I'd add in a short novel from the Culture universe, there's a few around. If you want a full length book, a good one for a geek is Excession. Or if you really hate your students, Feersum Endjinn (I am kidding, love them both).
Now however they know your personal details, and your opinion. No need to get your facebook account info, they already have all the info they were after:)
But the plane that landed in the Hudson was an Airbus A320, something that people seem to keep on ignoring. Not only a fly by wire design, but also the first (and only?) commercial plane controlled with a sidestick instead of the classic control column ( http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&safe=on&q=airbus+a320+cockpit ). So, if the computer was fighting the pilot (which is not true) how did the pilot manage to land the plane?
Ibuprofen is not an analgesic. It isn't a hallucinogenic, and isn't known to give dependency. It's a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (much like aspirine or paracetamol), it acts on migraine by reducing the inflammation of the brain membranes, not by dulling the pain. It is also useful wherever inflammation and swelling might occur, (toothache, back pain, menstrual pain). Chocolate, by comparison, is a much stronger drug, containing alkaloids that are known to give both psychological and physical dependence (mainly theobromine). searching for ibuprofen as if it were a drug is akin to searching for large doses of aspirin. I can but hope that this backfires badly for the school involved, but I have long lost my faith in common sense.
is to get the software adopted in the first place. what might seem like a positive point, the low price of the application, can turn out to be an obstacle. Assume a physiological amount of bribery to exist in every country, a low sales margin means less to go out to whomever orders the software as well as to the sales guy sealing the deal. And bribery doesn't need to be in the form of a monetary exchange either, can be something as simple as finding a job for a friend or some other favour, that won't result in any accounting mishap and won't be easy to find. Low profit margin or power of exchange make the operation too dangerous, and intrinsically favour expensive solutions.
That for me means somewhere in the 250-255 milliseconds range, which is still a quarter of a second. That doesn't seem particularly fast to me. Not fast enough for driving or catching falling objects, for example. True cyborg implants are still some way away in the future.
just needs to get a hold of their list to access all these "morally dangerous" sites? I presume they also added a few strategically placed honey pots to their blocked site lists, but then again maybe they haven't. Personally I am against censorships, because even in the best of cases they detract from the user the right to judge for himself, and in the worst they only create a false sense of security. I wonder if this made their list as well (be warned, explicit nudity) http://www.mondomostre.it/images/caravaggio/cat_caravaggio_03.jpg
See how many failures you can expect every year, multiply it by the average cost for each intervention on a support contract. If it comes out too low then it's time to change all administrative passwords!
Actually, i still have an old PC with a Pentium II MMX and Windows 95 on it, and it's the 2nd fastest booting PC I got, after my Athlon 64 with Ubuntu. On the other hand I think that any flavor of Linux is more likely to have up-to-date drivers, especially for a tablet PC, than Win95
If a computer could explain it as well as you do, or couldn't explain the things you can't, apart from whether this means the computer is aware or not, does it really matter? If you see something that is so indistinguishable from a human that nobody could tell, does it matter whether it's a real human being or an emulation of one? Your best bet would be to treat it as a human, he could well be.
Hmm, they are still made by Diebold-Procomp, don't have a paper trail, the voting software is closed source and Linux was chosen as a cost saving measure when compared to WindowsCE... Somehow doesn't give me much trust in their accuracy. The simple fact that the software used isn't publicly auditable makes me distrust this sort of things.
Perhaps they ought to check their ft/mt conversion
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From the article: "Mammoth Lakes is about 10,000 feet, or 30,400 meters, above sea level..."
And here I tought that the tallest mountain in the world was just a smidgen over 8000 meters. I wonder how the hiker managed without an oxygen mask. Or even better, a full spacesuit.
A licence agreement can't override specific freedoms allowed by law, period. It's not the seller's right to define what the freedoms of the users are, the lawmakers are the only body that can restrict these freedoms in a law based state.
The DMCA provides specific exceptions that allow reverse engineering for the purpose of obtaining interoperability with a different software or system: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/DVD/1201.html (paragraph f). Even if an EULA is enforceable, it cannot restrict an user's rights more than what is expressly allowed by law. I could ask in an EULA that an user is not allowed to install a competing software on his machine while my software is installed, but any court would find such a provision moot, since it would clearly fall afoul of several antitrust laws, for example.
Oh, and don't forget the new testaament:
http://bible.cc/matthew/23-27.htm
"How terrible it will be for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs that look beautiful on the outside but inside are full of dead people's bones and every kind of impurity."
But where do you go to get some lithium in the first place? Most people don't seem to realize that several of these nasty materials occur naturally in parts of the world, like asbestos rich rock formations, radioactive radon filled volcanic rocks and even naturally radioactive uranium minerals. If anything enrichened radioactive materials have a lower half-life than their milder naturally occurring raw minerals. It's not like all this material was brought into existence through a conjuring trick.
So, if the response to the challenge is unpredictable, how does the challenger know he's got the proper response? One-time pads are nothing new, and yet they don't offer absolute security
Every time I read about this sort of claims on this sort of products I am reminded of that genius that was Douglas Adams:
"The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, in a moment of reasoned lucidity which is almost unique among its current tally of five million, nine hundred and seventy-five thousand, five hundred and nine pages, says of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation product that "it is very easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of them by the sense of achievement you get from getting them to work at all"."
And, if you'll excuse me if this isn't taken verbatim, as I don't have the books handy:
After the great commotion caused by the air conditioning and phone exchange protests, the Sirius cybernetics corporation was condemned to apply to every one of their appliances a note stating that, if a product can't possibly fail, when it eventually does it will prove almost impossible to fix. And naturally had to modify the Guide headquarters windows so that they could be opened.
You could use one of the various mp3/divx players that have their own display and use an hard drive. They usually can play back picture slide-shows as well, and a magnetic media inside a steel box should be pretty safe. Several also have a video out to connect them to a television.
You could remove the battery for safety (I doubt that the current batteries would survive the storage, and might deteriorate badly) and include a wall plug adapter with instructions for connecting to available power sources. There's even regulated adapters that will work both from AC and 12V DC, so the power supply should be pretty future proof.
You need at the very least a way to establish an encrypted 2 way connection. If the tag only transmits an unique sequence it would be easy for a 3rd party to eavesdrop it and copy it verbatim, without even the need to know what the actual data is about
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I'd add in a short novel from the Culture universe, there's a few around. If you want a full length book, a good one for a geek is Excession. Or if you really hate your students, Feersum Endjinn (I am kidding, love them both).
Now however they know your personal details, and your opinion. No need to get your facebook account info, they already have all the info they were after :)
But the plane that landed in the Hudson was an Airbus A320, something that people seem to keep on ignoring. Not only a fly by wire design, but also the first (and only?) commercial plane controlled with a sidestick instead of the classic control column ( http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&safe=on&q=airbus+a320+cockpit ). So, if the computer was fighting the pilot (which is not true) how did the pilot manage to land the plane?
Ibuprofen is not an analgesic. It isn't a hallucinogenic, and isn't known to give dependency. It's a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (much like aspirine or paracetamol), it acts on migraine by reducing the inflammation of the brain membranes, not by dulling the pain. It is also useful wherever inflammation and swelling might occur, (toothache, back pain, menstrual pain). Chocolate, by comparison, is a much stronger drug, containing alkaloids that are known to give both psychological and physical dependence (mainly theobromine). searching for ibuprofen as if it were a drug is akin to searching for large doses of aspirin. I can but hope that this backfires badly for the school involved, but I have long lost my faith in common sense.
is to get the software adopted in the first place. what might seem like a positive point, the low price of the application, can turn out to be an obstacle. Assume a physiological amount of bribery to exist in every country, a low sales margin means less to go out to whomever orders the software as well as to the sales guy sealing the deal. And bribery doesn't need to be in the form of a monetary exchange either, can be something as simple as finding a job for a friend or some other favour, that won't result in any accounting mishap and won't be easy to find. Low profit margin or power of exchange make the operation too dangerous, and intrinsically favour expensive solutions.
What? No SCO?
Was this the place they dared to photograph? http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=jamnagar+air+base&sll=22.182696,69.758506&sspn=0.010253,0.016565&ie=UTF8&ll=22.465133,70.002737&spn=0.019512,0.033131&t=h&z=15 It's nice how someone took the time to label the weapons storage bunkers. And those hangars would really blend into the background, wasn't it for the enormous concrete taxiways leading in and out of each one of them.
That for me means somewhere in the 250-255 milliseconds range, which is still a quarter of a second. That doesn't seem particularly fast to me. Not fast enough for driving or catching falling objects, for example. True cyborg implants are still some way away in the future.
just needs to get a hold of their list to access all these "morally dangerous" sites? I presume they also added a few strategically placed honey pots to their blocked site lists, but then again maybe they haven't. Personally I am against censorships, because even in the best of cases they detract from the user the right to judge for himself, and in the worst they only create a false sense of security. I wonder if this made their list as well (be warned, explicit nudity) http://www.mondomostre.it/images/caravaggio/cat_caravaggio_03.jpg
Hem the DMCA itself explicitly allows reverse engineering in order to allow interoperability. http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/DVD/1201.html , paragraph f)
See how many failures you can expect every year, multiply it by the average cost for each intervention on a support contract. If it comes out too low then it's time to change all administrative passwords!
Actually, i still have an old PC with a Pentium II MMX and Windows 95 on it, and it's the 2nd fastest booting PC I got, after my Athlon 64 with Ubuntu. On the other hand I think that any flavor of Linux is more likely to have up-to-date drivers, especially for a tablet PC, than Win95
Well, I know it, but you won't like it
If a computer could explain it as well as you do, or couldn't explain the things you can't, apart from whether this means the computer is aware or not, does it really matter? If you see something that is so indistinguishable from a human that nobody could tell, does it matter whether it's a real human being or an emulation of one? Your best bet would be to treat it as a human, he could well be.
Hmm, they are still made by Diebold-Procomp, don't have a paper trail, the voting software is closed source and Linux was chosen as a cost saving measure when compared to WindowsCE... Somehow doesn't give me much trust in their accuracy. The simple fact that the software used isn't publicly auditable makes me distrust this sort of things.
From the article: "Mammoth Lakes is about 10,000 feet, or 30,400 meters, above sea level..." And here I tought that the tallest mountain in the world was just a smidgen over 8000 meters. I wonder how the hiker managed without an oxygen mask. Or even better, a full spacesuit.
A licence agreement can't override specific freedoms allowed by law, period. It's not the seller's right to define what the freedoms of the users are, the lawmakers are the only body that can restrict these freedoms in a law based state.
The DMCA provides specific exceptions that allow reverse engineering for the purpose of obtaining interoperability with a different software or system: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/DVD/1201.html (paragraph f). Even if an EULA is enforceable, it cannot restrict an user's rights more than what is expressly allowed by law. I could ask in an EULA that an user is not allowed to install a competing software on his machine while my software is installed, but any court would find such a provision moot, since it would clearly fall afoul of several antitrust laws, for example.
Oh, and don't forget the new testaament: http://bible.cc/matthew/23-27.htm "How terrible it will be for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs that look beautiful on the outside but inside are full of dead people's bones and every kind of impurity."
Still doesn't beat the tablet PC that Dilbert gave to his pointy haired boss: http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/1995-04-03/
But where do you go to get some lithium in the first place? Most people don't seem to realize that several of these nasty materials occur naturally in parts of the world, like asbestos rich rock formations, radioactive radon filled volcanic rocks and even naturally radioactive uranium minerals. If anything enrichened radioactive materials have a lower half-life than their milder naturally occurring raw minerals. It's not like all this material was brought into existence through a conjuring trick.
So, if the response to the challenge is unpredictable, how does the challenger know he's got the proper response? One-time pads are nothing new, and yet they don't offer absolute security
Every time I read about this sort of claims on this sort of products I am reminded of that genius that was Douglas Adams:
"The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, in a moment of reasoned lucidity which is almost unique among its current tally of five million, nine hundred and seventy-five thousand, five hundred and nine pages, says of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation product that "it is very easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of them by the sense of achievement you get from getting them to work at all"."
And, if you'll excuse me if this isn't taken verbatim, as I don't have the books handy:
After the great commotion caused by the air conditioning and phone exchange protests, the Sirius cybernetics corporation was condemned to apply to every one of their appliances a note stating that, if a product can't possibly fail, when it eventually does it will prove almost impossible to fix. And naturally had to modify the Guide headquarters windows so that they could be opened.
You could use one of the various mp3/divx players that have their own display and use an hard drive. They usually can play back picture slide-shows as well, and a magnetic media inside a steel box should be pretty safe. Several also have a video out to connect them to a television. You could remove the battery for safety (I doubt that the current batteries would survive the storage, and might deteriorate badly) and include a wall plug adapter with instructions for connecting to available power sources. There's even regulated adapters that will work both from AC and 12V DC, so the power supply should be pretty future proof.
You need at the very least a way to establish an encrypted 2 way connection. If the tag only transmits an unique sequence it would be easy for a 3rd party to eavesdrop it and copy it verbatim, without even the need to know what the actual data is about