The writer is assuming "Signed On" means "Signed."
While the Clinton Administration may have gotten on board, in the sense that it was for it, the Clinton Administration never signed anything, as "in force."
The President can't sign a treaty before it's ratified by the Senate.
I just finished reading a computer forensics book, and found out something interesting.
Apparently the FBI can't keylog you while a modem is in operation because of some bizarre issue with phone tapping (something like you can't tap modem communication without a separate warrant). The FBI keylogger actually turns off when a modem is active. How about that?
I guess this sort of the same, but on a local level (and with a broader reach).
You'd think that the studios would do that, post episodes to watch online.
They already are breaking the syndication market somewhat by releasing last season on DVD.
I guess they're just not smart enough. They might even be able to make money on it, by charging maybe $1-$2 an episode.
One problem is "how do you get it back to your TV?" Watching DivX on your computer is inferior to watching it on your TV.
It might not take that long to search...
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A couple of years ago, I was fooling around with random number generators and wondered if a random search of a space (used generically as a range of values) would be faster than a linear search through the same space.
The answer, in my small tests, was yes. I only got up to a couple of thousand digits before I got bored, but the random search tended to beat the linear search about 60% of the time.
In cases where the random search beat the linear search, the random search found the answer in substantially less time than the linear search.
I have no idea why this should be, but there it is. My random number generator was www.random.org.
I'm sure nobody else'll try, but if you do, post the results.
Someday in the far future, people will worship this and marvel at the exquisite craftsmanship, while others argue whether the astronomical alignments are coincidences (as they must be, since they could not have known some of the alignments without advanced astronomical knowledge) or actual (because such precise alignments are impossible to be coincidences).
The only way to save money in IT is to fire people. To fire people, you have to automate their jobs.
That's it!
If you want to be really good, go to the next step and try & figure out how to help your company make money. Maybe you can do a quick & dirty data mine on the current databases, so your purchasing can order stuff in bulk instead of having lots of small purchases.
Maybe it's looking at trends, and discovering efficiencies in the business.
In a few more months, they'll be able to overlay realtime images across those maps. That'd be handy for a couple of things:
* traffic maps, for drivers * police incidents * realtime tactical maps for warfare * other, random interdiction efforts (illegal immigrants) * forest management * wild game management (herd tracking, poaching, etc)
What's great is if they integrate it in with keyhole (or a bunch of 1 meter resolution sat images that operate in semi-realtime) you could internationalize arms verification by allowing home activists to become monitors.
Imagine, you could monitor the Iranian nuclear power plants (or the North Korean ones) at home, for the IAEC. That brings privatization to a whole new level. Likewise you can tap into the obsessed hobbyist market and allow individuals to adopt an area of coverage, like a forest, and watch of illegal logging.
It's fun to speculate, but it's unclear how practical this stuff would be.
What's amazing to me is the Apple ][ series lifespan was from 1977 to 1993. Unbelievable! That's 16 years from the original Apple ][ to the last gs EOL.
What you do instead is keylog. Don't break the message, tap the recipient of the message and read it when they decrypt it.
Depending on the situation, you could also throw lots of bogus messages (ie: undecryptable) messages into the mix, leading the users to believe the system buggy (and thus ditch it).
That's more social engineering than crypto, but the point is to break the message. If they stop using the channel, then you hopefully have moved them to a weaker channel.
One-dimensional thinking is good, but it'll only get you from point A.
I remember hearing about some next-gen health care software project at Unum. They blew $380 MILLION dollars on it, and canned it before it was anywhere close to being done.
I'd think that after the first $15 million they would have realized it was impossible for them to actually design, much less create, a cost-effective piece of software.
One thing Cringely forgot is that people love to download past episodes of TV shows and watch them again. I do that all the time with BitTorrent.
I'm sure there'd be a subset of people willing to buy the current season of 24, Lost, Housewives, or American Idol and play it on their TV anytime - and burn it to disc.
HD Movies? Who cares. Today's TV shows? Sure! At a dollar an episode, why the heck not? It comes out to be cheaper than the DVD. Fans'll buy the DVD anyway, because of the extras.
Who knows whether this'll happen or not. But the box is just sitting there, waiting to be plugged into your TV.
That's silly, really, since Apple's the one that designed the UI. Synaptics had nothing to do with it. I'm sure one major problem of Apple's was beating the "simplicity" concept into the Synaptics engineer's heads.
why not use the echo port? write data out to an echo port, then tee it off to your echo port. Then you can drink from the never-ending stream of data bouncing between your box and the remote box.
Simple, lots of space, and secure...until a power failure.
I've heard this argument for years. Private funding, pure research, blah blah blah.
Last decade it was "falling behind the Japanese." This decade it's "falling behind Europe." Next decade it will be "outsourcing to the Asian Subcontinent."
"Significant research" in this instance means "government funded mental masterbation."
"Long term pure research" means "I'm going to spend your money and you won't understand what I'm doing anyway so why should I bother to explain it to you."
This is how university-based welfare recipients self-justify their huge government handouts. If you think you're a genius working on revolutionary stuff wait for a MacArthur grant to show up. Everyone else can get in line with the other poor folks.
If you wanted to start your own VoIP telco, you could:
* install a big 802.11b mesh network, * provision it with a few WiMAX backhauls (two or three), * sell 802.11b VoIP phones, * profit
WiMAX is pretty neat, but I'm not sure yet how it differs from other high-bandwidth wireless solutions. It's standard-based and works in the free spectrum, but doesn't 802.16a? Or is 802.16d just the newest version of 802.16a?
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A bit of attitude adjustment seems in order.
Surprise! This was on fark.com the other day.
Let's see if the comments here are more interesting.
I think the editorial would have been much more powerful and effective if it was written and presented in a language that people actually read. /ducks
The writer is assuming "Signed On" means "Signed."
While the Clinton Administration may have gotten on board, in the sense that it was for it, the Clinton Administration never signed anything, as "in force."
The President can't sign a treaty before it's ratified by the Senate.
Trust a college newspaper to get the facts wrong.
"Every Reputable Scientist on the Planet" believed in Global Cooling in the 70s and early 80s.
Does that make them more reputable, that they were apparently all wrong only 30 years ago?
So, one degree of warming in the 20th century.
Scale the graph so the axis is the normal temperature range of the northern hemisphere (25C), and you won't see anything.
Plus, it's unclear what is "anomolous". Anomolous is a judgement call. Give us the temperature ranges of each year, in a high/low format.
That's without questioning the underlying methodology of determining the temperature from those sources.
I just finished reading a computer forensics book, and found out something interesting.
Apparently the FBI can't keylog you while a modem is in operation because of some bizarre issue with phone tapping (something like you can't tap modem communication without a separate warrant). The FBI keylogger actually turns off when a modem is active. How about that?
I guess this sort of the same, but on a local level (and with a broader reach).
How are people going to make calls from there?
Is there signal?
Imagine what the per-minute rates will be.
You'd think that the studios would do that, post episodes to watch online.
They already are breaking the syndication market somewhat by releasing last season on DVD.
I guess they're just not smart enough. They might even be able to make money on it, by charging maybe $1-$2 an episode.
One problem is "how do you get it back to your TV?" Watching DivX on your computer is inferior to watching it on your TV.
A couple of years ago, I was fooling around with random number generators and wondered if a random search of a space (used generically as a range of values) would be faster than a linear search through the same space.
The answer, in my small tests, was yes. I only got up to a couple of thousand digits before I got bored, but the random search tended to beat the linear search about 60% of the time.
In cases where the random search beat the linear search, the random search found the answer in substantially less time than the linear search.
I have no idea why this should be, but there it is. My random number generator was www.random.org.
I'm sure nobody else'll try, but if you do, post the results.
Someday in the far future, people will worship this and marvel at the exquisite craftsmanship, while others argue whether the astronomical alignments are coincidences (as they must be, since they could not have known some of the alignments without advanced astronomical knowledge) or actual (because such precise alignments are impossible to be coincidences).
Maybe stonehenge 1.0 was the original prank meme?
Yes!
The only way to save money in IT is to fire people. To fire people, you have to automate their jobs.
That's it!
If you want to be really good, go to the next step and try & figure out how to help your company make money. Maybe you can do a quick & dirty data mine on the current databases, so your purchasing can order stuff in bulk instead of having lots of small purchases.
Maybe it's looking at trends, and discovering efficiencies in the business.
In a few more months, they'll be able to overlay realtime images across those maps. That'd be handy for a couple of things:
* traffic maps, for drivers
* police incidents
* realtime tactical maps for warfare
* other, random interdiction efforts (illegal immigrants)
* forest management
* wild game management (herd tracking, poaching, etc)
What's great is if they integrate it in with keyhole (or a bunch of 1 meter resolution sat images that operate in semi-realtime) you could internationalize arms verification by allowing home activists to become monitors.
Imagine, you could monitor the Iranian nuclear power plants (or the North Korean ones) at home, for the IAEC. That brings privatization to a whole new level. Likewise you can tap into the obsessed hobbyist market and allow individuals to adopt an area of coverage, like a forest, and watch of illegal logging.
It's fun to speculate, but it's unclear how practical this stuff would be.
It would be great...until the network is so saturated by bittorrent, edonkey, and kazaa users that it would be impossible to actually use it.
No, not that Dylan, the other one!
http://www.pcai.com/web/ai_info/pcai_dylan.html
What's amazing to me is the Apple ][ series lifespan was from 1977 to 1993. Unbelievable! That's 16 years from the original Apple ][ to the last gs EOL.
What you do instead is keylog. Don't break the message, tap the recipient of the message and read it when they decrypt it.
Depending on the situation, you could also throw lots of bogus messages (ie: undecryptable) messages into the mix, leading the users to believe the system buggy (and thus ditch it).
That's more social engineering than crypto, but the point is to break the message. If they stop using the channel, then you hopefully have moved them to a weaker channel.
One-dimensional thinking is good, but it'll only get you from point A.
It's not in the clip, but I've always wondered what life would be like in the death star's cafeteria.
"I'd like a hamburger and fries, please"
"Would that be all, Lord Vader?"
"And some chocolate milk. Yummy!"
I loved the "From the office of the Emperor" stationary. Nice touch!
See how easy it is to get lots of people to watch something?
Soon, they'll be giving the movie to friends and buying Mac Minis. The ring's got you!
I remember hearing about some next-gen health care software project at Unum. They blew $380 MILLION dollars on it, and canned it before it was anywhere close to being done.
I'd think that after the first $15 million they would have realized it was impossible for them to actually design, much less create, a cost-effective piece of software.
One thing Cringely forgot is that people love to download past episodes of TV shows and watch them again. I do that all the time with BitTorrent.
I'm sure there'd be a subset of people willing to buy the current season of 24, Lost, Housewives, or American Idol and play it on their TV anytime - and burn it to disc.
HD Movies? Who cares. Today's TV shows? Sure! At a dollar an episode, why the heck not? It comes out to be cheaper than the DVD. Fans'll buy the DVD anyway, because of the extras.
Who knows whether this'll happen or not. But the box is just sitting there, waiting to be plugged into your TV.
That's silly, really, since Apple's the one that designed the UI. Synaptics had nothing to do with it. I'm sure one major problem of Apple's was beating the "simplicity" concept into the Synaptics engineer's heads.
why not use the echo port? write data out to an echo port, then tee it off to your echo port. Then you can drink from the never-ending stream of data bouncing between your box and the remote box.
Simple, lots of space, and secure...until a power failure.
I've heard this argument for years. Private funding, pure research, blah blah blah.
Last decade it was "falling behind the Japanese." This decade it's "falling behind Europe." Next decade it will be "outsourcing to the Asian Subcontinent."
"Significant research" in this instance means "government funded mental masterbation."
"Long term pure research" means "I'm going to spend your money and you won't understand what I'm doing anyway so why should I bother to explain it to you."
This is how university-based welfare recipients self-justify their huge government handouts. If you think you're a genius working on revolutionary stuff wait for a MacArthur grant to show up. Everyone else can get in line with the other poor folks.
If you wanted to start your own VoIP telco, you could:
* install a big 802.11b mesh network,
* provision it with a few WiMAX backhauls (two or three),
* sell 802.11b VoIP phones,
* profit
WiMAX is pretty neat, but I'm not sure yet how it differs from other high-bandwidth wireless solutions. It's standard-based and works in the free spectrum, but doesn't 802.16a? Or is 802.16d just the newest version of 802.16a?