The algorithm they used is patented and very much open for criticism. It would need to be fore NSA to choose it. Think of it like RSA where the algorithm was patented as well (many open source applications use RSA now, since the license has expired).
Dr. Scott A. Vanstone is a professor at University of Waterloo, so it is kind of neat to see one of my profs in the news (I knew about the company, but they haven't had much going for them for a while). He teaches Coding Theory (CO 331) and is the Executive Director of Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research
If you check the market data at The Independant Market Operator (Ontario's energy market) there is a price peak starting around 3 or before (prior to the actual outage). What that says to me is that some capacity was offline for some reason.
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Some of the problem has been fixed. Don't blame CS at UW though. I was very much in Mechanical Engineering when I wrote the commenting code (some of the worst code in the world no doubt).
I was reading the ballot procedure here for the municipal elections (that's Toronto, Ontario, Canada) and they said that once you mark your ballot, they scan it to ensure it is admissible. If it isn't they give you a new ballot.
This would have eliminated the multiple vote problem in Florida because each of those ballots wouldn't have been entered into the box until they were corrected. They idea is to use a machine to ensure the ballot is valid so that no other person has to look at the ballot.
I'm in Toronto, in an appartment. I'm currently served by a reseller (dsl.ca). My uptime is fairly good (I'll lose connection maybe once or twice a week for up to an hour, usually in off times.
I use the pppoed daemon with a kernel patch to provide/dev/pppoe. Generally it is low on CPU and pretty stable, I have a static IP from my provider so I always come back to the same IP which is good. I wrote a script to maintain the connection (sometimes pppd will dissapear after a time out, used to happen once every two weeks) and I haven't been down at all since.
I would like to know where you can get a residential dhcp provider.
Having worked at our University paper and our town paper I know it can be difficult to get high-res photos off the web. It is a good thing to offer 300 dpi photos for download without having to request them. I think it is fair to tell them that you are a newspaper and you are using them so they can track their coverage on this. What would you do with a 300 dpi image anyways? It is big enough to be your background at 1200 pixels, but who would put those up as a background?
I wonder what the battery drain is like between stick to RAM. That has been one of the biggest drain for most flash enabled devices (digital cameras specifically)
This isn't accurate either but Freshmeat lists 10492 on a search for "a". I think that 70,000 is probably a low estimate for "number of applications."
Its like saying there are only 40,000 books because that is what the library has, even if you look at all the book the National Library (or Library of Congress in the states) has it isn't the "total number of book written" since In Canada I only send it to our National Library, and that's only if I register it.
That isn't really fair, you could compile anything that was as large as the kernel and it would fail. I have a flaky k6-2 450 that overheats (back in the day that AMD was just trying to keep up and continued to overclock their k6's just way to high) and it won't compile a linux kernel, XFree86, KDE, etc etc.. the kernel is just an easy source to try out, it isn't the only source out there...(and a large source under windows would do the same thing)
I agree that this article taken alone might be considered bias, but part of his job is opinion based on numerical facts.
He has proof which he (and after reading all the articles I also) believe in. He has historically not shown a preference to Intel or AMD, but has been wary of Intel's pressure to churn out the "best" chip.
What you are describing is opinion, which he bases on fact (his tests). Compiling a Linux Kernel is a good way to test a system and if that Sig11's then there is a hardware problem. People read his articles because they respect his opinion and his tests.
Please don't confuse this with bias (like slashdot has against Microsoft), which is arbitrary and not always based on specific fact.
I disagree, that is absolutely objective behavior: he reported on what he had. He stated that not everyone agreed with his results. You can only claim he is incompetant (which he isn't) not non-objective.
It isn't unusual to be forced to buy the crappy book your prof published. I think that, more than anything else will drive whether schools move to eTexts.
I would think we could come up with something better then biometrics.
A biometric password is like using the same password everywhere, you know what it is based on and I would think of all things that could be spoofed, it would be somewhat easier. I don't know about you, but everything I touch doesn't hold evidence of my root password.
What we would really want is a system that can't be hijacked. A authentication system that proved it is me (the living, willing). A self destructive system when given the wrong password would be ok, however, you would probably be killed for using it.
Maybe a system with a flesh embedded chip (that needs blood circulation), along with a relative security level password. If you are truly being hijacked you could esentially open up a honeypot that contains very little real data but doesn't seem barren.
Perhaps this is too paranoid, but if so, you probably don't need biometrics either. Something like a fingerprint is just too likely to be damaged or non-repeatable, to be useful.
Variant(s): also chutzpa/'hut-sp&, '[k]ut-, -(")spä/
Function: noun
Etymology: Yiddish khutspe, from Late Hebrew huspAh
Date: 1892
: supreme self-confidence : NERVE, GALL
synonym see TEMERITY
It seems like a more generic reactive detector such as an Isocyanate Sniffer I wonder whether this is their eventual aim with the product, having some all in one unit that will be able to detect and report on different gasses in the air.
This is definitely a good thing. Having been a SysAdmin for a two small newspapers, a Win, and a Mac shop. It becomes quickly apparent that this is an area the Windows is way behind on.
Postscript and AppleShare dominate all high end printers. You are very lucky (or unlucky) to find NetBeui on any postscript printer and if it is, it is usually flaky at best.
Many a production night we would be stuck trying to print out a 100 MB job that would just disappear from the queue under NetBeui and the same goes from LPR support under Windows 95/98. I tried to get Mac protocol for Windows boxes but didn't want to pay the money.
Up here in the far north and frozen bits (aka Canada) we roll our own all the time. I haven't had a service guy out to my house both times I've moved. They just send the modem in the mail and give you some filters (splitterless ADSL). Bell has to know what line needs the DSL card but that is at their Central Office.
Bell also has linux user space drivers available for free. I use the kernel patch though, initially there were complaints of the user space programs taking 30% CPU. I rarely hit 2 or 3 with the kernel patch.
"We believe our Rambus memory interface is the best solution for the majority of the market. Developing and marketing the Rambus memory interface has been and remains our top priority. But we are willing to license our IP for other memory interface solutions as well."
I think their IP is for the interface of SDRAM not SDRAM
Many companies are trying to make a dollar off free software, why not free music. I'm sure considering the math that Courtney presented and the trouble all artists are having fighting record labels and their control of distribution that Free music could work.
Imagine first a cooperative "record label" that exists to help market and distribute discs in meat-space. They take a cut off the sales (and their risk is associated with those sales, nothing more)and the band gets a good chunk of the royalties.
Also allow that anyone else could distribute the music as well (kinda like FSF software, you can buy it from them as well and you know where the money goes). Work out MP3 deals so the artists can also get paid on a voluntary basis by the people who like the MP3s.
It might be a big shift in ideals but if a few artists can afford (or believe enough in the concept of Free Music) to release their albums like this they will probably win in the end. (They can still charge for playing live shows, and other time consuming tasks)
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The algorithm they used is patented and very much open for criticism. It would need to be fore NSA to choose it. Think of it like RSA where the algorithm was patented as well (many open source applications use RSA now, since the license has expired).
Dr. Scott A. Vanstone is a professor at University of Waterloo, so it is kind of neat to see one of my profs in the news (I knew about the company, but they haven't had much going for them for a while). He teaches Coding Theory (CO 331) and is the Executive Director of Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research
If you check the market data at The Independant Market Operator (Ontario's energy market) there is a price peak starting around 3 or before (prior to the actual outage). What that says to me is that some capacity was offline for some reason.
Has anyone else heard this?
Please note that uwstudent.org will be asking reader questions to the President of Microsoft Canada Frank Clegg. So post your questions on uwstudent.org. If for some reason you can't, post them under here and I'll check back to make sure they are considered. Thanks!
Some of the problem has been fixed. Don't blame CS at UW though. I was very much in Mechanical Engineering when I wrote the commenting code (some of the worst code in the world no doubt).
Thanks, we have been fighting to get the problems worked around :) Read what is above if you can't get on.
I was reading the ballot procedure here for the municipal elections (that's Toronto, Ontario, Canada) and they said that once you mark your ballot, they scan it to ensure it is admissible. If it isn't they give you a new ballot.
This would have eliminated the multiple vote problem in Florida because each of those ballots wouldn't have been entered into the box until they were corrected. They idea is to use a machine to ensure the ballot is valid so that no other person has to look at the ballot.
I'm in Toronto, in an appartment. I'm currently served by a reseller (dsl.ca). My uptime is fairly good (I'll lose connection maybe once or twice a week for up to an hour, usually in off times. /dev/pppoe. Generally it is low on CPU and pretty stable, I have a static IP from my provider so I always come back to the same IP which is good. I wrote a script to maintain the connection (sometimes pppd will dissapear after a time out, used to happen once every two weeks) and I haven't been down at all since.
I use the pppoed daemon with a kernel patch to provide
I would like to know where you can get a residential dhcp provider.
I think you are missing something.
Having worked at our University paper and our town paper I know it can be difficult to get high-res photos off the web. It is a good thing to offer 300 dpi photos for download without having to request them. I think it is fair to tell them that you are a newspaper and you are using them so they can track their coverage on this. What would you do with a 300 dpi image anyways? It is big enough to be your background at 1200 pixels, but who would put those up as a background?
Nah I think that is a rip-off of freshmeat
I wonder what the battery drain is like between stick to RAM. That has been one of the biggest drain for most flash enabled devices (digital cameras specifically)
Its like saying there are only 40,000 books because that is what the library has, even if you look at all the book the National Library (or Library of Congress in the states) has it isn't the "total number of book written" since In Canada I only send it to our National Library, and that's only if I register it.
That isn't really fair, you could compile anything that was as large as the kernel and it would fail. I have a flaky k6-2 450 that overheats (back in the day that AMD was just trying to keep up and continued to overclock their k6's just way to high) and it won't compile a linux kernel, XFree86, KDE, etc etc.. the kernel is just an easy source to try out, it isn't the only source out there...(and a large source under windows would do the same thing)
I agree that this article taken alone might be considered bias, but part of his job is opinion based on numerical facts.
He has proof which he (and after reading all the articles I also) believe in. He has historically not shown a preference to Intel or AMD, but has been wary of Intel's pressure to churn out the "best" chip.
What you are describing is opinion, which he bases on fact (his tests). Compiling a Linux Kernel is a good way to test a system and if that Sig11's then there is a hardware problem. People read his articles because they respect his opinion and his tests.
Please don't confuse this with bias (like slashdot has against Microsoft), which is arbitrary and not always based on specific fact.
I disagree, that is absolutely objective behavior: he reported on what he had. He stated that not everyone agreed with his results. You can only claim he is incompetant (which he isn't) not non-objective.
It isn't unusual to be forced to buy the crappy book your prof published. I think that, more than anything else will drive whether schools move to eTexts.
I would think we could come up with something better then biometrics.
A biometric password is like using the same password everywhere, you know what it is based on and I would think of all things that could be spoofed, it would be somewhat easier. I don't know about you, but everything I touch doesn't hold evidence of my root password.
What we would really want is a system that can't be hijacked. A authentication system that proved it is me (the living, willing). A self destructive system when given the wrong password would be ok, however, you would probably be killed for using it.
Maybe a system with a flesh embedded chip (that needs blood circulation), along with a relative security level password. If you are truly being hijacked you could esentially open up a honeypot that contains very little real data but doesn't seem barren.
Perhaps this is too paranoid, but if so, you probably don't need biometrics either. Something like a fingerprint is just too likely to be damaged or non-repeatable, to be useful.
More interesting (yes offtopic) legal stuff on chutzpah
that's chutzpah
/'hut-sp&, '[k]ut-, -(")spä/
Variant(s): also chutzpa
Function: noun
Etymology: Yiddish khutspe, from Late Hebrew huspAh
Date: 1892
: supreme self-confidence : NERVE, GALL
synonym see TEMERITY
It seems like a more generic reactive detector such as an Isocyanate Sniffer I wonder whether this is their eventual aim with the product, having some all in one unit that will be able to detect and report on different gasses in the air.
trigger-finger-itching fence-sitters eh? I'd hate to see the Debian extremists
Maybe this one will work
This is definitely a good thing. Having been a SysAdmin for a two small newspapers, a Win, and a Mac shop. It becomes quickly apparent that this is an area the Windows is way behind on.
Postscript and AppleShare dominate all high end printers. You are very lucky (or unlucky) to find NetBeui on any postscript printer and if it is, it is usually flaky at best.
Many a production night we would be stuck trying to print out a 100 MB job that would just disappear from the queue under NetBeui and the same goes from LPR support under Windows 95/98. I tried to get Mac protocol for Windows boxes but didn't want to pay the money.
Up here in the far north and frozen bits (aka Canada) we roll our own all the time. I haven't had a service guy out to my house both times I've moved. They just send the modem in the mail and give you some filters (splitterless ADSL).
Bell has to know what line needs the DSL card but that is at their Central Office.
Bell also has linux user space drivers available for free. I use the kernel patch though, initially there were complaints of the user space programs taking 30% CPU. I rarely hit 2 or 3 with the kernel patch.
"We believe our Rambus memory interface is the best solution for the majority of the market. Developing and marketing the Rambus memory interface has been and remains our top priority. But we are willing to license our IP for other memory interface solutions as well."
I think their IP is for the interface of SDRAM not SDRAM
Many companies are trying to make a dollar off free software, why not free music. I'm sure considering the math that Courtney presented and the trouble all artists are having fighting record labels and their control of distribution that Free music could work.
Imagine first a cooperative "record label" that exists to help market and distribute discs in meat-space. They take a cut off the sales (and their risk is associated with those sales, nothing more)and the band gets a good chunk of the royalties.
Also allow that anyone else could distribute the music as well (kinda like FSF software, you can buy it from them as well and you know where the money goes). Work out MP3 deals so the artists can also get paid on a voluntary basis by the people who like the MP3s.
It might be a big shift in ideals but if a few artists can afford (or believe enough in the concept of Free Music) to release their albums like this they will probably win in the end. (They can still charge for playing live shows, and other time consuming tasks)