Just in case, we should start development on a "detect-chipper-surfer" iptables module to install on the/. server to filter them out. Better safe than sorry.
As far as the matching capabilities of Perl 6, I think they're trying to do something that will advance the state-of-the-art in terms of programming langauge integration in the same way that Perl 5's regex did.
It's also one of the more functional feature sets already. Very useful if speed is not your priority.
For people that actually enjoy learning new things rather than endlessly traversing the March of Progress, following Perl6 development is very refreshing.
Though seriously, this was done in monkeys a long time ago, it's about fucking time it happens for humans.
Well, had they picked a more decent FA to link you might have noticed that this actually is a report of results from a year ago, and moreover a major point of this study was to investigate brain implants that last a long time. That neurotransciever had been in her head for five years. The news here is that it still worked (and the publication of the study, where they describe the various components.)
But yes, if I post I'm competing with a lot of big names and lots of posts for attention. That is why few people get +1s or comments on their posts. You have to really develop a following of dedicated readers.
Makes me wonder whether a site that demanded you rate/categorize N comments before you are allowed to comment would go anywhere. Seems like a ridiculous idea, but Twitter managed to become a success not in spite of severely limiting the size of posts, but quite arguably *because* people know all posts will be short and require little committment. However, people do crave attention, so they might be willing to put up with reading/rating other randomly selected posts/comments if it meant they were guaranteed some feedback.
Most of this work will end up in MIMO radios. It's not horribly applicable to wired networks, at least not with currently in-use technologies and routing protocols. (Almost all wired connections pass through a stateful firewall or two, and just even trying to load balance can cause issues with OOP processing.) Wired networks are more base theory fodder rather than serious proposals. (How these strategies and quantum optical cryptography might work together is interesting food for thought.)
There is not a single shred of evidence to prove there is not a creator. Not one. So why do we teach evolution as the only answer?
We don't. You made that up. We only teach that there is evidence for evolution, which could happen with or without any entity at the wheel. You should be glad of that, because if anyone ever does find proof of a creator, it will be someone who knew that you can't rely on the presence of complex life for that proof, and so looked elsewhere.
it can be kept in the phylosophy(sic) and debate classes
Small problem with that. There are no such classes in high school anymore.
I've never even taken a single philosophy class myself, or even read any of the required reading, but even I know that people who have died centuries ago would look at our forums full of shrill creationist/atheist flamewars, shake their head, and wonder how all the barbarians managed to travel into the future, and why only the mentally stunted ones made the trip.
(Really the most important thing an education can give you is a taxonomy/overview of existing knowlege and an appreciation for just how deep many problems have already been thought through. It disabuses you of the notion that the solution to all the world's problems springs fully formed from some blowhard's "gut feeling" or some mob's "common sense.")
One has to take care in this case to distinguish between the bio-retention of chemically pure compounds, and what happens in the real world, which is radioactive compounds embedded in small clumps with other material that makes them stick around, e.g. in the lungs. Especially if they get pulled through a cigarette or car engine on their way there.
Really they didn't implement IP-over-xylophone -- you cannot, because there is no provision in the IP standard for framing between packets. They implemented some as-yet-undisclosed link layer protocol, and then ran IP over it. They could just as easily have run DECNET. Since they gave no details of the link layer protocol, we don't know if it had checksum support.
My last Linux dev box was pulled from a dumpster by a friend, and was handed to me. I wiped the Windows XP installation off...
Yes it's a shame how people throw away things that other people might want, and then other people throw garbage on top of it. I've had to wipe egg salad off a few things I've salvaged, but Windows XP? Yeauchk! I hope you burned the towelettes afterwards.
A few of the participants seem to be from companies that also sell educational kits, while others are more academically focused. Seems like a good mix. It is good to have some level of "industry support." It seems to have been the case so far that many vibrant robotics communities have formed around particular product lines (e.g. Arduino), and this technical tribalism has served as a wall between groups that have much to offer one another. Having people from many of these companies in the same room along with those more inclined to develop generic APIs might help move things towards a more coordinated base platform.
Still, I think they should really see if they can tap someone heavy from the RTOS community. Most of the systems I've seen have been pretty heavy on statistical multiplexing in an environment where RT systems are pretty essential.
I expect if and when PoE charging hits the laptop market, this will be precisely what happens: the laptop battery will allow "high performance" mode while it can supply extra juice. When it is exhausted it will revert to power saving settings (slow down the CPU clock etc.) Under light use or when idle, the battery recharges.
BTW, if you can get a device that's in the ~30W range you are not that far off from being able to run it entirely off the second generation PoE+ (dot11at-2009) which can supply 25.5W.
But I would probably choose a por cable and wireless Internet before I chose poe but now power cable. Common sense.
It's common sense to put up with competing with other clients on a shared half-duplex medium when you need to plug in anyway and there's a nice switched copper port available? Huh. Common sense seems to have gotten dumber.
If I favor the Reps (I don't), and vote Libertarian because they're closer to what I really want, then the Reps lose a vote.
To be pedantic, a vote for a futile third party (in a swing district) is a *half* vote against the major party to which you would have otherwise voted.
Because if it was a true two-way race, every vote *for* the party you are furthest from is also a lost vote *for* the party you are closest to... i.e. if a 50-50 split senate persuades one senator to change side, the vote difference is 51-49 = 2.
To some extent, yes. On the other hand, our society is built upon specialization so not everyone can be expected to invest in literacy in all fields. Really where the failure occurs which allows irrational fear of "chemicals" to evolve is in the large number of cases where an actually harmful chemical does real damage, and said damage is denied and covered up by institutions which the public feels powerless against. That poisons the well, and after that, is is open season for sensationalist media profiteers.
I find it hard to call a group of conspiracy theorists and/or worry warts "sheep" by the way, because the true sheep are the people that rely on arguments to authority to dismiss any disturbing information. Modern society is more like a bunch of confused squirrels.
In short, we will likely see better queuing methods integrated with future routers
Not holding my breath, given the age and demonstrated effectiveness of SFQ variants and their non-presence in modern routing platforms.
What TFA left me wondering was whether their algorithm will prove resilient to being combined with prioritization and connection-based/host-based/service-based fairness strategies and various ECN mechanisms.
It's not that it is hard, or particularly expensive, it is that it is a barrier to casual perusal. Said casual perusal is important, because a bored network admin who just happens to read the standard (which is way beyond his job requirements to do) might actually avoid mis-applying the technology in some obscure way that, while it works just fine for now, eventually causes grief down the road. Moreover, even though these standards are vetted pretty well, it is often the case that they still have a hole in them here or there that only a practicing in-the-trenches professional would spot.
Me I just wanted to see if they formalized any DH-exchange-based alternative to the weak 4-way handshake, or maybe formalized a way to close the hole-196 attack vector by specifying a per-host GTK mode for networks where multicast just doesn't make sense anyway (which is the case for most enterprise BYOD WLANs, which are precisely the ones most affected by hole-196.)
It's worth maybe an hour of my spare time. It isn't worth $5 of my money on top of that at this point. While I do think people who arrange and work hard on standards should get paid for their efforts, this is not the right bridge at which to collect that toll... all it does is annoy and discourage technical journalists and volunteer open source developers.
A properly developed standard would set limits on what the wifi network could do, and thus allow the host OS to dispense with the "join this network" prompts.
Actually both not bad suggestions if the goal is just to have fun with brain teasers.
If you want both brain teasers and something that can actually be useful for doing hobby-related things (i.e. performance is not a consideration) then Perl 6 is very fun to mess around with these days. That would strike me as more satisfying to someone who's been around the block already.
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Just in case, we should start development on a "detect-chipper-surfer" iptables module to install on the /. server to filter them out. Better safe than sorry.
As far as the matching capabilities of Perl 6, I think they're trying to do something that will advance the state-of-the-art in terms of programming langauge integration in the same way that Perl 5's regex did.
It's also one of the more functional feature sets already. Very useful if speed is not your priority.
For people that actually enjoy learning new things rather than endlessly traversing the March of Progress, following Perl6 development is very refreshing.
In other words, Python is just like Perl, only it is readable and makes sense.
Funny, I found the perl easier to read.
Betelgeuse could have gone supernova any minute now. It's farther out though at 640 ly.
FTFY. Speed of light and all.
Ah, Sports Geeks. Gotta love them. It takes a lot of talent to turn what is normally a social bridge into a social liability.
Though seriously, this was done in monkeys a long time ago, it's about fucking time it happens for humans.
Well, had they picked a more decent FA to link you might have noticed that this actually is a report of results from a year ago, and moreover a major point of this study was to investigate brain implants that last a long time. That neurotransciever had been in her head for five years. The news here is that it still worked (and the publication of the study, where they describe the various components.)
But yes, if I post I'm competing with a lot of big names and lots of posts for attention. That is why few people get +1s or comments on their posts. You have to really develop a following of dedicated readers.
Makes me wonder whether a site that demanded you rate/categorize N comments before you are allowed to comment would go anywhere. Seems like a ridiculous idea, but Twitter managed to become a success not in spite of severely limiting the size of posts, but quite arguably *because* people know all posts will be short and require little committment. However, people do crave attention, so they might be willing to put up with reading/rating other randomly selected posts/comments if it meant they were guaranteed some feedback.
I think everyone is overcomplicating this. Just blame the FreeMasons.
Most of this work will end up in MIMO radios. It's not horribly applicable to wired networks, at least not with currently in-use technologies and routing protocols. (Almost all wired connections pass through a stateful firewall or two, and just even trying to load balance can cause issues with OOP processing.) Wired networks are more base theory fodder rather than serious proposals. (How these strategies and quantum optical cryptography might work together is interesting food for thought.)
There is not a single shred of evidence to prove there is not a creator. Not one. So why do we teach evolution as the only answer?
We don't. You made that up. We only teach that there is evidence for evolution, which could happen with or without any entity at the wheel. You should be glad of that, because if anyone ever does find proof of a creator, it will be someone who knew that you can't rely on the presence of complex life for that proof, and so looked elsewhere.
it can be kept in the phylosophy(sic) and debate classes
Small problem with that. There are no such classes in high school anymore.
I've never even taken a single philosophy class myself, or even read any of the required reading, but even I know that people who have died centuries ago would look at our forums full of shrill creationist/atheist flamewars, shake their head, and wonder how all the barbarians managed to travel into the future, and why only the mentally stunted ones made the trip.
(Really the most important thing an education can give you is a taxonomy/overview of existing knowlege and an appreciation for just how deep many problems have already been thought through. It disabuses you of the notion that the solution to all the world's problems springs fully formed from some blowhard's "gut feeling" or some mob's "common sense.")
One has to take care in this case to distinguish between the bio-retention of chemically pure compounds, and what happens in the real world, which is radioactive compounds embedded in small clumps with other material that makes them stick around, e.g. in the lungs. Especially if they get pulled through a cigarette or car engine on their way there.
Especially this:
Imagine a computer that increases the size of buttons and text when you're tired, or a video game that slows down when you're stressed.
Do. Not. Want.
Really they didn't implement IP-over-xylophone -- you cannot, because there is no provision in the IP standard for framing between packets. They implemented some as-yet-undisclosed link layer protocol, and then ran IP over it. They could just as easily have run DECNET. Since they gave no details of the link layer protocol, we don't know if it had checksum support.
My last Linux dev box was pulled from a dumpster by a friend, and was handed to me. I wiped the Windows XP installation off...
Yes it's a shame how people throw away things that other people might want, and then other people throw garbage on top of it. I've had to wipe egg salad off a few things I've salvaged, but Windows XP? Yeauchk! I hope you burned the towelettes afterwards.
A few of the participants seem to be from companies that also sell educational kits, while others are more academically focused. Seems like a good mix. It is good to have some level of "industry support." It seems to have been the case so far that many vibrant robotics communities have formed around particular product lines (e.g. Arduino), and this technical tribalism has served as a wall between groups that have much to offer one another. Having people from many of these companies in the same room along with those more inclined to develop generic APIs might help move things towards a more coordinated base platform.
Still, I think they should really see if they can tap someone heavy from the RTOS community. Most of the systems I've seen have been pretty heavy on statistical multiplexing in an environment where RT systems are pretty essential.
I expect if and when PoE charging hits the laptop market, this will be precisely what happens: the laptop battery will allow "high performance" mode while it can supply extra juice. When it is exhausted it will revert to power saving settings (slow down the CPU clock etc.) Under light use or when idle, the battery recharges.
BTW, if you can get a device that's in the ~30W range you are not that far off from being able to run it entirely off the second generation PoE+ (dot11at-2009) which can supply 25.5W.
But I would probably choose a por cable and wireless Internet before I chose poe but now power cable. Common sense.
It's common sense to put up with competing with other clients on a shared half-duplex medium when you need to plug in anyway and there's a nice switched copper port available? Huh. Common sense seems to have gotten dumber.
If I favor the Reps (I don't), and vote Libertarian because they're closer to what I really want, then the Reps lose a vote.
To be pedantic, a vote for a futile third party (in a swing district) is a *half* vote against the major party to which you would have otherwise voted.
Because if it was a true two-way race, every vote *for* the party you are furthest from is also a lost vote *for* the party you are closest to... i.e. if a 50-50 split senate persuades one senator to change side, the vote difference is 51-49 = 2.
To some extent, yes. On the other hand, our society is built upon specialization so not everyone can be expected to invest in literacy in all fields. Really where the failure occurs which allows irrational fear of "chemicals" to evolve is in the large number of cases where an actually harmful chemical does real damage, and said damage is denied and covered up by institutions which the public feels powerless against. That poisons the well, and after that, is is open season for sensationalist media profiteers.
I find it hard to call a group of conspiracy theorists and/or worry warts "sheep" by the way, because the true sheep are the people that rely on arguments to authority to dismiss any disturbing information. Modern society is more like a bunch of confused squirrels.
In short, we will likely see better queuing methods integrated with future routers
Not holding my breath, given the age and demonstrated effectiveness of SFQ variants and their non-presence in modern routing platforms.
What TFA left me wondering was whether their algorithm will prove resilient to being combined with prioritization and connection-based/host-based/service-based fairness strategies and various ECN mechanisms.
I don't think the OP's primary concern was with exploits, but with the general ugliness of java.
It's not that it is hard, or particularly expensive, it is that it is a barrier to casual perusal. Said casual perusal is important, because a bored network admin who just happens to read the standard (which is way beyond his job requirements to do) might actually avoid mis-applying the technology in some obscure way that, while it works just fine for now, eventually causes grief down the road. Moreover, even though these standards are vetted pretty well, it is often the case that they still have a hole in them here or there that only a practicing in-the-trenches professional would spot.
Me I just wanted to see if they formalized any DH-exchange-based alternative to the weak 4-way handshake, or maybe formalized a way to close the hole-196 attack vector by specifying a per-host GTK mode for networks where multicast just doesn't make sense anyway (which is the case for most enterprise BYOD WLANs, which are precisely the ones most affected by hole-196.)
It's worth maybe an hour of my spare time. It isn't worth $5 of my money on top of that at this point. While I do think people who arrange and work hard on standards should get paid for their efforts, this is not the right bridge at which to collect that toll... all it does is annoy and discourage technical journalists and volunteer open source developers.
A properly developed standard would set limits on what the wifi network could do, and thus allow the host OS to dispense with the "join this network" prompts.
Actually both not bad suggestions if the goal is just to have fun with brain teasers.
If you want both brain teasers and something that can actually be useful for doing hobby-related things (i.e. performance is not a consideration) then Perl 6 is very fun to mess around with these days. That would strike me as more satisfying to someone who's been around the block already.