The question is not whether you can distinguish one from the other. Anyone can do that. The question is, if you're not told beforehand (blind), can you pick out the higher quality recording more than 50% of the time. And the answer is you can't.
To be honest, I really wish google went back to what make them popular in the first place (searching the web) and fixed it. Every time someone complains how google isn't quite as useful as it used to be the typical response is like "for what searching for porn? lolol". Actually, no. I'm finding google less and less useful for what I *do* search for though. Here are some examples:
1) Coding questions: Usually the first 10 pages I get back are these sites that are 99% ads with some post that asks a similar question and then no answers. My guess is that these sites crawl newsgroup postings and then strip away identifying information. Whatever they are, they're absolutely worthless for actually solving my problem.
2) Web hosting: I'd say the first 2 or 3 pages of results are SEO fake review sites. Again, completely worthless.
3) Software (this relates to OP): same as before. SEO fake review/download sites that usually redirect to the actual download. I guess in a way they're actually sort of useful because you find software, but it's pretty clear that the only point of the page is to get money from ads and that all the reviews aren't to be trusted.
Google really needs to go back and tweak their page ranking because whatever it's based on, it's pretty obvious that spammers have figured it out.
Though Brooks does not outright say it, he clearly implies in the book that he favors contract workers by suggesting that implementers may only be hired once the architecture of the system has been completed (a step that may take several months, during which time the implementers may have nothing to do). It stands to reason then that if written today, Brooks might have written in favor of outsourcing software jobs in the United States to third world countries where programmer salaries are much lower.
The author of this section is basically guessing as to what Brooks would think about outsourcing. If it's not a fact, it doesn't belong in an encyclopedia. Brooks may very well be in favor of outsourcing, but he doesn't say it in his book and therefore saying "it stands to reason" that he is is plain wrong.
I think wikipedia is interesting reading and very useful, but especially on less popular pages, there are tons of problems when compared with a real encyclopedia.
Dell has it for 342 + 4 shipping = 346. See the deal at slickdeals.
Lowest price on pricewatch is 404 after shipping.
Also, BFG is a good manufacturer to buy from as they have a lifetime warranty. I actually had one of their cards die on me and the RMA process was painless (only had to pay for shipping the card out to them).
It helps that Cohen never cast himself as an anarchist who bragged that his technology would vanquish the old entertainment industry. He has gone out of his way to castigate those who use BitTorrent for piracy.
I build systems to disseminate information, commit digital piracy, synthesize drugs, maintain untrusted contacts, purchase anonymously, and secure machines and homes.
While I'm not the original poster, most likely he highlighted that link because British and American libel law differ greatly. I'm going to generalize, but in Britain the burden rests on the defendant to prove that what he or she said is the truth. In America, the rules are much more favorable to the defendant. For example, if you can prove that the words were simply opinion than you can't be sued for libel.
I'm American and I tend to favor the American versions (plural because it varies state by state) of the libel laws. If you're interested about the British libel law and why it's bad, check out the McLibel trial brought by McDonalds.
No, this is 100% about journalism and blogging. If a New York Times reporter had received the same information as the bloggers and reported it, he would not have to reveal his source. Journalists are protected in that regard.
Since the judge is ruling that these websites have to reveal their sources, it essentially means that in the eyes of the court blogging is not a form of journalism. I find that a pretty scary ruling. I don't blog or anything, but I certainly think that there are bloggers out there doing more for the journalism profession than many "legitimate" news outlets (think Fox news).
As far as I can tell, entrapment would not apply at all in this case. Entrapment actually has a fairly strict legal definition. Giving someone the opportunity to commit a crime is not enough. The crime must have been suggested by government agents (police, FBI, whatever) and the person must have been unwilling to commit the crime before the agents talked to him/her (they had to convince him).
A good example of entrapment might be someone who had a regular job, but was very short on money. If the police approached him to make a quick drug sell and earn an easy $5000 and the individual wouldn't have considered selling drugs before the police approached him (upstanding citizen, etc.), then that would be entrapment. Honeypots/nets are only providing an opportunity to commit a crime and don't fit the other two conditions of entrapment.
First of all, the linked article simply describes a firewall blocking some outgoing traffic with easy rate limit rules (i.e. no email after x messages sent in y amount of time). There's no need to call it a reverse firewall. It's a firewall, plain and simple. Just because most people allow all outgoing traffic doesn't mean that if you block some you've invented a new type of firewall.
The other article is really describing a completely different thing. They use the same term, reverse firewall, but they talk about firewalling each individual machine inside a lan. Basically, they suggest a firewall on each machine to protect the internal network from attacks that originate inside it. Completely different use of the term.
It sort of looks like the submitter just googled for "reverse firewall" and posted the first match. Or actually it appears to be the 4th match. Anyway, regardless, the two links seem to be talking about different things. Both of them have merit, but neither seems particularly innovative. I do like the first articles idea of rate limiting outgoing email on home router boxes by default. Seems like it would solve a lot of spam problems.
Well, in this case, the ask slashdot question is stupid. How can you recommend a camera without any idea for a budget? It's impossible. Obviously, get the best camera you can with the money you have budgeted for it. If he or she said in particular "i have 3000 to spend", then I'm sure people could make specific recommendations. But as it is now, no one can.
Actually the 832s at newegg is $86 with free shipping. After you add shipping to the $69 price of the 451, it turns into $79. So you save $7 and void your warranty... definitely not worth it. Also, the upgrade only upgrades burning of +R discs at 8x not -R.
Well, actually, if each disc is only meant to play on one specific player that they distribute, it would be incredibly easy to make it "unhackable". Just use a shared key encryption scheme. The only way it could be "hacked" is if you found a way to extract the shared key from the hardware dvd player or the shared key for a specific player was leaked mpaa. That could happen, but it's not to likely. And if you managed to come by one of these disc, it would really be impossible to hack (at least without incredible amounts of time or computing power).
I know it's not completely free, but you can download a trial version. turboprint. Furthermore, if it works, paying for the full version will run you about the cost of one ink cartridge. WRT the Canon s520, this person had luck.
... I wouldn't give you money. Would you trust someone who advocated day trading to manage your investment well? I find it interesting that you quote Warren Buffet in your theory section when essentially you are going against everything that he stood for (regarding investments).
Realize that in order to succeed you will lose - a lot. I lost $11,000 when I started out, but I think of that money as an education. Also, do not even attempt to day trade with less then $40,000 as you will need Day Trading Buying power. PAPER TRADE.
How much did you end up making? If you did/are doing well, why are you changing professions (trader to dotcomer)? If not, why would I trust my money with you? (especially since you're losing your money in such a foolish manner--day trading)
I find this somewhat funny that the link would be to Nature, which is part of the academic publishing "evil empire". For a good opinion on what is wrong with academic publishing in its current form see this
Also, if you're a scientist and would like to publish in an open format or you're interested in scientific papers, go to the Public Library of Science
First of all, nvidia provides drivers for ia32, ia64, and amd64 on linux as well as ia32 on freebsd. So, they don't limit themselves to one arch/one os. (no ppc, but to be honest, i don't think there are that many linux/freebsd ppc users) ati only provides ia32 on linux.
Now regarding a recommendation, if you only want drivers that have good 3d accel and are open source, your only option is to go with matrox. The only problem is that matrox cards are comparatively more expensive for the speed they provide. Instead, I would recommend getting an nvidia based card. Although nvidia's driver is binary only, it's quite good and simply looking at their readme, you can tell that they put a lot of time into it. I personally have used two different nvidia cards in linux for a number of years and have never run into any trouble.
That said, whatever you do, don't get an ATI card. I stupidly bought a radeon 9700 and i've tried every single linux driver that they've released. I can't run any 3d program for more than about 5 minutes without the whole machine locking up. In windows, the card works perfectly. So, if don't want to deal with the hassle of ATI's half-hearted support for linux, don't get one of their cards.
I don't know if you could even make a female robot. Since the robot's consciousness would have to be controlled by a computer, I assume it would be based on logic and reason. Both of those qualities are sorely lacking in the females that I've known.
Although, I suppose with good enough pseudo-randomness it might work.
This is really just trying to get someone's name out on the security sites. Currently, in a decent TCP/IP implementation, you have to know the source and destination IP's, the source and destination ports, and the sequence number. Now, some of those are fairly easy to determine, but others like the source port (assuming connecting to a server) and the sequence number are not. (BTW, I do realize that in some crappy implementations the source port is easy to guess, but whatever) You would need to be able to sniff the actual connection. And in all honesty, if you can sniff the connection, there are much easier ways to cause a DOS (for example, bringing down the interface).
Hehe. Speaking of usability of google, I've seen someone who had there IE homepage set to google (someone else must have set it for her) and everytime she wanted to go to a web address she would type it into google. Like, she would search for www.cnn.com and of course the first result would be what she wanted. Little did she know that there was an address bar...
Book sounds bad; read Accelerated C++
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From this review, this book sounds horrible. I can't stand books that:
1.) Don't have a clear target audience (from the review it sounds too easy and too little details for a programmer and yet too hard for a complete beginner)
2.) Seem like the author was paid by the page. Really, even for a complete novice, a well written book can teach C++ in less than 300 pages.
Conclusion: Don't buy this book.
That said, I really like Accelerated C++ for a novice programmer. The authors obviously know their stuff and it's very clear and concise. Lot's of good (not pointless little toy programs) examples that are clearly explained. Also, an example is built throughout a chapter so you don't have to comprehend everything at once. Finally, and this is the best part, STL is used from the beginning. Why save the best part of C++ for the end?
I have the older VB50HRTV from Viewsonic. It works great for my purposes and combined with my 19" Viewsonic monitor makes a wonderful small T.V.
One thing that I would recommend is getting a monitor that has a "super bright" mode. Basically, on my monitor, if i push the button the pictures blur a little bit but the monitor becomes as bright as a normal T.V. so that it doesn't look dim from a distance.
I don't really use the vga pass-through. Instead when I use my computer I simply turn off the tuner box (which makes it into a dumb vga pass-through apparently).
One final thing, I don't really know about reliability on these things. My remote control (which was surprising good on such a cheap box) recently died. Although the picture and inputs work fine, I guess i'll have to fork over the money for a replacement because a lot of the features cannot be controlled through the buttons on the front.
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The question is not whether you can distinguish one from the other. Anyone can do that. The question is, if you're not told beforehand (blind), can you pick out the higher quality recording more than 50% of the time. And the answer is you can't.
To be honest, I really wish google went back to what make them popular in the first place (searching the web) and fixed it. Every time someone complains how google isn't quite as useful as it used to be the typical response is like "for what searching for porn? lolol". Actually, no. I'm finding google less and less useful for what I *do* search for though. Here are some examples:
1) Coding questions: Usually the first 10 pages I get back are these sites that are 99% ads with some post that asks a similar question and then no answers. My guess is that these sites crawl newsgroup postings and then strip away identifying information. Whatever they are, they're absolutely worthless for actually solving my problem.
2) Web hosting: I'd say the first 2 or 3 pages of results are SEO fake review sites. Again, completely worthless.
3) Software (this relates to OP): same as before. SEO fake review/download sites that usually redirect to the actual download. I guess in a way they're actually sort of useful because you find software, but it's pretty clear that the only point of the page is to get money from ads and that all the reviews aren't to be trusted.
Google really needs to go back and tweak their page ranking because whatever it's based on, it's pretty obvious that spammers have figured it out.
Here's a classic example that I just came upon (from the Mythical Man Month page):
Though Brooks does not outright say it, he clearly implies in the book that he favors contract workers by suggesting that implementers may only be hired once the architecture of the system has been completed (a step that may take several months, during which time the implementers may have nothing to do). It stands to reason then that if written today, Brooks might have written in favor of outsourcing software jobs in the United States to third world countries where programmer salaries are much lower.
The author of this section is basically guessing as to what Brooks would think about outsourcing. If it's not a fact, it doesn't belong in an encyclopedia. Brooks may very well be in favor of outsourcing, but he doesn't say it in his book and therefore saying "it stands to reason" that he is is plain wrong.
I think wikipedia is interesting reading and very useful, but especially on less popular pages, there are tons of problems when compared with a real encyclopedia.
Dell has it for 342 + 4 shipping = 346. See the deal at slickdeals.
Lowest price on pricewatch is 404 after shipping.
Also, BFG is a good manufacturer to buy from as they have a lifetime warranty. I actually had one of their cards die on me and the RMA process was painless (only had to pay for shipping the card out to them).
It helps that Cohen never cast himself as an anarchist who bragged that his technology would vanquish the old entertainment industry. He has gone out of his way to castigate those who use BitTorrent for piracy.
Or not...
From his homepage:I build systems to disseminate information, commit digital piracy, synthesize drugs, maintain untrusted contacts, purchase anonymously, and secure machines and homes.
I'm American and I tend to favor the American versions (plural because it varies state by state) of the libel laws. If you're interested about the British libel law and why it's bad, check out the McLibel trial brought by McDonalds.
No, this is 100% about journalism and blogging. If a New York Times reporter had received the same information as the bloggers and reported it, he would not have to reveal his source. Journalists are protected in that regard.
Since the judge is ruling that these websites have to reveal their sources, it essentially means that in the eyes of the court blogging is not a form of journalism. I find that a pretty scary ruling. I don't blog or anything, but I certainly think that there are bloggers out there doing more for the journalism profession than many "legitimate" news outlets (think Fox news).
I wish I could mod you -1 Wrong.
I just found a number of boards within about 30 seconds. That's a new low for an ask slashdot.
Here's a few
Every board there except for the single processor ones supports at least 16 GBs of memory. Many have 16x pcie slots and at least one has 2.
As far as I can tell, entrapment would not apply at all in this case. Entrapment actually has a fairly strict legal definition. Giving someone the opportunity to commit a crime is not enough. The crime must have been suggested by government agents (police, FBI, whatever) and the person must have been unwilling to commit the crime before the agents talked to him/her (they had to convince him).
A good example of entrapment might be someone who had a regular job, but was very short on money. If the police approached him to make a quick drug sell and earn an easy $5000 and the individual wouldn't have considered selling drugs before the police approached him (upstanding citizen, etc.), then that would be entrapment. Honeypots/nets are only providing an opportunity to commit a crime and don't fit the other two conditions of entrapment.
First of all, the linked article simply describes a firewall blocking some outgoing traffic with easy rate limit rules (i.e. no email after x messages sent in y amount of time). There's no need to call it a reverse firewall. It's a firewall, plain and simple. Just because most people allow all outgoing traffic doesn't mean that if you block some you've invented a new type of firewall.
The other article is really describing a completely different thing. They use the same term, reverse firewall, but they talk about firewalling each individual machine inside a lan. Basically, they suggest a firewall on each machine to protect the internal network from attacks that originate inside it. Completely different use of the term.
It sort of looks like the submitter just googled for "reverse firewall" and posted the first match. Or actually it appears to be the 4th match. Anyway, regardless, the two links seem to be talking about different things. Both of them have merit, but neither seems particularly innovative. I do like the first articles idea of rate limiting outgoing email on home router boxes by default. Seems like it would solve a lot of spam problems.
Well, in this case, the ask slashdot question is stupid. How can you recommend a camera without any idea for a budget? It's impossible. Obviously, get the best camera you can with the money you have budgeted for it. If he or she said in particular "i have 3000 to spend", then I'm sure people could make specific recommendations. But as it is now, no one can.
A racing stripe and vtec sticker help too.
Actually the 832s at newegg is $86 with free shipping. After you add shipping to the $69 price of the 451, it turns into $79. So you save $7 and void your warranty... definitely not worth it. Also, the upgrade only upgrades burning of +R discs at 8x not -R.
There *are* other *ways* to emphasize *text*. Why *don't* you try *one*?
Well, actually, if each disc is only meant to play on one specific player that they distribute, it would be incredibly easy to make it "unhackable". Just use a shared key encryption scheme. The only way it could be "hacked" is if you found a way to extract the shared key from the hardware dvd player or the shared key for a specific player was leaked mpaa. That could happen, but it's not to likely. And if you managed to come by one of these disc, it would really be impossible to hack (at least without incredible amounts of time or computing power).
Well, here is a list of new features. Whether or not those features are worth the upgrade hassle is up to you.
I know it's not completely free, but you can download a trial version. turboprint. Furthermore, if it works, paying for the full version will run you about the cost of one ink cartridge. WRT the Canon s520, this person had luck.
... I wouldn't give you money. Would you trust someone who advocated day trading to manage your investment well? I find it interesting that you quote Warren Buffet in your theory section when essentially you are going against everything that he stood for (regarding investments).
Realize that in order to succeed you will lose - a lot. I lost $11,000 when I started out, but I think of that money as an education. Also, do not even attempt to day trade with less then $40,000 as you will need Day Trading Buying power. PAPER TRADE.
How much did you end up making? If you did/are doing well, why are you changing professions (trader to dotcomer)? If not, why would I trust my money with you? (especially since you're losing your money in such a foolish manner--day trading)
I find this somewhat funny that the link would be to Nature, which is part of the academic publishing "evil empire". For a good opinion on what is wrong with academic publishing in its current form see this
Also, if you're a scientist and would like to publish in an open format or you're interested in scientific papers, go to the Public Library of Science
First of all, nvidia provides drivers for ia32, ia64, and amd64 on linux as well as ia32 on freebsd. So, they don't limit themselves to one arch/one os. (no ppc, but to be honest, i don't think there are that many linux/freebsd ppc users) ati only provides ia32 on linux.
Now regarding a recommendation, if you only want drivers that have good 3d accel and are open source, your only option is to go with matrox. The only problem is that matrox cards are comparatively more expensive for the speed they provide. Instead, I would recommend getting an nvidia based card. Although nvidia's driver is binary only, it's quite good and simply looking at their readme, you can tell that they put a lot of time into it. I personally have used two different nvidia cards in linux for a number of years and have never run into any trouble.
That said, whatever you do, don't get an ATI card. I stupidly bought a radeon 9700 and i've tried every single linux driver that they've released. I can't run any 3d program for more than about 5 minutes without the whole machine locking up. In windows, the card works perfectly. So, if don't want to deal with the hassle of ATI's half-hearted support for linux, don't get one of their cards.
I don't know if you could even make a female robot. Since the robot's consciousness would have to be controlled by a computer, I assume it would be based on logic and reason. Both of those qualities are sorely lacking in the females that I've known.
Although, I suppose with good enough pseudo-randomness it might work.
This is really just trying to get someone's name out on the security sites. Currently, in a decent TCP/IP implementation, you have to know the source and destination IP's, the source and destination ports, and the sequence number. Now, some of those are fairly easy to determine, but others like the source port (assuming connecting to a server) and the sequence number are not. (BTW, I do realize that in some crappy implementations the source port is easy to guess, but whatever) You would need to be able to sniff the actual connection. And in all honesty, if you can sniff the connection, there are much easier ways to cause a DOS (for example, bringing down the interface).
Hehe. Speaking of usability of google, I've seen someone who had there IE homepage set to google (someone else must have set it for her) and everytime she wanted to go to a web address she would type it into google. Like, she would search for www.cnn.com and of course the first result would be what she wanted. Little did she know that there was an address bar...
From this review, this book sounds horrible. I can't stand books that:
1.) Don't have a clear target audience (from the review it sounds too easy and too little details for a programmer and yet too hard for a complete beginner)
2.) Seem like the author was paid by the page. Really, even for a complete novice, a well written book can teach C++ in less than 300 pages.
Conclusion: Don't buy this book.
That said, I really like Accelerated C++ for a novice programmer. The authors obviously know their stuff and it's very clear and concise. Lot's of good (not pointless little toy programs) examples that are clearly explained. Also, an example is built throughout a chapter so you don't have to comprehend everything at once. Finally, and this is the best part, STL is used from the beginning. Why save the best part of C++ for the end?
Amazon link: Accelerated C++
I have the older VB50HRTV from Viewsonic. It works great for my purposes and combined with my 19" Viewsonic monitor makes a wonderful small T.V.
One thing that I would recommend is getting a monitor that has a "super bright" mode. Basically, on my monitor, if i push the button the pictures blur a little bit but the monitor becomes as bright as a normal T.V. so that it doesn't look dim from a distance.
I don't really use the vga pass-through. Instead when I use my computer I simply turn off the tuner box (which makes it into a dumb vga pass-through apparently).
One final thing, I don't really know about reliability on these things. My remote control (which was surprising good on such a cheap box) recently died. Although the picture and inputs work fine, I guess i'll have to fork over the money for a replacement because a lot of the features cannot be controlled through the buttons on the front.