That'd be great if these systems were encrypted, but they generally aren't. I know the Dallas/Fort Worth airport has two wireless internet access services (T-Mobile and something else). You can pull out your laptop and connect to them immediately, but any requests bring you to an info page. One of the services let you find out tourist information along with airport info (flight info, services, etc) for free. To get access to the rest of the net you have to pay. It probably uses some sort of software firewall that keeps track of your IP and mac addresses. Normal WiFi hacking isn't going to do you much good in this case.
I don't think it's really planning for the future. It sounds like a few people who have beta copies of Longhorn are interested in skinning them. These are the same kinds of people that would skin KDE or Gnome as soon as they got it as well (the fact that they have Windows set up to use Firefox as the default web browser is an indicator that they like to customize their system).
The Federal Constitution limits the federal government. Any power not given to the federal government and not prohibited from the states is given to the state governments. That's about as far as the federal government can go (even the Bill of Rights doesn't directly apply to the states; only through later court rulings did some of the ammendments affect the states).
The protection of local rights has to be done in the state constitutions. The federal government can encourage local governments to do certain things (by attaching funding for various things).
He left out the reason why the object is a sphere. The definition he's referring to states that it is massive enough to shape itself into a sphere by gravitational forces.
You bring up a good point. However, the job of airport security isn't to stop terrorist groups from existing, it's merely to stop their plots from working.
Groups like the CIA do investigate the flow of money. Within the past year or so a charity in north Dallas had its assets frozen because they appeared to be funding terrorist groups. People who have lots of money and are moving that money around are investigated. Sure, stopping the funding is important, but it's not like these are the people who were boarding the planes.
The fact that there is a group of people that are receiving lots of money to attack the airlines is an indication that there is a pattern to who is involved. Do they travel to particular countries? Do they live in the same area? Do their travel plans coincide?
Eventually you might, though not likely, be able to get rid of these organized groups. Then the idea of looking for patterns doesn't seem so good. People like McVeigh aren't acting as part of some larger organization and would be difficult to screen for. If we stop seeing a correlation between the screening system and who's committing acts of terrorism, then stop using the system.
So what if she's KKK, that group doesn't have a history of causing problems on airlines. The goal of airport security isn't to stop all terrorists, it's to keep airplanes secure. While there is no inherent reason why a particular race of people would cause certain acts of terrorism, that doesn't mean there is no correlation.
There are a couple things to keep in mind. First, if race were to be considered, it would be a minor factor. Secondly, the system won't be static. If 60 year old white females start causing problems on airplanes, they would start getting screened more closely.
I imagine a fair amount of such a system would be automated. You come up with a list of variables (travel history, age, gender, etc) and any time a problem occurs, you add another data point to the set. If there is a pattern, it will be detected. If the system starts tagging too many people (if there weren't any strong patterns to begin with) then you don't use the results. If the results are gender biased, then it's because one gender caused more problems than the other. If race and national origin truely play no role in terrorism, then the system won't tag people based on race.
Buffer overflows don't overflow into program code (the stack grows toward program code, so a buffer goes away from program code). The simplest buffer overflow would put code onto the stack and overwrite the return address of a function with an address of the code on the stack. This only works if the stack is executable. It sounds like they'll be making the stack for data only, breaking some applications. This does not stop another kind of overflow where you put system call arguments on the stack and alter the return address to start executing a system/library call.
Three months is how much time they can expect to have without any problems with any non-power system. From what I heard, the issue is with dust accumulating on the solar panels. Over time they become less effective. Interestingly, they only planned for 2/3 of the three months to actually be used for science (the rest being time for random failures like the one that stopped Spirit for a couple weeks). Regardless, they aren't just going to shut if off after 90 Sols, they'll keep using it until it just doesn't work anymore.
I've seen speculation that some authors do it so their previous work won't clobber whatever their new project is. It might also be useful to get around certain automated anti-virus tactics. On a university network it isn't uncommon to disconnect a computer that seems to be infected with a particular virus (ie all addresses resolve to a page telling you that your computer is infected and pointing you in the right direction). So after a few days all of the infected computers suddenly act like normal ones, ready to be infected with the next variant.
I know my Canon A70 has the option to always start numbering from the highest photo on the card. If you delete an image before taking another one, it reuses the number (deleting later can cause gaps though). If you clear the memory card it'll start over from 1. Of course, if having the numbers be unique is important, it can do that as well (rolling over like you said, but still useful if you'll be taking pictures in multiple sessions and putting them into the same folder).
Yeah, I noticed the nature of the changes in both VC++ and g++. MS fixed a lot of things that were incorrectly flagged as syntax errors. The g++ changes were mostly disallowing improper constructs. I think MS was trying to make sure libraries for other compilers (particularly ones that made heavy use of templates) would work with VC++. Restrictive changes are mostly useful to make code work for other compilers as you said.
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In fact, the MS compilers still don't pay much attention to them.
Their most recent compiler (VS.net 2003) is much more standards compliant than you give it credit. Besides compiler limits, there are only five noncompliant aspects of their compiler. Most complaints that people had with the lack of compliance in VisualC++ were fixed in the 2003 release.
GCC 3.3 isn't fully standards compliant either. Reading through the 3.4 changes it looks like they've been working on some of the same issues. C++ in general is a very complicated language. There are very few compilers that implement every aspect of the language. It's generally more important to fix the compiler bugs that affect real code than to implement the aspects of the language that are very rarely encountered.
First of all, unless you have overwhelming evidence of life on mars, you need to have evidence that life was possible. If you know that it was possible, then you might devise ways of checking if life did exist. This is assuming of course that water is essential.
Why search for ancient life in the first place? There's a chance that it would help explain the origin of life on earth. Future missions would be devoted to figuring out how life came to be. If both planets had life completely independently (no rocks with bacteria flying through space) it would tell us that it's very likely there is life elsewhere in the universe.
Penn State is using the streaming service from Napster, IIRC. You can listen to the music as long as you subscribe to Napster (ie until you graduate from PSU). If you want to download a track to listen to whenever, it's the standard $0.99/track $9.95/album. Basically, $9.95/month comes out of the money you pay to go to PSU to pay for the premium service that you could have subscribed to on your own (this probably helps the university avoid pressure from the RIAA).
I received this one today. It seems to be targetted toward dyslexic people. Oddly enough, the message is most easily readable if you only quickly glance over it (as you might if it slipped pass a filter and you were checking if it was spam). STILL NO LUCK ENRGAILNG IT?
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So why exactly is making a digital copy of a CD I purchased a crime? I have never distributed copies of music, nor do I download music illegally. The record labels have decided that everyone who encodes tracks in mp3 does it with the intent to distribute them, so they make this encoding a criminal act (through trivial DRM combined with the DMCA).
I've got a better idea: why don't we ban computers? That would get rid of the online distribution of music (assuming complete enforcement of the ban). Well, we don't because there are legitimate uses for computers, just as there are legitimate uses for compressed music.
You're GPL example is flawed. I can do whatever I want with the code as long as it doesn't violate other laws (such as copyright). You can do the same with scissors. But you cannot do that with a CD (by the DMCA which criminalizes technology that could potentially be used to violate copyright). Similarly I can't legally watch a DVD under Linux in the United States. I own the DVD, I own players for other OS's, but that doesn't matter. How is it violating an artist's rights for me to watch it on one computer rather than another?
It looks like Kodak does digital prints for $0.29 per 4"x6" photo. You can go to a store like Target and they'll download the pictures from your camera and deliver prints like usual. Film isn't too much cheaper when you consider the cost of the film (given that one memory card will last for 10 million photos before being worn out). I recently got a camera from Canon and from what I read in the manual, you can select the photos you want prints of along with how many copies (I think you might even be able to crop them), and this info will be downloaded too, so you get exactly what you want.
Meanwhile the local police are complaining because the campground was slashdotted. Just imagine thousands of people arriving at the same out of the way location at approximately the same time.
Have you tried running Maestro from JPL? I have it on a 1.6GHz Pentium M (Intel says it's better than a 2.0GHz Pentium 4). It feels pretty sluggish and I would bet it's a result of using Java (in other words, a C++ version would be noticeably faster). Anyway, I agree with the rest of your post, just not the point that the issue doesn't matter with today's computers.
I assume it works like normal voting machines. The curtain resets the machine. Once you leave, you've cast your ballot, whether or not you registered anything on it.
I don't really see why this particular one is an issue. So you have 134 ballots that have no vote indicated. It's pretty safe to say that they either didn't want to vote on that race, or they were too clueless to vote, regardless of the machine. If it were a paper ballot and they didn't pull the lever to register their vote, the ballot would be equally blank. The only reason to do a recount was if there was a way of registering a vote that wasn't picked up in machine counting. With paper ballots this is possible (all the various chads from Florida, partially filled bubbles on optical sheets, etc). With electronic voting you either voted or you didn't, the paper trail would tell you exactly the same thing as the automatic count. The only real way to avoid this in the future is to insist that you register your vote (even a null vote) before you can leave. You can't, however, prompt the voter "Did you really mean to not vote on this race?", because it would alter the results of the election.
The resulting print copy must be a certain amount smaller or larger and only one-sided. You also have to destroy any images that were used in the creation of the final legal copy when you're done with the whole process. So it is legal to use Photoshop to take a full size image of a dollar bill from your scanner and scale it to 3/4 size, but it is no longer possible to do that.
Those are black and white images. The bluish color results from taking a picture of the big screen at JPL as these images were shown (or doing screen grabs of NASA TV). The first color images should be sometime Sunday night.
I was watching these (on NASA TV) as they came in and it was just amazing. Everyone at JPL was really quiet as they knew the data was about to come in. As earth had already set, this data (~12 minutes) was being relayed by Mars Odyssey. The first couple images were really dark and small. You got the impression most people had no idea what they were, but none the less everyone was cheering that they were getting data and pictures back. They got at least one picture that was taken during landing that they weren't expecting. Then the big detailed pictures of the landing site started coming in and everyone was just in awe. Pretty quickly they combined images into mosaics and panoramic shots. I can't wait until they get their good cameras up and running. The commentator was saying the resolution will be hight enough that the pictures will still look good when blown up to the size of a movie screen.
I can't say that I've had much use for sms or aim on a cell phone, but there is at least one reason to IM from your cell phone. If the person you are sending a message to doesn't have/carry a cell phone, but uses AIM all the time, sms won't do you much good.
While AIM, ICQ, etc, are useful for replacing email conversations, email still has its uses. In particular, mailing lists for large programming projects are quite useful. I'm involved with a Linux-based PDA that has developers from around the world, and email is the one communication system that has really worked out. IRC tends to be useful for quick problem solving. Wiki has worked for documentation. But email seems to be the best way of announcing new projects or patches.
Other than that, I kind of agree. My inbox generally has mail from mailing lists, other programmers, spam (mostly filtered out before I download it), non-spam automated commercial mail, and sometimes email from people who don't know my s/n. Email is sometimes a useful replacement for a full letter, but IM is far better for conversations (realtime and delayed like ICQ).
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That'd be great if these systems were encrypted, but they generally aren't. I know the Dallas/Fort Worth airport has two wireless internet access services (T-Mobile and something else). You can pull out your laptop and connect to them immediately, but any requests bring you to an info page. One of the services let you find out tourist information along with airport info (flight info, services, etc) for free. To get access to the rest of the net you have to pay. It probably uses some sort of software firewall that keeps track of your IP and mac addresses. Normal WiFi hacking isn't going to do you much good in this case.
I don't think it's really planning for the future. It sounds like a few people who have beta copies of Longhorn are interested in skinning them. These are the same kinds of people that would skin KDE or Gnome as soon as they got it as well (the fact that they have Windows set up to use Firefox as the default web browser is an indicator that they like to customize their system).
The Federal Constitution limits the federal government. Any power not given to the federal government and not prohibited from the states is given to the state governments. That's about as far as the federal government can go (even the Bill of Rights doesn't directly apply to the states; only through later court rulings did some of the ammendments affect the states).
The protection of local rights has to be done in the state constitutions. The federal government can encourage local governments to do certain things (by attaching funding for various things).
He left out the reason why the object is a sphere. The definition he's referring to states that it is massive enough to shape itself into a sphere by gravitational forces.
You bring up a good point. However, the job of airport security isn't to stop terrorist groups from existing, it's merely to stop their plots from working.
Groups like the CIA do investigate the flow of money. Within the past year or so a charity in north Dallas had its assets frozen because they appeared to be funding terrorist groups. People who have lots of money and are moving that money around are investigated. Sure, stopping the funding is important, but it's not like these are the people who were boarding the planes.
The fact that there is a group of people that are receiving lots of money to attack the airlines is an indication that there is a pattern to who is involved. Do they travel to particular countries? Do they live in the same area? Do their travel plans coincide?
Eventually you might, though not likely, be able to get rid of these organized groups. Then the idea of looking for patterns doesn't seem so good. People like McVeigh aren't acting as part of some larger organization and would be difficult to screen for. If we stop seeing a correlation between the screening system and who's committing acts of terrorism, then stop using the system.
So what if she's KKK, that group doesn't have a history of causing problems on airlines. The goal of airport security isn't to stop all terrorists, it's to keep airplanes secure. While there is no inherent reason why a particular race of people would cause certain acts of terrorism, that doesn't mean there is no correlation.
There are a couple things to keep in mind. First, if race were to be considered, it would be a minor factor. Secondly, the system won't be static. If 60 year old white females start causing problems on airplanes, they would start getting screened more closely.
I imagine a fair amount of such a system would be automated. You come up with a list of variables (travel history, age, gender, etc) and any time a problem occurs, you add another data point to the set. If there is a pattern, it will be detected. If the system starts tagging too many people (if there weren't any strong patterns to begin with) then you don't use the results. If the results are gender biased, then it's because one gender caused more problems than the other. If race and national origin truely play no role in terrorism, then the system won't tag people based on race.
Buffer overflows don't overflow into program code (the stack grows toward program code, so a buffer goes away from program code). The simplest buffer overflow would put code onto the stack and overwrite the return address of a function with an address of the code on the stack. This only works if the stack is executable. It sounds like they'll be making the stack for data only, breaking some applications. This does not stop another kind of overflow where you put system call arguments on the stack and alter the return address to start executing a system/library call.
Three months is how much time they can expect to have without any problems with any non-power system. From what I heard, the issue is with dust accumulating on the solar panels. Over time they become less effective. Interestingly, they only planned for 2/3 of the three months to actually be used for science (the rest being time for random failures like the one that stopped Spirit for a couple weeks). Regardless, they aren't just going to shut if off after 90 Sols, they'll keep using it until it just doesn't work anymore.
I've seen speculation that some authors do it so their previous work won't clobber whatever their new project is. It might also be useful to get around certain automated anti-virus tactics. On a university network it isn't uncommon to disconnect a computer that seems to be infected with a particular virus (ie all addresses resolve to a page telling you that your computer is infected and pointing you in the right direction). So after a few days all of the infected computers suddenly act like normal ones, ready to be infected with the next variant.
I know my Canon A70 has the option to always start numbering from the highest photo on the card. If you delete an image before taking another one, it reuses the number (deleting later can cause gaps though). If you clear the memory card it'll start over from 1. Of course, if having the numbers be unique is important, it can do that as well (rolling over like you said, but still useful if you'll be taking pictures in multiple sessions and putting them into the same folder).
Yeah, I noticed the nature of the changes in both VC++ and g++. MS fixed a lot of things that were incorrectly flagged as syntax errors. The g++ changes were mostly disallowing improper constructs. I think MS was trying to make sure libraries for other compilers (particularly ones that made heavy use of templates) would work with VC++. Restrictive changes are mostly useful to make code work for other compilers as you said.
In fact, the MS compilers still don't pay much attention to them.
Their most recent compiler (VS.net 2003) is much more standards compliant than you give it credit. Besides compiler limits, there are only five noncompliant aspects of their compiler. Most complaints that people had with the lack of compliance in VisualC++ were fixed in the 2003 release.
GCC 3.3 isn't fully standards compliant either. Reading through the 3.4 changes it looks like they've been working on some of the same issues. C++ in general is a very complicated language. There are very few compilers that implement every aspect of the language. It's generally more important to fix the compiler bugs that affect real code than to implement the aspects of the language that are very rarely encountered.
First of all, unless you have overwhelming evidence of life on mars, you need to have evidence that life was possible. If you know that it was possible, then you might devise ways of checking if life did exist. This is assuming of course that water is essential.
Why search for ancient life in the first place? There's a chance that it would help explain the origin of life on earth. Future missions would be devoted to figuring out how life came to be. If both planets had life completely independently (no rocks with bacteria flying through space) it would tell us that it's very likely there is life elsewhere in the universe.
Penn State is using the streaming service from Napster, IIRC. You can listen to the music as long as you subscribe to Napster (ie until you graduate from PSU). If you want to download a track to listen to whenever, it's the standard $0.99/track $9.95/album. Basically, $9.95/month comes out of the money you pay to go to PSU to pay for the premium service that you could have subscribed to on your own (this probably helps the university avoid pressure from the RIAA).
I received this one today. It seems to be targetted toward dyslexic people. Oddly enough, the message is most easily readable if you only quickly glance over it (as you might if it slipped pass a filter and you were checking if it was spam).
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So why exactly is making a digital copy of a CD I purchased a crime? I have never distributed copies of music, nor do I download music illegally. The record labels have decided that everyone who encodes tracks in mp3 does it with the intent to distribute them, so they make this encoding a criminal act (through trivial DRM combined with the DMCA).
I've got a better idea: why don't we ban computers? That would get rid of the online distribution of music (assuming complete enforcement of the ban). Well, we don't because there are legitimate uses for computers, just as there are legitimate uses for compressed music.
You're GPL example is flawed. I can do whatever I want with the code as long as it doesn't violate other laws (such as copyright). You can do the same with scissors. But you cannot do that with a CD (by the DMCA which criminalizes technology that could potentially be used to violate copyright). Similarly I can't legally watch a DVD under Linux in the United States. I own the DVD, I own players for other OS's, but that doesn't matter. How is it violating an artist's rights for me to watch it on one computer rather than another?
It looks like Kodak does digital prints for $0.29 per 4"x6" photo. You can go to a store like Target and they'll download the pictures from your camera and deliver prints like usual. Film isn't too much cheaper when you consider the cost of the film (given that one memory card will last for 10 million photos before being worn out). I recently got a camera from Canon and from what I read in the manual, you can select the photos you want prints of along with how many copies (I think you might even be able to crop them), and this info will be downloaded too, so you get exactly what you want.
Meanwhile the local police are complaining because the campground was slashdotted. Just imagine thousands of people arriving at the same out of the way location at approximately the same time.
Have you tried running Maestro from JPL? I have it on a 1.6GHz Pentium M (Intel says it's better than a 2.0GHz Pentium 4). It feels pretty sluggish and I would bet it's a result of using Java (in other words, a C++ version would be noticeably faster). Anyway, I agree with the rest of your post, just not the point that the issue doesn't matter with today's computers.
I assume it works like normal voting machines. The curtain resets the machine. Once you leave, you've cast your ballot, whether or not you registered anything on it.
I don't really see why this particular one is an issue. So you have 134 ballots that have no vote indicated. It's pretty safe to say that they either didn't want to vote on that race, or they were too clueless to vote, regardless of the machine. If it were a paper ballot and they didn't pull the lever to register their vote, the ballot would be equally blank. The only reason to do a recount was if there was a way of registering a vote that wasn't picked up in machine counting. With paper ballots this is possible (all the various chads from Florida, partially filled bubbles on optical sheets, etc). With electronic voting you either voted or you didn't, the paper trail would tell you exactly the same thing as the automatic count. The only real way to avoid this in the future is to insist that you register your vote (even a null vote) before you can leave. You can't, however, prompt the voter "Did you really mean to not vote on this race?", because it would alter the results of the election.
The resulting print copy must be a certain amount smaller or larger and only one-sided. You also have to destroy any images that were used in the creation of the final legal copy when you're done with the whole process. So it is legal to use Photoshop to take a full size image of a dollar bill from your scanner and scale it to 3/4 size, but it is no longer possible to do that.
The first color ones should be tonight. It sounded like they would be really high quality once they get the whole thing up and running.
Those are black and white images. The bluish color results from taking a picture of the big screen at JPL as these images were shown (or doing screen grabs of NASA TV). The first color images should be sometime Sunday night.
I was watching these (on NASA TV) as they came in and it was just amazing. Everyone at JPL was really quiet as they knew the data was about to come in. As earth had already set, this data (~12 minutes) was being relayed by Mars Odyssey. The first couple images were really dark and small. You got the impression most people had no idea what they were, but none the less everyone was cheering that they were getting data and pictures back. They got at least one picture that was taken during landing that they weren't expecting. Then the big detailed pictures of the landing site started coming in and everyone was just in awe. Pretty quickly they combined images into mosaics and panoramic shots. I can't wait until they get their good cameras up and running. The commentator was saying the resolution will be hight enough that the pictures will still look good when blown up to the size of a movie screen.
I can't say that I've had much use for sms or aim on a cell phone, but there is at least one reason to IM from your cell phone. If the person you are sending a message to doesn't have/carry a cell phone, but uses AIM all the time, sms won't do you much good.
While AIM, ICQ, etc, are useful for replacing email conversations, email still has its uses. In particular, mailing lists for large programming projects are quite useful. I'm involved with a Linux-based PDA that has developers from around the world, and email is the one communication system that has really worked out. IRC tends to be useful for quick problem solving. Wiki has worked for documentation. But email seems to be the best way of announcing new projects or patches.
Other than that, I kind of agree. My inbox generally has mail from mailing lists, other programmers, spam (mostly filtered out before I download it), non-spam automated commercial mail, and sometimes email from people who don't know my s/n. Email is sometimes a useful replacement for a full letter, but IM is far better for conversations (realtime and delayed like ICQ).