I do (I am the person you are replying to), I have a 2 year old and another on the way. Yes I know my children may not find programming computers to be interesting.. but it is a geek father's hope isn't it?
I think deep down we all want our kids to end up being geeks.
Stress has been linked to poor memory for decades. Was it that stress has caused poor sleep quality and poor memory, or is it that sleep deprivation stressed the mice which caused poor memory, or both?
There's no way most CS PhD students could go on to be professors. Most professors advise many PhD students, so the number of CS professors would have to double every few decades if that were the case. Most CS PhD students move on to do research in industry: Microsoft, Google, and so on. I just got my masters degree in CS, and I actually do know where the PhDs go -- overwhelmingly to the west coast to work in industry.
I guess it's unfortunate for humanities students that there is not substantial industry that requires their abilities.
It brings up a troubling question, in this day and age of our surveillance state intelligence angencies - who'd want to sign their name on that list, which would obviously be passed over to the "watchers" as "potential troublemakers".
I thought of that myself, 2 points:
1) Anyone who would sign it is probably already on some sort of list and 2) If we're to the point where that is a legitimate concern then it's even more important to do so.
I, for one, plan to teach my children x86 ASM so they understand the basics.. then let them find MIPS or ARM or whatever-fad-arch-is-current so they too can appreciate the design of x86.
This is just a guess but you don't actually have children yet, do you?
"Section 1033 of the tax code allows you to defer taxes when your property is taken involuntarily, like eminent domain. Mr. Sterling can argue the Clippers sale was forced on him by the NBA."
So who wants to bet Donald Tokowitz and his accountants planned this from the start?
Either that or the records will indicate that although they exist, a certain percentage of the time the stingray wasn't actually used and was just used as a way to search a home without a warrant.
Sort of like how even untrained drug dogs work.
"Ok we're going to have the dog sniff around your car/home because that doesn't count as a search, then if it alerts we have probable cause and can search you. Oh look it's alerting!" "No it's not, it's licking its balls" "Who is a judge and jury going to believe? Time to violate your rights!"
They were routinely adding antibacterial agents to nylon when I worked in a nylon spinning plant back in the 80's. I think the practice goes back to the 50's or 60's.
Was that to protect the nylon from bacteria or to prevent bacteria from hanging around on the nylon and infecting whoever wears it next?
"Yet researchers are somewhat perplexed as to the motivation of the perpetrators, whose targets included both Israel and Palestine, as well as Turkey, Slovenia, Macedonia, New Zealand and Latvia. The hackers also went after government bodies in the U.S. and the UK.""
There is a lot of peer pressure in school, and this drives people into classes they wouldn't necessarily choose otherwise... School is actually a pretty poor environment for learning anything because of this, kids who work hard get shunned by their peers, smart kids get shunned by their peers, kids who dare to choose a subject thats not seen as appropriate for their gender get shunned.
That's a problem only for certain cultures and why peer group is so important during childhood.
... the rich and powerful elite behind todays governments and therefore also the secret services will learn hopefully soon enough, that their wealth and power is worth nothing, absolutely nothing if you face a large turnaround in society regarding civil rights and privacy rights. Good luck.
You seem to be under the impression the same laws apply to the rich elites as apply to the working class.
A solution to this was invented centuries ago. Seal the packages of network hardware with tamper-proof seals (something involving smart cards that the NSA can't duplicate) from the manufacture. Make it impossible for the NSA to open the package without making the customer aware the package was opened in transit. If a package was opened in transit, return to sender and Cisco engineers can figure out how the NSA is implanting bugs.
How would a NSL oblige you to make changes to software?
Step 1: NSA goes to judge who is both friendly to them and completely ignorant of technology Step 2: Request warrant for all truecrypt containers everywhere Step 3: Tell Truecrypt developers that if they don't insert a backdoor then they're interfering with the warrant, they can't challenge it without revealing who they are
If you had used JerrysSSLMadeInMyBasementAsACollegeProject, and it was found vulnerable, and you leaked personal information, a court would likely find you negligent. Of consideration would be an analysis of the product on the face: if it looks like a Geocities site done in FrontPage and says "I made this SSL implementation as a college project", you are negligent. If it boasts tons of security research and explanations on why this is much more secure and reliable and resistant to attack and programming bugs than other SSL libraries, you could be found not-negligent.
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I wonder what the liability issues are for using an antivirus package made by a company founded by a man best known for sneaking into the US using a series of elaborate disguises to avoid prosecution for the murder of his neighbor and then making a video about how to remove said software in which he reveals some of his more colorful vices.
When faced with plausible deniability, replace the rubber hose with bamboo and scourge.
Don't be silly, the US government would never torture someone for their password. They would waterboard them during an enhanced interrogation. They would never use torture.
That's how you eliminate poverty. No low-paying jobs, no reserve army of labor willing to work those low-paying jobs means everyone is working a better paying job.
For an even stranger theory, what if the NSA made TrueCrypt under COMSEC and now that SIGINT has been prioritized over COMSEC the people who made it decided that terminating and discrediting the project would be more effective than inserting a back door in the middle of an audit?
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I do (I am the person you are replying to), I have a 2 year old and another on the way. Yes I know my children may not find programming computers to be interesting.. but it is a geek father's hope isn't it?
I think deep down we all want our kids to end up being geeks.
Thats because the other type of liberal arts students work in advertising.
I'm not sure which one I like less.
How were the mice sleep deprived?
Stress has been linked to poor memory for decades. Was it that stress has caused poor sleep quality and poor memory, or is it that sleep deprivation stressed the mice which caused poor memory, or both?
There's no way most CS PhD students could go on to be professors. Most professors advise many PhD students, so the number of CS professors would have to double every few decades if that were the case. Most CS PhD students move on to do research in industry: Microsoft, Google, and so on. I just got my masters degree in CS, and I actually do know where the PhDs go -- overwhelmingly to the west coast to work in industry.
I guess it's unfortunate for humanities students that there is not substantial industry that requires their abilities.
It brings up a troubling question, in this day and age of our surveillance state intelligence angencies - who'd want to sign their name on that list, which would obviously be passed over to the "watchers" as "potential troublemakers".
I thought of that myself, 2 points:
1) Anyone who would sign it is probably already on some sort of list
and
2) If we're to the point where that is a legitimate concern then it's even more important to do so.
I, for one, plan to teach my children x86 ASM so they understand the basics.. then let them find MIPS or ARM or whatever-fad-arch-is-current so they too can appreciate the design of x86.
This is just a guess but you don't actually have children yet, do you?
"Section 1033 of the tax code allows you to defer taxes when your property is taken involuntarily, like eminent domain. Mr. Sterling can argue the Clippers sale was forced on him by the NBA."
So who wants to bet Donald Tokowitz and his accountants planned this from the start?
Either that or the records will indicate that although they exist, a certain percentage of the time the stingray wasn't actually used and was just used as a way to search a home without a warrant.
Sort of like how even untrained drug dogs work.
"Ok we're going to have the dog sniff around your car/home because that doesn't count as a search, then if it alerts we have probable cause and can search you. Oh look it's alerting!"
"No it's not, it's licking its balls"
"Who is a judge and jury going to believe? Time to violate your rights!"
I wonder how far a White House petition to give Snowden a Presidential Medal of Freedom would get...
Not that he would actually get one, but to show how many people are pissed off about what the government's been doing.
He's talking about Thomas Paine.
They were routinely adding antibacterial agents to nylon when I worked in a nylon spinning plant back in the 80's. I think the practice goes back to the 50's or 60's.
Was that to protect the nylon from bacteria or to prevent bacteria from hanging around on the nylon and infecting whoever wears it next?
so they're crowd-sourcing its emotional development. *dun-dun-DUN*
...and they're seeding it with all the data from Twitter, Reddit, Slashdot, and 4chan. So this is how the world ends
"Yet researchers are somewhat perplexed as to the motivation of the perpetrators, whose targets included both Israel and Palestine, as well as Turkey, Slovenia, Macedonia, New Zealand and Latvia. The hackers also went after government bodies in the U.S. and the UK.""
Have they considered it was for "lulz"?
It's why there are no 666MHz parts. Memory, processors, buses... All 667Mhz.
Well that and 666 2/3 rounds up to 667.
Although their powers are not very impressive.
You mean our powers to change color after exposure to the sun for long periods? Ok well we aren't chameleons but you have to start somewhere.
There is a lot of peer pressure in school, and this drives people into classes they wouldn't necessarily choose otherwise... School is actually a pretty poor environment for learning anything because of this, kids who work hard get shunned by their peers, smart kids get shunned by their peers, kids who dare to choose a subject thats not seen as appropriate for their gender get shunned.
That's a problem only for certain cultures and why peer group is so important during childhood.
You decided to start WW I and WW II
How did some white kid working in a coal mine in Wales 'decide' to start WW 2?
He didn't overthrow Churchill, who as it happens was actually an angry drunken war mongering white man.
... the rich and powerful elite behind todays governments and therefore also the secret services will learn hopefully soon enough, that their wealth and power is worth nothing, absolutely nothing if you face a large turnaround in society regarding civil rights and privacy rights. Good luck.
You seem to be under the impression the same laws apply to the rich elites as apply to the working class.
A solution to this was invented centuries ago. Seal the packages of network hardware with tamper-proof seals (something involving smart cards that the NSA can't duplicate) from the manufacture. Make it impossible for the NSA to open the package without making the customer aware the package was opened in transit. If a package was opened in transit, return to sender and Cisco engineers can figure out how the NSA is implanting bugs.
How would a NSL oblige you to make changes to software?
Step 1: NSA goes to judge who is both friendly to them and completely ignorant of technology
Step 2: Request warrant for all truecrypt containers everywhere
Step 3: Tell Truecrypt developers that if they don't insert a backdoor then they're interfering with the warrant, they can't challenge it without revealing who they are
If you had used JerrysSSLMadeInMyBasementAsACollegeProject, and it was found vulnerable, and you leaked personal information, a court would likely find you negligent. Of consideration would be an analysis of the product on the face: if it looks like a Geocities site done in FrontPage and says "I made this SSL implementation as a college project", you are negligent. If it boasts tons of security research and explanations on why this is much more secure and reliable and resistant to attack and programming bugs than other SSL libraries, you could be found not-negligent.
>
I wonder what the liability issues are for using an antivirus package made by a company founded by a man best known for sneaking into the US using a series of elaborate disguises to avoid prosecution for the murder of his neighbor and then making a video about how to remove said software in which he reveals some of his more colorful vices.
When faced with plausible deniability, replace the rubber hose with bamboo and scourge.
Don't be silly, the US government would never torture someone for their password. They would waterboard them during an enhanced interrogation. They would never use torture.
Yeah, the jobs disappear.
That's how you eliminate poverty. No low-paying jobs, no reserve army of labor willing to work those low-paying jobs means everyone is working a better paying job.
If the menial low-paying jobs disappear but so do the people willing to work them doesn't that mean that society is better off?
For an even stranger theory, what if the NSA made TrueCrypt under COMSEC and now that SIGINT has been prioritized over COMSEC the people who made it decided that terminating and discrediting the project would be more effective than inserting a back door in the middle of an audit?