Lets see, the US tries to outlaw gambling, porn, booze sales on the InterNet. Doesn't sond like a very liberal country to me. Please protect me from my evil desires Uncle Sam!
First its not like these messages are going to come out of a the
blue. In this specific case the perp spent over a year cultivating
the kids before the nasties came. (That is the bad messages
were sent after the kid had gone back to high school.)
Second is the authority issue. If someone really believes the
message is coming from a very important person, they arent going
to immediately dismiss something strange coming from them.
Here is the Google map of the infamous garage. I had to look up Sue's address in a non-Google database (zabasearch.com) because I couldnt find it in Google.
Then I looked in the realtors database for best estimated market value, again not Google, but zillow.com.
Several of the software routines allocated just three digits to counting Martian days (Sols) and the mission is about to exceed one thousand in October. So they had to correct the software. The software also shifts the main transmission frequency. The new Reconanaissance Orbitor has just started photography. Its transmissions use up musch of the deep space network capacity.
The nice thing about the martian rover robots is their reprogramability. They've solved several problems with uploads, e.g. flash memory overflow, dead wheels, Y1K, etc.. Plus they've created new capabilities, e.g. automatic detection of dust devils without having to uplaod huge image files to Earth.
There have been several super computer companies who have come and gone on the premise of fine-grain parallel processing, such as mentioned in the title. All of them used some version of UNIX (CM had a pre-UNIX OS at one time). The reason for this was that UNIX was the "Linux" of the 1980s and early 1990s: low cost source code license, porting experience to many machines etc. They all had OS-extensions and C-language constructs for managing fine-grain parallelism. So my point is there is a lot of experience out there int his area.
These companies died due to using custom hardware they could upgrade only in 3-5 year generations. Clustered commodity workstation/PC CPUs generally upgraded 3-5 times faster and "caught up" in price/performance.
If a cell-processor can emulate the x86 instruction set fairly transparently, then they could finally beat this fine-grained jinx.
I heard Mike Malin, founder of the company makes the cameras, identify some likely Beagle sites with the previous orbitor. These were three or four pixels at best. The new camera could increase this to 20 pixels.
Both rovers, their platforms and heat sheilds have been seen with the older camera.
I many interact with MS R&D in the graphics section. They gave 25% of the papers at this years SIGGRAPH where the paper acceptance rate is one in ten. They have luminaries like Blinn and Bell.
Very little of that brain-power is commercialized. The problem I hear is a rivalry between the eggheads and people who write shipping code.
People having been talking about this for decades (no pun intended),
but its computing-while-driving that seems to be pushing
this appoach. You dont want a driver's eyes and hands distracted.
Yet s/he may want map directions, car status, text-messaging/mail,
and sound entertainment.
The "Future" is popular enteraintment at Disney theme parks. The vision changed three times. When disney opened Tommorrowland was all about spoace ships, supercars, and the house of tommorrow. A couple decades later, post-Earth Day Epcot had more ecological friendly vision of the future. Finnaly, the future is now all about digital entertainment gizmos- fancy TVs, phones, the InterNet.
Its entertaining to read "future" books in the libraries from the 1960s-1990s and see how much they missed. Most just lineraly extrapolated the trends of their times.
For a while governement employees were making all kinds of dubious charge to their work credit cards. Expecially in the Katrina cleanup when limits were loosened.
My company directly reimburses the credit company, but only for "approved" expenses. Sometimes things are not approved and the employee must pay it then.
For centuries people sought the Northwest Passage alternative to the stormy Tierra Del Fuego or narrow Panama Canal.
Amundson (first guy to south pole) lead the first successful sea passage exactly a hundred years ago.
Now people are routinely doing this in the summer.
Pretty soon it might be safe enough for summer commercial ships.
He complained she wrote too much about his sex life, with some of it exaggerated. If you believe Sylvia's book he had lots of girlfriends and few boyfriends too.
Maybe if they'd market something new instead of copying anything anyone else invents MicroSoft's stock would go up. Also, maybe they could productize some of the nifty inventions coming out its $5 billion research lab.
The September unleaded futures gas contract settled at $1.55 Sept. 15.
To that amount add state and federal taxes plus 15 cents trasnportation and dealers profit to estimate a reasonable retail price. Thats about $2.10 in most states.
Something like one third in our city vote absentee and another sixth pre-vote 14 to 1 day in advance in few designated locations. I recall we had a minor election entirely by mail.
I thought this was called "social engineering" at one time. The weakest link in an IT system were the human administrators. You could sweet talk them into breaking the system.
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Lets see, the US tries to outlaw gambling, porn, booze sales on the InterNet. Doesn't sond like a very liberal country to me. Please protect me from my evil desires Uncle Sam!
The knee-jerk reaction is to censor communications rather than deal with them. Call the police if they are pedaphicalic and obscene.
First its not like these messages are going to come out of a the blue. In this specific case the perp spent over a year cultivating the kids before the nasties came. (That is the bad messages were sent after the kid had gone back to high school.)
Second is the authority issue. If someone really believes the message is coming from a very important person, they arent going to immediately dismiss something strange coming from them.
Here is the Google map of the infamous garage. I had to look up Sue's address in a non-Google database (zabasearch.com) because I couldnt find it in Google.
Then I looked in the realtors database for best estimated market value, again not Google, but zillow.com.
I saw the actual landing on TV and thought I heard the "a". There was some static and hesitaton. It made a lot more sense with the "a".
Several of the software routines allocated just three digits to counting Martian days (Sols) and the mission is about to exceed one thousand in October. So they had to correct the software. The software also shifts the main transmission frequency. The new Reconanaissance Orbitor has just started photography. Its transmissions use up musch of the deep space network capacity.
The nice thing about the martian rover robots is their reprogramability. They've solved several problems with uploads, e.g. flash memory overflow, dead wheels, Y1K, etc.. Plus they've created new capabilities, e.g. automatic detection of dust devils without having to uplaod huge image files to Earth.
There have been several super computer companies who have come and gone on the premise of fine-grain parallel processing, such as mentioned in the title. All of them used some version of UNIX (CM had a pre-UNIX OS at one time). The reason for this was that UNIX was the "Linux" of the 1980s and early 1990s: low cost source code license, porting experience to many machines etc. They all had OS-extensions and C-language constructs for managing fine-grain parallelism. So my point is there is a lot of experience out there int his area.
These companies died due to using custom hardware they could upgrade only in 3-5 year generations. Clustered commodity workstation/PC CPUs generally upgraded 3-5 times faster and "caught up" in price/performance.
If a cell-processor can emulate the x86 instruction set fairly transparently, then they could finally beat this fine-grained jinx.
The cheapest cell phones are around $15. The contain a CPU, screen, keyboard, and lots of software.
I heard Mike Malin, founder of the company makes the cameras, identify some likely Beagle sites with the previous orbitor. These were three or four pixels at best. The new camera could increase this to 20 pixels. Both rovers, their platforms and heat sheilds have been seen with the older camera.
Thousands of years in a 4.5 billion year history.
I'm quaking in my boots.
I many interact with MS R&D in the graphics section. They gave 25% of the papers at this years SIGGRAPH where the paper acceptance rate is one in ten. They have luminaries like Blinn and Bell.
Very little of that brain-power is commercialized. The problem I hear is a rivalry between the eggheads and people who write shipping code.
People having been talking about this for decades (no pun intended), but its computing-while-driving that seems to be pushing this appoach. You dont want a driver's eyes and hands distracted. Yet s/he may want map directions, car status, text-messaging/mail, and sound entertainment.
The "Future" is popular enteraintment at Disney theme parks. The vision changed three times. When disney opened Tommorrowland was all about spoace ships, supercars, and the house of tommorrow. A couple decades later, post-Earth Day Epcot had more ecological friendly vision of the future. Finnaly, the future is now all about digital entertainment gizmos- fancy TVs, phones, the InterNet.
Its entertaining to read "future" books in the libraries from the 1960s-1990s and see how much they missed. Most just lineraly extrapolated the trends of their times.
For a while governement employees were making all kinds of dubious charge to their work credit cards. Expecially in the Katrina cleanup when limits were loosened.
My company directly reimburses the credit company, but only for "approved" expenses. Sometimes things are not approved and the employee must pay it then.
So the leader of the state owns and drives at least five Hummers. :-)
Defense rests
For centuries people sought the Northwest Passage alternative to the stormy Tierra Del Fuego or narrow Panama Canal. Amundson (first guy to south pole) lead the first successful sea passage exactly a hundred years ago. Now people are routinely doing this in the summer. Pretty soon it might be safe enough for summer commercial ships.
He complained she wrote too much about his sex life, with some of it exaggerated. If you believe Sylvia's book he had lots of girlfriends and few boyfriends too.
Whats Nash up to these days?
Maybe if they'd market something new instead of copying anything anyone else invents MicroSoft's stock would go up. Also, maybe they could productize some of the nifty inventions coming out its $5 billion research lab.
The September unleaded futures gas contract settled at $1.55 Sept. 15. To that amount add state and federal taxes plus 15 cents trasnportation and dealers profit to estimate a reasonable retail price. Thats about $2.10 in most states.
Like the guy (Tesla Motors) has has built a high performance out of computer batteries - $20,000 worth of batteris and a $100,000 car.
I am amused at how these eggheads predict huge efficiencies in theory , but say in practice they haven't quite achieved current technology.
Something like one third in our city vote absentee and another sixth pre-vote 14 to 1 day in advance in few designated locations. I recall we had a minor election entirely by mail.
I've heard it takes a good 4-8 hours training for voting clerks. No one who hasn't gone through training whould be allowed to supervise.
I thought this was called "social engineering" at one time. The weakest link in an IT system were the human administrators. You could sweet talk them into breaking the system.