Sheeesh, it's their airport, if you want to use it, play by their rules. You have to carry a ticket, and ID already: WHAT AN INVASION ON YOUR CIVIL LIBERTIES!!!
Seriously, if this helps them locate the asshole that lumbers to the gate 10 minutes late because of that drink that took long to finish, holding up the whole flight, I'm all for it. If it helps them realize where bottlenecks are, all the better. If it can spot that someone wandered into a high security area intentionally or unintentionally, how is that anything but good? If it alerts them that I'm sitting in the wrong gate area (or wrong terminal!) for my flight, I think that's a good thing.
Airports are all about moving passengers throughout their system and onto the plans in an efficient manner. If they can track the passengers better, it can only help in that goal.
What are you worried about? That they will notice you went to the can ten times? That you are hanging around a female that isn't your wife? (Do you think they'd care, or bother?) There isn't exactly a lot of innocently incriminating things you can do in an airport that would be revealed by them knowing your location.
I know I'm way too late posting to this thread to get any moderation (one of the things that blows about/.), but it's useful information, so I'll post anyway:)
I saw it mentioned on The Daily Show that despite the difference in total world production between Saudi Arabia and Canada (24%, versus 2%), the US imports nearly as much oil from Canada as from Saudia Arabia, and the trend is towards Canada's share of that increasing. I think most Americans would be very surprised to hear that.
Doing a quick search for numbers, I cam up with a reference (on Digg, of all places):
Last year we imported 792,691,000 barrels of oil from Canada. From the Persian Gulf countries we imported 838,922,000 barrels. However, this is the end of a lowering trend for Persian Gulf states and increasing trend for Canada (b/c of tar sands I'd bet). Let's check out 2001 also, in that year we imported from Canada 667,374,000 barrels while from the persian gulf we imported 1,007,807,000 barrels.
A few interesting things about that point. First of all, that implies to me that the Arabs don't necessarily *need* US as a consumer to still have most of their market. More imporatntly, if the US could cut its oil usage by 50% through aggressive alternative fuel usage, conservsation, and such, it could *eliminate* it's dependence upon oil overseas, and not have to invade and wage war in country after country to preserve its stock.
Yes, 50% is a huge decrease, but if a small portion of the funds saved on military presence were redirected into alternative fuel research, I'm pretty sure it could be done. (Of course, reduced dependence upon oil also reduces the demand on Bush and family/cronies personal oil interests, so there's a huge conflict of interest there.)
The pirates should fight for a "pirate" range in the FM spectrum where unlicensed transmitters van freely broadcast. Problem solved.
Great idea. Although what about using existing bands which don't require licensing. The Citizen's Band and 2.4ghz/5.8ghz spread spectrum band are two options. The biggest drawback would be specialized gear required to even listen, I suppose, to get the quality required on CB, or the spread-spectrum transmission/reception of the 2.4ghz band. (2.4ghz has limitations on broadcast power, though; maybe a C.B. approach would be better, maybe combining channels for higher quality?) It would be cool if portable receivers came out that could receive a growing number of pirate bands in a public frequency range.
Some of those shots were up high enough that you could see space, which I assume means the atmosphere is thin enough that it doesn't diffuse the light and such. Can a ballooon really go up into atmosphere that thin??? I've heard of jets that can do that (COO of mine once rode on the Blackhawk:P), but not balloons. Can someone enlighten me?
The discussions of maintainability reminded me of a funny story.
At the first company I started, we had an excellent ops fellow who did all our wiring. The racks were immaculate, on par with the the winners in the competition. We never found maintainability a major factor, as things were wired right, and patch panels routed things as changes dictated.
However, on one occasion, I do remember his obsessive compulsive approach annoying. We were doing some moving around, so he was coming in and out of my office every few minutes for various changes, as was I. I typically don't screw in my monitor (or other cables), because, well, I don't need to, and I often change things around. Anyhow, the work I was doing that day involved plugging the monitor into a few different units to check things out. At one point, I couldn't remove it from the PC. It had been screwed in. I undid it, and moved it to the next PC I was checking, went to the bathroom. When I came back, I couldn't remove it, it had been screwed in again. Every time my employee walked by, he was screwing the monitor cable in tight, the way it "should be." This went on for about four or five times. The fact he even spotted it was amazing, much less the inability to walk by it without "fixing" it.
Not to start an editor war, but one thing a lot of people don't "get" about vi, is how much more natural it is for touch typists. The typewriter keyboard was designed with two shift keys within easy reach. Ctrl and Alt were grafted on later for computers, and are less natural to reach (and in the early days, there were only ones for the left fingers, making things like Ctrl-T fairly hard on the hands).
vi lets you access all of its powerful functionality using only these natural keys for typing (well, plus ESC, which is another computer addition, but its only used to flip out of insert mode, when you're done a bunch of typing, typically). Being able to move to the top of the screen by typing capital-H is a lot faster than control-whatever/control-whatever, or taking your hand off the keyboard, reaching for your mouse, aiming, and clicking. (It still amazes me that this latter approach is the one that leads the way in modern word processors, due to its obvious, but inefficient, nature.)
This is why vi fans often joke as emacs standing for escape-meta-alt-control-shift; to a seasoned vi user, all the escapes in emacs are far more confusing than the biggest complaint about vi, it's two modes. (Reminds one of the joke about the newbie asking the TA for help; the TA says, "you do know vi has two modes, right?" The newbie replies, "yes, the one where it beeps, and the one where it doesn't.") But at the end of the day, the concept of two modes isn't rocket science to learn, and as far as all the key commands one has to learn, it's no different than emacs, where I found the key sequences far more confusing.
A *Freely Licensed* (copy the crap out of it *if* you want, contribute *if* you want, not like GPL), rock solid, incredibly portable, fully functional kernel/OS that will install off of a fraction of a CD.
There's nothing like it, and I think it has an important place in the computing world. Please don't ruin it with (L)GPL's and other crap, it has its place!
You can make an NetBSD installation appear almost indistinguishable from a Linux installation (when you add the optional GPL packages), which is pretty cool. But if you need a lean, mean, *free* core, it will offer what Linux will not.
Wow, somebody's been playing their cards close to their chest. The fact this is even possible, means to me that they knew it could be done from the start, and were obviously working on it in parallel, as a slam dunk against Sony.
Good thing that everything else seems to be going Sony's way these days. Oh, wait...
(On a personal note, I was never a Sony fanboy like so many. In the early days of personal casette players, I found the Sony Walkman, like most, actually kinda sucked, and would track poorly on tapes as the unit was moved around. I found an amazing Panasonic unit, which blew it out of the water. And on a side, side, node, I've found *anything* Panasonic to be utterly amazing; truly the most underrated brand; kinda ironic. Anyhow, on the Sony front, I also bought a fiarly high end CD player/speaker unit for my wife. It was really total crap. And it refused to play anything CD-R, due to Sony's media ties. It was the last Sony unit I've bought, and ever will.)
Toshiba is another brand I generally like; I've been bitten by one serious lemon of a Toshiba Satellite (non-pro, I guess the Pro are far better, and not that more expensive). And these days, I spend most of my time on a Toshiba Libretto U-100, so glad they resurrected their brand after their amazing Libreatto 110CT days. Go Toshiba!
A PC-based phone solution (or probably non-PC based ones) can do some neat stuff. I once had an Asterisk/Digium based system, which made people dial my "extension" to reach me. All my family and friends (okay, not a large set, admittedly) knew the extension, anyone else could leave me a voicemail and the system would notify me right away. But spammers couldn't reach me. Also, the system always answered starting off with the beep-BEEEP-BE-E-EP of a "disconnected number", which supposedly turns away bulk-dialers. (You can buy a device to just do the latter thing, at Radio Shack [errrr, The Source By Circuit City (TM), if I'm not mistaken.)
Wholy crap! The arrogance. They got nailed, and nailed reasonably hard for their anti-competitive monopolished behaviour by the EU (something the US failed to follow through with when Bush took over), and now they're coming up with excuses for punishing Europe for it? Wholy crap. If this isn't a "don't fuck with us ever again" message, I don't know what is. I would say the EU shouldn't simply play dumb ("we never caused a delay") but make it clear what the guidelines are (which I'm sure they already have), and if MS won't deliver, then freakin' ban their products in Europe. This is sheer insanity that MS would try and pull this after the spanking they got. They are truly like an unruly toddler that wants it all and won't learn its lesson.
To put in a "don't broadcast my actions" checkbox, and a bit of support code, to, well, not do that? Shouldn't be that major of an effort, although maybe their code is ugly, who knows...
the company's East Fishkill, N.Y., fabrication facility
Their manufacturing plant, which no doubt produces some toxic chemicals, is in a town called East Fishkill? There's gotta be an interesting story behind that name:)
Just like VMWARE for the Intel Mac, this is huge for allowing people to, well, cross over (good choice of name, Crossover) to the Mac. And in many situations (running specific windows applications), Crossover is a far better solution. *Way* less resource hungry (it allocates memory as required, it doesn't allocate a whole 512M [or whatever] VM to run a whole Windows operating system), *plus* it uses the native file system (without some fake shared directory thing, a la VMWARE - which is cool and useful, but not as slick nor as efficient as Crossover's view of the file system).
Once it leaves beta, this might just be what pushes me over the edge to get a Mac.
Not to mention, *everyone* "profiles", every day, all the time. It's impossible (not to mention stupid) not to. Some people just can't admit to it.
I think the psychological term for that is "generalization." Our brains are so bombarded (ulp, maybe a bad choice of words) with stimuli, that if we didn't make generalizations we would be overloaded and not be able to function. It's both a good thing ("that person has breasts, it's a potential mate!") and a bad thing ("that black person in the dew rag could rob me"). But it is necessary to help us cope with our limited resource (brain power). It's up to us, and society, to keep such generalizations from becoming bigotry/prejudice. (Prejudice, is pre-judging someone, based upon some generalization you have about them or a group to which they belong.)
Just as our brains don't have the capacity to deal with all the details of all the information we're presented with, and we use generalization to help us, airports and other security areas don't have the resources to check out everyone, so they use profiling (a form of generalizing) to help make the most of their resources.
I'm of a mixed mind about this. The outrageous, dramatic, dangerous things he did brought a lot of attention to wildlife issues, as well as creating of lot of income, which he reinvested to the benefits of wildlife. (And ironically, his death is the ultimate drama, bringing all the more attention to all his achievements.)
But in the end, someone with children who takes such risks, ultimately risks removing a parent from a child's life, which is where I find the problem. However, when I compare the benefits of what he was doing, to, for example, fathers who have died climbing everest, one can not fault the man in the slightest.
The amount of new coverage, and even +5/. posts, indicates the impact this man truly had on the world and its people. Kudos for the article summary by calling the man by his name, and not his well known nick name.
This stikes me as quite obvious. You play by the rules of any "society" in which you take part, or you are subject to the punishments which that society can inflict upon you. If I wish to remain a free citizen of Canada, I play by certain rules. If I break them, they can punish me within the context of my country. If I want to remain a citizen, and remain free, I play by the rules.
If I wish to remain an unpunished citizen of an online society, I play by the rules. Otherwise I'm punished or expelled.
In the real world, different societies/countries have agreement between them, involving extradition and such for crimes. I guess in theory one could have agreements between a gaming society and real world societies, but always taking into account "it is just a game."
The only major difference I see is that citizenship in a certain country involves certain real and physical things (your body, your fingerprints, your photo, etc.) The degree of abuse of an online society really equates to the degree of anonymity afforded and the extent they can contact/punish you. Given that your only real "committment" to an online game is agreeing to any enforcable EULA and their ability to charge your credit card (only to the extent you have agreed upon), the abuse will likely continue.
Now, if part of signing up to an online society involved agreeing that "said company can charge your company up to $1000 for damages incurred within the game for behaviour that breaks rules in this agreement", things might be a little less crazy. But most users would probably run away from such a thing in a EULA (if they even read it).
The other is that up to now you could rely on SHA-1 to be collision resistant, no matter what.
This statement makes little sense to me. "Collision resistant"? It's still quite collision resistant. But by the very definition of such a hash (mapping more than n messages, into n hashes), means a hash could never be collision-*proof*. Since any hash is not going to be collision proof, you can't truly "rely" upon it in the absolute sense.
Perhaps a more precise definition is that there is now a known way to craft collisions intentionally. I think this will be a potential problem for any hash solution for the forseeable future.
I use the laptop a lot in bed, and I consider (for myself at least), problems with the neck/back/posture to be a bigger problem. (Of course, I am divorced, too; d'oh!)
Anyone have tips or recommendations for helping one's back/neck? Do those bed-chair thingies work (the cheap ones, or only the really expensive ones?) I saw one contraption that puts the laptop quite a bit above you angled down; it looked rather awkward.
Interesting story all around. But I couldn't help but think that this AP photo on CNN was hilarious.
What's wrong with that cop? It looks like he's in gastric distress about to rip a major one, or he's in love, and just saw the object of his affection... Man... (The fact those two different thoughts could be applied to be the same photo is disturbing in itself:)
Sounds a bit like corn starch. From my PMK days (sigh, Alisha), I remember seeing demos of cornstarch mixed with water. It appears liquidy, but if you smack your hand down in it, it turns to a solid instantly and temporarily, so no splashing occurs. Kinda freaky.
You only get a few bits worth of information for the first few milliseconds that you're recognizing the ball, and then many megabytes worth the last few second.
Blah, so all you're saying is we have VBR. No big deal:P
One of the manuals even had a complete assembler listing of the BIOS. Very educational reading, as a young kid (no sarcasm intended). Same with the schematics; seeing how every bit tied together was incredibly educational. Down to the detail of the discrete logic chips that created the colour video output; very cool stuff.
One of the charms of the original Monopoly was that it taught my kids a bit about counting and such, in the use of the money. Also, part of the charm was scrounging up your dollars to pay bills, or receiving a huge stack of bills. One beep and a balance added to your card just blows that whole tactile experience.
What's next, electronic scrabble boards that find words for you? I think it's a stupid idea, all around.
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Seriously, if this helps them locate the asshole that lumbers to the gate 10 minutes late because of that drink that took long to finish, holding up the whole flight, I'm all for it. If it helps them realize where bottlenecks are, all the better. If it can spot that someone wandered into a high security area intentionally or unintentionally, how is that anything but good? If it alerts them that I'm sitting in the wrong gate area (or wrong terminal!) for my flight, I think that's a good thing.
Airports are all about moving passengers throughout their system and onto the plans in an efficient manner. If they can track the passengers better, it can only help in that goal.
What are you worried about? That they will notice you went to the can ten times? That you are hanging around a female that isn't your wife? (Do you think they'd care, or bother?) There isn't exactly a lot of innocently incriminating things you can do in an airport that would be revealed by them knowing your location.
I saw it mentioned on The Daily Show that despite the difference in total world production between Saudi Arabia and Canada (24%, versus 2%), the US imports nearly as much oil from Canada as from Saudia Arabia, and the trend is towards Canada's share of that increasing. I think most Americans would be very surprised to hear that.
Doing a quick search for numbers, I cam up with a reference (on Digg, of all places):
Last year we imported 792,691,000 barrels of oil from Canada. From the Persian Gulf countries we imported 838,922,000 barrels. However, this is the end of a lowering trend for Persian Gulf states and increasing trend for Canada (b/c of tar sands I'd bet). Let's check out 2001 also, in that year we imported from Canada 667,374,000 barrels while from the persian gulf we imported 1,007,807,000 barrels.
A few interesting things about that point. First of all, that implies to me that the Arabs don't necessarily *need* US as a consumer to still have most of their market. More imporatntly, if the US could cut its oil usage by 50% through aggressive alternative fuel usage, conservsation, and such, it could *eliminate* it's dependence upon oil overseas, and not have to invade and wage war in country after country to preserve its stock.
Yes, 50% is a huge decrease, but if a small portion of the funds saved on military presence were redirected into alternative fuel research, I'm pretty sure it could be done. (Of course, reduced dependence upon oil also reduces the demand on Bush and family/cronies personal oil interests, so there's a huge conflict of interest there.)
Great idea. Although what about using existing bands which don't require licensing. The Citizen's Band and 2.4ghz/5.8ghz spread spectrum band are two options. The biggest drawback would be specialized gear required to even listen, I suppose, to get the quality required on CB, or the spread-spectrum transmission/reception of the 2.4ghz band. (2.4ghz has limitations on broadcast power, though; maybe a C.B. approach would be better, maybe combining channels for higher quality?) It would be cool if portable receivers came out that could receive a growing number of pirate bands in a public frequency range.
Some of those shots were up high enough that you could see space, which I assume means the atmosphere is thin enough that it doesn't diffuse the light and such. Can a ballooon really go up into atmosphere that thin??? I've heard of jets that can do that (COO of mine once rode on the Blackhawk :P), but not balloons. Can someone enlighten me?
The discussions of maintainability reminded me of a funny story.
At the first company I started, we had an excellent ops fellow who did all our wiring. The racks were immaculate, on par with the the winners in the competition. We never found maintainability a major factor, as things were wired right, and patch panels routed things as changes dictated.
However, on one occasion, I do remember his obsessive compulsive approach annoying. We were doing some moving around, so he was coming in and out of my office every few minutes for various changes, as was I. I typically don't screw in my monitor (or other cables), because, well, I don't need to, and I often change things around. Anyhow, the work I was doing that day involved plugging the monitor into a few different units to check things out. At one point, I couldn't remove it from the PC. It had been screwed in. I undid it, and moved it to the next PC I was checking, went to the bathroom. When I came back, I couldn't remove it, it had been screwed in again. Every time my employee walked by, he was screwing the monitor cable in tight, the way it "should be." This went on for about four or five times. The fact he even spotted it was amazing, much less the inability to walk by it without "fixing" it.
vi lets you access all of its powerful functionality using only these natural keys for typing (well, plus ESC, which is another computer addition, but its only used to flip out of insert mode, when you're done a bunch of typing, typically). Being able to move to the top of the screen by typing capital-H is a lot faster than control-whatever/control-whatever, or taking your hand off the keyboard, reaching for your mouse, aiming, and clicking. (It still amazes me that this latter approach is the one that leads the way in modern word processors, due to its obvious, but inefficient, nature.)
This is why vi fans often joke as emacs standing for escape-meta-alt-control-shift; to a seasoned vi user, all the escapes in emacs are far more confusing than the biggest complaint about vi, it's two modes. (Reminds one of the joke about the newbie asking the TA for help; the TA says, "you do know vi has two modes, right?" The newbie replies, "yes, the one where it beeps, and the one where it doesn't.") But at the end of the day, the concept of two modes isn't rocket science to learn, and as far as all the key commands one has to learn, it's no different than emacs, where I found the key sequences far more confusing.
My view of NetBSD:
A *Freely Licensed* (copy the crap out of it *if* you want, contribute *if* you want, not like GPL), rock solid, incredibly portable, fully functional kernel/OS that will install off of a fraction of a CD.
There's nothing like it, and I think it has an important place in the computing world. Please don't ruin it with (L)GPL's and other crap, it has its place!
You can make an NetBSD installation appear almost indistinguishable from a Linux installation (when you add the optional GPL packages), which is pretty cool. But if you need a lean, mean, *free* core, it will offer what Linux will not.
Nice. A bit of assurance from a voice I trust. I can sleep well now. Good night.
Good thing that everything else seems to be going Sony's way these days. Oh, wait...
(On a personal note, I was never a Sony fanboy like so many. In the early days of personal casette players, I found the Sony Walkman, like most, actually kinda sucked, and would track poorly on tapes as the unit was moved around. I found an amazing Panasonic unit, which blew it out of the water. And on a side, side, node, I've found *anything* Panasonic to be utterly amazing; truly the most underrated brand; kinda ironic. Anyhow, on the Sony front, I also bought a fiarly high end CD player/speaker unit for my wife. It was really total crap. And it refused to play anything CD-R, due to Sony's media ties. It was the last Sony unit I've bought, and ever will.)
Toshiba is another brand I generally like; I've been bitten by one serious lemon of a Toshiba Satellite (non-pro, I guess the Pro are far better, and not that more expensive). And these days, I spend most of my time on a Toshiba Libretto U-100, so glad they resurrected their brand after their amazing Libreatto 110CT days. Go Toshiba!
A PC-based phone solution (or probably non-PC based ones) can do some neat stuff. I once had an Asterisk/Digium based system, which made people dial my "extension" to reach me. All my family and friends (okay, not a large set, admittedly) knew the extension, anyone else could leave me a voicemail and the system would notify me right away. But spammers couldn't reach me. Also, the system always answered starting off with the beep-BEEEP-BE-E-EP of a "disconnected number", which supposedly turns away bulk-dialers. (You can buy a device to just do the latter thing, at Radio Shack [errrr, The Source By Circuit City (TM), if I'm not mistaken.)
Wholy crap! The arrogance. They got nailed, and nailed reasonably hard for their anti-competitive monopolished behaviour by the EU (something the US failed to follow through with when Bush took over), and now they're coming up with excuses for punishing Europe for it? Wholy crap. If this isn't a "don't fuck with us ever again" message, I don't know what is. I would say the EU shouldn't simply play dumb ("we never caused a delay") but make it clear what the guidelines are (which I'm sure they already have), and if MS won't deliver, then freakin' ban their products in Europe. This is sheer insanity that MS would try and pull this after the spanking they got. They are truly like an unruly toddler that wants it all and won't learn its lesson.
To put in a "don't broadcast my actions" checkbox, and a bit of support code, to, well, not do that? Shouldn't be that major of an effort, although maybe their code is ugly, who knows...
Their manufacturing plant, which no doubt produces some toxic chemicals, is in a town called East Fishkill? There's gotta be an interesting story behind that name :)
Just like VMWARE for the Intel Mac, this is huge for allowing people to, well, cross over (good choice of name, Crossover) to the Mac. And in many situations (running specific windows applications), Crossover is a far better solution. *Way* less resource hungry (it allocates memory as required, it doesn't allocate a whole 512M [or whatever] VM to run a whole Windows operating system), *plus* it uses the native file system (without some fake shared directory thing, a la VMWARE - which is cool and useful, but not as slick nor as efficient as Crossover's view of the file system).
Once it leaves beta, this might just be what pushes me over the edge to get a Mac.
I think the psychological term for that is "generalization." Our brains are so bombarded (ulp, maybe a bad choice of words) with stimuli, that if we didn't make generalizations we would be overloaded and not be able to function. It's both a good thing ("that person has breasts, it's a potential mate!") and a bad thing ("that black person in the dew rag could rob me"). But it is necessary to help us cope with our limited resource (brain power). It's up to us, and society, to keep such generalizations from becoming bigotry/prejudice. (Prejudice, is pre-judging someone, based upon some generalization you have about them or a group to which they belong.)
Just as our brains don't have the capacity to deal with all the details of all the information we're presented with, and we use generalization to help us, airports and other security areas don't have the resources to check out everyone, so they use profiling (a form of generalizing) to help make the most of their resources.
I'm of a mixed mind about this. The outrageous, dramatic, dangerous things he did brought a lot of attention to wildlife issues, as well as creating of lot of income, which he reinvested to the benefits of wildlife. (And ironically, his death is the ultimate drama, bringing all the more attention to all his achievements.)
/. posts, indicates the impact this man truly had on the world and its people. Kudos for the article summary by calling the man by his name, and not his well known nick name.
But in the end, someone with children who takes such risks, ultimately risks removing a parent from a child's life, which is where I find the problem. However, when I compare the benefits of what he was doing, to, for example, fathers who have died climbing everest, one can not fault the man in the slightest.
The amount of new coverage, and even +5
Rest in peace, and job well done, Steve.
This stikes me as quite obvious. You play by the rules of any "society" in which you take part, or you are subject to the punishments which that society can inflict upon you. If I wish to remain a free citizen of Canada, I play by certain rules. If I break them, they can punish me within the context of my country. If I want to remain a citizen, and remain free, I play by the rules.
If I wish to remain an unpunished citizen of an online society, I play by the rules. Otherwise I'm punished or expelled.
In the real world, different societies/countries have agreement between them, involving extradition and such for crimes. I guess in theory one could have agreements between a gaming society and real world societies, but always taking into account "it is just a game."
The only major difference I see is that citizenship in a certain country involves certain real and physical things (your body, your fingerprints, your photo, etc.) The degree of abuse of an online society really equates to the degree of anonymity afforded and the extent they can contact/punish you. Given that your only real "committment" to an online game is agreeing to any enforcable EULA and their ability to charge your credit card (only to the extent you have agreed upon), the abuse will likely continue.
Now, if part of signing up to an online society involved agreeing that "said company can charge your company up to $1000 for damages incurred within the game for behaviour that breaks rules in this agreement", things might be a little less crazy. But most users would probably run away from such a thing in a EULA (if they even read it).
This statement makes little sense to me. "Collision resistant"? It's still quite collision resistant. But by the very definition of such a hash (mapping more than n messages, into n hashes), means a hash could never be collision-*proof*. Since any hash is not going to be collision proof, you can't truly "rely" upon it in the absolute sense.
Perhaps a more precise definition is that there is now a known way to craft collisions intentionally. I think this will be a potential problem for any hash solution for the forseeable future.
I use the laptop a lot in bed, and I consider (for myself at least), problems with the neck/back/posture to be a bigger problem. (Of course, I am divorced, too; d'oh!)
Anyone have tips or recommendations for helping one's back/neck? Do those bed-chair thingies work (the cheap ones, or only the really expensive ones?) I saw one contraption that puts the laptop quite a bit above you angled down; it looked rather awkward.
What's wrong with that cop? It looks like he's in gastric distress about to rip a major one, or he's in love, and just saw the object of his affection... Man... (The fact those two different thoughts could be applied to be the same photo is disturbing in itself :)
Sounds a bit like corn starch. From my PMK days (sigh, Alisha), I remember seeing demos of cornstarch mixed with water. It appears liquidy, but if you smack your hand down in it, it turns to a solid instantly and temporarily, so no splashing occurs. Kinda freaky.
The WikiPedia entry actually has a video of this.
That's the kind of combination an idiot would have on his luggage...
(wait for it . . . )
Blah, so all you're saying is we have VBR. No big deal :P
All kidding aside, a very insightful post.
One of the manuals even had a complete assembler listing of the BIOS. Very educational reading, as a young kid (no sarcasm intended). Same with the schematics; seeing how every bit tied together was incredibly educational. Down to the detail of the discrete logic chips that created the colour video output; very cool stuff.
One of the charms of the original Monopoly was that it taught my kids a bit about counting and such, in the use of the money. Also, part of the charm was scrounging up your dollars to pay bills, or receiving a huge stack of bills. One beep and a balance added to your card just blows that whole tactile experience.
What's next, electronic scrabble boards that find words for you? I think it's a stupid idea, all around.