I work from home as a software engineer and I regularly take afternoon naps. Usually only for 5-10 minutes and it makes a huge difference in my overall productivity.
Thanks for the excellent info. I usually take sensationalist sounding articles like this with a grain of sand. Usually things are not quite as black and white as they are portrayed.
Also, if you encrypt a name, which forces exact searches, you are probably going to run afoul of Partiot Act requirements which require a more extensive search against the search lists.
You don't need to search by the sensitive fields anyway, so the inability to index them doesn't matter.
According the new law, first and last names would require encryption. I think you would definitely need to be able to search by last name. Now you have to encrypt the last name before searching or you have to encrypt the entire DB, which, as Lord Ender, points out, doesn't make much sense on a server.
You could MD5 your user data and convert to Md5 for each lookup, but you can't do "like" or regex on the name.
If I remember correctly, you can only use algebraic elimination in equality, not in comparison. That's why you don't get the correct answer here (>= is comparison).
Not so sure about that. I'd bet most officers in Washington have been made aware of that fact now.
The guy had a lot to lose by giving out his name given the unfortunate fact that a simple police blog reference in enough to stir suspicion and cost him valuable customers. He didn't do anything wrong and we wasn't suspected of doing anything wrong.
It reminds me of the hundreds of arrests that were made of demonstrators outside a major political party convention during the 2000's. They hadn't done anything wrong but were arrested anyway. We, as a society, shouldn't let that happen and I applaud people who go through the inconvenience of getting arrested to stand for what our constitution guarantees.
I used AMD processors exclusively from the mid 90's to a couple of years ago and never had any problem with them. I wasn't pushing the performance envelope but I think their reliability has been good.
I've always found that AMD CPU's seemed to work better than the comparable Intel CPUs. My Girlfriend has a PC with an AMD Athlon 64 x2 5000+ and 2G of memory. It seems to be much quicker than my Laptop with a Core2 T5800. Of course, we're comparing a desktop to a laptop with different disk-drives and Vista compared to Windows 7, but it reflects what I've seen in the past.
I'd be curious what other people have experienced.
The battle over BSD was fought along time ago when BSD removed a small remaining amount of ATT code to become complete independent of Unix. BSD, at least core BSD, should be pretty safe from lawsuits. And that's the reason companies like MS won't press their lawsuits against Linux, because they know it would be pretty easy for users to move to FreeBSD and that the mere threat of lawsuits is enough to discourage mass acceptance.
Hence, if you're too lazy, don't have the knowledge or it isn't economically viable to get someone in that can secure and configure your computer system
At work our Windows PCs (about 10), which have up-to-date virus protection still get viruses and have to be reinstalled about once a year. What many people don't understand is that virus protection only protects against known viruses. By the time the signature is known for a new virus, it has already made it's rounds. And, in some cases, viruses which auto-mutate create a new signature which is unknown to any virus protection software.
Fortunately, most of our systems are Linux systems (about 50 boxes) with no virus protection which we've had in place since 2002 and we've never had a virus with them. IMHO, if you want virus protection don't use Windows.
But do you actually get 15MBits or is that the name of the product they are selling you. In Germany, the DSL providers sell you a 16mbit connection but you may only get 8mbit, depending on how far you live from the switch. Cable, which I have, seems to come pretty close to the 32mbits they are advertising.
Check out www.speedtest.net to see your actual speed.
Solar *is* nuclear power. The reactor is just rather... large.
That was good. Thanks!
I suppose, by that measure, so is wind energy since the sun is indirectly responsible for wind, and anything produced by photosynthisis (coal, oil, gas, wood). Damn, it's all solar.
According to the wikipedia article on IFR it was the energy department which stopped development of the prototype. I ddin't see anything about a bill signed by any politician which killed it (perhaps I missed it).
However, it does look promising except for the fact the liquid sodium, the coolant used in IFR ignites spontaneously in contact with air and explodes with contact with water. Otherwise, it looks like it essentially solves the waste issue, which is a huge plus.
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I work from home as a software engineer and I regularly take afternoon naps. Usually only for 5-10 minutes and it makes a huge difference in my overall productivity.
Thanks for the excellent info. I usually take sensationalist sounding articles like this with a grain of sand. Usually things are not quite as black and white as they are portrayed.
That was excellent!
Also, if you encrypt a name, which forces exact searches, you are probably going to run afoul of Partiot Act requirements which require a more extensive search against the search lists.
You don't need to search by the sensitive fields anyway, so the inability to index them doesn't matter.
According the new law, first and last names would require encryption. I think you would definitely need to be able to search by last name. Now you have to encrypt the last name before searching or you have to encrypt the entire DB, which, as Lord Ender, points out, doesn't make much sense on a server.
You could MD5 your user data and convert to Md5 for each lookup, but you can't do "like" or regex on the name.
Seriously guys, this is a Christian nation. How can you expect people to go beyond .66? DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE RAMIFICATIONS?
That may be why you see two thirds written as .67 or .667 and not ... (sorry lightning bolt hit when I went to type that).
If I remember correctly, you can only use algebraic elimination in equality, not in comparison. That's why you don't get the correct answer here (>= is comparison).
They would need 138 votes. 137 is less than 2/3rds.
If the law required at least a two-thirds majority, you are right. 137 is less than two thirds of 206. Good point.
Rounding is not relevent here. They need 2/3 * 206 votes to pass. 137 is less than that value. 138 is more than that value.
137 votes fails to be more than 2/3 of 206. Why would rounding even be a topic for discussion?
Agreed. 2/3 of 206 is 206 * 2 / 3 which is 137.33333... No matter how you round this, up or down, you still need 137.
he didn't change anything
Not so sure about that. I'd bet most officers in Washington have been made aware of that fact now.
The guy had a lot to lose by giving out his name given the unfortunate fact that a simple police blog reference in enough to stir suspicion and cost him valuable customers. He didn't do anything wrong and we wasn't suspected of doing anything wrong.
It reminds me of the hundreds of arrests that were made of demonstrators outside a major political party convention during the 2000's. They hadn't done anything wrong but were arrested anyway. We, as a society, shouldn't let that happen and I applaud people who go through the inconvenience of getting arrested to stand for what our constitution guarantees.
Other than ARM, what options are there for ultra-low-power CPUs?
I used AMD processors exclusively from the mid 90's to a couple of years ago and never had any problem with them. I wasn't pushing the performance envelope but I think their reliability has been good.
I know this is comparing Apples to Oranges but ...
I've always found that AMD CPU's seemed to work better than the comparable Intel CPUs. My Girlfriend has a PC with an AMD Athlon 64 x2 5000+ and 2G of memory. It seems to be much quicker than my Laptop with a Core2 T5800. Of course, we're comparing a desktop to a laptop with different disk-drives and Vista compared to Windows 7, but it reflects what I've seen in the past.
I'd be curious what other people have experienced.
Java? It's really sluggish and non-elegant
Have you looked at Java in, say, the last 5 years? Java is very quick and responsive now.
For example:
import javax.swing.*;
import static javax.swing.JOptionPane.*;
The battle over BSD was fought along time ago when BSD removed a small remaining amount of ATT code to become complete independent of Unix. BSD, at least core BSD, should be pretty safe from lawsuits. And that's the reason companies like MS won't press their lawsuits against Linux, because they know it would be pretty easy for users to move to FreeBSD and that the mere threat of lawsuits is enough to discourage mass acceptance.
but they have no clue how to get efficiencies because they are so star struck by the crap MS has been dishing out to them for years.
It's not just states, but large corporations as well. These guys are convinced that can only create a spreadsheet in Excel and a document in Word.
Hence, if you're too lazy, don't have the knowledge or it isn't economically viable to get someone in that can secure and configure your computer system
At work our Windows PCs (about 10), which have up-to-date virus protection still get viruses and have to be reinstalled about once a year. What many people don't understand is that virus protection only protects against known viruses. By the time the signature is known for a new virus, it has already made it's rounds. And, in some cases, viruses which auto-mutate create a new signature which is unknown to any virus protection software.
Fortunately, most of our systems are Linux systems (about 50 boxes) with no virus protection which we've had in place since 2002 and we've never had a virus with them. IMHO, if you want virus protection don't use Windows.
That's why windows update runs on akamai linux servers. Does hotmail still run on freebsd?
Bill Gates isn't exactly known for creating reliable products. Shouldn't he kinda stay away from something like nuclear power?
Image a nuclear power station that only crashed and burned twice last month. Ouch.
But do you actually get 15MBits or is that the name of the product they are selling you. In Germany, the DSL providers sell you a 16mbit connection but you may only get 8mbit, depending on how far you live from the switch. Cable, which I have, seems to come pretty close to the 32mbits they are advertising.
Check out www.speedtest.net to see your actual speed.
IIS is not a real HTTP server although it has played one on TV.
Solar *is* nuclear power. The reactor is just rather... large.
That was good. Thanks!
I suppose, by that measure, so is wind energy since the sun is indirectly responsible for wind, and anything produced by photosynthisis (coal, oil, gas, wood). Damn, it's all solar.
According to the wikipedia article on IFR it was the energy department which stopped development of the prototype. I ddin't see anything about a bill signed by any politician which killed it (perhaps I missed it).
However, it does look promising except for the fact the liquid sodium, the coolant used in IFR ignites spontaneously in contact with air and explodes with contact with water. Otherwise, it looks like it essentially solves the waste issue, which is a huge plus.
and can't afford $700/year for a fine
700 a year starts looking pretty small if you need care and you don't have insurance.