Modified ICs? It's all run by software anyway. No need to modify any ICs for that. Put a backdoor in the firmware and into the bootloader, and you're set. Short of pulling the flash from the board and reloading it yourself you won't ever know what happened. No need for any hardware mods at all.
a first-year history paper might be 75% matched, but not plagiarized because the student correctly attributed all their quoted passages
I don't think I'd ever want to see a paper in any subject that is 75% quotes in the main text (not in footnotes or appendices). Not even an analysis of a poem would demand such an outrageous ratio. A paper that's 75% quotes must read like crap: 25% of text is hardly enough to make it flow; quotes will likely be by different authors, written in different tones, etc. I'd probably grade such a paper "F" with subtext "you're not funny" just upon seeing the ratio.
You have to read. Read like a madman. Before starting college in the U.S., I've read -- literally -- a couple long shelves of paperbacks. Probably 12 feet or so. I'd read on the toilet, read before falling asleep, read right after waking up, read while being driven around (don't forget your fave motion sickness pill!), read, read, read... That's all there's to it. You can't come up with linguistic experience of a young adult without reading as much as that young adult would. Just think how much you have had to read in your native language to get to the point where you are now. Then it's simple: read at least as much in whatever language you have to switch to. I've since surpassed the amount I read in my native language with the amount I read in English. Probably by an order of magnitude, too -- all in ten years and change. My native language sucks these days, and I'm in my 30s.
The "double dipping" as they call it is something that only and idiot with no academic experience could come up with. In getting an engineering degree, I quite often reused homework solutions, it'd be idiotic not to. Many of the courses overlapped in one way or another. If you derive the Mohr's circle once, it'd be stupid not to reuse it. It's no different than looking it up in a book. You don't have to attribute fairly basic equations, they'll be found in hundreds of sources, they are your basic tools. If you're in a hammer making class, it'd of course make sense not to reuse someone's hammer. When you're building houses, no one gives a fuck what hammer you used.
You have a point, but nontrivial sentences repeat rarely. It's not hard to come up with a sentence that major search engines won't find anywhere. Get a book out of your bookshelf, select a couple sentences at random, and see for yourself. It's quite enlightening.
I don't know if a class could do it for everyone. Socially inept geeks may need one-on-one tutoring, where they are to write papers, and the tutor is to grade them, discuss the mistakes, and provide guidance for improvement. This is not horribly expensive either, if you know where to look. A high school teacher should be plenty enough -- in most of Europe, at least. Ideally look for teachers that got geeks for significant others.
On the assumption that she can cook, of course. I'd think that liberated feminists can hold equal-opportunity upper level corporate jobs that would allow them to hire a private chef, right?
Yep. It's hard to understand to people outside the US perhaps, but here the practice is as follows: the providers have a fee schedule. Everyone pays that by default. Then they have contracts with various insurance companies that slash that fee schedule by up to 90% for some services. They will also slash prices if you apply for financial assistance, but you have to know that, and you have to be persistent at getting it and making sure their "random" delays don't make you miss deadlines that could cost you your credit rating (score).
So if you are not in the know, you'll be royally shafted by the providers. Because you may miss that they didn't apply contractual adjustments, and you're left with 90% of the bill even if your insurance terms claim you'd be left with only 10%. Or you don't have insurance and get the retail price -- that's like buying all your USB cables from Monster Cable at Best Buy, when you can get the same ones from DigiKey for 90% less.
Agreed 100%. I'm the same kind of U.S. city and my pregnant wife sat for 2+ hours in the ER waiting room, with a bleeding that left a pool of blood on the floor. The wheelchair she sat on was obviously a biohazard at that point:) Then she had an ultrasound done by an intern who I had to politely advise that she was looking at the bladder. That's at a major academic hospital, mind you. I could do a freaking ob-gyn ultrasound better than her -- admittedly, that's because we would wait for so long in for ob-gyn ultrasounds that I got plenty of time to play with the equipment -- nothing like running a doppler on your brachial artery to pass the time. Eventually you can't but get a hold of it and start to recognize anatomical features. An arm is seemingly more complex than female reproductive organs (to me at least). Every time I'd be told "you're not supposed to touch that". And every time I'd politely answer that "you're not supposed to keep us waiting for 45 minutes either".
In the end, everything was fine - some women bleed while pregnant, nobody knows why (so much for advanced medicine). They should have done an ultrasound, found a viable fetus, and sent us home in 15 minutes tops. I wouldn't count on them catching low blood pressure in time anyway, as my wife arrested in the very same ER, when they restarted her and put a central catheter in, the BP was around 45. That was sepsis, by the way. She walked to the ER in the afternoon, and they managed to almost let her die a couple hours later.
I think that if any one of us has to go to the ER again, we'll shoot ourselves first. That gets their attention, usually
That's right. I've done some calculations and it seems that if it weren't for FDA, as a pharmacist you could fly to Poland, first class, buy about $20k worth of non-subsidized drugs (non-narcotic) at a wholesaler, fly back to US, sell it, and still have about $5k of profit left in your pocket.
Heck, they'll usually handle 400Hz (aviation AC) too. Most switching supplies have a rectifier as a front-end, and it doesn't care much about frequency. The line filter may run a bit warmer at 400Hz. PFC supplies will balk at 400Hz, but non-PFC ones shouldn't. Heck, they'll usually handle DC as well (even PFCs!). I've been to an industrial setting without a single outlet in sight, but there was an inverter DC bus with 300V DC on it. My laptop's power supply ran just fine on it. DC is problematic when it comes to fuses, breakers and switches of course, because a DC arc does not self-extinguish like an AC arc would.
:) My wife used to help me out solder circuit boards. With 0603 discrete components on them (those are 1.6 x 0.8mm), no less. And plenty of through-holes before that. There's a decently sized city in Europe (more than 0.5E6 people) where every single tram (street car) has a circuit board that she put together. She's not a geek, but she's not techno-averse. She was using kde desktop on a fedora core machine for quite a while, for example. Glitches and all. She even printed on it;)
She keeps her own tire pressure. I do oil checks sporadically, the car has an oil level sensor and will "scream" at you before it gets too low.
Back then, I knew very little about working on cars, everything was new to me. And boy did I overpay on that 940:)
I used plain old levers (2x4s) and rope to lift an engine in a Volvo 940 to replace the engine mounts. My wife had a lot of trust in me on that job -- her hands were on the line, so to speak.
In all seriousness, though, I think that closures should be known by everyone who does any kind of software development, even if they don't use them often. It's a horizon-expanding type of a thing. I don't readily see how tying shoe laces could expand one's horizons, though.
Cleaning chimneys is still important, though. If you have a wood-burning fireplace, as many american homes do, then you really want to have the chimney cleaned and inspected annually. Creosote fires often end up taking the whole building down. Creosote burns very lean since it's in a vertical pipe and has plenty of air supply. People are usually too scared to douse the fire and block the chimney draft once such a fire starts, if they are there to witness it at all - they may well be asleep.
I seriously think that there are better things in life to worry about besides shoe lacing. Guess what, if you have daughters, I'm sure they couldn't lace a corset either. Probably neither could your wife -- at least not properly. How unbecoming of them, you know.
I can't imagine why would anyone get in a knot over shoe lacing. It's just a shoe, velcro- or slip-ons are not necessarily worse for everyday use. If you're into hiking, skating or ballet, that's another story of course, but it's never too late to learn.
So they have done what LISP systems have been doing for two decades or more? It's a standard thing for a LISP environment to initialize the environment and store a core image of it to speed up startup. Same thing can be done for LISP applications, effectively giving you hibernation of individual apps in a clean state.
That was a reasonably rare example of a mostly self-contained app -- by necessity. Otherwise it wouldn't run on many systems even when it was released. Most linux distros really push the model where you either take all the dependencies with you, or you compile for their libraries. Zimbra, for example, includes its own java, postfix, clamav, openldap, and so on. Otherwise they'd have to compile and test with a bunch of different distros. Of course the downside is that if a distro pushes a security update to some library before Zimbra releases the same, you're on your own. So yes, if you take very deliberate steps to make it run on many systems, it will run. For Quake 3 the bloat isn't as important, I guess, and security fixes are of no issue either.
I agree. I'd think that a teacher should have a separate facebook account for use when communicating with students. There's really no reason for students to get insights into your personal life, or to see your family pics.
in the US at least if you tell your lawyer that you are guilty of a crime he is required by law to tell the authorities or he could face disbarment or even worse
You're horribly misinformed. AFAIK, the attorney-client privilege does not apply, based on content of communications, when you discuss taxes, how to commit a crime, how to avoid being caught, how to defraud another person. Otherwise, the content cannot be the reason to exclude the communications from the privilege, but there may be other valid reasons for exclusion of course -- reasons not based on content.
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Modified ICs? It's all run by software anyway. No need to modify any ICs for that. Put a backdoor in the firmware and into the bootloader, and you're set. Short of pulling the flash from the board and reloading it yourself you won't ever know what happened. No need for any hardware mods at all.
It's a figure of speech. In informal forum like this, I'd say it's perfectly kosher. IOW: get over it. I'm sure Tg would never write it in a paper.
a first-year history paper might be 75% matched, but not plagiarized because the student correctly attributed all their quoted passages
I don't think I'd ever want to see a paper in any subject that is 75% quotes in the main text (not in footnotes or appendices). Not even an analysis of a poem would demand such an outrageous ratio. A paper that's 75% quotes must read like crap: 25% of text is hardly enough to make it flow; quotes will likely be by different authors, written in different tones, etc. I'd probably grade such a paper "F" with subtext "you're not funny" just upon seeing the ratio.
You have to read. Read like a madman. Before starting college in the U.S., I've read -- literally -- a couple long shelves of paperbacks. Probably 12 feet or so. I'd read on the toilet, read before falling asleep, read right after waking up, read while being driven around (don't forget your fave motion sickness pill!), read, read, read ... That's all there's to it. You can't come up with linguistic experience of a young adult without reading as much as that young adult would. Just think how much you have had to read in your native language to get to the point where you are now. Then it's simple: read at least as much in whatever language you have to switch to. I've since surpassed the amount I read in my native language with the amount I read in English. Probably by an order of magnitude, too -- all in ten years and change. My native language sucks these days, and I'm in my 30s.
The "double dipping" as they call it is something that only and idiot with no academic experience could come up with. In getting an engineering degree, I quite often reused homework solutions, it'd be idiotic not to. Many of the courses overlapped in one way or another. If you derive the Mohr's circle once, it'd be stupid not to reuse it. It's no different than looking it up in a book. You don't have to attribute fairly basic equations, they'll be found in hundreds of sources, they are your basic tools. If you're in a hammer making class, it'd of course make sense not to reuse someone's hammer. When you're building houses, no one gives a fuck what hammer you used.
You have a point, but nontrivial sentences repeat rarely. It's not hard to come up with a sentence that major search engines won't find anywhere. Get a book out of your bookshelf, select a couple sentences at random, and see for yourself. It's quite enlightening.
I don't know if a class could do it for everyone. Socially inept geeks may need one-on-one tutoring, where they are to write papers, and the tutor is to grade them, discuss the mistakes, and provide guidance for improvement. This is not horribly expensive either, if you know where to look. A high school teacher should be plenty enough -- in most of Europe, at least. Ideally look for teachers that got geeks for significant others.
On the assumption that she can cook, of course. I'd think that liberated feminists can hold equal-opportunity upper level corporate jobs that would allow them to hire a private chef, right?
Yep. It's hard to understand to people outside the US perhaps, but here the practice is as follows: the providers have a fee schedule. Everyone pays that by default. Then they have contracts with various insurance companies that slash that fee schedule by up to 90% for some services. They will also slash prices if you apply for financial assistance, but you have to know that, and you have to be persistent at getting it and making sure their "random" delays don't make you miss deadlines that could cost you your credit rating (score).
So if you are not in the know, you'll be royally shafted by the providers. Because you may miss that they didn't apply contractual adjustments, and you're left with 90% of the bill even if your insurance terms claim you'd be left with only 10%. Or you don't have insurance and get the retail price -- that's like buying all your USB cables from Monster Cable at Best Buy, when you can get the same ones from DigiKey for 90% less.
Agreed 100%. I'm the same kind of U.S. city and my pregnant wife sat for 2+ hours in the ER waiting room, with a bleeding that left a pool of blood on the floor. The wheelchair she sat on was obviously a biohazard at that point :) Then she had an ultrasound done by an intern who I had to politely advise that she was looking at the bladder. That's at a major academic hospital, mind you. I could do a freaking ob-gyn ultrasound better than her -- admittedly, that's because we would wait for so long in for ob-gyn ultrasounds that I got plenty of time to play with the equipment -- nothing like running a doppler on your brachial artery to pass the time. Eventually you can't but get a hold of it and start to recognize anatomical features. An arm is seemingly more complex than female reproductive organs (to me at least). Every time I'd be told "you're not supposed to touch that". And every time I'd politely answer that "you're not supposed to keep us waiting for 45 minutes either".
In the end, everything was fine - some women bleed while pregnant, nobody knows why (so much for advanced medicine). They should have done an ultrasound, found a viable fetus, and sent us home in 15 minutes tops. I wouldn't count on them catching low blood pressure in time anyway, as my wife arrested in the very same ER, when they restarted her and put a central catheter in, the BP was around 45. That was sepsis, by the way. She walked to the ER in the afternoon, and they managed to almost let her die a couple hours later.
I think that if any one of us has to go to the ER again, we'll shoot ourselves first. That gets their attention, usually
That's right. I've done some calculations and it seems that if it weren't for FDA, as a pharmacist you could fly to Poland, first class, buy about $20k worth of non-subsidized drugs (non-narcotic) at a wholesaler, fly back to US, sell it, and still have about $5k of profit left in your pocket.
Heck, they'll usually handle 400Hz (aviation AC) too. Most switching supplies have a rectifier as a front-end, and it doesn't care much about frequency. The line filter may run a bit warmer at 400Hz. PFC supplies will balk at 400Hz, but non-PFC ones shouldn't. Heck, they'll usually handle DC as well (even PFCs!). I've been to an industrial setting without a single outlet in sight, but there was an inverter DC bus with 300V DC on it. My laptop's power supply ran just fine on it. DC is problematic when it comes to fuses, breakers and switches of course, because a DC arc does not self-extinguish like an AC arc would.
:) My wife used to help me out solder circuit boards. With 0603 discrete components on them (those are 1.6 x 0.8mm), no less. And plenty of through-holes before that. There's a decently sized city in Europe (more than 0.5E6 people) where every single tram (street car) has a circuit board that she put together. She's not a geek, but she's not techno-averse. She was using kde desktop on a fedora core machine for quite a while, for example. Glitches and all. She even printed on it ;)
She keeps her own tire pressure. I do oil checks sporadically, the car has an oil level sensor and will "scream" at you before it gets too low.
Back then, I knew very little about working on cars, everything was new to me. And boy did I overpay on that 940 :)
I used plain old levers (2x4s) and rope to lift an engine in a Volvo 940 to replace the engine mounts. My wife had a lot of trust in me on that job -- her hands were on the line, so to speak.
In all seriousness, though, I think that closures should be known by everyone who does any kind of software development, even if they don't use them often. It's a horizon-expanding type of a thing. I don't readily see how tying shoe laces could expand one's horizons, though.
Soldering 0402 surface mount discrete components is even better for that. You sneeze and your components are gone -- they are 1x0.5mm.
Cleaning chimneys is still important, though. If you have a wood-burning fireplace, as many american homes do, then you really want to have the chimney cleaned and inspected annually. Creosote fires often end up taking the whole building down. Creosote burns very lean since it's in a vertical pipe and has plenty of air supply. People are usually too scared to douse the fire and block the chimney draft once such a fire starts, if they are there to witness it at all - they may well be asleep.
I haven't really tried it myself in daily use, but Feynman used to have a watch that was missing a minute hand, and he claims it was good to about 5 minutes.
PS. I think I enjoy the Feynmanized version of Godwin's law better ;)
I seriously think that there are better things in life to worry about besides shoe lacing. Guess what, if you have daughters, I'm sure they couldn't lace a corset either. Probably neither could your wife -- at least not properly. How unbecoming of them, you know.
I can't imagine why would anyone get in a knot over shoe lacing. It's just a shoe, velcro- or slip-ons are not necessarily worse for everyday use. If you're into hiking, skating or ballet, that's another story of course, but it's never too late to learn.
So they have done what LISP systems have been doing for two decades or more? It's a standard thing for a LISP environment to initialize the environment and store a core image of it to speed up startup. Same thing can be done for LISP applications, effectively giving you hibernation of individual apps in a clean state.
That was a reasonably rare example of a mostly self-contained app -- by necessity. Otherwise it wouldn't run on many systems even when it was released. Most linux distros really push the model where you either take all the dependencies with you, or you compile for their libraries. Zimbra, for example, includes its own java, postfix, clamav, openldap, and so on. Otherwise they'd have to compile and test with a bunch of different distros. Of course the downside is that if a distro pushes a security update to some library before Zimbra releases the same, you're on your own. So yes, if you take very deliberate steps to make it run on many systems, it will run. For Quake 3 the bloat isn't as important, I guess, and security fixes are of no issue either.
:)
ebay should be the first place to look. You'll be amazed at how many cool surplus gadgets you can find there.
I agree. I'd think that a teacher should have a separate facebook account for use when communicating with students. There's really no reason for students to get insights into your personal life, or to see your family pics.
in the US at least if you tell your lawyer that you are guilty of a crime he is required by law to tell the authorities or he could face disbarment or even worse
You're horribly misinformed. AFAIK, the attorney-client privilege does not apply, based on content of communications, when you discuss taxes, how to commit a crime, how to avoid being caught, how to defraud another person. Otherwise, the content cannot be the reason to exclude the communications from the privilege, but there may be other valid reasons for exclusion of course -- reasons not based on content.