That one was based on one time pads, and has a flaw in that it assumes that no one can store all the information, and that no one can intercept the timing information.
This one is based on quantum cryptography, although there's no information in the article as to specifics on how they intend to transmit discrete quanta over satellites.
Unfortunately, it appears that the sample they gave it to learn from contains a vast majority of horizontal brush strokes, as Van Gogh tried to emulate the rippling of the water and match that in the night sky. The only non-horizontal strokes are in the stars, very slightly in the buildings and in the boat at the bottom. I wonder what it would have looked like if they had taught it from Sunflowers or Irises or even The Bedroom.
It would be even more interesting to take The Bedroom and produce a before picture for it that straightens the odd angles and de-fisheyes it. What sort of schizophrenic things might it produce then?
Regardless of whether you agree with it, the government has judged them to be a monopoly. And using further anti-competitive tactics will only get them in more trouble.
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It might also constitute dumping, which is a well-proven anti-competitive tactic, and given that the US government has already declared them a monopoly, would probably get them in serious hot water.
I disagree. At least with the laptop part. I used to do some PC support at two different companies that used Compaq laptops, and they make one of the worst laptop lines and have one of the worst service departments I've ever worked with. The laptops would break on a monthly basis, and it was like pulling teeth to get Compaq to fix them, despite the fact that they were well within warranty.
My favorite one was that we had a number of them develop a loud clicking noise. It sounded like someone had put baseball cards in the spokes. When we called Compaq to get them repaired, we were told that it was a known issue with that model, and, therefore, they weren't going to fix it.
``Laser Rot'' actually had to do with the glue that held the two sides together (LDs are actually two separate discs joined) and that it, in combination with flexing due to the relatively large size and heaviness, let in moisture that contributed to oxidation. The manufacturers apparently caught on pretty quickly and did something (change the glue? I don't know). I don't think anyone's really reported a case of laser rot since the mid-eighties.
He won't be able to visit used bookstores, as Scientologists will undoubtedly recognize him from LRH's next book (from the grave) "The Enemy".
Now this is untrue. Don't you know that Co$ books don't get to used bookstores? They're all returned directly to the publisher (Bride Publications, another Co$ holding) to be redistributed, so that they can keep them as high on the bestsellers list as possible.
And, just to prevent the dissent, I have experienced this myself. I've worked at a number of bookstores, from large chains to single-storefront independents and at each of them seen obviously used books arrive on the truck, and, in some cases, actually arrive with price tags from other bookstores still attached. And this is in North Carolina, which is hardly a hotbed of Co$ activity.
There's a pseudo-standard called the ConScript Unicode Registry that's attempting to use the sections of Unicode codespace designated for private use to describe many fictional languages. Already encoded are Klingon, Tengwar (amongst some other Tolkien-created scripts), even such silliness as Seussian alphabets.
Note that it is not official Unicode, but might become a de-facto standard for those folks that are silly enough to actually want to use this stuff.
You're not missing much Dr. Who by not having BBCAmerica. They just show Robot (1st Tom Baker, the beginning of season 12) through, I believe, The Robots of Death (next to last story of season 14). Over and over and over and over again.
If you're competing with other companies to provide a service, it should be in your best interest to tell them what sorts of security issues they can be open to, in general, when pitching your service. Then demonstrate how your system does not have those holes. This should encourage them to ask the same questions of the other vendors. If it doesn't, then no amount of prodding after the fact will make them change their minds.
You might even demonstrate a security hole on your own system (open it up for testing) and then show them that you can (and do) close it. Then, perhaps, encourage them to try the same thing on the competing vendor's solution. Don't do it yourself, but get them to do it or get them to request the competing vendor perform the same test.
If they choose the other vendor, then you cannot feel guilty about not telling them about the security holes of their chosen vendor because you've already prodded them to the point that they should already be aware and concerned, and you can't feel bad about losing their business, either, since the ``additional'' security you provide was obviously not of enough concern to them.
Definitely don't press anyone in any way after you've lost the bid, though. There's nothing that leaves a worse taste in a customer's mouth than perceived sour grapes or even general pestering. If you don't bother them, then you leave yourself as a possible new vendor when the one they chose falls down on them. You already made it to their short list once.
In a separate count, the jury Wednesday determined that Rambus had not violated RICO anti-racketing law
I suppose that means that they didn't ever discriminate based on tennis or squash or badminton. Or maybe it means that employees were not not forced to be quiet.
Anti-racketing -- anti-racketeering. Whatever. Maybe anti-ratcheting means the same thing, too.
Many moons ago, I worked as a lab instructor at NCSU for, amongst other things, ``Introduction to the Computing Environment''. At the time, it was a network of DEC workstations running Ultrix, but it was a lab about how to use the keyboard, mouse, word processor, etc. So it's early in the semester and I'm telling this one freshman how to do something (I don't remember what now), and I tell her to point at a particular button. So she removes her hand from the mouse and physically points to the button on the monitor. So I say ``No. I mean with the mouse.'' To which she responds ``Oh!'', picks up the mouse, and presses it against the glass. I was forced to simply turn around and leave.
Shortly after I didn't graduate from college, I took a job at a tech support company providing phone support for, amongst other things, monitors. Now monitors are simple devices from a tech support point of view, as they're either broken or not. I had this one customer who I'd been dealing with for ages. I'd already shipped any number of monitors out to her. Initially, she had a problem with focus or some other aesthetic problem, but since then, she was having a problem with the monitor not displaying any video. Now, as with every customer who called about a monitor that wouldn't turn on or had a blank screen, I'd asked her (multiple times, actually) if it was plugged in and if she'd turned it on, if she'd plugged the cables in properly, if the pins on the connector were straight, etc. She responded affirmatively to those questions, so we went on with troubleshooting. After I'd shipped her the fifth monitor or so, she asked me, out of the blue, ``What's the button at the lower right of the monitor do?'' ``You mean the the rectangular one that sits at the bottom of the monitor?'' ``Yes, that one.'' ``That's the power button.'' Apparently the first one that she had recieved had been turned on for her by whoever installed it. I say ``apparently'' because someone else got to take care of the rest of that case.
Yup. The ArrowPoint/Cisco ContentSwitch does this. Don't remember right offhand if it's MD5 (I believe it is), but it definitely uses some sort of checksum. I've even calculated it offline once to doublecheck, so it's something that's not an ArrowPoint proprietary summing algorithm.
Sorry. Should have been more specific. It's actually Tibco's Rendezvous product. They used to have a neat Mandelbrot generator set up on their web site to demonstrate, but it seems to be gone now.
You could try implementing some parallel computing test using some middle ware like Tibco. Tibco is expensive, but it meant for exactly this purpose. There may be other similar middleware applications out there, possibly even Free/Open ones.
What exactly does this mean for those of us who have domains registered with registrars other than Verisign? Or am I mixing my terminologies and issues?
Check out Scott McCloud's web site. He's a comic book author and the author of probably the best teatise on the subject, Understanding Comics. He also wrote a followup called Reinventing Comics that touches on a lot of multimedia ideas. Also, his web site can often be a playground of fairly inventive multimedia applications. He's got a different eye to this sort of stuff than most folks.
computer
Pronunciation: k&m-'pyü-t&r
Function: noun
Usage: often attributive
Date: 1646
: one that computes; specifically : a programmable electronic device that can store, retrieve, and process data bold emphasis mine
How many 17th century computing machines are you familiar with?
You have some really good points here. You're certainly right about quoting issues. It's something that's always been a problem, and in our short-sightedness, we, as Unix users, ignore it implicity. There are other problems, too, as you imply, that we also take for granted. It's nice to see that there are those Plan9 and Inferno folks out there — those that want to take all the Unix loveliness and fix the misfeatures and bugs. Too bad that it'll never catch on;-( (Not trying to be a bastard here -- just being objective.)
I also took a closer look at rc and your sh. (Wouldn't a different name have been appropriate?) They have some really powerful features. Especially the file descriptor replacement thing that you exemplify. (zsh-workers! Steal this feature!) (By the way, zsh has a multiple redirection feature, but I'm pretty sure it won't work for stuff like cmp that needs two different inputs. It just concatenates things together into the input file descriptor, like ``cat < file1 < file2''.) But one thing that you miss is that these shells (zsh, bash, tcsh, etc.) are intended (at least in my mind) for interactive use. There's little need for being able to scroll back up in command history if you're programming a script. I find it unlikely that anyone would seriously write big scripts using those shells (although I have written stuff for personal use in zsh because of some nice glob and word modifiers). They use sh, or maybe ksh for something complex, because it's pretty well guaranteed to be portable. rc and your sh would be appropriate as well, if they were as or nearly as ubiquitous as sh and ksh are, whereas zsh, tcsh, and bash are not appropriate for that sort of thing, at least due to their size and related dilatoriness. (Despite this, there are a number of Linux distributions that have any number of scripts written for bash, whereas those who know what they're doing use ash (Almquist's a shell, not adventure shell), which is about as tiny as you can get.) Regardless, for interactive use, those of us with fallible fingers (and brains) want fancy command completion and interactive histories. That's why no one really uses sh or csh interactively anymore. If one added those types of interactive features to those shells, you might just have a couple of hits on your hands.
And, as a side note, zsh actually implements many (most?) of its features as loadable modules, which I noticed you mentioned as a feature of your sh. So you're not out there toally alone. zsh is still (much) bigger, though.
Not pleasant, particularly since Solaris ksh doesn't support arrow keys
Yeah it does. type ``VISUAL=emacs'' and arrow away.
And if you want portability, stick with only Bourne shell syntax. And definitely throw bash outta there.
Then again, this is your interactive life, and you can do what you want.
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This one is based on quantum cryptography, although there's no information in the article as to specifics on how they intend to transmit discrete quanta over satellites.
Cobalt already tried to sue Apple for using a cube. It seemed to have gotten dropped when Sun acquired Cobalt.
It would be even more interesting to take The Bedroom and produce a before picture for it that straightens the odd angles and de-fisheyes it. What sort of schizophrenic things might it produce then?
Regardless of whether you agree with it, the government has judged them to be a monopoly. And using further anti-competitive tactics will only get them in more trouble.
It might also constitute dumping, which is a well-proven anti-competitive tactic, and given that the US government has already declared them a monopoly, would probably get them in serious hot water.
My favorite one was that we had a number of them develop a loud clicking noise. It sounded like someone had put baseball cards in the spokes. When we called Compaq to get them repaired, we were told that it was a known issue with that model, and, therefore, they weren't going to fix it.
``Laser Rot'' actually had to do with the glue that held the two sides together (LDs are actually two separate discs joined) and that it, in combination with flexing due to the relatively large size and heaviness, let in moisture that contributed to oxidation. The manufacturers apparently caught on pretty quickly and did something (change the glue? I don't know). I don't think anyone's really reported a case of laser rot since the mid-eighties.
Now this is untrue. Don't you know that Co$ books don't get to used bookstores? They're all returned directly to the publisher (Bride Publications, another Co$ holding) to be redistributed, so that they can keep them as high on the bestsellers list as possible.
And, just to prevent the dissent, I have experienced this myself. I've worked at a number of bookstores, from large chains to single-storefront independents and at each of them seen obviously used books arrive on the truck, and, in some cases, actually arrive with price tags from other bookstores still attached. And this is in North Carolina, which is hardly a hotbed of Co$ activity.
Note that it is not official Unicode, but might become a de-facto standard for those folks that are silly enough to actually want to use this stuff.
You're not missing much Dr. Who by not having BBCAmerica. They just show Robot (1st Tom Baker, the beginning of season 12) through, I believe, The Robots of Death (next to last story of season 14). Over and over and over and over again.
You might even demonstrate a security hole on your own system (open it up for testing) and then show them that you can (and do) close it. Then, perhaps, encourage them to try the same thing on the competing vendor's solution. Don't do it yourself, but get them to do it or get them to request the competing vendor perform the same test.
If they choose the other vendor, then you cannot feel guilty about not telling them about the security holes of their chosen vendor because you've already prodded them to the point that they should already be aware and concerned, and you can't feel bad about losing their business, either, since the ``additional'' security you provide was obviously not of enough concern to them.
Definitely don't press anyone in any way after you've lost the bid, though. There's nothing that leaves a worse taste in a customer's mouth than perceived sour grapes or even general pestering. If you don't bother them, then you leave yourself as a possible new vendor when the one they chose falls down on them. You already made it to their short list once.
I suppose that means that they didn't ever discriminate based on tennis or squash or badminton. Or maybe it means that employees were not not forced to be quiet.
Anti-racketing -- anti-racketeering. Whatever. Maybe anti-ratcheting means the same thing, too.
Shortly after I didn't graduate from college, I took a job at a tech support company providing phone support for, amongst other things, monitors. Now monitors are simple devices from a tech support point of view, as they're either broken or not. I had this one customer who I'd been dealing with for ages. I'd already shipped any number of monitors out to her. Initially, she had a problem with focus or some other aesthetic problem, but since then, she was having a problem with the monitor not displaying any video. Now, as with every customer who called about a monitor that wouldn't turn on or had a blank screen, I'd asked her (multiple times, actually) if it was plugged in and if she'd turned it on, if she'd plugged the cables in properly, if the pins on the connector were straight, etc. She responded affirmatively to those questions, so we went on with troubleshooting. After I'd shipped her the fifth monitor or so, she asked me, out of the blue, ``What's the button at the lower right of the monitor do?'' ``You mean the the rectangular one that sits at the bottom of the monitor?'' ``Yes, that one.'' ``That's the power button.'' Apparently the first one that she had recieved had been turned on for her by whoever installed it. I say ``apparently'' because someone else got to take care of the rest of that case.
Yup. The ArrowPoint/Cisco ContentSwitch does this. Don't remember right offhand if it's MD5 (I believe it is), but it definitely uses some sort of checksum. I've even calculated it offline once to doublecheck, so it's something that's not an ArrowPoint proprietary summing algorithm.
I can't believe I misspelled that much and didn't notice....
Second, regradless of the qulaity of DSS, Real Server (or whatever they call it) is not cheap at all. Check out this comment to a former post.
I'm not sure why this was modded down, so I'll repost it. NCS white paper in PostScript format.
Sorry. Should have been more specific. It's actually Tibco's Rendezvous product. They used to have a neat Mandelbrot generator set up on their web site to demonstrate, but it seems to be gone now.
You could try implementing some parallel computing test using some middle ware like Tibco. Tibco is expensive, but it meant for exactly this purpose. There may be other similar middleware applications out there, possibly even Free/Open ones.
What exactly does this mean for those of us who have domains registered with registrars other than Verisign? Or am I mixing my terminologies and issues?
Check out Scott McCloud's web site. He's a comic book author and the author of probably the best teatise on the subject, Understanding Comics. He also wrote a followup called Reinventing Comics that touches on a lot of multimedia ideas. Also, his web site can often be a playground of fairly inventive multimedia applications. He's got a different eye to this sort of stuff than most folks.
computer
Pronunciation: k&m-'pyü-t&r
Function: noun
Usage: often attributive
Date: 1646
: one that computes; specifically : a programmable electronic device that can store, retrieve, and process data
bold emphasis mine
How many 17th century computing machines are you familiar with?
I also took a closer look at rc and your sh. (Wouldn't a different name have been appropriate?) They have some really powerful features. Especially the file descriptor replacement thing that you exemplify. (zsh-workers! Steal this feature!) (By the way, zsh has a multiple redirection feature, but I'm pretty sure it won't work for stuff like cmp that needs two different inputs. It just concatenates things together into the input file descriptor, like ``cat < file1 < file2''.) But one thing that you miss is that these shells (zsh, bash, tcsh, etc.) are intended (at least in my mind) for interactive use. There's little need for being able to scroll back up in command history if you're programming a script. I find it unlikely that anyone would seriously write big scripts using those shells (although I have written stuff for personal use in zsh because of some nice glob and word modifiers). They use sh, or maybe ksh for something complex, because it's pretty well guaranteed to be portable. rc and your sh would be appropriate as well, if they were as or nearly as ubiquitous as sh and ksh are, whereas zsh, tcsh, and bash are not appropriate for that sort of thing, at least due to their size and related dilatoriness. (Despite this, there are a number of Linux distributions that have any number of scripts written for bash, whereas those who know what they're doing use ash (Almquist's a shell, not adventure shell), which is about as tiny as you can get.) Regardless, for interactive use, those of us with fallible fingers (and brains) want fancy command completion and interactive histories. That's why no one really uses sh or csh interactively anymore. If one added those types of interactive features to those shells, you might just have a couple of hits on your hands.
And, as a side note, zsh actually implements many (most?) of its features as loadable modules, which I noticed you mentioned as a feature of your sh. So you're not out there toally alone. zsh is still (much) bigger, though.
And most of us diehards would tend to use vipw anyway, assuming chsh didn't work (which it doesn't in some annoying environs).
And if you want portability, stick with only Bourne shell syntax. And definitely throw bash outta there. Then again, this is your interactive life, and you can do what you want.