Any stupid, prudish, paranoid or sometimes outright insane request can become a policy item in a matter of minutes.
Example (happened to me). A new HR director comes in horrified wanting to talk to you how do you dare not having a content filter to stop inappropriate content from being viewed.
The usual IT professional goes and implements it straight away. The fact that nobody is viewing it in the first place and there is a stack of Daily Express and Sun in the dining room is ignored for some reason. Guess it is OK to download softporn from the newsagent, but not OK to do so from your PC. And so on.
Result - new policy item and new expense item on the IT budget sheet.
No... They are the skulls of White Bears who have fallen through the ice because the water in the arctic got warmed up too much by the water cooling kit this beast requires to operate.
Gawd do people know f*** history any more !?! It is really Gobels is right that a lie repeated 100 times becomes the ultimate truth.
The simplification after the revolution is a f*** propaganda BS (introduced personally by one of my own great grandfathers by the way). The so called "Lenin gave us the alphabet" BS which you can still hear in a few places. Yuck... The daft bugger was far out at the time with 3rd stage syphilis that he could not give anything besides grunting noises and dripping saliva...
The reform was conceived and started before WW1. If you take WW1 pictures of Petrograd (yep, _not_ St Petersburgh) especially ones which are not from a Soviet archive you will see the new spelling along with the old. All the bolshies did was to go through and finish it off.
By the way, in their blind copying of everything Soviet the Bulgarians tried to do the same history alteration exercise. They tried to erase from the history books the fact that the language reform of 1920-1922 was conceived before WW1 and based on Russian _pre-soviet_ example and executed by the Stambolijski government and the military coup that succeeded it simply made it non-mandatory (but did not repeal it). At least they have fixed this lie now and their history books say that the reform was done there and then, following Russian example and the BG bolshies just put back the "mandatory" in it.
I am not profficient enough in Serbian history, but I would not be surprised if a similar event happened there. Need to ask actually...
Read the GP. I said used to have one in a proper book (I now live 2000 miles away from my old house so I cannot get the book to hit you with the ISBN on the head). It was printed by Moscow State University. sub-50 pages A5 hardcover out of which the rules themselves were under 20.
This is not surprising - modern Russian is an artificial language. It was artificially simplified with the entire grammar and spelling revised to make it fit a set of written rules in the early 1900-es. Same for Bulgarian (circa 1920).
Yeah, and show me someone (besides a few classical nuts like Nigel Kennedy) who actually still mixes in analogue. When you get a CD you nowdays see a DDD. It has been digitally recorded, digitally mixed and even if it will be put onto a vinyl after that it would not matter in the slightest...
I used to have a "legit" version at my old house (no access to it at the mo) which was printed by Moscow State. It was 35-40 pages in total with the preface and the contents.
By the way, when I taught Russian in the USA nearly 20 years ago I had that trimmed to 10 pages for the beginners.
The problem I found with it is that most English students of foreign languages are humanity students which are heavily into memorising and not trying to use rules and logic. They can memorise any number of phrases, the most obscure lexics, etc but they cannot memorise and use formal grammar. At all. As a result they have no problem with French, Spanish, etc but with Russian they hit a wall and run away screaming that it is too hard.
Interesting point... Never thought about that but it makes a lot of sense.
It is a matter of approach to morphology actually.
IIRC Google approach to morphology as a whole is to throw brute force statistical analysis at it. They use statistical models and loads of data for translation. This works wonders with languages like English who have more exemptions than grammar rules while having fairly rigid sentence ordering and relatively limited common vocabulary.
Russian is very difficult to be subjected to this approach. Due to it undergoing a forced language reform at the turn of the 20th century, russian grammar can be expressed in less than 10 pages of strict rules with around 30-40 exemptions. This grammar used to be drilled down with vengeance in Russian schools so it has not changed a bit since formulated 100 years ago.
While the rules are strict (and relatively easy) the meaning of many key grammar elements is positional-dependant. To add insult to injury it has one of the largest working day-to-day vocabularies and there are probably more ways to say the same thing than in any other language (I mean proper Russian, not "Na huja zhe tebe eto nado blad'"..
So no wonder an analytical model is more successful than statistical. Thanks for pointing it out.
Not surprising. Till recently Russian currency was not freely convertible.
As a result, dealing with an external broker for services was too painful to contemplate. This restriction formed a protectionist barrier on any service dealing with relatively small financial transactions. As a result companies like Google were locked out off the market in favour of the local brokers.
AFAIK they have a freely convertible currency now which changes the rules of the game back in favour of Google and from there on... Oh well... size matters...
He has been doing it long before that. This behaviour bares no relation to Novell.
I think somebody needs to tell explain him some basics of of human relationships.
If somebody blows you off the way Microsoft blew him off on a job interview the best way to deal with them is to reject them. They will come back sooner or later. In fact if you reject them a couple of time they will keep coming back with a better offer than you really deserve.
The worst thing to do in cases like that is to try sticking your nose up their rectum the way he is constantly trying to do. In life that achieves the opposite. The person who rejected you in the first place will treat you exactly as you should be treated when you are in a naso-rectal interface position. Like shit.
Translation from dadkjasldjalskdjlas into English:
Captain to bridge: I told you not to turn on the engines just yet, you bloody idiots. You have just blown our cover. Now everyone can see our drive plume...
Who cares. What is important is that it is there forcefully bundled regardless do you want it or not so Google Desktop search has to fight for its place in the Sun against an already installed product. As MSIE and WMP have shown this is a battle which third parties cannot win (at least in the consumer space).
One of the primary criteria of terrorist success is to "succeed in spreading fear into the population". By that criteria the terrorists have clearly won against our governments on every single count.
There is still some hope that they have not won against the general population in at least some parts of the country. There are still some John Smeatons around to "kick em in the bawls".
IMO It's on its way out as cabby love. The new flame around here is an iCTDI FRV. I am seeing more and more of these with Taxi stickers. It does 0 to 60 faster than the Octavia has much better handling and suspension and has a comparable boot to the Octavia estate. Carries 6 Europeans or 2 Americans as passengers (an American will not fit in the front seats). Most importantly - costs less.
Back to the article subject - what goes around comes around. We are back doing propeller planes. I guess the Russians were right with the Tu-95 Bear and the Tu-114. Pity, the 114 never got further development to abate its noise problems. IMO, with modern propeller tech its noise should be possible to drop within EU/USA noise regs. At the same time it is more economical than any comparable jet aircraft.
I hear that Macrosoft0, your health insurer has been notified and you are scheduled for mandatory surgery to insert electrodes to stimulate said regions of your brain. You will also receive double the dose of electric simulation for the all-company meetings and morning team roll calls.
We would hate you not to have happy thoughts at work after all.
Quote from the article: one wire is wirelessly pushing its signal on to another wire (a phenomenon known as crosstalk), a microprocessor could use the noise from the crosstalk to do error correction on original signal...
Err... That is exactly what I described (without even reading the article).
IMHO not patentable due to being bleeding obvious. The sole reason it is not being done at present is that till recently it was impractical. You just about handled one wire with one chip. Handling a bundle and running a "cool" algo on them was simply beyond what the electronics could do.
As far as the likelihood with 3G: 3G does something quite similar using the signal in a feedback loop. As a result echoes from buildings and reflections from earth (aka multipath) which in other technologies decrease your signal to noise ratio are used to increase the signal to noise ratio.
For example you have the following sequence of bits: 1 1 1 0. Once you get past the first 1 you get the same sequence arriving reflected from a different source. As a result you get slightly better signal to noise on the next 1 1. After that you have a 0. It overlaps with a reflected 1. As a result you get garbled input. If you use a delay shift register and optimise where do you need to add your signal from 1,2,3,4 units of time before that to yourself you can actually eliminate this and improve your signal to noise based on reflections instead of garbling the signal. In addition to that the output of the filter is used also in guess what - power control: telling the mobile to adjust its power.
What this chap is doing is doing the same by applying signal from wire N to the signal from wire Y as a digital filter. Which means exactly what I said - in order for this to be of any use all wires in the same bundle should be handled by the same ASIC. I should probably do the math but they should probably also run the same line protocol. If you have a third party provider running an ADSL in the middle of your "precious" DSL2 bundle this nice scheme fails.
Pity actually, while not particularly original this is a cool way of using a well known existing way of improving signal to noise ratio (including the power control part of it).
I can bet that it is a reuse of the 3G MAC ideas. 3G uses multipath to improve the signal to noise ratio by filtering the signal versus delayed samples.
Similar thing is possible with crosstalk as long as you handle all wires from the same duct in the same ASIC this usually is not the case. It will simply not work in countries where access to the copper is unbundled. In other places it will require major rewiring in the exchange.
I would hate to extinguish the hopes of all hopefuls which think that the holy grail has arrived. This type of algorithms provide O(LOG N) improvement and there is major improvement only for the first couple of filter buckets. Once you are past that each bucket adds less and less.
To be most exact the actual mathematical definition IIRC is the probability that two variables are related by a _LINEAR_ dependency. So for non-linear...
My point exactly. The USA has always been way more into gasguzzling even in those days. So even if this reasearch is correct the effects are bound to be less pronounced elsewhere. At the same time this probably explains the crime levels in Mexico city...
I was just going to post it. You are right, I was also wondering how few people remember it.
Elcomsoft produces probably the best crackers for MSFT password protected files. In one of my previous companies we used to own a copy just in case someone from marketing managed to password protect something in a state of inebriation or someone from sales was marched out of the door leaving a pile of encrypted quotes and tenders.
That is probably the only legitimate use I know for their stuff (quite a popular one actually as nearly everyone nowdays tends to have inebriated marketing and primadonna sales o vice versa).
Because, as a matter of fact, on devices like this the key never leaves the device. The device has an RSA engine and the actual public key cryptography happens on the key. If implemented correctly the request travels all the way from the server to the key and back. Not particularly difficult to do. I have an account with a bank in an ex-soc block backwater that does that for the electronic banking. It even uses a third party "national id" smart card for the purpose.
So the toolbar and the search bar cannot get your key. They can inject commands into whatever you have authenticated while you are authenticated, but they cannot not steal your credentials and pose as you once you have taken the key out.
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1/3 admit
1/3 lie
1/3 does not give a f**k
About right by the look of it.
Not that IT does not deserve it.
Any stupid, prudish, paranoid or sometimes outright insane request can become a policy item in a matter of minutes.
Example (happened to me). A new HR director comes in horrified wanting to talk to you how do you dare not having a content filter to stop inappropriate content from being viewed.
The usual IT professional goes and implements it straight away. The fact that nobody is viewing it in the first place and there is a stack of Daily Express and Sun in the dining room is ignored for some reason. Guess it is OK to download softporn from the newsagent, but not OK to do so from your PC. And so on.
Result - new policy item and new expense item on the IT budget sheet.
No... They are the skulls of White Bears who have fallen through the ice because the water in the arctic got warmed up too much by the water cooling kit this beast requires to operate.
Gawd do people know f*** history any more !?! It is really Gobels is right that a lie repeated 100 times becomes the ultimate truth.
The simplification after the revolution is a f*** propaganda BS (introduced personally by one of my own great grandfathers by the way). The so called "Lenin gave us the alphabet" BS which you can still hear in a few places. Yuck... The daft bugger was far out at the time with 3rd stage syphilis that he could not give anything besides grunting noises and dripping saliva...
The reform was conceived and started before WW1. If you take WW1 pictures of Petrograd (yep, _not_ St Petersburgh) especially ones which are not from a Soviet archive you will see the new spelling along with the old. All the bolshies did was to go through and finish it off.
By the way, in their blind copying of everything Soviet the Bulgarians tried to do the same history alteration exercise. They tried to erase from the history books the fact that the language reform of 1920-1922 was conceived before WW1 and based on Russian _pre-soviet_ example and executed by the Stambolijski government and the military coup that succeeded it simply made it non-mandatory (but did not repeal it). At least they have fixed this lie now and their history books say that the reform was done there and then, following Russian example and the BG bolshies just put back the "mandatory" in it.
I am not profficient enough in Serbian history, but I would not be surprised if a similar event happened there. Need to ask actually...
Why should he?
And the spirit of Maccarthy rose upon the land... And hand in hand with him flew the spirit of Edgar Hoover...
Read the GP. I said used to have one in a proper book (I now live 2000 miles away from my old house so I cannot get the book to hit you with the ISBN on the head). It was printed by Moscow State University. sub-50 pages A5 hardcover out of which the rules themselves were under 20.
This is not surprising - modern Russian is an artificial language. It was artificially simplified with the entire grammar and spelling revised to make it fit a set of written rules in the early 1900-es. Same for Bulgarian (circa 1920).
Yeah, and show me someone (besides a few classical nuts like Nigel Kennedy) who actually still mixes in analogue. When you get a CD you nowdays see a DDD. It has been digitally recorded, digitally mixed and even if it will be put onto a vinyl after that it would not matter in the slightest...
The "useless" google is your friend:
http://www.ipmce.su/~lib/osn_prav.html
I used to have a "legit" version at my old house (no access to it at the mo) which was printed by Moscow State. It was 35-40 pages in total with the preface and the contents.
By the way, when I taught Russian in the USA nearly 20 years ago I had that trimmed to 10 pages for the beginners.
The problem I found with it is that most English students of foreign languages are humanity students which are heavily into memorising and not trying to use rules and logic. They can memorise any number of phrases, the most obscure lexics, etc but they cannot memorise and use formal grammar. At all. As a result they have no problem with French, Spanish, etc but with Russian they hit a wall and run away screaming that it is too hard.
Oil does not work in space. It either freezes or evaporates. In fact only some "solid lubricants" like graphite and MoS work to a point.
Interesting point... Never thought about that but it makes a lot of sense.
It is a matter of approach to morphology actually.
IIRC Google approach to morphology as a whole is to throw brute force statistical analysis at it. They use statistical models and loads of data for translation. This works wonders with languages like English who have more exemptions than grammar rules while having fairly rigid sentence ordering and relatively limited common vocabulary.
Russian is very difficult to be subjected to this approach. Due to it undergoing a forced language reform at the turn of the 20th century, russian grammar can be expressed in less than 10 pages of strict rules with around 30-40 exemptions. This grammar used to be drilled down with vengeance in Russian schools so it has not changed a bit since formulated 100 years ago.
While the rules are strict (and relatively easy) the meaning of many key grammar elements is positional-dependant. To add insult to injury it has one of the largest working day-to-day vocabularies and there are probably more ways to say the same thing than in any other language (I mean proper Russian, not "Na huja zhe tebe eto nado blad'"..
So no wonder an analytical model is more successful than statistical. Thanks for pointing it out.
Not surprising. Till recently Russian currency was not freely convertible.
... Oh well... size matters...
As a result, dealing with an external broker for services was too painful to contemplate. This restriction formed a protectionist barrier on any service dealing with relatively small financial transactions. As a result companies like Google were locked out off the market in favour of the local brokers.
AFAIK they have a freely convertible currency now which changes the rules of the game back in favour of Google and from there on
He has been doing it long before that. This behaviour bares no relation to Novell.
I think somebody needs to tell explain him some basics of of human relationships.
If somebody blows you off the way Microsoft blew him off on a job interview the best way to deal with them is to reject them. They will come back sooner or later. In fact if you reject them a couple of time they will keep coming back with a better offer than you really deserve.
The worst thing to do in cases like that is to try sticking your nose up their rectum the way he is constantly trying to do. In life that achieves the opposite. The person who rejected you in the first place will treat you exactly as you should be treated when you are in a naso-rectal interface position. Like shit.
All I can say - what a daft jerk...
Translation from dadkjasldjalskdjlas into English:
Captain to bridge: I told you not to turn on the engines just yet, you bloody idiots. You have just blown our cover. Now everyone can see our drive plume...
You iknow, I'm a geezer; I don't remember businesses being run by thieves and sociopaths when I was young.
Really? United Fruit anyone? ITT? Want a few others?
Maybe my memory is bad, or I was naive.
Both I guess
Or maybe we're heading for another world wide depression like tha 1930s? Yes by the look of it
Here we go. Fixed that for ya...
Who cares. What is important is that it is there forcefully bundled regardless do you want it or not so Google Desktop search has to fight for its place in the Sun against an already installed product. As MSIE and WMP have shown this is a battle which third parties cannot win (at least in the consumer space).
Yep.
One of the primary criteria of terrorist success is to "succeed in spreading fear into the population". By that criteria the terrorists have clearly won against our governments on every single count.
There is still some hope that they have not won against the general population in at least some parts of the country. There are still some John Smeatons around to "kick em in the bawls".
IMO It's on its way out as cabby love. The new flame around here is an iCTDI FRV. I am seeing more and more of these with Taxi stickers. It does 0 to 60 faster than the Octavia has much better handling and suspension and has a comparable boot to the Octavia estate. Carries 6 Europeans or 2 Americans as passengers (an American will not fit in the front seats). Most importantly - costs less.
Back to the article subject - what goes around comes around. We are back doing propeller planes. I guess the Russians were right with the Tu-95 Bear and the Tu-114. Pity, the 114 never got further development to abate its noise problems. IMO, with modern propeller tech its noise should be possible to drop within EU/USA noise regs. At the same time it is more economical than any comparable jet aircraft.
I hear that Macrosoft0, your health insurer has been notified and you are scheduled for mandatory surgery to insert electrodes to stimulate said regions of your brain. You will also receive double the dose of electric simulation for the all-company meetings and morning team roll calls.
We would hate you not to have happy thoughts at work after all.
Sincerely, Your boss.
Err... That is exactly what I described (without even reading the article).
IMHO not patentable due to being bleeding obvious. The sole reason it is not being done at present is that till recently it was impractical. You just about handled one wire with one chip. Handling a bundle and running a "cool" algo on them was simply beyond what the electronics could do.
As far as the likelihood with 3G: 3G does something quite similar using the signal in a feedback loop. As a result echoes from buildings and reflections from earth (aka multipath) which in other technologies decrease your signal to noise ratio are used to increase the signal to noise ratio.
For example you have the following sequence of bits: 1 1 1 0. Once you get past the first 1 you get the same sequence arriving reflected from a different source. As a result you get slightly better signal to noise on the next 1 1. After that you have a 0. It overlaps with a reflected 1. As a result you get garbled input. If you use a delay shift register and optimise where do you need to add your signal from 1,2,3,4 units of time before that to yourself you can actually eliminate this and improve your signal to noise based on reflections instead of garbling the signal. In addition to that the output of the filter is used also in guess what - power control: telling the mobile to adjust its power.
What this chap is doing is doing the same by applying signal from wire N to the signal from wire Y as a digital filter. Which means exactly what I said - in order for this to be of any use all wires in the same bundle should be handled by the same ASIC. I should probably do the math but they should probably also run the same line protocol. If you have a third party provider running an ADSL in the middle of your "precious" DSL2 bundle this nice scheme fails.
Pity actually, while not particularly original this is a cool way of using a well known existing way of improving signal to noise ratio (including the power control part of it).
Nope.
I can bet that it is a reuse of the 3G MAC ideas. 3G uses multipath to improve the signal to noise ratio by filtering the signal versus delayed samples.
Similar thing is possible with crosstalk as long as you handle all wires from the same duct in the same ASIC this usually is not the case. It will simply not work in countries where access to the copper is unbundled. In other places it will require major rewiring in the exchange.
I would hate to extinguish the hopes of all hopefuls which think that the holy grail has arrived. This type of algorithms provide O(LOG N) improvement and there is major improvement only for the first couple of filter buckets. Once you are past that each bucket adds less and less.
Yesshhh my preciousssshhh...
But for that you have to make a hypothesis on what issshhh the relationssssssssshhhhhhip...
Which is something people tend to forget to do or do at random without looking at any proper math basis for it.
To be most exact the actual mathematical definition IIRC is the probability that two variables are related by a _LINEAR_ dependency. So for non-linear...
My point exactly. The USA has always been way more into gasguzzling even in those days. So even if this reasearch is correct the effects are bound to be less pronounced elsewhere. At the same time this probably explains the crime levels in Mexico city...
I was just going to post it. You are right, I was also wondering how few people remember it.
Elcomsoft produces probably the best crackers for MSFT password protected files. In one of my previous companies we used to own a copy just in case someone from marketing managed to password protect something in a state of inebriation or someone from sales was marched out of the door leaving a pile of encrypted quotes and tenders.
That is probably the only legitimate use I know for their stuff (quite a popular one actually as nearly everyone nowdays tends to have inebriated marketing and primadonna sales o vice versa).
No they will not.
Because, as a matter of fact, on devices like this the key never leaves the device. The device has an RSA engine and the actual public key cryptography happens on the key. If implemented correctly the request travels all the way from the server to the key and back. Not particularly difficult to do. I have an account with a bank in an ex-soc block backwater that does that for the electronic banking. It even uses a third party "national id" smart card for the purpose.
So the toolbar and the search bar cannot get your key. They can inject commands into whatever you have authenticated while you are authenticated, but they cannot not steal your credentials and pose as you once you have taken the key out.