I wouldn't feel like thanking someone who broke into my house while I was on vacation, nosed around in my papers, and then told me about my "security problem" when I returned home.
I'm inclined to agree, but only partially. If the guy just strongarmed his way in (broke the lock, shattered the door hinges, or whatever), then I'd think it was stupid, and I'd probably get a guard dog, keypad entry with multiple steel bolts, computerized surveillance, etc.
Now, at that point, if some wily individual managed to get past all that crazy security, I actually don't think I'd be pissed. First I would be curious as to how he did it. I'd even feel some admiration for a person intelligent and clever enough to do it.
I agree that it is a crime. I wouldn't just invite the guy in for a cup of coffee and donuts. But realistically, we all have some romantic notions attached to the idea of a guy who goes up against insurmountable obstacles and manages to accomplish his goal despite them -- a person who shows no regard for the petty concept of "legality/illegality" but instead bases his actions on the higher concept of "morality/immorality."
Robin Hood was a criminal and yet we all found ourselves rooting for him. Adrian Lamo is similarly a criminal, he doesn't need to be rewarded, but I don't think there is anything wrong with having a little admiration for a person who expresses his principles, even if the mode of expression is questionable.
And seriously, since when should I get so pissed off that a corporation has to spend a few grand? It's just more money flowing through the economy, in the end. Nobody got hurt.
As a 12 year old girl, I find being compared to the RIAA insulting. We are way more mature than the RIAA.
And your SlashID is lower than mine, indicating that you signed up for Slashdot somewhere before the summer of '99, so you were 8 when you started reading Slashdot?
No. The term "quantum cryptography" is grossly misleading. QC doesn't encrypt anything -- it encodes the message in such a way that any eavesdropper will be detected, period. It is impossible to sniff a quantum channel without being detected.
That doesn't mean you don't need a traditional cryptosystem on top of it. An attacker could compromise the receiving end of the line and read the message without detection. You still need crypto to protect against this.
Can a quantum computer defeat quantum "cryptography?" No. QC is based on the "no cloning" theorem in quantum mechanics: it is physically impossible to precisely clone a quantum state, without destroying that quantum state. No trickery will ever get around that fact.
And your Slashdot username is "Jon Abbott," clearly indicating that you are a male. Is your maleness supposed to influence how I perceive your posts? Maybe you should have selected a username that doesn't blatantly advertise an irrelevant personal characteristic?
I thought "diversity" was something we are supposed to embrace and value. How are we supposed to do that if we pretend that race doesn't even exist? Are you saying we're never supposed to mention it? The mere mention that a person comes from a particular place is somehow discriminatory?
Why not celebrate the fact that the scientific team was international in nature?
Seriously, they don't mention what frequencies were used (can someone extrapolate from the pipe length)
Well, a double-ended tube will support a half-wavelength resonance, so divide the speed of sound by twice the length of the tube. Or just use Google calculator.
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - The citizens of the moon revolt against the government of earth in order to gain their independence.
Oh come on, that isn't an adequate explanation! It's a PENAL colony, not just a colony. That's like neglecting to mention that Frodo wasn't human in LoTR:-)
Like every other corporation on the face of the planet, they don't blink unless (they think) it's in their best interests.
Well, if the dumbshit asshole stockholders wouldn't sue the corporations every time they miss their profit projections by 2%, maybe they wouldn't have to be such cutthroat bastards.
Being an investor is all about "me me me!" just as much as corporatism is. If you own stock, and you've ever bitched that your dividends were too small, then you're guilty too. Stockholding pricks won't let corporations do a god damn thing unless it's in their "best interests." Don't blame the corporations, they are just doing what Joe Schmoe Stockholder is demanding of them.
Are you a raving lunatic or something? What the hell did the original poster say about prison rape? Am I missing something here? Oh, and nice crack about "large black men."
If DoS attacking Center7 is blowing up a cafe, then SCO has been carpet bombing us for months. So yes, it would be a fitting response.
The US was carpet bombing Iraq, I suppose that means you think a few terrorist attacks on a few American cafes would be a fitting response? The only difference between a politically motivated DoS, and terrorism, is a matter of degree. Both are unethical.
The same way the customers in Israeli cafes are a legit target of suicide attacks?
If they don't want to be blown up, they should just stop supporting Israeli occupation of Palestine! It doesn't matter what their personal opinions are, they are guilty by association!
Don't be a psychopath. It is not okay to blackmail or extort or terrorize people in order to force them to see things your way. Damaging innocent third parties in an effort to get those parties to put pressure on your enemy, is basically what terrorism is all about.
BUT to make this a plausible defense, you'd have to show that your rip was in fact perfect. In other words you'd have to be able to recreate the mp3 independently.
Where do you get that idea? At least to my knowledge, there is still a concept of "innocent until proven guilty." It seems to me it would be the burden of the prosecutor to show that you could not recreate the MP3 in that way.
You never have to "prove" your own defense, it is the prosecutor who must disprove it.
I think it would make more sense to use an exponential extrapolation. Reasoning: the rate of locating bugs is proportional to both the number of people looking at the code, and the actual number of bugs. In other words, if you double the number of coders, you double the bug-finding rate (yes I know, wild assumption). And if you double the number of bugs, you also double the bug-finding rate (since bug density has doubled, a programmer is more likely to encounter a bug).
Anyone who's taken differential equations will tell you that when the rate of change of a quantity depends on itself, then the quantity will change exponentially.
So maybe we should really be talking about bug "half life?" How long it takes for the number of bugs to drop in half.
I think you miss his point. Maybe he means he's willing to pay for a commercial license, but his product is small enough that he would rather pay a lower license fee. A reasonable demand, although Trolltech obviously will do what they will...
A few years ago back when QT 2.0 just came out, I downloaded the free trial for Windows, and marveled at the fact that my program which was originally written for Linux "just worked." I wanted to create a particular Windows app at the time, and distribute it as Open Source.
So I emailed Trolltech and asked, "I wanted to create an open source Windows app. You already have a free license for open source apps on X, why can't I create one for Windows too?"
The response was, "Why on earth would anyone create a free Windows application?"
You know I'm not sure why I'm bothering to reply to an AC, but I find myself doing it anyway...
Had you simply included the first paragraph of your response, I would have considered your points, and maybe even agreed that you have a case against my interpretation. You know, it's been a while since I've seen the movie, so I can't remember how fast the rotation was, or where in the ship they were...
Calling people idiots is just hostile and destroys the value of any point your were trying to make. I have a terrible suspicion I'm saying this to a high school or junior high student, however, so I am probably just wasting my time...
Give yourself a pat on the back, you managed to piss off a random stranger for several minutes. Yay. You're going places in the world, buddy.
Stop trying to find holes in science FICTION movies and just enjoy the movie.
The problem is, when you have a certain amount of knowledge in any particular field of science, you are simply forced to notice these inconsistencies. My personal field of interest is physics, so I immediately notice, and am terribly distracted by, physics blunders.
You read Slashdot, so I'll assume you have a fair degree of computer knowledge, or at least pretend to. Imagine watching a moviem, supposedly about some fantastic computer hackers, where in a certain scene the main character says: "I've installed a 2.4 gigahertz hard drive, and applied a firewall to the keyboard. Let's see them hack through that!"
If you're anything like me, the contents of your mouth, be it Coke, popcorn, or whatever, would immeditely be distributed across the heads of the five unfortunate people sitting in front of you.
It's not that I don't try to ignore the problems and simply enjoy the movie. The errors are simply so huge I just... can't.
my favorite: The spinning M&M DNA helix from Mission to Mars.
Funny you should bring that up, because that was one of the few scenes from that movie that was actually physically plausible.
What you were seeing was not the M&Ms revolving of their own accord. No, of course that is impossible, as there isn't any force to accelerate them. What you were seeing was the M&Ms sitting still, as the ship rotated around them. A person affixed to the interior of the ship (or, equivalently, the camera man on such a ship) would not notice the ship's rotation, but would see the floating M&Ms appear to revolve around the center of rotation of the ship.
It was a fantastic scene. The rest of the movie absolutely sucked.
It depends what sort of cluster it is. If you have a standard network of workstations, and you're running something like PVM or MPI, then each node can run at a different speed. In fact, they don't even have to be the same kind of nodes (you can have different platforms, say Solaris and Linux, both running in the same virtual parallel machine).Usually you will have to adjust your algorithms to account for nodes running at different speeds. But it doesn't make it impossible.
MOSIX is a parallel cluster operating system based on Linux that can run on nodes of different speeds. They all need to be the same platform, though -- you can't mix Sparc and Intel for example.
Other supercomputer applications are written specifically under the assumption that all nodes are the same speed, they are linked together a certain way, etc. It all depends on the application.
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When's the last time you did something "very, VERY hard?" I know I have.
That would be stupid. The entire point is, the nodes are so freaking cheap, that if you really want an extra 5% performance you just buy a few more nodes. Gee, what do I choose, buy a few more nodes, or spend two weeks overclocking all these finicky chips and trying to get them to run correctly?
Besides, nobody in their right mind would run a parallel program of any importance on a "rigged" setup like that.
Most people who feel like that had a bad experience with the STL, back before it was standardized, before the language itself was changed to make things easier.
hash_map is still not an official standard. Until it is, STL will remain a joke.
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I'm inclined to agree, but only partially. If the guy just strongarmed his way in (broke the lock, shattered the door hinges, or whatever), then I'd think it was stupid, and I'd probably get a guard dog, keypad entry with multiple steel bolts, computerized surveillance, etc.
Now, at that point, if some wily individual managed to get past all that crazy security, I actually don't think I'd be pissed. First I would be curious as to how he did it. I'd even feel some admiration for a person intelligent and clever enough to do it.
I agree that it is a crime. I wouldn't just invite the guy in for a cup of coffee and donuts. But realistically, we all have some romantic notions attached to the idea of a guy who goes up against insurmountable obstacles and manages to accomplish his goal despite them -- a person who shows no regard for the petty concept of "legality/illegality" but instead bases his actions on the higher concept of "morality/immorality."
Robin Hood was a criminal and yet we all found ourselves rooting for him. Adrian Lamo is similarly a criminal, he doesn't need to be rewarded, but I don't think there is anything wrong with having a little admiration for a person who expresses his principles, even if the mode of expression is questionable.
And seriously, since when should I get so pissed off that a corporation has to spend a few grand? It's just more money flowing through the economy, in the end. Nobody got hurt.
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{
printf("These source trees appear to be entirely different!\n");
return 0;
}
And your SlashID is lower than mine, indicating that you signed up for Slashdot somewhere before the summer of '99, so you were 8 when you started reading Slashdot?
You, my young lady, are hardcore.
That doesn't mean you don't need a traditional cryptosystem on top of it. An attacker could compromise the receiving end of the line and read the message without detection. You still need crypto to protect against this.
Can a quantum computer defeat quantum "cryptography?" No. QC is based on the "no cloning" theorem in quantum mechanics: it is physically impossible to precisely clone a quantum state, without destroying that quantum state. No trickery will ever get around that fact.
Your point would be valid if we didn't live in a state of the corporation by the corporation for the corporation.
I thought "diversity" was something we are supposed to embrace and value. How are we supposed to do that if we pretend that race doesn't even exist? Are you saying we're never supposed to mention it? The mere mention that a person comes from a particular place is somehow discriminatory?
Why not celebrate the fact that the scientific team was international in nature?
You PC weirdos are really odd...
The quarter wavelengths will only occur if you close off one end of the tube.
Well, a double-ended tube will support a half-wavelength resonance, so divide the speed of sound by twice the length of the tube. Or just use Google calculator.
Oh come on, that isn't an adequate explanation! It's a PENAL colony, not just a colony. That's like neglecting to mention that Frodo wasn't human in LoTR :-)
Well, if the dumbshit asshole stockholders wouldn't sue the corporations every time they miss their profit projections by 2%, maybe they wouldn't have to be such cutthroat bastards.
Being an investor is all about "me me me!" just as much as corporatism is. If you own stock, and you've ever bitched that your dividends were too small, then you're guilty too. Stockholding pricks won't let corporations do a god damn thing unless it's in their "best interests." Don't blame the corporations, they are just doing what Joe Schmoe Stockholder is demanding of them.
Folks I think this is a well disguised troll.
The US was carpet bombing Iraq, I suppose that means you think a few terrorist attacks on a few American cafes would be a fitting response? The only difference between a politically motivated DoS, and terrorism, is a matter of degree. Both are unethical.
The same way the customers in Israeli cafes are a legit target of suicide attacks?
If they don't want to be blown up, they should just stop supporting Israeli occupation of Palestine! It doesn't matter what their personal opinions are, they are guilty by association!
Don't be a psychopath. It is not okay to blackmail or extort or terrorize people in order to force them to see things your way. Damaging innocent third parties in an effort to get those parties to put pressure on your enemy, is basically what terrorism is all about.
Yeah, well tough shit. If they don't like it, they can complain to their ISP to get those SCO criminals booted off their network.
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Sorry, I was just trying to imitate the SPEWS guys ;-)
Where do you get that idea? At least to my knowledge, there is still a concept of "innocent until proven guilty." It seems to me it would be the burden of the prosecutor to show that you could not recreate the MP3 in that way.
You never have to "prove" your own defense, it is the prosecutor who must disprove it.
Of course, civil court is different...
Anyone who's taken differential equations will tell you that when the rate of change of a quantity depends on itself, then the quantity will change exponentially.
So maybe we should really be talking about bug "half life?" How long it takes for the number of bugs to drop in half.
The vast majority of what is happening on the "bleeding edge" is happening at places other than Microsoft.
A few years ago back when QT 2.0 just came out, I downloaded the free trial for Windows, and marveled at the fact that my program which was originally written for Linux "just worked." I wanted to create a particular Windows app at the time, and distribute it as Open Source.
So I emailed Trolltech and asked, "I wanted to create an open source Windows app. You already have a free license for open source apps on X, why can't I create one for Windows too?"
The response was, "Why on earth would anyone create a free Windows application?"
Hence, no cheap Windows licenses.
Had you simply included the first paragraph of your response, I would have considered your points, and maybe even agreed that you have a case against my interpretation. You know, it's been a while since I've seen the movie, so I can't remember how fast the rotation was, or where in the ship they were...
Calling people idiots is just hostile and destroys the value of any point your were trying to make. I have a terrible suspicion I'm saying this to a high school or junior high student, however, so I am probably just wasting my time...
Give yourself a pat on the back, you managed to piss off a random stranger for several minutes. Yay. You're going places in the world, buddy.
The problem is, when you have a certain amount of knowledge in any particular field of science, you are simply forced to notice these inconsistencies. My personal field of interest is physics, so I immediately notice, and am terribly distracted by, physics blunders.
You read Slashdot, so I'll assume you have a fair degree of computer knowledge, or at least pretend to. Imagine watching a moviem, supposedly about some fantastic computer hackers, where in a certain scene the main character says: "I've installed a 2.4 gigahertz hard drive, and applied a firewall to the keyboard. Let's see them hack through that!"
If you're anything like me, the contents of your mouth, be it Coke, popcorn, or whatever, would immeditely be distributed across the heads of the five unfortunate people sitting in front of you.
It's not that I don't try to ignore the problems and simply enjoy the movie. The errors are simply so huge I just... can't.
Funny you should bring that up, because that was one of the few scenes from that movie that was actually physically plausible.
What you were seeing was not the M&Ms revolving of their own accord. No, of course that is impossible, as there isn't any force to accelerate them. What you were seeing was the M&Ms sitting still, as the ship rotated around them. A person affixed to the interior of the ship (or, equivalently, the camera man on such a ship) would not notice the ship's rotation, but would see the floating M&Ms appear to revolve around the center of rotation of the ship.
It was a fantastic scene. The rest of the movie absolutely sucked.
MOSIX is a parallel cluster operating system based on Linux that can run on nodes of different speeds. They all need to be the same platform, though -- you can't mix Sparc and Intel for example.
Other supercomputer applications are written specifically under the assumption that all nodes are the same speed, they are linked together a certain way, etc. It all depends on the application.
I heard going to the moon was pretty hard, too.
Besides, nobody in their right mind would run a parallel program of any importance on a "rigged" setup like that.
hash_map is still not an official standard. Until it is, STL will remain a joke.