so what you're saying is that we need a browser that has many different features that can be enabled/disabled with no cost to performance. i haven't worked on any really large scale projects, but what i'm envisioning is this: a complex./configure that would let the user pick and choose features to be compiled in.
do you want mouse gestures? (y/n) do you want tabbed windows? (y/n) do you want control over javascript behavior? (y/n)
and you can probably think of even better examples. why hasn't this been done? and if it has been done, how come i haven't seen it from under my rock?
"given the speed computers advance, it is only a matter of time before no human can beat a computer in chess...Before they play GO, I will not worry about my job"
given the speed computers advance, it is only a matter of time before no human can beat a computer in go. Traditional methods can't be applied (currently) to go because of memory/computation restraints, but it's only a matter of time. you'd better be fixing up your resume.
i'm running outlook 2002 right now at work (that's outlook XP, no?) and it's taking up only 8.2MB... 2MB when it's minimized. i'm not sure how you managed to get the 23MB number, maybe it's the porn attachments you have or something *shrug*
>Interesting, here is an even older story about guys from the University of California in Berkeley breaking 802.11 security...
kinda sorta. that older article (which is very good, i used it for research i was doing on wireless security) talks specifically how one could attack WEP encryption. but the implementation is left as "an excercise for the reader". this, i believe, is merely an implementation of the attack.
>For one thing, most of these attacks rely on sophisticated equipment that isn't readily available for people to use
really? what i got from the article was this:
"our attack used off the shelf hardware and software", the only special item they had was the implementation of the rc4 attack.
>And as the authors point out, the simple fix is to use end-to-end encryption (e.g., SSH) instead of expecting the WEP do it for you
i don't have mod points or else i'd mod you up. i've installed most ad-filters and web washer is BY FAR the best. installation/configuration took me about 3 minutes (i'm being generous), and it does much more than just ad-blocking. no javascript popups, blocking by image size, all that. and it's free for non-commercial use.
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yep, i'm aware of that. i've written many programs that used other libraries/classes and i did not take the time to understand every line within them. it would be ridiculous for me to do so. Since the original article was about acadamia, i was commenting on acadamia.
code reuse is good when your originally wrote it the first time. A lot of the students at my school get stubs/template files from the teacher and have to fill them in for labs and excercises. Then they use these stubs when writing programs and whatnot. Today i tutored a guy late in his first year of programming courses that didn't know the syntax for writing a method in java.
I agree with the motto "why rewrite it if i already wrote it".
modularity. good stuff.
"i wrote a linked list class last quarter, why don't i just derive off of that?". good stuff.
"i have no clue what these lines do but they're in the lab that the teacher gave me so i'm putting them here". not so good.
"i'm not sure what my friend did in this part of the program, but he says to write this and it works so i'm keeping it". not good.
you get the point. code reuse is good if you've actually learned it and written it the first time. It also doesn't help to implement something a couple times so that it sticks in your head even more.
why yes, carbon-14 can only be used accurately for that long because of it's short half-life, but there are many other unstable isotopes that have been used to date materials - isotopes with much longer half-lifes. some include:
potassium->argon
argon->argon
rubidium->strontium
etc etc.
these isotopes let you accurately measure the date of materials way beyond that of carbon-14 dating.
actually i believe that they were able to move. if you (and i correctly) recall, dante described an image of one head sticking out of the lake of ice that was gnawing on another head. thus, they could at least move their mouths.
i'm wondering if you can give me a copy of the ipchains commands/script you're using. i have a very similar setup and would like to see if i missed anything. please email it to the address above(pericles(at)hushmailDOTcom)
Most of the comments mentioned in the article went like this: "i don't think copyright infrigement is good, and i think napster should be sued. i also don't agree some of the views that the recording industry holds". These views are everything that we would expect, because these are the views that most of us believe.
I know napster is mainly used for pirating copyrighted music. You know it too. Despite the pedastal that you (we?) hold some of these 'open source leaders' on, they see the picture just like you and i do.
These leaders don't want copyright infringement, they just don't want any copyrights to infringe upon.
I am not M.C. but from his website, you can see that he gave the check to John of SwiftView inc, which did the following (from their website here): The nearly famous $500 Chaney Microsoft Hotmail domain registration check was purchased by SwiftView for $7,100. We are donating this money to the Sisters of the Road Cafe' in Portland, Oregon, a small non-profit restaurant feeding hundreds of homeless and low-income residents of Portland's Burnside Community.
Michael Chaney is the original owner of this check and auctioning it for charity is his idea. He is also contributing an additional $2,500 for a total of $9,600. As noted on his site and the links below, he hopes that Microsoft will make an additional contribution.
1. if you can make a bot that i can talk to in between slashdot posts, that would be great. of course it would have to pass the turing test, but that's not too hard. often times i am constantly hitting refresh, and getting very lonely at the hours staring at the same post. if i had a person that i could talk to, someone who i can relay my feelings too, that would really make me happy.
you could call it 'slashbot'. but i don't wanna think i'm talking to a bot, so maybe 'slashthisreallyisapersonnotabot' is better. but then you're lying.
2. here's another idea: maybe make an AI being that could find the question to life, the universe and everything. i built one in my AI class that solved it (contrary to popular belief), the answer being 42 of course; but i neglected to find the answer.
since you have no email, i'll reply and say: oh my god, i laughed so hard when i read that. all this serious talk about AI, and implications, and then 'nuclear death bots' just got me. i don't laugh out loud very often, but that was one instance. well done!
This site will automatically find your representatives (if you have forgotten), and send them an email/snail mail for you if you provide the text (and other information). i thought it was cool.
if i remember correctly from the psychology class i recently took, these images don't really have that much affect on you at all. Some tests were done a long time ago (i don't have any hard information, sorry) where movie theatres put one to two frame animations of "drink coke" and "eat popcorn". these coke animations had no affect on the consumers at all, and i'm doubting the ones you're referring to do much either.
the kind of subliminal advertising that does work (which we studied in depth) was in more still-ads, where the consumer was able to look at a picture for a more extended period of time. the sublimality came from 'pictures' in the background, or other shapes in the advertisement that trigger subconscious effects.
Myth \Myth\, n. 1. A story of great but unknown age which originally embodied a belief regarding some fact or phenomenon of experience, and in which often the forces of nature and of the soul are personified; an ancient legend of a god, a hero, the origin of a race, etc.; a wonder story of prehistoric origin; a popular fable which is, or has been, received as historical.
Theory \The"o*ry\, n. 1. A doctrine, or scheme of things, which minates in speculation or contemplation, without a view to practice; hypothesis; speculation.
Evolultion is not a myth - it's a theory. inasmuch as evolution is a theory, so is creationism. that's why i think it's absurd to make teaching evolution mandatory in schools while teaching about creation is not mandatory.
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so what you're saying is that we need a browser that has many different features that can be enabled/disabled with no cost to performance. i haven't worked on any really large scale projects, but what i'm envisioning is this: a complex ./configure that would let the user pick and choose features to be compiled in.
do you want mouse gestures? (y/n)
do you want tabbed windows? (y/n)
do you want control over javascript behavior? (y/n)
and you can probably think of even better examples. why hasn't this been done? and if it has been done, how come i haven't seen it from under my rock?
"given the speed computers advance, it is only a matter of time before no human can beat a computer in chess...Before they play GO, I will not worry about my job"
given the speed computers advance, it is only a matter of time before no human can beat a computer in go. Traditional methods can't be applied (currently) to go because of memory/computation restraints, but it's only a matter of time. you'd better be fixing up your resume.
i'm running outlook 2002 right now at work (that's outlook XP, no?) and it's taking up only 8.2MB... 2MB when it's minimized. i'm not sure how you managed to get the 23MB number, maybe it's the porn attachments you have or something *shrug*
>Interesting, here is an even older story about guys from the University of California in Berkeley breaking 802.11 security...
kinda sorta. that older article (which is very good, i used it for research i was doing on wireless security) talks specifically how one could attack WEP encryption. but the implementation is left as "an excercise for the reader". this, i believe, is merely an implementation of the attack.
>For one thing, most of these attacks rely on sophisticated equipment that isn't readily available for people to use
really? what i got from the article was this:
"our attack used off the shelf hardware and software", the only special item they had was the implementation of the rc4 attack.
>And as the authors point out, the simple fix is to use end-to-end encryption (e.g., SSH) instead of expecting the WEP do it for you
yep.
for java:
Core Java series (volumes 1 and 2, as well as the JFC book) by Cay S. Horstmann, Gary Cornell; Paperback
for c++:
Thinking in C++ by Brucke Eckel
MFC:
programming windows with MFC by Jeff Prosise
Crypto (as stated above):
Applied Cryptogrophy - by Bruce Schneier
Other:
Design Patterns, by Gamma etc
Godel Escher Bach, by Douglas R. Hofstadter (had to find place for it somewhere)
i don't have mod points or else i'd mod you up. i've installed most ad-filters and web washer is BY FAR the best. installation/configuration took me about 3 minutes (i'm being generous), and it does much more than just ad-blocking. no javascript popups, blocking by image size, all that. and it's free for non-commercial use.
well said.
yep, i'm aware of that. i've written many programs that used other libraries/classes and i did not take the time to understand every line within them. it would be ridiculous for me to do so. Since the original article was about acadamia, i was commenting on acadamia.
code reuse is good when your originally wrote it the first time. A lot of the students at my school get stubs/template files from the teacher and have to fill them in for labs and excercises. Then they use these stubs when writing programs and whatnot. Today i tutored a guy late in his first year of programming courses that didn't know the syntax for writing a method in java.
I agree with the motto "why rewrite it if i already wrote it".
modularity. good stuff.
"i wrote a linked list class last quarter, why don't i just derive off of that?". good stuff.
"i have no clue what these lines do but they're in the lab that the teacher gave me so i'm putting them here". not so good.
"i'm not sure what my friend did in this part of the program, but he says to write this and it works so i'm keeping it". not good.
you get the point. code reuse is good if you've actually learned it and written it the first time. It also doesn't help to implement something a couple times so that it sticks in your head even more.
why yes, carbon-14 can only be used accurately for that long because of it's short half-life, but there are many other unstable isotopes that have been used to date materials - isotopes with much longer half-lifes. some include:
potassium->argon
argon->argon
rubidium->strontium
etc etc.
these isotopes let you accurately measure the date of materials way beyond that of carbon-14 dating.
actually i believe that they were able to move. if you (and i correctly) recall, dante described an image of one head sticking out of the lake of ice that was gnawing on another head. thus, they could at least move their mouths.
i'm wondering if you can give me a copy of the ipchains commands/script you're using. i have a very similar setup and would like to see if i missed anything. please email it to the address above(pericles(at)hushmailDOTcom)
Most of the comments mentioned in the article went like this: "i don't think copyright infrigement is good, and i think napster should be sued. i also don't agree some of the views that the recording industry holds". These views are everything that we would expect, because these are the views that most of us believe.
I know napster is mainly used for pirating copyrighted music. You know it too. Despite the pedastal that you (we?) hold some of these 'open source leaders' on, they see the picture just like you and i do.
These leaders don't want copyright infringement, they just don't want any copyrights to infringe upon.
I am not M.C. but from his website, you can see that he gave the check to John of SwiftView inc, which did the following (from their website here):
The nearly famous $500 Chaney Microsoft Hotmail domain registration check was purchased by SwiftView for $7,100. We are donating this money to the Sisters of the Road Cafe' in Portland, Oregon, a small non-profit restaurant feeding hundreds of homeless and low-income residents of Portland's Burnside Community.
Michael Chaney is the original owner of this check and auctioning it for charity is his idea. He is also contributing an additional $2,500 for a total of $9,600. As noted on his site and the links below, he hopes that Microsoft will make an additional contribution.
i have a couple ideas:
1. if you can make a bot that i can talk to in between slashdot posts, that would be great. of course it would have to pass the turing test, but that's not too hard. often times i am constantly hitting refresh, and getting very lonely at the hours staring at the same post. if i had a person that i could talk to, someone who i can relay my feelings too, that would really make me happy.
you could call it 'slashbot'. but i don't wanna think i'm talking to a bot, so maybe 'slashthisreallyisapersonnotabot' is better. but then you're lying.
2. here's another idea: maybe make an AI being that could find the question to life, the universe and everything. i built one in my AI class that solved it (contrary to popular belief), the answer being 42 of course; but i neglected to find the answer.
hope this helps. IANAL.
since you have no email, i'll reply and say:
oh my god, i laughed so hard when i read that.
all this serious talk about AI, and implications, and then 'nuclear death bots' just got me. i don't laugh out loud very often, but that was one instance. well done!
This site will automatically find your representatives (if you have forgotten), and send them an email/snail mail for you if you provide the text (and other information). i thought it was cool.
some seem to be working:
segfault.org and hacker news network are both on the right schedule.
I, Cringley Is a month back, however.
if i remember correctly from the psychology class i recently took, these images don't really have that much affect on you at all. Some tests were done a long time ago (i don't have any hard information, sorry) where movie theatres put one to two frame animations of "drink coke" and "eat popcorn". these coke animations had no affect on the consumers at all, and i'm doubting the ones you're referring to do much either.
the kind of subliminal advertising that does work (which we studied in depth) was in more still-ads, where the consumer was able to look at a picture for a more extended period of time. the sublimality came from 'pictures' in the background, or other shapes in the advertisement that trigger subconscious effects.
tyler
Myth \Myth\, n.
1. A story of great but unknown age which originally embodied a belief regarding some fact or phenomenon of experience, and in which often the forces of nature and of the soul are personified; an ancient legend of a god, a hero, the origin of a race, etc.; a wonder story of prehistoric origin; a popular fable which is, or has been, received as historical.
Theory \The"o*ry\, n.
1. A doctrine, or scheme of things, which minates in speculation or contemplation, without a view to practice; hypothesis; speculation.
Evolultion is not a myth - it's a theory. inasmuch as evolution is a theory, so is creationism. that's why i think it's absurd to make teaching evolution mandatory in schools while teaching about creation is not mandatory.