn't look like social engineering. It looks like a classic escalation attack in the same theme as the cuckoo egg: use weak credentials to deposit a payload that can then be used as strong credentials.
While social engineering is pernicious and relies on people violating policy in the name of being helpful or customer service (often without realizing they are doing it!), this is a straight up bug in the CS procedures.
Unfortunately, a similar bug in Apple's CS procedures allowed for further escalation.
Which is great, but in this case Apple allowed the hackers to completely bypass the normal security questions by answering a question that you can't 'make up', and in fact, that they didn't let you know was a security question.
That said, now that we know about it, there is a way of getting around it: Have a different credit card number for each site!
Though I hope Amazon's CS customer authentication and authorization procedures will get overhauled to eliminate these escalation attacks.
You can still leak confidential data through the queries that are made.
Depends on what you mean by usable. It immediately prompts a study of human populations to identify how certain defects can impair it's function which will likely lead to the development of gene therapies to correct those defects, and if beneficial variants can be identified, could later lead to general purpose gene therapies to slow the rate of aging. It may also lead to studies for the development of drugs to modify it's action, but thats probably farther out than basic gene therapies for those with defective instances of these genes.
Cheap solar powered very high altitude unmanned platforms that are cheaper to produce than the missile needed to shoot them down, just sitting up there until their payload is needed, be it a bomb, rocket, jammer, communications relay or recon.
That is really odd, as my local B&N was still carrying 2600 last time I was in, and there are similar articles in every issue.
Equitable and promissory estoppel: Sun helped project Harmony and was deeply involved in it's creation, to the extent that it infringed, it had permission to do so. Sun definitely received benefit from this arrangement as parts of Sun's own implementation were contributed, as a result of Harmony, by Google.
PURGE COMPLETE.
