Just to prove how pointless this all is, here's my first simple-minded attempt a writing a Linux virus:
Look in your front yard, genius. There's a policeman and 100 Linux users, all with firearms.
Actually, raising awareness of this is good, but you've probably violated some law.
Yeah, your virus is crap and obvious, but I hope you don't live in the United States, for your own sake. It's probably in violation of the DMCA, for some damned reason or another.
Whoa! Hold it there accelerated joe.
You might be very smart but to say that you are one of the best problem solvers that you know is a bit presumptous, a little arrogant, and totally naive. Or a combination of those. Either that or you obviously didnt go to a top-tier school for your education. Most of us here are very smart but I would doubt it if most of us could claim that we're the best of the best we've ever seen. Nope.
Are there people educated similarly to me who can't find a job?
Me! I can't find a job. I am just graduating with a Masters in CS, and have a Bachelors in Computer Engineering. I am just about the best problem solver I know of, and engineering quality and maintainable software is actually important to me.
A year ago, I never would have believed that, ceteris paribus, I'll be unemployed in a month. I send resumes everywhere, and mine is pretty good, but I never even get acknowledgements, let alone more info about the specific job. I would take a government job in a second, and yes, I am in the process of trying to get one. It is a terrible market.
this Steve Mann guy just seems like a kook (with tenure!)
Well, half the people I know with tenure are kooks, so it's really not that surprising.
Professors will also do a whole lot just to make their research publicly known and respected. He's just getting good publicity for his research and school.
If he wasn't making a big deal, then you might have something to worry about!
I know what you meant. I was taking a jab at a (perhaps) poor choice of trademark. But you did seem very angry!
How is it that your post got +5, and mine is modded as flamebait, anyways? In the literal sense of the terms, yours could be classified as flamebait, or a troll, or insightful, or interesting, and mine was silly, maybe not deserving a positive moderation, but not flamebait.
I blame Slashdot for being so lame. Maybe it's time for me to move on, and stop wasting my time here.
You seem pretty angry about this whole mess. "Intelliside" seems to me to mean "Killing people who work at Intel". (Although spelled incorrectly, in that case). Some very nice people work at Intel, so please don't hurt them.
Trademark laws need to be changed, but don't let it give you an ulcer!
If everyone avoided getting sick, we would eradicate these viruses. The only reason people still get the flu is that other people who've gotten the flu are not totally isolated from uninfected people until they are well again. Think of all the lives that would be saved if everyone kept their kids home during flu season! (I know, keeping your kids away from school is not enough to make this happen, but I can dream, can't I?)
The KMP algorithm is the only algorithm I've ever seen that shocked me when I first saw it. It is so simple, and yet I probably never would have thought it up on my own. It's just beautiful!
It's a crime [quaker.org], not a war. If you want a reply, log in.
Russ,
Regarding your signature, perhaps you misunderstand the way the english language is used. You see, it unquestionably IS a war. You seem to be confusing who started the war versus whether or not to call it a war. Hint: If a US force overthrows the government in Afghanistan in open combat, you're dealing with a war!
Maybe you want to ask who started the war? The WAR itself was started by the US, I believe. We're sick and tired of crap ass governments who refuse to control their own territory. It is easier for the public to understand if you just say you're having a war on terrorism. It also allows the president to slosh the war around freely. Who cares? Not me! Governments should punish those who cause violence to others, or at least do something to help prevent it. If a foreign government fails to do this, and thousands of people are dying in America, then it is time to do something.
I was going to give you the benefit of the doubt on all this ORBZ stuff, but you've sabotaged your credibility with me by posting your uninformed rant on quaker.org.
Since you specifically allowed it, it isn't spam. Spam is by definition unsolicited. If you can't go and stop them from sending it to you after this service change, then it will be spam.
I know people who use Yahoo mail for work, so I have to email them frequently. You wouldn't believe how often Yahoo mail bounces as undeliverable! I also have an account there for use when I want to be anonymous on the internet.
Yahoo mail is slow, sometimes taking DAYS! Yahoo mail webpages often won't let me in.
I may be a little harsh for my own account experiences because I got fed up and stopped using Yahoo mail a few years ago. I won't stand for poor service when it's free, and I most certainly will never pay Yahoo a nickel for any service.
Donald Davies is largely acknowledged for developing Packet Switching (and even coining that very phrase) at the National Physical Laboratory in the UK, however he was not American so he's largely ignored.
The article covers Davies' involvement. Kleinrock repeats again and again that there is cold hard evidence that he created packet switching before Davies (in his dissertation). This has nothing to do with whether Davies is around to defend himself or not. You really should have read the article.
Memory doesn't always fragment when you allocate and deallocate it. If you have a program which does a lot of allocation and deallocation, it is probably a good idea to write your own memory handling routines. For instance, make a queue of available storage space, and then pick already allocated memory. That avoids any memory fragmentation problem. This also avoids some cross platform weirdness which can cause a program to crash in um... unusual ways.
Java is a whole other can of beans. They didn't want people worrying about their pointers, so they simply implemented a GC. I don't know of any situations where a talented programmer couldn't do better than Java's Garbage Collector, but lets face it, most people who use Java like the convenience, and some other people who use Java will never ever understand pointers.
Does this use of inductive coils somehow reduce the available power at the other end of the wire, or is it just using "waste" energy and not affecting anything?
The inductive coils certainly will deplete the power from the power lines. In fact, those high voltage power lines are not even attached to anything directly at the near end, but run through a transformer, which uses two coils of wire to induce a lower voltage after the transformer.
That's too confusing.. I and everyone I know have always used CS for counterstrike and COSC for comp sci...
I hope you're joking. Otherwise, I know some people who have a Masters of Computer Science (MCS) degree who might want their money back, since the CS must stand for counterstrike, thanks to you and your friends. Generally, I'm OK with acronyms being the same, as long as they're in different contexts. Otherwise, I think the First Come First Served rule applies.
If you think CS Computer Science and CS counterstrike is too confusing, then counterstrike must change, regardless of what everybody in Backwater, Idaho does!
Actually the idea of patents is to encourage innovation. Something which someone came up with in 2 minutes is probably more innovative than something which took 10 years.
Patents do not encourage innovation like that, so your post is moot. That kind of brilliant spark will come regardless of whether the patent office exists or not.
The patent does, however, encourage you to develop your idea into something, knowing that you can have a monopoly on the product, so a competitor can't steal your idea.
I think up interesting things all the time, and I think I should be able to patent them, even if I haven't got the capital to build a working model or anything like that.
It's good to know that people in this world are still thinking, but I don't believe that an idea you come up with in two minutes deserves the same patent that ten years of research came up with.
You see, patents are made to ensure that people will put enough money into development of ideas by giving them a monopoly on the result for a certain number of years.
So, with that in light, I still like the original poster's idea, but maybe his "formal" patent would be good for 10 years, while an off the cuff patent with little documentation would be good for 2-5 years. (No patent deserves a 20 year monopoly, IMHO.) That way, everybody inventive would get credit and a chance, and the patent office could probably even reduce their workload by concentrating more on the longer patents, since the shorter ones expire so quickly.
I want Satelite or digital cable that changes channels as fast as conventional cable (meaning *instantly*).
I timed my digital cable from COX. It takes over a second to change channels, and it won't let you switch channels for that time. This is even with the lower analog channels. And I have two different types of receivers that act the same way. Somebody should pull Mr. Cox (or whoever is the CEO) out of his car and savagely beat him! I cannot flip channels anymore, so it totally changes my viewing habits. But getting digital cable is the only way of getting HBO, Cinemax, etc.
Of course, COX is evil anyways. They kept playing commercials saying how stealing cable is stealing from the community (presumably because they give all their profits to the community or something (yeah right!)). And they made a website so you can report your friends who steal cable. Sure, I understand why they want to FUD everybody into buying cable from them, but sheesh!, this tactic sounds too much like the informant system in communist Russia. When I move in a few months, I vow never to buy any kind of service from COX ever again!
And I have seen the direct tv and other satellite systems. They are much snappier than cox digital cable (which totally sucks ass).
Well, let's say that we're on move12 for some assignment of move1,..., move11, and we see that black wins. What this means is that we go back to move11 and say, ok, that is not a move that is going to cut it since it doesn't work for all black moves from that state. Let's try "the next" move11. Let's say that after trying every move11 we didn't find anything that lead to victory. Ok, that means that black's move10 was a good move for black and we can't allow black to get to this position, so we need to go back to move8 and pick the "next move", etc.
I'm not sure we're talking about the same problem. NxN chess, if I understand it, tries to find a guaranteed win from a specific position. From the opening position on a real chess board, there is almost certainly no strategy to guarantee victory for white or black. If there was a sequence of moves such that for every black move, white can find a victory, then I might understand what you are saying, but in chess, there is no such sequence. There may be a "best" move in any position for either side, but there is no guaranteed win from the start. Does this make sense?
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Actually, raising awareness of this is good, but you've probably violated some law.
Yeah, your virus is crap and obvious, but I hope you don't live in the United States, for your own sake. It's probably in violation of the DMCA, for some damned reason or another.
it's a marsupial, not a mammal
I think you've got your facts wrong. All marsupials are mammals.
I'll move to Missouri if you'll give me a job! Is your email address the worldnet.att one?
YHBT Jargon File
Whoa! Hold it there accelerated joe. You might be very smart but to say that you are one of the best problem solvers that you know is a bit presumptous, a little arrogant, and totally naive. Or a combination of those. Either that or you obviously didnt go to a top-tier school for your education. Most of us here are very smart but I would doubt it if most of us could claim that we're the best of the best we've ever seen. Nope.
Nice troll.
Are there people educated similarly to me who can't find a job?
Me! I can't find a job. I am just graduating with a Masters in CS, and have a Bachelors in Computer Engineering. I am just about the best problem solver I know of, and engineering quality and maintainable software is actually important to me.
A year ago, I never would have believed that, ceteris paribus, I'll be unemployed in a month. I send resumes everywhere, and mine is pretty good, but I never even get acknowledgements, let alone more info about the specific job. I would take a government job in a second, and yes, I am in the process of trying to get one. It is a terrible market.
this Steve Mann guy just seems like a kook (with tenure!)
Well, half the people I know with tenure are kooks, so it's really not that surprising.
Professors will also do a whole lot just to make their research publicly known and respected. He's just getting good publicity for his research and school.
If he wasn't making a big deal, then you might have something to worry about!
I know what you meant. I was taking a jab at a (perhaps) poor choice of trademark. But you did seem very angry!
How is it that your post got +5, and mine is modded as flamebait, anyways? In the literal sense of the terms, yours could be classified as flamebait, or a troll, or insightful, or interesting, and mine was silly, maybe not deserving a positive moderation, but not flamebait.
I blame Slashdot for being so lame. Maybe it's time for me to move on, and stop wasting my time here.
You seem pretty angry about this whole mess. "Intelliside" seems to me to mean "Killing people who work at Intel". (Although spelled incorrectly, in that case). Some very nice people work at Intel, so please don't hurt them.
Trademark laws need to be changed, but don't let it give you an ulcer!
If everyone avoided getting sick, we would eradicate these viruses. The only reason people still get the flu is that other people who've gotten the flu are not totally isolated from uninfected people until they are well again. Think of all the lives that would be saved if everyone kept their kids home during flu season! (I know, keeping your kids away from school is not enough to make this happen, but I can dream, can't I?)
Knuth-Morris-Pratt string matching
The KMP algorithm is the only algorithm I've ever seen that shocked me when I first saw it. It is so simple, and yet I probably never would have thought it up on my own. It's just beautiful!
Yeah, bucket sorting sure is cool! Radix sort would probably be more efficient here, unless your range is too small for the sorting method to matter.
It's a crime [quaker.org], not a war. If you want a reply, log in.
Russ,
Regarding your signature, perhaps you misunderstand the way the english language is used. You see, it unquestionably IS a war. You seem to be confusing who started the war versus whether or not to call it a war. Hint: If a US force overthrows the government in Afghanistan in open combat, you're dealing with a war!
Maybe you want to ask who started the war? The WAR itself was started by the US, I believe. We're sick and tired of crap ass governments who refuse to control their own territory. It is easier for the public to understand if you just say you're having a war on terrorism. It also allows the president to slosh the war around freely. Who cares? Not me! Governments should punish those who cause violence to others, or at least do something to help prevent it. If a foreign government fails to do this, and thousands of people are dying in America, then it is time to do something.
I was going to give you the benefit of the doubt on all this ORBZ stuff, but you've sabotaged your credibility with me by posting your uninformed rant on quaker.org.
Since you specifically allowed it, it isn't spam. Spam is by definition unsolicited. If you can't go and stop them from sending it to you after this service change, then it will be spam.
I know people who use Yahoo mail for work, so I have to email them frequently. You wouldn't believe how often Yahoo mail bounces as undeliverable! I also have an account there for use when I want to be anonymous on the internet.
Yahoo mail is slow, sometimes taking DAYS! Yahoo mail webpages often won't let me in.
I may be a little harsh for my own account experiences because I got fed up and stopped using Yahoo mail a few years ago. I won't stand for poor service when it's free, and I most certainly will never pay Yahoo a nickel for any service.
Donald Davies is largely acknowledged for developing Packet Switching (and even coining that very phrase) at the National Physical Laboratory in the UK, however he was not American so he's largely ignored.
The article covers Davies' involvement. Kleinrock repeats again and again that there is cold hard evidence that he created packet switching before Davies (in his dissertation). This has nothing to do with whether Davies is around to defend himself or not. You really should have read the article.
Memory doesn't always fragment when you allocate and deallocate it. If you have a program which does a lot of allocation and deallocation, it is probably a good idea to write your own memory handling routines. For instance, make a queue of available storage space, and then pick already allocated memory. That avoids any memory fragmentation problem. This also avoids some cross platform weirdness which can cause a program to crash in um... unusual ways.
Java is a whole other can of beans. They didn't want people worrying about their pointers, so they simply implemented a GC. I don't know of any situations where a talented programmer couldn't do better than Java's Garbage Collector, but lets face it, most people who use Java like the convenience, and some other people who use Java will never ever understand pointers.
Does this use of inductive coils somehow reduce the available power at the other end of the wire, or is it just using "waste" energy and not affecting anything?
The inductive coils certainly will deplete the power from the power lines. In fact, those high voltage power lines are not even attached to anything directly at the near end, but run through a transformer, which uses two coils of wire to induce a lower voltage after the transformer.
That's too confusing.. I and everyone I know have always used CS for counterstrike and COSC for comp sci...
I hope you're joking. Otherwise, I know some people who have a Masters of Computer Science (MCS) degree who might want their money back, since the CS must stand for counterstrike, thanks to you and your friends. Generally, I'm OK with acronyms being the same, as long as they're in different contexts. Otherwise, I think the First Come First Served rule applies.
If you think CS Computer Science and CS counterstrike is too confusing, then counterstrike must change, regardless of what everybody in Backwater, Idaho does!
I sense a grave disturbance in the force.
The disturbance you're referring to is George Lucas.
Actually the idea of patents is to encourage innovation. Something which someone came up with in 2 minutes is probably more innovative than something which took 10 years.
Patents do not encourage innovation like that, so your post is moot. That kind of brilliant spark will come regardless of whether the patent office exists or not.
The patent does, however, encourage you to develop your idea into something, knowing that you can have a monopoly on the product, so a competitor can't steal your idea.
Don't confuse the issue!
I think up interesting things all the time, and I think I should be able to patent them, even if I haven't got the capital to build a working model or anything like that.
It's good to know that people in this world are still thinking, but I don't believe that an idea you come up with in two minutes deserves the same patent that ten years of research came up with.
You see, patents are made to ensure that people will put enough money into development of ideas by giving them a monopoly on the result for a certain number of years.
So, with that in light, I still like the original poster's idea, but maybe his "formal" patent would be good for 10 years, while an off the cuff patent with little documentation would be good for 2-5 years. (No patent deserves a 20 year monopoly, IMHO.) That way, everybody inventive would get credit and a chance, and the patent office could probably even reduce their workload by concentrating more on the longer patents, since the shorter ones expire so quickly.
I want Satelite or digital cable that changes channels as fast as conventional cable (meaning *instantly*).
I timed my digital cable from COX. It takes over a second to change channels, and it won't let you switch channels for that time. This is even with the lower analog channels. And I have two different types of receivers that act the same way. Somebody should pull Mr. Cox (or whoever is the CEO) out of his car and savagely beat him! I cannot flip channels anymore, so it totally changes my viewing habits. But getting digital cable is the only way of getting HBO, Cinemax, etc.
Of course, COX is evil anyways. They kept playing commercials saying how stealing cable is stealing from the community (presumably because they give all their profits to the community or something (yeah right!)). And they made a website so you can report your friends who steal cable. Sure, I understand why they want to FUD everybody into buying cable from them, but sheesh!, this tactic sounds too much like the informant system in communist Russia. When I move in a few months, I vow never to buy any kind of service from COX ever again!
And I have seen the direct tv and other satellite systems. They are much snappier than cox digital cable (which totally sucks ass).
Well, let's say that we're on move12 for some assignment of move1, ..., move11, and we see that black wins. What this means is that we go back to move11 and say, ok, that is not a move that is going to cut it since it doesn't work for all black moves from that state. Let's try "the next" move11. Let's say that after trying every move11 we didn't find anything that lead to victory. Ok, that means that black's move10 was a good move for black and we can't allow black to get to this position, so we need to go back to move8 and pick the "next move", etc.
I'm not sure we're talking about the same problem. NxN chess, if I understand it, tries to find a guaranteed win from a specific position. From the opening position on a real chess board, there is almost certainly no strategy to guarantee victory for white or black. If there was a sequence of moves such that for every black move, white can find a victory, then I might understand what you are saying, but in chess, there is no such sequence. There may be a "best" move in any position for either side, but there is no guaranteed win from the start. Does this make sense?
The shipping version of IE 6 is 6.0.2600.0.
:-)
Microsoft made an official product numbered 2600? I guess they must have known that it had many security holes.