There is little you can realistically do. What hits the Internet "lives forever".
If your mistake was so serious that it may affect your ability to get employment, you may want to consider changing your name.
Alternatively (and I am only half joking here), since a black (or grey) hat background is almost a pre-requisite to a career in infosec... if you are into computers and security is of interest to you, you potentially can "pull a Microsoft" (i.e. turn a weakness into a strength) and leverage your shady actions as street cred for a Computer Security career.
Woot!
As we predicted three long years ago, SCO = $, c, 0 - a forecast on their stock price.
I am *still* ready to sign up on for sight-seeing trip to the hole in the ground where SCO once stood.
your definition of "copy" demonstrates just how much you understand of the subject matter.
The booster stack was completely different. And it was designed so well that the Atlas 5 uses a redesign of its engines (yes, that's Russian engines).
The shuttle was a payload. And it was significantly different from the US one. When you speak of "copy" you should remember that there are inherent aerodinamic constraints in flying something that size back through the atmosphere. And yes, the figures are similar, they were probably inspired by the US design. Big deal, as if the external shape was the only problem at work there. You seem to think that in a system as complex as the Space shuttle, the external dimentions are all that there is - BZZZT. Wrong answer. And those are about all that there is in common between Buran and the Shuttle.
Oh wait - I guess the Russians could claim the US copied the capsule design. Oh no!
True enough - but of those 8 Lufthansa is the only airline that has it on a sizable number of routes.
I did a business study on the Connexion case in 2001, when they were still on paper. The fact is that you need a sufficiently large customer pool, and even if they have been in business for almost six years, they have reached very few potential customers.
I simpathize with the need to turn a profit, but if enough customers *cannot* buy your product because you have not made it available to them, then what is a company to expect ? Money falling from the sky ?
I tried it in my last pond-hop to the Suse office in Nuremberg, it was rather sweet. It helps pass the long hours of the flight while being semi-productive (ie answering email).
So far I have seen this only on Lufthansa - Boeing needs to get more carriers to install before considering economics. I understand that satellite transceivers aren't cheap, but hey, if there is only one carrier (and only on their wide-body jets) where you can use the service your customer pool is a bit too small!
Power is still an issue, *but* thinkpads last long enough to make it worth the price - and finish up on the tasklist:)
Technically, the authentication server dropped me a few too many times, annoying (and confusing) as it takes a couple of minutes to re-login. I so not know what you are running these boxes on, but they could use som overhaul (the code to prevent brute-forcing is rather pathetic! get a new apps programmer, please).
For Boeing, the #1 problem is power, as that will stop a lot of people from paying up 30$ for 2 hours (then again, for a lot of those people it is company money coming from their expense budget - do not overestimate pricing)of browsing. Bring jacks to the seats, and you will sell the service, believe me.
Hello There,
from my personal experience, an intro course requires a lot of time helping the students and hand-holding them through the difficulties of basic programming and the details of the language, tutoring on "what menu does what" is a waste of time and a detraction from where their attention should be focusing.
That said, the IDE is a convenience, and more advanced studentsw should not be prevented from getting ahead or learning more on the side. My approach is that you should give compiling instructions, preferibly in-terminal, that are IDE independent, as well as editor independent, and let the students free to use what they prefer, while using a reasonable variety of alternatives in-lecture - thus showing them the IDE, terminal+vi, etc options lead to the same result.
I am not sure what the deal with the abstract is... usually the trolling is left to the community, have trolls been hired to serve as./editors now ?
Leave the silly comments to the public, and be professional enough not to troll yout own space program! Sure it sucks, with al the probes being cut to fly (and keep flying) a rehash of 70's technology but that's for us to say, not the editor.
As a side note, simple, rough Russian technology lost its last cosmonauts in the early 70s. In the last THIRTY-FIVE years, Russia has flown longer missions, and lost exactly zero cosmonauts. In the same timeframe, the cutting-edge 70s technology Nasa is so fond of costed the lives of 14 astronauts. Sure the shuttle is a damn cool machine, but it should have been replaced *long* ago.
I share the concerns you mentiond - particularly because just the cost of re-learning the performance of the RCS, in terms of fuel wasted, would be prohibitive and way more dangerous than the risk of impacting something.
Your analogy with the progress collision with Mir is, however, flawed - it had nothing to do with gimbals, as the capsule DOES NOT have gimballed RCS, the first stage of the rocket does.
to the original poster, I must note that the soyuz roket variant you pointed to used gimballed vernier thrusters, which are not exactly a reaction control system of the same type mentioned here, they are used to orient the rocket in athmospheric flight.
This effort is noteworthy. If the construction costs are marginally higher than standard, it should be possible for the governemt to step in with incentives and pick up the tab of the difference. This kind of housing would save indirectly on other costs (power plant construction, pollution, etc) and could therefore qualify as a win-win situation.
Is this a joke? Because if it isn't, marketers in Redmond need to go for a neuron check ASAP.
I mean, come on, when they can pick up a copy of XP Pro for 5 bucks in some kiosk down the street, why would any "Asian" user actually pay more for a piece of crippled junkware?
OOKAY. Now, as a few of you have pointed out, the test is in the LINKS, the information that the so-called experts that designed this test *REMOVED* from the email(s) in the first place.
Is their idea that we should rely on spelling to identify bogus email? What if the Nigerian Scammers learn to spell, should we believe them, too? And what if they get email from G. W. Bush, is that implicitly a scam because the man can't spell?
This is *PATHETIC*. The user has to learn how to check the URLs (and then actually do check them), in order to tell wether an email that asks you to provide confidential information is legitimate or not.
And if you determine that the email may be legitimate, you STILL do not click on the link, you go to the site directly, by using your pretty fingers and typing yourself Ebay/Paypal/etc in your browser (which better not be IE - and can Outlook too while you are at it) and logging in yourself. If you need to verify something, the system will prompt you for it once you are in.
This test is a shameful steaming pile, and I will certainly not EVER recommend, use or purchase any products from the company that released it!
A June 8 Purdue University news release reports a proof of the Riemann Hypothesis by L. de Branges. However, both the 23-page preprint cited in the release (which is actually from 2003) and a longer preprint from 2004 on de Branges's home page seem to lack an actual proof. Furthermore, a counterexample to de Branges's approach due to Conrey and Li has been known since 1998. The media coverage therefore appears to be much ado about nothing.
Of course, What is not proven by Wolfram himself might not get attention from them, but you would think Mathworld (http://mathworld.wolfram.com) is a pretty authoritative site on this:-)
I haven't seen the thing and I am sure it is politically biased, but certainly I would like to make that determination myself rather then seeing Buena Vista kiss presidential ass and decide that it is not gonna distribute it for fear of losing tax breaks in Florida...
The article says it is third by #of CPUs, not by Teraflops or by any computational measure.
Someone could come up with 10.000 dreamcasts linked up together for a few bucks these days, and while it would have quite some rendering power, that does not make it the first supercomputer in the world just because it has more chips in it!
I must be missing something... since when did SCO take over Verisign ?
Ain't it funny - I am suing you for preventing me from violating the specs that my job is built on in the first place. And on top of it, I [verisign] got the RFID database to handle too (check this week's news). Bruahahah !!
It's got to be Darl.
it is not just credentialling, in the academia there is also the issue of mixing up EDUCATION with TRAINING. As an example we can give teaching programming (an example of the former), and teaching VB (an example of the latter).
Notwithstanding the fact that VB (yech!) is a useful tool (*ehm*), that is not education, that is a training in a specific technology. Now, if you were taught well how to program in a structured way (in Pascal if possible) or in OO style (I would use Java for this, but Smalltalk might be slightly better as teaching introspection there is a lot easier), then it does not matter which language you have to use, you can adapt very fast to new ones and even train yourself quite quickly.
BUt now in Boston we even have a university that gives graduate credit for certification classes... great for credentialling, but education goes down the toilet when master students wind up taking "windows 2000 TCP/IP MCSE prep" instead of Operating Systems....
Ok,
Usually the rant goes "this country spends lots on weapons, not enough on schools" -- and with what is positively the worst high school system in the rich nations, the US probably deserves this one attack.
But... now that money is found, in the state of Michigan they decide the right thing is buying laptops ?!
1) they will be stolen 2) they will be broken / nonfunctional (are you gonna give each kid a sysadmin ? I sure hope they go with MacOS, it will last longer...) 3) they are not what is needed.
Listen, I have been teaching freshmen at a top US university for the last two years. I get some students (US born, not immigrants) that CANNOT SPEAK ENGLISH AS THEIR FIRST GODDAMN LANGUAGE. Every year, a class of 40 Freshmen has 5/6 such types, not to mention that the verbal and math skills of the whole group are lower that they should by a measurable margin.
I teach CS in case you wonder, and I say, forget the laptops, get good teachers in high school AND teach the kids English, math, logical reasoning (ever seen a Freshmen widen his/her eyes when you tell them that a certain class of statements can only be true or false, not both ? I have!) and if you want to kick ass some science and some arts. But please, forget the damn laptops!
The only thing a sixth grader can learn from the school issued laptop is disabling netnanny (possibly while the professor is teaching something "boring"). Gosh, go slap the assembly of that state with a large trout, willyaplease....
Slashdot Mirror
Imma chargin mah lazer!
A fairly obscure one... but you will have to ask me that in person and over a beer ;)
There is little you can realistically do. What hits the Internet "lives forever". If your mistake was so serious that it may affect your ability to get employment, you may want to consider changing your name. Alternatively (and I am only half joking here), since a black (or grey) hat background is almost a pre-requisite to a career in infosec... if you are into computers and security is of interest to you, you potentially can "pull a Microsoft" (i.e. turn a weakness into a strength) and leverage your shady actions as street cred for a Computer Security career.
He took a few spectra of Sun and noticed how red-shifted their balance sheet is ?
Woot! As we predicted three long years ago, SCO = $, c, 0 - a forecast on their stock price. I am *still* ready to sign up on for sight-seeing trip to the hole in the ground where SCO once stood.
your definition of "copy" demonstrates just how much you understand of the subject matter.
The booster stack was completely different. And it was designed so well that the Atlas 5 uses a redesign of its engines (yes, that's Russian engines).
The shuttle was a payload. And it was significantly different from the US one. When you speak of "copy" you should remember that there are inherent aerodinamic constraints in flying something that size back through the atmosphere. And yes, the figures are similar, they were probably inspired by the US design. Big deal, as if the external shape was the only problem at work there. You seem to think that in a system as complex as the Space shuttle, the external dimentions are all that there is - BZZZT. Wrong answer. And those are about all that there is in common between Buran and the Shuttle.
Oh wait - I guess the Russians could claim the US copied the capsule design. Oh no!
Enjoy Slashdot.
True enough - but of those 8 Lufthansa is the only airline that has it on a sizable number of routes.
I did a business study on the Connexion case in 2001, when they were still on paper. The fact is that you need a sufficiently large customer pool, and even if they have been in business for almost six years, they have reached very few potential customers.
I simpathize with the need to turn a profit, but if enough customers *cannot* buy your product because you have not made it available to them, then what is a company to expect ? Money falling from the sky ?
I tried it in my last pond-hop to the Suse office in Nuremberg, it was rather sweet. It helps pass the long hours of the flight while being semi-productive (ie answering email).
:)
So far I have seen this only on Lufthansa - Boeing needs to get more carriers to install before considering economics. I understand that satellite transceivers aren't cheap, but hey, if there is only one carrier (and only on their wide-body jets) where you can use the service your customer pool is a bit too small!
Power is still an issue, *but* thinkpads last long enough to make it worth the price - and finish up on the tasklist
Technically, the authentication server dropped me a few too many times, annoying (and confusing) as it takes a couple of minutes to re-login. I so not know what you are running these boxes on, but they could use som overhaul (the code to prevent brute-forcing is rather pathetic! get a new apps programmer, please).
For Boeing, the #1 problem is power, as that will stop a lot of people from paying up 30$ for 2 hours (then again, for a lot of those people it is company money coming from their expense budget - do not overestimate pricing)of browsing. Bring jacks to the seats, and you will sell the service, believe me.
Hello There,
from my personal experience, an intro course requires a lot of time helping the students and hand-holding them through the difficulties of basic programming and the details of the language, tutoring on "what menu does what" is a waste of time and a detraction from where their attention should be focusing.
That said, the IDE is a convenience, and more advanced studentsw should not be prevented from getting ahead or learning more on the side. My approach is that you should give compiling instructions, preferibly in-terminal, that are IDE independent, as well as editor independent, and let the students free to use what they prefer, while using a reasonable variety of alternatives in-lecture - thus showing them the IDE, terminal+vi, etc options lead to the same result.
I am not sure what the deal with the abstract is... usually the trolling is left to the community, have trolls been hired to serve as ./editors now ?
Leave the silly comments to the public, and be professional enough not to troll yout own space program! Sure it sucks, with al the probes being cut to fly (and keep flying) a rehash of 70's technology but that's for us to say, not the editor.
As a side note, simple, rough Russian technology lost its last cosmonauts in the early 70s. In the last THIRTY-FIVE years, Russia has flown longer missions, and lost exactly zero cosmonauts. In the same timeframe, the cutting-edge 70s technology Nasa is so fond of costed the lives of 14 astronauts. Sure the shuttle is a damn cool machine, but it should have been replaced *long* ago.
I share the concerns you mentiond - particularly because just the cost of re-learning the performance of the RCS, in terms of fuel wasted, would be prohibitive and way more dangerous than the risk of impacting something.
Your analogy with the progress collision with Mir is, however, flawed - it had nothing to do with gimbals, as the capsule DOES NOT have gimballed RCS, the first stage of the rocket does.
to the original poster, I must note that the soyuz roket variant you pointed to used gimballed vernier thrusters, which are not exactly a reaction control system of the same type mentioned here, they are used to orient the rocket in athmospheric flight.
The definition of supercomputer is " a computer that costs more than $1,000,000" - you will find it in any textbook.
Ever heard of Ilford? I have hardly ever used any Kodak BW paper, it is more expensive and does not have any appreciable advantage.
.. next time post when Ilford goes bankrupt (they just emerged), not when Kodak stops making something nobody uses anyway :)
So
This effort is noteworthy. If the construction costs are marginally higher than standard, it should be possible for the governemt to step in with incentives and pick up the tab of the difference. This kind of housing would save indirectly on other costs (power plant construction, pollution, etc) and could therefore qualify as a win-win situation.
I mean, come on, when they can pick up a copy of XP Pro for 5 bucks in some kiosk down the street, why would any "Asian" user actually pay more for a piece of crippled junkware?
OOKAY. Now, as a few of you have pointed out, the test is in the LINKS, the information that the so-called experts that designed this test *REMOVED* from the email(s) in the first place.
Is their idea that we should rely on spelling to identify bogus email? What if the Nigerian Scammers learn to spell, should we believe them, too? And what if they get email from G. W. Bush, is that implicitly a scam because the man can't spell?
This is *PATHETIC*. The user has to learn how to check the URLs (and then actually do check them), in order to tell wether an email that asks you to provide confidential information is legitimate or not.
And if you determine that the email may be legitimate, you STILL do not click on the link, you go to the site directly, by using your pretty fingers and typing yourself Ebay/Paypal/etc in your browser (which better not be IE - and can Outlook too while you are at it) and logging in yourself. If you need to verify something, the system will prompt you for it once you are in.
This test is a shameful steaming pile, and I will certainly not EVER recommend, use or purchase any products from the company that released it!
Riemann Hypothesis "Proof" Much Ado About Nothing
:-)
A June 8 Purdue University news release reports a proof of the Riemann Hypothesis by L. de Branges. However, both the 23-page preprint cited in the release (which is actually from 2003) and a longer preprint from 2004 on de Branges's home page seem to lack an actual proof. Furthermore, a counterexample to de Branges's approach due to Conrey and Li has been known since 1998. The media coverage therefore appears to be much ado about nothing.
Of course, What is not proven by Wolfram himself might not get attention from them, but you would think Mathworld (http://mathworld.wolfram.com) is a pretty authoritative site on this
I haven't seen the thing and I am sure it is politically biased, but certainly I would like to make that determination myself rather then seeing Buena Vista kiss presidential ass and decide that it is not gonna distribute it for fear of losing tax breaks in Florida...
Forgive me, but I thought that:
... I guess I dreamed the whole thing up ?
1) Intel had bought Arm
2) The Intel PXA was actually a renamed arm chip
Cuecat Anyone ?
The article says it is third by #of CPUs, not by Teraflops or by any computational measure.
Someone could come up with 10.000 dreamcasts linked up together for a few bucks these days, and while it would have quite some rendering power, that does not make it the first supercomputer in the world just because it has more chips in it!
(Score +1, Obvious)
I must be missing something... since when did SCO take over Verisign ? Ain't it funny - I am suing you for preventing me from violating the specs that my job is built on in the first place. And on top of it, I [verisign] got the RFID database to handle too (check this week's news). Bruahahah !! It's got to be Darl.
it is not just credentialling, in the academia there is also the issue of mixing up EDUCATION with TRAINING. As an example we can give teaching programming (an example of the former), and teaching VB (an example of the latter). Notwithstanding the fact that VB (yech!) is a useful tool (*ehm*), that is not education, that is a training in a specific technology. Now, if you were taught well how to program in a structured way (in Pascal if possible) or in OO style (I would use Java for this, but Smalltalk might be slightly better as teaching introspection there is a lot easier), then it does not matter which language you have to use, you can adapt very fast to new ones and even train yourself quite quickly. BUt now in Boston we even have a university that gives graduate credit for certification classes... great for credentialling, but education goes down the toilet when master students wind up taking "windows 2000 TCP/IP MCSE prep" instead of Operating Systems....
Bulbasaur runs my webpage, and a few other trinkets in my 22+ node network.
;-)
The pride of my collection, it is a 16 mhz Mac Se/30 running NetBSD. It flies - sort of
I have older hardware (a VAX, etc) but I do not actually actively use it.
Ok,
Usually the rant goes "this country spends lots on weapons, not enough on schools" -- and with what is positively the worst high school system in the rich nations, the US probably deserves this one attack.
But... now that money is found, in the state of Michigan they decide the right thing is buying laptops ?!
1) they will be stolen
2) they will be broken / nonfunctional (are you gonna give each kid a sysadmin ? I sure hope they go with MacOS, it will last longer...)
3) they are not what is needed.
Listen, I have been teaching freshmen at a top US university for the last two years. I get some students (US born, not immigrants) that CANNOT SPEAK ENGLISH AS THEIR FIRST GODDAMN LANGUAGE. Every year, a class of 40 Freshmen has 5/6 such types, not to mention that the verbal and math skills of the whole group are lower that they should by a measurable margin.
I teach CS in case you wonder, and I say, forget the laptops, get good teachers in high school AND teach the kids English, math, logical reasoning (ever seen a Freshmen widen his/her eyes when you tell them that a certain class of statements can only be true or false, not both ? I have!) and if you want to kick ass some science and some arts. But please, forget the damn laptops!
The only thing a sixth grader can learn from the school issued laptop is disabling netnanny (possibly while the professor is teaching something "boring"). Gosh, go slap the assembly of that state with a large trout, willyaplease....