No, a settlement has been found at Lanse Aux Meadows. If I'm not mistaken, the currently prevailing opinion is that Vinland was south of Lanse Aux Meadows and that Lanse Aux Meadows was never documented by the Vikings (that we know about).
Am I missing something, or is this just two ordinary webcams that superimpose their images onto one another? Why did it take so long for someone to duct tape 2 cameras together?
I'm with you on this one. I've never owned a gaming console in my life. I've never run a Windows operating system in my life (on my own system; at work we have them, but you can't install games on there). The only games I get to play are through DOSBox (no complaints there) or Flash games (a lot of complaints there). Yes, you can argue I've made my choice. I've chosen not to make video games a priority in my life and I have no right to complain. I agree: I don't have a right to complain; but I certainly have a right to get excited about things like this:D
the porno videos involved in this case was about a teenage girl being raped by an older man
Thanks for the extra info, though I still have to say it's a stupid law. I can't help but think that if the teenage girl had been graphically murdered they'd be nominated for Oscars rather than put in prison:\
AES-128 uses keys which are 128 bits long. That means in order to "break AES" (in order to decrypt something you don't have the key to), all you have to do is try all possible keys of length 128 until you find one that works. That means you would have to try 2^128 different combinations, which is a lot.
What these people have done is found some clever way where you can break AES trying only 2^119 combinations. Effectively this means AES is no better than if it had used 119-bit keys instead of 128-bit keys. Sometimes you'll hear this colloquially as something like "AES has 119 bits of security", referring to how many combinations of keys you have to try before you find the one works.
2^119 is a massively large number. Trying 2^119 combinations is still terribly far outside of the realm of what all of the world's most powerful supercomputers combined could hope to do. This is an attack of theoretical interest, not practical interest.
All current power generation schemes are using energy that already exists on Earth. This would be bringer extra energy to Earth, increasing the total amount of energy in the Earth system. To be fair, though, unburned coal wouldn't be adding to the temperature of the Earth, even if it is still technically energy.
Did you miss the paragraph on the first page of the article where they explicitly said that this wasn't a new result and then proceeded to say what was the novel finding (subtle as it was)?
The question was very specifically aimed at physics, chemistry and engineering students. I can't speak for engineering students, but I know that in physics and chemistry virtually all useful software is written in Fortran. All the code works perfectly, so why rewrite it? Not only does it work, but it's fast (Fortran code almost always outperforms the best optimizing C compilers). The difference between running a 3-day simulation of Fortran code vs. a 4-day simulation of C code (plus whatever development time there would be) can come in handy sometimes.
Wouldn't they just use ZFS snapshots to do Time Machine? Dealing with hard linked directories is awfully slow (evidenced by how slow my Time Machine back-ups are).
Ahh I agree on the binaries front. My NNTP client (Unison) does relatively well with huge numbers of binary posts (grouping them together and whatnot) but I still like the web interface better. For textual conversation style things, though, I still find the web browser too clunky (not to mention a little inflexible: how do you manage kill lists?)
I still love it. I check a few comp.*, soc.* and rec.* groups daily and they're still active and interesting. There is the odd bit of spam, but that's just easily dealt with as it is on web forums or emails. For binaries I find it useful too (I'm more interested in TV shows and movies than music and pr0n, but either way). My ISP doesn't throttle it like it does Torrents. It doesn't use any significant amount of my upload speed. I never get any less than 95% of my Internet connection's possible bandwidth. Why not use it?
The point is it makes them worse students. Take 10 kids who got paid to study in grade 7 and 10 kids who didn't get paid to study in grade 7. Put them in the same class, say a high school class. Group A has no intrinsic motivation because they're not being paid anymore and fails out.
Unless you want to keep this scheme going all the way a long (pay them for grade 8, grade 9, grade 10, grade 11, grade 12, 1st year, 2nd year, 3rd year, 4th year, master's,...) which sounds rather costly, you're going to hit a point where the kids who used to get paid all of a sudden can't deal. That's what the overjustification effect says: you're paying them to be bad students.
Thankfully the working world doesn't work like that. "What do you mean you want a salary? You did exactly what I asked you to do! I'm not paying my employees for that!"
I just assume he/she meant "procedural" and not "functional". I'm sure it was an honest mistake. That said, C was johnny come lately to the programming language scene; there were lots of procedural languages before C.
I use LaTeX not only for its nice typographic properties, but because of how flexible it is. It's trivial to generate LaTeX code for automatically generating documentation, for instance. LaTeX may still be ahead in a couple areas (e.g., citations. Does Word beat out BibTeX yet?), but I'm not sure. As long as Word is GUI-based, I can't see it ever being anywhere near as flexible as LaTeX is.
This is still very cool though. I hate seeing flyers and menus and then that scream from 20 feet away "I WAS MADE IN WORD! MY TYPOGRAPHY WILL BURN YOUR EYES!" Anything that improves the quality of print around me is a good thing, I say.
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No, a settlement has been found at Lanse Aux Meadows. If I'm not mistaken, the currently prevailing opinion is that Vinland was south of Lanse Aux Meadows and that Lanse Aux Meadows was never documented by the Vikings (that we know about).
Am I missing something, or is this just two ordinary webcams that superimpose their images onto one another? Why did it take so long for someone to duct tape 2 cameras together?
I read the article and can't exactly distinguish this from IntServ. What's the difference?
I'm with you on this one. I've never owned a gaming console in my life. I've never run a Windows operating system in my life (on my own system; at work we have them, but you can't install games on there). The only games I get to play are through DOSBox (no complaints there) or Flash games (a lot of complaints there). Yes, you can argue I've made my choice. I've chosen not to make video games a priority in my life and I have no right to complain. I agree: I don't have a right to complain; but I certainly have a right to get excited about things like this :D
Thanks for the extra info, though I still have to say it's a stupid law. I can't help but think that if the teenage girl had been graphically murdered they'd be nominated for Oscars rather than put in prison :\
Oh dear, you're absolutely right. This is about AES-256. That's quite a significant attack indeed (though still not enough to make it practical).
AES-128 uses keys which are 128 bits long. That means in order to "break AES" (in order to decrypt something you don't have the key to), all you have to do is try all possible keys of length 128 until you find one that works. That means you would have to try 2^128 different combinations, which is a lot.
What these people have done is found some clever way where you can break AES trying only 2^119 combinations. Effectively this means AES is no better than if it had used 119-bit keys instead of 128-bit keys. Sometimes you'll hear this colloquially as something like "AES has 119 bits of security", referring to how many combinations of keys you have to try before you find the one works.
2^119 is a massively large number. Trying 2^119 combinations is still terribly far outside of the realm of what all of the world's most powerful supercomputers combined could hope to do. This is an attack of theoretical interest, not practical interest.
All current power generation schemes are using energy that already exists on Earth. This would be bringer extra energy to Earth, increasing the total amount of energy in the Earth system. To be fair, though, unburned coal wouldn't be adding to the temperature of the Earth, even if it is still technically energy.
Did you miss the paragraph on the first page of the article where they explicitly said that this wasn't a new result and then proceeded to say what was the novel finding (subtle as it was)?
The question was very specifically aimed at physics, chemistry and engineering students. I can't speak for engineering students, but I know that in physics and chemistry virtually all useful software is written in Fortran. All the code works perfectly, so why rewrite it? Not only does it work, but it's fast (Fortran code almost always outperforms the best optimizing C compilers). The difference between running a 3-day simulation of Fortran code vs. a 4-day simulation of C code (plus whatever development time there would be) can come in handy sometimes.
Wouldn't they just use ZFS snapshots to do Time Machine? Dealing with hard linked directories is awfully slow (evidenced by how slow my Time Machine back-ups are).
Ahh I agree on the binaries front. My NNTP client (Unison) does relatively well with huge numbers of binary posts (grouping them together and whatnot) but I still like the web interface better. For textual conversation style things, though, I still find the web browser too clunky (not to mention a little inflexible: how do you manage kill lists?)
I still love it. I check a few comp.*, soc.* and rec.* groups daily and they're still active and interesting. There is the odd bit of spam, but that's just easily dealt with as it is on web forums or emails. For binaries I find it useful too (I'm more interested in TV shows and movies than music and pr0n, but either way). My ISP doesn't throttle it like it does Torrents. It doesn't use any significant amount of my upload speed. I never get any less than 95% of my Internet connection's possible bandwidth. Why not use it?
Superior how?
The point is it makes them worse students. Take 10 kids who got paid to study in grade 7 and 10 kids who didn't get paid to study in grade 7. Put them in the same class, say a high school class. Group A has no intrinsic motivation because they're not being paid anymore and fails out.
Unless you want to keep this scheme going all the way a long (pay them for grade 8, grade 9, grade 10, grade 11, grade 12, 1st year, 2nd year, 3rd year, 4th year, master's, ...) which sounds rather costly, you're going to hit a point where the kids who used to get paid all of a sudden can't deal. That's what the overjustification effect says: you're paying them to be bad students.
Thankfully the working world doesn't work like that. "What do you mean you want a salary? You did exactly what I asked you to do! I'm not paying my employees for that!"
I just assume he/she meant "procedural" and not "functional". I'm sure it was an honest mistake. That said, C was johnny come lately to the programming language scene; there were lots of procedural languages before C.
I agree totally about the need for verbosity. I'm a fan of Donald Knuth in this regard.
WTF are you on about?
Yes, I too was surprised by "possibly only in TeX and InDesign". Pages has been doing all this stuff for a while now.
I use LaTeX not only for its nice typographic properties, but because of how flexible it is. It's trivial to generate LaTeX code for automatically generating documentation, for instance. LaTeX may still be ahead in a couple areas (e.g., citations. Does Word beat out BibTeX yet?), but I'm not sure. As long as Word is GUI-based, I can't see it ever being anywhere near as flexible as LaTeX is.
This is still very cool though. I hate seeing flyers and menus and then that scream from 20 feet away "I WAS MADE IN WORD! MY TYPOGRAPHY WILL BURN YOUR EYES!" Anything that improves the quality of print around me is a good thing, I say.
They were testing popular browsers. Safari beta is popular. Firefox beta is unpopular.
You have a better reason to hate a movie? Most of the movies I've hated have been because of the bad characters and/or plots.
I knew it was a mistake to give up trying to solve the Halting Problem!
All of those systems you described still seem to pump the excess heat into the office.