The UK, US, Canada and Austrailia all set out to go metric in the early 1970's. In the US and the UK, they widely distributed all sorts of gizmos with logos stamped on them full of charts and tables that basically said, a centimeter is the same as 0.54 inches. Growing up in the US in the 70's, I have conversion factors burned into my brain. My cousins growing up in Canada were taught a centimeter is a centimeter. The same was taught in Austrailia. The UK is semi-metric. Road signs still use miles but weather is metric and beverages are sold by milliliters.
Distance is just a number. What anyone really cares about that number is how long does it take to cross that distance. 200 miles is about three hours by car. And 400 km is four hours by car.
Where the US failed is they failed to just say metric units are what they are. Feel it, don't think it. Like a Jedi.
My understanding, which could be quite flawed, is they had Diesel generators which failed to start due to the tsunami floodwaters flooding them out and then the battery backup failed once the charge depleted.
At risk of overly simplifying the segregation of the developer community, there are two types: Engineers and Artists. The Engineer is the programmer who can write a bullet-proof asset tracking system. The Artists is the programmer who says, "What if we redefine what it means to be an asset tracking system?" The world needs both. The Engineer style of programmer gets paid reasonably well to make bullet-proof asset tracking systems because people need bullet-proof asset tracking systems.
This CEO believes that.NET is one of many indicators of the Engineer style of programmer. He's trying to hire the Artist style because staff who ask "What If?" questions.
Perhaps they are trying to use the Host HTTP header to perform multi-site hosting on their services which is impossible to do under https because of the SSL handshaking. This would save lots of IP addresses.... Oh wait, nevermind
It is both good and bad. The whole reason the GPL exists is because Richard Stallman saw a "flaw" in the older MIT license. He saw companies "proprietarize" versions of emacs and sought to put an end to companies "stealing his software." He had no issues with people using his software for free. But if a company copied it, and repackaged it as their own, that was a problem. Thus GPL included the "must share code including derivatives" clause. The rest is history. On the one hand, the GPL prevents companies from "stealing and redistributing software." On the other hand, it prevents companies from "using and redistributing software."
For starters, it would require a constitutional amendment. As one of the enumerated powers, a post office is one things Congress does that they're supposed to do.
Microsoft totally missed the Internet. They had their sights set on AOL back when most AOL users didn't care to venture (or realized you could) outside of the AOL garden. It was all MSN all the time. Then they had an "oh shit" moment.
Many people in the UK are accustomed to assuming that localtime always equals GMT. The side effect is many think that GMT = BST when it's in effect. I once worked for an airline and out of necessity, I got REALLY good at timezone math. I once asked for clarification whether a conference call in the middle of July was going to be 16:30 GMT or 16:30 BST and I could hear the blank stares on the line.
In my day we used Archie to search WAIS and Gopher all across a blistering fast 1200baud connection which beat the pants off the 300baud connection where you set the phone into the acoustic cushions.
I have ipv6 at home and I have a/64 subnet. That's 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 addresses. If you assume an adult human has about 50 trillion cells. You can assign one of those IP addresses to every cell of everyone in the US and still have leftovers.
No, not everything needs a public address. But everything could with no risk of scarcity.
When you sign data, The private key (k in the video) is used in a way that can be verified by the public key. In order to keep the private key private random data (m in the video) are added to the results. The security is that with more than one changing value, you can't solve for one value. If you use the same value for (m), one of your unknowns isn't unknown. You can factor it out when comparing two signatures. That factoring out leaves (k) exposed and solvable.
I also liked the references to other movies. Flynn's lair was an homage to 2001: A Space Odyssey. His line, "The only way to win is not to play" is from Wargames. "You're messing with my Zen" is from The Big Lebowski. And of course, the references back to the original movie.
Use a full blown system. Our lab is looking to implement this system BioSig. We'll be running lots of microscopy with lots of variables and we need to share the data with lots of collaborators.
Exactly. I have a friend who works for a DOD contractor. The bosses told everyone that viewing the wikileaks pages would put their security clearances in jeopardy.
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The wine I drank at a London South Bank restaurant was filled to the 0.75l hash mark.
The UK, US, Canada and Austrailia all set out to go metric in the early 1970's. In the US and the UK, they widely distributed all sorts of gizmos with logos stamped on them full of charts and tables that basically said, a centimeter is the same as 0.54 inches. Growing up in the US in the 70's, I have conversion factors burned into my brain. My cousins growing up in Canada were taught a centimeter is a centimeter. The same was taught in Austrailia. The UK is semi-metric. Road signs still use miles but weather is metric and beverages are sold by milliliters.
Distance is just a number. What anyone really cares about that number is how long does it take to cross that distance. 200 miles is about three hours by car. And 400 km is four hours by car.
Where the US failed is they failed to just say metric units are what they are. Feel it, don't think it. Like a Jedi.
I believe the word you're looking for is "Vulcans".
I feel as if a movie star I hadn't watched in forever has just passed away. "I didn't know he was still alive?"
My understanding, which could be quite flawed, is they had Diesel generators which failed to start due to the tsunami floodwaters flooding them out and then the battery backup failed once the charge depleted.
At risk of overly simplifying the segregation of the developer community, there are two types: Engineers and Artists. The Engineer is the programmer who can write a bullet-proof asset tracking system. The Artists is the programmer who says, "What if we redefine what it means to be an asset tracking system?" The world needs both. The Engineer style of programmer gets paid reasonably well to make bullet-proof asset tracking systems because people need bullet-proof asset tracking systems.
This CEO believes that .NET is one of many indicators of the Engineer style of programmer. He's trying to hire the Artist style because staff who ask "What If?" questions.
Perhaps they are trying to use the Host HTTP header to perform multi-site hosting on their services which is impossible to do under https because of the SSL handshaking. This would save lots of IP addresses .... Oh wait, nevermind
It is both good and bad. The whole reason the GPL exists is because Richard Stallman saw a "flaw" in the older MIT license. He saw companies "proprietarize" versions of emacs and sought to put an end to companies "stealing his software." He had no issues with people using his software for free. But if a company copied it, and repackaged it as their own, that was a problem. Thus GPL included the "must share code including derivatives" clause. The rest is history. On the one hand, the GPL prevents companies from "stealing and redistributing software." On the other hand, it prevents companies from "using and redistributing software."
For starters, it would require a constitutional amendment. As one of the enumerated powers, a post office is one things Congress does that they're supposed to do.
Microsoft totally missed the Internet. They had their sights set on AOL back when most AOL users didn't care to venture (or realized you could) outside of the AOL garden. It was all MSN all the time. Then they had an "oh shit" moment.
http://www.asp-software.org/users/history-of-shareware.asp
Many people in the UK are accustomed to assuming that localtime always equals GMT. The side effect is many think that GMT = BST when it's in effect. I once worked for an airline and out of necessity, I got REALLY good at timezone math. I once asked for clarification whether a conference call in the middle of July was going to be 16:30 GMT or 16:30 BST and I could hear the blank stares on the line.
In my day we used Archie to search WAIS and Gopher all across a blistering fast 1200baud connection which beat the pants off the 300baud connection where you set the phone into the acoustic cushions.
Mod this up!
I have ipv6 at home and I have a /64 subnet. That's 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 addresses. If you assume an adult human has about 50 trillion cells. You can assign one of those IP addresses to every cell of everyone in the US and still have leftovers.
No, not everything needs a public address. But everything could with no risk of scarcity.
Now we know why the series was cancelled!
When you sign data, The private key (k in the video) is used in a way that can be verified by the public key. In order to keep the private key private random data (m in the video) are added to the results. The security is that with more than one changing value, you can't solve for one value. If you use the same value for (m), one of your unknowns isn't unknown. You can factor it out when comparing two signatures. That factoring out leaves (k) exposed and solvable.
It was really a Banana Jr..
I also liked the references to other movies. Flynn's lair was an homage to 2001: A Space Odyssey. His line, "The only way to win is not to play" is from Wargames. "You're messing with my Zen" is from The Big Lebowski. And of course, the references back to the original movie.
And this is being moderated down?
Oh sure, I can point to another DNS server. 99.9% of the population can't.
You mean it's not already happening?
ISPs send DNS server addresses with DHCP. It's trivial for countries to override root DNS.
Exactly, A kilogram is a unit of mass, not weight. A kilogram has the same mass whether on Earth, the Moon or floating weightless in space.
They're the same ones who support banning dihydrogen-monoxide.
Use a full blown system. Our lab is looking to implement this system BioSig. We'll be running lots of microscopy with lots of variables and we need to share the data with lots of collaborators.
Exactly. I have a friend who works for a DOD contractor. The bosses told everyone that viewing the wikileaks pages would put their security clearances in jeopardy.