...Which made perfect sense in the days of geographically-efficient routing (mail, telegraph, radio, etc.) and less travel, because it was logical to assume that once a message left US borders, it was intended for someone who wasn't a US citizen. Today, though, packets are routed through whatever is financially efficient, even if that means a satellite or a data center on another continent, and the recipient's nationality is unknown when the packet's intercepted.
But the money from credit card processing goes to credit card companies, and that's wrong. Money lost on the street goes to the beggars and children, and that's right.
Faced with an ongoing budget crisis for the next school year and pressure from federal mandates to increase education about copyright law and the life-imprisonment mandatory minimum sentence violations carry, the local high school is offering a $10 bounty for each piracy-supporting balloon brought in with a functioning computer. School officials have announced that through a partnership with an unnamed sponsor, each mylar balloon (the so-callen "floating sanity") will bring in approximately $20 for the school, and the school will keep the computers as well.
In an Interview last Tuesday, school district superintendent Ben Dover extolled the benefits of the program. "We see this as a win/win situation, very likely to ease the pain of the budget deficiencies. We get an influx of new computers, and additional monetary assets as well." he said to a room of reporters and concerned parents. "If, as rumors have suggested, the computers are unable to run Windows 9 Bloat Edition, we can still sell them off to help cover the cost of licensing both installations of our grading software.
Sources close to the issue say that there are some concerns, however, as the partnership contract has some unusual conditions. According to one anonymous source, the contract specifies that all term papers and homework assignments completed by students will become the sole property of the partner, who will then charge licensing fees to the school and teachers before they will be able to grade the students' work, costing the school up to $500 per assignment, or more if the work will be used as a class example.
A spokesperson for the partner, who has asked to be addressed only as Dick, has denied such allegations. "That's preposterous," he told reporters, "our license fees aren't nearly that low."
The pipes that carry water to the systems would likely not exist.
Rather, like most cooling systems, the water is likely used to cool a heat exchanger, which in turn cools air that's blown into the server rooms. If a pipe gets clogged (which is unlikely, since the pipes have little reason to be as small as household ones), that heat exchanger just won't be as cold for a while.
Apparently evaporation is the tendency for young women on spring break to get drunk and engage in civil disobedience of public indecency laws. Somehow, this is related to cooling.
I take it you've never been on the receiving end of an attack, then? Management doesn't likely understand details. All they know is that the public website was down for several hours, and the IT department hardly did anything about it. Blame gets passed and people get fired. Then there's the trickle-down effect, where not only does Mastercard (for example) suffer problems from having services out, but every mom-and-pop vendor that processes credit cards through them can't take payments.
Part of what makes civil disobedience effective is that it's often an appeal to empathy, rather than a threat. There is a certain threshold of trouble, below which the troubled ask "why?", and above which they ask "why me?". A protest filling a courtyard or making a sidewalk busier stays well below that threshold, so passers-by will be more likely to think about the issue being protested. Shutting down service to a site without warning or good explanation is irritating enough to anger people, who won't be inspired to learn (or care) about an issue any further.
Civil disobedience usually results in a slight inconvenience, a small percentage of lost profits, and most importantly, high visibility for the chosen cause.
A DDoS, document theft, or slander campaign results in a destroyed career, ruined business, and a poorly-edited headline on a nerd's news site.
Anonymous is as much an activist group as I am a turnip.
The author also assumes that all man-hours are interchangeable. Someone with experience working an extra two hours on a project he's been tending all day is apparently only as productive as a new kid just starting his shift, groggy from sleep and unaware of the project's current state.
Then of course there's the issues of which industry you're working in, attitude, office politics, and so forth. Articles such as this one often consider all the many unemployed able people as interchangeable, but they really aren't. While so many people are looking for work, there are also many companies looking for employees already - the requirements of the two sets just don't overlap often enough to eliminate unemployment.
Perhaps "almost untreated" or "semi-treated" would be better. I do not see a doctor of any kind about it anymore, and I take no regulated medications, both of which I did (along with drinking caffeine) during the first 6 years. Since I come from the medical data field, having no doctor's treatment plan means I consider myself, for data purposes, to be untreated (which is really just "not actively treated according to the currently-accepted medical consensus").
No, no, and no. See, here at Slashdot, we are anti-corporation. If anyone related to an idea makes a profit that's shared outside the inventor's immediate family, that's wrong! If a contract isn't either the GPL or BSD license, it's wrong! If somebody with a completely different situation ends up with a different deal than somebody else, that's wrong
No references, I'm afraid, but I do know a few things that definitely helped.
Firstly, I've benefited most from meditation. I spent many years taking dance lessons (every programmer needs a backup career), and at one point worked with an instructor who touted the benefits of meditation. Her technique was to lie on the floor, and focus on relaxing one muscle group at a time, working from the toes to the face, with the idea being that you develop awareness of the separate muscles, and the ability to control them independently. While the benefits to my agility are questionable, I did develop the ability to cure my own hiccups on demand (a minor superpower) and more importantly to clear my mind. I've since also found connections to Buddhist and Zen meditation, where the subject simply sits idly while the world (and thoughts) pass in and out of mind with no concern.
Second and opposite was my tendency to completely overrun myself with tasks. At specific times (generally dictated by the poor judgement of a college student) I'd allow my workload to pile up until I had far too many things to do at once. I'd choose the one most centrally related to the others, and work on it. While my conscious effort went to the task at hand, I'd try to accept the interruptions of thoughts related to the other projects. Perhaps while working on a program, I'd suddenly think of how an algorithm should work for a different program. When writing a paper, I might figure out the perfect conclusion to a different paper. Those ideas would be written down (in whatever notation I could devise that makes sense - including at one point a diagram that looked like two skyscrapers with a tightrope between them, detailing a sorting algorithm). Then'd I'd go back to the main project, and remain there until it was done. I'd pick the project with the most new ideas, and continue with that.
Alternating between the two, I could satisfy my innate need to multitask, yet still maintain some small amount of sanity. A steady supply of Mountain Dew gave the slight chemical boost, and I soon got used to the feeling of controlling my focus. It's still difficult, and I still think the absurd thoughts (such as contemplating my favorite style and curvature for a handwritten 'L', or whether an elephant would be in pain if its tusks grew to curve backwards and twisted together over its back), but I can control them if I try.
I've been diagnosed with ADHD for the past 12 years or so. For the last 6, I've gone untreated. As an illustration of how screwed-up my body chemistry is, consider that I drink 4 cups of caffeinated coffee daily at work, primarily to reduce the jumpy focus. A short while (30-60 minutes) after my first cup, focusing on a single idea becomes much easier. I'll drink more to maintain that focus through the day. In the late afternoon, I'll sometimes switch to caffeinated soft drinks, mostly for taste. In the evenings, I'll have another caffeinated soft drink, to relax me for sleep. I'll often be happily unconscious by 11.
ADHD is weird. Stimulants (like caffeine and more potent drugs like methamphetamine) even out the brain chemistry, making people like me closer to normal. For myself, I spent much of my time in college training myself to focus, so the slight assistance of caffeine is all I usually need, but I'm a pretty mild case now. It doesn't surprise me at all that some people are prescribed methamphetamines to slow down.
Because I'm not really happy about having to re-learn the latest One True Way that Microsoft chooses to support this time around. I do have a Win7 Box (for education, mostly), and I have yet to get it properly sharing it's printer with my Linux and OS X laptops. This used to use SMB, but now it's the HomeGroup thing. I've spent 10 years learning the last One True Way, and all for naught. I know that any method still supported in Win7 is likely to be dropped by 8, so why bother?
I stand corrected. Minnesota apparently does allow for an increased speed limit, but only when passing on a 2-lane highway (one lane each way) with a speed limit over 55mph.
Not the most likely conditions to find a camera, either, but just in case, that's why you have a right to contest the ticket.
Bruce Schneier observed that "It took the academic community two decades to figure out that the NSA 'tweaks' actually improved the security of DES."
The changing of the S-block hardened DES to a "new" form of attack, differential cryptanalysis. The NSA seems to have already been familiar with the technique, enough to be able to advise IBM on the use of better S-blocks. The use of a shorter key speeds up brute-force attacks, but the use of a strong S-block makes differential cryptanalysis much more difficult.
It's worth noting that even with the shorter key, brute-force attacks still took until the mid-90's computing power to be practical (in public, at least).
A "rolling stop" is not a stop. It's running the red light, but in slow motion, and it's against the law.
When you have to accelerate from a dead stop to make the turn, you're more likely to check the crosswalks, rather than just look to see if you can make the turn before any oncoming traffic gets there.
the only speeders they will catch there are the ones trying to beat the short yellows that have been put in place to raise revenue.
You're assuming that the only reason to speed through an intersection is to beat the yellow. A driver could just be speeding because that's what they've been doing for the past dozen blocks.
Going thru the intersection at 5 over to beat the light does not cause accidents, because cross traffic is already stopped, pedestrians are not permitted to be crossing at that time.
Then once you leave the intersection, you're still speeding down the same road. Are drivers really going to hit their brakes after getting through the light, so they're driving legally again? Of course not. They'll coast back down to whatever speed they want to go, with no concern for pedestrian safety.
There is no point where speeding only a little or for a purpose is legal. There is no point where a rolling stop is legally equal to a full stop. Why should the cameras offer any leniency? Would you accept the same leniency in an elevator that came to a rolling stop at your floor?
According to those maps (at least the ones from AT&T), there's great coverage inside a particular canyon in Arizona, a particular valley in West Virginia, and a particular marsh in northern Michigan, all of which I've visited and can personally verify there is no usable service. Those maps don't come from the providers' engineers. They come from the marketing department, and should be trusted as much as any other advertisement.
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...Which made perfect sense in the days of geographically-efficient routing (mail, telegraph, radio, etc.) and less travel, because it was logical to assume that once a message left US borders, it was intended for someone who wasn't a US citizen. Today, though, packets are routed through whatever is financially efficient, even if that means a satellite or a data center on another continent, and the recipient's nationality is unknown when the packet's intercepted.
But the money from credit card processing goes to credit card companies, and that's wrong. Money lost on the street goes to the beggars and children, and that's right.
So sayeth the hivemind.
From the Associated Press, July 15, 2013:
Faced with an ongoing budget crisis for the next school year and pressure from federal mandates to increase education about copyright law and the life-imprisonment mandatory minimum sentence violations carry, the local high school is offering a $10 bounty for each piracy-supporting balloon brought in with a functioning computer. School officials have announced that through a partnership with an unnamed sponsor, each mylar balloon (the so-callen "floating sanity") will bring in approximately $20 for the school, and the school will keep the computers as well.
In an Interview last Tuesday, school district superintendent Ben Dover extolled the benefits of the program. "We see this as a win/win situation, very likely to ease the pain of the budget deficiencies. We get an influx of new computers, and additional monetary assets as well." he said to a room of reporters and concerned parents. "If, as rumors have suggested, the computers are unable to run Windows 9 Bloat Edition, we can still sell them off to help cover the cost of licensing both installations of our grading software.
Sources close to the issue say that there are some concerns, however, as the partnership contract has some unusual conditions. According to one anonymous source, the contract specifies that all term papers and homework assignments completed by students will become the sole property of the partner, who will then charge licensing fees to the school and teachers before they will be able to grade the students' work, costing the school up to $500 per assignment, or more if the work will be used as a class example.
A spokesperson for the partner, who has asked to be addressed only as Dick, has denied such allegations. "That's preposterous," he told reporters, "our license fees aren't nearly that low."
Knowing the language and techniques used can speed up analysis of future variants found, because they'll know what patterns to look for first.
The pipes that carry water to the systems would likely not exist.
Rather, like most cooling systems, the water is likely used to cool a heat exchanger, which in turn cools air that's blown into the server rooms. If a pipe gets clogged (which is unlikely, since the pipes have little reason to be as small as household ones), that heat exchanger just won't be as cold for a while.
Apparently evaporation is the tendency for young women on spring break to get drunk and engage in civil disobedience of public indecency laws. Somehow, this is related to cooling.
I'm not interested unless there's hot grits involved.
I take it you've never been on the receiving end of an attack, then? Management doesn't likely understand details. All they know is that the public website was down for several hours, and the IT department hardly did anything about it. Blame gets passed and people get fired. Then there's the trickle-down effect, where not only does Mastercard (for example) suffer problems from having services out, but every mom-and-pop vendor that processes credit cards through them can't take payments.
Part of what makes civil disobedience effective is that it's often an appeal to empathy, rather than a threat. There is a certain threshold of trouble, below which the troubled ask "why?", and above which they ask "why me?". A protest filling a courtyard or making a sidewalk busier stays well below that threshold, so passers-by will be more likely to think about the issue being protested. Shutting down service to a site without warning or good explanation is irritating enough to anger people, who won't be inspired to learn (or care) about an issue any further.
Civil disobedience usually results in a slight inconvenience, a small percentage of lost profits, and most importantly, high visibility for the chosen cause.
A DDoS, document theft, or slander campaign results in a destroyed career, ruined business, and a poorly-edited headline on a nerd's news site.
Anonymous is as much an activist group as I am a turnip.
Hey, you're right! We (unwittingly) elected a Muslim to President!
...So?
The author also assumes that all man-hours are interchangeable. Someone with experience working an extra two hours on a project he's been tending all day is apparently only as productive as a new kid just starting his shift, groggy from sleep and unaware of the project's current state.
Then of course there's the issues of which industry you're working in, attitude, office politics, and so forth. Articles such as this one often consider all the many unemployed able people as interchangeable, but they really aren't. While so many people are looking for work, there are also many companies looking for employees already - the requirements of the two sets just don't overlap often enough to eliminate unemployment.
What makes you think that it's easier to build a permanent moon-base than colonize Mars?
Lifeboats.
Perhaps "almost untreated" or "semi-treated" would be better. I do not see a doctor of any kind about it anymore, and I take no regulated medications, both of which I did (along with drinking caffeine) during the first 6 years. Since I come from the medical data field, having no doctor's treatment plan means I consider myself, for data purposes, to be untreated (which is really just "not actively treated according to the currently-accepted medical consensus").
No, no, and no. See, here at Slashdot, we are anti-corporation. If anyone related to an idea makes a profit that's shared outside the inventor's immediate family, that's wrong! If a contract isn't either the GPL or BSD license, it's wrong! If somebody with a completely different situation ends up with a different deal than somebody else, that's wrong
No references, I'm afraid, but I do know a few things that definitely helped.
Firstly, I've benefited most from meditation. I spent many years taking dance lessons (every programmer needs a backup career), and at one point worked with an instructor who touted the benefits of meditation. Her technique was to lie on the floor, and focus on relaxing one muscle group at a time, working from the toes to the face, with the idea being that you develop awareness of the separate muscles, and the ability to control them independently. While the benefits to my agility are questionable, I did develop the ability to cure my own hiccups on demand (a minor superpower) and more importantly to clear my mind. I've since also found connections to Buddhist and Zen meditation, where the subject simply sits idly while the world (and thoughts) pass in and out of mind with no concern.
Second and opposite was my tendency to completely overrun myself with tasks. At specific times (generally dictated by the poor judgement of a college student) I'd allow my workload to pile up until I had far too many things to do at once. I'd choose the one most centrally related to the others, and work on it. While my conscious effort went to the task at hand, I'd try to accept the interruptions of thoughts related to the other projects. Perhaps while working on a program, I'd suddenly think of how an algorithm should work for a different program. When writing a paper, I might figure out the perfect conclusion to a different paper. Those ideas would be written down (in whatever notation I could devise that makes sense - including at one point a diagram that looked like two skyscrapers with a tightrope between them, detailing a sorting algorithm). Then'd I'd go back to the main project, and remain there until it was done. I'd pick the project with the most new ideas, and continue with that.
Alternating between the two, I could satisfy my innate need to multitask, yet still maintain some small amount of sanity. A steady supply of Mountain Dew gave the slight chemical boost, and I soon got used to the feeling of controlling my focus. It's still difficult, and I still think the absurd thoughts (such as contemplating my favorite style and curvature for a handwritten 'L', or whether an elephant would be in pain if its tusks grew to curve backwards and twisted together over its back), but I can control them if I try.
I've been diagnosed with ADHD for the past 12 years or so. For the last 6, I've gone untreated. As an illustration of how screwed-up my body chemistry is, consider that I drink 4 cups of caffeinated coffee daily at work, primarily to reduce the jumpy focus. A short while (30-60 minutes) after my first cup, focusing on a single idea becomes much easier. I'll drink more to maintain that focus through the day. In the late afternoon, I'll sometimes switch to caffeinated soft drinks, mostly for taste. In the evenings, I'll have another caffeinated soft drink, to relax me for sleep. I'll often be happily unconscious by 11.
ADHD is weird. Stimulants (like caffeine and more potent drugs like methamphetamine) even out the brain chemistry, making people like me closer to normal. For myself, I spent much of my time in college training myself to focus, so the slight assistance of caffeine is all I usually need, but I'm a pretty mild case now. It doesn't surprise me at all that some people are prescribed methamphetamines to slow down.
Because I'm not really happy about having to re-learn the latest One True Way that Microsoft chooses to support this time around. I do have a Win7 Box (for education, mostly), and I have yet to get it properly sharing it's printer with my Linux and OS X laptops. This used to use SMB, but now it's the HomeGroup thing. I've spent 10 years learning the last One True Way, and all for naught. I know that any method still supported in Win7 is likely to be dropped by 8, so why bother?
It's still illegal. There's just no fine for it.
I stand corrected. Minnesota apparently does allow for an increased speed limit, but only when passing on a 2-lane highway (one lane each way) with a speed limit over 55mph.
Not the most likely conditions to find a camera, either, but just in case, that's why you have a right to contest the ticket.
Bruce Schneier observed that "It took the academic community two decades to figure out that the NSA 'tweaks' actually improved the security of DES."
The changing of the S-block hardened DES to a "new" form of attack, differential cryptanalysis. The NSA seems to have already been familiar with the technique, enough to be able to advise IBM on the use of better S-blocks. The use of a shorter key speeds up brute-force attacks, but the use of a strong S-block makes differential cryptanalysis much more difficult.
It's worth noting that even with the shorter key, brute-force attacks still took until the mid-90's computing power to be practical (in public, at least).
A "rolling stop" is not a stop. It's running the red light, but in slow motion, and it's against the law.
When you have to accelerate from a dead stop to make the turn, you're more likely to check the crosswalks, rather than just look to see if you can make the turn before any oncoming traffic gets there.
the only speeders they will catch there are the ones trying to beat the short yellows that have been put in place to raise revenue.
You're assuming that the only reason to speed through an intersection is to beat the yellow. A driver could just be speeding because that's what they've been doing for the past dozen blocks.
Going thru the intersection at 5 over to beat the light does not cause accidents, because cross traffic is already stopped, pedestrians are not permitted to be crossing at that time.
Then once you leave the intersection, you're still speeding down the same road. Are drivers really going to hit their brakes after getting through the light, so they're driving legally again? Of course not. They'll coast back down to whatever speed they want to go, with no concern for pedestrian safety.
There is no point where speeding only a little or for a purpose is legal. There is no point where a rolling stop is legally equal to a full stop. Why should the cameras offer any leniency? Would you accept the same leniency in an elevator that came to a rolling stop at your floor?
According to those maps (at least the ones from AT&T), there's great coverage inside a particular canyon in Arizona, a particular valley in West Virginia, and a particular marsh in northern Michigan, all of which I've visited and can personally verify there is no usable service. Those maps don't come from the providers' engineers. They come from the marketing department, and should be trusted as much as any other advertisement.
The NSA's had its hand in many things, and not necessarily in bad ways.
Slashdot has always been ugly and pedestrian, if extremely functional.
Slashdot is Unix?
Slashdot's moderation system is the worst out there - except for all the rest.