So now when a.gov domain comes in I can't verify it. That means when an attack comes in that purports to be from the.GOV TLD I can just assume it is spoofed and block the whole address block that ARIN associates with it. Right.
I would hope a more sane approach would be to provide sufficient information to say that yes it is a valid domain, and to have the sense to have a common contact procedure for problems. The whole point of "whois" is to help maintain the security of the network, turning off whois for the.gov TLD is the same as saying we don't care about your security, only our security. However, if we can't verify, isn't the correct solution to route around or isolate the problem area.
Atkins Trolls are not specifically mentioned. I'd assume they are high protein meat sources, so if your ethics and morals find "troll" appropriate meat it would probably be diet-acceptable.
Not all AGP cards / systems have symetrical transfer rates. Some AGP combinations are quite slow reading from the card. An order of magnitude slower in some cases.
Economics as well since the cost per byte for the VRAM is considerable compared to the cost of increasing the system memory.
What I remember from the few studies done on programmer and other mental labor (like adding columns of numbers by hand, etc.) is that over forty hours is fine. Up to a point, around 60 hours is the breakeven point (varies by individual). Between 60 and 80 you catch about as many errors as you make for pretty much wasted effort. Above 80 hours and you make more mistakes than you catch. And, above 60 hours a week continuously drops the break even point as the weeks drag on. Again, these are individual figures. Everyone is different, I generally sleep only 3-4 hours a night and I did three months of 120-130 hours work weeks to get a project out for my previous company. I took a week off and then worked only 10-15 hours a week (bug fixes (only two were my code!) and feature creep, adding gen 2 features to gen one of the framework we created). Would I do it again? Maybe once a year for big bucks and a month paid vacation.
The important thing is management needs to understand that everyone is different, and the longer you burn the candle at both ends, the faster to burnout. But if he is looking for 105 hour weeks, some people will just get sick (physically) from the stress and then you'll lose more cogs. Overall it is cheaper to add more staff. Did I mention I am available:-)
And one last note. I did this and they are basing their product on my work, and I got laid off. Companies have no morals or sense of honor, they are in it for the bottom line; post our completion of the deliverables, our entire team was "cut".
f(P1)=J1 creates a derivitive work / translation of P1 which Joe can't copyright and which is copyrighted by company C. Thus your hypothesis is refuted.
Usually they just run the same print for both screens. They actually pay per ticket sold (something like 50% of the first week going down in steps the longer it runs). When the first reel is over the mount it in the projector for the next theater/showing, etc... If you watch the upper right corner of the screen you'll see a couple of circles flicker on, then they start the second projector and kill the first one and rewind the reel and move it to the next theater, reload the following reel into the projector and cue it up for the next cycle. A single can for a 2-3 hour film would be huge. Digital will eventually win as the media is more manageable. (and maybe the MPAA will get distributors to to charge more since running on multiple screens then will take more pieces of media perhaps...)
Of course, no article on this topic can go without a mandatory quote from Jack Valenti, who points out: 'It is not legal to make a copy of a DVD now. Everything people are doing legally today, they'll be able to do legally tomorrow'."
If I own a DVD and want to make a copy to VHS tape to use in my RV, this is allowed use. It is a simple extension to the specifically mentioned case of copying a record to tape for use in a car, which was specifically mentioned in previous copyright legislation arguments in the "Federal record". Not that that will keep someone from being sued or some other judge from legislating from the bench, but eventually you'd prevail if you have enough money. Of course Jack wants to legislate through repetition.
One way would be to create a co-linear antenna and bury it in butyl rubber in a crevive in the stone work (or just heat shrink over it and bury it in mortar (and hide the cost in maintenance to tuck-point the stone-work).
Do they have indoor plumbing? A device called a "Vent-tenna" is made for amatuer radio operators to disguise their external antennas.
Ask any ham in the area that lives with restricted covenants. They'll have lots of ideas.
Any flagpole handy? Replace it with a high-preformance fiberglass radome and put a wireless antenna inside.
You are dealing with 2.4 or 5 GHz so use 1/4 inch hardline (at a minimum) for the long runs to reduce signal loss.
Hire me as a consultant and I'll make sure you have a solution that works well and meets all your technical and apperance requirements.
Does it have an attic? Often above the eave line is timber and you might make due with an antenna in that area. Also check out the offerings by Motorola for a commercial band alternative that is higher legal power. Or, get a waiver from the British equivalent of the FCC to run higher power and use a commercial "export" amplifier (which also has a receiver pre-amp as well). Lots of options. Directional antennas indoors to reduce the attenuation of the wall structure.
Make sure that whatever you do (except maybe building to building optical links) you wet the buildings down when checking signal strengths. BTW Apples airport software as well as Orinco/Wavelan/Lucent/name-of-the-week software have signal strength test modes to check for antenna placement. Take an Airport and a laptop and play a bit to see what the through the wall loss is. If you use multiple base stations watch out for hidden transmitter syndrome. Something hams on packet radio (well the smart ones building networks) have known about for ages and the wireless network folks on the 802.11x, etc. side are just now figuring out.
Just call (and write) Dell and tell them that you don't want to abide by and can not agree to the MS OS license and ask to return the OS to Dell. Then ask them for your refund.
The trackpad on older Apples could be put into absolute mode by third party utilities, but as one reader commented, just get the Darwin source and have a look at what gives.
I use a $9.95 (on sale) handheld (well finger held) trackball from CompUSA The "trigger" is button one and buttons two and three are on top, the trackball being manipulated with your thumb. With practice you can type while still maintaining a grip on the thing, but I usually only do short sequences that way, puting it down when large amounts of typing are to be done (finger RTS otherwise?). It shares the bag with my Auto/airline lind power supply nicely. It is quite convienient. Overdrive and it should give you what you want.
Thank the USB organizations definition of the HID devices protocol for giving you the seeming mirical of "it works right out of the box without any drivers" as the default drivers often work "good enough". I am typing away on an unsupported Logitech wireless keyboard (and using a wireless trackball) through my USB KVM switch and it all "just works". Standards good. Beer bad.
Indian Isp Organization (IIO): Pay or we block your portal!
MSN: Are you sure about that?
IIO: PAY US OR WE BLOCK YOU!
MSN: Block us and we block India.
IIO: OK, maybe not.
The Internet is self healing. It is designed to route around problems. Play nice children.
Under Berne all the script-kiddie DoS scripts are copyrighted by their authors... Thus they will have to come up with new DoS scripts on their own. If we patent all the methods (heck the patent office has let much worse through) then all the attacks will be protected IP and the MPAA and RIAA will have to violate copyright and / or patent protections to attack. Could we organise a suit against them based on representing "John Doe's" interests since the authors of the scripts are unlikely to come forward? Could we consider the attacks to be derivitive works based on the code in firewalls that protects against them? Just some random thoughts since if this law goes through, this discussion might be a crimminal conspiracy...
Push the handle in the intended direction, just push it harder than expected.
There's more to a Mac than a PPC. An Intel Mac would no doubt have the same pecularities (like Open Firmware, non PC-Standard Audio, etc.) in order to make it more reliable and easy to use. And just more Mac-like... So even if it runs internally on beige boxes don't expect a generic software release for the clone-a-box. Expect that if they do an Intel machine it would still be a Mac with proprietary dedicated hardware...
And, I still think buying the Alpha technology from HP is the way to go. High speed 64 bit architecture with plenty of headroom. And the associated patents are a thorn in Intels side so some minor retribution points...
It is scheduled to be retired by HP/Compaq/Digital glom after the next two generations are out. The architecture has lots of headroom and Apple could own it outright. It has been 64 bit from the start and is very flexible. And the Apple^H^H^H^H^HAlpha architecture equivalent of AltiVec (MVI) is quite suave.
The solution seems simple. When stating the JPEG method, use a different color space and translate the mean square differences with the same method as converting the color space. (I.E., don't just use the mean square differential to pick out values in the new color space, transform the method so that it picks out the equivalent transformed color, a subtle but important difference). The result of this convolution should be the same, just a different path to it. While you are at it, optimize the heck out of the method. Patent it, but leave it open for public use.
This seems more likely to apply to the M-JPEG process, but if they are picking on the claim, "After processing in some mode, the processed signals are in the form of digital numbers and these digital numbers are coded, using ordered redundancy coding, and transmitted to a receiver.", then this is over broad by quite a stretch.
As a Russian friend of mine says, "The only thing new is history that has been forgotten." I worked on the team that designed and wrote the simulation tool for DEC's large system group and specifically for the Vax 8600 which had an asyncronous core implemented in ECL gate arrays. One of the more interesting facets was the skew analysis where PCB trace, on-chip, in quadrant, in cell, and basic element skews were all accounted for. Awesome project. In the early 80's...
Might as well keep the offtopic posts in one place:-)... It looks more like the old "magic eye" tuning indicators from vacumn tube days... Wow, even older than I am.
I had an onion hanging from my belt; that was the fashion in those days....
Considering the animal species they used to illustrate the levels of decline are all valued in eastern culture for ivory, horns, or internal organs and are heavily poached, I question this articles validity. It seems more of a political peace with quite a different agenda.
I was hoping to actually file a patent on this! You can demonstrate the effect by taking an optical trackball and using a fingertip or thumbtip in the cavity created when you remove the ball. I noticed the effect cleaning a logitech device several years ago. The MS trackball also works well. As to "bluetooth" I have used my logitech wireless this way, so I assume it would work for a bluetooth as well.
I am outraged at this. If it actually allows DoS attaacks on P2P networks then the RIAA better be willing to pony up the funds for my lost bandwidth and the lost customers when they legally attack one of my clients on my ISP. They can pay the ISPs out of the money they get from the government from various media surcharges, fees, etc. that normally would be turned over to them. Hopefully someone will point out to this representitive that a DoS attack effects more than just the target of the attack. Time to set up an ORBs-like server for RIAA (and friends) so I can block them at my border routers.
Could it possibly be that if they appeal to tech savvy fans (and not others, else the figures would be similar to "normal" bands PLUS the techie sales)...
... that maybe, just maybe, they appeal to a smaller audience...
Statistics lie. Statisticians lie damn well. Actuaries know where the bodies are...
For simple linear problems, no sweat, for object oriented systems a bit tougher. No matter how much I map out the problem in my head, or outline it in prose/pseudo-code, I get coders block occasionally when trying to write complex problems down in a linear manner on paper. I think across the problem boundaries and prefer an editing environment where I can bounce between modules / routines. I _really_ love the folding editing features where you can collapse statement blocks that you have complete (and you have to develop a comment style that comments the collapsed block).
But those exams are just the start. Even with 25 years experience when you go into some corporations (MS for example) there are occasional times where they'll hit you up with a hypothetical, then ask you to sketch out the code on the white board. I did three coding examples over a 6 hour interview for a contract with the MSVSEE group. Part of that of course is to see how you handle stress. And maybe writers cramp:-). And currently I have a pet question I got from someone I interviewed and hired that is a practical problem in a hypothetical language that I ask people I am interviewing. The main thing is to see what approach to problem solving they have.
So, get yourself in a relaxed zone, leave space around what you write, and if you have time or the problem is complex, sketch out the proposed solution in outline form with one statement per chunk you can easily code without worry. And if it is OO, do a normal design cycle, slightly compressed. Patterns if applicable, with a breakdown of roles, then specific interfaces, then do the individual modules as above.
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So now when a .gov domain comes in I can't verify it. That means when an attack comes in that purports to be from the .GOV TLD I can just assume it is spoofed and block the whole address block that ARIN associates with it. Right.
.gov TLD is the same as saying we don't care about your security, only our security. However, if we can't verify, isn't the correct solution to route around or isolate the problem area.
I would hope a more sane approach would be to provide sufficient information to say that yes it is a valid domain, and to have the sense to have a common contact procedure for problems. The whole point of "whois" is to help maintain the security of the network, turning off whois for the
Atkins Trolls are not specifically mentioned. I'd assume they are high protein meat sources, so if your ethics and morals find "troll" appropriate meat it would probably be diet-acceptable.
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Well, the 1999 issued ones weren't punched through and they expire 10 years after issue normally.
Not all AGP cards / systems have symetrical transfer rates. Some AGP combinations are quite slow reading from the card. An order of magnitude slower in some cases.
Economics as well since the cost per byte for the VRAM is considerable compared to the cost of increasing the system memory.
What I remember from the few studies done on programmer and other mental labor (like adding columns of numbers by hand, etc.) is that over forty hours is fine. Up to a point, around 60 hours is the breakeven point (varies by individual). Between 60 and 80 you catch about as many errors as you make for pretty much wasted effort. Above 80 hours and you make more mistakes than you catch. And, above 60 hours a week continuously drops the break even point as the weeks drag on. Again, these are individual figures. Everyone is different, I generally sleep only 3-4 hours a night and I did three months of 120-130 hours work weeks to get a project out for my previous company. I took a week off and then worked only 10-15 hours a week (bug fixes (only two were my code!) and feature creep, adding gen 2 features to gen one of the framework we created). Would I do it again? Maybe once a year for big bucks and a month paid vacation.
:-)
The important thing is management needs to understand that everyone is different, and the longer you burn the candle at both ends, the faster to burnout. But if he is looking for 105 hour weeks, some people will just get sick (physically) from the stress and then you'll lose more cogs. Overall it is cheaper to add more staff. Did I mention I am available
And one last note. I did this and they are basing their product on my work, and I got laid off. Companies have no morals or sense of honor, they are in it for the bottom line; post our completion of the deliverables, our entire team was "cut".
f(P1)=J1 creates a derivitive work / translation of P1 which Joe can't copyright and which is copyrighted by company C. Thus your hypothesis is refuted.
Usually they just run the same print for both screens. They actually pay per ticket sold (something like 50% of the first week going down in steps the longer it runs). When the first reel is over the mount it in the projector for the next theater/showing, etc... If you watch the upper right corner of the screen you'll see a couple of circles flicker on, then they start the second projector and kill the first one and rewind the reel and move it to the next theater, reload the following reel into the projector and cue it up for the next cycle. A single can for a 2-3 hour film would be huge. Digital will eventually win as the media is more manageable. (and maybe the MPAA will get distributors to to charge more since running on multiple screens then will take more pieces of media perhaps ...)
Al Capone has become an "open source" project now.
One way would be to create a co-linear antenna and bury it in butyl rubber in a crevive in the stone work (or just heat shrink over it and bury it in mortar (and hide the cost in maintenance to tuck-point the stone-work).
Do they have indoor plumbing? A device called a "Vent-tenna" is made for amatuer radio operators to disguise their external antennas.
Ask any ham in the area that lives with restricted covenants. They'll have lots of ideas.
Any flagpole handy? Replace it with a high-preformance fiberglass radome and put a wireless antenna inside.
You are dealing with 2.4 or 5 GHz so use 1/4 inch hardline (at a minimum) for the long runs to reduce signal loss.
Hire me as a consultant and I'll make sure you have a solution that works well and meets all your technical and apperance requirements.
Does it have an attic? Often above the eave line is timber and you might make due with an antenna in that area. Also check out the offerings by Motorola for a commercial band alternative that is higher legal power. Or, get a waiver from the British equivalent of the FCC to run higher power and use a commercial "export" amplifier (which also has a receiver pre-amp as well). Lots of options. Directional antennas indoors to reduce the attenuation of the wall structure.
Make sure that whatever you do (except maybe building to building optical links) you wet the buildings down when checking signal strengths. BTW Apples airport software as well as Orinco/Wavelan/Lucent/name-of-the-week software have signal strength test modes to check for antenna placement. Take an Airport and a laptop and play a bit to see what the through the wall loss is. If you use multiple base stations watch out for hidden transmitter syndrome. Something hams on packet radio (well the smart ones building networks) have known about for ages and the wireless network folks on the 802.11x, etc. side are just now figuring out.
Just call (and write) Dell and tell them that you don't want to abide by and can not agree to the MS OS license and ask to return the OS to Dell. Then ask them for your refund.
The trackpad on older Apples could be put into absolute mode by third party utilities, but as one reader commented, just get the Darwin source and have a look at what gives.
I use a $9.95 (on sale) handheld (well finger held) trackball from CompUSA The "trigger" is button one and buttons two and three are on top, the trackball being manipulated with your thumb. With practice you can type while still maintaining a grip on the thing, but I usually only do short sequences that way, puting it down when large amounts of typing are to be done (finger RTS otherwise?). It shares the bag with my Auto/airline lind power supply nicely. It is quite convienient. Overdrive and it should give you what you want.
Thank the USB organizations definition of the HID devices protocol for giving you the seeming mirical of "it works right out of the box without any drivers" as the default drivers often work "good enough". I am typing away on an unsupported Logitech wireless keyboard (and using a wireless trackball) through my USB KVM switch and it all "just works". Standards good. Beer bad.
Indian Isp Organization (IIO): Pay or we block your portal!
MSN: Are you sure about that?
IIO: PAY US OR WE BLOCK YOU!
MSN: Block us and we block India.
IIO: OK, maybe not.
The Internet is self healing. It is designed to route around problems. Play nice children.
Under Berne all the script-kiddie DoS scripts are copyrighted by their authors ... Thus they will have to come up with new DoS scripts on their own. If we patent all the methods (heck the patent office has let much worse through) then all the attacks will be protected IP and the MPAA and RIAA will have to violate copyright and / or patent protections to attack. Could we organise a suit against them based on representing "John Doe's" interests since the authors of the scripts are unlikely to come forward? Could we consider the attacks to be derivitive works based on the code in firewalls that protects against them? Just some random thoughts since if this law goes through, this discussion might be a crimminal conspiracy...
Push the handle in the intended direction, just push it harder than expected.
There's more to a Mac than a PPC. An Intel Mac would no doubt have the same pecularities (like Open Firmware, non PC-Standard Audio, etc.) in order to make it more reliable and easy to use. And just more Mac-like... So even if it runs internally on beige boxes don't expect a generic software release for the clone-a-box. Expect that if they do an Intel machine it would still be a Mac with proprietary dedicated hardware ...
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And, I still think buying the Alpha technology from HP is the way to go. High speed 64 bit architecture with plenty of headroom. And the associated patents are a thorn in Intels side so some minor retribution points
It is scheduled to be retired by HP/Compaq/Digital glom after the next two generations are out. The architecture has lots of headroom and Apple could own it outright. It has been 64 bit from the start and is very flexible. And the Apple^H^H^H^H^HAlpha architecture equivalent of AltiVec (MVI) is quite suave.
The solution seems simple. When stating the JPEG method, use a different color space and translate the mean square differences with the same method as converting the color space. (I.E., don't just use the mean square differential to pick out values in the new color space, transform the method so that it picks out the equivalent transformed color, a subtle but important difference). The result of this convolution should be the same, just a different path to it. While you are at it, optimize the heck out of the method. Patent it, but leave it open for public use.
This seems more likely to apply to the M-JPEG process, but if they are picking on the claim, "After processing in some mode, the processed signals are in the form of digital numbers and these digital numbers are coded, using ordered redundancy coding, and transmitted to a receiver.", then this is over broad by quite a stretch.
As a Russian friend of mine says, "The only thing new is history that has been forgotten." I worked on the team that designed and wrote the simulation tool for DEC's large system group and specifically for the Vax 8600 which had an asyncronous core implemented in ECL gate arrays. One of the more interesting facets was the skew analysis where PCB trace, on-chip, in quadrant, in cell, and basic element skews were all accounted for. Awesome project. In the early 80's ...
Might as well keep the offtopic posts in one place :-) ... It looks more like the old "magic eye" tuning indicators from vacumn tube days ... Wow, even older than I am.
...
I had an onion hanging from my belt; that was the fashion in those days.
Considering the animal species they used to illustrate the levels of decline are all valued in eastern culture for ivory, horns, or internal organs and are heavily poached, I question this articles validity. It seems more of a political peace with quite a different agenda.
I was hoping to actually file a patent on this! You can demonstrate the effect by taking an optical trackball and using a fingertip or thumbtip in the cavity created when you remove the ball. I noticed the effect cleaning a logitech device several years ago. The MS trackball also works well. As to "bluetooth" I have used my logitech wireless this way, so I assume it would work for a bluetooth as well.
I am outraged at this. If it actually allows DoS attaacks on P2P networks then the RIAA better be willing to pony up the funds for my lost bandwidth and the lost customers when they legally attack one of my clients on my ISP. They can pay the ISPs out of the money they get from the government from various media surcharges, fees, etc. that normally would be turned over to them. Hopefully someone will point out to this representitive that a DoS attack effects more than just the target of the attack. Time to set up an ORBs-like server for RIAA (and friends) so I can block them at my border routers.
Could it possibly be that if they appeal to tech savvy fans (and not others, else the figures would be similar to "normal" bands PLUS the techie sales) ...
...
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... that maybe, just maybe, they appeal to a smaller audience
Statistics lie. Statisticians lie damn well. Actuaries know where the bodies are
For simple linear problems, no sweat, for object oriented systems a bit tougher. No matter how much I map out the problem in my head, or outline it in prose/pseudo-code, I get coders block occasionally when trying to write complex problems down in a linear manner on paper. I think across the problem boundaries and prefer an editing environment where I can bounce between modules / routines. I _really_ love the folding editing features where you can collapse statement blocks that you have complete (and you have to develop a comment style that comments the collapsed block).
:-). And currently I have a pet question I got from someone I interviewed and hired that is a practical problem in a hypothetical language that I ask people I am interviewing. The main thing is to see what approach to problem solving they have.
...
But those exams are just the start. Even with 25 years experience when you go into some corporations (MS for example) there are occasional times where they'll hit you up with a hypothetical, then ask you to sketch out the code on the white board. I did three coding examples over a 6 hour interview for a contract with the MSVSEE group. Part of that of course is to see how you handle stress. And maybe writers cramp
So, get yourself in a relaxed zone, leave space around what you write, and if you have time or the problem is complex, sketch out the proposed solution in outline form with one statement per chunk you can easily code without worry. And if it is OO, do a normal design cycle, slightly compressed. Patterns if applicable, with a breakdown of roles, then specific interfaces, then do the individual modules as above.
Step by step, inch by inch, slowly I coded