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double and quad precision is possible on a gpu. link to paper.

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Actually, yes it can be. I work for a university where the administration is too weak to take ownership and responsibility of the network. As a result our residential network it always trashed and useless to the students. If you are lucky to get the administration to back you up, here are some ideas.

1. Create some policies that lists expectation and consequences of violating. I will refer you to Allegheny College and their policies (note: I do not work for this college, I just respect them for clearly stating their policies.)

http://helpdesk.allegheny.edu/gatornet/antivirusre q.php

2. I will also refer you to NetReg since you only have access to the DHCP server and that is what NetReg does. I encourage you to read the "Contribution" area and some of what other colleges have done. You may also pickup April's issue of "Sys Admin" magazine as they cover some of the contributed work to NetReg.

http://www.netreg.org/contrib/

3. Did I mention get some policies, consequences and support from the university's administration.

Hope this helps.

The only GA-originated increments for Shellsort that I could find online was the one in Crew fall 2001 report, but that sequence didn't perform very well, & they didn't document their technique except to say that it wasn't a full-blown GA. (They placed some limitations on it. They also mention that Simpson & Yachavaram used only a limited GA.)

I wondered if a GA that fully manipulated bit-strings could produce a sequence as good as Sedgewick's, & I also wanted to document the technique so someone else interested in GAs could implement their own or at least be a little entertained with how it was done.

The only GA-originated increments for Shellsort that I could find online was the one in Crew fall 2001 report, but that sequence didn't perform very well, & they didn't document their technique except to say that it wasn't a full-blown GA. (They placed some limitations on it. They also mention that Simpson & Yachavaram used only a limited GA.)

I wondered if a GA that fully manipulated bit-strings could produce a sequence as good as Sedgewick's, & I also wanted to document the technique so someone else interested in GAs could implement their own or at least be a little entertained with how it was done.

Indeed. I stand corrected, not that I put much stock in CNN's science reporters, who seem mostly interested in citing other CNN stories- I followed the links in that story two deep and couldn't get to the primary reserach.

This looks like the real deal, though, and this woman's work is pretty interesting, as well.

drugs make people do things that they normally wouldn't do

Fact: 85% of all violent crimes in the US are committed because of, or under the direct influence of drugs.

"Rather than inducing violent or aggressive behavior ... marijuana was usually found to inhibit the expression of aggressive impulses." [The Nixon-Shafer Presidential Report on Marijuana Usage]