There is some group goofing off that occurs, but no more so than any other work arrangement I have seen.
Best arrangement I have seen:
- 2, maximal 3 people per room
- large desks, large monitors
- keep it quiet, put some plants there
- make it easy to collaborate without interrupting people (e.g. Instant messages*)
- Block Youtube et. al., they eat your time
* Instant messengers allow you to signal when you want to be left alone, and the program postpones showing you incoming messages.
Just as a few examples: These don't work as you think they would. for f in a b c; do
[ -x "$f" ] || { echo "file $f exists" && continue }
[ -x "$f" ] || echo "file $f exists" && continue done
At some point you need deeper understanding than bash can provide data structures, error handling etc. Then you need python or java or something.
There was a great Google talk from a SETI guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyai5IyO-8E He explained why nothing has been found yet and why he is certain we'll get contact in 20-40 years. Good stuff!
It looks like it was encrypted using OpenSSL's command line utility, which takes a passphrase, so that supports the idea that this was broken via a passphrase guesser.
I wonder what the passphrase was. It would be amusing if it turned out to be "progress" again (a la http://www.metafilter.com/79537/... )
Posted by: Grim at April 7, 2010 4:48 PM ----- I found the file earlier and analyzed it as an OpenSSL type bare encrypted file.
If it's AES-256, then I guess that qualifies as "Military Grade" suite b.
But I don't see any indication of a classified algorithm.
I would love to see the original cleartext... I wonder if wikileaks would release it?
Posted by: Roger at April 7, 2010 6:14 PM ----- I wonder why the encrypted vid is about 430 megs and the decrypted one is >600 megs. Maybe recompressed, but that makes little sense unless some really weird codec was used in the original. By releasing the encrypted version, they are giving similar hints to potential attackers than with the unencrypted one.
Posted by: jan at April 7, 2010 6:31 PM ----- The WikiLeaks editor, Julian Assange, says in this video (around 1:20), "we have a number of cryptographers and other security experts and lots of volunteer computer time, so that's just a matter of going through the most probable passwords that something might be encrypted with, so several millions of passwords to find the one that was used."
He further states that they spent about 3 months working on it.
The C program will be as written with tons of calls to malloc/free, the Java program will simply reuse the same parts of memory again and again without any system calls. These benchmarks are a bit misleading as the C program isn't optimised with memory re-use whereas the Java Garbage collector tends to do that implicitly.
Not development stopped. Testing did. They care about the quality they deliver to their officially supported platforms. Most Open Source software doesn't even go that extra mile.
Another interesting aspect is that Jake2 was already a half-automatic translation from C to Java, now they do another half-automatic translation from Java to another language...
Placebos have been shown to have the same effect in the brain as pain relief drugs (e.g. Aspirin). It is most effective in double-blind scenarios (patient and doctor don't know there it is a placebo). Of course, you can't treat everything with it, and it has to be kept track of.
Your link just states an opinion of comparability to acupuncture, but provides no evidence. Acupuncture has been shown to be equally effective when using random "energy points". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo
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Eliminating the ability for developers to take mental breaks is a great way to just piss people off.
You need mental breaks, true. Stand up every 60 minutes. Go for a 5 minute walk.
There is some group goofing off that occurs, but no more so than any other work arrangement I have seen.
Best arrangement I have seen:
- 2, maximal 3 people per room
- large desks, large monitors
- keep it quiet, put some plants there
- make it easy to collaborate without interrupting people (e.g. Instant messages*)
- Block Youtube et. al., they eat your time
* Instant messengers allow you to signal when you want to be left alone, and the program postpones showing you incoming messages.
Just as a few examples: These don't work as you think they would.
for f in a b c; do
[ -x "$f" ] || { echo "file $f exists" && continue }
[ -x "$f" ] || echo "file $f exists" && continue
done
At some point you need deeper understanding than bash can provide data structures, error handling etc. Then you need python or java or something.
There was a great Google talk from a SETI guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyai5IyO-8E
He explained why nothing has been found yet and why he is certain we'll get contact in 20-40 years. Good stuff!
You should buy both. If One breaks, you still have Two. Or if two break, you still have one.
Dialect, not accent.
processes inside one big process? Uhm, threads?
Java Webstart is also awesome (if your browser works) to try out java programs, e.g. http://jabref.sourceforge.net/
You do realise ~ is replaced by the shell (try $ echo rm -rf ~)? rm will probably not understand it. You want the environment variable HOME.
Not true. More correct is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, article 11.
This would violate Kerckhoffs' principle. The enemy knows the system.
more like AES/OpenSSL: (from comments at Schneier, pondering about the same question: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/04/cryptography_br.html)
The world is just not *ready* for the ipad ...
"Java has a long term downward trend". Wrong.
They just put that into the summary to make it appealing for slashdot readers.
In this case, off topic stands for "outside our country".
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6311K220100402
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOGX73P8RqM
The C program will be as written with tons of calls to malloc/free, the Java program will simply reuse the same parts of memory again and again without any system calls. These benchmarks are a bit misleading as the C program isn't optimised with memory re-use whereas the Java Garbage collector tends to do that implicitly.
What would the results be when using boehmgc?
Not development stopped. Testing did. They care about the quality they deliver to their officially supported platforms. Most Open Source software doesn't even go that extra mile.
Another interesting aspect is that Jake2 was already a half-automatic translation from C to Java, now they do another half-automatic translation from Java to another language ...
Wrong.
... You will not I said A placebo effect.
A convincing argument. Consider however:
Placebos have been shown to have the same effect in the brain as pain relief drugs (e.g. Aspirin). It is most effective in double-blind scenarios (patient and doctor don't know there it is a placebo).
Of course, you can't treat everything with it, and it has to be kept track of.
Your link just states an opinion of comparability to acupuncture, but provides no evidence. Acupuncture has been shown to be equally effective when using random "energy points".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo
People like getting attended.
Homeopathy works and it is based on a known, scientifically studied effect. The placebo effect.
Hello BadAnalogyGuy,
I'm not a scientist. But I do know that going to my drug dealer leads to feeling great.
There you have your 'bad' analogy
So a bit is a dezibyte, a day is a deziweek, a hour is a centiday and 360 are a kilodegree. Easy!
I wonder if it stinks on the ISS... no one ever mentions what the air is like
Take a deep breath and smell the beautiful vacuum. Can you see it?