I haven't hooked a scope up to verify this, but I don't think that the loops were laid precisely enough to scan the underbody well enough to identify much more than maybe the number of axles and just maybe their pitch. Image processing has better bang for the buck, with the loops really only useful to trigger a capture.
Sure, it is so incredibly easy to write a toy "digg" button -- the poseurs at Make: even sell a kit. Now try doing that hundreds of millions of times per second in a multiprocessing system, using a different counter for each of hundreds or thousands of netmasks. This is why cisco and the other big boys get paid the big bucks.
The deranged lunacy turned ranged a long time ago.
The core instruction set has had multiple sets of custom enhancements over the years, and can now do some pretty amazing stuff "in a single instruction."
Any x86 CPU you can buy at retail for at least the past three years IS a RISC CPU. x86 is just a compression/encryption format for RISC instructions, and there's not a single thing you can do with an x86 that can't be done on another architecture with similar hardware, and most likely cleaner and better. $50 million worth of R&D into any CPU design, architecture or instruction set will produce a roughly equivalent speedup. Since x86 is such a Charlie Foxtrot in the first place, starting with something cleaner is likely to produce even better performance.
It's the RISC methodology that can no longer keep up except under specific constraints to the problem set. That's why Apple switched to keep up in general-purpose and multimedia computing, and you'll find PowerPC only in embedded and HPC any more.
The only keeping up Apple needs to do is in IA-32 emulation and price. The same principle (commodity hardware means fewer hardware engineers and lower component costs) drove the commodity-based architecture of the Sun Ultra-5. It's ALL about money. It's always about money.
I agree that the "war on drugs" isn't doing much to reduce the problem below current levels. But, it is my belief that after seeing plenty of people addicted to drugs in one form or another that removing what controls exist today on it would give many more people the justification to use drugs.
So what do we do? Education? The problem is that we are fighting "escapism" in general. Educating people that getting away from the depressing aspects of their lives is somehow wrong or self-destructive doesn't work. Just let the druggies alone? The problem with that is without controls usage will expand significantly. High prices both deter use and create crimes to fund habits.
How can you say you're fighting escapism when the two most common crutches (and among the most likely to prevent real improvement in one's life), alcohol and television, are not only legal, but heavily promoted? What are you doing to improve anyone's lot in life? Does shutting off possible paths to self-actualization even more by slapping users with criminal records for trying to ease their pain even sound effective to this end once you take 100 years of temperance dogma out of the equation?
I don't know what the answer is. I do know that today in the US 20-30% of the population would agressively jump on the drug bandwagon if they knew it was safe and wasn't illegal. Maybe more. That isn't a solution, it is a disaster. I believe most people on the leading edges of the drug war are as frustrated as anyone else over the problem. Nobody has an idea what to do. Do we just write off a third of the population of the US?
Is drug use really the disaster? Not that people are pouring large amounts of money into violent criminal organizations because it's the only place to get what they're after? Not that people buying drugs can't buy a regulated product of known potency and thus are severely injured or die from overdoses or pollutants? Not that there are absolutely no enforceable controls to ensure that minors can't procure dangerous drugs with less hassle than they currently procure booze? Not that the only official guidance most users receive on doing drugs safely is "don't", and that in the absence of proper information and education they try to use drugs stupidly?
Escapism is only intrinsically dangerous to authoritarians. Alcohol and television are allowed only because they significantly incapacitate the user from bringing back from their trips anything contradictory to authoritarian dogma.
Bad assumption. The composition of two ciphers can be treated as a third cipher, which may not be any stronger than its parents, and can even be weaker.
Other than the frankly incompetent cases of using two ciphers composed with the same key, or including known plaintext in the inner ciphertext, when has such a weakness been observed?
The attacker is not obligated to solve the system in the same sequence that was used to encrypt the plaintext.
I agree that the composite cipher may well be weaker than the sum of its parents. As the composite cipher may contain redundancies that can be optimized away, so too would the attack. However, I don't see why a composed cipher, with each component keyed separately, would not be much stronger than the strongest of its parents.
It could be astroturf, but that doesn't mean Flash doesn't suck butt. The thing that sucks most about Flash (from this end user's perspective) is that access control is very coarse: the only way to keep it from interacting with the page, performing HTTP requests on your behalf, sending to your soundcard, accessing your clipboard, etc. is not to run the Flash applet in the first place. Ergo, Flashblock/NoScript is essential equipment these days.
(Why, I'm looking right now at a NoScript placeholder below this very edit box. Sorry, DoubleClick.)
How would you run plugins in a sandbox without running them in a VM? And then, what's the point of the plugin if it isn't native code? Plugins do exactly what they should. Blame the plugin authors for being so obnoxious and presumptive.
Middle-minded moral outrage is slashdot's stock in trade. Middle-minded moral outrage may fail on philosophy and consistency but usually gets the facts mostly in order. My beer's getting flat; message me if you need more help.
If the httpd user can modify the content root, you're begging for trouble. If the httpd user can modify no file on the system, a lot of exploits become that much harder to execute.
What if your web server and programming language are forbidden from creating or writing files? (I am easily persuaded that this is a good idea from a system security point of view if you're a hosting provider.)
Drugs are a special case; much of why the patent system is such a mess is that the same rules are applied to drugs and software, while the economics behind the two fields are so different.
From 10km up, some people come up with a goal, a number of salaried grunts work on it using the known best practices of their trade, the results are tested and reworked, and then (maybe) the product is brought to market, in hopes that the massive investment in development can be paid off by selling large volumes with a high gross profit to potentially underinformed buyers. The main difference is that "small pharma" is bigger than a lot of software concerns, not least because experimenting with drugs in your garage is frowned upon by the Religious Reich.
Dojo was *horrible* to build an interface in, especially when the Dojo team kept breaking their API with every release, usually in subtle ways that weren't necessarily apparent.
I'm a backend coder who knows databases, Java, some PHP, and Linux.
I inherited a mid-size PHP project that's just about to ship a 1.0. There were some new features needed. I tried using Dojo for its easy controls and DnD functionality. Absent a really good reason (like a stable API), I would not use Dojo again, despite the slick chrome, for two reasons. One is the tumbling API. The other is that the three big reasons I picked Dojo (dijit.Tree, dijit.Editor, and not having to deal with IE specifics) were buggy, incomplete, and/or unpolished as of 1.1.1. (Why does the default ItemFileWriteStore serializer produce JSON that it can't load back in? Does anyone even test this stuff?) Instead we lightly hacked dTree and htmlArea and that's gotten us to a usable if imperfect state.
The current code was written in 2000-vintage PHP and I'm pretty certain that it's not going to survive until the next major release. The short list of possibilities so far is GWT, move out of the browser entirely and use Java or even PerlTk on the frontend and anything but PHP on the backend, or bring in a frontend coder who has the wherewithal and patience to deal with this web app nonsense.
In the US, the Christian theocrats are also working on rolling back the right to obtain and use contraception and also on disallowing government funding for fact-based sex ed in favor of "abstinence education". So while your principled opposition is insightful and interesting, it isn't all of what the GP was referring to.
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Wow... She's going to be popular with the boys now... uh... waitaminute...
"I ain't sayin' she a gold digger, but..."
I haven't hooked a scope up to verify this, but I don't think that the loops were laid precisely enough to scan the underbody well enough to identify much more than maybe the number of axles and just maybe their pitch. Image processing has better bang for the buck, with the loops really only useful to trigger a capture.
If you're buying only one sensor for all your dancing and your running shoes, you're not consuming enough. Back to square 1 with you.
that whistleblower who decided to scream from the mountaintops about the terms of the MS OEM refund instead of signing his NDA? Might it just?
Shoot the hostage.
Sure, it is so incredibly easy to write a toy "digg" button -- the poseurs at Make: even sell a kit. Now try doing that hundreds of millions of times per second in a multiprocessing system, using a different counter for each of hundreds or thousands of netmasks. This is why cisco and the other big boys get paid the big bucks.
Electric motors don't need transmissions. Amen to the other two notions for now.
The deranged lunacy turned ranged a long time ago.
The core instruction set has had multiple sets of custom enhancements over the years, and can now do some pretty amazing stuff "in a single instruction."
Any x86 CPU you can buy at retail for at least the past three years IS a RISC CPU. x86 is just a compression/encryption format for RISC instructions, and there's not a single thing you can do with an x86 that can't be done on another architecture with similar hardware, and most likely cleaner and better. $50 million worth of R&D into any CPU design, architecture or instruction set will produce a roughly equivalent speedup. Since x86 is such a Charlie Foxtrot in the first place, starting with something cleaner is likely to produce even better performance.
It's the RISC methodology that can no longer keep up except under specific constraints to the problem set. That's why Apple switched to keep up in general-purpose and multimedia computing, and you'll find PowerPC only in embedded and HPC any more.
The only keeping up Apple needs to do is in IA-32 emulation and price. The same principle (commodity hardware means fewer hardware engineers and lower component costs) drove the commodity-based architecture of the Sun Ultra-5. It's ALL about money. It's always about money.
Has a FLV "preview" and allows a high-quality download option.
and fear of herpes :P
Why worry? 1/5 of Americans have it and most don't know it.
They call that "polyfidelitous" in my circles.
I agree that the "war on drugs" isn't doing much to reduce the problem below current levels. But, it is my belief that after seeing plenty of people addicted to drugs in one form or another that removing what controls exist today on it would give many more people the justification to use drugs.
So what do we do? Education? The problem is that we are fighting "escapism" in general. Educating people that getting away from the depressing aspects of their lives is somehow wrong or self-destructive doesn't work. Just let the druggies alone? The problem with that is without controls usage will expand significantly. High prices both deter use and create crimes to fund habits.
How can you say you're fighting escapism when the two most common crutches (and among the most likely to prevent real improvement in one's life), alcohol and television, are not only legal, but heavily promoted? What are you doing to improve anyone's lot in life? Does shutting off possible paths to self-actualization even more by slapping users with criminal records for trying to ease their pain even sound effective to this end once you take 100 years of temperance dogma out of the equation?
I don't know what the answer is. I do know that today in the US 20-30% of the population would agressively jump on the drug bandwagon if they knew it was safe and wasn't illegal. Maybe more. That isn't a solution, it is a disaster. I believe most people on the leading edges of the drug war are as frustrated as anyone else over the problem. Nobody has an idea what to do. Do we just write off a third of the population of the US?
Is drug use really the disaster? Not that people are pouring large amounts of money into violent criminal organizations because it's the only place to get what they're after? Not that people buying drugs can't buy a regulated product of known potency and thus are severely injured or die from overdoses or pollutants? Not that there are absolutely no enforceable controls to ensure that minors can't procure dangerous drugs with less hassle than they currently procure booze? Not that the only official guidance most users receive on doing drugs safely is "don't", and that in the absence of proper information and education they try to use drugs stupidly?
Escapism is only intrinsically dangerous to authoritarians. Alcohol and television are allowed only because they significantly incapacitate the user from bringing back from their trips anything contradictory to authoritarian dogma.
Bad assumption. The composition of two ciphers can be treated as a third cipher, which may not be any stronger than its parents, and can even be weaker.
Other than the frankly incompetent cases of using two ciphers composed with the same key, or including known plaintext in the inner ciphertext, when has such a weakness been observed?
The attacker is not obligated to solve the system in the same sequence that was used to encrypt the plaintext.
I agree that the composite cipher may well be weaker than the sum of its parents. As the composite cipher may contain redundancies that can be optimized away, so too would the attack. However, I don't see why a composed cipher, with each component keyed separately, would not be much stronger than the strongest of its parents.
It could be astroturf, but that doesn't mean Flash doesn't suck butt. The thing that sucks most about Flash (from this end user's perspective) is that access control is very coarse: the only way to keep it from interacting with the page, performing HTTP requests on your behalf, sending to your soundcard, accessing your clipboard, etc. is not to run the Flash applet in the first place. Ergo, Flashblock/NoScript is essential equipment these days.
(Why, I'm looking right now at a NoScript placeholder below this very edit box. Sorry, DoubleClick.)
I think that's an X11 anachronism you're dealing with there. No idea why it still exists in 2008.
How would you run plugins in a sandbox without running them in a VM? And then, what's the point of the plugin if it isn't native code? Plugins do exactly what they should. Blame the plugin authors for being so obnoxious and presumptive.
Middle-minded moral outrage is slashdot's stock in trade. Middle-minded moral outrage may fail on philosophy and consistency but usually gets the facts mostly in order. My beer's getting flat; message me if you need more help.
If the httpd user can modify the content root, you're begging for trouble. If the httpd user can modify no file on the system, a lot of exploits become that much harder to execute.
Tom has facts. You have small-minded moral outrage. Your currency doesn't spend here.
Lakes?
What if your web server and programming language are forbidden from creating or writing files? (I am easily persuaded that this is a good idea from a system security point of view if you're a hosting provider.)
A "demonstrator", never your... demonstrator.
Drugs are a special case; much of why the patent system is such a mess is that the same rules are applied to drugs and software, while the economics behind the two fields are so different.
From 10km up, some people come up with a goal, a number of salaried grunts work on it using the known best practices of their trade, the results are tested and reworked, and then (maybe) the product is brought to market, in hopes that the massive investment in development can be paid off by selling large volumes with a high gross profit to potentially underinformed buyers. The main difference is that "small pharma" is bigger than a lot of software concerns, not least because experimenting with drugs in your garage is frowned upon by the Religious Reich.
Dojo was *horrible* to build an interface in, especially when the Dojo team kept breaking their API with every release, usually in subtle ways that weren't necessarily apparent.
I'm a backend coder who knows databases, Java, some PHP, and Linux.
I inherited a mid-size PHP project that's just about to ship a 1.0. There were some new features needed. I tried using Dojo for its easy controls and DnD functionality. Absent a really good reason (like a stable API), I would not use Dojo again, despite the slick chrome, for two reasons. One is the tumbling API. The other is that the three big reasons I picked Dojo (dijit.Tree, dijit.Editor, and not having to deal with IE specifics) were buggy, incomplete, and/or unpolished as of 1.1.1. (Why does the default ItemFileWriteStore serializer produce JSON that it can't load back in? Does anyone even test this stuff?) Instead we lightly hacked dTree and htmlArea and that's gotten us to a usable if imperfect state.
The current code was written in 2000-vintage PHP and I'm pretty certain that it's not going to survive until the next major release. The short list of possibilities so far is GWT, move out of the browser entirely and use Java or even PerlTk on the frontend and anything but PHP on the backend, or bring in a frontend coder who has the wherewithal and patience to deal with this web app nonsense.
In the US, the Christian theocrats are also working on rolling back the right to obtain and use contraception and also on disallowing government funding for fact-based sex ed in favor of "abstinence education". So while your principled opposition is insightful and interesting, it isn't all of what the GP was referring to.