I think a better term would be "Eating Dinner in Hall". People walk into Hall, sit down randomly, spend five minutes talking to the person opposite while waiting for the food to arrive, and then leave immediately after they finish eating. (Believe me, the food isn't worth lingering over.)
when German (or French, or British, or Canadian) courts rule that *they* also have jurisdiction? There is certainly no reason why American courts would have any more jurisdiction over international domain names than any other national courts.
Will we see different root nameservers serving up different DNS based on the rulings of the courts presiding in their jurisdiction?
My experience with introverts is that they are quite happy to talk to people for hours on end, providing that they 1. have someone to talk to, and 2. have something to talk about.
Pick a set of questions (at university, "what subject are you reading?" works well; I'm sure you can find appropriate questions for your introverts). Tell people that when they run into someone for the first time, they should ask/answer the 3-5 questions you chose. If you prefer, you could make it a contest ("get as many people as possible to answer these questions" or suchlike) but that really isn't necessary.
Once people know the fields, hobbies, musical tastes, etc of the people they are talking to, they are far more likely to continue talking.
Microsoft just did not borrow "Ideas" from it. They borrowed the actual code. Look at the file c:/winnt/system32/os2/oso001.009, which contains the OS error messages. I mean, they talk about formatting disks and OS/2 boot disks there.
And take a look at c:/winnt/system32/ftp.exe. I suppose that means that Windows NT is just a reworked version of BSD?
Things were much more fun with the original Civilization. You had to search through and patch the executable file, instead of editing a text file. And the data format wasn't exactly documented either.
My school has recently implemented a program of issuing pencils and paper to all students from 7th grade through high school seniors. As you can imagine, it's a serious nightmare. Apart from the usual run of broken pencils, we have a major problem with students writing notes to each other during class. Is there any effective way to allow the teacher to monitor what students are writing from his/her desk at the front of the class? Some of our teachers have come up with creative solutions like hanging video cameras above each student's desk, but a method which could be performed on the paper itself would be even better.
As far as I can tell from a quick glance at this, it looks like the entire message body is being used to compute the signature. This isn't going to work very well -- over half of the spam I receive is "personalized", and that fraction is growing every day.
This could work very well, but we need some way of computing signatures which will be invariant across different copies of personalized spam for this to be effective.
Why would anyone *want* a tiny hydrogen-powered turbine generator? Fuel cells are already more efficient than they are even hoping this will become; fuel cells also likely to live much longer since they don't have any moving parts.
I'll agree that it's cool to take things that we are used to at macroscopic scales and make them tiny, but it usually isn't going to be an efficient way of doing anything.
Sure, and all the people who use windows chose that as well?
When it comes to graduate study, most universities are monopolies, simply because most fields don't have very many people working in them. If I decided not to come to Oxford I'd be looking for a new field right now.
When matriculating at universities it's standard to sign a whole slew of paperwork. An IP contract is probably one of them, and most people probably don't read it.
That may be the case at most institutions, but not at Oxford. Here people simply sign a blanket agreement to "abide by the statutes which govern the university".
I'm a graduate student at Oxford University, and in the University's statutes they claim ownership of any code I write while I'm here. I am negotiating with them to try to get permission to release some of my work -- right now I'm working on network protocols, and a protocol isn't much use if nobody uses it -- and they haven't been entirely unreasonable, but after two months I still haven't got anything in writing.
It is one thing for a university to claim ownership of work produced by their employees; it is quite another for a university to claim ownership of work produced by people who are paying to be there.
eh? It's been plenty stable for me. I've taken to accepting Red Hat's installation of 2.4.9 on the servers. It works fine for me... And the uptime keeps counting.:-)
Well, I guess 2.4.9 is fine, as long as you don't care about local root holes.
Come on guys, nobody is going to take linux seriously as long as problems like this -- or the VM saga -- keep popping up in supposedly stable kernels. FreeBSD has no trouble keeping separate -CURRENT and -STABLE trees; why can't linux do the same?
In Canada, the term 'engineer' is legally protected.
Not only that, but this protection is at least somewhat enforced. A Canadian university which shall remain anonymous recently received an official letter demanding that its "Software Engineering" program be renamed because the university wasn't properly certified to hand out engineering degrees.
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Err, for the non-Oxonians, I guess I should clarify that the Hall mentioned is a College Hall.
I think a better term would be "Eating Dinner in Hall". People walk into Hall, sit down randomly, spend five minutes talking to the person opposite while waiting for the food to arrive, and then leave immediately after they finish eating. (Believe me, the food isn't worth lingering over.)
Storagereview does this for hard drives.
I, for one, think that they've already suffered enough.
After all, judging by the virus code, it is almost certain that they had to use Microsoft software to create it.
when German (or French, or British, or Canadian) courts rule that *they* also have jurisdiction? There is certainly no reason why American courts would have any more jurisdiction over international domain names than any other national courts.
Will we see different root nameservers serving up different DNS based on the rulings of the courts presiding in their jurisdiction?
Ok, I've never watched Star Wars, but I'm still rather confused by this.
Why is the Stormtrooper helmet currently $3000 more than the lightsaber?
My experience with introverts is that they are quite happy to talk to people for hours on end, providing that they 1. have someone to talk to, and 2. have something to talk about.
Pick a set of questions (at university, "what subject are you reading?" works well; I'm sure you can find appropriate questions for your introverts). Tell people that when they run into someone for the first time, they should ask/answer the 3-5 questions you chose. If you prefer, you could make it a contest ("get as many people as possible to answer these questions" or suchlike) but that really isn't necessary.
Once people know the fields, hobbies, musical tastes, etc of the people they are talking to, they are far more likely to continue talking.
Microsoft just did not borrow "Ideas" from it. They borrowed the actual code. Look at the file c:/winnt/system32/os2/oso001.009, which contains the OS error messages. I mean, they talk about formatting disks and OS/2 boot disks there.
And take a look at c:/winnt/system32/ftp.exe. I suppose that means that Windows NT is just a reworked version of BSD?
Things were much more fun with the original Civilization. You had to search through and patch the executable file, instead of editing a text file. And the data format wasn't exactly documented either.
Ah, for the days of 0/99/32 settlers...
My school has recently implemented a program of issuing pencils and paper to all students from 7th grade through high school seniors. As you can imagine, it's a serious nightmare. Apart from the usual run of broken pencils, we have a major problem with students writing notes to each other during class. Is there any effective way to allow the teacher to monitor what students are writing from his/her desk at the front of the class? Some of our teachers have come up with creative solutions like hanging video cameras above each student's desk, but a method which could be performed on the paper itself would be even better.
I think I'm missing something here... is this AC post remotely related to anything?
What, exactly, does it take to be an expert on Pluto? Does knowing everything ever discovered about it count?
In that case we're almost all experts on Pluto, because almost nothing is known about it.
I moved from Vancouver to Oxford, and from @Home to free university-supplied 100Mbps ethernet, a couple months ago.
As far as I can tell from a quick glance at this, it looks like the entire message body is being used to compute the signature. This isn't going to work very well -- over half of the spam I receive is "personalized", and that fraction is growing every day.
This could work very well, but we need some way of computing signatures which will be invariant across different copies of personalized spam for this to be effective.
Am I the only person thinking that strategically placed "dumb coding mistakes" might be the real story behind Magic Lantern?
Reuters are idiots. From the NASA press release:
The astronomers actually saw less sodium than predicted for the Jupiter-class planet
Why would anyone *want* a tiny hydrogen-powered turbine generator? Fuel cells are already more efficient than they are even hoping this will become; fuel cells also likely to live much longer since they don't have any moving parts.
I'll agree that it's cool to take things that we are used to at macroscopic scales and make them tiny, but it usually isn't going to be an efficient way of doing anything.
You choose to be screwed yourself.
Sure, and all the people who use windows chose that as well?
When it comes to graduate study, most universities are monopolies, simply because most fields don't have very many people working in them. If I decided not to come to Oxford I'd be looking for a new field right now.
When matriculating at universities it's standard to sign a whole slew of paperwork. An IP contract is probably one of them, and most people probably don't read it.
That may be the case at most institutions, but not at Oxford. Here people simply sign a blanket agreement to "abide by the statutes which govern the university".
The law permits me to do lots of things that I choose not - I am not behaving counter to the law.
No, but you are violating a statute of Quantum Mechanics: That which is not forbidden is compulsory.
I'm a graduate student at Oxford University, and in the University's statutes they claim ownership of any code I write while I'm here. I am negotiating with them to try to get permission to release some of my work -- right now I'm working on network protocols, and a protocol isn't much use if nobody uses it -- and they haven't been entirely unreasonable, but after two months I still haven't got anything in writing.
It is one thing for a university to claim ownership of work produced by their employees; it is quite another for a university to claim ownership of work produced by people who are paying to be there.
So I guess for linux users, the email would probably look like the following:
I think it is more likely that the trojan would look like:
if(uptime()>3500000) {
ExploitLocalRootHole();
DoEvilStuff();
} else {
WaitUntilNextLocalRootHoleDiscovered();
ExploitNewLocalRootHole();
DoEvilStuff();
};
eh? It's been plenty stable for me. I've taken to accepting Red Hat's installation of 2.4.9 on the servers. It works fine for me... And the uptime keeps counting. :-)
Well, I guess 2.4.9 is fine, as long as you don't care about local root holes.
Come on guys, nobody is going to take linux seriously as long as problems like this -- or the VM saga -- keep popping up in supposedly stable kernels. FreeBSD has no trouble keeping separate -CURRENT and -STABLE trees; why can't linux do the same?
In Canada, the term 'engineer' is legally protected.
Not only that, but this protection is at least somewhat enforced. A Canadian university which shall remain anonymous recently received an official letter demanding that its "Software Engineering" program be renamed because the university wasn't properly certified to hand out engineering degrees.