This reminds me of a Q&A session from 2004 with the guys from PA. They were talking about their old apartment and kept referring to it as a bachelor pad. Part of the description involved the part about playing Tribes for a week straight. TB's answer to my question "What about using the bathroom?" was, "It was a super-absorbent pad."
knowledgeable - able to retain and recall information.
wise - able to judge environmental conditions.
smart - a mix of intelligence, knowledge and wisdom.
IQ tests are a standard means to compare intelligence. Memory tests can compare knowledge (many academic tests are of this sort). I don't really know how to compare wisdom, perhaps by group consensus.
I don't think it's possible to compare different combinations of smart (such as very wise versus very intelligent). As such, I disagree with your assertion that two types can be equal in some way. It's like trying to compare the best sprinter to the best basketball player - they may both be in great physical shape, but the training and competition is completely different.
Truth be told: They are in California! California taxpayers pay more to public schools than any other state, per capita CA is in the top 5.
US Department of Education says otherwise. That's the latest (2005) per capita direct expenditure report (using data from 2001-02).
From left to right (All expenses, Total Ed Amount, Total Ed %, Elementary Amount, Elementary %, College Amount, College %, Other Amount, Other %):
California is 7th, 14th, 39th, 11th, 27th, 24th, 39th, 30th, 35th.
For me, the priorities of a budget are exposed in the percentages: California ranks 39th, 27th, 39th, 35th.
Even when considering the actual amounts (14th, 11th, 24th, 30th), such rankings are far from being "top 5".
On the topic of forgiveness: if they eventually agreed to a settlement, then both parties should live up to that settlement. It looks like the district wants to renegotiate, but complete forgiveness doesn't seem like an appropriate offer after a settlement.
I'd love to ask why the featured candidates keep stating that the US has not suffered from a terrorist attack since 9/11/01. Are we to understand that the anthrax attacks was not terrorism?
At the very least,/.ers will read this and more people will correct the assertion.
I should also note that after over five years, an attacker has yet to be identified for that. This state of affairs makes the laws that were created to investigate terrorism look like they only burden the honest citizen instead of being applied toward apprehending actual terrorists.
It's easy to find info on the trend in Germany, but here's a link to a radio program I listened to recently.
I'm less aware of Australia's program, but that was announced in 2004 while for Germany "... in 2000, lawmakers committed the country to at least doubling the percentage of renewable energy in the overall supply by 2010."
Basically, Germany subsidizes the industry to a much larger degree and has been for a few years longer.
I keep them on their toes by acting completely normal, having them looking for steganography.
Well, have you found the hidden message in the parent post yet?
Sorry, there is no hidden message. 1. You noted that you use encryption when acting normal. 2. However, you were posting on/. which has been established (quite conclusively) as abnormal behavior. 3. Since you were not "acting completely normal", it is obvious that you were not employing any encryption scheme. 4.:) 5. Profit!
I have a GE above-the-stove microwave that not only won't let you cook until you set the date and time, but you can't even use the damn light on it until it's set.
I was going to mention something similar.
There's been a few blackouts lately and each time power comes back on, the display side-scrolls some text prompting to reset the time.
I actually use the time display on the unit (and the scrolling text is distracting) so that gets done fairly quickly.
But, who the hell thought it was important for a microwave to store the date? For one thing, it never displays the date. For another, it has no scheduling function and, even if it did, who keeps food in the microwave for longer than half a day (worst case: defrosting a turkey) anyway?
As a user, entering "010101" completes that step in the time reset. But as a programmer and engineer, this actually bothers me.
So, on the question of "What's the Worst Technical Feature You've Used?", I guess I 'use' the date feature to complete the reset protocol. But really, the date setting never actually gets used anywhere else so... maybe I don't?
Anyway, I'm sure I've seen worse features but I just had to mention the microwave.
I have issue with the charge itself, "Unauthorized use of computer access".
Here's the law text (I'll highlight the relevant portions):
752.795 Prohibited conduct. Sec. 5. A person shall not intentionally and without authorization or by exceeding valid authorization do any of the following: (a) Access or cause access to be made to a computer program, computer, computer system, or computer network to acquire, alter, damage, delete, or destroy property or otherwise use the service of a computer program, computer, computer system, or computer network.
(b) Insert or attach or knowingly create the opportunity for an unknowing and unwanted insertion or attachment of a set of instructions or a computer program into a computer program, computer, computer system, or computer network, that is intended to acquire, alter, damage, delete, disrupt, or destroy property or otherwise use the services of a computer program, computer, computer system, or computer network. This subdivision does not prohibit conduct protected under section 5 of article I of the state constitution of 1963 or under the first amendment of the constitution of the United States.
Dissecting the text:
A person shall not intentionally and without authorization or by exceeding valid authorization do any of the following:
The act was intentional, but a successful logon to the access point is, by technical definition, authorization. If there was no password, then there is no unauthorized use. Additionally, if there was no username, there was no opportunity for impersonation (impersonation would be a legal manner to be without authorization).
On the second part, he may have exceeded authorization. My question: did the shop present any TOS and if so, did it forbid his manner of usage or only allow usage within the shop? If not, did they confront and object to his usage? If they did none of this, then he did not exceed authorization and the law was not broken.
(a) Access or cause access to be made to a... computer network to acquire... or otherwise use the service of a... computer network.
Exceed authorization to use the service and you break the law.
(b)... knowingly create the opportunity for an unknowing and unwanted insertion... into a... computer network, that is intended to acquire... or otherwise use the services of a... computer network. This subdivision does not prohibit conduct protected under section 5 of article I of the state constitution of 1963 or under the first amendment of the constitution of the United States.
Yes, the shop was unknowing. The question is: was the shop also unwanting? How would a user know if their insertion was unwanted? This again assumes a TOS notice.
It may be that he did not do anything unlawful and was just poorly defended. This all depends on the existence of a TOS notice (since I assume the access point had no password).
That's just the effect of signal-to-noise. The recommendation is that the time required to decrypt many messages should be insignificant when compared to the time required to discover the key.
To really throw off an attacker, changing keys frequently would provide much better results - the time you spend encrypting the junk data wouldn't change while the attacker would have to do a complete restart each and every time.
No, division is repeated subtraction (at least over the natural numbers). "x/y" is "how many times can you subtract y from x without going below zero?" (for positive x and y; do appropriate gymnastics for negative numbers) and the remainder is the number that's left when you can't do that any more.
But you could also say that "x/y" is "how many times can you add y without going over x?", which would be more like repeated addition (and repeated addition is already defined as multiplication).
Here's the thing - when reading your second sentence, I noticed the problem we are having in describing division.
Both of our definitions are incorrect. "Reverse multiplication" does not describe the process and "repeated subtraction" only partially describes it.
The problem is that, of the four functions (+,-,*,/), division is the only one that requires a boundary. Without that qualification, I understand "repeated subtraction" as "multiplying by a negative value". Likewise, the "reverse multiplication" of zero is impossible.
This is going way offtopic, but I just have to comment.
I think I remember a teacher saying it can all be broken down to addition; because subtraction is just reverse addition, multiplication is just shorthand addition, and division is shorthand subtraction. There may have been more to the explanation but that was 10 years ago.
Division is not shorthand subtraction. Shorthand subtraction would imply many subtractions which actually describes multiplication by a negative number.
Here's how I understand math complexity: 1. The increment. This defines the reference point (zero) and the reference length (one).
2. Addition (shorthand incrementation). 2a. Subtraction is reverse addition.
3. Multiplication (shorthand addition). 3a. Division is reverse multiplication.
4a. Powers (shorthand multiplication). 4b. Roots are reverse powers.
These are just the easy examples. I'll leave the hard ones (trig, etc) to the professionals.
Since you mention it, the following text is from his letter (edited by me and observing word order):
I... support... partisan activists. We... should... sue... America,... our youth... simply tune... out from politics. The letter does... propose... radical change in... law,... a... justified expansion. I am a strong believer in... class... protection. We have... to... restrict... our democracy and... break... citizen political participation. I can... secure... others.
That last sentence is probably directed at our new insect overlords regarding their underground sugar caves.:)
If you don't care about word order, then the result could be a lot more interesting.
Train yourself to talk like out-of-synch karate movies...
That will only attract more attention in that they'll want to know why you're yelling in Chinese. Especially when they discover that your lunch is going to "eat your fingers off".:)
IMO, this is a direct result of experiences from the last presidential debates.
From the PBS copy of the 2004 memo (agreement between DNC & RNC):
9. Staging
a. The following rules apply to each of the four debates:
(v) Except as provided in subparagraph (d) (viii), TV coverage during the question and answer period shall be limited to shots of the candidates or moderator and in no case shall any television shots be taken of any member of the audience (including candidates' family members) from the time the first question is asked until the conclusion of the closing statements. When a candidate is speaking, either in answering a question or making his closing statement, TV coverage will be limited to the candidate speaking. There will be no TV cut-aways to any candidate who is not responding to a question while another candidate is answering a question or to a candidate who is not giving a closing statement while another candidate is doing so.
And, for completeness, here's (d) (viii):
(viii) Notwithstanding sections 9(a) (iv) and 9(a) (v) a roving camera may be used for shots of an audience member only during the time that audience member is asking a question.
For those that don't remember it, many broadcasters were creating the split-screen on their own. That would have violated the above clause, but those broadcasters weren't a party to that particular agreement. Now, it seems that they have NBC to help manage that 'problem'.
What is *google* doing pushing their beta services to corporate clients? Right now, the whole "beta forever" thing just has become a very lame disclaimer for every time something screws up.
The word "beta" has been appropriated by marketing departments in the years since 1995, since it is apparently 'cool' to be involved in "beta".
However, that doesn't matter - ALL software comes with a "disclaimer for every time time something screws up". In my experience, software installations present an EULA where liability is always limited exclusively to the product itself - meaning that there are no guarantees for user data for any type of software.
That is, unless you can show me an example of commercial-grade software that does not have such disclaimers - because I can't think of any.
Ethanol is made from... food. So...let the rest of the world starve to death (corn is the staple food source for a lot of the world and there's only so much which can be grown) so you can burn ethanol in your automobile?
If you could produce this fuel anywhere, isn't that actually better? Production facilities would be more distributed, making fuel a less volatile commodity and anybody that could grow food could also grow fuel. Or, we could restrict ourselves to a dependence upon pockets of energy sources, like those under Iran, Iraq, Saudia Arabia, Venezuela, Russia - but that dependence is okay because those countries will always be friendly to our needs/wants, right?
Never mind that it takes almost as much energy to make ethanol as you'd get from burning it, you have to burn more of it than gasoline to get the same energy return and it destroys your designed-for-gasoline engine all of which means more pollution and higher cost than burning gasoline.
World-wide, fuel ethanol is mostly produced from sugarcane, which offers much better energy efficiency than corn. Corn is being promoted in the USA as the ethanol source due to political (both domestic and international) realities, not scientific ones.
Also, you wouldn't use diesel in a car that requires unleaded so your point about 'designed-for-gasoline' is without merit. There are plenty of cars in Brazil currently in use that are designed for such fuels.
Yeah, you've really thought about this, haven't you?
It seems that you haven't, so don't criticize so quickly.
Those are interesting PCs. No grey box, no matter how rare it is, will ever become interesting.
A grey box is interesting if and only if the owner is interesting. Computer data can shed light on the owner's personality, sort of like an autobiography. The owner is what can make a grey box rare and interesting.
I know the discussion is about the equipment itself, but old PCs usually offer much more value than other tech.
When you consider all of human civilization, most governments can be labeled as dictatorships. Ancient Egypt may have eventually failed, but it lasted for thousands of years while modern democracy has only existed for one quarter of one thousand.
Dictatorships are the most basic form of government and should be viewed as such. Essentially, the dictatorship isthe natural state of affairs. Other forms can be seen as improvements upon that foundation meaning that any failings of dictatorship are actually successes of non-dictatorship. For example, less centralization and control leads to more freedom to the population which leads to more variety and wealth to the community at large.
As for the remainder of your comment, I appreciate and share in the optimism. The main difficulty with social policy change is that people live for many generations. The Civil War stopped being a major focus of political debate when most of the people involved had already passed. Likewise, the Vietnam War was of particular importance in the 2004 Presidential election even though the campaign ended almost 30 years prior. These things take a long time to settle. As you noted, the only way to hasten things is out of necessity.
The result is that you have a constant seesaw motion between the two extremes, the best you can hope for is that you happen to live during one of the quiet moments BUT you will only be able to do so thanks to the efforts of people who have come before.
If you live in the USA, the word 'extremes' is probably excessive. I've noticed the seesawing trend when studying other nations such as Argentina, which endured more radical changes than those seen in the USA. When comparing the two, it would be hard for me to characterize USA politics as extreme.
If this was related to any marketing problems, then instead of killing him they should have just adjusted things a tiny bit and called him Capitán América.
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This reminds me of a Q&A session from 2004 with the guys from PA. They were talking about their old apartment and kept referring to it as a bachelor pad. Part of the description involved the part about playing Tribes for a week straight. TB's answer to my question "What about using the bathroom?" was, "It was a super-absorbent pad."
Here's my list of definitions:
- intelligent - able to grasp new concepts.
- knowledgeable - able to retain and recall information.
- wise - able to judge environmental conditions.
- smart - a mix of intelligence, knowledge and wisdom.
IQ tests are a standard means to compare intelligence.Memory tests can compare knowledge (many academic tests are of this sort).
I don't really know how to compare wisdom, perhaps by group consensus.
I don't think it's possible to compare different combinations of smart (such as very wise versus very intelligent). As such, I disagree with your assertion that two types can be equal in some way. It's like trying to compare the best sprinter to the best basketball player - they may both be in great physical shape, but the training and competition is completely different.
From left to right (All expenses, Total Ed Amount, Total Ed %, Elementary Amount, Elementary %, College Amount, College %, Other Amount, Other %):
California is 7th, 14th, 39th, 11th, 27th, 24th, 39th, 30th, 35th.
For me, the priorities of a budget are exposed in the percentages: California ranks 39th, 27th, 39th, 35th.
Even when considering the actual amounts (14th, 11th, 24th, 30th), such rankings are far from being "top 5".
On the topic of forgiveness: if they eventually agreed to a settlement, then both parties should live up to that settlement. It looks like the district wants to renegotiate, but complete forgiveness doesn't seem like an appropriate offer after a settlement.
I'd love to ask why the featured candidates keep stating that the US has not suffered from a terrorist attack since 9/11/01. Are we to understand that the anthrax attacks was not terrorism?
/.ers will read this and more people will correct the assertion.
At the very least,
I should also note that after over five years, an attacker has yet to be identified for that. This state of affairs makes the laws that were created to investigate terrorism look like they only burden the honest citizen instead of being applied toward apprehending actual terrorists.
It's easy to find info on the trend in Germany, but here's a link to a radio program I listened to recently.
I'm less aware of Australia's program, but that was announced in 2004 while for Germany "... in 2000, lawmakers committed the country to at least doubling the percentage of renewable energy in the overall supply by 2010."
Basically, Germany subsidizes the industry to a much larger degree and has been for a few years longer.
Shouldn't the written form be labeled as 'lithp'?
1. You noted that you use encryption when acting normal.
2. However, you were posting on
3. Since you were not "acting completely normal", it is obvious that you were not employing any encryption scheme.
4.
5. Profit!
There's been a few blackouts lately and each time power comes back on, the display side-scrolls some text prompting to reset the time.
I actually use the time display on the unit (and the scrolling text is distracting) so that gets done fairly quickly.
But, who the hell thought it was important for a microwave to store the date?
For one thing, it never displays the date.
For another, it has no scheduling function and, even if it did, who keeps food in the microwave for longer than half a day (worst case: defrosting a turkey) anyway?
As a user, entering "010101" completes that step in the time reset. But as a programmer and engineer, this actually bothers me.
So, on the question of "What's the Worst Technical Feature You've Used?", I guess I 'use' the date feature to complete the reset protocol. But really, the date setting never actually gets used anywhere else so
Anyway, I'm sure I've seen worse features but I just had to mention the microwave.
Oops - when debating definitions, it helps to see the given definitions. That'll teach me.
I see that you're right: Sec.7.(6)(c) does invalidate any claim that he committed unauthorized access/use. Convicted of a crime he didn't commit.
I'm assuming that his action was not criminal as explained here.
That blockquote text is unfamiliar. What's the source?
Here's the law text (I'll highlight the relevant portions):
Dissecting the text:The act was intentional, but a successful logon to the access point is, by technical definition, authorization. If there was no password, then there is no unauthorized use. Additionally, if there was no username, there was no opportunity for impersonation (impersonation would be a legal manner to be without authorization).
On the second part, he may have exceeded authorization. My question: did the shop present any TOS and if so, did it forbid his manner of usage or only allow usage within the shop? If not, did they confront and object to his usage? If they did none of this, then he did not exceed authorization and the law was not broken.Exceed authorization to use the service and you break the law.Yes, the shop was unknowing. The question is: was the shop also unwanting? How would a user know if their insertion was unwanted? This again assumes a TOS notice.
It may be that he did not do anything unlawful and was just poorly defended. This all depends on the existence of a TOS notice (since I assume the access point had no password).
And, of course, the obligatory: IANAL.
That's just the effect of signal-to-noise. The recommendation is that the time required to decrypt many messages should be insignificant when compared to the time required to discover the key.
To really throw off an attacker, changing keys frequently would provide much better results - the time you spend encrypting the junk data wouldn't change while the attacker would have to do a complete restart each and every time.
Here's the thing - when reading your second sentence, I noticed the problem we are having in describing division.
Both of our definitions are incorrect. "Reverse multiplication" does not describe the process and "repeated subtraction" only partially describes it.
The problem is that, of the four functions (+,-,*,/), division is the only one that requires a boundary. Without that qualification, I understand "repeated subtraction" as "multiplying by a negative value". Likewise, the "reverse multiplication" of zero is impossible.
Here's how I understand math complexity:
1. The increment. This defines the reference point (zero) and the reference length (one).
2. Addition (shorthand incrementation).
2a. Subtraction is reverse addition.
3. Multiplication (shorthand addition).
3a. Division is reverse multiplication.
4a. Powers (shorthand multiplication).
4b. Roots are reverse powers.
These are just the easy examples. I'll leave the hard ones (trig, etc) to the professionals.
If you don't care about word order, then the result could be a lot more interesting.
From the PBS copy of the 2004 memo (agreement between DNC & RNC):And, for completeness, here's (d) (viii):For those that don't remember it, many broadcasters were creating the split-screen on their own. That would have violated the above clause, but those broadcasters weren't a party to that particular agreement. Now, it seems that they have NBC to help manage that 'problem'.
However, that doesn't matter - ALL software comes with a "disclaimer for every time time something screws up". In my experience, software installations present an EULA where liability is always limited exclusively to the product itself - meaning that there are no guarantees for user data for any type of software.
That is, unless you can show me an example of commercial-grade software that does not have such disclaimers - because I can't think of any.
Also, you wouldn't use diesel in a car that requires unleaded so your point about 'designed-for-gasoline' is without merit. There are plenty of cars in Brazil currently in use that are designed for such fuels.It seems that you haven't, so don't criticize so quickly.
I know the discussion is about the equipment itself, but old PCs usually offer much more value than other tech.
Oh, wait. dattaway (3088)?
The BOFH in me would implement 'unlimited storage' by directing all mail to /dev/null.
:)
Of course, the impressive part would be in any sort of retrieval, but that's going to be addressed in the next code revision...
When you consider all of human civilization, most governments can be labeled as dictatorships. Ancient Egypt may have eventually failed, but it lasted for thousands of years while modern democracy has only existed for one quarter of one thousand.
Dictatorships are the most basic form of government and should be viewed as such. Essentially, the dictatorship is the natural state of affairs. Other forms can be seen as improvements upon that foundation meaning that any failings of dictatorship are actually successes of non-dictatorship. For example, less centralization and control leads to more freedom to the population which leads to more variety and wealth to the community at large.
As for the remainder of your comment, I appreciate and share in the optimism. The main difficulty with social policy change is that people live for many generations. The Civil War stopped being a major focus of political debate when most of the people involved had already passed. Likewise, the Vietnam War was of particular importance in the 2004 Presidential election even though the campaign ended almost 30 years prior. These things take a long time to settle. As you noted, the only way to hasten things is out of necessity.If you live in the USA, the word 'extremes' is probably excessive. I've noticed the seesawing trend when studying other nations such as Argentina, which endured more radical changes than those seen in the USA. When comparing the two, it would be hard for me to characterize USA politics as extreme.
If this was related to any marketing problems, then instead of killing him they should have just adjusted things a tiny bit and called him Capitán América.
That's good for, like, twenty countries!