Top of the third page: The purpose of copyright law is to create incentives that "promote...Progress." But extensions of copyright for works that already exist do not promote progress.
Easily the best comment I've heard against Pro Bono for copyright terms.
Threads are considered "lightweight" processes, in that they run within a process concurrent to each other and the process that owns them. They share address space, making implementation of the alternative easier. Going with your 1-4 above:
(1) Depends on what platform and how the threads are implemented. In some cases, you do see multiple entries in ps for a process running threads. Typically you see this in network deamons, but often that's because they use fork().
(2) They've been around a very long time. Dijkstra (the guy who developed the shortest path algorithm for graphs) also developed a lot of stuff for threading in the 1960s. Though, fork() and exec() have probably been around longer.
(3) Correct. Threads share memory. The trick is to make sure you eliminate race conditions so that one thread doesnt blow away what another thread is working on while it's working on it. There's two major ways of doing this: Semaphores and Monitors. pthreads use semaphores because they're a little easier to work with in C, whereas monitors generally need support from the programming language (eg, Java implements monitors, but can add your own semaphores to Java code if you wish).
(4) POSIX has a Threading specification. iirc, pthreads in one such implementation.
Uses: Within an OS Kernel, in GUIs, server apps, less overhead than using fork() et al. Useful in massively parallel computing applications where a lot of data gets shared. Like everything else in programming, it really depends on what's being developed.
You might want to try looking at the FBI's Uniform Crime Report, which is published annually. It contains the numbers for what crimes have been occuring, and (IIRC) whether or not a gun was involved. GRain of salt required - not all police depts report to the UCR (like they're supposed to), and some selectively munge and distort their reports. Then there are those crimes that never get reported to police at all.
In general, gun crime has been going down in recent years, as has the general crime rate. Now whether this has anything to do with gun control (like the Brady Law), who knows? Maybe try and get some numbers on how many gun sales were blocked because of gun control measures, and comparing them up with the UCR's numbers or something.
i too go to drexel. i didnt notice this story until it was top story of today's triangle. acc'ding to the story there, all 3 people involved never graduated.
business oriented? to a degree, maybe. engineering in general is how i would describe us.
When will the media realize that not all DoS attacks are DDoS? DDoS is when the attacker gets a bunch of machines to all send data to the target machine, causing the target to run out of resources to handle all connections, swallowing the legit traffic in the process.
"Normal" DoS is what this is - crashing the target. For example, an old flaw in Wu-FTPD allowed a core dump - crashing the deamon and creating a DoS to anyone who needs it. All it took was a malformed request during a session. One machine required, not many.
I recommend the book "Goodfella Tapes" by George Anastasia. I just finished reading it (for a crime class), complete with a guest speaking from the author. It's basically the story about the Philadelphia/South Jersey Mob War that occured about 1993-1995, based largely around FBI wiretaps, bugs, and other black-bag material. It's claimed to be the largest FBI wiretapping operation ever, and it almost got nixed by the overseeing judge after the first 4 weeks because nothing was happening (until two days before the 4 weeks were up).
My favorite part was a guy who's office they had bugged. He pretty much said "I'm gettin' so paranoid I even had a guy come sweep the place."
do'h! I missed the word "immigrant." Those first few waves of immigrants and their italian accents way back when was the root of it. As time wore on, the accent did not carry into their children.
I live in one of the areas affected by this. I'm no EE, so I'll probably get the terminology all wrong, but here it goes. I think the police here use a frequency that's also used by TV, as it's a few groups of small towns sharing the bandwidth. The article states that the TV station is broadcasting on TV Channel 20, or 506-512 MHz, if it helps any.
Ok, I'm the submitter. I see a few posts denouncing the "Joisey" reference. I'm from NJ. It takes a sense of humor to live in NJ. I know that SJ is vastly different from the smokestacks of Newark.
Am I the only person who lives in NJ with a sense of humor?
(oh, and for the record, I live between exits 3 and 4)
Italians living in north jersey decades ago pronounced it "joisey" at first, which is where it comes from. It tended to stick around in joke capacity.
As for the main topic, I too first saw it on local news, then went looking on GoogleNews. I live in Clementon - which uses the Lindenwold 911 Call Center discussed in the article, so I'm definitely concerned.
I use First Union. Using Mozilla on Win2k, it works just fine. I also like their interface - you can display a portion of your account statement based on date, and can click an icon that pops up a calander, click a date and it automagically gets filled into the textbox.
However, they're in a merger with Wachovia (sp?), and I dont know where things are headed.
my school - Drexel - has a decent balance. They require undergrad students (in most diciplines, including engineering and CS) into an internship program such that you have 18 months work experience upon graduation. There's also a new undergrad Software Engineering program (it's in its first year), and they've had a graduate SE program for a few years now. The CS program has its fair share of theory (i mean, come on, what program doesnt?), but we do have to take coursework in Software Design and Engineering, including a 6-month team project as a graduation requirement.
The problem centers around "nothing to lose" cases, where the plantiff has nothing to lose by losing the lawsuit.
In many countries (US is not one of them), if you sue someone and lose (or get caught under perjury or something), you must pay for the defendant's legal fees, and get opened up to counter-suits from the defendant. In the US, unfortunately, the plantiff can just walk away from a lost suit as if nothing happened, despite how much work (and money) a defendant can put in to defend himself. This is especially true for lawyers that hire themselves out on contingency.
patents were made to stifle innovation, they were made to promote it
Are you missing a not in there?
just bring back public stoning
Reminds me of a funny story I heard shortly after 9/11. A Philly Daily News reporter asked a local prominent defense attorney if he'd defend Osama bin Laden. He basically responded "Sure! Be the easiest case ever. I'd just tell the jury that they should acquit him and let societal forces take care of him within the next week."
wait a sec.... does this mean you are a spammer, yet have not profited? what's wrong with this picture? i thought the plan was 1) spam, 2) ???, 3) profit!
Nintendo, Sony, and other companies over the years have had to deal with mod chips and people who like to mod their hardware. Last I checked, these companies are not having financial difficulty because of modding.
Slashdot Mirror
ok then. altogether now...
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It's a small world after all,
It's a small world after all,
It's a small world after all!
It's a small, small, small, world!
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no. i understand what's the deal is here. i was trying to make a joke. apparently the joke was missed on you.
This means that if one paper misreads a work the misreading propagates.
You're assuming the paper which mis-cites another gets read when it gets cited.
Top of the third page:
The purpose of copyright law is to create incentives that "promote...Progress." But extensions of copyright for works that already exist do not promote progress.
Easily the best comment I've heard against Pro Bono for copyright terms.
Threads are considered "lightweight" processes, in that they run within a process concurrent to each other and the process that owns them. They share address space, making implementation of the alternative easier. Going with your 1-4 above:
(1) Depends on what platform and how the threads are implemented. In some cases, you do see multiple entries in ps for a process running threads. Typically you see this in network deamons, but often that's because they use fork().
(2) They've been around a very long time. Dijkstra (the guy who developed the shortest path algorithm for graphs) also developed a lot of stuff for threading in the 1960s. Though, fork() and exec() have probably been around longer.
(3) Correct. Threads share memory. The trick is to make sure you eliminate race conditions so that one thread doesnt blow away what another thread is working on while it's working on it. There's two major ways of doing this: Semaphores and Monitors. pthreads use semaphores because they're a little easier to work with in C, whereas monitors generally need support from the programming language (eg, Java implements monitors, but can add your own semaphores to Java code if you wish).
(4) POSIX has a Threading specification. iirc, pthreads in one such implementation.
Uses: Within an OS Kernel, in GUIs, server apps, less overhead than using fork() et al. Useful in massively parallel computing applications where a lot of data gets shared. Like everything else in programming, it really depends on what's being developed.
Malda, from the pictures it looks like you wore white socks! Way to go! Hope it brings the same luck for you as it did my friends and i back in HS!
it's hemos's site. something tells me he wants to feel the /. effect to it's fullest extent possible.
Learning Red Hat Linux
by Bill McCarty
Publisher: (who else?) ORielly
Cover: Guy wearing a hat. No animal.
Suited for RH 7.2, but can probably be easily applied to other distros.
You might want to try looking at the FBI's Uniform Crime Report, which is published annually. It contains the numbers for what crimes have been occuring, and (IIRC) whether or not a gun was involved. GRain of salt required - not all police depts report to the UCR (like they're supposed to), and some selectively munge and distort their reports. Then there are those crimes that never get reported to police at all.
In general, gun crime has been going down in recent years, as has the general crime rate. Now whether this has anything to do with gun control (like the Brady Law), who knows? Maybe try and get some numbers on how many gun sales were blocked because of gun control measures, and comparing them up with the UCR's numbers or something.
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Ha! How 'bout a stick man in a box! Sure beats having to deal with the lameness filter, AND I can now claim prior art whenever the need arises.
i too go to drexel. i didnt notice this story until it was top story of today's triangle. acc'ding to the story there, all 3 people involved never graduated.
business oriented? to a degree, maybe. engineering in general is how i would describe us.
When will the media realize that not all DoS attacks are DDoS? DDoS is when the attacker gets a bunch of machines to all send data to the target machine, causing the target to run out of resources to handle all connections, swallowing the legit traffic in the process.
"Normal" DoS is what this is - crashing the target. For example, an old flaw in Wu-FTPD allowed a core dump - crashing the deamon and creating a DoS to anyone who needs it. All it took was a malformed request during a session. One machine required, not many.
I recommend the book "Goodfella Tapes" by George Anastasia. I just finished reading it (for a crime class), complete with a guest speaking from the author. It's basically the story about the Philadelphia/South Jersey Mob War that occured about 1993-1995, based largely around FBI wiretaps, bugs, and other black-bag material. It's claimed to be the largest FBI wiretapping operation ever, and it almost got nixed by the overseeing judge after the first 4 weeks because nothing was happening (until two days before the 4 weeks were up).
My favorite part was a guy who's office they had bugged. He pretty much said "I'm gettin' so paranoid I even had a guy come sweep the place."
do'h! I missed the word "immigrant." Those first few waves of immigrants and their italian accents way back when was the root of it. As time wore on, the accent did not carry into their children.
I live in one of the areas affected by this. I'm no EE, so I'll probably get the terminology all wrong, but here it goes. I think the police here use a frequency that's also used by TV, as it's a few groups of small towns sharing the bandwidth. The article states that the TV station is broadcasting on TV Channel 20, or 506-512 MHz, if it helps any.
Ok, I'm the submitter. I see a few posts denouncing the "Joisey" reference. I'm from NJ. It takes a sense of humor to live in NJ. I know that SJ is vastly different from the smokestacks of Newark.
Am I the only person who lives in NJ with a sense of humor?
(oh, and for the record, I live between exits 3 and 4)
sure it is. I'm from NJ (worse, in the region affected). Gotta have a sense of humor about your state, man!
Italians living in north jersey decades ago pronounced it "joisey" at first, which is where it comes from. It tended to stick around in joke capacity.
As for the main topic, I too first saw it on local news, then went looking on GoogleNews. I live in Clementon - which uses the Lindenwold 911 Call Center discussed in the article, so I'm definitely concerned.
I use First Union. Using Mozilla on Win2k, it works just fine. I also like their interface - you can display a portion of your account statement based on date, and can click an icon that pops up a calander, click a date and it automagically gets filled into the textbox.
However, they're in a merger with Wachovia (sp?), and I dont know where things are headed.
my school - Drexel - has a decent balance. They require undergrad students (in most diciplines, including engineering and CS) into an internship program such that you have 18 months work experience upon graduation. There's also a new undergrad Software Engineering program (it's in its first year), and they've had a graduate SE program for a few years now. The CS program has its fair share of theory (i mean, come on, what program doesnt?), but we do have to take coursework in Software Design and Engineering, including a 6-month team project as a graduation requirement.
I'm still waiting for the patent on "cylindrical/circular device to facilitate movement in a single direction"
The problem centers around "nothing to lose" cases, where the plantiff has nothing to lose by losing the lawsuit.
In many countries (US is not one of them), if you sue someone and lose (or get caught under perjury or something), you must pay for the defendant's legal fees, and get opened up to counter-suits from the defendant. In the US, unfortunately, the plantiff can just walk away from a lost suit as if nothing happened, despite how much work (and money) a defendant can put in to defend himself. This is especially true for lawyers that hire themselves out on contingency.
patents were made to stifle innovation, they were made to promote it
Are you missing a not in there?
just bring back public stoning
Reminds me of a funny story I heard shortly after 9/11. A Philly Daily News reporter asked a local prominent defense attorney if he'd defend Osama bin Laden. He basically responded "Sure! Be the easiest case ever. I'd just tell the jury that they should acquit him and let societal forces take care of him within the next week."
Spam has never helped me in a monetairy way
wait a sec.... does this mean you are a spammer, yet have not profited? what's wrong with this picture? i thought the plan was 1) spam, 2) ???, 3) profit!
Nintendo, Sony, and other companies over the years have had to deal with mod chips and people who like to mod their hardware. Last I checked, these companies are not having financial difficulty because of modding.
What bug is up MS's butt?