If such a simple mutation could make you smarter, evolution would have found already. After all, intellegence is an evolutionary advantage, just look at all the chicks us geeks get...
Quick! Kill those mice before they build the death ray to destroy us!
Not at all, you have multiple security monitors/tripwires/firewalls/virus scanners running. The human immune system is fiendishly complex and quite ferocious.
Now, you can't upgrade the OS without trashing your filesystems, which is kinda sad, and there's no viable backup mechanism...
My favorite Knuth quote, when he gave a class a snippet of code to use in their program (not verbatim, sorry):
"Be careful with this code; I have only proven it correct, not tested it."
A demonstration of Hacker Nature:
He wasn't happy with the typesetting on his first book, and decided this should be done by computer, so he wrote a markup language for typesetting.
Of course, he wanted to do it right, so this took him... well... about a decade. And when he was done, he had written TeX. He was very pleased; his publishers thought this was odd, as the new typesetting looked worse than the old.
A few years later, high-resolution laser printers became available; TeX already suppported them, and lo and behold, the new version did look better.
TeX is a huge monster of a programming language/application. Knuth offered a cash prize of $(2^N) for the Nth unique bug report. TeX is now, like, 20 years old, and that system cost him under $1K.
If programmers were Jedi, he would be Yoda. If programmers were wizards, he was be Gandalf.
He is the serious, friendly grandfather who can kick the butts of all us whippersnapers. So pay attention!
Somebody below points out a really good possibility:
x) Console game company.
If they get this, they can ship XBox games without paying M$ $10 per copy. Ka-chink! And there's legal precident that this is ok; Nintendo was burned this way a while back.
b) Crazed flaming libertarian (John Gilmore?), who sees XBox as a dry run for Palladium and wants to establish a precident and/or scare vendors off from trusting it.
c) Crazed MS-hater who wants XBoxen sold below cost. (Ellison?)
For a = 1 to N
x = random (1.0, 100.0)
round_sum += round(x)
whole_sum += x
I assert that if you use the rounding algorythm you describe, round_sum and whole_sum will diverge as N gets bigger, and that this is a bad thing. This will not happen with the other method.
The problem isn't our lack of formal mathematical training, trust me...
Unless the new DMCA won't make it illegal and punisheable by death
Ding! The existing DMCA makes this illegal. Since Palladium provides DRM (by attempting to provide a 'trusted' client, ie one that obeys MS and not its owner), subverting it is a DMCA violation. Do not pass Go, do not collect $200.
Now, arguably, the interoperabality/reverse-engineering clauses of the DMCA clear you here, but if those meant anything the whole DMCA becomes mostly a non-op anyway, so the courts appear to be just ignoring them.
Well, what you do here in Somerville (hello, neighbor!) is strip an old house the inside (leave the framing and maybe the outside shell if it's in good shape) and rebuild the rest as if from scratch.
Across the street from me is a 2-family; guy bought it for $300k three years ago. Ripped the interor down to studs; new roof, windows, and paint; new walls/kitchen/bathroom/electric; sold it two years ago as 2 condos, for $250k and $330k. Could have kept one of those for himself, of course...
Same story, just a little different in the early phases.
Buying from local merchant: Good. Buying from non-local stone-age tribesmen: Good. No, wait, bad! No, wait, good! Buying at Giant Swedish Superstore: Good. Buying from Large Arkansas Superstore: Bad.
Hey, if I move to Bentonville, can I still shop at Wal-mart?
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If such a simple mutation could make you smarter, evolution would have found already. After all, intellegence is an evolutionary advantage, just look at all the chicks us geeks get...
Quick! Kill those mice before they build the death ray to destroy us!
Forgent Networks apparently is pretty forgentful, if they fergont to mention this until now.
Now, the Diaper Genie, there's an invention worthy of its patent.
What, you mean that you don't talk to them about whether they've accepted Jesus Christ into their lives as their personal Lord and Savior? :)
Now, if they just change that silly hemispherical base to a pyramid they'll really have sometime.
And to be 100% sure they're trustworthy, they'll be build with Palladium!
Not at all, you have multiple security monitors/tripwires/firewalls/virus scanners running. The human immune system is fiendishly complex and quite ferocious.
Now, you can't upgrade the OS without trashing your filesystems, which is kinda sad, and there's no viable backup mechanism...
My favorite Knuth quote, when he gave a class a snippet of code to use in their program (not verbatim, sorry):
"Be careful with this code; I have only proven it correct, not tested it."
A demonstration of Hacker Nature:
He wasn't happy with the typesetting on his first book, and decided this should be done by computer, so he wrote a markup language for typesetting.
Of course, he wanted to do it right, so this took him... well... about a decade. And when he was done, he had written TeX. He was very pleased; his publishers thought this was odd, as the new typesetting looked worse than the old.
A few years later, high-resolution laser printers became available; TeX already suppported them, and lo and behold, the new version did look better.
TeX is a huge monster of a programming language/application. Knuth offered a cash prize of $(2^N) for the Nth unique bug report. TeX is now, like, 20 years old, and that system cost him under $1K.
If programmers were Jedi, he would be Yoda.
If programmers were wizards, he was be Gandalf.
He is the serious, friendly grandfather who can kick the butts of all us whippersnapers. So pay attention!
This is because the math is clear, but all the physical interpretations of it are nonsensical...
No, terrorizing people to make yourself heard makes you a terrorist.
Sit-ins are not terrorism. (They're ususally stupid, but that's another issue.)
Somebody below points out a really good possibility:
x) Console game company.
If they get this, they can ship XBox games without paying M$ $10 per copy. Ka-chink! And there's legal precident that this is ok; Nintendo was burned this way a while back.
Ooooh, that's a good one. Yeah, you right. Didn't such a break happen for one of the older Nitindo consoles?
In decending order of likelyhood:
a) Hoax.
b) Crazed flaming libertarian (John Gilmore?), who sees XBox as a dry run for Palladium and wants to establish a precident and/or scare vendors off from trusting it.
c) Crazed MS-hater who wants XBoxen sold below cost. (Ellison?)
d) Insane conspiracy theory. (M$. Sony. NSA).
Any other possibilities?
Ok, here's an exercise:
For a = 1 to N
x = random (1.0, 100.0)
round_sum += round(x)
whole_sum += x
I assert that if you use the rounding algorythm you describe, round_sum and whole_sum will diverge as N gets bigger, and that this is a bad thing. This will not happen with the other method.
The problem isn't our lack of formal mathematical training, trust me...
Well, it depends on the data. If you're working with data that has one decimal place of precision:
4.4, 4.6, 4.5
If your measuring instrument has the (common) behavior of reporting the nearest value, then your scheme results in
Actual values 4.00 to 4.4499999... round down to 4.
Actual values 4.45 to 5 round up to 5.
So it's actually a 5% bias down in that case, because the instrument already rounded once.
Unsigned code will run. Unsigned drivers/modules will not, and unsigned OS kernals won't boot.
One could target holes in the OS itself, and workaround this way...
Unless the new DMCA won't make it illegal and punisheable by death
Ding! The existing DMCA makes this illegal. Since Palladium provides DRM (by attempting to provide a 'trusted' client, ie one that obeys MS and not its owner), subverting it is a DMCA violation. Do not pass Go, do not collect $200.
Now, arguably, the interoperabality/reverse-engineering clauses of the DMCA clear you here, but if those meant anything the whole DMCA becomes mostly a non-op anyway, so the courts appear to be just ignoring them.
now how joe consumer goes about improving china's economy
I'm thinking 'Buy Chinese Stuff'. Eventually, they'll get less poor, and even the sweatshop owners'll have to pay a half-decent wage.
In the long run. But then, as one famous economist said, "Sure, it all works out in the long run... but in the long run we'll all be dead!"
Well, what you do here in Somerville (hello, neighbor!) is strip an old house the inside (leave the framing and maybe the outside shell if it's in good shape) and rebuild the rest as if from scratch.
Across the street from me is a 2-family; guy bought it for $300k three years ago. Ripped the interor down to studs; new roof, windows, and paint; new walls/kitchen/bathroom/electric; sold it two years ago as 2 condos, for $250k and $330k. Could have kept one of those for himself, of course...
Same story, just a little different in the early phases.
so, remember folks:
Buying from local merchant: Good.
Buying from non-local stone-age tribesmen: Good. No, wait, bad! No, wait, good!
Buying at Giant Swedish Superstore: Good.
Buying from Large Arkansas Superstore: Bad.
Hey, if I move to Bentonville, can I still shop at Wal-mart?
Mother and sister are one and the same?
Apparently these rednecks have Linux and time travel, because they're their own fathers! Who knew...
Aren't sales from MS to Iowa residents interstate commerce and thus a matter for Federal antitrust law?
More details would be hepful; I can't help wondering if that story didn't simplify to the point of dropping some key point of the suit.
IANALBTISANAY
Hrm... isn't X suid, though?
If so, it *definately* needs to be able to handle (read: fail gracefully given) malicious input. Although it sounds like this only results in a DoS...
MD5 is a hash function, yes, but it's designed as a fingerprint, not a watermark; it's fragile on purpose.
There are hash functions that are much harder (though probably not impossible) to alter without mangling the sound.
Just remember to load them 9-edge-down.
By claiming that they're actually just funny-looking wolves.