It also sucks at user security. But do you really want to be the intern who goes through every computer in your institution changing settings and making sure no one changes them?
Biden is saying that Article 1 defines the role of the vice president of the United States, and that that role is part of the Executive Branch. The VP gets to break ties in the Senate so that the Executive branch can check and balance the powers of Senate.
Keep in mind that Cheney is pushing the idea that the Vice President is NOT a part of the Executive (while the President is) only so he can avoid federal disclosure laws. Cheney wants to advance the power of the unitary executive by co-opting in part the power of the legislative branch of government. It's pretty scary stuff.
I second this. I rarely reboot my work computer because it takes so long to restart. I think they run a virtual desktop off a main server and that takes forever to load through a 100mbs link, especially when everyone is starting up as well. Then you have to fire up Outlook, which is crucial because there's a file management plugin that's the only way to access those documents. The combined startup of those two POS (pieces of software) takes twenty minutes. When you shut down the system, it takes ten minutes while it copies all the e-mail you sent and received for the day to a local cache or something. It's pathetic.
Alaskans know what they are doing. Ted Stevens brought home the pork. The bridge to nowhere was his doing. I mean, Alaska gets $1.68 from the federal government for each dollar they pay to the federal government, and that's because of Stevens. For all the bluster about Alaskans being small-town survivors, the truth of the matter is that they are one of the premier welfare states in this country. Not only are they dependent on massive federal handouts, each Alaskan gets $3,200 a year from the sale of oil.
The show actually used the term "trigger fish" when referring to the devices. Apparently, they were sitting in a storage room somewhere, a part of a federal grant that none of the other police officers had the sophistication to use. The Baltimore PD wanted to borrow a trigger fish from the FBI when the FBI agent said, you have one! We gave it to you.
McNulty and Co. used "trigger fish" to collect info after the Barksdales moved to disposable cell phones. The devices would collect info without the use of pen registers and obviated the need for a lot of paperwork such as search warrants.
But this is like going through the trash. It's clearly an end-run against privacy laws, but I don't see where the deviousness is. If you carry a cellphone around that emits radio waves, you probably don't have a great expectation of privacy if you leave it on all the time. And it's not like the triggerfish are recording the conversation.
But doesn't that make a lot of sense? Joe Sixpack sees the Mozilla logo and associates it with Mozilla Firefox. If anyone could fork the code or even write his own browser and stick the Mozilla logo onto it, then no one would use Firefox, would they?
Yeah. My favorite spy-story of all time has to be CryptoAG and the NSA. CryptoAG is a Swiss company that manufactures secure communication products, and has been doing so since World War II. Suspicious characters use their services. But it was compromised from the start by the US Government. The story goes that the head of the NSA back in the fifties visits CryptoAG and says something like, "The US Government spends MILLIONS on secure communication software every year. How would you like to earn some of that business? And in a completely unrelated topic, it would sure be nice if we had some way to listen in on what those Communists are yammering on about so we could prevent them from taking over the world, wouldn't it?"
Yeah. CryptoAG products, trusted by dictators, business, and terrorists alike, was compromised for over three decades until the Iranian intelligence agency figured out someone was listening to their conversations and busted CryptoAG.
One day, I was window shopping Dell's web site for a Mini 9 (Inspiron 910), setting up a tricked-out system. I saw that there was a $250 off coupon that was applied to that system. I immediately bought the system, stopping only to make sure that I put in all the features. I expected the order to be canceled because the coupon was for a Studio laptop and this was a Inspiron netbook. Well, the order got canceled, but because the Dell Preferred Account had issues. I called and placed the order again using my Amex over the phone, and the guy was perfectly content to sell me the system for less than half price. The system just shipped yesterday (on Sunday?!) and should be here by this Thursday.
The OP is a graduate student in a field that isn't physics and says he never took physics anywhere. He's overestimating his abilities when he says he doesn't want to start with an undergraduate textbook because that's exactly where he should start. Unless he's cramming for an exam, he should take the time to start with college physics books and move up as he understands the material. PDE is difficult, but the basic physical concepts they represent are relatively simple to understand.
Convenience is the name of the game for the Kindle. Always having the newest magazines and newspapers available at the tip of your fingers is an amazing feature for commuters. Instead of bringing a book, Newsweek, and the New York Times, you can bring your Kindle. Did you read a favorable book review? Well, download the book! Instant gratification. I also read two or three books at a time. One tends to be intellectual and the others are pop trash. Instead of choosing which books to take, I can just bring them all with me on the Kindle and read whatever I want on the five hour long train ride from New York to Boston.
Intel or amd? microsoft or ??? i am happy i chose not to invest in financial companies because now i'm not suffering at all from their excesses! i love capitalism because i can choose not to participate or be affected by it!!!!
Well. Pretend that a new iPod costs $149 retail. Pretend that the price-fixing cost Apple an extra $1 to manufacture each iPod. Pretend that the price-fixing stops and Apple saves a buck. How much do you think the iPod will cost now?
Right. Still $149. Not all costs are passed on to the customer because of overhead and market cachet.
The aspirin thing is retarded. If aspirin were created today, it would cost $5 a pill and make billions for Bayer. Then a plaintiff's lawyer would sue Bayer for billion bucks after Reye's syndrome kills some flu-ridden kids who took aspirin, and then Bayer would be rocked with a scandal when the blood-thinning properties of aspirin causes deaths in the elderly who got ulcers using aspirin.
You're mistaking cause and effect. MAD doesn't work well with only one side, whether that nuclear-armed side is American or Russian. Once America let the nuclear genie out of the lamp, both sides had to keep up the arms race. If America didn't put nuclear weapons all over the place, Russia would have great incentive to do so and take the upper hand. But the arms race got so expensive Russia gave up its dreams of conquest and tried to hold what it could. But even so, it took until the 80's for the Soviet Union to fall apart.
Well, what you mean is "don't be stupid" and "be a fiscally responsible person."
Never consolidate? Well, I consolidated my student loans to 3.125%, fixed. Next year, it will go down to 2.125% if I pay on time. That's looking like a brilliant move at this point!
Sometimes a name school is worth its weight in gold. In law, at least, you are more likely to get a high-paying job (starting at $160K + bonus right out of school) if you are in a top school. I'm pretty sure that law is the only profession like this because doctors tend to do okay no matter what school they come from and engineers from UMich do pretty well. I agree that name schools are useful only in very specific instances.
But I cosign on your point regarding fiscal discipline and planning. A college expense is not a right or even a privilege actually. It's a very expensive product that might help you make more money in the future. I got into a fight on Halloween because some friend of a friend was asking about law school and I said he should go to the top program he gets into, and if he can't get into a top 20 school, he should reconsider being a lawyer. He got very angry, and I said, "Well, law schools are expensive. If you get $200K in student loans at 8% interest, that's over $1,300 a MONTH just in student loan interest, which you can't deduct if you make more than $100K a year. So you have to take that into consideration." The guy got very pissy and wouldn't stop yelling at me about how his cousin graduated from a bad program, and how she made $80K, and how that's a lot of money. He wouldn't stop even after I attempted to end the conversation so we got into a fight. I hope he goes to a shitty law school, gets $200K into debt, and is unable to find a job paying more than $50K after he graduates.
To be fair, Halliburton didn't say their proposed system would only cover the prior art. The claimed invention would find something that is practiced by another company as trade secret, then use that as a PART of a new, patented invention that is needed to actually use the invention. Basically, it is preemptively embracing and EXTENDING the other party's trade secret technology so it is theoretically novel and useful enough to get patented but would also cover so much of the trade secret that it has to be infringed. (Inherent infringement doctrine notwithstanding.)
My coworkers and I get our Blackberries through the firm, and you'd be surprised how many old-model Blackberries get dropped once the new models become available. "Only the partners have the new ones?" "Yeah. We're relying on attrition to wear down the associates' Blackberries." Next day. "I need a new Blackberry. I dropped mine."
There are lawyers taking on the entire military tribunal process down there in Gitmo. Oh, and these guys are defending people who probably killed American soldiers. Oh, and they're career military officers who probably flushed his career down the tubes to make an unpopular stand.
There are good guys everywhere if you only wanted to look.
Obama already called out black fathers for not being around to raise their families. In fact, the press called it Obama's Cosby speech.
I agree with you. The people who voted for and against Obama should be deported. The people who voted for McCain because they just don't trust Obama for some reason they can't explain should be deported as well.
Barack Obama ran on a ticket of raising taxes while his opponent ran on a ticket of cutting taxes. Obama still won in a dominating fashion. I'm sure he'll have some leeway because everyone understands that the last eight years have really put the United States behind the eight ball. As long as he's seen as doing a competent job of undoing the fuckups of the last eight years, he'll do fine.
Expect the same for the Slashdot community members who were so eager to get him elected. When they find out what they really bought, I don't expect them to admit they were wrong. I expect them to somehow blame Republicans anyway, or simply deny that anything is wrong to begin with.
You mean like the Republicans who claimed that 9/11 was actually Clinton's fault despite happening nine months into W's term, or the Republicans who claimed that the Clinton era economy was due to Bush, Sr., or the Republicans who blamed the failure to succeed in Iraq on the liberal mainstream media?
I'm curious how the USB key came to be made without any strong encryption on it. (I assume the key itself was encrypted; otherwise, there wouldn't be such a big scandal over it.)
I encrypted my USB key drive with TrueCrypt 6.0a. I use Windows XP at work and at home so it's not a really big deal. (Although I had to be slightly deceitful with IT at work to get TrueCrypt installed.) The password I use for the key drive is a strong password that I only use for the key drive; it's never sent online so the risk of it being sniffed that way is difficult.
I use Keepass 1.14 Portable to generate strong passwords and keep track of them. I run the Keepass and Firefox 3.0.3 off of my key drive using Portable Apps, and Firefox clears all my private data when it's closed. My Keepass password is again used only offline and is different from the TrueCrypt password. The only annoyance here is some banking websites doesn't recognize my computer because the cookies are cleared so I have to have them send a text message to my Blackberry to access the account. I don't access that account often so it's no big deal.
Keepass also generates a keyfile that I only keep on three secured systems: my home computer, my work computer, and the key drive itself; all three are encrypted. (My job uses PointSec and not TrueCrypt; IT knows it job pretty well, though, so I'm sure it's pretty well done. They kind of let me go by letting me violate IT policy by installing TrueCrypt and Firefox on my computer when I told them I wasn't planning on encrypting the hard drive. Firm data is stored on a network database I can't muck with, so I'm sure it's not trust on their part.) My backups are encrypted using AES and a strong password generated by and stored on Keepass. To access the password repository, you need the password database (AES 256-key, 6000 rounds) and the Keepass keyfile. Basically, the keyfile becomes the "something you need to have" while the TrueCrypt and Keepass master passwords become "the things you need to know."
The whole set up sounds complicated but it practice is actually is quite simple. When I need to access confidential information, I plug in my key drive, log in to TrueCrypt, and then boot Keepass and Firefox, and access the data. The whole thing takes less than three minutes. When I'm done, I disconnect the key drive and it's done. I'm surprised I seem to pay more attention to vital info more than a computer hired to do security for the UK government.
The Federal Circuit may be going after mental process patents where at least one step is performed in the mind of the practicer. An example of such a case would be Metabolite, where a doctor infringed a patent by looking at blood test results and concluding the patient was at risk for heart problem.
The abstract nature of machine has been tried earlier. Some patentee as arguing that his patent required the alteration of electrical signals and that THIS was a physical transformation. The Federal Circuit went into some aside about how there already was a carrier signal, etc., and said it wasn't patentable. Of course, at some level, information has to take a physical form of some sort so the whole thing is kind of ridiculous if you get metaphysical about it.
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It also sucks at user security. But do you really want to be the intern who goes through every computer in your institution changing settings and making sure no one changes them?
Thought not.
Biden is saying that Article 1 defines the role of the vice president of the United States, and that that role is part of the Executive Branch. The VP gets to break ties in the Senate so that the Executive branch can check and balance the powers of Senate.
Keep in mind that Cheney is pushing the idea that the Vice President is NOT a part of the Executive (while the President is) only so he can avoid federal disclosure laws. Cheney wants to advance the power of the unitary executive by co-opting in part the power of the legislative branch of government. It's pretty scary stuff.
I second this. I rarely reboot my work computer because it takes so long to restart. I think they run a virtual desktop off a main server and that takes forever to load through a 100mbs link, especially when everyone is starting up as well. Then you have to fire up Outlook, which is crucial because there's a file management plugin that's the only way to access those documents. The combined startup of those two POS (pieces of software) takes twenty minutes. When you shut down the system, it takes ten minutes while it copies all the e-mail you sent and received for the day to a local cache or something. It's pathetic.
Alaskans know what they are doing. Ted Stevens brought home the pork. The bridge to nowhere was his doing. I mean, Alaska gets $1.68 from the federal government for each dollar they pay to the federal government, and that's because of Stevens. For all the bluster about Alaskans being small-town survivors, the truth of the matter is that they are one of the premier welfare states in this country. Not only are they dependent on massive federal handouts, each Alaskan gets $3,200 a year from the sale of oil.
You have just discovered jailhouse snitches.
The show actually used the term "trigger fish" when referring to the devices. Apparently, they were sitting in a storage room somewhere, a part of a federal grant that none of the other police officers had the sophistication to use. The Baltimore PD wanted to borrow a trigger fish from the FBI when the FBI agent said, you have one! We gave it to you.
McNulty and Co. used "trigger fish" to collect info after the Barksdales moved to disposable cell phones. The devices would collect info without the use of pen registers and obviated the need for a lot of paperwork such as search warrants.
But this is like going through the trash. It's clearly an end-run against privacy laws, but I don't see where the deviousness is. If you carry a cellphone around that emits radio waves, you probably don't have a great expectation of privacy if you leave it on all the time. And it's not like the triggerfish are recording the conversation.
But doesn't that make a lot of sense? Joe Sixpack sees the Mozilla logo and associates it with Mozilla Firefox. If anyone could fork the code or even write his own browser and stick the Mozilla logo onto it, then no one would use Firefox, would they?
Yeah. My favorite spy-story of all time has to be CryptoAG and the NSA. CryptoAG is a Swiss company that manufactures secure communication products, and has been doing so since World War II. Suspicious characters use their services. But it was compromised from the start by the US Government. The story goes that the head of the NSA back in the fifties visits CryptoAG and says something like, "The US Government spends MILLIONS on secure communication software every year. How would you like to earn some of that business? And in a completely unrelated topic, it would sure be nice if we had some way to listen in on what those Communists are yammering on about so we could prevent them from taking over the world, wouldn't it?"
Yeah. CryptoAG products, trusted by dictators, business, and terrorists alike, was compromised for over three decades until the Iranian intelligence agency figured out someone was listening to their conversations and busted CryptoAG.
One day, I was window shopping Dell's web site for a Mini 9 (Inspiron 910), setting up a tricked-out system. I saw that there was a $250 off coupon that was applied to that system. I immediately bought the system, stopping only to make sure that I put in all the features. I expected the order to be canceled because the coupon was for a Studio laptop and this was a Inspiron netbook. Well, the order got canceled, but because the Dell Preferred Account had issues. I called and placed the order again using my Amex over the phone, and the guy was perfectly content to sell me the system for less than half price. The system just shipped yesterday (on Sunday?!) and should be here by this Thursday.
Was this a mistake, or a "mistake"?
The OP is a graduate student in a field that isn't physics and says he never took physics anywhere. He's overestimating his abilities when he says he doesn't want to start with an undergraduate textbook because that's exactly where he should start. Unless he's cramming for an exam, he should take the time to start with college physics books and move up as he understands the material. PDE is difficult, but the basic physical concepts they represent are relatively simple to understand.
Convenience is the name of the game for the Kindle. Always having the newest magazines and newspapers available at the tip of your fingers is an amazing feature for commuters. Instead of bringing a book, Newsweek, and the New York Times, you can bring your Kindle. Did you read a favorable book review? Well, download the book! Instant gratification. I also read two or three books at a time. One tends to be intellectual and the others are pop trash. Instead of choosing which books to take, I can just bring them all with me on the Kindle and read whatever I want on the five hour long train ride from New York to Boston.
Intel or amd? microsoft or ??? i am happy i chose not to invest in financial companies because now i'm not suffering at all from their excesses! i love capitalism because i can choose not to participate or be affected by it!!!!
Well. Pretend that a new iPod costs $149 retail. Pretend that the price-fixing cost Apple an extra $1 to manufacture each iPod. Pretend that the price-fixing stops and Apple saves a buck. How much do you think the iPod will cost now?
Right. Still $149. Not all costs are passed on to the customer because of overhead and market cachet.
The aspirin thing is retarded. If aspirin were created today, it would cost $5 a pill and make billions for Bayer. Then a plaintiff's lawyer would sue Bayer for billion bucks after Reye's syndrome kills some flu-ridden kids who took aspirin, and then Bayer would be rocked with a scandal when the blood-thinning properties of aspirin causes deaths in the elderly who got ulcers using aspirin.
You're mistaking cause and effect. MAD doesn't work well with only one side, whether that nuclear-armed side is American or Russian. Once America let the nuclear genie out of the lamp, both sides had to keep up the arms race. If America didn't put nuclear weapons all over the place, Russia would have great incentive to do so and take the upper hand. But the arms race got so expensive Russia gave up its dreams of conquest and tried to hold what it could. But even so, it took until the 80's for the Soviet Union to fall apart.
Well, what you mean is "don't be stupid" and "be a fiscally responsible person."
Never consolidate? Well, I consolidated my student loans to 3.125%, fixed. Next year, it will go down to 2.125% if I pay on time. That's looking like a brilliant move at this point!
Sometimes a name school is worth its weight in gold. In law, at least, you are more likely to get a high-paying job (starting at $160K + bonus right out of school) if you are in a top school. I'm pretty sure that law is the only profession like this because doctors tend to do okay no matter what school they come from and engineers from UMich do pretty well. I agree that name schools are useful only in very specific instances.
But I cosign on your point regarding fiscal discipline and planning. A college expense is not a right or even a privilege actually. It's a very expensive product that might help you make more money in the future. I got into a fight on Halloween because some friend of a friend was asking about law school and I said he should go to the top program he gets into, and if he can't get into a top 20 school, he should reconsider being a lawyer. He got very angry, and I said, "Well, law schools are expensive. If you get $200K in student loans at 8% interest, that's over $1,300 a MONTH just in student loan interest, which you can't deduct if you make more than $100K a year. So you have to take that into consideration." The guy got very pissy and wouldn't stop yelling at me about how his cousin graduated from a bad program, and how she made $80K, and how that's a lot of money. He wouldn't stop even after I attempted to end the conversation so we got into a fight. I hope he goes to a shitty law school, gets $200K into debt, and is unable to find a job paying more than $50K after he graduates.
To be fair, Halliburton didn't say their proposed system would only cover the prior art. The claimed invention would find something that is practiced by another company as trade secret, then use that as a PART of a new, patented invention that is needed to actually use the invention. Basically, it is preemptively embracing and EXTENDING the other party's trade secret technology so it is theoretically novel and useful enough to get patented but would also cover so much of the trade secret that it has to be infringed. (Inherent infringement doctrine notwithstanding.)
My coworkers and I get our Blackberries through the firm, and you'd be surprised how many old-model Blackberries get dropped once the new models become available. "Only the partners have the new ones?" "Yeah. We're relying on attrition to wear down the associates' Blackberries." Next day. "I need a new Blackberry. I dropped mine."
There are lawyers taking on the entire military tribunal process down there in Gitmo. Oh, and these guys are defending people who probably killed American soldiers. Oh, and they're career military officers who probably flushed his career down the tubes to make an unpopular stand.
There are good guys everywhere if you only wanted to look.
Obama already called out black fathers for not being around to raise their families. In fact, the press called it Obama's Cosby speech.
I agree with you. The people who voted for and against Obama should be deported. The people who voted for McCain because they just don't trust Obama for some reason they can't explain should be deported as well.
Barack Obama ran on a ticket of raising taxes while his opponent ran on a ticket of cutting taxes. Obama still won in a dominating fashion. I'm sure he'll have some leeway because everyone understands that the last eight years have really put the United States behind the eight ball. As long as he's seen as doing a competent job of undoing the fuckups of the last eight years, he'll do fine.
You mean like the Republicans who claimed that 9/11 was actually Clinton's fault despite happening nine months into W's term, or the Republicans who claimed that the Clinton era economy was due to Bush, Sr., or the Republicans who blamed the failure to succeed in Iraq on the liberal mainstream media?
I'm curious how the USB key came to be made without any strong encryption on it. (I assume the key itself was encrypted; otherwise, there wouldn't be such a big scandal over it.)
I encrypted my USB key drive with TrueCrypt 6.0a. I use Windows XP at work and at home so it's not a really big deal. (Although I had to be slightly deceitful with IT at work to get TrueCrypt installed.) The password I use for the key drive is a strong password that I only use for the key drive; it's never sent online so the risk of it being sniffed that way is difficult.
I use Keepass 1.14 Portable to generate strong passwords and keep track of them. I run the Keepass and Firefox 3.0.3 off of my key drive using Portable Apps, and Firefox clears all my private data when it's closed. My Keepass password is again used only offline and is different from the TrueCrypt password. The only annoyance here is some banking websites doesn't recognize my computer because the cookies are cleared so I have to have them send a text message to my Blackberry to access the account. I don't access that account often so it's no big deal.
Keepass also generates a keyfile that I only keep on three secured systems: my home computer, my work computer, and the key drive itself; all three are encrypted. (My job uses PointSec and not TrueCrypt; IT knows it job pretty well, though, so I'm sure it's pretty well done. They kind of let me go by letting me violate IT policy by installing TrueCrypt and Firefox on my computer when I told them I wasn't planning on encrypting the hard drive. Firm data is stored on a network database I can't muck with, so I'm sure it's not trust on their part.) My backups are encrypted using AES and a strong password generated by and stored on Keepass. To access the password repository, you need the password database (AES 256-key, 6000 rounds) and the Keepass keyfile. Basically, the keyfile becomes the "something you need to have" while the TrueCrypt and Keepass master passwords become "the things you need to know."
The whole set up sounds complicated but it practice is actually is quite simple. When I need to access confidential information, I plug in my key drive, log in to TrueCrypt, and then boot Keepass and Firefox, and access the data. The whole thing takes less than three minutes. When I'm done, I disconnect the key drive and it's done. I'm surprised I seem to pay more attention to vital info more than a computer hired to do security for the UK government.
The Federal Circuit may be going after mental process patents where at least one step is performed in the mind of the practicer. An example of such a case would be Metabolite, where a doctor infringed a patent by looking at blood test results and concluding the patient was at risk for heart problem.
The abstract nature of machine has been tried earlier. Some patentee as arguing that his patent required the alteration of electrical signals and that THIS was a physical transformation. The Federal Circuit went into some aside about how there already was a carrier signal, etc., and said it wasn't patentable. Of course, at some level, information has to take a physical form of some sort so the whole thing is kind of ridiculous if you get metaphysical about it.