I understand that in countries that score better than the US on standardized exams, students are taught rote memorization techniques with emphasis on memorizing every little fact. When I passed through it, problem solving was a much bigger part of the US curriculum than the pre-package education that you seem to be complaining about. Maybe you're too old to give a valid assessment?
Might be true for South Korea and other countries in the Far East, but if you check the PISA list (http://www.pisa.oecd.org/document/2/0,3343,en_32252351_32236191_39718850_1_1_1_1,00.html) the other top countries are Finland, Canada and New Zealand - and AFAIK the rote-memorization is not really the norm in any of these countries.
Especially as a Finn I find it significant, for reasons highlighted in the wiki article. It was pretty funny to follow from sidelines...Talking heads on TV and all that about how computer games might affect our kids, relation to the USSR and so on. Of course we have since heard that same stuff again over GTA and similar games, but at least back then it was related to foreign politics instead of scoring random points for next election.
Roads in NZ are shocking. there are virtually no divided roads outside the cities. Going anywhere on a long weekend - forgetaboutit.
Hmm. I spent two weeks in NZ driving around (the place is *beautiful*), basically rented a car from Christchurch, west to Queenstown, up on highway 6 on west coast, then ferry to Wellington. North island was crowded as hell and no freeway until Auckland, but South Island was just perfect:)
At my company the security guy was also a bit apalled by this if you decide to get literal(we have been audited and passed against PCI). What about routers? Do we need to run a virus scanner on the "servers" running IOS or JunOS?-) There isn't really THAT much difference between a Unix box and IOS box even if the latter ones usually have a bit more specialized hardware for processing network packets.
OpenH323 is basically Netmeeting, but OSS version. Mind you, it uses (surprise) H.323 protocol, and not all firewalls like it (since it requires connectivity to both directions).
Uhm, you are aware that "Documents and settings" corresponds to/home/ on Unix systems? If you are running a two-partition setup where you wish to have a separate "System partition", you are SUPPOSED to set up your home dirs on the other partition. Just configure your system to store profiles on your "D:". Or use symlinks (junctions in NTFS parlance).
You aren't the only one. Heck, there's ton of research in the area - the whole 802.21 (and tech-specific adaptations, such as 802.11u) is based on this, and this kind of stuff is mentioned in the specs as example applications.
It's quite common to get patched versions cracked, as well.
Only recent screw-up that I can think of is the original Crysis - the 1.21 patch that doesn't have 64-bit version crack available (32-bit is), latest 64-bit is 1.20. See for yourself - gamecopyworld.com.
Just get the crack from gamefix or gamecopyworld. If EA wants to shell out cash to Securom, that's their problem. As long as there is crack AVAILABLE I'm ok for buying the game, since it also makes it future-proof (eg. even if activation server vanishes at some point, I can still play).
Getting crack is standard procedure for me. Heck, with Civilization III getting rid of the CD-check also game me a new feature: Higher resolutions! Without the crack, even though I set 1280x960 in the.ini-file, it didn't work - always reverted to 800x600 (or whatever the default was). Once I got tired of having the CD in drive and installed the crack - boom, higher resolutions started to work.
Not to mention that bunch of newer games refused to work on my older Win'98 gaming PC (GTA: SA, KOTOR 2 as examples) - the copy protection required Win2k or newer for some API calls, the game itself worked just fine...
I have to agree on everything you say about multiple-choice tests. Now, I haven't answered these on *interviews*, but I've occasionally checked out some "practice exams" for some prominent IT certifications and decided that bah, I'll pass. Only cert that I've ever bothered to obtain is CCIE (since it actually has the "you have 8 hours in the lab"-requirement - ie. practical work). Case on point, CISSP, and multiple choice "Where would you place IDS?"
[ ]Outside firewall [ ]Inside firewall [ ]Front of server farm
Sheesh, first question back would be "what are your requirements?"...Supposedly the correct answer is "Outside firewall", but the other two are just as valid if they fit your requirements (e.g. you don't want to overload your IDS by having it log all and every random inbound Windows-box-originated attack packet that would get blocked by the F/W anyway...)
Tetrasodium-including soaps have already given a free boot camp for bacterias at home when folks have been buying the stuff thinking it somehow makes places healthier. There's a difference between clean and sterile environments, and clean is really all that you need.
Actually, Delay-tolerant Networking has applications that go beyond just space. One prime example is acoustic networks for oceanic monitoring - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/4302188/4302189/04302341.pdf has a nice paper about the application. Also, battlefield communications where there may be intermittent connectivity benefits from DTN.
Anyway, the reason for getting direct IP connectivity to space probes is to reduce the overhead: If you can just say wget http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/mars/opportunity/todayspic.jpg to access Oppy's camera instead of having to go through various hoops it makes everyones work easier. Combine this with dynamic and automatic routing (for example, for solar oppositions)..So yes, mostly the benefits are for scientists and engineers in space projects.
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My only question is, when the smoke clears and we're all fine, will the doomsayers ever learn for the next time? Probably not. I'm sure next time they'll say "this time, its different, the world is really going to end this time".
For a local astronomy club, I once did a little presentation, I think the title was "bad astronomy in popular culture". While the scope was mostly about stuff like sound-in-space, space planes ála Star Wars, and so on, one of the topics I covered was Niburu - the supposed planet that will kill us all. It actually had little visibility even in mainstream press so it sort of warranted coverage.
http://www.detailshere.com/niburu.htm is the "Doom!" page. Anyway, for my research, I just checked out webarchive.org...and looked at the snapshots from previous years. It was basically updated every year to say that "next year IT will come". As you can see, right now it's saying "2008-2011":). Compare with the version from 2003 february or from 2005 as examples:)
However, there are patches to take it out. Gamecopyworld.com is a place to go to get them. If you live in the US, it is probably not legal to use them because of the DMCA. However in other countries, it should be just fine so long as you legitimately bought the game.
Where in Gamecopyworld? The Mass Effect page only has trainers (and a statement that you don't need a patch for this one. Grr.)
This is something I couldn't find in the FAQ on the site - but anyway, PAL versions of DVDs are usually 4% faster (25 fps as opposed to 24 fps achieved via 3:2 pulldown) than NTSC versions. Thus, the sound pitch is (not noticeably) higher (although some releases are pitch-corrected). Anyway, if there is no separate version for PAL, playing one of these audio tracks would result the lip-sync going off within minutes and after that the experience would only get worse..
Of course you could fix it yourself by resampling the whole thing, but would of course hope that the Rifftrax would provide the correct versions directly.
Folks might be crying censorship. Of course it's a band-aid to the sensationalism - but got any better ideas? The accusations will be on front pages of tabloids since MURDER SELLS. If these guys get cleared as not guilty, it will be on page 10 as a tiny note, if even that. Guess which one Google catches?
Other option might be that everyone who makes news about the accusations should make similar headlines of the end of trial regardless of whether they were convicted or not...
My problem with some of these digital distribution systems is that the software that comes with it demands a premium place on my desktop. Steam is the worst offender of this, doing the automatically-startup-at-boot thing after install, automatically downloading all kinds of stuff without any notification (folks with a download-cap would really like that), displaying promotions and ads (sometimes even while I was playing a game, thus minimizing the game for some unwanted ad, yikes!)..
In Steam, just select "Go offline" in file menu. No more does it talk to Valve's servers. Naturally, to get updates and new games you have to go online, but playing the stuff you have installed works just fine.
And it doesn't start up automatically, either unless you make it do so...
Because for some reason, when two people are talking right next to one another, they tend to whisper or at least talk in low voice.
For some reason, give someone a cellphone and if they are not downright shouting their voice somehow still seems to carry at least a few rows. You can observe this every day in any bus/train. Even though the other end will definitely hear you even if you talk at low volume.
Yeah, it's always nice to recompile entire kdepim when you want to install one plugin for Kopete. Gentoo's modularising of KDE package was a good thing.
And you can still use the originals if you like, it's just emerging kde vs. kde-meta.
Depends, but then you can do turtles all the way down.
So, have an encrypted (obviously visible volume) that has "boring" stuff in it, like your basic groceries accounting and letters to grandma. Have a hidden volume that has embarassing but non-incriminating stuff (porn folders). Have a hidden volume inside THAT that contains embarassing stuff that you'd pretend people shouldn't really want to find out (eg. gay porn). Have a hidden volume inside that that contains your master plan of converting all WoW players into your army of midgets to take over the world...add as many layers as you want.
That's the idea with the deniability, They can never know if there actually is a hidden volume in there. So assuming torture, you are probably so lost yourself that you cannot even remember the scheme yourself anymore...Even if they go with the assumption that since you are using Truecrypt there MUST be a hidden volume - but there's no way to know how many nested hidden volumes there are.
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I understand that in countries that score better than the US on standardized exams, students are taught rote memorization techniques with emphasis on memorizing every little fact. When I passed through it, problem solving was a much bigger part of the US curriculum than the pre-package education that you seem to be complaining about. Maybe you're too old to give a valid assessment?
Might be true for South Korea and other countries in the Far East, but if you check the PISA list (http://www.pisa.oecd.org/document/2/0,3343,en_32252351_32236191_39718850_1_1_1_1,00.html) the other top countries are Finland, Canada and New Zealand - and AFAIK the rote-memorization is not really the norm in any of these countries.
A true product of cold war era.
Especially as a Finn I find it significant, for reasons highlighted in the wiki article. It was pretty funny to follow from sidelines...Talking heads on TV and all that about how computer games might affect our kids, relation to the USSR and so on. Of course we have since heard that same stuff again over GTA and similar games, but at least back then it was related to foreign politics instead of scoring random points for next election.
Roads in NZ are shocking. there are virtually no divided roads outside the cities. Going anywhere on a long weekend - forgetaboutit.
Hmm. I spent two weeks in NZ driving around (the place is *beautiful*), basically rented a car from Christchurch, west to Queenstown, up on highway 6 on west coast, then ferry to Wellington. North island was crowded as hell and no freeway until Auckland, but South Island was just perfect :)
As a CCIE I must say that there'd probably be "Sigh....can't these guys get ANYTHING right"-reaction instead of a "WTF"...
At my company the security guy was also a bit apalled by this if you decide to get literal(we have been audited and passed against PCI). What about routers? Do we need to run a virus scanner on the "servers" running IOS or JunOS?-) There isn't really THAT much difference between a Unix box and IOS box even if the latter ones usually have a bit more specialized hardware for processing network packets.
OpenH323 is basically Netmeeting, but OSS version. Mind you, it uses (surprise) H.323 protocol, and not all firewalls like it (since it requires connectivity to both directions).
http://openh323.sourceforge.net/
Uhm, you are aware that "Documents and settings" corresponds to /home/ on Unix systems? If you are running a two-partition setup where you wish to have a separate "System partition", you are SUPPOSED to set up your home dirs on the other partition. Just configure your system to store profiles on your "D:". Or use symlinks (junctions in NTFS parlance).
You aren't the only one. Heck, there's ton of research in the area - the whole 802.21 (and tech-specific adaptations, such as 802.11u) is based on this, and this kind of stuff is mentioned in the specs as example applications.
It's quite common to get patched versions cracked, as well.
Only recent screw-up that I can think of is the original Crysis - the 1.21 patch that doesn't have 64-bit version crack available (32-bit is), latest 64-bit is 1.20. See for yourself - gamecopyworld.com.
Just get the crack from gamefix or gamecopyworld. If EA wants to shell out cash to Securom, that's their problem. As long as there is crack AVAILABLE I'm ok for buying the game, since it also makes it future-proof (eg. even if activation server vanishes at some point, I can still play).
Getting crack is standard procedure for me. Heck, with Civilization III getting rid of the CD-check also game me a new feature: Higher resolutions! Without the crack, even though I set 1280x960 in the .ini-file, it didn't work - always reverted to 800x600 (or whatever the default was). Once I got tired of having the CD in drive and installed the crack - boom, higher resolutions started to work.
Not to mention that bunch of newer games refused to work on my older Win'98 gaming PC (GTA: SA, KOTOR 2 as examples) - the copy protection required Win2k or newer for some API calls, the game itself worked just fine...
You can add to that list
http://torrentfreak.com/european-parliament-says-no-to-three-strikes-law-080925/ (URL pretty much tells what's that about)
and
The Pirate Bay's blocking in Italy is apparently overruled after TPB sent in their lawyers.
This is a *very* good day :)
Or you can just grab the TestKing training set and do dumb memorization to get through...Some of the questions are identical down to the typos.
I have to agree on everything you say about multiple-choice tests. Now, I haven't answered these on *interviews*, but I've occasionally checked out some "practice exams" for some prominent IT certifications and decided that bah, I'll pass. Only cert that I've ever bothered to obtain is CCIE (since it actually has the "you have 8 hours in the lab"-requirement - ie. practical work). Case on point, CISSP, and multiple choice "Where would you place IDS?"
[ ]Outside firewall
[ ]Inside firewall
[ ]Front of server farm
Sheesh, first question back would be "what are your requirements?"...Supposedly the correct answer is "Outside firewall", but the other two are just as valid if they fit your requirements (e.g. you don't want to overload your IDS by having it log all and every random inbound Windows-box-originated attack packet that would get blocked by the F/W anyway...)
Tetrasodium-including soaps have already given a free boot camp for bacterias at home when folks have been buying the stuff thinking it somehow makes places healthier. There's a difference between clean and sterile environments, and clean is really all that you need.
Actually, Delay-tolerant Networking has applications that go beyond just space. One prime example is acoustic networks for oceanic monitoring - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/4302188/4302189/04302341.pdf has a nice paper about the application. Also, battlefield communications where there may be intermittent connectivity benefits from DTN.
Anyway, the reason for getting direct IP connectivity to space probes is to reduce the overhead: If you can just say wget http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/mars/opportunity/todayspic.jpg to access Oppy's camera instead of having to go through various hoops it makes everyones work easier. Combine this with dynamic and automatic routing (for example, for solar oppositions)..So yes, mostly the benefits are for scientists and engineers in space projects.
My only question is, when the smoke clears and we're all fine, will the doomsayers ever learn for the next time? Probably not. I'm sure next time they'll say
"this time, its different, the world is really going to end this time".
For a local astronomy club, I once did a little presentation, I think the title was "bad astronomy in popular culture". While the scope was mostly about stuff like sound-in-space, space planes ála Star Wars, and so on, one of the topics I covered was Niburu - the supposed planet that will kill us all. It actually had little visibility even in mainstream press so it sort of warranted coverage.
http://www.detailshere.com/niburu.htm is the "Doom!" page. Anyway, for my research, I just checked out webarchive.org...and looked at the snapshots from previous years. It was basically updated every year to say that "next year IT will come". As you can see, right now it's saying "2008-2011" :). Compare with the version from 2003 february or from 2005 as examples :)
However, there are patches to take it out. Gamecopyworld.com is a place to go to get them. If you live in the US, it is probably not legal to use them because of the DMCA. However in other countries, it should be just fine so long as you legitimately bought the game.
Where in Gamecopyworld? The Mass Effect page only has trainers (and a statement that you don't need a patch for this one. Grr.)
This is something I couldn't find in the FAQ on the site - but anyway, PAL versions of DVDs are usually 4% faster (25 fps as opposed to 24 fps achieved via 3:2 pulldown) than NTSC versions. Thus, the sound pitch is (not noticeably) higher (although some releases are pitch-corrected). Anyway, if there is no separate version for PAL, playing one of these audio tracks would result the lip-sync going off within minutes and after that the experience would only get worse..
Of course you could fix it yourself by resampling the whole thing, but would of course hope that the Rifftrax would provide the correct versions directly.
Rephrase: Guess which one Google presents as the first few thousand hits?
Folks might be crying censorship. Of course it's a band-aid to the sensationalism - but got any better ideas? The accusations will be on front pages of tabloids since MURDER SELLS. If these guys get cleared as not guilty, it will be on page 10 as a tiny note, if even that. Guess which one Google catches?
Other option might be that everyone who makes news about the accusations should make similar headlines of the end of trial regardless of whether they were convicted or not...
My problem with some of these digital distribution systems is that the software that comes with it demands a premium place on my desktop. Steam is the worst offender of this, doing the automatically-startup-at-boot thing after install, automatically downloading all kinds of stuff without any notification (folks with a download-cap would really like that), displaying promotions and ads (sometimes even while I was playing a game, thus minimizing the game for some unwanted ad, yikes!)..
In Steam, just select "Go offline" in file menu. No more does it talk to Valve's servers. Naturally, to get updates and new games you have to go online, but playing the stuff you have installed works just fine.
And it doesn't start up automatically, either unless you make it do so...
...and I will buy it, just like I have bought Sins of the Solar Empire, Galactic Civilizations II and Space Rangers 2.
Note that SR2 I originally passed as it was originally published - it had Securom copy protection, so I let it pass.
http://www.impulsedriven.com/ is Stardock's new system, looks very promising (and more friendly than Steam, which is also nice).
Because for some reason, when two people are talking right next to one another, they tend to whisper or at least talk in low voice.
For some reason, give someone a cellphone and if they are not downright shouting their voice somehow still seems to carry at least a few rows. You can observe this every day in any bus/train. Even though the other end will definitely hear you even if you talk at low volume.
Yeah, it's always nice to recompile entire kdepim when you want to install one plugin for Kopete. Gentoo's modularising of KDE package was a good thing.
And you can still use the originals if you like, it's just emerging kde vs. kde-meta.
Depends, but then you can do turtles all the way down.
So, have an encrypted (obviously visible volume) that has "boring" stuff in it, like your basic groceries accounting and letters to grandma. Have a hidden volume that has embarassing but non-incriminating stuff (porn folders). Have a hidden volume inside THAT that contains embarassing stuff that you'd pretend people shouldn't really want to find out (eg. gay porn). Have a hidden volume inside that that contains your master plan of converting all WoW players into your army of midgets to take over the world...add as many layers as you want.
That's the idea with the deniability, They can never know if there actually is a hidden volume in there. So assuming torture, you are probably so lost yourself that you cannot even remember the scheme yourself anymore...Even if they go with the assumption that since you are using Truecrypt there MUST be a hidden volume - but there's no way to know how many nested hidden volumes there are.