You did not read the paper very carefully. The receipt can be proven to have the proper 'signature' (think public key cryptography), and it can be proven to have been tallied. But it CANNOT be proven to correspond to a specific vote, thus it cannot be used for coercion. The paper makes that explicitly clear in the first couple pages of the report.
I make no claim to accuracy or insider info. It's a parody, plain and simple, and as such is SUPPOSED to include FUD. Caricatures are the medium of satyre.
this is supposed to stop viruses but it doesn't have any override
Not true, you can override it. It's still an insanely stupid option, but you can turn it off by going to Tools->Options->Security and disable the option called 'Do Not Allow Attachments blah blah'.
This quote won't go down in history though, primarily because whether or not he thinks it is important, very soon more than 4GB will be available on the desktop. We were stuck with 640KB for a good 5 years past the point when it inconvenienced us. We will get past 4GB before it is a significant problem, whether or not he thinks it is important.
Bill Gates is a very intelligent man... who is currently acting like a very intelligent trained monkey, spouting defensive FUD. But that's nothing new.
I wouldn't be surprised if MS does make pages in under 24 hours. But I bet the process looks like this.
- Microsoft notified about a problem. - Notification email sits in Exchange server for a week due to problems with a corrupted mailbox. - Flunky reads email, decides it would never happen in real life, demotes to low priority. - MS Updates their problem tracking database. Issue is lost in the db move. - Another flunky goes through and re-adds all the issues from emails. - Smarter employee upgrades importance, flags it as 'do now!' - Issue languishes for another few weeks. - Vulnerability 'approved for fix!' - Programmers fix it in under 24 hours. - Patch enters testing queue. - Patch is tested in an inadequate number of systems that all include only MS software an no 'unusual' configurations like, say, not using IE as default browser. - Patch is sent to deployment team. - Wait another week. - Deployment team packages fix, places it on wu.ms.c. - Fix breaks on many systems, system admins tear out hair, MS pats themselves on backs for their fine bug fixing system.
They are attempting to avoid Bayesian filters by including non-spam words as well as spam words. They are almost-white to avoid filters that (wisely) ignore completely white text.
This was not an objective article. THG was invited to goto the factory. They talk about how many people ask them how cases are made... you know what? I think that's bull. I think nobody asked them, they just bit the shiny hook that Chenbro dangled, and we're now eating fish.
This is an advertisement, disguised as an article, with very little content.
Kazaa Lite - Nice for getting those mp3 collections. For the legal-minded, substitute a good cd ripping program (I don't know of a good free one, I use a pay app).
Would not work. While the data is collected by computer, the firm employes many engineers and other people to massage the data into human consumable form.
The green scrolley was the raw data as it went in... that does not mean that the raw data makes it back out of the company intact. Anyone can collect raw data... run a Gnutella client and look at all the search requests go through. It's the process of turning the data into INFORMATION that makes their service valuable.
... to get arbitrary files on a memory card? I don't know about you, but *I* don't have anything like that. Will a small industry be created selling pre-altered memory cards?
No, the GPL is not being formally challenged. It is being farcically challenged by a bunch of loons. This suit has zero (0) chance of winning no matter how you look at it, so the GPL is in no danger of anything.
The SCO news stories are essentially 'look at the new thing SCO's lawyers are doing, but is so ludicrous that they have no chance of winning!' IF any of these things had a snowball's chance in hell of success, it might be news.
As it is, it's the funny pages, and the joke is getting old.
yesterday, regarding the worm. I was amazed how fast this virus spread... no other virus has created such a quick increase in call volume for us.
Of course, I work at an ISP... so when their Internet flakes out, we're the first thing they call. This is one of the first viruses I've seen that seems to deliberately crash your Internet connection, so rather than calling days or weeks later with some minor odd behavior, they called right away because their net was down.
I'm curious what will happen in a day when the timed DDOS goes off.
I wonder how this would fare putting two computer languages side by side? I mean... take a few thousand programs, coded using the same algorithms but different computer languages... would his language translation software translate between them? Would it be able to differentiate between languages that manually allocate memory and those that use garbage collection? How about between procedural langauages like C, and more esoteric and oddly structured languages like LISP?
By the next year, The Times would have to bend to Harry's will and initiate its first separate weekly children's best-seller list, lest adult fiction get crowded out by the Rowling juggernaut.
That is kind of unfair, isn't it? After all people of all ages read the books.
They did it because other books were being held back. Rowling's astounding success was preventing other books from being released, because the publishers were holding them back until they had a chance to get on the bestseller list. With HP1/2/3/4 out there, they were relegated to #2 at best, even if the book was of a quality that would normally garner a #1 spot for several weeks.
If you were going to enter a Chile cooking competition, in which it cost you a lot of money to enter, but winning (or placing well) would gain you a nice profit, would you even bother entering if you saw that Betty Sue, who was 90 if she was a day, had won the past 45 years and showed no sign of stopping? So people stop competing, and the competition dries up in the Chile contest.
To bring competition back, they make a Senior Chile contest separate from the normal one. People happily compete in both, everyone still KNOWS that Betty Sue could kick all the asses of the young whippersnappers, but now they have a chance again.
No chance of being a prequal since one of the main supporting characters is a woman who lost her mother in the events of the first game.
Of course, I don't know how that can be possible, since there was not a single female NPC in the entire game... unless her mother was one of those funky flipping assassins that made me reload a dozen or so times to get past.
Perhaps I'm not understanding something, but how do the researchers intend on having the nodes in a real life network emit 'pheremones'? The only application I can see for that is self organizing wireless hubs. But for hard wired networks it does not seem to make sense, since there is no way to estimate the ease of connecting two points based on distance alone.
Overall, this article only seems to apply to wireless networks. An interesting, but limited, usage.
The reason this does NOT WORK is because games need performance. They need to run fast. Coding to an abstract 'plugin' versus coding to the hardware can be a difference of an ORDER OF MAGNITUDE or MORE in terms of speed.
You have obviously not done any 3d programming for games... or anything else. Don't spout about what you don't know.
Oh wait... this is slashdot. My pardon, spout away... everyone else does.:-)
I actually USE pi as my login... or actually, a long chunk of it from several hundred digits in. I've been slowly memorizing pi for years now by using 15-25 character passwords with digits from pi. After a couple months when I can enter the password without thinking... I move on to the next chunk of numbers in pi. I've memorized about 200 or so digits so far.
Yes it is useless. But at least I'm using the password I need to memorize for some purpose. Ever thought of learning your favorite poem by setting your password to the poem, line by line? Only practical in systems that accept long passwords, such as Netware, Win2K, or anything using Kerberos.
That's why they said a '30% clock for clock increase'.
Chances are the compiler for 64 bit is NOT AS GOOD as the 32bit compiler, due to inexperience with optimization on the new platform. And other than 64 bit and the register changes that accompany that, most of the architecture between the two are identical.
So the answer is: Good chance that ALL of the gain was due to the jump to 64 bits.
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You did not read the paper very carefully. The receipt can be proven to have the proper 'signature' (think public key cryptography), and it can be proven to have been tallied. But it CANNOT be proven to correspond to a specific vote, thus it cannot be used for coercion. The paper makes that explicitly clear in the first couple pages of the report.
I'm a healthy white male, and have lost nobody I know to the Ebola virus, but I think any disease this deadly should have a cure as soon as possible.
:-)
I'm young enough to still pretend I'm invincible, and I don't have a fear of needles.
Because it is flexible and conductive. Flexible let them make it into the shape it is, conductive reduces the RF emissions of the PC.
I make no claim to accuracy or insider info. It's a parody, plain and simple, and as such is SUPPOSED to include FUD. Caricatures are the medium of satyre.
This quote won't go down in history though, primarily because whether or not he thinks it is important, very soon more than 4GB will be available on the desktop. We were stuck with 640KB for a good 5 years past the point when it inconvenienced us. We will get past 4GB before it is a significant problem, whether or not he thinks it is important.
Bill Gates is a very intelligent man... who is currently acting like a very intelligent trained monkey, spouting defensive FUD. But that's nothing new.
I wouldn't be surprised if MS does make pages in under 24 hours. But I bet the process looks like this.
- Microsoft notified about a problem.
- Notification email sits in Exchange server for a week due to problems with a corrupted mailbox.
- Flunky reads email, decides it would never happen in real life, demotes to low priority.
- MS Updates their problem tracking database. Issue is lost in the db move.
- Another flunky goes through and re-adds all the issues from emails.
- Smarter employee upgrades importance, flags it as 'do now!'
- Issue languishes for another few weeks.
- Vulnerability 'approved for fix!'
- Programmers fix it in under 24 hours.
- Patch enters testing queue.
- Patch is tested in an inadequate number of systems that all include only MS software an no 'unusual' configurations like, say, not using IE as default browser.
- Patch is sent to deployment team.
- Wait another week.
- Deployment team packages fix, places it on wu.ms.c.
- Fix breaks on many systems, system admins tear out hair, MS pats themselves on backs for their fine bug fixing system.
Myrddin.
They are attempting to avoid Bayesian filters by including non-spam words as well as spam words. They are almost-white to avoid filters that (wisely) ignore completely white text.
This was not an objective article. THG was invited to goto the factory. They talk about how many people ask them how cases are made... you know what? I think that's bull. I think nobody asked them, they just bit the shiny hook that Chenbro dangled, and we're now eating fish.
This is an advertisement, disguised as an article, with very little content.
As far as desktop apps go, I can only discuss Windows apps, since I don't use X at all. Linux = command line as far as I'm concerned.
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Would not work. While the data is collected by computer, the firm employes many engineers and other people to massage the data into human consumable form.
The green scrolley was the raw data as it went in... that does not mean that the raw data makes it back out of the company intact. Anyone can collect raw data... run a Gnutella client and look at all the search requests go through. It's the process of turning the data into INFORMATION that makes their service valuable.
... to get arbitrary files on a memory card? I don't know about you, but *I* don't have anything like that. Will a small industry be created selling pre-altered memory cards?
They said it worked on G3's. They didn't state, in the product description, that it works on SOME G3's. That is the cause of the lawsuit.
No, the GPL is not being formally challenged. It is being farcically challenged by a bunch of loons. This suit has zero (0) chance of winning no matter how you look at it, so the GPL is in no danger of anything.
The SCO news stories are essentially 'look at the new thing SCO's lawyers are doing, but is so ludicrous that they have no chance of winning!' IF any of these things had a snowball's chance in hell of success, it might be news.
As it is, it's the funny pages, and the joke is getting old.
... is if the lawyers haven't billed them yet.
yesterday, regarding the worm. I was amazed how fast this virus spread... no other virus has created such a quick increase in call volume for us.
Of course, I work at an ISP... so when their Internet flakes out, we're the first thing they call. This is one of the first viruses I've seen that seems to deliberately crash your Internet connection, so rather than calling days or weeks later with some minor odd behavior, they called right away because their net was down.
I'm curious what will happen in a day when the timed DDOS goes off.
I wonder how this would fare putting two computer languages side by side? I mean... take a few thousand programs, coded using the same algorithms but different computer languages... would his language translation software translate between them? Would it be able to differentiate between languages that manually allocate memory and those that use garbage collection? How about between procedural langauages like C, and more esoteric and oddly structured languages like LISP?
An interesting challenge, eh?
Would there be any benefit to this?
Oil Rig. Fixed, big, International Waters, owned by profit-minded corporation that can be bribed.
They did it because other books were being held back. Rowling's astounding success was preventing other books from being released, because the publishers were holding them back until they had a chance to get on the bestseller list. With HP1/2/3/4 out there, they were relegated to #2 at best, even if the book was of a quality that would normally garner a #1 spot for several weeks.
If you were going to enter a Chile cooking competition, in which it cost you a lot of money to enter, but winning (or placing well) would gain you a nice profit, would you even bother entering if you saw that Betty Sue, who was 90 if she was a day, had won the past 45 years and showed no sign of stopping? So people stop competing, and the competition dries up in the Chile contest.
To bring competition back, they make a Senior Chile contest separate from the normal one. People happily compete in both, everyone still KNOWS that Betty Sue could kick all the asses of the young whippersnappers, but now they have a chance again.
I don't see a problem with what they did.
No chance of being a prequal since one of the main supporting characters is a woman who lost her mother in the events of the first game.
Of course, I don't know how that can be possible, since there was not a single female NPC in the entire game... unless her mother was one of those funky flipping assassins that made me reload a dozen or so times to get past.
That's because they don't want:
A) to be hacked from the inside by the evil haxx0rs attracted to working their by your Linux friendly workplace.
B) to be hacked from the outside by the evil haxx0rs who can easily hack your insecure Linux boxes.
Perhaps I'm not understanding something, but how do the researchers intend on having the nodes in a real life network emit 'pheremones'? The only application I can see for that is self organizing wireless hubs. But for hard wired networks it does not seem to make sense, since there is no way to estimate the ease of connecting two points based on distance alone.
Overall, this article only seems to apply to wireless networks. An interesting, but limited, usage.
The reason this does NOT WORK is because games need performance. They need to run fast. Coding to an abstract 'plugin' versus coding to the hardware can be a difference of an ORDER OF MAGNITUDE or MORE in terms of speed.
:-)
You have obviously not done any 3d programming for games... or anything else. Don't spout about what you don't know.
Oh wait... this is slashdot. My pardon, spout away... everyone else does.
I actually USE pi as my login... or actually, a long chunk of it from several hundred digits in. I've been slowly memorizing pi for years now by using 15-25 character passwords with digits from pi. After a couple months when I can enter the password without thinking... I move on to the next chunk of numbers in pi. I've memorized about 200 or so digits so far.
Yes it is useless. But at least I'm using the password I need to memorize for some purpose. Ever thought of learning your favorite poem by setting your password to the poem, line by line? Only practical in systems that accept long passwords, such as Netware, Win2K, or anything using Kerberos.
That's why they said a '30% clock for clock increase'.
Chances are the compiler for 64 bit is NOT AS GOOD as the 32bit compiler, due to inexperience with optimization on the new platform. And other than 64 bit and the register changes that accompany that, most of the architecture between the two are identical.
So the answer is: Good chance that ALL of the gain was due to the jump to 64 bits.