What's the meaning of this? Are they disclaiming liability totally, even for situations beyond our control? I think these clauses are ambiguous.

12. You will indemnify, keep harmless and defend ntel against any claims, losses, costs and liabilities arising from any claims by you or any third party, in connection with the use or misuse of the Site.

So you are required to defend them even when they cause damages to you by their actions or inactions?

14. ntel is not liable whether in contract, tort, under statute, for misrepresentation or otherwise (including in each case negligence) and whether or not the party concerned was advised in advance of the possibility of such loss or damage, whether direct, indirect or consequential howsoever arising under or loss of profit, loss of revenue, loss of anticipated savings, loss of opportunity, loss of business, wasted expenditure, loss from business interruption, loss or corruption or destruction of data, loss of contracts, loss from expenditure of time by managers and employees, liability to third parties, pecuniary losses arising from goodwill, or loss of or damage to goodwill; or any indirect or consequential loss or damage whatsoever, resulting from your use of or inability to use the Site, or from your relying on the accuracy or completeness of the Site content.

Why will they not be liable for the results of the content they post on their website? I'm not comfortable with this.

18. ntel will not disclose any information of a confidential nature obtained as a result of the use of the Site to any person other than their employees, employees or officers of its affiliated company, professional advisers and suppliers. Information of a confidential nature excludesa) Any information which became available to the public other than through a breach of the Terms;(b) Information lawfully in the possession of the recipient before the disclosure took place; (c) Information for which disclosure is required by law, by an order of court or by any government authority.

So the government, or really anyone who has a political mandate in any capacity, can go to them and say, "hey, I want you to give me every information you have about lala, and even the ones you don't have presently. Get them all and dump them in my laps", and they'll obediently dump your digital biography in the hands of any such one? In a country where the law has as many representations as there are scoundrels?

22. The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of these Terms and Conditions shall not affect the validity or enforceability of the remaining provisions of these Terms.

This is obviously debatable. We cannot determine this until the whole terms, and their relationships to one another, are fully understood by us. That will involve clarifying the other ambiguous clauses first.
Well, I'm just paranoid because of our common experience in the hands of MTN, Etisalat, Glo and Airtel. Can someone explain the quoted clauses to me?

...Because you won't question this whole composition and ask 'how true is this'?
Because you won't ask if there are other rules besides these.
Because you'll probably just like and share this, and forget it ever after.
Because you probably didn't understand some of the statements but just skipped them.
Because you get discouraged when a subject you're studying many controversies around it.
Because you neglect or are ignorant of the fundamental principles and purposes of our existence.
Because you think more about the negative parts of life than the positive parts. Many things can go wrong and if you focus on what things can go wrong, you'll be too occupied to follow the things that can go right.

Not all characters can be found on your keyboard. Your keyboard would be very large if all characters were on it.
Learn the html character codes of the characters you want to display and use them on your page.
You can also use a typesetting tool to write the equations and post a screen shot of the result on the page. Whichever way you choose to go, it's your choice.
Both options have limitations and drawbacks. But combining them is powerful.

bugzbunny:
Pentecoastalism is fast commercialising xtianity.....somtin must be done fast

You think so?
I think Pentecostalism has been abused and adulterated by moles who have half-truths for doctrine.

teampregar:

Guys always want their opinion to be established with each other in stuffs..
BT u can just tell a female I want this website or app to be like this and its done

So you want a robot that you can demand almost anything of? Well, a female is a bad idea then.

dhtml18:
@op, you-don-dey-madt!

Ah, the great troll!
E don tey o. Baba I greet o. Baba you see, the ministry is moving forward. We don get anoda newbie like me. You suppose throw party for us na.

This probe will be big and may hit some dead ends. These companies are willing to pay huge fines to cover their crimes.
The government then was so corrupt that the companies got away paying meager fines that didn't go anywhere near the treasury. It was a collaboration of some politicians and some mercenaries to screw Nigeria as much as they could.
The next probe, I hope, will be concerning the infamous Ajaokuta Steel Plant -- one of the most conspicuous relics of corruption in Nigeria.
I hope John Grisham is following these events. Well, he has more to follow in America. But someone can do something great on it here.

amanikondo:

Russia will have his ass beaten by NATO, what can Russia do to its downed Jet by Turkey, Nothing.
The fear of NATO is the beginning of Wisdom for Lord Putin.

Is that why the West backed-off when Putin shook his little finger over Crimea?
The bear has risen.

johnydon22:


I doubt the solar wind hypothesis. . . We are much closer to the Sun than Mars and so i think Solar winds should have much effect on the earth than Mars...

So If solar wind had such effects on Mars, Why is earth still hoarding an enormous amount of liquid water..

(tho waters on Mars must have been far more older than what we have on earth..)



Alongside Mars having an ancient ocean before, it is also thought mars had a much thick atmosphere like earth..

What ever murdered those Thick atmosphere took the water with it.

My best guess is a Planetary Collision, Mars might have been a bit bigger than it is now, a collision with another planetary body e.g Asteroid Can really dismantle Mars' rich atmosphere remember Asteroids react like nuclear bomb on impact.

So i think It was a collision which evaporated the Waters in the process, peeled off most of Mars' atmosphere until we are left with what we have now..

Debris from that collision must have contributed to the debris in the asteroid belt..

Take a look at the picture of Mars i put up there, You noticed the huge scar on the planets surface?..

Might be remnants from the impact.. ...

A science fiction theory postulates that the state of Mars resulted from an interplanetary war that had cosmic effects.
It's science fiction, of course.
The writer, Joseph Farrell, a Physicist, suggests that the Giza pyramid was an ancient experiment for an interplanetary weapon of mass destruction, and that a similar weapon was being developed by Mars' inhabitants at the time: a kind of arms race. Eventually, the weapon on Earth was armed and deployed, and our near cousins on Mars suffered the effect more terribly.
You can find the book "The Giza Death Star Deployed" by Joseph Farrell.
It seems this link will work:
[url]projectavalon.net/Joseph_Farrell_The_Giza_Death_Star_Deployed_The_Physics_and_Engineering_of_the_Great_Pyramid_2003.pdf[/url]
Cute theory for fiction.

They are doing something I don't understand with data service.
I tried this once: I bought a data plan of 40Mb at 100 naira on Airtel and I tried to download files worth less than 30Mb total.
You can guess what happened. They munched my cash within 20 minutes of browsing (just locating the file) and downloading (the main thing). In the end, I got less than the file size as value for my subscription.
That was just one of many ugly experiences with Airtel. I've had very similar experiences with Etisalat too.
With Glo, I get almost the full value for my subscription (considering both upstream and downstream data transfer).
All the tests were done on 3G networks.
You're likely thinking what I think about the two Trojan networks.
My suggestion is this: carry out well-controlled, accurate tests on their data quality. Repeat the tests on different devices and check whether the inconsistencies show any pattern. If it's what we suspect, report to the customer care center and demand a balance.
If they fail to comply, report to the NCC.

For me, it is simply poetry. And do you know what I've just done? I've just used a level of abstraction in that sentence - 'poetry'.
I love Science generally and I never run out of sweet adventures in Science.

"Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's
longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to
make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday. You are the bow from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrow may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable." *

Separate your children from your ideal values. Let them not receive it; let them emulate it. Place before them the good and the bad, advise them which is better, then let them decide.
Know this also, that your traits determine much of theirs. Do not be surprised when they have same bad habits you had growing up because they were not born blank slates. Let them have the will to choose the right. You cannot force good behavior: few years after they leave home, all your coaxing and coercion is forgotten because the environment leaves no permanent mark on their nature.
Do not force them in the way of a religion. Let them discover the beauty of it themselves while you guide them carefully. Forcing them will deprive them of the understanding of the religion and will make them either blind fanatics or confused rebels who likely will abandon the religion later.

All of these songs are intended to praise the bride who is herself the sole beneficiary of the processes up to that point. It becomes evident that men who overestimate marriage over personal development live for women and do not love themselves. The society pushes them hard to be responsible for everything and everyone, and they become women-pleasing neurotics.

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You did not open a connection to the database. Try enabling error reporting in your program.

Your assertions are true except this one:
"Takeaway: There is always a girl behind
every successful man!"
For me, the take-away is, "let people do the work but take the credit for it".
If you think the CEOs of most companies do anything as much as the efforts of the unappreciated laborers they employ, then know that my take-away is correct.

Blakjewelry:

Though you are right to a large extent, but what am seriously considering is what if our own creation in the future turn against us, you might be surprised that in the nearest future there might be fairy tales of how the gods made the machines lol.
Do you know that a lot of work is being done on artificial consciousness or machine consciousness? Though it is kinda cool but it is a little bit weird

That's exactly what I fear. Such consciousness are within the bounds of our algorithms. They have no soul and we cannot give them one. We can only make them behave in certain ways, but I fear those behaviours may not be what is ideal for our safety. Imagine what could happen should such intelligence be applied in warfare.

Blakjewelry:

The only part I fear about some of these tech is that they have the ability to give machine an edge over man in the future. Except we merge man machine in the future man is doom. But the thrill of what we can achieve is like a drug, it is addictive

The politicians are our fear, not the technologies. If our politicians can think with the people in view, the world would be safer.

ChokolateBoss:

Disruptive? How do u mean?

I say disruptive not in a literal way. Consider the subsequent advances such technologies could bring in several sectors such as banking and finance, crime detection and investigation, engineering, population control, agriculture, defense, transport, medicine, town planning, education and other sectors. Imagine an architect being able to produce a full design in a very short time by feeding a few variables to a computer and have an AI produce a beautiful and standards-compliant design.
Consider how data could be analyzed at greater speeds and solutions to problems gotten fast. It's really disruptive.

kolawaxxy:
Just struggle to become a lecturer

...then teach students who will someday graduate to ask this same question

That's the sad state of the nation's education sector. Most lecturers are not solving any problem. They're part of the problem.

Blakjewelry:

Google and nasa own one each

Yes they do. Although this field of computing is still largely unexplored, I think an early adoption of the technology can give Google a large advantage in many tech areas: its search engine will improve more; its self-driving cars will have better performance at image processing and recognition of objects; its maps service can be extended in ways we've not thought of. And the whole field of IT will be transformed as other companies adopt the technology. Imagine how disruptive this, together with the new network technologies (5G and LiFi), can be.

The measure of respect the moderators deserve is not that accorded them on Nairaland. Each thread created is not complete without the ritualistic mention of a moderator's user-name, and lalasticlala has been a favourite target for many.
I do not blame the abusers of privilege: there is no rule to restrain and the culture here encourages them - the culture that promotes compromise instead of good standards.

Feraz:
I couldn't even find the link to that of 2016 registration.

If you have registered for the course before, registration for 2016 is just a click. Else, just sign up on edX, then search for the course.
Here is the link to the course > https://courses.edx.org/courses/HarvardX/CS50x3/2015/info

cbrass:


Lol.. you always make my day with your fantastic replies. I have not checked on perl am still trying to figure the new PHP 7 . Well sorry to disapoint you I shall leave the coding ministry this year or at least won't code for commercial purposes again. Its a big decision I want to take and I have developed a website that will fetch revenue for me by Gods grace. I want to delve into my other passion which is music am a classical / jazz trumpeter that's why my moniker is cbrass. Once my website picks commercially I will say bye bye to programming

Good luck with that. Just try to visit us once in a while. It's good seeing the saints together from time to time.

Feraz:
Someone help me with a .gif for the bolded!

ChokolateBoss, this also.

Craigston, which courses will you be taking on edX this year?

Harvard CS50x - Introduction to Computer Science. I'll be ahead of my course mates soon, because during the long holiday, I'll be taking yet another course. I'm yet to decide on the second, but it may be on one of these: Linux, physics, math or writing/public speaking.

Modified:
Harvard CS50x is now on and is self-paced. I've enrolled and it's time to get grinding.

cbrass:
Craigston how are you doing? As for that stem you mentioned just forget it. We often see things from the spiritual angle in this country. Common BVN, some already see it as anti-christ pet project

I'm fine cbrass. Don't mind them. They are just self-deceivers. They are not spiritual, just dogmatic and superstitious. Most of them do not understand the prophecies they so fear: if they did, they'd be calm even if the anti-Christ bellows fire in their face. BTW, how's the ministry going? U never invite me come see ur congregation o. Hehehehehe. And apostle Larry Wall and his followers just released improved their doctrine and called it Perl 6. Have you checked it out?

I wish you a happy new year - one filled with prosperity and success. Explore your limits and push the boundaries of your abilities this year. I hope we become much better than we are before the end of this year.

Feraz:
Imagine the bolded.

It's very annoying. I wonder what they take us for.
This article highlights their filth, especially Britain's.

Feraz:
And ChokolateBoss comes with his Science/Engineering thread.
For those who want to study this, edX offers courses on AI. Who knows if the best programmer will come from this country?

Collaboration is the defending sexy stuff for programmers. I hope Nigeria will do well in IT. And I'll be taking some courses on edX this year.

This is a wake up call to Nigeria to start diversifying. Oil may not be used as much in the future as it is now. A thread about this was opened but as usual, it was derailed. Countries are really pursuing alternatives to oil while we are here shouting 'our oil' and pumping more money towards the exploration of oil in the Chad Basin. Just like wood was the in thing, then whale oil, then coal etc. There is a power plant being built in France called ITER and it makes use of fusion technology instead of fission.

What!? That's very ambitious and also very ingenious. We have all we need to become a green economy soon. We just need to harness it. I saw an article about Europe's plan to build a massive solar plant in the Sahara Desert and channel all the energy generated to Europe. We need to act fast. Partner with some Asian countries to develop the technology quickly and solve our energy problem. We can then sell excess energy to other African countries. Europe should go find their own desert.

A big leap in the medical world (Biomedical Engineering - while in my country, the Engineers are pissed they manufacture what the doctor uses and should therefore be held in the same prestige with doctors. Awhile the doctors feel the world revolve around them and they deal directly with life).

I actually wanted to study Biomedical Engineering but I'm now in bed with Computer Science. It's a wonderful world of possibilities.

ChokolateBoss:


Don't know much about quantum computing though but from what I read in ur link, looks like a computing speed barrier has been overcome. I'm yet 2 understand d practical applications of it. Could u help out a little Sir?

I too have not researched much on this field (still in undergraduate studies) but I plan to.
Here is a list of possible applications of quantum computing either solely or in combination with other models like HPC (High Performance Computing):
www.dwavesys.com/quantum-computing/applications
It's very useful for solving problems where the number of possible solutions or approaches increases exponentially with increasing variables: getting the best possible solutions in a shorter time is very important.
For example, analyzing user behavior on Nairaland (e.g, the probability that a user will comment on this topic) is not an easy task. Given a small sample space of, say, lalasticlala, ChokolateBoss, Jregs Jacob05, blueeyedgeek and cbrass, it may be easier. But with each new user you add, given their various interests, the time taken to compute the probabilities of each user commenting on various sections becomes very large. (This explanation is rather vague).
Another area of application is in factorization of primes (an operation useful in cryptography).
That's just the little I know. I wish Nigeria can join the STEM race soon.

And new advancements in quantum computing.
Announcing the D-Wave 2X Quantum Computer

Question: Is Our Judicially Judiciary Now
The Third Tier Of Government?

Your Answer:

omenka:
After the bros pose well under sun with him lap top (@ dp) to type the content of the thread, the best he could come up with is a repeated gbagaun (@ judicially)!
One would quickly understand it isn't just a typo since he typed same both in the body and the title. The Tiv people from my state and Igbos are mostly fond of this
It comes naturally.
@ op: Mbok, everyone has told you it is judiciary and not "..cially". Simply edit it.
To your question: yes they are. Got any problems with that??

Fix yours too.

We celebrate on 25 December and likewise on 1 January. Whatever you did on 25 December, do likewise on 1 January.
OP you ehn! Your previous scandal has not been forgotten (ur papa fit no give u cash till January end o) and you're hastening towards another scandal. One Warri girl just park in wan use u hold bodi and u dey shake bodi go: u sure say she no from Edo? That girl is a gold digger and she's not using a spade: she's gonna dig you with an excavator.