and people might be interested in knowing that there is also a third party critique of the rebuttal to the rebuttal posted over at k5 with a pretty mature comment tree of its own.
at best, they have shown that they can detect differences in the types of instructions the processor is executing by listening to the sounds of the capacitors. It is a long way from there to the point where they can extract the key itself from the information. In fact, I would venture that the data is far too noisy (haha) for any significant part of the key to ever be extracted, reagardless of the amount of computational power thrown at the problem. What they might be able to do however is use the information gleaned to eliminate large swaths of the set of possible keys. This could make cracking the key by conventional means a computationally easier task.
So, in all, this paper is not insignificant, but it's also not a reason to completely give up on security or to install a cone of silence around your computer.
that the model is not in scale with 4 inch toys. It is in scale (of some undisclosed ratio) with the on-screen version as far as external construction goes. The inside has been redesigned to be appropriate for use with the 4 inch toys, but a look at the picture will show how out of scale it is. Clearly an ISD has more than six or seven rooms.
As he says, a toy that was properly in scale to 4 inch toys would be the length of his street. Really, what the guy has done is the perfect compromise between accuracy to the movie and functionality as a toy. i applaud him.
libraries should carry all the current top selling video games available only for single night loans. Ideally they should also have a vending machine that sells CDRs and a pamphlet full of links to circumventing copy protection.
It seems to me that Galatea 2.2 was actually about an attempt to get a neural network to parse a literary novel into an English essay of approximately the same calibre as that produced by a graduate student.
Well, that and Richard Powers getting over his break-up with his wife.
Excellent book, but I don't remember anything about this interactive epistolary novel stuff.
it's true. I have an uncommon enough name that when I do a google on my name in quotes, over half the results are actually about me. This has good and bad sides. For one thing, anyone who knows my name can find out a fair bit about me pretty fast. Fortunately nothing bad about me is really on the net, but who knows if it will stay that way.
On the other hand, I have a friend named John Smith who was arrested on pretty serious drug charges but managed to get off without a jail sentence. There are half a dozen articles on the internet that mention his name in this regard, but type John Smith into google and they're nowhere in the first thousand results.
The iPod is a slick but over-priced piece of hardware. The software minus the hardware is just another mp3 player, of which there are plenty already available for pocket PCs. And free of charge too.
It seems to me that if you start someone on a command line versus starting them on a GUI they learn a little slower but acquire a deeper understanding of the computer.
point-and-click and drag-and-drop don't encourage any actual understanding of ways in which a computer interprets commands.
My car doesn't have keyless entry so the idea of using the key to open the door setting off an alarm seems ridiculous to me.
I mean, if the lock could detect tampering like from a pick or a jiggler and THAT set off the alarm, it would seem reasonable to me. But if the person has a key that will open the door easily, doesn't the same key work in the ignition?
"Estrada resorted to using his key to unlock his car door, but that set off his alarm."
So in one case there was a physical key as a backup system and when the guy resorted to using it (as though a key were some sort of desperate emergency measure) his car freaked out.
I'm no luddite, but this kind of stuff makes me laugh.
MOPI is even available as a free text at the website. And these are just the three excellent examples that spring to mind, I know I've read at least a dozen other decent explorations of this unimaginable future.
The argument that India will need to import American goods for the growing tech sector and that this will result in even more jobs seems a little specious.
Is the global economy being turned on it's ear? Will the U.S. now be making cheap consumables to send to the IP producing countries in Asia? And why would India not simply start manufacturing the products it needs itself?
I wonder though, whether the reason you couldn't find a publisher didn't actually have something to do with the fact that it was available on-line already and had been for some time.
Certainly, you had 10,000 readers, but you had 10,000 readers who had already read the book.
I can't help but think that, were you to write a second novel, the existence of MOPI would certainly help your publishing chances.
After k5 published Enn-Eye, I shopped a lengthened and edited version around to a few magazines. I was very up front about it's having already been published on k5 in an earlier version. They all turned it down, but unanimously said that they were impressed with the response to it on k5 and would like to see future work from me.
Yeah, that's just it. It all depends on whether the free e-book turns into enough free press to generate enough customers that (when combined with the odd person who wouldn't have bought it but liked it so much after reading it on-line that they had to have a copy) they outnumber the people who would have bought it it if they couldn't read it for free on the screen.
Of course, I also have an ideological affection for the Creative Commons and would even be willing to take a loss of a couple of copies on the whole deal, but I'm not sure how to leverage the e-book into good publicity and am afraid that the loss will be substantially more than a few copies. Again, this is because the book is only 120 pages. Certainly, if Robert Jordan released his next 900 page opus on-line it wouldn't hurt sales much because few people could read through the whole thing onscreen anyway, but 120 pages is a feasible scroll.
I've just published my first book with Insurgent Productions and the contract leaves me a whole lot of flexibility as per promotion and manipulation of the content.
[shameless plug]The book is for sale at frankduff.com[/shameless plug]
I am currently wrestling with the idea of releasing the full e-text. I intend to do so eventually, but am worried that if I do so in conjunction with the print release it might seriously affect sales, particularly since the website is one of my main retail points and the novel is short enough to reasonably read on a screen.
It is very rare that a common opener played at the GM level results in a discrepancy greater than about a quarter of a pawn. And it takes a great strategic thinker to understand the advantages and disadvantages of all the available branches in the opening against different types of players.
Of course, it should be obvious that your line of reasoning is totally bogus. The totality of possible moves in chess is simply incomputable and somehow magically trimming this tree to "good" moves still leaves a fundamentally unmemorizable realm of possibilities even at only ten moves depth.
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sir or madam:
you have officially been marked for quotation on the back cover of any future re-release.
--transient0 (aka Frank Duff)
that's what it is.
and people might be interested in knowing that there is also a third party critique of the rebuttal to the rebuttal posted over at k5 with a pretty mature comment tree of its own.
ah yes, the beowulf cluster of dead horses.
truly an american icon.
at best, they have shown that they can detect differences in the types of instructions the processor is executing by listening to the sounds of the capacitors. It is a long way from there to the point where they can extract the key itself from the information. In fact, I would venture that the data is far too noisy (haha) for any significant part of the key to ever be extracted, reagardless of the amount of computational power thrown at the problem. What they might be able to do however is use the information gleaned to eliminate large swaths of the set of possible keys. This could make cracking the key by conventional means a computationally easier task.
So, in all, this paper is not insignificant, but it's also not a reason to completely give up on security or to install a cone of silence around your computer.
that the model is not in scale with 4 inch toys. It is in scale (of some undisclosed ratio) with the on-screen version as far as external construction goes. The inside has been redesigned to be appropriate for use with the 4 inch toys, but a look at the picture will show how out of scale it is. Clearly an ISD has more than six or seven rooms.
As he says, a toy that was properly in scale to 4 inch toys would be the length of his street. Really, what the guy has done is the perfect compromise between accuracy to the movie and functionality as a toy. i applaud him.
libraries should carry all the current top selling video games available only for single night loans. Ideally they should also have a vending machine that sells CDRs and a pamphlet full of links to circumventing copy protection.
no, wait, I meant they should carry OpenOffice.
It seems to me that Galatea 2.2 was actually about an attempt to get a neural network to parse a literary novel into an English essay of approximately the same calibre as that produced by a graduate student.
Well, that and Richard Powers getting over his break-up with his wife.
Excellent book, but I don't remember anything about this interactive epistolary novel stuff.
it's true. I have an uncommon enough name that when I do a google on my name in quotes, over half the results are actually about me. This has good and bad sides. For one thing, anyone who knows my name can find out a fair bit about me pretty fast. Fortunately nothing bad about me is really on the net, but who knows if it will stay that way.
On the other hand, I have a friend named John Smith who was arrested on pretty serious drug charges but managed to get off without a jail sentence. There are half a dozen articles on the internet that mention his name in this regard, but type John Smith into google and they're nowhere in the first thousand results.
The iPod is a slick but over-priced piece of hardware. The software minus the hardware is just another mp3 player, of which there are plenty already available for pocket PCs. And free of charge too.
It seems to me that if you start someone on a command line versus starting them on a GUI they learn a little slower but acquire a deeper understanding of the computer.
point-and-click and drag-and-drop don't encourage any actual understanding of ways in which a computer interprets commands.
like all property/physical world analogies to information, the differences trump the similarities in every attempt at relevance.
the fundamental issue being that you can't copy a pound of sugar from one box to another and still ahve the same amount of sugar in the first box.
We've been in a position for years where a massive failure at any number of nuclear or biological research facilities could effectively kill us all.
so they've added one more to the list.
It's the sort of thing you get used to.
My car doesn't have keyless entry so the idea of using the key to open the door setting off an alarm seems ridiculous to me.
I mean, if the lock could detect tampering like from a pick or a jiggler and THAT set off the alarm, it would seem reasonable to me. But if the person has a key that will open the door easily, doesn't the same key work in the ignition?
So in one case there was a physical key as a backup system and when the guy resorted to using it (as though a key were some sort of desperate emergency measure) his car freaked out.
I'm no luddite, but this kind of stuff makes me laugh.
They are building keyless entry systems without physical keys as a backup measure?
Didn't we learn our lesson about manual over-rides long ago?
at least they are unemployed with only a few months worth of student loans.
seems downright enviable from my position with four years worth of loans.
Try Permutation City by Greg Egan, Everyone in Silico by Jim Munroe or Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect by Roger Williams.
MOPI is even available as a free text at the website. And these are just the three excellent examples that spring to mind, I know I've read at least a dozen other decent explorations of this unimaginable future.
changes name of of lindows to lind-hash.
BSD may be forced also to change it's name to BUD.
or in dividends to stock holders.
The argument that India will need to import American goods for the growing tech sector and that this will result in even more jobs seems a little specious.
Is the global economy being turned on it's ear? Will the U.S. now be making cheap consumables to send to the IP producing countries in Asia? And why would India not simply start manufacturing the products it needs itself?
I wonder though, whether the reason you couldn't find a publisher didn't actually have something to do with the fact that it was available on-line already and had been for some time.
Certainly, you had 10,000 readers, but you had 10,000 readers who had already read the book.
I can't help but think that, were you to write a second novel, the existence of MOPI would certainly help your publishing chances.
After k5 published Enn-Eye, I shopped a lengthened and edited version around to a few magazines. I was very up front about it's having already been published on k5 in an earlier version. They all turned it down, but unanimously said that they were impressed with the response to it on k5 and would like to see future work from me.
Just a thought.
Yeah, that's just it. It all depends on whether the free e-book turns into enough free press to generate enough customers that (when combined with the odd person who wouldn't have bought it but liked it so much after reading it on-line that they had to have a copy) they outnumber the people who would have bought it it if they couldn't read it for free on the screen.
Of course, I also have an ideological affection for the Creative Commons and would even be willing to take a loss of a couple of copies on the whole deal, but I'm not sure how to leverage the e-book into good publicity and am afraid that the loss will be substantially more than a few copies. Again, this is because the book is only 120 pages. Certainly, if Robert Jordan released his next 900 page opus on-line it wouldn't hurt sales much because few people could read through the whole thing onscreen anyway, but 120 pages is a feasible scroll.
I've just published my first book with Insurgent Productions and the contract leaves me a whole lot of flexibility as per promotion and manipulation of the content.
[shameless plug]The book is for sale at frankduff.com[/shameless plug]
I am currently wrestling with the idea of releasing the full e-text. I intend to do so eventually, but am worried that if I do so in conjunction with the print release it might seriously affect sales, particularly since the website is one of my main retail points and the novel is short enough to reasonably read on a screen.
It is very rare that a common opener played at the GM level results in a discrepancy greater than about a quarter of a pawn. And it takes a great strategic thinker to understand the advantages and disadvantages of all the available branches in the opening against different types of players.
Of course, it should be obvious that your line of reasoning is totally bogus. The totality of possible moves in chess is simply incomputable and somehow magically trimming this tree to "good" moves still leaves a fundamentally unmemorizable realm of possibilities even at only ten moves depth.
it looks like NGage isn't going to be the king of handheld gaming for much longer...
there is such a thing as relevance. It is actually surprisingly fundamental to analogy.
It seems to me that the practice of eugenics is a fairly relevant point when discussing why HItler was bad.