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a Beowulf cluster of these.
Wait, somebody already did:
http://coen.boisestate.edu/ece...

So the summary of the informal document is that it's cheaper to build a 32-node Rasp.-Pi cluster than to purchase even a single node of the 32-node Beowulf cluster that may or may not be available to you. And if you want to get your Ph.D. work done, I must agree that it sounds better to not be dependent upon the whims and follies of others' benevolence in having external hardware clusters available for your use. Bravo, Joshua Kiepert, I like your "informal writeup". Best wishes on your work!

Providing parts and scores would be a useful service for our site to provide, but it's going to remain on the back burner for a while. Along the lines of another thread, it would be great if there were a standard, open format for sheet music. That would provide much more of an incentive for me to pack up my laptop and get some of those parts copied and available.

... of the situation is here: http://math.boisestate.edu/gas/pinafore/web_opera/ pin09.html

P.S. I worked for a Lockheed Martin subsidiary, on commercial projects. Nonetheless, the chief security engineer (a man I held in the highest esteem), admitted he used Linux inside his firewall, but Open BSD on the outside. I took that as sage advice.

More here. Considering his MS in Genetics was awarded in 1986, I would have been surprised to see references from much earlier than that, although maybe when he was an RA in Dermatology he could've done something.

First of all, I am doing research in computational biology. I just read the paper linked from his webpage at http://biology.boisestate.edu/hampikian and I have to say that this is one of the worse papers I have ever read. First of all, I can literally write a program to do all that he proposed in about 10 minutes. Give me the $1 mil, I'll do the research. Although the idea of systematically finding nullomers can have practical applications, there is ABSOLUTELY ZERO evidence that they are incompatible with life. And wow, isn't this the eye catching title that we see on /. The numbers of nullomers that he found in the human genome, for example, looks like they are in line with expectation given a genome genome that is AT rich (more A and T nucleotides than G / C nucleotide). Because the human genome is finite (only about 3 billion nucleotides), of course you are going to find DNA sequence even at only 11 bases long that do not exist in the human genome. Just do the math! 4^11 = 4.2 billion. It makes me so furious that our government wastes so much money on useless stuff.

Please! It's Pirate King .

The alternative proposed by the research community is GALS - globally asynchronous, locally synchronous. You get some of the benefits of fully-asynchronous designs (e.g. greatly reduced clock skew), while keeping verification complexity low.

I was always a little taken aback, when I was a studying music and performing classical and jazz, that we were told not to photocopy any sheet music. We had to buy the sheet music to practice with. I could not grasp who would be making money from stuff that was written over 100 years ago, in the case of classical music and many operas. The people that wrote it certainly are not.

On that note (pun intended), I am assuming you are only making an example of Gilbert and Sullivan collecting royalties. Gilbert died in 1908 http://math.boisestate.edu/gas/other_gilbert/index .html and Sullivan died in 1900 http://math.boisestate.edu/gas/other_sullivan/html /index.html. Who gets paid for their work now? Am I just paying the company that printed the paper and the person who arranged the music for 3 flutes and banjo?

I was always a little taken aback, when I was a studying music and performing classical and jazz, that we were told not to photocopy any sheet music. We had to buy the sheet music to practice with. I could not grasp who would be making money from stuff that was written over 100 years ago, in the case of classical music and many operas. The people that wrote it certainly are not.

On that note (pun intended), I am assuming you are only making an example of Gilbert and Sullivan collecting royalties. Gilbert died in 1908 http://math.boisestate.edu/gas/other_gilbert/index .html and Sullivan died in 1900 http://math.boisestate.edu/gas/other_sullivan/html /index.html. Who gets paid for their work now? Am I just paying the company that printed the paper and the person who arranged the music for 3 flutes and banjo?

I don't doubt what you say. It makes sense to me.

However, the question is whether the FBI is, in some ways, actually influencing law enforcement and the law in other countries. That's what happens with the U.S. government's CIA agency; "working with other countries" meant "infiltrating the governments of other countries". Does the FBI operate by its own rules, but show the other government only what it wants the other government to know?

In Brazil 40 years ago, U.S. government agencies "providing training" meant influencing the military to create a military dictatorship. Hidden actions of the U.S. government overthrew Brazil's government.

Corruption of the Brazilian government by the CIA in Brazil is a strong present-day concern. O Globo, the place where the article was originally published, is the biggest media company in Brazil.

The question is not what you see, but what is deliberately hidden from you.

In actuality, it is very difficult to run any organization. Organizations that have a high degree of secrecy quickly become uncontrolled.

U.S. Senator Frank Church investigated extreme corruption in the U.S. government's secret agencies. The agencies certainly never apologized; it must be assumed that nothing really changed.

I'm guessing that you, like most American citizens, have never read about the corruption mentioned here, or the many other cases of extreme corruption of the U.S. government in influencing other countries. That's why you mentioned "tinfoil hats".

--
Trying to make one book explain all of life makes some people crazy enough to kill.

reading and writing and arithmatic

Gee, I never learned about arithmatic in grade school or even college. I never heard of it until just now:

ARITH-MATIC

<language> An extension of Grace Hopper's A-2 programming language, developed in about 1955. ARITH-MATIC was originally known as A-3, but was renamed by the marketing department of Remington Rand UNIVAC.

(http://cispom.boisestate.edu/cis221emaxson/hoph tm.htm).

I did learn arithmetic in grade school though.

The Computer Science Club at Boise State University just did a presentation for ~6th graders. We presented on the inner workings of AI by showing them the complete production of a evaluation tree using a java program we wrote.

Here is the download page for it. (I know I know! The site is default template. We just setup the new software last weekend so give us a break =)

Not sure if this helps younger kids get fired up but I did work for 6th graders. =) Its also fun to watch it generate and draw the tree.

it is illegal for job applications to ask if you've been arrested. they can ask about convictions for crimes pertaining to the job being applied for, no more. one of the first links from google: http://career.boisestate.edu/IllegalInterviewQuest ions.html

Over the sumer I worked under a NIH sponsored grant (the BRIN/INBRE program). All of the research projects presented where public. Granted it was all university research and not private companies. Either way, I wrote some spine modeling software and to my knowledge I am required to release it open source (As I would anyways, though I would go GPL over PD personally.) About the only thing I can think of is that there where added requirements to the initial NIH grant by the BRIN/INBRE or BSU groups.

If your intrested, the pdf of the power I presented (warning, almost 3 megs) can be found here.

Everyone on here seems to be thinking inside the box. Let's leap outside, and see what we can do. Bluetooth headsets for audio are available now (monaural, at least). I wear glasses anyway, so I'd like a Bluetooth video monitor with eye tracking. With fast eye tracking, a small monitor resolution can provide a large visual space.

Then, add a Bluetooth inertial sensor on a finger or several to replace keyboard and mouse, especially if the sensor system provides tactile feedback.

Now the processing system can remain "comfortably" and safely in a pocket, bag, or briefcase, or even strapped on the arm like the "Predator". Shape and other parameters can be freed from the handheld form factor constraints. (It might even include a flexible heatpipe to an external radiator, for hi-pro versions, though that does seem excessive for most users.)

Gratuitous geekjokes:
"Is that a banana in your pocket, or are you just surfing Slashdot?"
"Geeks are like bikers - they both have hot metal between their legs."

[Old SF story, from the 40's or 50's concerned how the very first portable wire-recorder, called Poo-Bah (Gilbert and Sullivan) start out as the first audio note-taker and gradually expanded in capability and power, providing expert advice and eventually getting wired right into the user's brain - and then, via radio links, sharing data and becoming the "Evil Computer Network That Takes Over The World - BWAHAHAHAHA!!" Interesting, this story included all the major concepts of modern mobile tech, some 50 years ago - before magnetic tape. Talk about prior art!!]

The processor and other components could even scream bloody murder if anything is separated too far from its partner components. The screamer's a good idea, which I should patent - every bluetooth component should include the ability to complain audibly, e.g. a piezoelectric tweeter, to help prevent misplacement or theft. Of course headwear will also have to not be too loud when it's attached to the head... This could also be triggered by a bluetooth signal, so when you do misplace it, you can have it squeal [and/or light up, why not?] so you can find it. If someone else patents this, consider this as prior art. Actual implementation, via vibrator, piezo transducer, trad. speaker, etc. is straightforward. Does Bluetooth include a standard command for this, like "alarm" or "findme"?

Actually the OH- pair is considered to be ionicly bonded to the H+ ion (or really to an H3O+).

This certainly remind of the black pest which he, was not engineered by men, and at time killed between 33 and 50% of the populations depending on the source, 1/3 being toward the realistic estimate average, 50%,90% being for some unlucky palce which were "emptied" : black pest resource population loss

I think that in matter of research I am giving credit [sic] to the human mind we can do at least as good, if not better than black plague , by augmenting the incubation time and reducing the healing possibility (make it attack lymphocit like AIDS ! but spread with lung !). Let us take the same loss as basis.

THIS MEANS THAT EVERY THIRD PERSON YOU KNOW WOULD DIE.

I still agreee that the benefits might overweight the hypothetical danger, but those danger are not that hypotetycal seeing that much $$$ were given by both west and east block into biological research. Do not make those danger less than they are.

Witnesses credibility has been under debate for years. Witnesses can be influenced by suggestive questioning, their own backgrounds and prejudices, or the amount of sleep they have had on a given day. And how do you quantify or qualify that kind of tampering? Witness testimony has been used for millenia. No evidence is foolproof. The problem is 1. to know what kind of tampering can be done and be aware and wary of it and 2. to get the trust of the public in that type of evidence so it can be admitted, falible or not.

Found a source for my claim.

It refers to the meter as 1/10,000,000 the distance from the pole to the equator through Paris, which is the same definition I had. Not a flame though, I'm glad we weren't sure, and I was able to find a (semi-) definitive answer!

This Harmonix-developed title, originally unveiled a couple of months back, sports "more than 35 tracks in all"

Ok, I don't want to beat a tired drum, to mix a metaphor into a bad pun, but...

Will it support any arbitrary mp3 I have?

35 tracks is pretty scanty, and I don't want to sing along to Mr. Mister (an 80s band?).

But I have three mp3s of "When I was a Lad", as I have three (legally purchased) different copies of Giilbert & Sullivan's "HMS Pinafore". Now that I'd love to sing along to.

Similarly, I have two complete recordings of Wagner's Ring Cycle, (one from emusic.com at $10 a month and one for $160.00 from Amazon.com -- emusic's not a bad bargain, although disc one of Seigfried's still missing).

And I have a German sing-along version of The Internationale played on guitar, apparently recorded in the heyday of the DDR (and I don't mean Dance Dance Revolution).

I mention these titles not to display my eclecticism (well, ok, not only to display it) but because these are titles that I can't ever imagine finding in a commercial Karaoke product (outside some "worker's paradise") but are at the same time ones I'd really enjoy singing along to.

And this is a general plea -- to manufacturers as well as to the Slashdot choir -- for open standards and interoperability: a karaoke machine tied to a proprietary standard which forces me to pay for karaoke versions of songs I already have, or for which the songs I want aren't available, is less than useless to me. I won't buy it, and the manufacturer won't get my money. A loss-loss.

A karaoke machine that plays my music, and makes my tone-deaf bleatings sound a bit more musical, however, would be worth my money. And I note that the open source software I use in my portable my mp3 player does provide a "poor man's" karaoke function by subtracting the right side of stereo output from the left and vice versa. It's not perfect, and that's why I'd pay for a more adaptable algorithim and the hardware to implement it.

But "Mr. Mister" and 34 other "Backstreet Boys In Sync with Britney and Other American Idles (sic)" I'm not interrested in. A proprietary and costly path to getting more tunes, I'm not paying for. A well designed open format karaoke machine, I'd vote for with my dollars.

-Oh, Better Far to Live and Die, Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance

A file-sharing anthem.

In the F.A.: "the state's effort, which already has forced Internet providers to block subscribers from at least 423 Web sites around the world," which sounds like they have made a little list.

here is a full mirror with all the pictures for your enjoyment. it's not running IIS, so there is no way in the world we can slashdot it!

mirror

I contacted him for a mirror, so feel free to slashdot my univerity's lowly linux server:

Behold, here is a mirror

It has been used in the sense of copyright violations for hundreds of years.

Wasn't it around 125 years ago that William Gilbert started using "pirate" to refer to Americans who could reproduce his works because copyright didn't apply internationally?

Earilier usages of "piracy" for intellectual-property violations may have been based on the fact that the most valuable copyrighted works were nautical charts, and thus often stolen during violent crimes onboard ship. Does anyone have a good reference for the history of the word "pirate"?

As soon as someone downloads music that they would have otherwise purchased, there is a theft of the money that would have been paid.

The situation is very similar to sneaking into a movie theater. The owners are out $9 they might otherwise have been paid, but no one would call it "theft". Especially in a legal setting.

(Would you call bringing grocery-store snacks into a theater theft also?)

By the definitions of the English language, it is possible to "steal" a song or work of art- this means convincing the public that you, and not the author, are entitled to the copyright for it. The canonical usage for "She stole my song" is in response to a radio DJ misattributing your music. That offense would still be prosecuted as a fraud, though.

Your comparisons, while perhaps a bit tongue-in-cheek, seem to approach "the digital things" as something material. However, the advantages "the digital" provides for immaterial things, most notably knowledge, are immense. The have-nots are experiencing a dire poverty of a different kind.

The digital divide is really an access-to-knowledge-and-knowledge-gaining divide.

"And what's wrong with that?" I'm not sure. 'To victors go the spoils' is a fact of life, but I thought I would point out an alternate interpretation of the buzzword.

The computer, after all, is a bicycle for the mind. In a global society where each individual's computer skills are beneficial to the general progress, we all stand to gain. Besides, more customers means more money and power for the people who actually have the ear of the UN. And more computers users means cheaper prices for computer labor. Behold the snake which sheds its skin, but remains, still, a snake.

snagged a mirror of the video, too. (11.2MB, Mpeg format).

shoot. looks like there site is gettings slashdotted. Here is a mirror of the picture.

I got a copy of their (not very good) picture before there server started smoking:

Keyboard Picture

(Apologies to my university's bandwidth).

My personal experience echoes what others have said - you'd think that Ed. Tech programs would be paragons of technical literacy themselves, but alas. (My alma mater UW is a case in point.)

For my masters' degree, I chose a long-running distance program at GWU; sort of putting my money where my mouth is, so to speak. I'm looking forward to starting next week, and hope the dialogs are up-to-date and up to my expectations. Other programs I considered were Pepperdine, MU, and Boise State

Another resource to check out of course is ISTE, and I'm sure there are others like it.

The Disneyland ride is Pirates of the Caribbean. Pirates of Penzance is a Gilbert and Sullivan opera.

If you are interested in this topic, I suggest that you look into malingering. Detection of deception has been well-researched in cognitive psychology. I actually spent a few years working in a laboratory where people we researching this topic.

One of the coolest things I read about was a study where people would be hooked up so that event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were detected for malingering. In effect, your brain gives you away. For example, if you saw a video with some information and then you were asked about it, your brain does a little "hop" which can be detected with ERPs. It didn't matter how well you lied or how convincing you were, you would be detected. Supposedly, the methods works extremely well. However, you can't expect people to accept this. Would you like to have an electrode cap put on your head?

(Ah, you have to love science.)

By the way, you might want to check out these resources:

The Journal of Credibility Assessment and Witness Psychology

Forensic Psychology and Forensic Psychiatry

Polygraph Law Resource Page

If you are interested in this topic, I suggest that you look into malingering. Detection of deception has been well-researched in cognitive psychology. I actually spent a few years working in a laboratory where people we researching this topic.

One of the coolest things I read about was a study where people would be hooked up so that event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were detected for malingering. In effect, your brain gives you away. For example, if you saw a video with some information and then you were asked about it, your brain does a little "hop" which can be detected with ERPs. It didn't matter how well you lied or how convincing you were, you would be detected. Supposedly, the methods works extremely well. However, you can't expect people to accept this. Would you like to have an electrode cap put on your head?

(Ah, you have to love science.)

By the way, you might want to check out these resources:

The Journal of Credibility Assessment and Witness Psychology

Forensic Psychology and Forensic Psychiatry

Polygraph Law Resource Page

CTB's error hit hardest in New York City, the nation's largest school system. Apart from the children, the most prominent victim may have been the city's schools chancellor, Rudy Crew. The error showed - incorrectly - that reading scores citywide had stagnated after rising for two years, raising questions about Dr. Crew's leadership. Within months, he was out of a job.

Before the mistake was discovered, Dr. Crew had been a leading advocate for using standardized tests to hold students and educators accountable.

in case you haven't seen it here is an excellent explaination of how nearly unlimited bandwidth is a solution to many problems. I suspect similar things could be done on chip using optics rather than electrons (ie think 50,000 parallel processes)

Here is an interesting and completely reasonable outlook on what the internet could become in an all optical age. Of course it requires that the telcos permit it.