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clivehollowayon Math is not linear, so why do we teach it like that?

I got dizzy reading that and gave up half way through. Stick to math and let someone else design your presentations :)

clivehollowayon "No Dashes Or Spaces" Hall of Shame

Why just stop at dashes and spaces?

s/\D//g

clivehollowayon Marry Him: The case for settling for Mr. Good Enough

Here's a rational approach that may be appreciated here :)

Make a concious decision to try and settle down with one of the first 6 girls you date. Here's the rules:

1) don't settle for the first one you date.

2) the next one you date that is better than the first one you dated is the one you settle for.

Why? Do the math. Let's label them 123456.

If you date 1 first, you have 1 in 5 chance of ending up with any of the others (1 in 30 for each)

If you date 2 first, you end up with 1 (1 in 6)

If you date 3 first, you can end up with 1 or 2 (1 in 12 each)

If you date 4 first, you can end up with 1, 2 or 3 (1 in 18 each)

If you date 5 first, you end up with 1, 2, 3 or 4 (1 in 24 each)

If you date 6 first, you end up with 1,2 .. 5 (1 in 30 each).

Add that up, and the odds of you settling for each woman are:

1 - 38.1%, 2 - 24.7%, 3 - 16.4%, 4 - 10.1%, 5 - 6.7%, 6 - 3.3%

So, 79.2% of the time you "settle" for someone above average. And, for the other 20.8%? You can always split up before it's too late :)

clivehollowayon The Single Sign On

1) add a cert signing server that you control to the client's browser, 2) install a self signed SSL cert in the client's browser, 3) done.

(assumes over https, which for HIPAA stuff should be a given)

clivehollowayon Mac Mini colocation

I have direct experience right now - from a management POV, it's like the Nutrimatic Drinks Dispenser in HHGTTG - it create an operating system almost but not quite entirely unlike Linux. The costs involved in working out why tool X isn't compiling as expected far outweigh the benefits of the cheap hardware. The sooner I get this system migrated off these damn boxes the better...

clivehollowayon You, Too, Can Soon Be Like Tom Cruise in ‘Minority Report’

But... I don't want to over act.

clivehollowayon Automatically followed by abusive ex-husband (and his friends) on Google Buzz

Nope - I never configured anything and had about 25 followers and was following 25 people - 2/3 of which were just people I had had to email in bursts who I didn't know. Seriously flawed execution here...

clivehollowayon AmEx: "We discourage the use of special characters because..."

Why not just hash the password and use the first 8 characters of the hash? That would at least stop things from being stored in plain text.

clivehollowayon AmEx: "We discourage the use of special characters because..."

Storing the password in a truecrypted file and copy pasting also works. Though, for someone going to those lengths, a keylogger is a very unlikely to be a problem for someone paying that much attention.

clivehollowayon Bin Ladens Audio Message to Obama (Subtitled in English)

Like the mainstream media supporting the "Saddam Hussein Weapons of mass destruction" line. Well that turned out to be true, so no problem there.

clivehollowayon The Apple Tablet Is Here, And It's Called the iPad

http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/23/1816257...

clivehollowayon The Apple Tablet Is Here, And It's Called the iPad

I wonder if it will come with wings? So we can (say) safely use it while exercising ;-)

clivehollowayon Bin Ladens Audio Message to Obama (Subtitled in English)

Does anyone here seriously believe Bin Laden is still alive? Why are these tapes posted as fact when circumstantial evidence points strongly to him having dies in December 2001?

At the very least it should be entertained that they may be fake.

clivehollowayon How many frames can humans see

There was me thinking it was sarcasm - works both ways :)