As I noted in previous post, his duration is far too long. However, it can be quite long compared to normal steak cooking times.
But to get that 'char', or better, a sear, many of us turn to a blowtorch to apply an intense level of heat in a very localized way to keep the inside perfectly cooked while getting a nice maillard reaction on the outside.
IMHO, one of the problems with the propagation and improvement of encryption is that too many people, knowing that better encryption is possible, reject all forms of encryption that aren't ideal.
I worked at a company and we had a one time need to send data outside the company in a way that would relate individuals without disclosing their identity. It wasn't a problem that we wanted to spend a lot of time and money on. At some point I coldly offered the possibility of simply multiplying the ID's by X. It would obscure the ID's, but not secure them. I expressed my doubts, but the legal representative of the company ruled that we only needed to take reasonable steps - not outwit Sherlock Holmes. I raised a mild objection, but with all of this documented, and with a legal opinion in hand, that's exactly what I did.
But I started thinking about this later and began to realize how woefully inadequate other forms of human communications have been for most of human history. My parents would never trust anything not on paper, but their mailbox was hardly secured. Signatures on contracts are never examined - except perhaps, in a court of law. Today, normal fax machines are legal instruments capable of transmitting prescriptions for controlled substances.
The gap between the now and the ideal is very wide. Symmetric key encryption is adequate for many situations. Asymmetric encryption is a solution that doesn't always need the establishment of trust. That can often be established on a peer-to-peer human level.
Often, when I've developed a program/system that had been generalized to solve anticipated problems in addition to the specific problem to be addressed, I've found that much confusion would follow. I learned to design and code to the general, but expose only that which addressed a specific need. Later I could expose more if needed. That worked much better and, when people later asked if we could add something else, I could say that I'd anticipated it and yes, we could.
So here's the thing. When I did have to implement more general forms of encryption, I felt like an idiot. I'm don't think I'm an idiot. I've written routines to compute surface normals to geometric planes to effect hidden surface removal.
But just figuring out how to get/buy PGP while not get ripped off was hard enough. I knew about GPG but couldn't find any definitive statements that they would work together (PGP being ubiquitous in my industry). Then I was given choices between various ciphers and hashes. Uh, which one is best? No guidance.
Then there was the company that had been recently compromised who's newly formed Information Security department refused to let us send them PGP encrypted data over their FTP site without a security review of *our* company.
Crypto folks, get your heads out of theory and into the real world.
Here Microsoft had to take an infringing service offline - much to the benefit of the original inventors. If they were not infringing by copying code, they could've just taken what they wanted and crushed the inventors under their boots.
Intellectual property laws are meant to protect the little guy as much or more than the big guys.
Yes, this even covers code covered by the GPL(icense).
If we get overrun with chickens we can send muscle powered robots out to kill them. The meat needs to be exercised, so let's put them in robots programmed to hunt down chickens. Then we can blame all the chicken deaths on the meat-bots and then, in turn, hunt down the meat-bots and eat them.
But seriously, if the meat needs to be exercised, it seems obvious to have them do some sort of useful work. Of course, the best cuts of meat (the tenderloins and rib roasts that sit up high - which is where the phrase "eating high on the hog" comes from) do some, but not much work. So if the value of work that the muscle does offsets the price of the meat, we'd still have more expensive, tenderer cuts and tougher, harder working, but cheaper cuts.
Just last weekend I went to the American Modelers Association's Futaba Extreme Flight Championships. It was basically figure skating for R/C aircraft done to music.
The fixed wing aircraft were impressive for the things they could do that their bigger piloted cousins could never do (such as nose-up hovering). But the real eye openers were the helicopters.
The small R/C helicopters in those experienced fifteen-year-old hands could pretty much do anything you could think of: Instant transitions between vertical directions like they had vertically opposed rockets, instant recoveries from uncontrolled flight, rolls, twists, hovering while the fuselage was vertical, limited upside-down flight, etc.
One of my first thoughts was "Wow, you're not going to hit that with an RPG." I'm not sure about the range of their radios, or if such control could be extended beyond line of sight, but the thought of such controlled (and relatively low tech) chaos unleashed on a battlefield could gave me the willies.
A magical extension-cord-of-stretching would be the only thing that might give this car a shot. 400 HP is ludicrously low for a Lemans Prototype (LMP). They don't mention the weight of the car.
In addition, the car as shown would not be permitted. All cars running in the 24 must be 2-seater sportscars. While anyone would chuckle considering how a passenger would actually fit in an LMP, they clearly have some minimum allowance while the pictured vehicle is clearly a one-driver-in-the-middle car.
The rear wing design shown is clearly suboptimal if you look at the innovations on real LMPs. The design would be really cool for a Batman movie, but otherwise, it seems clear that it was designed by students and not ready to go up against really highly paid engineers.
Interesting post, but it brings up a couple of questions in my mind.
First, the reaction of the dogs to the wolf fur seems to vary from fear to attraction. I wonder if the attraction might be a result of some innate reaction to some sort of 'canine ideal'. Would, for instance, german shepherd dogs have more interested reactions than, say, yorkies?
Second, another anecdote: One day a couple of hunters had killed a deer and brought it by our veterinarian's office to see if they could use their scale to weigh the beast. The vet had no clients in at the moment so he agreed to weigh it for them. Unknowingly, we had just parked next to their pickup at the exact moment when they walked out of the door carrying the deer. Our dogs went completely BERSERK!
Although all were apologetic, in retrospect, I wish I had asked them to wait while I got the dogs out of the car in order to try to judge the nature of their interest further. Did they percieve a threat, or just more food than they'd ever seen in one place? Or just something entirely unfamiliar?
Umm, perhaps it has occurred to you that when someone asks you to look into surfing habits of an employee, they have some reason for looking into that. That you know exactly where it is going seems like a pretty good indication that they're not doing it randomly (i.e. they're not on a fishing expedition - unless you can say that the majority of cases turn out to be innocent, work related surfing - and they're still fired).
Some companies (EDS for instance, although this was some years ago) have codes of conduct that extend beyond the workplace. That's a little close to the line for my taste, but if your CEO sees you running naked down the midway of the state fair with the company's logo strapped to your head, well, you might want to fear for your job.
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As I noted in previous post, his duration is far too long. However, it can be quite long compared to normal steak cooking times.
But to get that 'char', or better, a sear, many of us turn to a blowtorch to apply an intense level of heat in a very localized way to keep the inside perfectly cooked while getting a nice maillard reaction on the outside.
A tender steak cooked can be overcooked at 50-60C. This from the Chef/Owner of the French Laundry, Thomas Keller in his sous vide book Under Pressure.
12 hours would practically ruin the steak. It may still be pink, but it will still be overcooked. I've done it in only 4 hours.
IMHO, one of the problems with the propagation and improvement of encryption is that too many people, knowing that better encryption is possible, reject all forms of encryption that aren't ideal.
I worked at a company and we had a one time need to send data outside the company in a way that would relate individuals without disclosing their identity. It wasn't a problem that we wanted to spend a lot of time and money on. At some point I coldly offered the possibility of simply multiplying the ID's by X. It would obscure the ID's, but not secure them. I expressed my doubts, but the legal representative of the company ruled that we only needed to take reasonable steps - not outwit Sherlock Holmes. I raised a mild objection, but with all of this documented, and with a legal opinion in hand, that's exactly what I did.
But I started thinking about this later and began to realize how woefully inadequate other forms of human communications have been for most of human history. My parents would never trust anything not on paper, but their mailbox was hardly secured. Signatures on contracts are never examined - except perhaps, in a court of law. Today, normal fax machines are legal instruments capable of transmitting prescriptions for controlled substances.
The gap between the now and the ideal is very wide. Symmetric key encryption is adequate for many situations. Asymmetric encryption is a solution that doesn't always need the establishment of trust. That can often be established on a peer-to-peer human level.
Often, when I've developed a program/system that had been generalized to solve anticipated problems in addition to the specific problem to be addressed, I've found that much confusion would follow. I learned to design and code to the general, but expose only that which addressed a specific need. Later I could expose more if needed. That worked much better and, when people later asked if we could add something else, I could say that I'd anticipated it and yes, we could.
So here's the thing. When I did have to implement more general forms of encryption, I felt like an idiot. I'm don't think I'm an idiot. I've written routines to compute surface normals to geometric planes to effect hidden surface removal.
But just figuring out how to get/buy PGP while not get ripped off was hard enough. I knew about GPG but couldn't find any definitive statements that they would work together (PGP being ubiquitous in my industry). Then I was given choices between various ciphers and hashes. Uh, which one is best? No guidance.
Then there was the company that had been recently compromised who's newly formed Information Security department refused to let us send them PGP encrypted data over their FTP site without a security review of *our* company.
Crypto folks, get your heads out of theory and into the real world.
Here Microsoft had to take an infringing service offline - much to the benefit of the original inventors. If they were not infringing by copying code, they could've just taken what they wanted and crushed the inventors under their boots.
Intellectual property laws are meant to protect the little guy as much or more than the big guys.
Yes, this even covers code covered by the GPL(icense).
If we get overrun with chickens we can send muscle powered robots out to kill them. The meat needs to be exercised, so let's put them in robots programmed to hunt down chickens. Then we can blame all the chicken deaths on the meat-bots and then, in turn, hunt down the meat-bots and eat them.
But seriously, if the meat needs to be exercised, it seems obvious to have them do some sort of useful work. Of course, the best cuts of meat (the tenderloins and rib roasts that sit up high - which is where the phrase "eating high on the hog" comes from) do some, but not much work. So if the value of work that the muscle does offsets the price of the meat, we'd still have more expensive, tenderer cuts and tougher, harder working, but cheaper cuts.
Just last weekend I went to the American Modelers Association's Futaba Extreme Flight Championships. It was basically figure skating for R/C aircraft done to music.
The fixed wing aircraft were impressive for the things they could do that their bigger piloted cousins could never do (such as nose-up hovering). But the real eye openers were the helicopters.
The small R/C helicopters in those experienced fifteen-year-old hands could pretty much do anything you could think of: Instant transitions between vertical directions like they had vertically opposed rockets, instant recoveries from uncontrolled flight, rolls, twists, hovering while the fuselage was vertical, limited upside-down flight, etc.
One of my first thoughts was "Wow, you're not going to hit that with an RPG." I'm not sure about the range of their radios, or if such control could be extended beyond line of sight, but the thought of such controlled (and relatively low tech) chaos unleashed on a battlefield could gave me the willies.
In fantasy-land, yes. Only their car isn't legal for any class. And it wouldn't be competitive for any class.
It is total BS.
Unless they have dealerships in place for 2011, they can't run in a GT class. This concept is illegal for all classes however...
http://www.lemans.org/sport/sport/reglements/ressources/2009/auto/reglement_2011_moteur_hybride_gb.pdf
A magical extension-cord-of-stretching would be the only thing that might give this car a shot. 400 HP is ludicrously low for a Lemans Prototype (LMP). They don't mention the weight of the car.
In addition, the car as shown would not be permitted. All cars running in the 24 must be 2-seater sportscars. While anyone would chuckle considering how a passenger would actually fit in an LMP, they clearly have some minimum allowance while the pictured vehicle is clearly a one-driver-in-the-middle car.
The rear wing design shown is clearly suboptimal if you look at the innovations on real LMPs. The design would be really cool for a Batman movie, but otherwise, it seems clear that it was designed by students and not ready to go up against really highly paid engineers.
Oh, and those five students (or their PR dept) might want to refer to a summary of the 2011 ACO rules for Lemans Protypes: http://www.lemans.org/sport/sport/reglements/ressources/2009/auto/reglement_2011_moteur_hybride_gb.pdf
Ooops. Too slow, not legal. Total BS.
Interesting post, but it brings up a couple of questions in my mind.
First, the reaction of the dogs to the wolf fur seems to vary from fear to attraction. I wonder if the attraction might be a result of some innate reaction to some sort of 'canine ideal'. Would, for instance, german shepherd dogs have more interested reactions than, say, yorkies?
Second, another anecdote: One day a couple of hunters had killed a deer and brought it by our veterinarian's office to see if they could use their scale to weigh the beast. The vet had no clients in at the moment so he agreed to weigh it for them. Unknowingly, we had just parked next to their pickup at the exact moment when they walked out of the door carrying the deer. Our dogs went completely BERSERK!
Although all were apologetic, in retrospect, I wish I had asked them to wait while I got the dogs out of the car in order to try to judge the nature of their interest further. Did they percieve a threat, or just more food than they'd ever seen in one place? Or just something entirely unfamiliar?
Umm, perhaps it has occurred to you that when someone asks you to look into surfing habits of an employee, they have some reason for looking into that. That you know exactly where it is going seems like a pretty good indication that they're not doing it randomly (i.e. they're not on a fishing expedition - unless you can say that the majority of cases turn out to be innocent, work related surfing - and they're still fired).
Some companies (EDS for instance, although this was some years ago) have codes of conduct that extend beyond the workplace. That's a little close to the line for my taste, but if your CEO sees you running naked down the midway of the state fair with the company's logo strapped to your head, well, you might want to fear for your job.