In many localities there is an official, government protected monopoly on the actual physical lines, which makes sense when you consider the herculean effort required in laying the lines and coordinating with public utilities. The contracts with the localities generally require that the authorized monopolist allow other companies to purchase use of the wire at a reasonable price. It's all part of the business. If you want to be the monopoly, you have to play by the rules. It's been the case with phone lines and power lines for ages. It disturbs me how the courts have lately been tricked into thinking that the internet somehow works differently.
...that it doesn't come with a shell, they don't give the root password, the whole thing resembles a Linux box even less than a Tivo, they might not even HAVE a root password, the board is sealed with all the pins covered in opaque hard plastic, and the permissions are set very strictly to avoid any kind of circumvention. It's possible to make a box extremely difficult to crack in software, and with a little forward thinking, make it useless if cracked in hardware.
AOL is using Linux in their latest attempt to take over the world. We must stop developing Linux immediately, or else we'll be doing their dirty work for them!
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I think the easiest way to assure a legitimate vote is to make each ballot unique. This of course raises very serious privacy issues. The ballot would obviously not have the voter's name on it, but something that could be somehow verified as corresponding to that voter. The system would need to be able to transform only in one direction. Now, IANA Cryptographer, but I strongly suspect there would be some way to implement such a verification system using cryptographic hashes. The system could still be susceptable to attack, like insecure key transmission, but it would get rid of the lion's share of fraud potential.
It's not my fault the moderator modded my post up. I agree with you that it was not worthy of a graduate thesis, but that doesn't mean that my opinion is invalid. The whole purpose of a discussion forum is not solely to get the opinions of the best, but also to get the more mundane opinions. I was adding my voice to the mundane crowd. I refused to use a posting bonus because I kept that in mind. I stand by my position that I, someone already at the Karma Cap, am not Karma Whoring.
The security of SDMI depends on would-be pirates having exceptionally high standards for sound quality. Given the quantity of 128 Mbit mp3s on napster, I think it's safe to say this is not the case.
I've already hit the karma cap, I have no need to pad my ego. If I had thought I had something wonderfully insightful to say, I would have used the posting bonus. Since I considered my comment to be thoughtful, yet not groundbreaking, I didn't abuse the posting bonus, letting the moderators decide if my message was worth promotion, or simply another voice of agreement. There's nothing inherently wrong with agreement, it just doesn't get modded up. Who are you to be talking about karma whoring?
Ok, so you can get the chip now, I've even seen it on pricewatch, but you can't get the motherboard. Now Intel can blame the lack of PIV systems on a lack of supporting hardware and hope the average consumer doesn't realize that it's Intel's fault that there isn't a chipset that can handle the "power" on this new chip.
My.sig refers to BLIND REDIRECTS. I'm not dumb enough to click on links on untrusted sites without previewing the address. By "Blind Redirect" I mean something that has a page refresh to file:///c|/nul/nul/ Embedded images and javascript that fakes the address also piss me off.
All that aside, it also pisses me off when I'm helping other people out in the lab and they're using one of the Win95 machines and they don't understand why they keep getting a BSOD on a certain page.
If you think I run Win98 by choice, you're gravely mistaken. We don't all have the option of our preferred OS when we're at school or at work. Hence my point. They've stopped being funny. That's all.
I'm referring to their post-tribal flood FUD about Linux and Solaris. Just because their FUD was more broad than it had any reason to be doesn't mean they didn't say it.
Didn't Microsoft at one point say that the remote administration capabilities of Unix-based systems constituted a security flaw? They better lock their code down REALLY WELL or else we'll start seeing a surge in Windows exploits. If you thought it was bad with Linux, just imagine what it would be like if every desktop system, run by completely clueless users in a majority of cases, had this kind of remote control built in, without the need for sneaking in BO or Netbus.
You can't smell methane. The smell of natural gas is added, not naturally present. Some people think that methane is what makes farts smell too, but it's actually the Sulphur Dioxide. Methane itself is about as easily detected by humans as CO2 is. We die when our lungs get flooded with it silently.
Actually, a government analyst published a paper a little while ago about the optimal slack time, that is, how long you should wait before buying a computer on a limited budget. The conclusion was that you should buy your system when it's powerful enough to finish your computations in 26 months. Any longer than that and you're better off waiting. Any shorter and you should stop waiting and actually get out and run the calculations on today's hardware.
One of my better friends in high school, the captain of the pop quiz team since 10th grade, the one guy who I always knew would beat me out in any test of the mind, even if I bested everyone else, the most well-read guy in the school, and I mean more than most of the teachers, too, was also a 2-sport varsity athlete. Those sports being Football and Lacrosse. Jock? Nerd? Take your pick. My preferred term was "friend". Interestingly enough, I don't recall seeing him at the dances...
...that one of the higher of all free-falls was the pilot who got shot down in the U2 over Russia. Apparently he had to free-fall for quite a while before opening his parachute, because he only had 10 minutes of oxygen, and if he deployed his chute right away, the oxygen would have run out before he had fallen to a breathable altitude. I don't know how long he did fall, though.
Any effective politician is going to be a tool of what Nader would call a "corporate party". This sad but true fact is not a construct of the party system, but of human nature, and any attempts to rectify it will fail.
I'm voting for the Tool of the party I trust. If that party betrays my trust, I'll work to fix it from within. The American political system doesn't work on coalitions. We get our diversity because our parties have localized units with their own opinions that sway the party on a national scale. It's slower and more stable. Good, bad? Neither, just American.
Basically my point was that you get out what you put in. Granted, there will always be efficiency issues, but the post I was responding to made it sound like activation energy was lost in the reaction, which any high school chemistry student, at least one who pays attention, will tell you is false.
By the way, look at the fuel for the SR-71. Throw a match at it and it just sits there wondering what the big deal is, and your match goes out. There are many different ways for chemical energy to be harvested. Alkaline batteries contain rather stable chemicals, but they have proven remarkably successful as energy sources in many applications. It doesn't matter how the energy comes out, it just means you might have to ask a Chemical Engineer instead of a Mechanical Engineer or Electrical Engineer how to put it to use.
For info on a prototype, look here. I can't tell you much more about it, except that the solar car team (which I am on) shares a lab with them and they often leave doughnuts laying around.
a) Taking something that has been around for a long time (think inetd) and changing the configuration so that it is less vulnerable to existing exploits.
vs.
b) Replacing the older techniques with newer things (think tcpserver) that may be a little less convenient, at least in shifting methods, but protect the system better even if a particular service is compromised.
If by x*x you mean x^2, there is NOTHING innovative about that. I assume you're talking about vectors, so that leaves x[dot]x and x[cross]x.
The test I just took was multivariable calculus, half of it on vectors. The cross product of any vector with itself is 0. As far as I know, the generation of a zero is about as fast as it will get already. If you're talking about dot product, there's nothing innovative about x^2+y^2+z^2. The PS2 has a specialized chip that can do 3 dimensional dot products in a single clock cycle. That's a chip design feature, not a mathematical algorithm.
I also have a hard time believing that a CEO would nix a technological leap. Maybe wait until there are other improvements and wait until the next architectural overhaul, but not ditch it. Parabolic polygon? Double-buffering anti-flicker method? Revolutionize the industry? First, I don't see connections. Second, it sounds like you're just tossing around buzz, not to mention the bragging/hinting. You don't sound like someone who has the professionism to rise to the status of lead developer at a major video card company.
Is it worse if you're trolling, or worse if you're serious?
Make a links page. Put all your bookmarks that stay bookmarks for a long time in a table with netscape composer or something similarly simple. It takes 10 minutes, tops. You can even put in google search boxes, etc. It's amazing how much it simplifies you life online. (and I spend way too much of my life online)
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In many localities there is an official, government protected monopoly on the actual physical lines, which makes sense when you consider the herculean effort required in laying the lines and coordinating with public utilities. The contracts with the localities generally require that the authorized monopolist allow other companies to purchase use of the wire at a reasonable price. It's all part of the business. If you want to be the monopoly, you have to play by the rules. It's been the case with phone lines and power lines for ages. It disturbs me how the courts have lately been tricked into thinking that the internet somehow works differently.
...that it doesn't come with a shell, they don't give the root password, the whole thing resembles a Linux box even less than a Tivo, they might not even HAVE a root password, the board is sealed with all the pins covered in opaque hard plastic, and the permissions are set very strictly to avoid any kind of circumvention. It's possible to make a box extremely difficult to crack in software, and with a little forward thinking, make it useless if cracked in hardware.
AOL is using Linux in their latest attempt to take over the world. We must stop developing Linux immediately, or else we'll be doing their dirty work for them!
I think the easiest way to assure a legitimate vote is to make each ballot unique. This of course raises very serious privacy issues. The ballot would obviously not have the voter's name on it, but something that could be somehow verified as corresponding to that voter. The system would need to be able to transform only in one direction. Now, IANA Cryptographer, but I strongly suspect there would be some way to implement such a verification system using cryptographic hashes. The system could still be susceptable to attack, like insecure key transmission, but it would get rid of the lion's share of fraud potential.
It's not my fault the moderator modded my post up. I agree with you that it was not worthy of a graduate thesis, but that doesn't mean that my opinion is invalid. The whole purpose of a discussion forum is not solely to get the opinions of the best, but also to get the more mundane opinions. I was adding my voice to the mundane crowd. I refused to use a posting bonus because I kept that in mind. I stand by my position that I, someone already at the Karma Cap, am not Karma Whoring.
The security of SDMI depends on would-be pirates having exceptionally high standards for sound quality. Given the quantity of 128 Mbit mp3s on napster, I think it's safe to say this is not the case.
I've already hit the karma cap, I have no need to pad my ego. If I had thought I had something wonderfully insightful to say, I would have used the posting bonus. Since I considered my comment to be thoughtful, yet not groundbreaking, I didn't abuse the posting bonus, letting the moderators decide if my message was worth promotion, or simply another voice of agreement. There's nothing inherently wrong with agreement, it just doesn't get modded up. Who are you to be talking about karma whoring?
Ok, so you can get the chip now, I've even seen it on pricewatch, but you can't get the motherboard. Now Intel can blame the lack of PIV systems on a lack of supporting hardware and hope the average consumer doesn't realize that it's Intel's fault that there isn't a chipset that can handle the "power" on this new chip.
My .sig refers to BLIND REDIRECTS. I'm not dumb enough to click on links on untrusted sites without previewing the address. By "Blind Redirect" I mean something that has a page refresh to file:///c|/nul/nul/ Embedded images and javascript that fakes the address also piss me off.
All that aside, it also pisses me off when I'm helping other people out in the lab and they're using one of the Win95 machines and they don't understand why they keep getting a BSOD on a certain page.
Bite me.
If you think I run Win98 by choice, you're gravely mistaken. We don't all have the option of our preferred OS when we're at school or at work. Hence my point. They've stopped being funny. That's all.
I'm referring to their post-tribal flood FUD about Linux and Solaris. Just because their FUD was more broad than it had any reason to be doesn't mean they didn't say it.
Didn't Microsoft at one point say that the remote administration capabilities of Unix-based systems constituted a security flaw? They better lock their code down REALLY WELL or else we'll start seeing a surge in Windows exploits. If you thought it was bad with Linux, just imagine what it would be like if every desktop system, run by completely clueless users in a majority of cases, had this kind of remote control built in, without the need for sneaking in BO or Netbus.
You can't smell methane. The smell of natural gas is added, not naturally present. Some people think that methane is what makes farts smell too, but it's actually the Sulphur Dioxide. Methane itself is about as easily detected by humans as CO2 is. We die when our lungs get flooded with it silently.
Actually, a government analyst published a paper a little while ago about the optimal slack time, that is, how long you should wait before buying a computer on a limited budget. The conclusion was that you should buy your system when it's powerful enough to finish your computations in 26 months. Any longer than that and you're better off waiting. Any shorter and you should stop waiting and actually get out and run the calculations on today's hardware.
One of my better friends in high school, the captain of the pop quiz team since 10th grade, the one guy who I always knew would beat me out in any test of the mind, even if I bested everyone else, the most well-read guy in the school, and I mean more than most of the teachers, too, was also a 2-sport varsity athlete. Those sports being Football and Lacrosse. Jock? Nerd? Take your pick. My preferred term was "friend". Interestingly enough, I don't recall seeing him at the dances...
...that one of the higher of all free-falls was the pilot who got shot down in the U2 over Russia. Apparently he had to free-fall for quite a while before opening his parachute, because he only had 10 minutes of oxygen, and if he deployed his chute right away, the oxygen would have run out before he had fallen to a breathable altitude. I don't know how long he did fall, though.
Compare:
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User ID: 210012
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Signal 11
User ID: 7608
What we have here is a troll pretending to be a different troll. Let us hope the recursion stops here.
Any effective politician is going to be a tool of what Nader would call a "corporate party". This sad but true fact is not a construct of the party system, but of human nature, and any attempts to rectify it will fail.
I'm voting for the Tool of the party I trust. If that party betrays my trust, I'll work to fix it from within. The American political system doesn't work on coalitions. We get our diversity because our parties have localized units with their own opinions that sway the party on a national scale. It's slower and more stable. Good, bad? Neither, just American.
Basically my point was that you get out what you put in. Granted, there will always be efficiency issues, but the post I was responding to made it sound like activation energy was lost in the reaction, which any high school chemistry student, at least one who pays attention, will tell you is false.
*cough*LawOfConservationOfEnergy*cough*
By the way, look at the fuel for the SR-71. Throw a match at it and it just sits there wondering what the big deal is, and your match goes out. There are many different ways for chemical energy to be harvested. Alkaline batteries contain rather stable chemicals, but they have proven remarkably successful as energy sources in many applications. It doesn't matter how the energy comes out, it just means you might have to ask a Chemical Engineer instead of a Mechanical Engineer or Electrical Engineer how to put it to use.
For info on a prototype, look here. I can't tell you much more about it, except that the solar car team (which I am on) shares a lab with them and they often leave doughnuts laying around.
What is your take on the differing methods of:
a) Taking something that has been around for a long time (think inetd) and changing the configuration so that it is less vulnerable to existing exploits.
vs.
b) Replacing the older techniques with newer things (think tcpserver) that may be a little less convenient, at least in shifting methods, but protect the system better even if a particular service is compromised.
If by x*x you mean x^2, there is NOTHING innovative about that. I assume you're talking about vectors, so that leaves x[dot]x and x[cross]x.
The test I just took was multivariable calculus, half of it on vectors. The cross product of any vector with itself is 0. As far as I know, the generation of a zero is about as fast as it will get already. If you're talking about dot product, there's nothing innovative about x^2+y^2+z^2. The PS2 has a specialized chip that can do 3 dimensional dot products in a single clock cycle. That's a chip design feature, not a mathematical algorithm.
I also have a hard time believing that a CEO would nix a technological leap. Maybe wait until there are other improvements and wait until the next architectural overhaul, but not ditch it. Parabolic polygon? Double-buffering anti-flicker method? Revolutionize the industry? First, I don't see connections. Second, it sounds like you're just tossing around buzz, not to mention the bragging/hinting. You don't sound like someone who has the professionism to rise to the status of lead developer at a major video card company.
Is it worse if you're trolling, or worse if you're serious?
Is can it do 72 FPS
Make a links page. Put all your bookmarks that stay bookmarks for a long time in a table with netscape composer or something similarly simple. It takes 10 minutes, tops. You can even put in google search boxes, etc. It's amazing how much it simplifies you life online. (and I spend way too much of my life online)
Just a little tidbit to brighten up your day.