If you'd like to see them. I suggest watching them in order. I did ToS, TNG, DS9, and Voyager other the last 4 years. The order seemed appropriate. I did not watch any movies though (except the recent one).
Past the obvious, "it's not because I like it that I want to produce it". There are more technology than IT. Engineering (as in building stuff) is all about technology, but it has nothing to do with computers. Chemical engineering is all about technology as well. But it is not IT.
I think teh point of the original article is not to build your IT staff out of hackers-that-don't-shave-and-keep-swords-under-their-pillow. But having one in the corner that will recall you periodically that "we don't need a supercomputer, we can do it in excel" is sane for a team.
I am working as a computer scientists in a medically oriented university department. I agree that computers won't replace actual medical doctors.
But in many cases, computers are able to point out abnormalities or to evaluate the condition of a patient much better than a human doctor. I saw a study on neuroblastoma I believe where human doctors were to evaluate the condition of patient base on analysis of a slide. Independently, a computer was performing the same analysis.
Diagnosis of the human doctors were varying between "It is benign" to "You'll be dead in a weak" on the same sample. Once presented with the analysis of the computer. They all aggreed on the diagnosis with only minor deviation.
Personnally, I'll be glad to see a doctor be aided by automated computer diagnosis.
Once you can solve problem a). Problem b) will follow soon. Notice that for many case, you might not need to recover the password. Any password that generate the same hash will do.
If the MD5 encoded/ec/shadows of your system leaks. Solving problem a) allows me to log onto the system. That is a security problem. A lesser one than leaking the password itself but it is still a problem. Passwords need to be changed.
With a strong hashing function, you'll post your/etc/shadow on the web and still sleep like a baby at night.
MD5 has questionned since 1996 and a strong attack on it was realized in 2004. It broke apart since. Nobody serious about security should still be using MD5 now.
I work in a research lab. Honnestly, we have no use for someone with only a bachelor in mathematics. The people that are convinced they need reasonable statistical analysis are typically capable of performing the job themselves. The ones that do not have that skill do not care. (They should, but they don't. So they won't hire you to do that)
my son uses his smarthphone to slack off but also to check wikipedia when he encounter a concept he does not know. I do not see smartphone as just a distraction.
Though to be honest I believe it makes more harm than good.
We developed recently a web service for recommending papers, reviewers and journals out of the citations of a paper ( http://theadvisor.osu.edu/ ). Having conflict in the names can be problematic. Many paper recommendation algorithms use the property that two papers share the same authors, they must be somewhat related. Having name conflict lower the quality of that assumption. Though, some database are already disambiguated. For instance DBLP adds an ID to the name in case there is more than one. (but it is a manual process)
I must say I disagree with the petition too. I like the idea of trying to prevent patent trolls. Actually I'd like to prevent any case where a giant company will use the legal system to crush a small company without too much of a basis. (If Android was by small_company_inc, how do you think the Oracle vs small_company_inc would have finished? My guess it would have finished with Oracle buying small_company_inc.)
But requiring a 3 times what was asked is ridiculous. First of all, it does not cover cases where you ask for a simple shutdown of the product. Then, it will prevent small companies from asking reasonnable damages. Also, uou might sue legitimatelly and lose because of some loophole or because you were wrong.
Probably you should not trust that one study. Currently, that is the only study that lead to this conclusion. Public safety regulation should not be lowered based on a single study.
Once the result has been succesfully reproduced in multiple independent labs, then the question will be different.
Well, ending it entirely probably not. But it might seriously decrease it. While automatic/magic drivers will not increase the capacity of the roads, it will use roads much more efficiently and predict traffic pattern. The driver-less car are less prone to accident which are a primary cause of traffic jams. They will remove the wave patterns in traffic caused by starting at a traffic light with some delays between each car.
Actually provided the COWA (Cover Obama's Whereabout Act) that was secretly acknowledged by all the countries of the world and some extraterrestrial lifeform, it is the responsability of Twiter to make sure no secret information are leaked. The decision of not-a-court-they-are-for-the-others includes a 3 day-2night stay in a Guantanamo Bay hotel for debriefing.
Well, I must say i do not store any sensitive information nor i log on any sensitive website from my android phone. There are so many malware around that I do not feel confortable using an android phone for these things.
Actually I got really scared when applications such as rootme came out.Install the application that does not require ANY permission and your phone is rooted. Now what tells me there is not one of these in angry bird? Or in the thousand of apps out there.
NB: I do not trust your random windows machine as well.
arXiv does not peer review. But the documents are cross published. many submission system in physics actually download the paper from arxiv. Once you know the name of the published paper and the authors, you can access its version on arXiv which is exactly the one used by the journal.
The 20th language is NXT-G. What the fuck is that? Is it really lego's programming language for robots as wikipedia indicates (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NXT-G) ? And that is more popular than bash or matlab?
A hundred thousand dollar grant will cover perhaps a year of research.
I can tell you, $100 000 does not cover a postdoc for a full year. Approximatively 9 month of postdoc. When you factor in the salary of the postdoc, the benefits, the university tax on all money that goes in, the $100 000 are gone before a year. I am not even talking about the price of the equipement or travel expenses that researcher will have to do at least once a year.
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Seriously? Q episodes are about the most boring ones... They are random and pointless (except the sotry arc in voyager which was OK).
If you'd like to see them. I suggest watching them in order. I did ToS, TNG, DS9, and Voyager other the last 4 years. The order seemed appropriate. I did not watch any movies though (except the recent one).
Past the obvious, "it's not because I like it that I want to produce it". There are more technology than IT. Engineering (as in building stuff) is all about technology, but it has nothing to do with computers. Chemical engineering is all about technology as well. But it is not IT.
I think teh point of the original article is not to build your IT staff out of hackers-that-don't-shave-and-keep-swords-under-their-pillow. But having one in the corner that will recall you periodically that "we don't need a supercomputer, we can do it in excel" is sane for a team.
I am working as a computer scientists in a medically oriented university department. I agree that computers won't replace actual medical doctors.
But in many cases, computers are able to point out abnormalities or to evaluate the condition of a patient much better than a human doctor. I saw a study on neuroblastoma I believe where human doctors were to evaluate the condition of patient base on analysis of a slide. Independently, a computer was performing the same analysis.
Diagnosis of the human doctors were varying between "It is benign" to "You'll be dead in a weak" on the same sample. Once presented with the analysis of the computer. They all aggreed on the diagnosis with only minor deviation.
Personnally, I'll be glad to see a doctor be aided by automated computer diagnosis.
actually the GPS on the rat might be more expensive than the rat itself :)
Once you can solve problem a). Problem b) will follow soon. Notice that for many case, you might not need to recover the password. Any password that generate the same hash will do.
If the MD5 encoded /ec/shadows of your system leaks. Solving problem a) allows me to log onto the system. That is a security problem. A lesser one than leaking the password itself but it is still a problem. Passwords need to be changed.
With a strong hashing function, you'll post your /etc/shadow on the web and still sleep like a baby at night.
Seriously slashdot?
MD5 has questionned since 1996 and a strong attack on it was realized in 2004. It broke apart since. Nobody serious about security should still be using MD5 now.
Just read the second chapter of wikipedia on MD5 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD5
"There is little point in building your own these days."
What about privacy? Maybe OP is a spy. You would not want trade secrets on dropbox's servers, now do you?
I work in a research lab. Honnestly, we have no use for someone with only a bachelor in mathematics. The people that are convinced they need reasonable statistical analysis are typically capable of performing the job themselves. The ones that do not have that skill do not care. (They should, but they don't. So they won't hire you to do that)
my son uses his smarthphone to slack off but also to check wikipedia when he encounter a concept he does not know. I do not see smartphone as just a distraction.
Though to be honest I believe it makes more harm than good.
We developed recently a web service for recommending papers, reviewers and journals out of the citations of a paper ( http://theadvisor.osu.edu/ ). Having conflict in the names can be problematic. Many paper recommendation algorithms use the property that two papers share the same authors, they must be somewhat related. Having name conflict lower the quality of that assumption. Though, some database are already disambiguated. For instance DBLP adds an ID to the name in case there is more than one. (but it is a manual process)
Actually, you are not that wrong about a Priority mail envelope. Researcher can now compress genomes to very small sizes. Small enough to fit an email attachment :
http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/25/2/274
I must say I disagree with the petition too. I like the idea of trying to prevent patent trolls. Actually I'd like to prevent any case where a giant company will use the legal system to crush a small company without too much of a basis. (If Android was by small_company_inc, how do you think the Oracle vs small_company_inc would have finished? My guess it would have finished with Oracle buying small_company_inc.)
But requiring a 3 times what was asked is ridiculous. First of all, it does not cover cases where you ask for a simple shutdown of the product. Then, it will prevent small companies from asking reasonnable damages. Also, uou might sue legitimatelly and lose because of some loophole or because you were wrong.
Probably you should not trust that one study. Currently, that is the only study that lead to this conclusion. Public safety regulation should not be lowered based on a single study.
Once the result has been succesfully reproduced in multiple independent labs, then the question will be different.
Well, ending it entirely probably not. But it might seriously decrease it. While automatic/magic drivers will not increase the capacity of the roads, it will use roads much more efficiently and predict traffic pattern. The driver-less car are less prone to accident which are a primary cause of traffic jams. They will remove the wave patterns in traffic caused by starting at a traffic light with some delays between each car.
Actually provided the COWA (Cover Obama's Whereabout Act) that was secretly acknowledged by all the countries of the world and some extraterrestrial lifeform, it is the responsability of Twiter to make sure no secret information are leaked.
The decision of not-a-court-they-are-for-the-others includes a 3 day-2night stay in a Guantanamo Bay hotel for debriefing.
Now I have a reason to read TFA! Because I want to see TF-bikini'd-A.
(nice one BTW)
Well, I must say i do not store any sensitive information nor i log on any sensitive website from my android phone. There are so many malware around that I do not feel confortable using an android phone for these things.
Actually I got really scared when applications such as rootme came out.Install the application that does not require ANY permission and your phone is rooted. Now what tells me there is not one of these in angry bird? Or in the thousand of apps out there.
NB: I do not trust your random windows machine as well.
arXiv does not peer review. But the documents are cross published. many submission system in physics actually download the paper from arxiv. Once you know the name of the published paper and the authors, you can access its version on arXiv which is exactly the one used by the journal.
Actually most researchers publish their result in technical reports or on arXiv before sending a paper to a journal.
It is streamlined in Physics and is becoming popular in Computer Science. I am not sure about other disciplines though.
The 20th language is NXT-G. What the fuck is that? Is it really lego's programming language for robots as wikipedia indicates (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NXT-G) ? And that is more popular than bash or matlab?
A hundred thousand dollar grant will cover perhaps a year of research.
I can tell you, $100 000 does not cover a postdoc for a full year. Approximatively 9 month of postdoc. When you factor in the salary of the postdoc, the benefits, the university tax on all money that goes in, the $100 000 are gone before a year. I am not even talking about the price of the equipement or travel expenses that researcher will have to do at least once a year.
Please Google do this. End your monopoly in Germany and allow the rise of competitors!
Lawyers are really good these days. You never know what they will come up with!