Anyone who attempts to use this method to circumvent the encryption/protection schemes of an ATM machine are in violation of the DMCA.
Should make us all feel safer!
Best FREE Java IDE's:
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Java IDEs?
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In order of preference:
1) TogetherSoft allows for UML->Source and Source->UML. Try the Community version of Togethersoft for FREE, only the print functionality has been disabled in this version. Has great syntax highlighting, and is fairly fast for a full blown java application.
http://www.togethercommunity.com/community-edition.shtml
2) Forte for Java CE the Community Edition of the popular Forte Software is what I personally use for my Java Development. While not having the UML features of the Togethersoft product, I find it suits my needs just fine. An integrated debugger, and syntax highlighting make for a friendly (and free) product!
http://java.sun.com
3) Glimmer for linux. While not a full blown IDE, for simple projects, I find myself using glimmer alot. It's quick, written in C, and supports syntax highlighting for a plethora of languages (php, c, c++, java, perl, and lots more!), and best of all.. it's GPL!
http://glimmer.sourceforge.net
Basically looks as if they are using a Genetic Algorithm to evolve better crossover and mutation algorithims based upon fitness of the individuals produced by the first Genetic Algorithm.
A Simple Genetic Algorithm:
1) Randomly create population of individuals and their genome.
2) Calculate fitness of each individual
3) Probabilistically select individuals for mating, based upon their fitness scores.
4) During Mating, use crossover (usually 70% chance) and mutation (usually.1 -.01% chance) on the chromosome(genome) to create a new offspring population.
5) If done, then finish, otherwise goto step 2 with the new population.
Using the Genetic Algorithm to evolve new crossover operators seems feasible; however, evolving the mutation operator to produce individuals of higher fitness is flawed logic. Mutation's purpose is to prevent genetic code from becoming "lost" (ie sometimes when you lose genetic information from crossover, you can never get it back w/o random mutations). By evolving the mutation operator to produce individuals of higher fitness, I suspect you will run into the Local Optima problem, where you've reached a local optimum fitness, but you are nowhere the global optimum fitness for the population.
Mutation is very important in preventing the local optimum problem, changing the way mutation works will probably have a detrimental effect on the performance.
Re:Qt improvement BETTER than KDE improvements
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TrollTech Releases Qt 3.0
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This is great, but.... there is one major problem with your arguement.
In order for you to make your Qt application cross platform (linux/win32), it's gonna Cost ($$$) you an arm and a leg in license fee's for the Win32 version of Qt, which, by the way is NOT FREE.
Don't get me wrong, I love Qt, but if it costs me $2k to 3k grand to make my application cross platform, forget it! I cannot afford that. In addition, if a commercial company wants to develop software for linux, they too have to purchase a Qt license ($$$ several grand), unless they want to release their app under GPL, which means they can no longer expect to sell their app and make money.
So just because Qt is free, as in GPL, it doesn't make it more free than Gtk, which is LGPL. GTK apps face none of the problems that Qt apps incurr. A GTK app can be make open source or closed source, and can be made cross platform or uni-platform... ALL FOR FREE.
And that, folks, is the biggest difference between the two widget toolsets!
Whether or not Bin Laden uses encryption is a source of debate. The NSA and FBI would have you believe that these attacks could have been prevented had there been a ban on encryption.
However, I don't see how any American law would affect Bin Laden in Afganistan? Committing terrorist acts is ALREADY illegal here in the US. What effect is passing another hundred laws going to have, other than reducing the freedoms of law abiding citizens?
If congress banned encryption, it would only affect law abiding Americans, and would have no effect on outlaws or criminals.
Not only is encryption vital for secure online transactions, it is also vital for several companies that want to protect their trade secrets or their clients information. Our company encrypts our client database to prevent unauthorized access to personal client information.
For every bad use of encryption, there are thousands of legitimate uses that actually save people money and protect their information/privacy.
The fallacy with banning encryption is if you outlaw encryption, only outlaws will use encryption!
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I've heard about several companies/people making donations and such to the Red Cross. I just wanted everyone to know that even the smaller companies are trying to help in any way they can.
My employer is ERA Champion Realty, Inc., a Real Estate company based in Orange County, California with about three dozen employees.
Our manager has committed to donating $500 for each home sale made during the next 60 days. Counting the sales we already have scheduled to close this month, we are close to the $5000 mark.
Just wanted to let you all know that some of the smaller companies are pitching in too!
* Seems faster than the old 0.6 or 0.7 builds. (ie the menus seem zippier).
* Seems to load faster than previous versions.
* Still can't minimize the download window w/o minimizing the entire Mozilla app.... (what gives?)
* Still having trouble installing JRE 1.3
Overall, 0.8 seems to be faster, and generally better than any of the previous builds.
Gururise Garden Grove Real Estate
First of all, after reading the news story, it leads one to believe that all those poor websites are blocked from the internet (essentially an Internet Blackhole). This is totally untrue, everyone can still access those websites, just mail originating from those sites will be unavailiable to sites who subscribe to MAPS and choose not to allow such mail.
Quoting the MAPS press release...
"The dispute with Media3 arose when Media3 refused to require their web-hosting customers to stop advertising their websites by using unsolicited commercial email as an advertising medium. The unsolicited email, sent through various unrelated ISPs, advertised websites which were hosted by Media3 on their web servers. "This clearly violates the standards which we advocate, and to which we ourselves adhere," explained Mitchell. "The proprietors of these websites send massive amounts of unsolicted mail from an account with an ISP, then when that account is shut down for violating that ISP's terms of service, they just move on to another ISP. In these cases the only way to get them to stop sending the unwanted email is for the company hosting the advertised site to get involved. If they don't, there is no incentive for the unsolicited email to stop, and then we are forced to protect our own mail servers from the onslaught of that unwanted email."
Being a system administrator myself, I have to deal with SPAM on a daily basis. Spam uses up our resources, our bandwidth, and consumes our employee's time when they have to deal with it. We receive thousands of spam messages each week, and all of them are unsolicited. What other option do system administrators have? I for one totally support what MAPS is doing.
Gururise
Slashdot Mirror
Should make us all feel safer!
1) TogetherSoft allows for UML->Source and Source->UML. Try the Community version of Togethersoft for FREE, only the print functionality has been disabled in this version. Has great syntax highlighting, and is fairly fast for a full blown java application.n .shtml
http://www.togethercommunity.com/community-editio
2) Forte for Java CE the Community Edition of the popular Forte Software is what I personally use for my Java Development. While not having the UML features of the Togethersoft product, I find it suits my needs just fine. An integrated debugger, and syntax highlighting make for a friendly (and free) product!
http://java.sun.com
3) Glimmer for linux. While not a full blown IDE, for simple projects, I find myself using glimmer alot. It's quick, written in C, and supports syntax highlighting for a plethora of languages (php, c, c++, java, perl, and lots more!), and best of all.. it's GPL!
http://glimmer.sourceforge.net
Gene Ruebsamen
Orange County Real Estate
A Simple Genetic Algorithm: .1 - .01% chance) on the chromosome(genome) to create a new offspring population.
1) Randomly create population of individuals and their genome.
2) Calculate fitness of each individual
3) Probabilistically select individuals for mating, based upon their fitness scores.
4) During Mating, use crossover (usually 70% chance) and mutation (usually
5) If done, then finish, otherwise goto step 2 with the new population.
Using the Genetic Algorithm to evolve new crossover operators seems feasible; however, evolving the mutation operator to produce individuals of higher fitness is flawed logic. Mutation's purpose is to prevent genetic code from becoming "lost" (ie sometimes when you lose genetic information from crossover, you can never get it back w/o random mutations). By evolving the mutation operator to produce individuals of higher fitness, I suspect you will run into the Local Optima problem, where you've reached a local optimum fitness, but you are nowhere the global optimum fitness for the population.
Mutation is very important in preventing the local optimum problem, changing the way mutation works will probably have a detrimental effect on the performance.
Gururuse
ERA Champion Realty, Inc.
In order for you to make your Qt application cross platform (linux/win32), it's gonna Cost ($$$) you an arm and a leg in license fee's for the Win32 version of Qt, which, by the way is NOT FREE.
Don't get me wrong, I love Qt, but if it costs me $2k to 3k grand to make my application cross platform, forget it! I cannot afford that. In addition, if a commercial company wants to develop software for linux, they too have to purchase a Qt license ($$$ several grand), unless they want to release their app under GPL, which means they can no longer expect to sell their app and make money.
So just because Qt is free, as in GPL, it doesn't make it more free than Gtk, which is LGPL. GTK apps face none of the problems that Qt apps incurr. A GTK app can be make open source or closed source, and can be made cross platform or uni-platform... ALL FOR FREE.
And that, folks, is the biggest difference between the two widget toolsets!
However, I don't see how any American law would affect Bin Laden in Afganistan? Committing terrorist acts is ALREADY illegal here in the US. What effect is passing another hundred laws going to have, other than reducing the freedoms of law abiding citizens?
If congress banned encryption, it would only affect law abiding Americans, and would have no effect on outlaws or criminals.
Guru
ERA Champion Real Estate
For every bad use of encryption, there are thousands of legitimate uses that actually save people money and protect their information/privacy.
The fallacy with banning encryption is if you outlaw encryption, only outlaws will use encryption!
Gene Ruebsamen
Orange County Real Estate
ERA Champion Realty, Inc.
My employer is ERA Champion Realty, Inc., a Real Estate company based in Orange County, California with about three dozen employees.
Our manager has committed to donating $500 for each home sale made during the next 60 days. Counting the sales we already have scheduled to close this month, we are close to the $5000 mark.
Just wanted to let you all know that some of the smaller companies are pitching in too!
* Seems faster than the old 0.6 or 0.7 builds. (ie the menus seem zippier).
* Seems to load faster than previous versions.
* Still can't minimize the download window w/o minimizing the entire Mozilla app.... (what gives?)
* Still having trouble installing JRE 1.3
Overall, 0.8 seems to be faster, and generally better than any of the previous builds.
Gururise
Garden Grove Real Estate
Quoting the MAPS press release...
"The dispute with Media3 arose when Media3 refused to require their web-hosting customers to stop advertising their websites by using unsolicited commercial email as an advertising medium. The unsolicited email, sent through various unrelated ISPs, advertised websites which were hosted by Media3 on their web servers. "This clearly violates the standards which we advocate, and to which we ourselves adhere," explained Mitchell. "The proprietors of these websites send massive amounts of unsolicted mail from an account with an ISP, then when that account is shut down for violating that ISP's terms of service, they just move on to another ISP. In these cases the only way to get them to stop sending the unwanted email is for the company hosting the advertised site to get involved. If they don't, there is no incentive for the unsolicited email to stop, and then we are forced to protect our own mail servers from the onslaught of that unwanted email."
Being a system administrator myself, I have to deal with SPAM on a daily basis. Spam uses up our resources, our bandwidth, and consumes our employee's time when they have to deal with it. We receive thousands of spam messages each week, and all of them are unsolicited. What other option do system administrators have? I for one totally support what MAPS is doing.
Gururise