That will work... right up until you send the first bill. I am sure you will need to justify the 1000 people you seem to have working at your facility.
Why would you have to include a facility staff count on a bill? If you're using USA-based telecommuters, why would there even be any significant headcount at your offices, anyway?
Surely you would have agreed up-front to a rate, so there should be no surprises on the first bill.
Whats the way to handle this properly in a world of PKI and the web?
Given public-key encryption, a user would submit their vote signed with their private key. Their vote could be easily verified against their public key and forging of their vote would require breaking or stealing their private key. To prevent replay attacks, include in the vote a nonce generated for that specific election.
Of course, this doesn't deal with the major issues of verifying the voter submitting the vote is unique and is authorized to vote in that election.
At my previous workplace, we had free soda fountains for the engineers, and I would literally consume up to a gallon of Mountain Dew each day. Switching to diet Dew, though I had to buy it myself, cut literally 1500 calories per day from my diet, and it didn't "hurt" (in the sense of having to go without something) at all.
Also, I've found the flavors of synthetic sweeteners provide more than adequate incentive to just drink plain water.
"The Culture Ministry has announced a ban on the use of "e-mail" in all government ministries, documents, publications or Web sites, the latest step to stem an incursion of English words into the French lexicon. "
The Culture Ministry has declared "e-mail" to be a non-word, double-plus ungood.
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Oh, and don't bother with an ide. Real men use vim.
I used to think like that. Auto-completion, real-time error highlighting, and automated source refactoring save me time and let me get more done. (Eclipse has all of these and is a wonderful IDE.)
What's a dollar billionaire? The term just struck me as odd. Does it just refer to the fact that they mean the billions would be in dollars instead of yen?
Most likely, yes. Much of the article sounds like it was translated (somewhat poorly) from, perhaps, Japanese.
JPY 1e9 is approximately USD 8.5e6, which would seem to indicate that this clarification is necessary.
But when I leave the computer I don't really wanna take it with me. I don't wanna phone that can get internet. I want a phone that is simple... I have a dad that has a pda, digital camera, gps. Its beyond annoying when you have to stop because someone in your group has to check the gps corodanites for the place you are at. Technology is great, But so is this world.
Personally, I'd rather have the ability to hop onto the web, search online for the place I'm trying to reach, plunk in my current address from the GPS, and be able to get real turn-by-turn directions to where I'm trying to go. (This doesn't necessarily need an online connection, but you get more up-to-date information that way.)
Finding one's way around without electronic access to information is much clumsier. Anything that expedites my enjoyment of the physical world is a good thing.
Lets enjoy the world and technology, But make sure that we have a balance. If your balance is take your pda everywhere with you then thats your choise.
Apparently not if they decide to go with you.
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I personally think that cell phones should be banned in public places such as museums and this will just encourage Joe to hop on his cell phone and chat with Mary while I am trying to enjoy some peace and quiet.
I really hate annoying cell phone users as well, but it's not really the phone that's at fault: it's the person using it who (1) doesn't have a vibrate-only ring and (2) insists on TALKING LOUDLY WHILE ON THE CELLPHONE. If you can't talk at a reasonable level given your environment, and you aren't in private, move elsewhere.
I know people who TALK LOUDLY IN NORMAL SITUATIONS that become annoyances in the same way, and they're talking to someone right in front of them.
If you view gravity as nothing more than the curvature of space-time (as opposed to a "force") caused by the presence of mass, then there's no way to obtain an "inverse curvature" at a given point in space. Hence, there can be no anti-gravity.
However, if they find that there is indeed a mediating particle (graviton) for the gravitational force, and one could lessen the effects of those particles or even block them, the gravitational force would thus be lessened or blocked.
Perhaps something analagous to a Faraday cage for gravitational effects.
This is not surprising. What Adobe is trying to do is fundamentally impossible to do as long as the users still have ultimate control over their computers.
The puzzling thing to me is that it seems like it really wouldn't cost all that much to fix. I mean, it is a patch afterall [...]
It's not just a bug, it's a design flaw, and would need a redesign of their signed plugin architecture, if I'm understanding it correctly. If the signature checking only verifies the PE header of the Windows executable, the signature is only created using the PE header of the Windows executable.
To change this behavior would require Adobe to make everyone re-do their signatures. Without some good planning, newer-signature plugins would not work with older versions of Acrobat Reader.
The change would seem to involve quite a bit of deployment effort which (obviously) Adobe doesn't feel is necessary to tackle at this point. I don't agree with this myself, but they probably think it's not worth the effort at the moment.
It's even more damning because Adobe just recently upgraded their PDF Reader software from version 5 to version 6, yet have failed to patch this particular problem. You'd think that somewhere among all the features (?) added between two major releases they'd have found time for this.
Working in a software development shop with a corporate attitude, I can understand why this didn't get fixed.
In the statement they issued in response to CERT's advisory on this, they address the issue as an end-user security issue, not a DRM issue. Since they essentially claim it's really not a big deal, their development side probably considers it resolved.
With the arrest and no other obvious targets on the radar, their business & legal side probably also consider it resolved, but probably only because they consider it a case of DMCA violation and not a Big Freaking Hole in their product's DRM functionality.
...terms and information from all fields. People are, in general, remarkably ignorant about the technology around them and our scientific knowledge.
One induhvidual I recall kept insisting to me that the difference between a cold and influenza was that one was a virus and one was a "bacteria" [sic].
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The trick the CEOs realized is why hire a dozen MCSEs in the US for 55K when you can hire some MCSE overseas for 5K.
Well, as the joke goes, MCSE = Must Consult Someone Else.
That will work ... right up until you send the first bill. I am sure you will need to justify the 1000 people you seem to have working at your facility.
Why would you have to include a facility staff count on a bill? If you're using USA-based telecommuters, why would there even be any significant headcount at your offices, anyway?
Surely you would have agreed up-front to a rate, so there should be no surprises on the first bill.
Whats the way to handle this properly in a world of PKI and the web?
Given public-key encryption, a user would submit their vote signed with their private key. Their vote could be easily verified against their public key and forging of their vote would require breaking or stealing their private key. To prevent replay attacks, include in the vote a nonce generated for that specific election.
Of course, this doesn't deal with the major issues of verifying the voter submitting the vote is unique and is authorized to vote in that election.
At my previous workplace, we had free soda fountains for the engineers, and I would literally consume up to a gallon of Mountain Dew each day. Switching to diet Dew, though I had to buy it myself, cut literally 1500 calories per day from my diet, and it didn't "hurt" (in the sense of having to go without something) at all.
Also, I've found the flavors of synthetic sweeteners provide more than adequate incentive to just drink plain water.
"The Culture Ministry has announced a ban on the use of "e-mail" in all government ministries, documents, publications or Web sites, the latest step to stem an incursion of English words into the French lexicon. "
The Culture Ministry has declared "e-mail" to be a non-word, double-plus ungood.
Burn Baby Burn! That way, I can be sure no one goes through my secrets, muha!
This sounds like a cue for an Onion article about a new technique for reconstituting paper from capured smoke.
They exist. They're not as fast, they can't handle as much paper at a time, and they're expensive, but they do exist.
Expensive? Target and Amazon have a office cross-cut shredders for under $40, which isn't much more than a base office strip-cut shredder.
Or were you speaking of larger-size models?
How do you check your Linux Counter stats?
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... when Slackware was released
So do I, though I was using the MCC distribution from the U. of Manchester. I never did get around to trying Slackware.
I had forgotten about this until recently, it's been so long. I was even reminded of The Linux Counter, where I had apparently registered as user #69.
Oh, and don't bother with an ide. Real men use vim.
I used to think like that. Auto-completion, real-time error highlighting, and automated source refactoring save me time and let me get more done. (Eclipse has all of these and is a wonderful IDE.)
What's a dollar billionaire? The term just struck me as odd. Does it just refer to the fact that they mean the billions would be in dollars instead of yen?
Most likely, yes. Much of the article sounds like it was translated (somewhat poorly) from, perhaps, Japanese.
JPY 1e9 is approximately USD 8.5e6, which would seem to indicate that this clarification is necessary.
Federal Aviation and Space Administration?
The link you provide comes up with the following in seriously big letters:
Perhaps he turned to Google to turn up a definition where the dictionary[.com] did not.But when I leave the computer I don't really wanna take it with me. I don't wanna phone that can get internet. I want a phone that is simple... I have a dad that has a pda, digital camera, gps. Its beyond annoying when you have to stop because someone in your group has to check the gps corodanites for the place you are at. Technology is great, But so is this world.
Personally, I'd rather have the ability to hop onto the web, search online for the place I'm trying to reach, plunk in my current address from the GPS, and be able to get real turn-by-turn directions to where I'm trying to go. (This doesn't necessarily need an online connection, but you get more up-to-date information that way.)
Finding one's way around without electronic access to information is much clumsier. Anything that expedites my enjoyment of the physical world is a good thing.
Lets enjoy the world and technology, But make sure that we have a balance. If your balance is take your pda everywhere with you then thats your choise.
Apparently not if they decide to go with you.
I personally think that cell phones should be banned in public places such as museums and this will just encourage Joe to hop on his cell phone and chat with Mary while I am trying to enjoy some peace and quiet.
I really hate annoying cell phone users as well, but it's not really the phone that's at fault: it's the person using it who (1) doesn't have a vibrate-only ring and (2) insists on TALKING LOUDLY WHILE ON THE CELLPHONE. If you can't talk at a reasonable level given your environment, and you aren't in private, move elsewhere.
I know people who TALK LOUDLY IN NORMAL SITUATIONS that become annoyances in the same way, and they're talking to someone right in front of them.
People need to exercise volume control.
Why do you think there's been such an uproar about SCO's lawsuit?
You were aware of the lawsuit, yes?
This is so tiny that it's like considering a single butterfly's wings when forecasting the weather. It's negligible.
It would appear to be negligible, but really the effects of it are unpredictable given the size of the system and the number of variables.
The tiniest pebble can start the largest avalanche.
If you view gravity as nothing more than the curvature of space-time (as opposed to a "force") caused by the presence of mass, then there's no way to obtain an "inverse curvature" at a given point in space. Hence, there can be no anti-gravity.
However, if they find that there is indeed a mediating particle (graviton) for the gravitational force, and one could lessen the effects of those particles or even block them, the gravitational force would thus be lessened or blocked.
Perhaps something analagous to a Faraday cage for gravitational effects.
This is not surprising. What Adobe is trying to do is fundamentally impossible to do as long as the users still have ultimate control over their computers.
Microsoft has a solution for that.
The puzzling thing to me is that it seems like it really wouldn't cost all that much to fix. I mean, it is a patch afterall [...]
It's not just a bug, it's a design flaw, and would need a redesign of their signed plugin architecture, if I'm understanding it correctly. If the signature checking only verifies the PE header of the Windows executable, the signature is only created using the PE header of the Windows executable.
To change this behavior would require Adobe to make everyone re-do their signatures. Without some good planning, newer-signature plugins would not work with older versions of Acrobat Reader.
The change would seem to involve quite a bit of deployment effort which (obviously) Adobe doesn't feel is necessary to tackle at this point. I don't agree with this myself, but they probably think it's not worth the effort at the moment.
It's even more damning because Adobe just recently upgraded their PDF Reader software from version 5 to version 6, yet have failed to patch this particular problem. You'd think that somewhere among all the features (?) added between two major releases they'd have found time for this.
Working in a software development shop with a corporate attitude, I can understand why this didn't get fixed.
In the statement they issued in response to CERT's advisory on this, they address the issue as an end-user security issue, not a DRM issue. Since they essentially claim it's really not a big deal, their development side probably considers it resolved.
With the arrest and no other obvious targets on the radar, their business & legal side probably also consider it resolved, but probably only because they consider it a case of DMCA violation and not a Big Freaking Hole in their product's DRM functionality.
...terms and information from all fields. People are, in general, remarkably ignorant about the technology around them and our scientific knowledge.
One induhvidual I recall kept insisting to me that the difference between a cold and influenza was that one was a virus and one was a "bacteria" [sic].
Of course, what he *really* wanted to call it was Freax, which would have opened an entirely different can of worms...:)
Then one could have used the name of the OS to also refer to enthusiastic users of the OS.
"Linux freaks" would become, simply, "Freax".
Well, I don't think you can use these forms of the equasions, since photons have no mass. They do have kenetic energy, IIRC.
Momentum at relativistic speeds is different than classical momentum (mv).
http://cisar.org/trn0453.htm