Unless she intends to pick a job in the future based on whether they use Linux, then whether the University supports it is probably a moot issue. It's like having cable TV, or private bathrooms, or a pool table in your particular dorm. Nice to have, but not essential.
Either she'll get a school that supports Linux (Good), or she'll get a school that doesn't, and be well prepared for what the rest of the real world is like, where Linux people are a minority who do what they want because they want to, not because their IT department puts their stamp of approval on it (Also good).
This way those punks at pornschool.com can't put up their own fake freeway signs that say "school.edu - next exit" in an attempt to make you get off when you don't want to.
Actually, Slashdot is on the verge of releasing their own augmented-reality iPhone app.
It will use the camera to visually assess the person you're talking to. Using various AI and fuzzy-logic techniques, it will assess the things the person most likely feels self-conscious about that day.
It will then use the 3g to access a database of previous slashdot comments, and suggest 10 appropriately snarky things to say.
Most home-detention ankle-bracelet style monitoring equipment in our area requires a land-line to plug into. In order to be eligible for home-detention, you must have a land-line without "features" such as call-waiting / 3-way calling, etc.
Nobody. "Voluntarily" means they did it before the court ordered them to. Just because I sue you and tell you to do something, it doesn't mean you have to do it. But if I sue you, and the Judge / Jury tells you to do something, then you do.
The article is slashdotted, so I'll post a thought without RTFA.
I do embedded firmware for a living; assembly programming is part of my job. But unless you have to fit all of your software into a $.42 micro, there's no reason to write all your software in assembly. Typically, you get most of your performance gains by rewriting 5% or less of the software in assembly [Citation needed...:-)]. As for the rest, go with C or higher for maintainability and portability.
6 months from now, a new processor revision will provide enough marginal performance to make up for not coding the other 95% in assembly.
That said, this is a monumentally cool achievement, if academic.
Lawyers will only use unofficial sources like RECAP for research.
Exactly! And that's why it's worth falsifying. If I can convince you, through your own research, that what you're trying to do against me has been proven not to work, then you'll give up. When in fact, perhaps your research would have shown that what you were trying to do in fact worked very well!
But you're assuming that I'm downloading the document to use specifically as-is, in the judicial system. What if I'm interested in reading, for instance, the i4i v. Microsoft case above for my own entertainment and education? What's to keep one party or the other from uploading a version of the document with stuff they don't like modified? It might not work in court, but it could confuse the public, or cause you to abandon one potentially valid avenue of research you might otherwise have pursued, had the document not been falsified. It's easy to see how this could appeal to people. Just look how many people put up false stuff on Wikipedia. Except in this case, the only way for me to refute what is in RECAP is to pay money to buy my own copy of the document from PACER.
Are you absolutely sure the RIAA or similar wouldn't potentially try to do this if a bad case came down against them? Once a falsehood starts circulating, it's very hard to kill.
If the system relies on my uploading documents that I downloaded from the court, how does it authenticate the validity of those documents? Suppose I'm a patent troll lawyer. What's to keep me (aside from non-technical disciplinary stuff) from downloading documents that have unfavorable rulings to patet troll companies, then modifying them to make it look like the precident is different, and uploading them to RECAP? It seems like this could be a good way to derail the competition.
But thirty five bucks to RTFA? WTF? I just did a google news search on "sticky tape Terahertz Radiation" and got ONE result - TFA.
Yeah. Inside it links to this: http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=ol-34-14-2195
With words like "tribocharging" and "bremsstrahlung", I'm really on the edge of getting my credit card out right now. Or, second thought, maybe I'll just wander over to youtube and see if I can get confirmation of your "you can light'em" explanation.
Thank you. You're officially smarter than the article. Unfortunatley, Can't mod this informative, because I've already posted...
(See "So What" above)...
Not to be a troll, but who cares? I read TFA, which was basically just a shallow page to link to the original PDF article, for which they want me to pay $35 to read. There was some vague talk of how it might help "Medical Lasers" (Sharks?), but nothing substantial.
There's no discussion of application, and no discussion of how the experiment was performed. I suppose that I take it on faith that cows really do fart methane, and I'll have to take it on faith that tape really does fart terahertz radiation.
How did this end up on Slashdot's main page? This isn't even good enough to slide in on the Science section.
Or, perhaps created their own doomsday scenario. The nature of technology is that in order to do most anything worthwhile, you have to create self feeding processes. For man / life, the first one was reproduction. We've got that down pat; there's more than 8 billion of us. Then comes fire. This was the first technology that could really escape our control in a way to be immediately harmful. Now, we have nuclear reactors, bio-engineering, and potentially micro-black holes. And we're working on nanites and artificial intellegence. Perhaps the destiny of every advanced society is to advance itself to around where we are now, then kill itself off in one collosal civilization destroying fuck-up.
Reading TFA is hard. More fun just to post. Seriously though, I did read the article. I was speaking more in generalities, and actually explaining the difference kinda threw off the cadence of the post. Or maybe I was generally just feeling trollish. Go ahead and mod me down if you want. That's what the points are there for...:-)
Cool experimient. Seriously. Very cool. Mosquitos curing malaria. Neat! But, I just gotta ask; wouldn't be doing my job if I didn't ask... Why can't we just use needles and syringes like everybody else?
how in holy hell did they get that past the human subjects review board? Athlete's foot and common cold is one thing, intentionally infecting your control group with malaria is something else altogether.
You're so cute. You think there's review boards in a lot of the countries that have malaria problems?
Big Pharma: Hi, I'd like to do a study trial on malaria. Here's $10,000.
Despot: How soon can you start? Oh, just out of curiousity, will you be infecting people with malaria, trying to cure malaria, or infecting people, then trying to cure it?
Yes it is. The point is DRM in general, not just DRM for your particular music in your particular format, from your particular vendor. The decisions made now about DRM will set precident for Movies, Books, Software, and technologies we don't even consider now, possibly including virtual worlds, 3d models for 3d-printers, and who knows what else.
Oops, wait. Scratch that. Actually, the robot did get happy, sad, and angry. Oh, and its programming was done by a bolt of lightning. Yeah, that one sucked too.
Slashdot Mirror
Unless she intends to pick a job in the future based on whether they use Linux, then whether the University supports it is probably a moot issue. It's like having cable TV, or private bathrooms, or a pool table in your particular dorm. Nice to have, but not essential.
Either she'll get a school that supports Linux (Good), or she'll get a school that doesn't, and be well prepared for what the rest of the real world is like, where Linux people are a minority who do what they want because they want to, not because their IT department puts their stamp of approval on it (Also good).
This way those punks at pornschool.com can't put up their own fake freeway signs that say "school.edu - next exit" in an attempt to make you get off when you don't want to.
Best...Double-Entendre...Ever...
Welcome our new .edu domain-name-securing overlords.
I don't know about that whole karma thing. But my iPhone says you shouldn't wear those black shoes with your brown belt.
Actually, Slashdot is on the verge of releasing their own augmented-reality iPhone app.
It will use the camera to visually assess the person you're talking to. Using various AI and fuzzy-logic techniques, it will assess the things the person most likely feels self-conscious about that day.
It will then use the 3g to access a database of previous slashdot comments, and suggest 10 appropriately snarky things to say.
I'm not telling.
BTW, does anybody wanna buy 130 Million credit card numbers? I'm letting them go cheap.
Most home-detention ankle-bracelet style monitoring equipment in our area requires a land-line to plug into. In order to be eligible for home-detention, you must have a land-line without "features" such as call-waiting / 3-way calling, etc.
Obviously eventually this will change.
Grandpa still used the outhouse.
Man. I hate SBC/AT&T as much as the next guy, but even I think that metaphore was pretty harsh...
Nobody. "Voluntarily" means they did it before the court ordered them to. Just because I sue you and tell you to do something, it doesn't mean you have to do it. But if I sue you, and the Judge / Jury tells you to do something, then you do.
The article is slashdotted, so I'll post a thought without RTFA. I do embedded firmware for a living; assembly programming is part of my job. But unless you have to fit all of your software into a $.42 micro, there's no reason to write all your software in assembly. Typically, you get most of your performance gains by rewriting 5% or less of the software in assembly [Citation needed... :-)]. As for the rest, go with C or higher for maintainability and portability.
6 months from now, a new processor revision will provide enough marginal performance to make up for not coding the other 95% in assembly.
That said, this is a monumentally cool achievement, if academic.
Sure. But who creates the hash?
Lawyers will only use unofficial sources like RECAP for research.
Exactly! And that's why it's worth falsifying. If I can convince you, through your own research, that what you're trying to do against me has been proven not to work, then you'll give up. When in fact, perhaps your research would have shown that what you were trying to do in fact worked very well!
But you're assuming that I'm downloading the document to use specifically as-is, in the judicial system. What if I'm interested in reading, for instance, the i4i v. Microsoft case above for my own entertainment and education? What's to keep one party or the other from uploading a version of the document with stuff they don't like modified? It might not work in court, but it could confuse the public, or cause you to abandon one potentially valid avenue of research you might otherwise have pursued, had the document not been falsified. It's easy to see how this could appeal to people. Just look how many people put up false stuff on Wikipedia. Except in this case, the only way for me to refute what is in RECAP is to pay money to buy my own copy of the document from PACER.
Are you absolutely sure the RIAA or similar wouldn't potentially try to do this if a bad case came down against them? Once a falsehood starts circulating, it's very hard to kill.
If the system relies on my uploading documents that I downloaded from the court, how does it authenticate the validity of those documents? Suppose I'm a patent troll lawyer. What's to keep me (aside from non-technical disciplinary stuff) from downloading documents that have unfavorable rulings to patet troll companies, then modifying them to make it look like the precident is different, and uploading them to RECAP? It seems like this could be a good way to derail the competition.
But thirty five bucks to RTFA? WTF? I just did a google news search on "sticky tape Terahertz Radiation" and got ONE result - TFA.
Yeah. Inside it links to this:
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=ol-34-14-2195
With words like "tribocharging" and "bremsstrahlung", I'm really on the edge of getting my credit card out right now. Or, second thought, maybe I'll just wander over to youtube and see if I can get confirmation of your "you can light'em" explanation.
Thank you. You're officially smarter than the article. Unfortunatley, Can't mod this informative, because I've already posted... (See "So What" above)...
Not to be a troll, but who cares? I read TFA, which was basically just a shallow page to link to the original PDF article, for which they want me to pay $35 to read. There was some vague talk of how it might help "Medical Lasers" (Sharks?), but nothing substantial.
There's no discussion of application, and no discussion of how the experiment was performed. I suppose that I take it on faith that cows really do fart methane, and I'll have to take it on faith that tape really does fart terahertz radiation.
How did this end up on Slashdot's main page? This isn't even good enough to slide in on the Science section.
Or, perhaps created their own doomsday scenario. The nature of technology is that in order to do most anything worthwhile, you have to create self feeding processes. For man / life, the first one was reproduction. We've got that down pat; there's more than 8 billion of us. Then comes fire. This was the first technology that could really escape our control in a way to be immediately harmful. Now, we have nuclear reactors, bio-engineering, and potentially micro-black holes. And we're working on nanites and artificial intellegence. Perhaps the destiny of every advanced society is to advance itself to around where we are now, then kill itself off in one collosal civilization destroying fuck-up.
Reading TFA is hard. More fun just to post. Seriously though, I did read the article. I was speaking more in generalities, and actually explaining the difference kinda threw off the cadence of the post. Or maybe I was generally just feeling trollish. Go ahead and mod me down if you want. That's what the points are there for... :-)
Cool experimient. Seriously. Very cool. Mosquitos curing malaria. Neat! But, I just gotta ask; wouldn't be doing my job if I didn't ask... Why can't we just use needles and syringes like everybody else?
how in holy hell did they get that past the human subjects review board? Athlete's foot and common cold is one thing, intentionally infecting your control group with malaria is something else altogether.
You're so cute. You think there's review boards in a lot of the countries that have malaria problems?
Big Pharma: Hi, I'd like to do a study trial on malaria. Here's $10,000.
Despot: How soon can you start? Oh, just out of curiousity, will you be infecting people with malaria, trying to cure malaria, or infecting people, then trying to cure it?
As a sidenote, this mp3 has DRM technology embedded in it, and will self destruct in 10...9...
At least with the old FlexPlay DVDs, they were honest about it...
... 172,799 ... 172,798 ...
This DVD will self destruct in 172,800
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexplay for details...
Morons.
Yes it is. The point is DRM in general, not just DRM for your particular music in your particular format, from your particular vendor. The decisions made now about DRM will set precident for Movies, Books, Software, and technologies we don't even consider now, possibly including virtual worlds, 3d models for 3d-printers, and who knows what else.
Yes there was. And Disney poured so much money into developing the technology that it almost bankrupted the company.
Oops, wait. Scratch that. Actually, the robot did get happy, sad, and angry. Oh, and its programming was done by a bolt of lightning. Yeah, that one sucked too.