Encryption is difficult to get right, but fortunately it's already been done, many time. Unless you are Bruce Schneier or Ron Rivest, you're not going to invent a secure encryption algorithm on your own. Therefore, it's smarter to use an off-the-shelf product which has been tested and reviewed, and has already weathered a storm of attacks.
Secure file transfer is a solved problem. There are several options available for secure file transfer which don't require any more coding than a simple shell script -- scp, sftp, nfs or rsync over an ssh tunnel, etc. You can easily replicate a relational database in real time over an encrypted channel using a VPN.
Even if you require a custom solution, you don't need to implement your own encryption algorithms -- there are open-source crypto libraries available for virtually every language and operating system imaginable. Not only is reinventing the wheel foolish, when you're talking about cryptosystems, it's downright dangerous.
First off, utility companies generally charge a higher rate for business/industrial power than they do for residential power; so even if all things were equal, they'd still be paying more per KW/H than you.
Secondly, you can't compare a couple of desktop machines running in a home office to a datacenter with multiple fully-populated 72U racks. Running 2 or 3 computers in a 120 ft^2 room isn't going to require any additional cooling. Running 2000 mahines in (say) a 1000 ft^2 data center is going to require heavy-duty air conditioning.
Finally, remember that enterprise-grade hardware generally has redundant power supplies, 15000K rpm SCSI disks, and more powerful fans -- all of which draw more power (and throw off more heat) than a typical desktop system.
You should never date a woman who objects to your porn collection. Hell, my wife's collection is almost as big as my own. Many an evening of incredible sex has started out with her sitting on my lap surfing porn together.
Commercial companies would never do that, as they'd be shooting themselves in the foot profit-wise, and most private games won't stand up to the quality or scope of commercial games.
Why not? It would make A LOT of sense to release a game on a livecd/dvd. For one thing, it would let you optimize the kernel for your game. You could customize the kernel with the hooks it needs so that the game could run in kernel space.
Having the game in a totally standardized run-time enviornment would also greatly simplify tech support -- you don't have to worry about incompatible library versions, dependencies, non-standard drivers, or any of a littany of other issues. Having a standard run-time environment is one of the main advantages a console gives developers; a live cd brings this advantage to the PC.
Back in the days of Windows 95, some enterprising individuals figured out how to share files over the Internet using SMB folder sharing.
Close, but no cigar. The problem was that in the early days of broadband, many ISPs did not filter the SMB ports. As a result, anyone who hung a Windows box directly off of their cable modem could be seen by everyone else on their subnet. It didn't take long after that for smb messanging spam to appear. The problems were fairly short-lived -- ISPs started filtering those ports not long thereafter.
Pah the 'constitution' that things 200 years old, does it have any relevance in today's world?
Absolutely. Among other things, it's what permits you to spout your inane comments in public without fear of arrest.
Terrorism changed the rules when it was invented on 9/11
Are you really that stupid? Terrorism was not invented on 9/11. Terrorism, in the modern sense -- effecting political change by undermining the public's faith in the government's ability to protect them -- is pure Leninist doctrine dating to 1908. Lenin's view on this was hardly original; he was largely inspired by the philosophies of Immanual Kant, which were published in 1798.
However, the use of the threat of random violence as an instrument of political change or control is as old as recorded history. Ever hear of the Reign of Terror? Last time I checked, 9/5/1793 predated 9/11/2000 by 207 years. Or perhaps you've heard of The Inquisition or The Cultural Revolution? Irish and Scots rebels were using terror tactics against the English as far back as the 1300's.
you have to loose your freedoms if we are to catch them and the leader can't do that if he has to listen to stupid human rights hippies.
Bullshit. We've managed to catch murderers under our Constitutional government for over 200 years without sacrificing our freedoms. Nothing has changed, except for the willingness of short-sigheted idiots like yourself to throw away their freedom for an illusion of safety.
I swore an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. You, sir, appear to be the latter -- your statments advocating the abandonment of our Constitutional government constitute a criminal act of sedition.
We have to round up anyone who looks like a traitor or a terrorist or a commie and put them in the intensive interrogation camp to find out what they are planning.
Considering the treasonous statements you just posted, I advise you to immediately turn yourself in to the authorities for interrogation and re-education.
Dividing government into executive, legislative and judicial is a bureaucracy that helps only the terrorists
The division of power between the 3 branches of the government also happens to be mandated by the Constitution of the United States; you know, that thing that every elected official and every member of the military has sworn an oath to uphold? This is an INTENTIONAL feature so that no one person or group can have all the power.
The president should have the power to do absolutely anything and anyone who disagrees is a traitor
Congradulations. You've just described a dictatorship.
The only ones helping the terrorists are those who live their lives in fear. Personally, I'd rather die on my feet than live on my knees.
Don't hold your breath for Apple being a bastion of freedom -- they are already ahead of the game when it comes to DRM. Fairplay, anyone? Apple's not interested in freedom, they've already shown that they're willing to use DRM to exclude competitors and enhance vendor lock-in.
Also, remember that Apple has pretty close ties with the copyright cartels, thanks to the Steve Jobs - Pixar link.
How many eight year old girls would it have to have their throats cut before you or anyone else opened the door
That's why you have a SOLID BULKHEAD between the cabin and the cockpit, and give the cockpit a seperate entrance. It's impossible to coerce someone to open a door that does not exist.
Of course, in your world we use bulletproof windows in all airplanes. Transparent aluminum no doubt.
Instead of pulling "facts" out of your ass, why don't you actually watch some WWII combat footage of B-17's making it back to base after being shot to hell with ANTI-AIRCRAFT CANNONS. If a 1940's vintage plane could land safely with HALF A WING blown off and the fusilage looking like a piece of swiss cheese, what makes you think that a couple of rounds from a handgun can take one down a modern aircraft? Modern airliners are A LOT more survivable than WWII bombers were -- they're built with better materals and have more redundancy than their predecessors.
In a close-quarters engagement like you'd find on an aircraft, I'd personally rather have a good knife, or even a tactical baton or cane, rather than a handgun.
Hitting someone with a handgun, when they're within grappling distance of you and trying to kill you, is A LOT harder than you might think. Even trained police officers have been known to empty an entire magazine and miss with every shot in that kind of engagement.
Furthermore, contrary to what Hollywood would have you believe, getting shot with a handgun isn't always instantly incapacitating -- you need fairly precice shot placement with a large-calibre round to do that, and even then it's iffy. Real-world statistics show that even the MOST EFFECTIVE handgun rounds only have about an 85% chance of getting a single-shot kill with a center-of-mass hit; most calibres are much worse -- 50% or less. Keep in mind that someone who's been fatally shot can still gut you like a fish before they bleed out.
I have family who lost a house deal over a wire transfer held for 60 days.. Cash in the bank, earned free and clear, but held nonetheless
I almost lost my house in a similar incident.
The broker I was using at the time had a policy that it took 7 days to issue a check. So, about 10 days before closing I put in a request for them to cut me a check for the amount I needed for closing. 7 days later, no check. Call them the next morning (2 days before closing) and they give me some bullshit excuse as to why they didn't cut the check, so I immediately close the account, which of course they won't give me my money for ANOTHER 7 days, which would have done me no good at all.
Fortunately I was able to borrow the money from my family to pay the closing costs, and then pay them back 4 days later when the broker finally gave me my money. I didn't get everything arranged until a few hours before closing.
Firefox, though built from the ashes of Netscape, was mainly driven as an alternative to I.E. -- it just had new and innovative features added along the way. But that's no different from the "embrace and extend" that we give MS so much hassle for.
Almost, but not quite.
QWERTY was designed to minimize jamming in manual typewriters. That much is true. It wasn't really designed to slow people down so much as it was designed so that letters which are frequently adjacent in words are widely spaced on the keyboard, and so that both hands are used roughly equally.
Since mechanical typewriters are museum pieces now, the first justification of QWERTY is now irrelevant. Whether DVORAK does a better job of using both hands equally, and putting the most frequently used keys in the home position is a matter for debate (if not holy wars).
I've tried DVORAK and wasn't impressed enough with it to bother switching from QWERTY. What I want is a keyboard that lets me write code without having to hit the shift key. Imagine being able to type something like this without hitting the shift key once:
for (i = 1; i < n; i++){ x[i] += ((x[i] > y[i]) ? i | *z : i ^ *z); y[i+1] = x[i]; }
With a QUERTY keyboard, I had to hit the shift key 14 seperate times to type that (silly) line of code. I don't think DVORAK is going to be much better. My pinkies ache after a long hacking run.
hey gravitate towards those men or women with the best bodies or the best earnings or the best net worth or sometimes, the best personality
Which is why over half of all marriages end in divorce. Looks fade. Layoffs happen.
The quality to look for in a long-term partner is simply that they put up with your shit, and that you can put up with theirs.
Everyone has annoying their bad habits and their little peccadilloes. It doesn't matter how rich they are, how good looking they are, or how good they are in the sack -- if you can't put up with their annoying little ways day in and day out for the rest of your life, your marriage isn't going to last.
how would somebodies profession really determine his/her childs' sex?
Most people don't chose their careers at random -- they gravitate in to those careers which are a best fit for their natural talents. It seems likely that there is a genetic basis for a person's aptitudes. It's entirely plausible to speculate that the genetic variations which give a person the personality and aptitudes to seek out an engineering career could also affect their reproductive systems.
The new software checks for the presence of a debugger and refuses to run. I'm sure it is only a matter of time before that is also circumvented.
If they're doing the debugger check the same way they've done it in some of their games (EG MechCommander 2), then you won't be able to run it under VMWare.
A virtual machine apparantly looks like a debugger to the detector.
I just got my BCS last year, and there were over 120 CS students who started at the same time as me (not sure how many graduated). Do you know how many students applied to CS at my school this year? 12.
While the lower demand will reduce the number of courses the college offers, it also means that the professors will be able to give those 12 students a lot more personalized instruction, so it kind of balances out.
The reality of the current job market is that there just aren't that many entry-level positions any more, particuarly in software development. What few entry-level Comp Sci jobs there are tend to be low-paying grunt work like help desk and desktop support. What few entry level development jobs remain tend to be given to people with Engineering degrees rather than Comp Sci degrees.
A smaller pool of Comp Sci graduates is a good thing, as it reduces competition for jobs, which translates in to a better starting salary and more job security.
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Secure file transfer is a solved problem. There are several options available for secure file transfer which don't require any more coding than a simple shell script -- scp, sftp, nfs or rsync over an ssh tunnel, etc. You can easily replicate a relational database in real time over an encrypted channel using a VPN.
Even if you require a custom solution, you don't need to implement your own encryption algorithms -- there are open-source crypto libraries available for virtually every language and operating system imaginable. Not only is reinventing the wheel foolish, when you're talking about cryptosystems, it's downright dangerous.
First off, utility companies generally charge a higher rate for business/industrial power than they do for residential power; so even if all things were equal, they'd still be paying more per KW/H than you.
Secondly, you can't compare a couple of desktop machines running in a home office to a datacenter with multiple fully-populated 72U racks. Running 2 or 3 computers in a 120 ft^2 room isn't going to require any additional cooling. Running 2000 mahines in (say) a 1000 ft^2 data center is going to require heavy-duty air conditioning. Finally, remember that enterprise-grade hardware generally has redundant power supplies, 15000K rpm SCSI disks, and more powerful fans -- all of which draw more power (and throw off more heat) than a typical desktop system.
You are correct as to the role of the guard, athought it also serves to bring the sword into proper balance as well.
You should never date a woman who objects to your porn collection. Hell, my wife's collection is almost as big as my own. Many an evening of incredible sex has started out with her sitting on my lap surfing porn together.
Having the game in a totally standardized run-time enviornment would also greatly simplify tech support -- you don't have to worry about incompatible library versions, dependencies, non-standard drivers, or any of a littany of other issues. Having a standard run-time environment is one of the main advantages a console gives developers; a live cd brings this advantage to the PC.
However, the use of the threat of random violence as an instrument of political change or control is as old as recorded history. Ever hear of the Reign of Terror? Last time I checked, 9/5/1793 predated 9/11/2000 by 207 years. Or perhaps you've heard of The Inquisition or The Cultural Revolution? Irish and Scots rebels were using terror tactics against the English as far back as the 1300's.
Bullshit. We've managed to catch murderers under our Constitutional government for over 200 years without sacrificing our freedoms. Nothing has changed, except for the willingness of short-sigheted idiots like yourself to throw away their freedom for an illusion of safety.I swore an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. You, sir, appear to be the latter -- your statments advocating the abandonment of our Constitutional government constitute a criminal act of sedition.
Considering the treasonous statements you just posted, I advise you to immediately turn yourself in to the authorities for interrogation and re-education.The only ones helping the terrorists are those who live their lives in fear. Personally, I'd rather die on my feet than live on my knees.
Also, remember that Apple has pretty close ties with the copyright cartels, thanks to the Steve Jobs - Pixar link.
Hitting someone with a handgun, when they're within grappling distance of you and trying to kill you, is A LOT harder than you might think. Even trained police officers have been known to empty an entire magazine and miss with every shot in that kind of engagement.
Furthermore, contrary to what Hollywood would have you believe, getting shot with a handgun isn't always instantly incapacitating -- you need fairly precice shot placement with a large-calibre round to do that, and even then it's iffy. Real-world statistics show that even the MOST EFFECTIVE handgun rounds only have about an 85% chance of getting a single-shot kill with a center-of-mass hit; most calibres are much worse -- 50% or less. Keep in mind that someone who's been fatally shot can still gut you like a fish before they bleed out.
Fortunately I was able to borrow the money from my family to pay the closing costs, and then pay them back 4 days later when the broker finally gave me my money. I didn't get everything arranged until a few hours before closing.
Cool. That will work for me at home, but at work I'm stuck using Windows. Do you know of an equivalent program for the beast of redmond?
What grit sandpaper did you use? Try something with a finer grit, like emory cloth.
Since mechanical typewriters are museum pieces now, the first justification of QWERTY is now irrelevant. Whether DVORAK does a better job of using both hands equally, and putting the most frequently used keys in the home position is a matter for debate (if not holy wars).
I've tried DVORAK and wasn't impressed enough with it to bother switching from QWERTY. What I want is a keyboard that lets me write code without having to hit the shift key. Imagine being able to type something like this without hitting the shift key once:
With a QUERTY keyboard, I had to hit the shift key 14 seperate times to type that (silly) line of code. I don't think DVORAK is going to be much better. My pinkies ache after a long hacking run.And yeah, she is a bit wide in the beam... but I happen to like big butts, so it's all good.
The quality to look for in a long-term partner is simply that they put up with your shit, and that you can put up with theirs.
Everyone has annoying their bad habits and their little peccadilloes. It doesn't matter how rich they are, how good looking they are, or how good they are in the sack -- if you can't put up with their annoying little ways day in and day out for the rest of your life, your marriage isn't going to last.
No explosions? You must not know many redheads.
A virtual machine apparantly looks like a debugger to the detector.
The reality of the current job market is that there just aren't that many entry-level positions any more, particuarly in software development. What few entry-level Comp Sci jobs there are tend to be low-paying grunt work like help desk and desktop support. What few entry level development jobs remain tend to be given to people with Engineering degrees rather than Comp Sci degrees.
A smaller pool of Comp Sci graduates is a good thing, as it reduces competition for jobs, which translates in to a better starting salary and more job security.