I've read two stories about contractors being kidnapped and killed - scan any big city paper and read about how many drug-violence related deaths there are in a week.
So you're saying that the number of times that a specific act appears in the 'news' media is indicative of the overall rate of occurence of that act?
Based on that "logic," everyone in the US has had sex with Bill Clinton. Twice.
So the 20+ pieces of mail I get in my mailbox every week, that causes me to miss important letters occasionally because I toss them and they get lost in the noise, the several ounce ads that tie up hands for many minutes at a time as I carry one after another, all of that is doing me no harm?
I never asked for mail, I never asked for my address to be used as a forged address (a recent development, so now I get complaints and counter mail too). Also I've never bought from direct mail.
These people ARE NOT direct marketers, they are CROOKS, using the mailbox -I- pay for, to harrass me with things I do not want. And I have no real legal recourse to stopping them because I can afford to sue these hundreds of people. (If I could even find out who most of them were).
And again, please do not tell me they are not doing me any harm while I'm receiving spam complaint messages because some BUTTWIPE is forging my email address on their messages. It's no fun looking at having to change an address that you've used for almost a decade, and all the associated grief that causes.
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The only thing that isn't true for direct mail is the bolded bit. In the US, that would be mail fraud.
I'm not saying spam isn't a pain, but your argument is specious. You want something better, then create it. Its called innovation. And no, SPF isn't any better.
I consider understanding the basic aspects of the scientific method and what constitutes evidence to be required knowledge for anyone attending RPI. Also, other things like stating your biases and so forth are a bit of a requirement.
Either he purposefully made the 'benchmark' biased towards Java, or he's incompetent. I'm betting he's incompetent, as I wouldn't want to attribute it malice.
And that's okay. He's a second year CS student, and definitely not a computer scientist, yet.
But if you publish results, and draw conclusions from data you've collected, under your name, you better have done a good job, or risk being called a moron. Look through these comments - the mistakes he made weren't subtle things. They were big, glaring, conceptual mistakes.
He may be very bright, but he's no scientist. Not yet, anyway. Maybe he deserves the benefit of the doubt.
So, I'm done with my CS degree from RPI, and I'd like to point out we're not all morons like this kid apparently is. Also remember he's just finished his sophomore year, and has probably just taken basic classes like Data Structures and Algorithms and Operating Systems.
My experience (based on the few kids in my highschool four-ish years ago getting their licenses) is that kids with racing or karting experience generally total their cars, injuring someone, and assuming they are still capable of operating an automobile, destroy their parents cars.
Not that _you_ are necessarily a bad driver, just that experience differs. And I'll happily admit that my data is not statistically significant. But teenagers are idiots for their first year or so behind the wheel, I wouldn't want them to be good at going fast, speed only increases the consequences of being a moron.
Not so much that exactly, but don't think you're a fucking genius because you're the smartest kid in your highschool. It takes a lot to be succesful, intelligence alone won't do it. I'm sure most of know (or are) plenty of very smart people who are not effective in the real world because they can't communicate effectively.
College is a totally different story, particularly if you're going to a good one. You'll meet people there who are intelligent, motivated, and personable.
Also, if "non-traditionally bright" is a cop-out for not working hard enough to fulfilly your potential, well, good fucking luck. If you find your undergraduate degree easy (as I have to a large extent), you probably should have gotten into a better college. If you're in one of the best colleges for your degree, you should probably be getting another degree. If all those things are true, get a graduate degree.
Vendor lockin is probably too strong a phrase. What I mean is that, without writing your own solution, ISC DHCP only plays nicely with ISC BIND, and MS AD only plays nicely with MS DNS server and ISC BIND. Personally, I don't really care about ISC's motivation or employees or whatever else, just that their software is easy to use and secure. DJBDNS fits the bill for me better than BIND does.
As for AXFR and so forth... I don't know where you're getting all this, but one of the selling points of DJB's design philosophy is modularity. tinydns does exactly one thing: serves authoratative DNS over UDP. It doesn't do TCP (and therefore AXFR), nor is it a caching resolver. Both of those functions are done by other parts of the DJBDNS package (axfrdns for TCP queries and AXFR, dnscache for a caching resolver). If you want to do incoming AXFR, its easily implemented with a short perl script that generates a tinydns data file (autoaxfr) - this is from a third party, and is widely used.
Heck, say you want to (for some ungodly reason) create DNS entries based on incoming email statistics. Its easy, hack up some perl and you're all set, no need to restart tinydns (it reloads its data file automatically) or even touch anything DJB-related.
This is especially problematic because Mr Bernstein refuses to license the software for a fork.
Bullshit. DJB doesn't allow forks of the same name. qmail was recently forked into something called 'netqmail' that integrates the most popular, bug-fix packages that are out there.
Let's not forget Dynamic DNS, i.e., DNS updates from DHCP. I 3 DJB's software, tinydns included, but you can't (readily) attach it to ISC DHCPD and have your DNS records change with your DHCP leases. This isn't a limitation of Dan's software, but rather vendor lock-in on the part of the ISC (and MS, who provides the other major DDNS implementation).
For some people, in some situations, this is a necessity. I just can't wait for someone to write a DJB-inspired DHCP server.
The reason is that home heating oil and diesel fuel are identical, chemically. Diesel is dyed so that you can't just pump heating oil into your fleet of 18 wheelers and avoid gas tax.
Well, you are increasing the load on the power lines, and they're losing more power than they would be otherwise. I remember this coming up in some highschool physics class; I think the power companies prosecuted the farmers:).
That'd be electromagnetism at work. Farmer's occasionally steal power by setting up large coils of wire under a high tension transmission line and hooking them up to whatever they wanted power.
More than anything else, this sounds like a good excuse to get some nice LCDs:).
You're mostly correct. Selective Availibility can be done region by region (I don't know the resolution of this), and the signal can be degraded with rather fine-grained control (the whole world was degraded to 200meter-ish accuracy until the late 90s). SA does not effect military recievers; when supplied with the days proper P(Y) code, they are as accurate as the GPS spec allows (~1 meter resolution, best case).
So the US can degrade the signal in a fine grained way, without affecting military / government systems.
Have you listened to 5.1? Both of the CD-replacement technologies (DVD-Audio and SACD) are designed to hold both 2 channel mixes and multichannel ones. I've sat in a car at the AES convention and listened to a 5.1 and a 2 channel mix of the same song. 5.1 wins hands down - I'd pay more for it any day.
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wait... what?
I've read two stories about contractors being kidnapped and killed - scan any big city paper and read about how many drug-violence related deaths there are in a week.
So you're saying that the number of times that a specific act appears in the 'news' media is indicative of the overall rate of occurence of that act?
Based on that "logic," everyone in the US has had sex with Bill Clinton. Twice.
So the 20+ pieces of mail I get in my mailbox every week, that causes me to miss important letters occasionally because I toss them and they get lost in the noise, the several ounce ads that tie up hands for many minutes at a time as I carry one after another, all of that is doing me no harm?
I never asked for mail, I never asked for my address to be used as a forged address (a recent development, so now I get complaints and counter mail too). Also I've never bought from direct mail.
These people ARE NOT direct marketers, they are CROOKS, using the mailbox -I- pay for, to harrass me with things I do not want. And I have no real legal recourse to stopping them because I can afford to sue these hundreds of people. (If I could even find out who most of them were).
And again, please do not tell me they are not doing me any harm while I'm receiving spam complaint messages because some BUTTWIPE is forging my email address on their messages. It's no fun looking at having to change an address that you've used for almost a decade, and all the associated grief that causes.
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The only thing that isn't true for direct mail is the bolded bit. In the US, that would be mail fraud.
I'm not saying spam isn't a pain, but your argument is specious. You want something better, then create it. Its called innovation. And no, SPF isn't any better.
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URL to that attack? Google nets me nothing, and I try pretty hard to stay involved with djbdns...
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I consider understanding the basic aspects of the scientific method and what constitutes evidence to be required knowledge for anyone attending RPI. Also, other things like stating your biases and so forth are a bit of a requirement.
Either he purposefully made the 'benchmark' biased towards Java, or he's incompetent. I'm betting he's incompetent, as I wouldn't want to attribute it malice.
And that's okay. He's a second year CS student, and definitely not a computer scientist, yet.
But if you publish results, and draw conclusions from data you've collected, under your name, you better have done a good job, or risk being called a moron. Look through these comments - the mistakes he made weren't subtle things. They were big, glaring, conceptual mistakes.
He may be very bright, but he's no scientist. Not yet, anyway. Maybe he deserves the benefit of the doubt.
So, I'm done with my CS degree from RPI, and I'd like to point out we're not all morons like this kid apparently is. Also remember he's just finished his sophomore year, and has probably just taken basic classes like Data Structures and Algorithms and Operating Systems.
It just cheapens my degree, sadly.
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My experience (based on the few kids in my highschool four-ish years ago getting their licenses) is that kids with racing or karting experience generally total their cars, injuring someone, and assuming they are still capable of operating an automobile, destroy their parents cars.
Not that _you_ are necessarily a bad driver, just that experience differs. And I'll happily admit that my data is not statistically significant. But teenagers are idiots for their first year or so behind the wheel, I wouldn't want them to be good at going fast, speed only increases the consequences of being a moron.
The Turks aren't Evil Dictatorial Muslims, they're Friendly Democratic Muslims.
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True. When I said 'graduate degree,' I probably should have said 'Masters.' In any case, thats what I meant.
Yes!
Not so much that exactly, but don't think you're a fucking genius because you're the smartest kid in your highschool. It takes a lot to be succesful, intelligence alone won't do it. I'm sure most of know (or are) plenty of very smart people who are not effective in the real world because they can't communicate effectively.
College is a totally different story, particularly if you're going to a good one. You'll meet people there who are intelligent, motivated, and personable.
Also, if "non-traditionally bright" is a cop-out for not working hard enough to fulfilly your potential, well, good fucking luck. If you find your undergraduate degree easy (as I have to a large extent), you probably should have gotten into a better college. If you're in one of the best colleges for your degree, you should probably be getting another degree. If all those things are true, get a graduate degree.
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Vendor lockin is probably too strong a phrase. What I mean is that, without writing your own solution, ISC DHCP only plays nicely with ISC BIND, and MS AD only plays nicely with MS DNS server and ISC BIND. Personally, I don't really care about ISC's motivation or employees or whatever else, just that their software is easy to use and secure. DJBDNS fits the bill for me better than BIND does.
As for AXFR and so forth... I don't know where you're getting all this, but one of the selling points of DJB's design philosophy is modularity. tinydns does exactly one thing: serves authoratative DNS over UDP. It doesn't do TCP (and therefore AXFR), nor is it a caching resolver. Both of those functions are done by other parts of the DJBDNS package (axfrdns for TCP queries and AXFR, dnscache for a caching resolver). If you want to do incoming AXFR, its easily implemented with a short perl script that generates a tinydns data file (autoaxfr) - this is from a third party, and is widely used.
Heck, say you want to (for some ungodly reason) create DNS entries based on incoming email statistics. Its easy, hack up some perl and you're all set, no need to restart tinydns (it reloads its data file automatically) or even touch anything DJB-related.
This is especially problematic because Mr Bernstein refuses to license the software for a fork.
Bullshit. DJB doesn't allow forks of the same name. qmail was recently forked into something called 'netqmail' that integrates the most popular, bug-fix packages that are out there.
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'codig' ... nor are my typing skills, apparently.
Heh, _my_ C skills certainly aren't up to DJB quality codig, but I bet yours are. You should go for it once that domainkeys implementation is done. :)
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Let's not forget Dynamic DNS, i.e., DNS updates from DHCP. I 3 DJB's software, tinydns included, but you can't (readily) attach it to ISC DHCPD and have your DNS records change with your DHCP leases. This isn't a limitation of Dan's software, but rather vendor lock-in on the part of the ISC (and MS, who provides the other major DDNS implementation).
For some people, in some situations, this is a necessity. I just can't wait for someone to write a DJB-inspired DHCP server.
This is done everywhere, now.
The reason is that home heating oil and diesel fuel are identical, chemically. Diesel is dyed so that you can't just pump heating oil into your fleet of 18 wheelers and avoid gas tax.
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Well, you are increasing the load on the power lines, and they're losing more power than they would be otherwise. I remember this coming up in some highschool physics class; I think the power companies prosecuted the farmers :).
Of course, it could all be an urban legend.
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That'd be electromagnetism at work. Farmer's occasionally steal power by setting up large coils of wire under a high tension transmission line and hooking them up to whatever they wanted power.
:).
More than anything else, this sounds like a good excuse to get some nice LCDs
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You're mostly correct. Selective Availibility can be done region by region (I don't know the resolution of this), and the signal can be degraded with rather fine-grained control (the whole world was degraded to 200meter-ish accuracy until the late 90s). SA does not effect military recievers; when supplied with the days proper P(Y) code, they are as accurate as the GPS spec allows (~1 meter resolution, best case).
So the US can degrade the signal in a fine grained way, without affecting military / government systems.
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Why deploy a drogue at apogee? To get the rocket into a nose-up posture?
Interesting...
His name is Sterling Ball, the company is Ernie Ball. They make guitar related things. Look via google.
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Have you listened to 5.1? Both of the CD-replacement technologies (DVD-Audio and SACD) are designed to hold both 2 channel mixes and multichannel ones. I've sat in a car at the AES convention and listened to a 5.1 and a 2 channel mix of the same song. 5.1 wins hands down - I'd pay more for it any day.
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UP!
Shades of the RPI Players
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We've had DNS-based real-time blacklists for a long time. No reason it can't be used in this application.
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No, they're either morons or criminally ignorant of what is considered a standard feature set for RDBMSs. For all the reasons you mentioned and more.
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According to one of my Psych professors, under ideal conditions the human eye can detect a single photon.
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