US FMF grants to Israel in 2011, divided by the population of Israel in 2011, ends up as $384 per capita. The 2011 US budget, divided by the population of the US in 2011, ends up as $11,897 per capita. That's ignoring the fact that Israel has to spend the FMF money in the USA, in effect subsidising the American military-industrial complex.
Protip: Don't post bullshit pseudo-statistics to Slashdot - we guys love our calculators.
The obvious thing would be for Israel to pay for the entire trip, including the trip to the Palestinian territories. That would be the obvious, right and peaceful thing to do. Apparently, Israel isn't interested in that.
I hope Israel will turn around and do the right thing.
The article talks about R2010b, which isn't out yet. R2010a (which *is* out), supports parallel processing pretty well (I use it constantly), but not exactly "natively" - you have to pay extra for an option called the "Parallel Computing Toolbox" which also gives you sweet stuff like multicore, HPC and so on.
True story - I wrote the SSL/SSH code for an Embedded router a few years ago. I *didn't* specify a hard-coded key -- instead the router would freeze for a few seconds to generate the key when you first activated SSL or SSH (only the management CPU froze - traffic still went through). The router's CPU was pretty crappy - it took quite a while to generate a 2048-bit key pair.
You can't imagine the amount of griping this slowdown caused from the product/marketing teams. They really really wanted it hard-coded. Fortunately "security guys" are taken seriously in Israel so as far as I know it's still generated on the fly.
It's friday, so I get into work early, before lunch even. The phone rings. Shit!
I turn the page on the excuse sheet. "SOLAR FLARES" stares out at me. I'd better read up on that.
Two minutes later I'm ready to answer the phone.
"Hello?" I say.
"WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN, I'VE BEEN TRYING TO GET YOU ALL MORNING?!"
I hate it when they shout at me early in the morning. It always puts me in a bad mood. You know
what I mean.
"Ah, yes. Well, there's been some solar activity this morning, it always disrupts electronics..." I say,
sweet as a sugar pie.
"Huh? But I could get through to my friends?!"
"Yes, that's entirely possible, solar activity is very unpredictable in it's effects. Why last week, we
had some files just dissappear from a guys account while he was working on it!"
I'm absolutely not joking, BTW. The Gambino mafia made hundreds of millions of dollars off similar "last mile" scams. The idea is to buy some rural phone company in East Padinkus, then get Fed money for all of the "broadband" it's been putting out.
MEH OS is exactly how I feel about this new offering and its chances of impressing anybody in this age and time. At least they didn't get it as bad as the CrAPI one.
Water is not the limiting factor in geothermal development.
It is too, especially when you're talking "new" geothermal, which works on lower-temperature deposits. - please turn to this very interesting IEEE Spectrum article for more details.
Google gave me walking (actually bicycling but never mind) directions which all but crossed a 6-lane highway. Since said highway was surrounded by a tall fence, a trench and a shrubbery, I didn't apply for a Darwin award, but instead BFS'ed for a few minutes until I found a proper crossing.
As a coder, I know it's terribly difficult to write a proper pathing algorithm! I guess since I know that I'm more forgiving (just as I'm less likely to rage at buggy games).
I don't really understand how this infomercial qualifies as Slashdot material, but still it needs some corrections: 1. The iPads were not confiscated - they were only prevented from entering Israel. They are still the property of whoever bought them, and he's welcome to take them back to the US and return/sell them on. 2. This regulation only applies to people trying to *sell* iPads in Israel - one piece for personal use is perfectly OK. I know many people who imported various wireless devices (walkie talkies, wifi routers, even Nexus Ones) to Israel, and as long as it's for personal use nobody challenged them at customs. Most electronics (except for musical instruments) is customs-exempt in Israel anyway.
The iPad scene in Israel: even though the thing doesn't have Hebrew text entry yet, there's still a very clear interest in it. There are companies who offer to buy it in the US and send it to you. Typical price including shipping is 2500NIS ($660): http://www.mustop.co.il/special-deals-israel/ipad
More to the point, this is unlikely to be a practical issue right now because it's a related key attack. You have to encrypt something with multiple keys that are closely related (similar in many respects) before the attack applies. This usually doesn't happen unless the implementers are idiots.
Related key attacks are very feasible if a block cipher is used as a building block for a hash function. FYI XBOX was broken with a related key attack.
(credit goes to Orr Dunkelman for finding this out)
It's heartwarming that Moto finally has a sales growth. My first phone was a StarTAC, and it was really sad to see the brand fading away over the past years. I know quite a few good Moto engineers (they're all there, if you dig under the layers of Dilbert-grade mismanagement), and they were really waiting for good news for quite a few years now.
I hope Google keeps control over the user interface, though.
That's a really good idea, and at least in my house it's working out wonderfully well. The OP had in his mind that the users are somehow going to be "improved" if they get good reading material about malware, viruses, etc. It's well known that it doesn't work that way - they'll keep making mistakes (perhaps only half as much, but so what). The best solutions are those that keep the user out of the loop - that is, installing a different OS, lockdown policies, etc. etc.
I've never heard of Steadystate before. It sounds like a brilliant idea.
Somebody made some noise, and they got disqualified from the contest on political reasons (just like Leonid Levin's Ph.D. in 1972 Soviet Russia).
I can't comment on the AUC team's chance of winning, but I can comment on the sheer stupidity of ignoring scientific work because you dislike the political leanings of its authors.
MS was misleading T-Mobile about the state of Sidekick support, and apparently charging hundreds of millions every year for, and I quote "a handful of people in Palo Alto managing some contractors in Romania, Ukraine, etc". This is apparently because most of the Sidekick devs had either moved to Pink or quit out of disgust.
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It was finalised yesterday:
http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000803148
I guess that means they'll have to get another printer in a few days.
US FMF grants to Israel in 2011, divided by the population of Israel in 2011, ends up as $384 per capita. The 2011 US budget, divided by the population of the US in 2011, ends up as $11,897 per capita. That's ignoring the fact that Israel has to spend the FMF money in the USA, in effect subsidising the American military-industrial complex.
Protip: Don't post bullshit pseudo-statistics to Slashdot - we guys love our calculators.
http://www.emsec.rub.de/media/crypto/veroeffentlichungen/2011/10/10/desfire_2011_extended_1.pdf
It's just a front end for their recruiting staff. They post wanted ads there - and then advertise the same ads in Israeli newspapers.
The obvious thing would be for Israel to pay for the entire trip, including the trip to the Palestinian territories. That would be the obvious, right and peaceful thing to do. Apparently, Israel isn't interested in that.
I hope Israel will turn around and do the right thing.
http://hamakor.org.il/pipermail/discussions/2011-May/003030.html
The article talks about R2010b, which isn't out yet. R2010a (which *is* out), supports parallel processing pretty well (I use it constantly), but not exactly "natively" - you have to pay extra for an option called the "Parallel Computing Toolbox" which also gives you sweet stuff like multicore, HPC and so on.
Defense is the American spelling.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcbaeKA2moE
You can't imagine the amount of griping this slowdown caused from the product/marketing teams. They really really wanted it hard-coded. Fortunately "security guys" are taken seriously in Israel so as far as I know it's still generated on the fly.
There you go
It's friday, so I get into work early, before lunch even. The phone rings. Shit!
I turn the page on the excuse sheet. "SOLAR FLARES" stares out at me. I'd better read up on that. Two minutes later I'm ready to answer the phone.
"Hello?" I say.
"WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN, I'VE BEEN TRYING TO GET YOU ALL MORNING?!"
I hate it when they shout at me early in the morning. It always puts me in a bad mood. You know what I mean.
"Ah, yes. Well, there's been some solar activity this morning, it always disrupts electronics..." I say, sweet as a sugar pie.
"Huh? But I could get through to my friends?!"
"Yes, that's entirely possible, solar activity is very unpredictable in it's effects. Why last week, we had some files just dissappear from a guys account while he was working on it!"
More here...
I'm absolutely not joking, BTW. The Gambino mafia made hundreds of millions of dollars off similar "last mile" scams. The idea is to buy some rural phone company in East Padinkus, then get Fed money for all of the "broadband" it's been putting out.
MEH OS is exactly how I feel about this new offering and its chances of impressing anybody in this age and time. At least they didn't get it as bad as the CrAPI one.
Water is not the limiting factor in geothermal development.
It is too, especially when you're talking "new" geothermal, which works on lower-temperature deposits. - please turn to this very interesting IEEE Spectrum article for more details.
BFS stands for Bread-first search. It means I searched for bread, then sang a few songs about it, then went on driving.
Google gave me walking (actually bicycling but never mind) directions which all but crossed a 6-lane highway. Since said highway was surrounded by a tall fence, a trench and a shrubbery, I didn't apply for a Darwin award, but instead BFS'ed for a few minutes until I found a proper crossing.
As a coder, I know it's terribly difficult to write a proper pathing algorithm! I guess since I know that I'm more forgiving (just as I'm less likely to rage at buggy games).
I don't really understand how this infomercial qualifies as Slashdot material, but still it needs some corrections:
1. The iPads were not confiscated - they were only prevented from entering Israel. They are still the property of whoever bought them, and he's welcome to take them back to the US and return/sell them on.
2. This regulation only applies to people trying to *sell* iPads in Israel - one piece for personal use is perfectly OK. I know many people who imported various wireless devices (walkie talkies, wifi routers, even Nexus Ones) to Israel, and as long as it's for personal use nobody challenged them at customs. Most electronics (except for musical instruments) is customs-exempt in Israel anyway.
The iPad scene in Israel: even though the thing doesn't have Hebrew text entry yet, there's still a very clear interest in it. There are companies who offer to buy it in the US and send it to you. Typical price including shipping is 2500NIS ($660):
http://www.mustop.co.il/special-deals-israel/ipad
Circa March 2008:
http://www.cybernetman.com/en/products/zero-footprint-pc/zpc-gx31.cfm
They even reused the stock footage.
Should cost at least $700, according to Gizmodo Australia:
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/03/cybernet_zpcgx31_a_pc_in_a_keyboardsized_case-2/
More to the point, this is unlikely to be a practical issue right now because it's a related key attack. You have to encrypt something with multiple keys that are closely related (similar in many respects) before the attack applies. This usually doesn't happen unless the implementers are idiots.
Related key attacks are very feasible if a block cipher is used as a building block for a hash function. FYI XBOX was broken with a related key attack.
(credit goes to Orr Dunkelman for finding this out)
It's heartwarming that Moto finally has a sales growth. My first phone was a StarTAC, and it was really sad to see the brand fading away over the past years. I know quite a few good Moto engineers (they're all there, if you dig under the layers of Dilbert-grade mismanagement), and they were really waiting for good news for quite a few years now.
I hope Google keeps control over the user interface, though.
That's a really good idea, and at least in my house it's working out wonderfully well. The OP had in his mind that the users are somehow going to be "improved" if they get good reading material about malware, viruses, etc. It's well known that it doesn't work that way - they'll keep making mistakes (perhaps only half as much, but so what). The best solutions are those that keep the user out of the loop - that is, installing a different OS, lockdown policies, etc. etc.
I've never heard of Steadystate before. It sounds like a brilliant idea.
Take a look at the home page for the European counterpart of this contest:
http://www.sdeurope.org/index.php/eng/PARTICIPATING-TEAMS
Count carefully, and you find only 19 finalists, and not 20. Why? Because the 20th was from Ariel University Center, an Israeli university located in a settlement:
http://spme.net/cgi-bin/articles.cgi?ID=6022
Somebody made some noise, and they got disqualified from the contest on political reasons (just like Leonid Levin's Ph.D. in 1972 Soviet Russia).
I can't comment on the AUC team's chance of winning, but I can comment on the sheer stupidity of ignoring scientific work because you dislike the political leanings of its authors.
According to a very long article on AppleInsider:
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/10/09/exclusive_pink_danger_leaks_from_microsofts_windows_phone.html&page=3
MS was misleading T-Mobile about the state of Sidekick support, and apparently charging hundreds of millions every year for, and I quote "a handful of people in Palo Alto managing some contractors in Romania, Ukraine, etc". This is apparently because most of the Sidekick devs had either moved to Pink or quit out of disgust.
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You hit the brown mold. You are suddenly very cold!
More power to you. If you want a geek-friendly diet plan, I've seen people here recommend the Hacker's Diet. It's a diet with widgets!