spending any more tax payer money to send humans into space, to the moon or mars, is a ridiculous waste considering the catastrophic infrastructure breakdowns we are now facing in real time.
In the short term, meaning next 20 years, this money would be much better spent repairing antiquated and unsafe bridges, damns, levies and sewage systems than it would be sending anyone to the moon or mars.
Significantly more people will benefit through lives saved and catastrophes averted by wisely spending money instead of wasting it in a time when what we have to gain from space exploration by humans is very little in comparison
Tivo has tried to come out with some nice additions, like renting movies on demand. The stupid aspect of this offering is that you have to provide a credit card to another company such as Amazon. Why Tivo does not handle the charging transaction themselves is beyond me since they already have my CC number for the recurring monthly charges. So due to this I will not be renting any movies on demand from Tivo.
My handwriting has been reduced to chicken-scratch and the characters vary between block and script for no apparent reason; it is just what comes out. I sometimes even have trouble writing characters such as 'e' or 'q' where I have to concentrate to make sure they look legible.
Haha - you know nothing except for a conservative and negative knee-jerk reaction to marijuana use. But I bet you would have participated in the underground bars during prohibition. Alcohol is so much safer than weed; NOT.
Some of the smartest people in the world partake in the herb and I'd venture to guess Schneier on wacky-terbacky would still more intelligent than 98% of/. readers!
If they even so much as continue to talk about using Google, or any other insecure third party application, for sensitive patient data. There is no possible way to use Google without breaching HIPAA unless all the doctors and patients interested in using it are capable of successfully encrypting and decrypting all communications; which they are not.
The beauty of public cryptographic algorithms
on
Another New AES Attack
·
· Score: 5, Insightful
The best minds in the world work on cracking them and come up with theoretical proofs of a weakness which ultimately prove to everyone, beyond the shadow of a doubt, the security of the algorithm. Too bad many corporations don't understand and try to create closed cryptographic algorithms which, in almost every case, turn out to be very lame.
could be to anonymously feed thousands of opt-in users current sound input into a public algorithmic service which provides data facilitating the creation of truely random numbers. Similar to the use of atmospheric noise by sites like Random.org; but this could be better because the sound input devices are decentralized and always moving.
There are the obvious problems to overcome with attempts to game this sort of system, but I think it an interesting idea.
one of the reasons why there will never be a true Democracy. The elite in every society tells the commoner and new initiate what to think, and for the most part they fall in line.
Disagree. It should be a government issue, but not solely a government issue and certainly not a clandestine government organization issue. Information and Network Security should be shared and handle by all end-points, government, commercial and private; and they should all work together and share information openly.
Excellent synopsis but I must add that a self-learner can be quickly and easily taught clean coding and good comment techniques. The entity hiring them simply has to specify this is mandatory and ask them if they think they can do it.
Yeah this is news? Man the main reason why I originally started blocking ads was not because I necessarily objected to them, it was because the ad servers always seem to hang up the page loads. Web 2.0 as it is called simply made this problem even worse with sites cross loading content. Web 2.0 sucks!
>> Some say that recent reports that Steve Jobs may have had a liver transplant, still not confirmed by the company, now makes one of Apple's assertions from January -- that Jobs was suffering only from a hormonal imbalance -- seem like a deliberate untruth."
Hmmm, I would not classify that as a deliberate untruth since having a malfunctioning liver will indeed cause a hormonal imbalance. I would classify it as a good 'ol half-truth instead.
If you have the brains and the talent, anything is possible in IT; as long as you really enjoy it.
In my opinion which is based on prospective employee interviewing experiences, anything below a PhD in technology doesn't mean much. The real question you should be asking yourself is, "Are you self-motivated, creative and talented? Are you able to solve unique problems on your own? Do you need someone to hold your hand?"
If the answer to the first two are yes and the second no; why waste your money? Personally I have a HS education and have had several great paying jobs in IT. Since I didn't spend a crapload to get a degree, I am way ahead of my counterparts that did. How did I do it? Well I discovered I had an aptitude for coding and more importantly problem solving and then I worked my ass off for a number of years. I just ate it up, couldn't get enough, HTML, DHTML, then Perl, C, Java, Shell, etc.
I padded my self education with some formal education in Unix and C programming at the university level, and even more importantly, I found a brilliant person who was able to serve as a mentor of sorts.
I am not saying my way is the right way for you or anyone; but it was for me and so I thought I'd share it. So good luck in whatever you choose!
>> But because the amount of non-routable IP address space most commonly used for intranets is so small--about 1280 addresses, Hansen estimates--collisions between networks often occur.
First of all there is no such thing as non-routable IP addresses. While private IP space may not be routed on the Internet, it is all routable on the private network.
Secondly, 10. private IP space is a Class A assignment which translates to 16,777,216 IP addresses. Where did they get 1280?
Actually this not completely true. While it seems some space exploration may be on the chopping block, scientific research is a part of the Obama stimulus package and the top notch research/educational institute for which I work is a beneficiary for this year and in 2010.
Slashdot Mirror
Not only that - RHEL is available for free if the student so chooses to use it.
Go Beavers!
a beautiful mathematician like Danica McKellar. Dang men are lucky we get anything done at all!
spending any more tax payer money to send humans into space, to the moon or mars, is a ridiculous waste considering the catastrophic infrastructure breakdowns we are now facing in real time.
In the short term, meaning next 20 years, this money would be much better spent repairing antiquated and unsafe bridges, damns, levies and sewage systems than it would be sending anyone to the moon or mars.
Significantly more people will benefit through lives saved and catastrophes averted by wisely spending money instead of wasting it in a time when what we have to gain from space exploration by humans is very little in comparison
Let's fix the continental infrastructure!
Tivo has tried to come out with some nice additions, like renting movies on demand. The stupid aspect of this offering is that you have to provide a credit card to another company such as Amazon. Why Tivo does not handle the charging transaction themselves is beyond me since they already have my CC number for the recurring monthly charges. So due to this I will not be renting any movies on demand from Tivo.
Dumb.
Go Beavers!
However this has not effected my spelling in the least, unless illegible characters count for misspelling.
My handwriting has been reduced to chicken-scratch and the characters vary between block and script for no apparent reason; it is just what comes out. I sometimes even have trouble writing characters such as 'e' or 'q' where I have to concentrate to make sure they look legible.
Haha - you know nothing except for a conservative and negative knee-jerk reaction to marijuana use. But I bet you would have participated in the underground bars during prohibition. Alcohol is so much safer than weed; NOT. /. readers!
Some of the smartest people in the world partake in the herb and I'd venture to guess Schneier on wacky-terbacky would still more intelligent than 98% of
If they even so much as continue to talk about using Google, or any other insecure third party application, for sensitive patient data. There is no possible way to use Google without breaching HIPAA unless all the doctors and patients interested in using it are capable of successfully encrypting and decrypting all communications; which they are not.
The best minds in the world work on cracking them and come up with theoretical proofs of a weakness which ultimately prove to everyone, beyond the shadow of a doubt, the security of the algorithm. Too bad many corporations don't understand and try to create closed cryptographic algorithms which, in almost every case, turn out to be very lame.
could be to anonymously feed thousands of opt-in users current sound input into a public algorithmic service which provides data facilitating the creation of truely random numbers. Similar to the use of atmospheric noise by sites like Random.org; but this could be better because the sound input devices are decentralized and always moving.
There are the obvious problems to overcome with attempts to game this sort of system, but I think it an interesting idea.
More than likely there will be a crap story today; and not about the kind of crap that comes out of your arse.
Once we can produce eggs in the lab, we are one step closer to a "Matrix" type reality for the future of humanity.
Well said sopssa.
one of the reasons why there will never be a true Democracy. The elite in every society tells the commoner and new initiate what to think, and for the most part they fall in line.
BING == Because It's Not Google
Disagree. It should be a government issue, but not solely a government issue and certainly not a clandestine government organization issue. Information and Network Security should be shared and handle by all end-points, government, commercial and private; and they should all work together and share information openly.
Bruce Schneier has an interesting essay which touches on this subject. http://www.schneier.com/essay-265.html
all the jackasses at the SEC that ignored data again and again which pointed to fraud and enabled him to get away with this for so many years?
Excellent synopsis but I must add that a self-learner can be quickly and easily taught clean coding and good comment techniques. The entity hiring them simply has to specify this is mandatory and ask them if they think they can do it.
:-)
I know because I speak from my own experience.
Yeah this is news? Man the main reason why I originally started blocking ads was not because I necessarily objected to them, it was because the ad servers always seem to hang up the page loads. Web 2.0 as it is called simply made this problem even worse with sites cross loading content. Web 2.0 sucks!
>> Some say that recent reports that Steve Jobs may have had a liver transplant, still not confirmed by the company, now makes one of Apple's assertions from January -- that Jobs was suffering only from a hormonal imbalance -- seem like a deliberate untruth."
Hmmm, I would not classify that as a deliberate untruth since having a malfunctioning liver will indeed cause a hormonal imbalance. I would classify it as a good 'ol half-truth instead.
I for one think this is a very clever approach to earning more money off of a single product in a purely capitalist society.
Bogus; but clever.
If you have the brains and the talent, anything is possible in IT; as long as you really enjoy it.
In my opinion which is based on prospective employee interviewing experiences, anything below a PhD in technology doesn't mean much. The real question you should be asking yourself is, "Are you self-motivated, creative and talented? Are you able to solve unique problems on your own? Do you need someone to hold your hand?"
If the answer to the first two are yes and the second no; why waste your money? Personally I have a HS education and have had several great paying jobs in IT. Since I didn't spend a crapload to get a degree, I am way ahead of my counterparts that did. How did I do it? Well I discovered I had an aptitude for coding and more importantly problem solving and then I worked my ass off for a number of years. I just ate it up, couldn't get enough, HTML, DHTML, then Perl, C, Java, Shell, etc.
I padded my self education with some formal education in Unix and C programming at the university level, and even more importantly, I found a brilliant person who was able to serve as a mentor of sorts.
I am not saying my way is the right way for you or anyone; but it was for me and so I thought I'd share it. So good luck in whatever you choose!
>> But because the amount of non-routable IP address space most commonly used for intranets is so small--about 1280 addresses, Hansen estimates--collisions between networks often occur.
First of all there is no such thing as non-routable IP addresses. While private IP space may not be routed on the Internet, it is all routable on the private network.
Secondly, 10. private IP space is a Class A assignment which translates to 16,777,216 IP addresses. Where did they get 1280?
Or am I missing something here?
Actually this not completely true. While it seems some space exploration may be on the chopping block, scientific research is a part of the Obama stimulus package and the top notch research/educational institute for which I work is a beneficiary for this year and in 2010.