The Wii dev kit may only be a couple thousand US dollars but Nintendo really wants to know who you are and that you are a legitimate corporate developer:
You're in midtown Manhattan and you want to use wireless for your basic intra-office connectivity? You are nuts. The moment somebody walks by with a cordless phone or some other device sharing that spectrum (and it *will* happen) your network will have problems. Not to mention the security issues. Listen to everyone else here and do real wiring.
No surprise to me that the company went under, if their HR policy is to fire people who fix problems and do things right. I'm currently in the magical la-la land of academia and have no clue how the real world works - is this tendency endemic in business?
By that logic a cluster of 4 separate machines, each with one CPU, is better than one machine with 4 cores on one mainboard (all other things being equal of course). That does not make sense to me. Am I missing something?
As somebody who does scientific computing (molecular dynamics), this sounds terrific. Four cores on the same board means really low communication latency, cheaply. This will reduce by a factor of four the number of expensive low-latency network interconnects needed to build a cluster of a given size.
One solution to this is to use a savings account at an online bank. ING Direct will allow you to arbitrarily create multiple savings accounts under the same customer ID, with distinct account numbers. So, I have a dedicated PayPal account that has 3 cents in it at the moment. All money received via PayPal is immediately transferred to another account, so if they randomly decide to take money from me they can only get the 3 cents I leave in there.
but if I were to go under the knife, I'd prefer someone with rediculously fine motor control and the experience of thousands of hours of drills.
I'm a medical student and have scrubbed in on a bunch of surgeries. Surgery is (relatively) easy if nothing goes wrong. Any idiot can learn how to go through the motions. The difference between me and an actual surgeon is that the surgeon knows what to do when something goes wrong, and can use his or her extensive knowledge of the anatomy, physiology, and the procedure to adapt to the situation and make it right.
Also, many surgeons aren't necessarily less shaky than most people. They have just learned to steady their hands against things - such as the hands of the medical student who is retracting:)
This seems to be the same Niels Ferguson who now works for Microsoft, and over whose dead body Vista will include a goverment backdoor for its cryto file storage feature. That is to say, he's against the idea. Good for him.
It looks to me like the fundamental disconnect here is that the editors of Slashdot still perceive the site to be their blog. Many of the users believe it to have graduated from that to a legitimate news source, and complain when it doesn't live up to the mechanistic standards of, say, CNN. Google News thinks it's a news source and treats it in the same manner as it does CNN - but those who run Slashdot apparently don't hold it to that high a standard.
There's nothing wrong with this, but it might shut people up if they were reminded of the purpose of the site as intended by its makers. So, CmdrTaco, what exactly is Slashdot?
They say that there is a silver lining to every cloud. This is a pretty damn big cloud (as it covers all of Europe) and the silver lining is impressively small...
But hopefully this will spur the use of encryption in all communications, with temporary key pairs. If you don't have your secret key anymore, they can't subpoena it.
HTTPS by default is better than HTTP by default. (Though we'll have to deal with millions of self-signed certificates...)
I can imagine the protesting now, by the way: cat/dev/urandom | nc $FOO.co.uk 9 to fill the databases with garbage and render the monitoring economically unfeasible.
I don't understand why anyone cares about the end of Cocoa-Java support in the first place. Why was anyone using it in the first place?
Java is a good language but restricting it to Cocoa destroys the cross-platform compatibility, which is pretty much why you'd use Java in the first place. I would understand if Cocoa were garbage and the Java class library was needed as an alternative, or if Objective-C were a complicated language to learn. But Cocoa is a great API and Objective-C is just a small and elegant bag on the side of C.
I remember being in high school and encountering this sort of thinking. It hasn't changed in several years, apparently.
I think the school staff know exactly how inconsequential the security breaches were. But nobody likes being made to look stupid - especially by kids many years your junior. These students took advantage of security problems that never should have been there in the first place. Certainly the students were wrong in what they did - no question about that. But making this into a felony issue is a defensive move on the part of the school to divert attention away from how badly they did their job.
On another note - apparently the school had $900,000 to spend on this. Why couldn't they afford a competent IT person to run it?
Why should you, as a taxpayer who doesn't give a rat's butt about advanced research in niche fields like Density Functional Theory, or 3+2 cyclizations, or Palladium catalyzed cross-coupling, be forced to pay for the infrastructure for the government to make this information available to you?
Because you, as a taxpayer, already paid for said advanced research, because it's important for the greater good of the nation and private companies won't fund it. Why should you then be forced to pay a private entity for access to the results?
(Disclaimer: I'm a graduate student funded by NIH.)
Come on now, are you really that dense? I did mean black people (and other groups who have a generally lower socioeconomic status in this country), and I was being sarcastic.
I didn't see too many black people in Naperville, and those that were there were pretty well off. It's a sad testament to the spectre of racism that still exists in the US.
I grew up in Naperville and spent my childhood using the Naperville Public Libraries, and I visit often still because my parents live there. Now that I've moved, I have some perspective I didn't have when I lived there. Naperville is an interesting town. It's a land of burgeoning housing developments and SUVs piloted by soccer moms where people come to raise their kids and shield them from the outside world, because it's a very safe and insulated place. The police department really does have nothing better to do than issue traffic tickets and harass partying high schoolers for violating curfew.
Property values are high, and that keeps the riff-raff out. In the first Naperville neighborhood I lived in, the Chicago Housing Authority had a plan to build mixed-income housing. This was met with bitter resistance, under the guise of worry about gang activity and declining property values. This from a group of senior citizens for whom lower property values would save a lot of money in property taxes.
It's about the last place I'd expect a public outcry against anything claimed to be "for the children," privacy be damned. But maybe things have changed since I left. I hope so, but I'm not optimistic. So should there be such an outcry, I'd gain back a lot of lost faith in Naperville.
On the plus side for the Naperville Public Libraries, they were very receptive to my suggestion of installing Firefox on the same machines that will have the fingerprint scanners. Though that may have been because I said the popup blocking would suppress inappropriate popups, you know, for the children.
Ketamine is still used in humans. It's especially good because it doesn't depress your cardiovascular system like many other anesthetic drugs. On the other hand, the patient goes into an extremely dissociated state. I'm a medical student, and I've had the experience of, during surgery, holding down locally-anesthetized patients who were given ketamine because they were tripping so hard. Interesting stuff.
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Two, actually - once you check the correct box in System Preferences, put two fingers on the trackpad and click the button to simulate a right click.
The Wii dev kit may only be a couple thousand US dollars but Nintendo really wants to know who you are and that you are a legitimate corporate developer:
http://www.warioworld.com/apply/wii.html
To even get to the point where they send you an NDA seems pretty tough for the average hobbyist at the moment.
You're in midtown Manhattan and you want to use wireless for your basic intra-office connectivity? You are nuts. The moment somebody walks by with a cordless phone or some other device sharing that spectrum (and it *will* happen) your network will have problems. Not to mention the security issues. Listen to everyone else here and do real wiring.
No surprise to me that the company went under, if their HR policy is to fire people who fix problems and do things right. I'm currently in the magical la-la land of academia and have no clue how the real world works - is this tendency endemic in business?
By that logic a cluster of 4 separate machines, each with one CPU, is better than one machine with 4 cores on one mainboard (all other things being equal of course). That does not make sense to me. Am I missing something?
What does "bytes/flop" mean?
As somebody who does scientific computing (molecular dynamics), this sounds terrific. Four cores on the same board means really low communication latency, cheaply. This will reduce by a factor of four the number of expensive low-latency network interconnects needed to build a cluster of a given size.
One solution to this is to use a savings account at an online bank. ING Direct will allow you to arbitrarily create multiple savings accounts under the same customer ID, with distinct account numbers. So, I have a dedicated PayPal account that has 3 cents in it at the moment. All money received via PayPal is immediately transferred to another account, so if they randomly decide to take money from me they can only get the 3 cents I leave in there.
but if I were to go under the knife, I'd prefer someone with rediculously fine motor control and the experience of thousands of hours of drills.
:)
I'm a medical student and have scrubbed in on a bunch of surgeries. Surgery is (relatively) easy if nothing goes wrong. Any idiot can learn how to go through the motions. The difference between me and an actual surgeon is that the surgeon knows what to do when something goes wrong, and can use his or her extensive knowledge of the anatomy, physiology, and the procedure to adapt to the situation and make it right.
Also, many surgeons aren't necessarily less shaky than most people. They have just learned to steady their hands against things - such as the hands of the medical student who is retracting
Poor defendants. I wonder where they're going to find a good lawyer.
This seems to be the same Niels Ferguson who now works for Microsoft, and over whose dead body Vista will include a goverment backdoor for its cryto file storage feature. That is to say, he's against the idea. Good for him.
It looks to me like the fundamental disconnect here is that the editors of Slashdot still perceive the site to be their blog. Many of the users believe it to have graduated from that to a legitimate news source, and complain when it doesn't live up to the mechanistic standards of, say, CNN. Google News thinks it's a news source and treats it in the same manner as it does CNN - but those who run Slashdot apparently don't hold it to that high a standard.
There's nothing wrong with this, but it might shut people up if they were reminded of the purpose of the site as intended by its makers. So, CmdrTaco, what exactly is Slashdot?
They say that there is a silver lining to every cloud. This is a pretty damn big cloud (as it covers all of Europe) and the silver lining is impressively small...
/dev/urandom | nc $FOO.co.uk 9 to fill the databases with garbage and render the monitoring economically unfeasible.
But hopefully this will spur the use of encryption in all communications, with temporary key pairs. If you don't have your secret key anymore, they can't subpoena it.
HTTPS by default is better than HTTP by default. (Though we'll have to deal with millions of self-signed certificates...)
I can imagine the protesting now, by the way: cat
The pusher robot and shover robot comments are, of course, referring to the Terrible Secret of Space:
http://newgrounds.com/portal/view/33440
I don't understand why anyone cares about the end of Cocoa-Java support in the first place. Why was anyone using it in the first place?
Java is a good language but restricting it to Cocoa destroys the cross-platform compatibility, which is pretty much why you'd use Java in the first place. I would understand if Cocoa were garbage and the Java class library was needed as an alternative, or if Objective-C were a complicated language to learn. But Cocoa is a great API and Objective-C is just a small and elegant bag on the side of C.
If you connect to it, you too can be arrested.
Oh wait, is this comment a dupe?
I remember being in high school and encountering this sort of thinking. It hasn't changed in several years, apparently.
I think the school staff know exactly how inconsequential the security breaches were. But nobody likes being made to look stupid - especially by kids many years your junior. These students took advantage of security problems that never should have been there in the first place. Certainly the students were wrong in what they did - no question about that. But making this into a felony issue is a defensive move on the part of the school to divert attention away from how badly they did their job.
On another note - apparently the school had $900,000 to spend on this. Why couldn't they afford a competent IT person to run it?
Why should you, as a taxpayer who doesn't give a rat's butt about advanced research in niche fields like Density Functional Theory, or 3+2 cyclizations, or Palladium catalyzed cross-coupling, be forced to pay for the infrastructure for the government to make this information available to you?
Because you, as a taxpayer, already paid for said advanced research, because it's important for the greater good of the nation and private companies won't fund it. Why should you then be forced to pay a private entity for access to the results?
(Disclaimer: I'm a graduate student funded by NIH.)
An aphrodisiac and a contraceptive? It would seem more like God has a sense of BEING AWESOME.
Can't remember if it was in /usr/local/bin or /usr/bin? Tough. Spotlight won't help you, it doesn't look in those hierarchies.
/usr/bin.
Eh? I just searched for 'grep' on my Tiger (ironic, eh?), and Spotlight found it just fine, in
Come on now, are you really that dense? I did mean black people (and other groups who have a generally lower socioeconomic status in this country), and I was being sarcastic.
I didn't see too many black people in Naperville, and those that were there were pretty well off. It's a sad testament to the spectre of racism that still exists in the US.
Longwood, off Route 59. This was years ago - I don't know how it turned out.
I grew up in Naperville and spent my childhood using the Naperville Public Libraries, and I visit often still because my parents live there. Now that I've moved, I have some perspective I didn't have when I lived there. Naperville is an interesting town. It's a land of burgeoning housing developments and SUVs piloted by soccer moms where people come to raise their kids and shield them from the outside world, because it's a very safe and insulated place. The police department really does have nothing better to do than issue traffic tickets and harass partying high schoolers for violating curfew.
Property values are high, and that keeps the riff-raff out. In the first Naperville neighborhood I lived in, the Chicago Housing Authority had a plan to build mixed-income housing. This was met with bitter resistance, under the guise of worry about gang activity and declining property values. This from a group of senior citizens for whom lower property values would save a lot of money in property taxes.
It's about the last place I'd expect a public outcry against anything claimed to be "for the children," privacy be damned. But maybe things have changed since I left. I hope so, but I'm not optimistic. So should there be such an outcry, I'd gain back a lot of lost faith in Naperville.
On the plus side for the Naperville Public Libraries, they were very receptive to my suggestion of installing Firefox on the same machines that will have the fingerprint scanners. Though that may have been because I said the popup blocking would suppress inappropriate popups, you know, for the children.
Ketamine is still used in humans. It's especially good because it doesn't depress your cardiovascular system like many other anesthetic drugs. On the other hand, the patient goes into an extremely dissociated state. I'm a medical student, and I've had the experience of, during surgery, holding down locally-anesthetized patients who were given ketamine because they were tripping so hard. Interesting stuff.
TigerDirect sells iPods...