He was spamming for pump-n-dump stock schemes. The SEC doesn't like that and had the resources to go after him. If he stuck to replica watches and bogus diplomas he'd still be living like a Spam King.
Don't be ridiculous, things aren't anywhere nearly bad enough US to support revolution. Your argument against the second amendment is baloney. If you don't like whats in the constitution your option is to change it.
The worst thing they could do is replace the many standard parking meters with just a few kiosks or with square posted meters that are incompatible with bike locks. Then we would have no place to lock up our bikes. It's hard to get the city to come out and install bike parking (plus there are never enough racks) and the privately installed racks are usually useless (they buy racks designed by people who don't ride bikes and/or install them too close to a wall.)
Actually the only thing his testimony is good for is to confirm that he is not a social person, and that he was scared when police was obviously hounding him. What was known from the very beginning. I know plenty of people who behave in a similar manner, none of them committed an offense worse than speeding. If people were imprisoned based on those things alone, there would be, among other things, a lot of software without maintainers.
d00d, do you know anything at all about the Reiser trial? The guy lied to the jury on the stand about the battery in his phone and admitted as much under cross examination. He admitted on the stand that he knew there was a search warrant for his car and computer when he was working furiously to hide them from the police. All of these are offenses worse than speeding, BTW. His entire story about sleeping in the car fell apart under cross. His seething hatred for Nina was obvious to everyone in the room. His testimony was quite damning.
I'm all for fair trials for everyone too. Hans Reiser got a fair trial. There is no one to blame but himself.
When the Creationists kids are injured or seriously ill they take them to the hosiptal, which is essentially a temple of science. When it comes to modern western medicine, most of the Creationists must agree that science works.
When Science directly contradicts their mythology then science is bad.
Remind me again why anyone takes these fools seriously?
Put it this way. You feel you have the right to force others to fund your idea of what education should be -- why shouldn't other people have the right to force you to fund what their idea of education should be?
Because we do not have a form of government where anything goes as long as it is approved by a majority of voters or representatives. We have a Constitution that defines and limits the powers of the government as well as protects the rights of the people. One of which is that Congress (and through the 14th amendment, the State and local governments) may not pass a law respecting the establishment of religion or preventing the free exercise thereof. Because the creationism/"ID" movement is simply a cover for teaching Christian religious doctrine in public schools as some sort of valid alternative to science, it is unconstitutional and not acceptable.
The term in California is "premeditated" and all that means is that the defendant thought about killing their victim and had time to reflect on that before actually killing them. There doesn't need to be a plan for the murder itself but that would provide very solid evidence of premeditation. When you add up a nasty divorce, the delinquent child support payments, the dispute over custody that led to Nina dropping off the kids at his Mothers house on the long weekend when his mother was going to be out of town, the constant stream vitriol towards Nina coming from Hans before Nina's murder and during the trial, the phone call where Hans basically said he was glad Nina was gone, etc... He compared Nina to the Nazis in an e-mail to her. The jury reasonably concluded that he must have thought about killing her at some point during the long divorce.
"Let me begin by asking if you're willing to admit, here and now, that when you (previously) testified you willfully concealed the fact that you routinely removed the battery from your cell phone after Nina disappeared?" Hora asked.
"Yes, and I feel badly about that," Reiser said.
"And that was a willfully false or deliberately misleading statement of a material fact, do you agree?" the prosecutor asked.
This isn't a case of synthesizing familiar, natural DNA from scratch. That's been done for years and this research was done on commercial equipment for doing so. These researchers created a new type of DNA using four bases that are each similar to but distinct from the four bases that are found in natural DNA. A new chemistry basically. The article suggests that previous attempts had been unstable but this one is not. This could lead to advances like creating DNA molecules with more bases, to increase the density of storage, or find chemistries that are particularly amenable to manipulation, or who knows what.
Once the compiler knows these things, making this code run in parallel is simply another compiler optimization. That's the whole theory behind how functional languages can be super easy to parallelize. But in fact the key concepts can be applied to imperative languages as well, with the advantage that you can still have temporary mutable state within the function scopes - you just can't modify the heap, or anything reachable through your arguments.
Sounds great in theory but in the real world you don't get much concurrency. Once Bright finishes D2 he'll discover this too, just as the Haskell people did. For the forseeable future, it's going to require the same humans that write the software to help the compiler generate concurrent code. Languages that have had purity for many years are trying to integrate more powerful tools into the language and standard libraries for writing concurrent code, such as STM.
In the mean time, D is still doesn't have a stable compiler and a standard library most of its users can agree on. D doesn't even have a debugger for non-windows machines (not sure about windows.) The GDB patches are long abandoned and the commercial debugger with beta D support is unusably buggy in my experience.
I'm not going to disagree with most of your post, I think you're spot on. However, your suggestion of D is totally off. I like the D programming language quite a bit and version 2 is going to be really cool. However, even version 1 of D is not ready for prime-time. Version 2 of D is unstable and not recommended for production by even the author himself. All of the other languages you mentioned such as Erlang or Haskell are much more mature.
Also, "most other languages" have a foreign function interface for C, including Erlang, Haskell, Python, Java, Perl, Ruby, etc... In fact, I can't think of a well known programming language actually used by people other than the author that does not have an FFI... It is true that in most cases the FFI of other languages is more difficult to use than the one in D, but they are there.
They didn't incorporate the 2nd amendment because it wasn't necessary to settle this case. Since the Court did say that part of the reason the 2nd amentment exists is to protect the fundamental right to defend oneself, I don't see any obstacles to incorporation in a future case. Then again, what the hell do I know - IANAL
You can't easily count bittorrent downloads, especially since they are only counting completed downloads.
As soon as a client completes a download it makes an HTTP connection to the tracker and says it is complete. This is why every BT tracker/index-site is able to display a counter for complete downloads. Are you sure you know how BitTorrent works?
Find a projector or a big LCD and connect it to a computer running Electric Sheep. Bonus points for wiring up a pair of "thumbs up" and "thumbs down" buttons next to it. Electric Sheep is a "collaborative screen saver." When the machine is idle and the screen saver kicks in, it downloads and displays cool fractal animations known as the "sheep." At the same time it is rendering frames for a new sheep and uploading them to the sheep server. When you see an interesting sheep, you can press "thumbs up" (up-arrow) if you like it or down if you don't. The sheep server uses the ratings when selecting sheep as inputs to a genetic algorithm for creating a new generation of sheep.
It's open source and been around for a while. I believe there is an installation at the Googleplex and it has been shown at the NYC MOMA.
Much more promising is the possibility of a lack of entropy in the key selection process. Without a lot of entropy and a good RNG, the size of the probable keyspace may be reduced dramatically. Enough that searching all probable keys may quite feasible, even trivial.
Actually, RSA is vulnerable to chosen plaintext. That is one of the reasons why a signature system encrypts the hash of the document instead of the document itself.
In this case it is a randomly generated symmetric key that is encrypted so known plaintext won't help. I wonder if the white hats have looked closely at the key generation code. There is a good chance that there isn't much entropy in the keys and the keyspace can be narrowed down enough to make guessing the symmetric key feasible.
All of the people in this thread are ignoramuses. Nobody uses complete trial and error or the Sieve of Erastothenes for serious factorization. There are much faster algorithms such as the general number field sieve. Try actually knowing something about the topic before commenting.
As the UN is not particularly an US insitution, can you charge the US president for impeachment for not following the UN charter ?
The US Constitution has a clause known as the "supremacy clause" which makes the Constitution and all treaties "the supreme Law of the Land" and "the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby." So yes, violating a valid treaty such as the UN Charter an impeachable offense.
One brand uses thymol extracted from thyme instead of alcohol or an artificial antibacterial agent. Clean Well is the name. I'd link to their site but it is a horror of Flash with automatically playing music. It's the first hit on Google if you're really interested.
You're right that mechanical removal with soapy water is the most effective method and antibacterial agents are in soap just to make you feel good. The no water hand sanitizers are better than nothing when you can't wash your hands properly.
Finally, the juror mentioned in this article that made his decision based on the accused's eyes really scares me.
He didn't say he made the decision based on Reiser's eyes, he merely said that you could tell by his eyes that he was lying. The same juror also said they spent two days deliberating whether he was guilty or not. I would bet that more than Mr. Reiser's eyes was discussed.
In any event, it doesn't matter if Reiser's eyes revealed that he was lying or not. Reiser volunteered on the stand that he was lying. The Prosecutor even asked him if he had willfully and deliberately misled the jury and Reiser said yes and that he was sorry about it. In California, juries are given instructions that if a witness lies then they can disregard any of the rest of the same witness' testimony.
In California at least, premeditation simply means that you thought about killing someone, had time to reflect on that, then subsequently killed them. That's all you need for 1st degree murder in California. You don't need to provide evidence of a plan or evidence that the plan was carried out. The jury believed that Hans thought about killing Nina, had time to reflect on that, then subsequently killed her. The evidence included the e-mails to Nina in the months leading up to the murder, Reiser's complete and utter disregard for Nina's well being, his expressed relief to his mother that Nina was permanently out of the picture, his hatred of Nina that he expressed during his testimony on the stand, and on and on.
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Maybe 20 people are infringing on the patent because the claims of the patent are public knowledge.
He was spamming for pump-n-dump stock schemes. The SEC doesn't like that and had the resources to go after him. If he stuck to replica watches and bogus diplomas he'd still be living like a Spam King.
Not if you want be sure that your pasty faced computer nerd defendant sits in jail so he'll me much more likely to crack and confess.
d00d, haven't you heard? This is the Year of Linux on the Desktop.
Don't be ridiculous, things aren't anywhere nearly bad enough US to support revolution. Your argument against the second amendment is baloney. If you don't like whats in the constitution your option is to change it.
The worst thing they could do is replace the many standard parking meters with just a few kiosks or with square posted meters that are incompatible with bike locks. Then we would have no place to lock up our bikes. It's hard to get the city to come out and install bike parking (plus there are never enough racks) and the privately installed racks are usually useless (they buy racks designed by people who don't ride bikes and/or install them too close to a wall.)
d00d, do you know anything at all about the Reiser trial? The guy lied to the jury on the stand about the battery in his phone and admitted as much under cross examination. He admitted on the stand that he knew there was a search warrant for his car and computer when he was working furiously to hide them from the police. All of these are offenses worse than speeding, BTW. His entire story about sleeping in the car fell apart under cross. His seething hatred for Nina was obvious to everyone in the room. His testimony was quite damning.
I'm all for fair trials for everyone too. Hans Reiser got a fair trial. There is no one to blame but himself.
When the Creationists kids are injured or seriously ill they take them to the hosiptal, which is essentially a temple of science. When it comes to modern western medicine, most of the Creationists must agree that science works.
When Science directly contradicts their mythology then science is bad.
Remind me again why anyone takes these fools seriously?
Because we do not have a form of government where anything goes as long as it is approved by a majority of voters or representatives. We have a Constitution that defines and limits the powers of the government as well as protects the rights of the people. One of which is that Congress (and through the 14th amendment, the State and local governments) may not pass a law respecting the establishment of religion or preventing the free exercise thereof. Because the creationism/"ID" movement is simply a cover for teaching Christian religious doctrine in public schools as some sort of valid alternative to science, it is unconstitutional and not acceptable.
The term in California is "premeditated" and all that means is that the defendant thought about killing their victim and had time to reflect on that before actually killing them. There doesn't need to be a plan for the murder itself but that would provide very solid evidence of premeditation. When you add up a nasty divorce, the delinquent child support payments, the dispute over custody that led to Nina dropping off the kids at his Mothers house on the long weekend when his mother was going to be out of town, the constant stream vitriol towards Nina coming from Hans before Nina's murder and during the trial, the phone call where Hans basically said he was glad Nina was gone, etc... He compared Nina to the Nazis in an e-mail to her. The jury reasonably concluded that he must have thought about killing her at some point during the long divorce.
Hans Reiser already admitted to lying on the stand.
This isn't a case of synthesizing familiar, natural DNA from scratch. That's been done for years and this research was done on commercial equipment for doing so. These researchers created a new type of DNA using four bases that are each similar to but distinct from the four bases that are found in natural DNA. A new chemistry basically. The article suggests that previous attempts had been unstable but this one is not. This could lead to advances like creating DNA molecules with more bases, to increase the density of storage, or find chemistries that are particularly amenable to manipulation, or who knows what.
Sounds great in theory but in the real world you don't get much concurrency. Once Bright finishes D2 he'll discover this too, just as the Haskell people did. For the forseeable future, it's going to require the same humans that write the software to help the compiler generate concurrent code. Languages that have had purity for many years are trying to integrate more powerful tools into the language and standard libraries for writing concurrent code, such as STM.
In the mean time, D is still doesn't have a stable compiler and a standard library most of its users can agree on. D doesn't even have a debugger for non-windows machines (not sure about windows.) The GDB patches are long abandoned and the commercial debugger with beta D support is unusably buggy in my experience.
I'm not going to disagree with most of your post, I think you're spot on. However, your suggestion of D is totally off. I like the D programming language quite a bit and version 2 is going to be really cool. However, even version 1 of D is not ready for prime-time. Version 2 of D is unstable and not recommended for production by even the author himself. All of the other languages you mentioned such as Erlang or Haskell are much more mature.
Also, "most other languages" have a foreign function interface for C, including Erlang, Haskell, Python, Java, Perl, Ruby, etc... In fact, I can't think of a well known programming language actually used by people other than the author that does not have an FFI... It is true that in most cases the FFI of other languages is more difficult to use than the one in D, but they are there.
They didn't incorporate the 2nd amendment because it wasn't necessary to settle this case. Since the Court did say that part of the reason the 2nd amentment exists is to protect the fundamental right to defend oneself, I don't see any obstacles to incorporation in a future case. Then again, what the hell do I know - IANAL
They don't need to discriminate between "legal and illegal" any more than they do now for HTTP caches, which is not at all.
As soon as a client completes a download it makes an HTTP connection to the tracker and says it is complete. This is why every BT tracker/index-site is able to display a counter for complete downloads. Are you sure you know how BitTorrent works?
Find a projector or a big LCD and connect it to a computer running Electric Sheep. Bonus points for wiring up a pair of "thumbs up" and "thumbs down" buttons next to it. Electric Sheep is a "collaborative screen saver." When the machine is idle and the screen saver kicks in, it downloads and displays cool fractal animations known as the "sheep." At the same time it is rendering frames for a new sheep and uploading them to the sheep server. When you see an interesting sheep, you can press "thumbs up" (up-arrow) if you like it or down if you don't. The sheep server uses the ratings when selecting sheep as inputs to a genetic algorithm for creating a new generation of sheep.
It's open source and been around for a while. I believe there is an installation at the Googleplex and it has been shown at the NYC MOMA.
Much more promising is the possibility of a lack of entropy in the key selection process. Without a lot of entropy and a good RNG, the size of the probable keyspace may be reduced dramatically. Enough that searching all probable keys may quite feasible, even trivial.
Actually, RSA is vulnerable to chosen plaintext. That is one of the reasons why a signature system encrypts the hash of the document instead of the document itself.
In this case it is a randomly generated symmetric key that is encrypted so known plaintext won't help. I wonder if the white hats have looked closely at the key generation code. There is a good chance that there isn't much entropy in the keys and the keyspace can be narrowed down enough to make guessing the symmetric key feasible.
All of the people in this thread are ignoramuses. Nobody uses complete trial and error or the Sieve of Erastothenes for serious factorization. There are much faster algorithms such as the general number field sieve. Try actually knowing something about the topic before commenting.
The US Constitution has a clause known as the "supremacy clause" which makes the Constitution and all treaties "the supreme Law of the Land" and "the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby." So yes, violating a valid treaty such as the UN Charter an impeachable offense.
One brand uses thymol extracted from thyme instead of alcohol or an artificial antibacterial agent. Clean Well is the name. I'd link to their site but it is a horror of Flash with automatically playing music. It's the first hit on Google if you're really interested.
You're right that mechanical removal with soapy water is the most effective method and antibacterial agents are in soap just to make you feel good. The no water hand sanitizers are better than nothing when you can't wash your hands properly.
He didn't say he made the decision based on Reiser's eyes, he merely said that you could tell by his eyes that he was lying. The same juror also said they spent two days deliberating whether he was guilty or not. I would bet that more than Mr. Reiser's eyes was discussed.
In any event, it doesn't matter if Reiser's eyes revealed that he was lying or not. Reiser volunteered on the stand that he was lying. The Prosecutor even asked him if he had willfully and deliberately misled the jury and Reiser said yes and that he was sorry about it. In California, juries are given instructions that if a witness lies then they can disregard any of the rest of the same witness' testimony.