>Now imagine that someone manages to replicate your >fingerprint (which sounds like it will >take about $10 and an afternoon)
Umm, they need your finger to do that. It is possible that I might not notice a thief picking my pocket, but I'm pretty sure I'd notice if he were trying to make a gelatin mold out of my finger.
Read the Counterpane article! The researcher was able to make a gelatin mold from fingerprints.
Last I looked, Windows comes with "Internet Connection Sharing" and a control panel to turn it on with one button click. Linux requires daunting knowledge of IP networking and the iptables tools.
/* This program is copyright (c) 2000 by D E Knuth;
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for (j=0;j<KK;j++) aa[j]=ran_u[j];
for (;j<n;j++) aa[j]=mod_sum(aa[j-KK],aa[j-LL]);
for (i=0;i<LL;i++,j++) ran_u[i]=mod_sum(aa[j-KK],aa[j-LL]);
for (;i<KK;i++,j++) ran_u[i]=mod_sum(aa[j-KK],ran_u[i-LL]);
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> But I believe that pedophiles are, in general, > worse than murderers.
Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Milosevic, Mao Tse-Tung,
Kim Il Sung, Agusto Pinochet, Idi Amin,
Saddam Hussein, Jack the Ripper, Charles Manson,
Richard Ramirez, David Berkowitz, John Wayne Gacy,
Jeffrey Dahmer, Edward Gein, Ted Bundy, and
droves of thousands more...
You're missing the point. Sex criminals (not just pedophiles) are worse, in general (key words), because their actions don't even stem from a normal reaction or impulse. Most of us are probably capable of murder under some circumstances. Many murderers are not completely broken individuals incapable of someday becoming safe, productive citizens. Almost all pedophiles are.
The people you listed above are murderers (and many of them sex criminals, too) who fall into the unredeemable category. Their crimes and motivations have little to do with the average murderer's crimes and motivations.
For what it's worth, I believe that pedophiles are as bad as serial kilers and genocidal tyrants. The magnitude of the damage may differ, but the quality of the individual is the same.
I partly disagree. You're right in that murder has the worst outcome; that is, someone's dead. But I believe that pedophiles are, in general, worse than murderers. Murder is something to which most people can relate, at least to some extent. In a moment of rage, with varying degrees of justifiability, an ordinary person could commit a murder. Not so for a child-molester. Those people are deeply damaged and constantly dangerous.
The challenge is to figure out how pedophiles can satisfy their desires without actually harming any real human beings. VR or cloning may be the answer.
Should satisfying these people's desires really be our concern? Should we also find ways to satisfy the desires or murderers and rapists? I say no to both questions.
From my vantage point, a very small portion of the audience filtered out. This was after someone from drunkenwhores.com (I forget who) challenged them to "spot the fed". Humperdink wasn't in danger of being arrested and, so far as I saw, people weren't trying to keep the agents away from him. But you're right that Priest did a good job of keeping some tenuous situations under control, not just at Social Engineering, but at DefCon as a whole.
By the way, the whole Social Engineering thing was one of the funniest things I've seen in a long time. I can't wait until they release the video.
It is. X takes a lot of RAM, and while KDE and GNOME are growing slimmer by the second, they do too. Office 97 and Windows 95 will run on a P133 w/ 32 Mb of RAM. Not great, but okay. KDE (itself) will take 4 minutes between logon and desktop.
That's just not true. Four of my Linux boxes use KDE: each has 32 Mb RAM, and the processors are 133-200 MHz Pentiums. All of them load the desktop quickly. If your machines are taking 4 minutes to start X, something is very wrong with them.
and would certainly put single mothers of any description out of the running (78 cents on the dollar, remember)...
Just what relevence does that statistic have? Contrary to popular belief, women do not earn 78% of what a man makes on the same job. Women often work in lower paying fields than men (compare the percentage of men in tech jobs versus the percentage of women in lower-paying jobs like teaching) and do not spend as long in the work force. That is what your statistic reflects. It does not say that a woman who wishes to make a lot of money cannot do so.
Just out of curiosity -not because I'm laughing at you or anything- but just out of curiosity, could you or anyone else here point me to a record of cases where individual possession and use of a firearm (any calibre, mag size your choice) ever successfully prevented the execution of a warrant by US law enforcement upon a named individual and premises at the specified street address in the warrant, without death or dangerous injury to the objecting individual and/or mortal danger to innocents in his company or household.
The case for private gun ownership has nothing to do with a single individual preventing government misbehavior. However, a nation of armed citizens can indeed prevent tyranny. And to the folks who claim that rifles and handguns are no match against a professional army and its weapons: you're dead wrong. What good are bombs and tanks in urban guerilla warfare? Would the government simply destroy entire cities, wipe out its population, to stop an insurrection? I doubt it.
I guess you wouldn't mind if 50 anti-whatever protesters assembled on your front lawn since the constitution gives people the right to freely assemble, and you wouldn't want to violate spirit of the constitution by asking them to disperse..
Nice try, but the Constitution doesn't give people the right to trespass on private property.
At least 75% of college is useless as far as contributing to later work. That tripe about forcing you to take general-ed classes in order to produce a more well-rounded individual is just their way of getting bodies into those departments so that they don't shrink to nothing. College is a racket.
That's the difference between college and vocational schools. I agree that there are some useless courses in most colleges' curricula, but courses in English, math, etc. all contribute to a well-rounded education. Calculus is important to being a good programmer, as are other skills (such as writing ability) that are fostered by a typical college program.
it would probably be a wise choice to move to Java, if you don't mind the (minor) performance hit.
I was recently writing some short programs to generate Farey Fractions and noticed the Java program took about 10 time as long to execute (on a Sun Ultra 5) as a nearly identical C++ program. Of course, this is highly unscientific, and Java may be much closer to C++ for some applications. Java does handle threads very nicely, in my opinion.
I'm planning to do some experimenting with writing code for a Beowulf cluster this winter, and would like to use Java for the ease of use of its threads, but I just can't stomach the performance hit. I keep seeing references to native compilers , but haven't had luck finding anything. I've been thinking about playing with one of the open source just-in-time compilers to see if it could be hacked to generate native code of some sort (though perhaps not the most optimized). Does anybody have any words of wisdom about this?
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>Now imagine that someone manages to replicate your
>fingerprint (which sounds like it will
>take about $10 and an afternoon)
Umm, they need your finger to do that. It is possible that I might not notice a thief picking my pocket, but I'm pretty sure I'd notice if he were trying to make a gelatin mold out of my finger.
Read the Counterpane article! The researcher was able to make a gelatin mold from fingerprints.
Very strange is that neither of the players can manage to play Depeche Mode - The Videos DVD with sound. :-/
What a great feature!
Last I looked, Windows comes with "Internet Connection Sharing" and a control panel to turn it on with one button click. Linux requires daunting knowledge of IP networking and the iptables tools.
In Debian: apt-get install ipmasq
That's it.
From Knuth's rng-double.c:
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/* This program is copyright (c) 2000 by D E Knuth;
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for (j=0;j<KK;j++) aa[j]=ran_u[j];
for (;j<n;j++) aa[j]=mod_sum(aa[j-KK],aa[j-LL]);
for (i=0;i<LL;i++,j++) ran_u[i]=mod_sum(aa[j-KK],aa[j-LL]);
for (;i<KK;i++,j++) ran_u[i]=mod_sum(aa[j-KK],ran_u[i-LL]);
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> But I believe that pedophiles are, in general,
> worse than murderers.
Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Milosevic, Mao Tse-Tung, Kim Il Sung, Agusto Pinochet, Idi Amin, Saddam Hussein, Jack the Ripper, Charles Manson, Richard Ramirez, David Berkowitz, John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey Dahmer, Edward Gein, Ted Bundy, and droves of thousands more...
You're missing the point. Sex criminals (not just pedophiles) are worse, in general (key words), because their actions don't even stem from a normal reaction or impulse. Most of us are probably capable of murder under some circumstances. Many murderers are not completely broken individuals incapable of someday becoming safe, productive citizens. Almost all pedophiles are.
The people you listed above are murderers (and many of them sex criminals, too) who fall into the unredeemable category. Their crimes and motivations have little to do with the average murderer's crimes and motivations.
For what it's worth, I believe that pedophiles are as bad as serial kilers and genocidal tyrants. The magnitude of the damage may differ, but the quality of the individual is the same.
But pedophilia is by no means worse than murder.
I partly disagree. You're right in that murder has the worst outcome; that is, someone's dead. But I believe that pedophiles are, in general, worse than murderers. Murder is something to which most people can relate, at least to some extent. In a moment of rage, with varying degrees of justifiability, an ordinary person could commit a murder. Not so for a child-molester. Those people are deeply damaged and constantly dangerous.
The challenge is to figure out how pedophiles can satisfy their desires without actually harming any real human beings. VR or cloning may be the answer.
Should satisfying these people's desires really be our concern? Should we also find ways to satisfy the desires or murderers and rapists? I say no to both questions.
From my vantage point, a very small portion of the audience filtered out. This was after someone from drunkenwhores.com (I forget who) challenged them to "spot the fed". Humperdink wasn't in danger of being arrested and, so far as I saw, people weren't trying to keep the agents away from him. But you're right that Priest did a good job of keeping some tenuous situations under control, not just at Social Engineering, but at DefCon as a whole.
By the way, the whole Social Engineering thing was one of the funniest things I've seen in a long time. I can't wait until they release the video.
It is. X takes a lot of RAM, and while KDE and GNOME are growing slimmer by the second, they do too. Office 97 and Windows 95 will run on a P133 w/ 32 Mb of RAM. Not great, but okay. KDE (itself) will take 4 minutes between logon and desktop.
That's just not true. Four of my Linux boxes use KDE: each has 32 Mb RAM, and the processors are 133-200 MHz Pentiums. All of them load the desktop quickly. If your machines are taking 4 minutes to start X, something is very wrong with them.
and would certainly put single mothers of any description out of the running (78 cents on the dollar, remember)...
Just what relevence does that statistic have? Contrary to popular belief, women do not earn 78% of what a man makes on the same job. Women often work in lower paying fields than men (compare the percentage of men in tech jobs versus the percentage of women in lower-paying jobs like teaching) and do not spend as long in the work force. That is what your statistic reflects. It does not say that a woman who wishes to make a lot of money cannot do so.
Just out of curiosity -not because I'm laughing at you or anything- but just out of curiosity, could you or anyone else here point me to a record of cases where individual possession and use of a firearm (any calibre, mag size your choice) ever successfully prevented the execution of a warrant by US law enforcement upon a named individual and premises at the specified street address in the warrant, without death or dangerous injury to the objecting individual and/or mortal danger to innocents in his company or household.
The case for private gun ownership has nothing to do with a single individual preventing government misbehavior. However, a nation of armed citizens can indeed prevent tyranny. And to the folks who claim that rifles and handguns are no match against a professional army and its weapons: you're dead wrong. What good are bombs and tanks in urban guerilla warfare? Would the government simply destroy entire cities, wipe out its population, to stop an insurrection? I doubt it.
I guess you wouldn't mind if 50 anti-whatever protesters assembled on your front lawn since the constitution gives people the right to freely assemble, and you wouldn't want to violate spirit of the constitution by asking them to disperse..
Nice try, but the Constitution doesn't give people the right to trespass on private property.
At least 75% of college is useless as far as contributing to later work. That tripe about forcing you to take general-ed classes in order to produce a more well-rounded individual is just their way of getting bodies into those departments so that they don't shrink to nothing. College is a racket.
That's the difference between college and vocational schools. I agree that there are some useless courses in most colleges' curricula, but courses in English, math, etc. all contribute to a well-rounded education. Calculus is important to being a good programmer, as are other skills (such as writing ability) that are fostered by a typical college program.
it would probably be a wise choice to move to Java, if you don't mind the (minor) performance hit.
I was recently writing some short programs to generate Farey Fractions and noticed the Java program took about 10 time as long to execute (on a Sun Ultra 5) as a nearly identical C++ program. Of course, this is highly unscientific, and Java may be much closer to C++ for some applications. Java does handle threads very nicely, in my opinion.
I'm planning to do some experimenting with writing code for a Beowulf cluster this winter, and would like to use Java for the ease of use of its threads, but I just can't stomach the performance hit. I keep seeing references to native compilers , but haven't had luck finding anything. I've been thinking about playing with one of the open source just-in-time compilers to see if it could be hacked to generate native code of some sort (though perhaps not the most optimized). Does anybody have any words of wisdom about this?
Why would a Quaker attend prom anyway? Aren't Quakers forbidden by their religion from dancing?
No, they aren't. I was raised Quaker, and I went to my prom. No problem there.