Indeed, that's my point -- they are doing real engineering to get to some useful goals instead of trying to re-invent the wheel like so many others do.
Accurate summary: "The cops siezed a network and other assets used by alleged criminals to facilitate crime. Oh and by the way it used encryption though despite that the cops we able to get what they needed to legally justify intervening without breaking the encyption."
Instead that scary "encryption" is right up front, though it was irrelevant. They might as well have said "computers" or "electrons"
All that research done by Pratt and Whitney... Boeing... Lockheed Martin...
If socialism were superior the Russians would have won the Cold War.
They didn't because its inferior.
In the case of the space program, you have it exactly backwards. The Soviet space program got very little government support. Korolev had trouble getting funding and had the factories building and selling non-rocket machinery in order to raise the money necessary to build rockets. In fact the soviets had several competing space efforts.
Whereas the US responded with a huge, centrally-planned bureacracy that still exists today, with all the success one can expect from such an approch
I agree with you that communism was a disaster, and a largely unmitigated one, but nothing is purely black and white.
So the real value comes from publishing a significant paper -- i.e. one that is frequently cited, or is even so significant that it ISN'T cited (people doing CRISPR presumably don't bother to cite the original papers any more). Since so many papers are published, publishing in a prestigious journal increases the chance you'll be read and cited.
Those journals (and lesser journals, and bottom-feeding paper-spammers as well) make money by controlling access -- the more prestigious the more money (presumably) and by selling ads.
But AAAS, Elsevier, Springer et al could probably make just as much money by simply providing the prestige without the publication! Imagine that they kept the infrastructure of review. Scientists could pay to submit papers which would be subject to review and comment. Ones that were "accepted" could be featured on the web site etc. Troll papers would be discouraged by having to pay a fee and then not pass review (and therefore not appear on the web site).
ArXiv, PLoS etc don't have the same impact as an article in Nature. Why not remove the conflict?
This is one of the key features of HP's much-hyped "machine": direct, on-chip optical interconnects.
(Frankly HP's marketing continues to suck: when I read the hype about the "machine" I just yawned. But then I ran into a friend who had moved to HP to work on it and learned that it has some pretty cool features. I guess things like optical interconnect and massive shared address space just don't make interesting news stories.)
Really all reporting suffers from the same problems. Do you think the reporting on, say, ISIS is any less sensationalist or distorted. The mechanisms and incentives are the same.
Its nice to see that there is some social progression being made in a country that has had such rocky times lately.
I think the rocky times are because there is some social progress (and social regress in terms of inequality). Those who don't like it are kicking back.
Likewise I see a lot of the middle east unrest and even the rise of ISIL (and maybe AQ) to be due the the fact that TV & the Internet now allow a lot of people to see that others have moved forward.
I just go through the call tree just like any unskilled end user. Their system is set up for that and it's faster than trying to escalate (everybody tries that). Once you exhaust their simple triage they'll usually replace the hardware. Don't forget that the front line support probably doesn't undertsand your problem and might in fact be doing front line support for many companies, so it only playing attention to the computer screen.
Extreme example: I had a weird hardware problem with a brand of well known laptops. Showed it to a friend who had worked on the board layout for that laptop -- he got super excited. Best way to get it to him? I went through front line support, including trying to bot it with various key combos held down etc: they verified it was broken and swapped it out -- and my friend was able to flag the S/N and get the machine for analysis. I didn't claim to know anything more than "it doesn't work" and as a result it was quick
BTW he claimed they changed the design as a result but how would I know?
The US has been a signatory to the Metric convention for years -- longer than the UK I believe though I could't rapidly find reference on the net. In addition the inch was fixed at precisely 2.54 cm (we'd say 25.4 mm these days) 56 years ago. So Americans are already metric.
I am not much of a fan of the metric system, actually. I do use celsius (mainly because I , and do engineering with it, but for day to day use (fixing a stair, cooking etc) I find the customary units superior.
And I curse whatever god (Finnagle?) put five digits on each limb! Should have been six. Even four would have been superior.
The original Emacs (for the PDP-10) had a special mode for slow terminals and even teletypes. It worked surprisingly well assuming you had some internal model of what you were editing anyway, but in such situations I found it easier to simply edit directly in TECO (which is what Emacs was written in).
The fix? Part of it would probably say prompt the user on the device to install the relevant CAs for their geographic region. If on mainland China, having a CA for the HK post office makes sense. Not so in the US, unless one travels abroad or has a lot of business with Chinese sites.
That doesn't make a lot of sense..com domains are issued worldwide, and I am glad to have the choice of CAs to use for my com and org domains. And if I go to a.cn site I would like to know it's trusted.
The rest of your message does make sense. But to my case above: how do I know it's trusted? There's no explicit endorsement.
...and the user will be made to read Facebook's suicide prevention materials.
Unless they track them down and go all clockwork-orange on them I don't really see how the user can be "made" to do anything. They can just you know, put down the phone and shoot themselves.
In fact a coworker lost a friend this way last week. Apparently he (the victim) had been talking to his friends about it for hours on FB and then killed himself. I assume this is all actually FB trying to stave off lawsuits, but I don't see that they could do more, nor that they could afford to ignore the issue.
My case was similar to yours: my wife and I are from different countries and for work reasons we had to move to the U.S. while my wife was pregnant so our child was born there. Yes there's some paperwork but really it's mostly irrelevant since we only dig up that passport when entering the usa. And he has the right to live and work in lots of places when he grows up. Who knows what the world will look like in 50 years? It might be handy.
As an Emacs user since the late 70s I don't really see the appeal. It's nice that it doesn't have all that crud like a numeric keyboard or arrow keys and the like, but since I never take my hands away from the keybaord anyway those things are simply distractions. Meanwhile a smaller space bar isn't a winner.
I presume by the end of this year we'll have systemd running on bare iron, handing off to emacs, which then allows you to run instances of Linux in different buffers.
(Why yes I am a lifelong emacs user which means I am allowed to make fun of it)
Darn, another good explanation I learned years ago now smashed.
However that explanation is odd. Australia also had conscription for the Viet Nam war. My dad wasn't subject to it because he worked for the PMG (and had two small kids). Wouldn't Canada have made more sense?
...whereas it deported its religious nutcases to North America.
If only it were true. Australia is where the nutcases go when they consider the US intolerant. Case in point: New York-born Mel Gibson, whose nutjob dad brought his brood to Australia looking for the "freedom" to practice his (even more) loony brand of christianity...
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Indeed, that's my point -- they are doing real engineering to get to some useful goals instead of trying to re-invent the wheel like so many others do.
Sorry I was so brief as to not be clear!
Very nice! These guys are really thinking about what they're doing.
Accurate summary: "The cops siezed a network and other assets used by alleged criminals to facilitate crime. Oh and by the way it used encryption though despite that the cops we able to get what they needed to legally justify intervening without breaking the encyption."
Instead that scary "encryption" is right up front, though it was irrelevant. They might as well have said "computers" or "electrons"
All that research done by Pratt and Whitney... Boeing... Lockheed Martin...
If socialism were superior the Russians would have won the Cold War.
They didn't because its inferior.
In the case of the space program, you have it exactly backwards. The Soviet space program got very little government support. Korolev had trouble getting funding and had the factories building and selling non-rocket machinery in order to raise the money necessary to build rockets. In fact the soviets had several competing space efforts.
Whereas the US responded with a huge, centrally-planned bureacracy that still exists today, with all the success one can expect from such an approch
I agree with you that communism was a disaster, and a largely unmitigated one, but nothing is purely black and white.
So the real value comes from publishing a significant paper -- i.e. one that is frequently cited, or is even so significant that it ISN'T cited (people doing CRISPR presumably don't bother to cite the original papers any more). Since so many papers are published, publishing in a prestigious journal increases the chance you'll be read and cited.
Those journals (and lesser journals, and bottom-feeding paper-spammers as well) make money by controlling access -- the more prestigious the more money (presumably) and by selling ads.
But AAAS, Elsevier, Springer et al could probably make just as much money by simply providing the prestige without the publication! Imagine that they kept the infrastructure of review. Scientists could pay to submit papers which would be subject to review and comment. Ones that were "accepted" could be featured on the web site etc. Troll papers would be discouraged by having to pay a fee and then not pass review (and therefore not appear on the web site).
ArXiv, PLoS etc don't have the same impact as an article in Nature. Why not remove the conflict?
This is one of the key features of HP's much-hyped "machine": direct, on-chip optical interconnects.
(Frankly HP's marketing continues to suck: when I read the hype about the "machine" I just yawned. But then I ran into a friend who had moved to HP to work on it and learned that it has some pretty cool features. I guess things like optical interconnect and massive shared address space just don't make interesting news stories.)
Some stuff on their optical work: http://www.hpl.hp.com/techrepo...
Really all reporting suffers from the same problems. Do you think the reporting on, say, ISIS is any less sensationalist or distorted. The mechanisms and incentives are the same.
A "high quality leak" of any Expendables film is inconceivable.
I have mod points but don't know how to use them in this case: Funny? Insightful? Informative? Flamebait? It's like an all-in-one post!
Its nice to see that there is some social progression being made in a country that has had such rocky times lately.
I think the rocky times are because there is some social progress (and social regress in terms of inequality). Those who don't like it are kicking back.
Likewise I see a lot of the middle east unrest and even the rise of ISIL (and maybe AQ) to be due the the fact that TV & the Internet now allow a lot of people to see that others have moved forward.
I just go through the call tree just like any unskilled end user. Their system is set up for that and it's faster than trying to escalate (everybody tries that). Once you exhaust their simple triage they'll usually replace the hardware. Don't forget that the front line support probably doesn't undertsand your problem and might in fact be doing front line support for many companies, so it only playing attention to the computer screen.
Extreme example: I had a weird hardware problem with a brand of well known laptops. Showed it to a friend who had worked on the board layout for that laptop -- he got super excited. Best way to get it to him? I went through front line support, including trying to bot it with various key combos held down etc: they verified it was broken and swapped it out -- and my friend was able to flag the S/N and get the machine for analysis. I didn't claim to know anything more than "it doesn't work" and as a result it was quick
BTW he claimed they changed the design as a result but how would I know?
The US has been a signatory to the Metric convention for years -- longer than the UK I believe though I could't rapidly find reference on the net. In addition the inch was fixed at precisely 2.54 cm (we'd say 25.4 mm these days) 56 years ago. So Americans are already metric.
I am not much of a fan of the metric system, actually. I do use celsius (mainly because I , and do engineering with it, but for day to day use (fixing a stair, cooking etc) I find the customary units superior.
And I curse whatever god (Finnagle?) put five digits on each limb! Should have been six. Even four would have been superior.
vi is, of course, just ed.
The original Emacs (for the PDP-10) had a special mode for slow terminals and even teletypes. It worked surprisingly well assuming you had some internal model of what you were editing anyway, but in such situations I found it easier to simply edit directly in TECO (which is what Emacs was written in).
Actually this is America -- we should declare a "war on warm blobs"
The fix? Part of it would probably say prompt the user on the device to install the relevant CAs for their geographic region. If on mainland China, having a CA for the HK post office makes sense. Not so in the US, unless one travels abroad or has a lot of business with Chinese sites.
That doesn't make a lot of sense. .com domains are issued worldwide, and I am glad to have the choice of CAs to use for my com and org domains. And if I go to a .cn site I would like to know it's trusted.
The rest of your message does make sense. But to my case above: how do I know it's trusted? There's no explicit endorsement.
Unless they track them down and go all clockwork-orange on them I don't really see how the user can be "made" to do anything. They can just you know, put down the phone and shoot themselves.
In fact a coworker lost a friend this way last week. Apparently he (the victim) had been talking to his friends about it for hours on FB and then killed himself. I assume this is all actually FB trying to stave off lawsuits, but I don't see that they could do more, nor that they could afford to ignore the issue.
My case was similar to yours: my wife and I are from different countries and for work reasons we had to move to the U.S. while my wife was pregnant so our child was born there. Yes there's some paperwork but really it's mostly irrelevant since we only dig up that passport when entering the usa. And he has the right to live and work in lots of places when he grows up. Who knows what the world will look like in 50 years? It might be handy.
As an Emacs user since the late 70s I don't really see the appeal. It's nice that it doesn't have all that crud like a numeric keyboard or arrow keys and the like, but since I never take my hands away from the keybaord anyway those things are simply distractions. Meanwhile a smaller space bar isn't a winner.
But nice mechanical keys are good.
*shrug*
This is the one device that has support wired into iOS (e.g. the healthkit). Now other wearable makers can get their data straight into the phone!
The US government funded Tor development and encourages its use as a way to avoid repressive governments and then considers its use in the US to be a suspcious act.
The irony, it burns!
I presume by the end of this year we'll have systemd running on bare iron, handing off to emacs, which then allows you to run instances of Linux in different buffers.
(Why yes I am a lifelong emacs user which means I am allowed to make fun of it)
last line should read '...a “clipper chip” that would supposedly allow only the government to decrypt...'
Darn, another good explanation I learned years ago now smashed.
However that explanation is odd. Australia also had conscription for the Viet Nam war. My dad wasn't subject to it because he worked for the PMG (and had two small kids). Wouldn't Canada have made more sense?
...whereas it deported its religious nutcases to North America.
If only it were true. Australia is where the nutcases go when they consider the US intolerant. Case in point: New York-born Mel Gibson, whose nutjob dad brought his brood to Australia looking for the "freedom" to practice his (even more) loony brand of christianity...
It's probably worth pointing out that these are not "given" to police. They are "loaned".
Therefore police depts that accept this gear are required to pay for maintenance [...] and are forbidden from selling them [...]
And they are required by 1033 to use the equipment and (according to that wikipedia entry) are allowed to sell some of it.