I think the FPGAs are part of their development environment, not the final hardware, sort of the equivalent of putting files together on a hard drive, and in the end using that as the master for DVD pressing.
We obviously must also ban subtraction from the number 10! Hmmm, but then they may develop a totally invisible code whereby they ADD 10 to each digit of the phone number, then divide by 10 and take the remainder. There would be no way to detect one of these coded numbers!
The chip gives you a set of building blocks, so there is great flexibility in how you can combine them. There's probably some similarity to good software API design here, where you provide orthogonal features that the user can combine however he likes, allowing a small API to provide lots of functionality.
So if a patient dies due to a (computer) virus and the virus writer gets caught can he be charged with manslaughter or something?
What about the OS vendor, or the hospital who chose such a vulnerable OS, or who connected their computers to the outside world (or at least flash drives)?
This is probably another application of the Benford's law.
Doesn't that law hinge on the fact that you're looking at the first (non-zero) digit of each of a series of numbers? Without that, you don't get the logarithmic aspect, and thus no distinct pattern.
It does not decrypt the file, just tells you that it is in fact an encrypted file. It works by detecting hidden patterns that don't exist in a random file.
I guess anyone who has a drive full of files made of random bits, with a few encrypted files mixed in, is going to be in trouble!
A Stitch in Time: The Rise and Fall of the Sewing Machine Patent Thicket challenges assumptions by courts and scholars today about the alleged efficiency-choking complexities of the modern patent system. Mossoff says that complementary inventions, extensive patent litigation, so-called 'patent trolls,' patent thickets, and privately formed patent pools have long been features of the American patent system reaching back to the antebellum era.
And? That they existed then too doesn't make them a good thing. The standard the patent system has to meet is to "promote the progress of science and useful arts". If it's not doing that, scrap it! The loss of parasites means a gain for us.
Yeah, that's crazy that a computer would freeze or crash just because the connection is slow. My internet slows down often and it never causes my computer to cra
Computers slow down when you turn them off, or lower their clock rate. They don't slow down when you use them; you just put those cycles to (local) use.
Turns out that neither of them had the faintest fucking clue what a hash table is, or for that matter what a linked list is. They looked at its hash bucket and expected nothing deeper than that. And, I'm told, at least one of them had been in a project where they actually coded workarounds (that can't possibly do any difference, too!) for its normal operation.
It's all too-often that people get the wrong view of a program using the debugger, either because it's not showing what's really there, or they're not interpreting it right. If you think something's wrong based on what you see in the debugger, write a test program first. More often than not, the test program will pass. After all, the compiler's job is to output code which meets the language specification regarding side-effects, not to make things look right in the debugger. In this case, the developer should have written a simple test which inserted two different values that had the same hash code, and verified that he really could only access one of them in the container. He would have found that they were both still there.
CD-ROMs could have kept the common "Play button" interface from the beginning. Everyone knew this procedure. You insert a VHS into a VCR, you press play.
Actually, VHS players automatically start playing read-only cassettes (and once they reach the end, rewind and then eject them). Pre-recorded tapes have the write-enable tab broken off.
You're right, charging for bandwidth isn't against net neutrality.... it's CENSORSHIP!! And it's THEFT!!! It's in invasion of privacy!!! I think I covered everything. No, wait, it's also BRICKING OUR CABLE MODEMS outside our control!!! That covers all the term misuse.
While I appreciate all Stallman and FSF has done, I still prefer the BSD-style license (you're free to do what you want with this code, including not being free with your changes:). Forced freedom isn't true freedom, IMHO.
My understanding of the FSF's position is that one person's exercise of his freedom can reduce the freedoms of others. The GPL limits these particular freedoms so that the freedoms of most users are not reduced, resulting in overall more freedom than a more permissive license like the BSD-style ones. It's a tradeoff of some freedom on the part of the small number of developers, to ensure freedom of use for the larger number of users.
I once was on a Fido forum with someone who would often write responses nearly word-for-word identical to mine. It was uncanny; I'd see his post and recognize my own writing, only to realize it wasn't mine. Timestamps would sometimes show my post was written first, sometimes his. I imagine some others on the forum thought at least one of us was a sock puppet, but neither of us was.
How can you be sure, Mr. Deckard? Failed any CAPTCHAs recently?
As a historian of year 2075, I'd really want to have access to Geocities if I am researching the '90s.
I'm unclear; are you a historian for the future, or one from the future? Either way, care to share with us whether Myspace finally gets shut down like this too?
The IP address isn't proof. It is simply evidence: a relevant and admissible fact that points in a certain direction. The courts never deal in absolutes, only in probabilities. The deadliest mistake a geek can make in court is to spin out scenarios that when looked at closely make very little sense. Scenarios that betray his own misbegotten ingenuity.
No WONDER my use of the Chewbacca defense didn't work last time I was in court. It seemed so sure-fire at the time.
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http://tools.services.openoffice.org/odfvalidator/ Still can't verify that the ODF you saved properly represents what you see on screen.
I think the FPGAs are part of their development environment, not the final hardware, sort of the equivalent of putting files together on a hard drive, and in the end using that as the master for DVD pressing.
We obviously must also ban subtraction from the number 10! Hmmm, but then they may develop a totally invisible code whereby they ADD 10 to each digit of the phone number, then divide by 10 and take the remainder. There would be no way to detect one of these coded numbers!
But the globals had an underscore at the beginning! Everyone knows that underscores totally prevent name clash.
The chip gives you a set of building blocks, so there is great flexibility in how you can combine them. There's probably some similarity to good software API design here, where you provide orthogonal features that the user can combine however he likes, allowing a small API to provide lots of functionality.
Protected mode was just the x86 architecture welcoming itself back to the reality most other processors already inhabited.
Whatever. I'm updating my WiFi's firmware right at this moment and having no pro
What about the OS vendor, or the hospital who chose such a vulnerable OS, or who connected their computers to the outside world (or at least flash drives)?
Doesn't that law hinge on the fact that you're looking at the first (non-zero) digit of each of a series of numbers? Without that, you don't get the logarithmic aspect, and thus no distinct pattern.
I guess anyone who has a drive full of files made of random bits, with a few encrypted files mixed in, is going to be in trouble!
And? That they existed then too doesn't make them a good thing. The standard the patent system has to meet is to "promote the progress of science and useful arts". If it's not doing that, scrap it! The loss of parasites means a gain for us.
Yeah, that's crazy that a computer would freeze or crash just because the connection is slow. My internet slows down often and it never causes my computer to cra
Comcast is just bringing you the future, today! They're ahead of everyone else.
Computers slow down when you turn them off, or lower their clock rate. They don't slow down when you use them; you just put those cycles to (local) use.
It's all too-often that people get the wrong view of a program using the debugger, either because it's not showing what's really there, or they're not interpreting it right. If you think something's wrong based on what you see in the debugger, write a test program first. More often than not, the test program will pass. After all, the compiler's job is to output code which meets the language specification regarding side-effects, not to make things look right in the debugger. In this case, the developer should have written a simple test which inserted two different values that had the same hash code, and verified that he really could only access one of them in the container. He would have found that they were both still there.
100,000,000 (ONE HUNDRED MILLION)...
...AOL discs!
Actually, VHS players automatically start playing read-only cassettes (and once they reach the end, rewind and then eject them). Pre-recorded tapes have the write-enable tab broken off.
Typical response from a linear-time human.
You're right, charging for bandwidth isn't against net neutrality.... it's CENSORSHIP!! And it's THEFT!!! It's in invasion of privacy!!! I think I covered everything. No, wait, it's also BRICKING OUR CABLE MODEMS outside our control!!! That covers all the term misuse.
My understanding of the FSF's position is that one person's exercise of his freedom can reduce the freedoms of others. The GPL limits these particular freedoms so that the freedoms of most users are not reduced, resulting in overall more freedom than a more permissive license like the BSD-style ones. It's a tradeoff of some freedom on the part of the small number of developers, to ensure freedom of use for the larger number of users.
How can you be sure, Mr. Deckard? Failed any CAPTCHAs recently?
He just cared a lot about posting about how little he cared.
At least they didn't have any people on saying how awful it felt to die from it (I don't know if it's fatal; I can't be bothered to read about it).
I'm unclear; are you a historian for the future, or one from the future? Either way, care to share with us whether Myspace finally gets shut down like this too?
No WONDER my use of the Chewbacca defense didn't work last time I was in court. It seemed so sure-fire at the time.