But the DMCA doesn't grant you the freedom to do that. That's the problem, and that's why you're going to see other discussion boards on the Internet get into real trouble.
Same goes for Caltech (I don't go there, but know people who do). Most of their (maybe all) of their exams are take-home. However, they can still be timed, and closed-notes if the professor so chooses.
Of course, if you tried to implement such an honor code here at ASU, you would get laughed at and taken advantage of.:(
The Casio Databank Watch is the greatest watch on earth. It is probably the reason I haven't been more tempted to get a Palm Pilot. (I just want to store phone numbers in a really convenient location, like my left wrist.)
If only it had a power function...
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You're mixing theory and implementation. James Ellis essentially discovered the first public key crypto scheme in 1967 (it was basically RSA), but the idea was kept inside GCHQ. Diffie, Helman, R, S, and A all came up with PK systems in the 1970's, nearly 10 years later, but their systems were the first to be published. PGP was important because Zimmerman implemented PK crypto so that just about anyone could use it.
Not quite correct:/. is a place for people who match the description you give and for people who delight in bashing them. Any given article I read has plenty of examples of both groups.
Taking the normal reciprocal is sort of like reflecting the line over the line y=x. (That's exactly true if the line has no intercept, and almost true if it does. In the latter case you have to imagine your origin on the line.)
Not a big deal, but phrasing it that way helped me visualize what he was talking about.
I can only tell you about Nupedia, since I'm familiar with that project.
Classify yourself based upon this list (multiple classifications are always possible) to decide how you can help Nupedia:
I consider myself a semi-expert on something - Go contribute an article. Articles range from short (1-5 paragraphs) to long (3000 words). Try a short article first. Note: if the area is academic, you should have the equivalent of a college degree in that area, or be in the process of getting one.
I consider myself an expert on something - If you are honestly an expert in some field, you should apply to be a peer reviewer or an editor. A number of categories are lacking people to fill these position.
I have a frightening command of the English (American or British) language - You should go be a copyeditor. You will need to purchase two reference books, but after editing three articles, you can be reimbursed by Nupedia for the cost of the books!
I am fluent in multiple languages (with English being one of them) - You should go help translate articles (submitted in English) into other languages.
I can program web applications - Go help refine the online collaboration software. (Which is quite impressive!)
I know smart people - Tell them about Nupedia, and maybe they can fill in the above categories.
I'm interested - Two stages of the article creation process are totally open to everyone: Open Review and Open Copyediting. Go read the articles in these stages and make relevant comments.
Hopefully that covers everything. I would strongly encourage you to go check them out!
The problem here is that the term "Linux" is overloaded, and we often forget that. In this context, "Linux" means "Linux kernel" and not "Linux kernel+UNIX-like utilities." (i.e. GNU/Linux) In the former case, you use Linux because it provides memory management, networking, and maybe low-level graphics (via the framebuffer). You have an operating system you can customize (in the case of Linux, you are probably throwing out stuff you don't need, rather than putting stuff in).
As for PalmOS, I don't know what the pros and cons are. I'm just pointing out that Linux is not as insane a choice as you paint it.
This is the most bizarre thing I've seen in a while. Troll infighting? This OlympicSponsor fellow seems to be trolling the trolls quite well by accusing non-trolls of being trolls, and in general being annoying.
As other people have already pointed out, asymmetric key cryptography is *way* slow. To speed things up, you can use the public key crypto (pick your favorite well known algo) to encrypt a symmetric key and send it to your destination. You can then use that private key for the remainder of your communication and save CPU cycles.
Rational discussion on this topic is nearly impossible to achieve. It always turns into an axe-grinding party with ends in either anger or exhaustion. Unless, of course, everyone involved has basically the same belief, in which case it is a warm, fuzzy discussion where details can be hashed out, and everyone leaves feeling enlightened.
And you sure aren't going to find a rational discussion on any remotely controversial topic here.
I assume you're talking about Carbon-14 dating. Carbon-14 has a half-life of 5700 years, which is too short to use on 4 billion year old objects (moreover, 4 billion year old objects that had not very much carbon to begin with). You can, however, use other methods like Potassium-Argon (isotope mass of 40) dating, Uranium and Thorium, etc. Potassium-40 has a half-life of over a billion years, so it would be good for this time-scale.
However, I have no idea what this group used to date the rock.
I've often wondered whether the time differentce is just having Explorer preloaded when Windows starts. I don't have Windows (or KDE 2.x) on my box right now, but I would be curious about speed comparisons between opening a new window when Konqueror is already open vs. creating a new Explorer window. If Konqueror shares resources, the new window should come up faster than from cold start. Of course, the Konqueror programmers may have decided to treat every window as a separate program instance, in which case no speed up would be observed.
Does anyone have a way to test this? (Be sure to check that Konqueror *isn't* preloaded by KDE already.)
Oh wait! I hear you now: INTENT. Intent is the keyword here. Somehow, the judges and juries are supposed to read the vict.. criminal minds. What a nice curtain to hide behind when you've lost the argument, isn't it?
Whoa, boy. Take that shovel out of my mouth. The rest of my post (after the first sentence) is pointing out (though perhaps not as clearly as I would have liked) that linking should be protected for the very reason that one would have to judge intent, a legal nightmare.
And why the heck are you rambling about violence and starting wars? One rant per post, please.
I really can't see the justification for linking as speech. However, the worse issue is that when you link to a site, you have no control over the content of the site you linked to. If you become legally responsible for someone else's content when you link, you have big problems. The slippery slope gets ugly when you have to sort out whether the "intent" was to aid in the distribution of "illegal information" (a phrase that makes me shudder), whether search engines are responsible, and whether you can legally tell a search engine to avoid a known "bad" site.
Radiocarbon dating also isn't the only dating scheme. It works quite a ways back, but you can also cross-reference it with "dendrochronology". It requires trees in certain conditions, but when you can do it, you can get dates down to the year. For really old stuff, you can use potassium-argon dating, which watches the decay of an isotope of potassium into argon. Scientists who do this junk don't usually settle for one line of evidence to give them a date. They apply as many methods as possible to increase their certainty in the value.
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But the DMCA doesn't grant you the freedom to do that. That's the problem, and that's why you're going to see other discussion boards on the Internet get into real trouble.
The above quote from the DMCA seems to suggest that places like Slashdot can't be common carriers anymore.
Of course, if you tried to implement such an honor code here at ASU, you would get laughed at and taken advantage of. :(
If only it had a power function...
You're mixing theory and implementation. James Ellis essentially discovered the first public key crypto scheme in 1967 (it was basically RSA), but the idea was kept inside GCHQ. Diffie, Helman, R, S, and A all came up with PK systems in the 1970's, nearly 10 years later, but their systems were the first to be published. PGP was important because Zimmerman implemented PK crypto so that just about anyone could use it.
Please, no more reverse-psychology endings. They've been overdone.
Not quite correct: /. is a place for people who match the description you give and for people who delight in bashing them. Any given article I read has plenty of examples of both groups.
If you're still at CalTech and ever run into a guy named Isaac See, tell him Stan says hi through the Internet void. :)
Not a big deal, but phrasing it that way helped me visualize what he was talking about.
Classify yourself based upon this list (multiple classifications are always possible) to decide how you can help Nupedia:
- I consider myself a semi-expert on something - Go contribute an article. Articles range from short (1-5 paragraphs) to long (3000 words). Try a short article first. Note: if the area is academic, you should have the equivalent of a college degree in that area, or be in the process of getting one.
- I consider myself an expert on something - If you are honestly an expert in some field, you should apply to be a peer reviewer or an editor. A number of categories are lacking people to fill these position.
- I have a frightening command of the English (American or British) language - You should go be a copyeditor. You will need to purchase two reference books, but after editing three articles, you can be reimbursed by Nupedia for the cost of the books!
- I am fluent in multiple languages (with English being one of them) - You should go help translate articles (submitted in English) into other languages.
- I can program web applications - Go help refine the online collaboration software. (Which is quite impressive!)
- I know smart people - Tell them about Nupedia, and maybe they can fill in the above categories.
- I'm interested - Two stages of the article creation process are totally open to everyone: Open Review and Open Copyediting. Go read the articles in these stages and make relevant comments.
Hopefully that covers everything. I would strongly encourage you to go check them out!As for PalmOS, I don't know what the pros and cons are. I'm just pointing out that Linux is not as insane a choice as you paint it.
No honor among theives, I suppose...
As other people have already pointed out, asymmetric key cryptography is *way* slow. To speed things up, you can use the public key crypto (pick your favorite well known algo) to encrypt a symmetric key and send it to your destination. You can then use that private key for the remainder of your communication and save CPU cycles.
This is as dangerous as aiming a case of remote controls at your groin.
And you sure aren't going to find a rational discussion on any remotely controversial topic here.
(Yeah, I know that's cynical view.)
However, I have no idea what this group used to date the rock.
All my files are encoded with the keys 6, 5, 11, 4.
Does anyone have a way to test this? (Be sure to check that Konqueror *isn't* preloaded by KDE already.)
What's that?
Whoa, boy. Take that shovel out of my mouth. The rest of my post (after the first sentence) is pointing out (though perhaps not as clearly as I would have liked) that linking should be protected for the very reason that one would have to judge intent, a legal nightmare.
And why the heck are you rambling about violence and starting wars? One rant per post, please.
Buy the paperback version of _Mission of Gravity_ at Half.com for way-cheap.
Exactly. The linking issue is a red herring in this entire case.
I really can't see the justification for linking as speech. However, the worse issue is that when you link to a site, you have no control over the content of the site you linked to. If you become legally responsible for someone else's content when you link, you have big problems. The slippery slope gets ugly when you have to sort out whether the "intent" was to aid in the distribution of "illegal information" (a phrase that makes me shudder), whether search engines are responsible, and whether you can legally tell a search engine to avoid a known "bad" site.
The makers of Zero Wing should have hired you.
Radiocarbon dating also isn't the only dating scheme. It works quite a ways back, but you can also cross-reference it with "dendrochronology". It requires trees in certain conditions, but when you can do it, you can get dates down to the year. For really old stuff, you can use potassium-argon dating, which watches the decay of an isotope of potassium into argon. Scientists who do this junk don't usually settle for one line of evidence to give them a date. They apply as many methods as possible to increase their certainty in the value.