On the other hand, you don't want retail staff having free time when the consumer is most likely to shop. It comes with the job package. Living in Germany after growing up in a megacity like Mumbai , I find this close-early/weekends off habit of stores utterly strange and illogical.
It maybe a local effect, but I mostly see ultra-slim chiclet style keyboards these days , and personally use a Macbook Pro. So no, these keyboards do not have any elevation on upper rows. Everything is flat.
I RTFA. Besides the fact that the author seems capable of writing a 1000 page essay in an attempt to convince the reader that 'grass is green', the article also does not take into account that typewriters have staggered heights rows of keys.
Staggered keys are more suitable for touch typing - the P key is at a higher row than the L key, and this is good, because your little finger can be lifted up high easily to reach the P key. On many modern keyboards though, keys are flat - especially on the chiclet style keyboards most laptops have. This means you have to stretch your fingers far in order to reach some keys while adhering to the touch type system. No matter much you stretch, your pinkie is not going to reach the Backspace key for example, without some odd contortions of your hand. This is just inefficient and awkward.
Of course, the hunt and peck method is slow. The obvious easiest system to work with is what we do intuitively after some time on computers - use all your fingers and whichever finger is closest to hit the required key.
The hacker might test the NAND flash itself and store the expected values on the chip, then replay the expected results when the chip was tested. In this way, they could impersonate the authentic chip. However, tests showed that there would not be enough room on any chip to store the data needed to carry this out. The amount of data needed would grow with the capacity of the chip and would be orders of magnitude larger than its capacity, he said.
That's not what a hacker is going to do. A hacker is going to measure the chip's 'response function' to the ID/validation signals. And then he is going to find another chip. Probability dictates that for a sufficiently similar manufacturing process, another chip will have the same occurrence of behaviour NAND cells, except of course they will have a randomly different spatial location on the chip. Then all you need to do is remap the NAND cells' locations through a modified driver, and replicate the response function. YOu may not even need to have a similar occurrence of behaviours, it could be sufficient to find just enough to replicate the response function.
There is no need to have a complete deterministic model of the chip. You can treat it as a black box and replicate its essential characteristics in a different way. The principle is a mantra in reverse engineering anyway
They don't know jack shit about windows either; but if there's a desktop shortcut for The Internet, they'll be fine:-P
I second that. This seems to be lost on many people here at Slashdot. If these people knew anything about computers, they wouldn't have the security issues with Windows either. Windows 7 at least is an excellent piece of software (the marketing, monopolizing practices of its creator company notwithstanding). If you have clueless users , any system is going to be underthreat - Windows just happens to have about 90% of those clueless users simply because of its ubiquity.
That IS exactly the problem. The only really permanent jobs for extremely specialized people are in very specialized companies (which are few), and academia (which is intensely competetive for tenure-track positions due to the number of Ph.Ds. This is exactly what TFA addresses.
It's not about what Ph.D's think. Being a Ph.D holder, I know that most employers get Ph.D's for particular projects. They are 'bringing the expertise in'. Which means, that your thesis is a major deciding factor, as far as specializations and fields go.
You missed it again *sigh* - in the duration where a graduate student as to make career choices. A hundred years, the time taken research you mention to be put to practical use, is actually slightly more than the average lifetime of a grad-student, no?
Research like "The migratory route of the Norther Wheateater" is unlikely to get you a job anywhere else apart from an ornithology department, and only those specializing in bird migration.
No one said it isn't useful to society. It doesn't help graduate students in the near term in securing a good job - especially given the condition in academia. Reminds me of n old Ph.D comics joke "You're (Ph.Ds ) unemployed because the job you're best trained for is already taken - by your PI, and he's never retiring."
Yes yes, but this about context. What is meant is , there is some research that is increasingly irrelevant to the world beyond academia , and likely to remain so for a duration of time in which a graduate student's career choices will be made.
It's really simple. Harass the vendors of your competitor, if you cannot harass the competitor. I know its not a possibility, but can you imagine this lawsuit happening if the Galaxy looked just it does, but was running iOS (and thus Samsung was an Apple partner) ?
Just buy printers and scanners that are supported and the cost is zero.
It needs to work with printers and scanners that are already there - which by the way easily have a 10-yr life span. This is timing issue -different stuff gets upgraded at different times. Printers, Desktop OS, and the general office workflow is not upgraded at once.
The German public has been an ardent supporter of FOSS...to see this kind of news does not bode well for the future of FOSS. I suppose the optimal point is corporate managed FOSS - the kind Google and Sun(used to) maintain.
Actually , it looks pretty dangerous in this news report.The blinding effect in the night sky is pretty serious. I presume you've never performed a night landing?
This is going to lead to situations like : "YouTube recommends ISP X for optimal viewing experience". And high traffic sites will probably end up extorting money from the ISPs. I know Facebook isn't going to pay anyone for access, for example.
And pretty soon, websites will form unions and the ensuing partitioning of the Internet will give us consumer choices "ISP X offers about 50% of the Internet at this price, while ISP Y offers 75% of the Internet for only a few cents more.". Competition between ISPs will spiral out of control.
Things are going to end up more complicated for the ISPs themselves - and if they had a shred of intelligence to them, they'd stop this moronic talk."
That is simply because search algorithm and related technology progresses slower than technologies allowing morons to put crap onto a machine and connect it to the internet.
Person 1 : "Hey, I got this really cool fly-swatter. It was made by Christian Dior and has these all-metal one piece construction. I don't care how they managed to fuse the suede handle onto the metal , why should I know? All I care about is how great it works! It kills a fly in one swat !"
Person 2 : "Oh, I kind of just used the spatula they sell at Walmart and wrapped a bunch of electrical tape around the handle. Took me some work to get the plastic bendy enough with a little heating. It looks ugly as hell, but guess what, it kills a fly in....exactly one swat!"
Oh, yeah, and of course, the spatula is only updo date until about 18 months later, when the wing-buzz tracking ZapFly laser tech is pushed to the market. You decide which person you want to be. But as the parent said, only one of those attitudes is what made that ZapFly laser possible.
Heisenberg's Uncertainty principle : For a particle, the mutiplication of a change in momentum (x) and position(y) is a constant. (roughly speaking).
Which means that if x is close to zero, and there is only infinitessimaly small change in x, the change in y (position) is infinitesimally large, which means you have no freakin idea where it is at any given moment of time.
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On the other hand, you don't want retail staff having free time when the consumer is most likely to shop. It comes with the job package. Living in Germany after growing up in a megacity like Mumbai , I find this close-early/weekends off habit of stores utterly strange and illogical.
It maybe a local effect, but I mostly see ultra-slim chiclet style keyboards these days , and personally use a Macbook Pro. So no, these keyboards do not have any elevation on upper rows. Everything is flat.
I RTFA. Besides the fact that the author seems capable of writing a 1000 page essay in an attempt to convince the reader that 'grass is green', the article also does not take into account that typewriters have staggered heights rows of keys.
Staggered keys are more suitable for touch typing - the P key is at a higher row than the L key, and this is good, because your little finger can be lifted up high easily to reach the P key. On many modern keyboards though, keys are flat - especially on the chiclet style keyboards most laptops have. This means you have to stretch your fingers far in order to reach some keys while adhering to the touch type system. No matter much you stretch, your pinkie is not going to reach the Backspace key for example, without some odd contortions of your hand. This is just inefficient and awkward.
Of course, the hunt and peck method is slow. The obvious easiest system to work with is what we do intuitively after some time on computers - use all your fingers and whichever finger is closest to hit the required key.
From TFA
The hacker might test the NAND flash itself and store the expected values on the chip, then replay the expected results when the chip was tested. In this way, they could impersonate the authentic chip. However, tests showed that there would not be enough room on any chip to store the data needed to carry this out. The amount of data needed would grow with the capacity of the chip and would be orders of magnitude larger than its capacity, he said.
That's not what a hacker is going to do. A hacker is going to measure the chip's 'response function' to the ID/validation signals. And then he is going to find another chip. Probability dictates that for a sufficiently similar manufacturing process, another chip will have the same occurrence of behaviour NAND cells, except of course they will have a randomly different spatial location on the chip. Then all you need to do is remap the NAND cells' locations through a modified driver, and replicate the response function. YOu may not even need to have a similar occurrence of behaviours, it could be sufficient to find just enough to replicate the response function.
There is no need to have a complete deterministic model of the chip. You can treat it as a black box and replicate its essential characteristics in a different way. The principle is a mantra in reverse engineering anyway
They don't know jack shit about windows either; but if there's a desktop shortcut for The Internet, they'll be fine :-P
I second that. This seems to be lost on many people here at Slashdot. If these people knew anything about computers, they wouldn't have the security issues with Windows either. Windows 7 at least is an excellent piece of software (the marketing, monopolizing practices of its creator company notwithstanding). If you have clueless users , any system is going to be underthreat - Windows just happens to have about 90% of those clueless users simply because of its ubiquity.
is of course Lynx.
Lynx is not the obvious answer, it is the incorrect answer. RTFS.
...and then what ?
That IS exactly the problem. The only really permanent jobs for extremely specialized people are in very specialized companies (which are few), and academia (which is intensely competetive for tenure-track positions due to the number of Ph.Ds. This is exactly what TFA addresses.
It's not about what Ph.D's think. Being a Ph.D holder, I know that most employers get Ph.D's for particular projects. They are 'bringing the expertise in'. Which means, that your thesis is a major deciding factor, as far as specializations and fields go.
You missed it again *sigh* - in the duration where a graduate student as to make career choices. A hundred years, the time taken research you mention to be put to practical use, is actually slightly more than the average lifetime of a grad-student, no?
Research like "The migratory route of the Norther Wheateater" is unlikely to get you a job anywhere else apart from an ornithology department, and only those specializing in bird migration.
No one said it isn't useful to society. It doesn't help graduate students in the near term in securing a good job - especially given the condition in academia. Reminds me of n old Ph.D comics joke "You're (Ph.Ds ) unemployed because the job you're best trained for is already taken - by your PI, and he's never retiring."
Swoosh!
Yes yes, but this about context. What is meant is , there is some research that is increasingly irrelevant to the world beyond academia , and likely to remain so for a duration of time in which a graduate student's career choices will be made.
It's really simple. Harass the vendors of your competitor, if you cannot harass the competitor. I know its not a possibility, but can you imagine this lawsuit happening if the Galaxy looked just it does, but was running iOS (and thus Samsung was an Apple partner) ?
This is plain legal blackmail.
Your lack of will power to control your finances is no reason for other customers to forego a new feature that they potentially find useful.
Just buy printers and scanners that are supported and the cost is zero.
It needs to work with printers and scanners that are already there - which by the way easily have a 10-yr life span. This is timing issue -different stuff gets upgraded at different times. Printers, Desktop OS, and the general office workflow is not upgraded at once.
The German public has been an ardent supporter of FOSS...to see this kind of news does not bode well for the future of FOSS. I suppose the optimal point is corporate managed FOSS - the kind Google and Sun(used to) maintain.
Actually , it looks pretty dangerous in this news report.The blinding effect in the night sky is pretty serious. I presume you've never performed a night landing?
This is going to lead to situations like : "YouTube recommends ISP X for optimal viewing experience". And high traffic sites will probably end up extorting money from the ISPs. I know Facebook isn't going to pay anyone for access, for example.
And pretty soon, websites will form unions and the ensuing partitioning of the Internet will give us consumer choices "ISP X offers about 50% of the Internet at this price, while ISP Y offers 75% of the Internet for only a few cents more.". Competition between ISPs will spiral out of control.
Things are going to end up more complicated for the ISPs themselves - and if they had a shred of intelligence to them, they'd stop this moronic talk."
That is simply because search algorithm and related technology progresses slower than technologies allowing morons to put crap onto a machine and connect it to the internet.
Wow, a time traveller from the 18th century!
In your support, here is a (not a car) analogy :
Person 1 : "Hey, I got this really cool fly-swatter. It was made by Christian Dior and has these all-metal one piece construction. I don't care how they managed to fuse the suede handle onto the metal , why should I know? All I care about is how great it works! It kills a fly in one swat !"
Person 2 : "Oh, I kind of just used the spatula they sell at Walmart and wrapped a bunch of electrical tape around the handle. Took me some work to get the plastic bendy enough with a little heating. It looks ugly as hell, but guess what, it kills a fly in....exactly one swat!"
Oh, yeah, and of course, the spatula is only updo date until about 18 months later, when the wing-buzz tracking ZapFly laser tech is pushed to the market. You decide which person you want to be. But as the parent said, only one of those attitudes is what made that ZapFly laser possible.
Eh? I don't have an NYTimes account and I could read the article just fine...
Heisenberg's Uncertainty principle : For a particle, the mutiplication of a change in momentum (x) and position(y) is a constant. (roughly speaking).
Which means that if x is close to zero, and there is only infinitessimaly small change in x, the change in y (position) is infinitesimally large, which means you have no freakin idea where it is at any given moment of time.
thats the best I can do
It saddens me to see all these oh-so-funny Bose audio system jokes. Its rather an injustice to the scientific work of Satyendra Bose.
Fail. S= second in FlOPS
And since its Google, its not by increasing the numerator of that fraction either. Relativity comes in handy eh?