Differential pay already exists in every school in Kentucky -- it's just that the differential is how many years you've worked instead of which subject you teach. Teachers who have been working for 20 years make 50% to 100% more than those in their first 5 years. Somehow, the Kentucky teachers' union has no problem with that kind of differential pay.
let he who has donated at least one line of code, cast the first stone...
Given that the process to become a Debian developer takes more than 18 months on average, good luck with that!!
As he states - it is a one-way algorithm. If I have your barcode off your library card, I cannot reconstruct your name, SSN, birthdate, and all that without going into the library's database. With the number-sequence that this system creates, I cannot reconstruct your fingerprint at all. I cannot reconstruct any of the data previously mentioned without going into the database. So, instead of creating a random number with the unix timestamp as a seed, they are creating a random number with your fingerprint as a seed. What is so shocking about that?
Just because it's one-way and you can't reconstruct the fingerprint from the 15 points doesn't mean you can't do a cross reference. Just start with your library of fingerprints, calculate all the one-way transformations, and you're set.
It's still vulnerable to a standard dictionary attack.
But does a vendor HAVE to make a dual core chip with two of the same processor? Perhaps gains could be made using a less powerful, commodity chip core and pairing it to a top of the line core.
But the less powerful core does not exist, so they'd have to design it. And the design cost is killer.
What about dual-socket setups? Can you pair an Opteron 152 with an Opteron 275 and get a similar effect?
I've recently looked into exactly this question. So far as I can tell, the only x86-64 system that currently supports 64GB is HP's DL585 with 32 RAM slots. It uses 4 Opteron daughterboards each with 8 slots and you can put 2GB into each. You can put only 2 CPUs into it and still get 32GB -- again, the only thing out there that does 2 CPU 32GB in the x86-64 space.
Your other viable option is Sun v40z, with 4 CPUs with 4 slots each, for 32GB.
It's a small point, but the article calls it 92 Tbps, not 92 TBps. Which means its really 19 terabytes per second, which works out to some ungodly number of libraries of congress per fortnight. Either way, it's a lot.
92 Tbps (terabits per second) = 11.5 TBps (terabytes per second), not 19. Either way, it's a lot.
I don't want the music industry to get pissed off and take my iTunes away. I've found a legal, beneficial means to aquire my music. I want MORE options, not less because of wary industry execs who don't want to have their content cracked.
Two hundred years ago, people in this country were willing to die to defend their freedoms and rights. These days, people are unwilling to even sacrifice their music.
I guess that just shows how much even slashdotters care about such things. Good luck getting Joe Average to do so!
Copyright is so fundamental that it's clearly provided for in the U.S. Constitution.
It's worth noting the subtle distinction that copyrights and patents are not in the U.S. Constitution. Rather, that document empowers congress to enact copyright and patent law, but does not require them to. Thus, congress's power is provided for -- not the copyrights themselves.
Presumably since this was part of a MSDNAA (Academic Alliance) Student event, all of the attendees are covered under their school's MSDNAA agreement and thus have a separate license.
Nothing to see here, please drive by.
Those aspect ratios are off.
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The images on the site are at 2740x1088 resolution, but HDTV at max resolution is 1920x1080. You can tell from looking at the images that they're horizontally stretched, so something weird is going on.
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Also accomplished by tossing DVD's back and forth....what's the point of that? I mean, only ten feet? Why not just use a cable at that point?
The University of Washington has transmitted 1.5Gbps of HDTV across the country. I guess the new thing here is the intercontinental aspect.
Here for the UW press release.
To increase the protection against brute force attacks, you need to increase the number of possibilities that the attacker must examine. One method is via passwords that include numbers, mixed case, etc. Unfortunately, those are difficult for many users to remember. Another approach, however, is to use more than one word--and most users have less difficulty remembering a phrase than an obfuscated list of symbols.
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Differential pay already exists in every school in Kentucky -- it's just that the differential is how many years you've worked instead of which subject you teach. Teachers who have been working for 20 years make 50% to 100% more than those in their first 5 years. Somehow, the Kentucky teachers' union has no problem with that kind of differential pay.
let he who has donated at least one line of code, cast the first stone... Given that the process to become a Debian developer takes more than 18 months on average, good luck with that!!
As he states - it is a one-way algorithm. If I have your barcode off your library card, I cannot reconstruct your name, SSN, birthdate, and all that without going into the library's database. With the number-sequence that this system creates, I cannot reconstruct your fingerprint at all. I cannot reconstruct any of the data previously mentioned without going into the database. So, instead of creating a random number with the unix timestamp as a seed, they are creating a random number with your fingerprint as a seed. What is so shocking about that?
Just because it's one-way and you can't reconstruct the fingerprint from the 15 points doesn't mean you can't do a cross reference. Just start with your library of fingerprints, calculate all the one-way transformations, and you're set.
It's still vulnerable to a standard dictionary attack.
But does a vendor HAVE to make a dual core chip with two of the same processor? Perhaps gains could be made using a less powerful, commodity chip core and pairing it to a top of the line core.
But the less powerful core does not exist, so they'd have to design it. And the design cost is killer.
What about dual-socket setups? Can you pair an Opteron 152 with an Opteron 275 and get a similar effect?
I've recently looked into exactly this question. So far as I can tell, the only x86-64 system that currently supports 64GB is HP's DL585 with 32 RAM slots. It uses 4 Opteron daughterboards each with 8 slots and you can put 2GB into each. You can put only 2 CPUs into it and still get 32GB -- again, the only thing out there that does 2 CPU 32GB in the x86-64 space.
Your other viable option is Sun v40z, with 4 CPUs with 4 slots each, for 32GB.
By far the coolest implementation of a turing machine is the one at the University of Washington. It's steam powered!
Proof that debian itself is smarter than users, whether mac, unix, pc, or what have you, clocking in at higher than school year 11:
# style xv_3.10a-27_i386.deb
readability grades:
Kincaid: 19.9
ARI: 14.7
Coleman-Liau: -8.7
Flesch Index: 60.7
Fog Index: 24.3
Lix: 60.8 = higher than school year 11
SMOG-Grading: 3.0
sentence info:
8760 characters
7240 words, average length 1.21 characters = 1.00 syllables
119 sentences, average length 60.8 words
61% (73) short sentences (at most 56 words)
25% (30) long sentences (at least 71 words)
1 paragraphs, average length 119.0 sentences
35% (42) questions
4% (5) passive sentences
longest sent 412 wds at sent 105; shortest sent 1 wds at sent 54
word usage:
verb types:
to be (5) auxiliary (0)
types as % of total:
conjunctions 0% (4) pronouns 3% (198) prepositions 0% (7)
nominalizations 0% (0)
sentence beginnings:
pronoun (4) interrogative pronoun (0) article (4)
subordinating conjunction (0) conjunction (0) preposition (1)
Call it a 16 player LAN game of Doom2 and you'd sadly be more "interesting" than "funny"...
92 Tbps (terabits per second) = 11.5 TBps (terabytes per second), not 19. Either way, it's a lot.
Of course many computer science majors become programmers. However, computer science is not about programming -- it's about deciding what to program.
I don't want the music industry to get pissed off and take my iTunes away. I've found a legal, beneficial means to aquire my music. I want MORE options, not less because of wary industry execs who don't want to have their content cracked.
Two hundred years ago, people in this country were willing to die to defend their freedoms and rights. These days, people are unwilling to even sacrifice their music.
I guess that just shows how much even slashdotters care about such things. Good luck getting Joe Average to do so!
Of course, it's not really non-permission-based as you've consented to the distributed application unless you specifically opt-out.
It's worth noting the subtle distinction that copyrights and patents are not in the U.S. Constitution. Rather, that document empowers congress to enact copyright and patent law, but does not require them to. Thus, congress's power is provided for -- not the copyrights themselves.
Presumably since this was part of a MSDNAA (Academic Alliance) Student event, all of the attendees are covered under their school's MSDNAA agreement and thus have a separate license.
Nothing to see here, please drive by.
The images on the site are at 2740x1088 resolution, but HDTV at max resolution is 1920x1080. You can tell from looking at the images that they're horizontally stretched, so something weird is going on.
Also accomplished by tossing DVD's back and forth....what's the point of that? I mean, only ten feet? Why not just use a cable at that point?
Ask anyone wielding a remote control.
The University of Washington has transmitted 1.5Gbps of HDTV across the country. I guess the new thing here is the intercontinental aspect. Here for the UW press release.
To increase the protection against brute force attacks, you need to increase the number of possibilities that the attacker must examine. One method is via passwords that include numbers,
mixed case, etc. Unfortunately, those are difficult for many users to remember. Another approach, however, is to use more than one word--and most users have less difficulty remembering a phrase than an obfuscated list of symbols.
In short, use passphrases instead of passwords.
Indeed. And given that it has the "potential"
to sustain up to 700 W per sq cm, the efficiency
of the device is questionable.
Who wants to have a 50 W processor and use an
additional 50-500 W to cool it? Faster processors, yes, but your case turns into a
space heater.
The cease and desist was sent on July 25th.
Battlebot.org's letter is dated August 17th.
The supposed "reply" was sent on August 9th,
but obviously it wasn't a reply at all.
Seems like battlebots.org is cybersquatting to me..