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If I remember right years ago California had this problem. You see some of the markers were placed on top of mountians, that are moving!! Actually of California is moivng either mainly north or south compared to some other mark...
Well alot of property lines in central valley are MILES for were the belong. IE our house is on your nieghbor's nieghbor's nieghbor's land.
These guys are not worring what state they live in, but do we move the house on to the property?
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High-level language. This is NOT wrong in the context of the course. Relative to the course material (assembly), C is a very high-level language. I have always thought of this scale in terms of context and relativity, not absolute.
Even in the terms of the course calling C a HIGH-LEVEL LANGUAGE is wrong. C is above above ASM because it made its easier to write in human terms. But then again a Macro ASM, say PDP-11 will allow most of the same functions and notied the same way. Where do you think C got some of the notations (XR1++) or (--XR2).
When C came out it was thought of as a "better ASM" not a replacement BASIC, COBOL or PASCAL. The was even a #DEFINE for those who coded in PASCAL to sed that notation in the C. Just as there was MARCOs for ASM to compile BASIC Code. It was not until people started library after library some written in C, others in ASM. That C as structure/script - but not a language - was given the includes to be all things to all people.
C++ may still have the older roots available becuase it was built on top of C. But C is still just a better ASM.
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Being to harsh.
The bases for a sceince is terms. If they can not get the basic of terms right then there is no science.
About background... I started with Basic on a HP2000F in 1973, I was 14 at the time.
Which carries into high-level languages are portable hahaha Basic is a high-level language and it is not portable, it was not until about 1989 was the Basic Language generally uniform, Cobol today, even higher-level, in my option, than BASIC still has "flavours".
This books was primer - when you can not get history/levels correct what does it say for the rest.
MIPS assembly compared to C - C is higher, more human to read (if you do not compound expressions (example: x(i++) =+ y(--j); ). But C is much lower than Basic.
Know the question: Did your teacher refer C as a HIGH-LEVEL LANGAUGE (wrong) or a HIGH-ER-LEVEL LANGUAGE (right)?
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From the opening section of each book: 1.1 What is a programming language?
Java is an example of a high-level language; other high-level languages you might have heard of are Pascal, C, C++ and FORTRAN.
Python is an example of a high-level language; other high-level languages you might have heard of are C, C++, Perl, and Java
Both C++ and Pascal are high-level languages; other high-level languages you might have heard of are Java, C and FORTRAN
C, a language without file i/o, without bound checking, and with direct access to ports is high-level? If you say the libraries chucked into a C load makes it so... Then Assemebler is a high-level language, too.
Last I heard was Binary Code=0, Assem=1, C=1.5, Fortran, Cobol, & Basic were about 3, ADA, C++=5.
Perl was not even in the picture, because it was scripting language
Also high-level languages does not equal easier code or does not make it faster code... It does makes more strict to code, more following the limited ways the authors of the langauge thought you should think (like the use of GOTOs:-). Low-level languages allow the coder the freedom to get the job done and not comprise the functions to limits of the authors, and it requies the coders to truely think like computer sceincist. Look at ADA for what is wrong with really high-level langauge. See how limiting the langauge can be made. And how much time is need to see up the coding effort.
PS: maybe these are great books, but I stopped reading there, because how can it teach to "Think like Computer Sceincist" when it does not know about the basics of computer sceince?
Yucca Mt is as with most all mountians in the western United States are part of pressure ridges, formed in the crust of the earth. These pressure ridges are on fault lines for earthquakes and later volcanic as it gets closer to the Pacific Plate.
A safer location today would be Iowa, Neb, Ill, or even Texas... Large flat states with out Press Ridge Mountians.
I worked in the hotel business for many years. Credit Cards are a great to link info. Since Visa2000 rolled in Credit Cards gets you linked deeper and better. Visa will sell the info too, AmEx and MC and...
No, and I never will. The only discount cards I have dont have any of my information on - you get given them free, store points on, then trade them in for vouchers).
As long as, you never had to tell your name or address, once done, then they are not free.
But then again all freebies and discounts cost you later in higher prices to cover the "marketing" costs.
I stop doing business with company's that want information that they have no need for.
Like Yahoo has no need for any my personal information to sell... so I changed it all to junk. I want to but a plane ticket and yahoo wanted all this information before I could buy it... So I went to site the yahoo was front-endding... Got the ticket cheap and with less information requiremnets.
A website wanted an email address and you to be over 13, so they could sell your information.... So you are forced mark over 13 and the email name is under@13.com.
All the informaiton you give out makes it not FREE.
Also do you have a card to track your purshing at a groserys store? Opps - discount card? Trade them with friends and strangers messup the computers... Also locally they been wanting your SS#... So encase you lost it, they a issue you another... RIGHT.
Look into IPCop or come out to a local user group (LUG). Both have people with skills to and they want help out. At the same time, they and you will give back, by helping bring others up to speed with both knowledge and questions. So do a presentation, or start a security SIG.
Yes, joining CERT notices or Bug Track will be your first information feed, but it is putting into action by talking to friends, testing firewalls, and helping others gets the information in use.
Idealizing the problem, the researcher defines open-source programs as software in which the bugs are easy to find and closed-source programs as software where the bugs are harder to find. By calculating the average time before a program will fail in each case, he asserts that in the abstract case, both types of programs have the same security.
If he truely said this... Then the report is laughable.
1) Windows is open-source, because the bugs are easy to find. But you can not fix them.
2) He changes all common meanings, so the report can be used as FUD.
Is he a CS major or MS major? (Martketing Science)
If you are buying a license then the license owns you.
If you are buying an object then you own it.
When I buy a CD, I own the CD and its contents. Just as I buy a book, I own the book and ink printed on the page.
Now my uses of each are only limited by copyright law and extentions that a 9 member panel oked.
A lincense does not need to copyright law. It a business contract and bypass all protections of the copyright law, unless you can get them to agree to your changes. Why do you think MS is powerful, it is the EULA. RIAA/MPAA is thrying to sue the end run.
Get out of your head the idea of license, because is that brianwashing that allows RIAA/MPAA to do what the do.
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 gives the Federal Communications Commission
(Commission) exclusive jurisdiction over the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) in the
United States, but permits the Commission to delegate any portion of that jurisdiction to state
regulatory commissions or other entities. The Commission, recognizing that state commissions are
uniquely positioned to understand local conditions and what effect new area codes will have on
those conditions, has authorized the states to resolve many matters involving the implementation of
new area codes, subject to the Commission's guidelines and rules governing administration of
telephone numbers.
Before a goverment can go to ICANN - they need to have the authority to go to ICANN.
South Afirca is in the process of defining that authority, setting how they are going do the job (who runs it, what are the rules).
Mike is unhappy that goverment is doing it without talking to him. He asked for their help in the past. They are taking action. He does not like the action.
There is a guy in South Africa with THE LIST. The government now has THELIST. The government supplies THELIST now.
Noone outside of South Africa is effected, unless thay WANT to be stupid. A leagal transition occurred.
It may not be right, but it is leagal.
About Texas, you are right becuase the group that control that list is not inside Texas, so Texas can not take action.
Where it is sticky is 1 is both Canada and US. Also there are a few islands that are also under 1. Now the US can not create a new Area Code unless all agree, then it files with a UN chartered agency for all the world to know the new area code. Since the US / Canada controls that area code list. They can do that.
Note list was owned by AT&T until breakup, then US took authority -- Wait that is South Africa over.ZA -- Oh my god!! NO ONE CALL ME!!!
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To correctly monitor what the demographics are...
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(small print)By using this appliance, you agree that a single picture can be taken every 5 seconds and the faces are scanned and the demographics are counted. Also this appliance will confirm only your family is watching this Nelson Protected Set. Per DCMA, if another person is in the room, the police will be called.
If I remember right years ago California had this problem. You see some of the markers were placed on top of mountians, that are moving!! Actually of California is moivng either mainly north or south compared to some other mark...
Well alot of property lines in central valley are MILES for were the belong. IE our house is on your nieghbor's nieghbor's nieghbor's land.
These guys are not worring what state they live in, but do we move the house on to the property?
High-level language. This is NOT wrong in the context of the course. Relative to the course material (assembly), C is a very high-level language. I have always thought of this scale in terms of context and relativity, not absolute.
Even in the terms of the course calling C a HIGH-LEVEL LANGUAGE is wrong. C is above above ASM because it made its easier to write in human terms. But then again a Macro ASM, say PDP-11 will allow most of the same functions and notied the same way. Where do you think C got some of the notations (XR1++) or (--XR2).
When C came out it was thought of as a "better ASM" not a replacement BASIC, COBOL or PASCAL. The was even a #DEFINE for those who coded in PASCAL to sed that notation in the C. Just as there was MARCOs for ASM to compile BASIC Code. It was not until people started library after library some written in C, others in ASM. That C as structure/script - but not a language - was given the includes to be all things to all people.
C++ may still have the older roots available becuase it was built on top of C. But C is still just a better ASM.
Being to harsh.
The bases for a sceince is terms. If they can not get the basic of terms right then there is no science.
About background... I started with Basic on a HP2000F in 1973, I was 14 at the time.
Which carries into high-level languages are portable hahaha Basic is a high-level language and it is not portable, it was not until about 1989 was the Basic Language generally uniform, Cobol today, even higher-level, in my option, than BASIC still has "flavours".
This books was primer - when you can not get history/levels correct what does it say for the rest.
MIPS assembly compared to C - C is higher, more human to read (if you do not compound expressions (example: x(i++) =+ y(--j); ). But C is much lower than Basic.
Know the question: Did your teacher refer C as a HIGH-LEVEL LANGAUGE (wrong) or a HIGH-ER-LEVEL LANGUAGE (right)?
From the opening section of each book: 1.1 What is a programming language?
Java is an example of a high-level language; other high-level languages you might have heard of are Pascal, C, C++ and FORTRAN.
Python is an example of a high-level language; other high-level languages you might have heard of are C, C++, Perl, and Java
Both C++ and Pascal are high-level languages; other high-level languages you might have heard of are Java, C and FORTRAN
C, a language without file i/o, without bound checking, and with direct access to ports is high-level? If you say the libraries chucked into a C load makes it so... Then Assemebler is a high-level language, too.
Last I heard was Binary Code=0, Assem=1, C=1.5, Fortran, Cobol, & Basic were about 3, ADA, C++=5.
Perl was not even in the picture, because it was scripting language
Also high-level languages does not equal easier code or does not make it faster code... It does makes more strict to code, more following the limited ways the authors of the langauge thought you should think (like the use of GOTOs :-). Low-level languages allow the coder the freedom to get the job done and not comprise the functions to limits of the authors, and it requies the coders to truely think like computer sceincist. Look at ADA for what is wrong with really high-level langauge. See how limiting the langauge can be made. And how much time is need to see up the coding effort.
PS: maybe these are great books, but I stopped reading there, because how can it teach to "Think like Computer Sceincist" when it does not know about the basics of computer sceince?
Digital is poor second cousin to Film. Lower resolution and boxed look to the images.
Digital is great for the low resolution and small picture of a TV. BUT not for 6 story Film Screens.
desolted is one issue. Stable is another.
Yucca Mt is as with most all mountians in the western United States are part of pressure ridges, formed in the crust of the earth. These pressure ridges are on fault lines for earthquakes and later volcanic as it gets closer to the Pacific Plate.
A safer location today would be Iowa, Neb, Ill, or even Texas... Large flat states with out Press Ridge Mountians.
I worked in the hotel business for many years. Credit Cards are a great to link info. Since Visa2000 rolled in Credit Cards gets you linked deeper and better. Visa will sell the info too, AmEx and MC and...
No, and I never will. The only discount cards I have dont have any of my information on - you get given them free, store points on, then trade them in for vouchers).
As long as, you never had to tell your name or address, once done, then they are not free.
But then again all freebies and discounts cost you later in higher prices to cover the "marketing" costs.
Nothing is free.
I stop doing business with company's that want information that they have no need for.
Like Yahoo has no need for any my personal information to sell... so I changed it all to junk. I want to but a plane ticket and yahoo wanted all this information before I could buy it... So I went to site the yahoo was front-endding... Got the ticket cheap and with less information requiremnets.
A website wanted an email address and you to be over 13, so they could sell your information.... So you are forced mark over 13 and the email name is under@13.com.
All the informaiton you give out makes it not FREE.
Also do you have a card to track your purshing at a groserys store? Opps - discount card? Trade them with friends and strangers messup the computers... Also locally they been wanting your SS#... So encase you lost it, they a issue you another... RIGHT.
Look into IPCop or come out to a local user group (LUG). Both have people with skills to and they want help out. At the same time, they and you will give back, by helping bring others up to speed with both knowledge and questions. So do a presentation, or start a security SIG.
Yes, joining CERT notices or Bug Track will be your first information feed, but it is putting into action by talking to friends, testing firewalls, and helping others gets the information in use.
the diety of your
great sig - minor change: the dieties of your
He is about 6k miles short. He went around the southern hemishere, but not around the world.
If he did then, he should have went a shorter route, like once around the south pole at the 89 degree mark.
Actually, your money can not be legal tender... becuase it violates the 1st.
So new money!!!
If he truely said this... Then the report is laughable.
1) Windows is open-source, because the bugs are easy to find. But you can not fix them.
2) He changes all common meanings, so the report can be used as FUD.
Is he a CS major or MS major? (Martketing Science)
You missed that last / first law.
Zero Law:
A robot may not injure humankind.... which allowed them to terminate humans that would have terminated more humans.
That was the point of books over time. The Robots learned to handle moral decisions and look at the bigger picture.
This law with the others brings it all back to the Star Trek Univerese: "A needs of many out wieghts the needs of the few... or the one."
If you are buying a license then the license owns you.
If you are buying an object then you own it.
When I buy a CD, I own the CD and its contents. Just as I buy a book, I own the book and ink printed on the page.
Now my uses of each are only limited by copyright law and extentions that a 9 member panel oked.
A lincense does not need to copyright law. It a business contract and bypass all protections of the copyright law, unless you can get them to agree to your changes. Why do you think MS is powerful, it is the EULA. RIAA/MPAA is thrying to sue the end run.
Get out of your head the idea of license, because is that brianwashing that allows RIAA/MPAA to do what the do.
ICANN rules seem to support the government. So they do not need to go easy.
The government sets the standards.
Close, FCC controls / owns for US. NAMPA reports to them. Can you use the word "contract".
Just look and see:
Look here
The following was pulled from a notice
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 gives the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) exclusive jurisdiction over the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) in the United States, but permits the Commission to delegate any portion of that jurisdiction to state regulatory commissions or other entities. The Commission, recognizing that state commissions are uniquely positioned to understand local conditions and what effect new area codes will have on those conditions, has authorized the states to resolve many matters involving the implementation of new area codes, subject to the Commission's guidelines and rules governing administration of telephone numbers.
Before a goverment can go to ICANN - they need to have the authority to go to ICANN.
South Afirca is in the process of defining that authority, setting how they are going do the job (who runs it, what are the rules).
Mike is unhappy that goverment is doing it without talking to him. He asked for their help in the past. They are taking action. He does not like the action.
He has shown he is "mad".
He been trying to goverment "involved". Now they are. He does not like how they are getting "involved". So he hides the "keys".
He asked. They answered. He crying, "they are bad".
Yeah, a K is high, but:
Oh the memories, and just think a BEOWULF with these as the box fronts... THE PDP RIDES AGAIN!!
I am think real hard about ordering one. By the way I have 3 Z-80 machines in my house so...
No true - with .ZA
.ZA -- Oh my god!! NO ONE CALL ME!!!
There is a guy in South Africa with THE LIST. The government now has THELIST. The government supplies THELIST now.
Noone outside of South Africa is effected, unless thay WANT to be stupid. A leagal transition occurred.
It may not be right, but it is leagal.
About Texas, you are right becuase the group that control that list is not inside Texas, so Texas can not take action.
Where it is sticky is 1 is both Canada and US. Also there are a few islands that are also under 1. Now the US can not create a new Area Code unless all agree, then it files with a UN chartered agency for all the world to know the new area code. Since the US / Canada controls that area code list. They can do that.
Note list was owned by AT&T until breakup, then US took authority -- Wait that is South Africa over
Think of it as chipping away.
First owner of Modems - 90% say it not me.
Next it is tiered pricing - 90% say it not me.
Next content control - 90% say it not me.
Next bandwidth limits - oh yeah it already here!
Over Subscribe the channel - 1.5M down is maximum at 3 AM when your nieghbors are a sleep.
Check the holdings of Disney and AOL for a start.