Close, but not quite. Adding more digits just means more places to make a mistake.
The solution is not more digits, but to make social security numbers, nay ALL identifying numbers, self checksumming.
For example when you're shopping online the credit processing system knows immediately when you enter an invalid number because credit card numbers have a check digit (http://www.beachnet.com/~hstiles/cardtype.html). In this instance it seems that miskeying SSNs is a significant part of the problem, having a checksummed number greatly reduces this.
Another aspect is that everyone uses SSNs as identifying numbers. This is bad because, for example, the IRS can only be responsible for data entry faults in its own organization and not those made at the Social Security Administration. Its like Comcast using my Verizon customer number*. You can prevent this to some extent by registering for a taxpayer number to use with the IRS instead of your SSN. Refusing to give your SSN to agencies that request it (when practical) could also help.
*An apt analogy I think, comparing the dinosaurs of inept big government to the dinosaurs of big telecommunications.
Fort Wayne isn't exactly a small town, but its not on the radar for most people. Have a look and send me a resume, my team needs a new developer and the rest of the company needs sysadmins for our hosted customers.
I've seen the SunSpider benchmark come up before, and it is a great benchmark for JavaScript as a language, but it may be inappropriate for a browser.
This test mostly avoids microbenchmarks, and tries to focus on the kinds of actual problems developers solve with JavaScript today, and the problems they may want to tackle in the future as the language gets faster. This includes tests to generate a tagcloud from JSON input, a 3D raytracer, cryptography tests, code decompression, and many more examples. There are a few microbenchmarkish things, but they mostly represent real performance problems that developers have encountered. Raytracing? Crypto? These aren't things I'd consider running in a browser and certainly not with JavaScript. Just because JaveScript and a modern browser on a mid-range machine CAN do these things doesn't mean it should.
JSON, code decompression, and traversing XML are things that a browser does with JavaScript, some more often than others. Even in those cases, I wouldn't be surprised if browsers had parsers that 'helped' the common browser JavaScript tasks with faster native-library interfaces instead of purely native JavaScript interpretation.
"(Because of the potential for dangerous reflections, please don't shine lasers into a stack of razors trying to test their reflectivity--unless you know what you're doing and, hopefully, have an appropriate pair of laser goggles.)"
The fact that the razors are sharp and pointy can be safely ignored.
"Utzschneider says a shrunken version of Windows XP could potentially run on 2 Gbytes of flash memory. "
TinyXP* runs in 400MB of disk and 40MB of RAM. Seems like someone already voluntarily did all of the work on shrinking XP. Kudos to them.
Is there some difference between running on flash memory versus regular disk? I know that its reccomended to use something like jffs to spread the I/O out across the entire range of a flash disk, but that doesn't seem like a show stopper.
*http://www.secguru.com/link/tinyxp_run_xp_from_400mb_hdd_and_under_40mb_ram was the most succinct summary Google came back with. Torrents are everywhere.
If CS grads are supposed to start out at $50-70k I am either retarded or grossly underpaid. Highest offer I got fresh out of college last year with almost 2 years of relevant internship experience was $45K.
When adjusted for reality your bio people are living below the poverty line in most areas.
You sir are a true slashdotter. Not only did you not RTFM the first time around, but you waited until there was a bakers dozen of responses to your question THEN read the article. You couldn't leave it at that either, you then had to reply to your own post stating that you read the article throwing hot grits in the faces of the people who also did not read the article but "knew" the answer to your question anyway.
In your example, the code derived from it has to be compatible with the GPL license OR the BSD license. Once code is licensed under one or the other its usually hard to go back, but one has to make a choice up front about it.
For example I can take some code I write and release it under GPL and my own for pay license. If someone pays for a copy they and I have to abide by my paid-license, if someone downloads it then they can do things with it as allowed by the GPL. This allows me to be flexible and support the needs of buisnesses (and pay my bills) while still supporting the community.
It's still a big effing deal, because Reader is the most accessible and widely used PDF viewer out there.
So in the interest of the public, what alternative PDF readers can people use?
In addition to that I hope Adobe clues in and realizes, Reader is there to READ AND DISPLAY PDFs and nothing else. The last time I installed it under XP on my office workstation it wanted to shovel a bunch of crap into the tray and seemed to have a lot more cruft than it needed to. This is different from what I remember it being in High School where it was a simple viewer so the customers who paid for Acrobat had an easy way to tell their readers how to open the PDFs. It has since morphed into a product instead of just a utility.
As another responder mentioned the porn moguls aren't too pleased with either Blu-Ray or HD.
This probably won't work in the US, Europe, or the Far East. However the one interesting bit from the article that I would like to know more about is that Bollywood might be interested in this. Though not as large as the Western movie market it is still a huge group of people to sell to and that group is probably excluded from the other HD formats because of price and piracy concerns.
If I'm reading it correctly your ISP treats you like you are part of their corporate intranet and then pipes your traffic out. I'd expect the ISP have a similar traffic footprint and pattern to a largeish college campus that doesn't assign every PC an outside IP.
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Close, but not quite. Adding more digits just means more places to make a mistake.
The solution is not more digits, but to make social security numbers, nay ALL identifying numbers, self checksumming.
For example when you're shopping online the credit processing system knows immediately when you enter an invalid number because credit card numbers have a check digit (http://www.beachnet.com/~hstiles/cardtype.html). In this instance it seems that miskeying SSNs is a significant part of the problem, having a checksummed number greatly reduces this.
Another aspect is that everyone uses SSNs as identifying numbers. This is bad because, for example, the IRS can only be responsible for data entry faults in its own organization and not those made at the Social Security Administration. Its like Comcast using my Verizon customer number*. You can prevent this to some extent by registering for a taxpayer number to use with the IRS instead of your SSN. Refusing to give your SSN to agencies that request it (when practical) could also help.
*An apt analogy I think, comparing the dinosaurs of inept big government to the dinosaurs of big telecommunications.
http://tripractix.com/job_opportunities
Fort Wayne isn't exactly a small town, but its not on the radar for most people. Have a look and send me a resume, my team needs a new developer and the rest of the company needs sysadmins for our hosted customers.
JSON, code decompression, and traversing XML are things that a browser does with JavaScript, some more often than others. Even in those cases, I wouldn't be surprised if browsers had parsers that 'helped' the common browser JavaScript tasks with faster native-library interfaces instead of purely native JavaScript interpretation.
Can you post your paper or tell us where we can read it?
"(Because of the potential for dangerous reflections, please don't shine lasers into a stack of razors trying to test their reflectivity--unless you know what you're doing and, hopefully, have an appropriate pair of laser goggles.)"
The fact that the razors are sharp and pointy can be safely ignored.
"Utzschneider says a shrunken version of Windows XP could potentially run on 2 Gbytes of flash memory. "
TinyXP* runs in 400MB of disk and 40MB of RAM. Seems like someone already voluntarily did all of the work on shrinking XP. Kudos to them.
Is there some difference between running on flash memory versus regular disk? I know that its reccomended to use something like jffs to spread the I/O out across the entire range of a flash disk, but that doesn't seem like a show stopper.
*http://www.secguru.com/link/tinyxp_run_xp_from_400mb_hdd_and_under_40mb_ram was the most succinct summary Google came back with. Torrents are everywhere.
If CS grads are supposed to start out at $50-70k I am either retarded or grossly underpaid. Highest offer I got fresh out of college last year with almost 2 years of relevant internship experience was $45K.
When adjusted for reality your bio people are living below the poverty line in most areas.
All in good fun. I forgot some sarcasm tags.
You sir are a true slashdotter. Not only did you not RTFM the first time around, but you waited until there was a bakers dozen of responses to your question THEN read the article. You couldn't leave it at that either, you then had to reply to your own post stating that you read the article throwing hot grits in the faces of the people who also did not read the article but "knew" the answer to your question anyway.
Bravo, sir. Bravo.
Dude WTF?
You use ATMs and cash to hide your spending from the government. If you and your wife have issues like that you need to not be on slashdot so much.
In your example, the code derived from it has to be compatible with the GPL license OR the BSD license. Once code is licensed under one or the other its usually hard to go back, but one has to make a choice up front about it.
For example I can take some code I write and release it under GPL and my own for pay license. If someone pays for a copy they and I have to abide by my paid-license, if someone downloads it then they can do things with it as allowed by the GPL. This allows me to be flexible and support the needs of buisnesses (and pay my bills) while still supporting the community.
"...a vector computer is like a bigger version of a GPU..."
So instead of using these in a Beowulf cluster we could use them to get a killer (no pun) framerate in Battlefield??
I wonder what Bucky would think about this since he is bashing cows this week.
It's still a big effing deal, because Reader is the most accessible and widely used PDF viewer out there.
So in the interest of the public, what alternative PDF readers can people use?
In addition to that I hope Adobe clues in and realizes, Reader is there to READ AND DISPLAY PDFs and nothing else. The last time I installed it under XP on my office workstation it wanted to shovel a bunch of crap into the tray and seemed to have a lot more cruft than it needed to. This is different from what I remember it being in High School where it was a simple viewer so the customers who paid for Acrobat had an easy way to tell their readers how to open the PDFs. It has since morphed into a product instead of just a utility.
As another responder mentioned the porn moguls aren't too pleased with either Blu-Ray or HD.
This probably won't work in the US, Europe, or the Far East. However the one interesting bit from the article that I would like to know more about is that Bollywood might be interested in this. Though not as large as the Western movie market it is still a huge group of people to sell to and that group is probably excluded from the other HD formats because of price and piracy concerns.
So I say, bring me my 1080 Indian porno!!!
I'm a candidate for city council. Could you please correct that link to Utopia so I can read up on it?
I misread that as OCD, but it still fits.
"Run for office to get things changed yourself?"
I am running for office in Fort Wayne, not much I can do about BP up on the lake or down in Indy. http://allencountylp.org/ .
Officially logged: http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q =debian+IRC+chat+log&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=ut f-8 is a good start.
Unofficially logged, well IRC is a lot like ham radio, once you broadcast it theres nothing you can do.
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1918.html
If I'm reading it correctly your ISP treats you like you are part of their corporate intranet and then pipes your traffic out. I'd expect the ISP have a similar traffic footprint and pattern to a largeish college campus that doesn't assign every PC an outside IP.
You sir are at least a libertarian.
Have you thought about becoming a Libertarian? http://lp.org/
If you had just moved here wouldn't he have been saying "NYET!!"?
How many Libraries of Congress and Olympic Size Swimming Pools is that??
OpenBSD ?= free
GPL ?= free
So who the hell cares and why is this a problem?
IIRC Open Office is Java based which means much of its performance is relaiant on how well the JVM is doing.