Been standing for over a year.
As many have said: a good floor mat is not optional.
Another commented that good shoes are necessary and I concur.
However, standing all day is bad for some people (e.g. check out varicose veins). I sit regularly. For example, if I need to read something, I print it out (if I can) and sit and read it.
I highly recommend it. Ease into it and figure out ways to sit regularly.
(I'm over age 60.)
Motorola has an Assist app that detects when you are in motion. If enabled and a call comes in, it will identify the caller and ask you if you want to ignore it. You reply verbally. If you say "ignore," it will ask if you want to send a text "I'm driving I'll call later" (something like that) or have you create a message. Also, you can have it read text messages as they arrive. If you aren't the driver, you can simply turn it off. I find it to be a nice compromise between a nanny app and nothing.
Maybe they could start by separating networks for the critical functions and entertainment systems.
Cars used to have multiple busses, but they unified them to save weight to improve fuel efficiency.
That is, they chose fuel efficiency over security. Remember, right now fuel efficiency will sell more cars than a more nebulous "security" that few can appreciate (until something really bad happens).
The Redwall series by Brian Jacques is excellent for young kids. The characters are animals, and the stories are engaging. There are quite a few titles in the series. Many of the suggestions are excellent suggestions, but in my opinion are better for slightly older kids, YMMV. My son is now a young adult and started with Redwall. He has read many classics such as LOTR, is into the Game of Thrones (happens to be reading Lolita at the moment and loves Hemmingway).
Classmates has notified me weekly of multiple sign-ins to my guest book for years, adding up to more guest book sign-ins than students in my graduating class. Apparently I had not realized how popular I was! Being a nerd led to a reluctance to socialize that saved me from this fraud.
One point missed on all posts is that overheated brakes don't work. If brake operation allows them to heat up too much before enough stopping occurs, you will get to complete failure. I can see it possible to be racing down the road, get the brakes heated, and then fail to generate enough braking to stop the vehicle.
Having said that, I'm on the side of "user error" in these cases.
I grew up in NH and spent my youth hiking and camping in the White Mountains. I like the proposed glass "old man". It is a nice memorial to the fallen face, and both the viewing platform and the internal water fall are clever ideas. If you have to hike to get in it, I would be in favor of it. However, if a road is going to be built to it, I'm not in favor. That part of the plan is not specified in the linked article, but presumably it would be car accessible. A lot of back-country territory would be spoiled to make that spot car accessible and that would be a shame. I now qualify for some senior-citizen discounts but would rather struggle up the slope than drive, and it won't be too long before I won't even be able to do that.
I know a bank CEO who refused to transfer money for a Nigerian scam, and the woman accuses him of standing in the way of her making millions. A variety of people have spoken with her, but she is adamant. This standoff has existed for weeks. I don't know the final status.
Votes are not dollars: one dollar can substitute for another. Some loss within financial institutions is assumed and is covered by fees. That concept does not apply to votes.
Also, an error with your mortgage can be easily fixed after the fact.
You mention printers. That is a potential improvement, but a printout of erroneous data is not a solution. See UCSB video demos of hacking Sequoia systems. And printers break down.
Marking machine readable ballots (used here in MI) provides a simple, voter-verifiable system with an audit trail that is more difficult to hack to create large scale fraud (Note that I said "difficult" not "impossible" and I included "large scale fraud").
Ask yourself the question: what problem are electronic machines solving and do they create bigger problems than they solve?
Procedure: Alica and Bob have their own picture stored on their own phone. They each take a picture of the other so each has a picture pair (Alice+Bob) and construct a symmetric key from the picture pair.
Crack: Eve takes a picture of Alice and Bob to get a picture pair (Alice+Bob) and constructs the same symmetric key.
If banks can securely (with ~ 99.999% security) transfer thousands of dollars online, then the technology exists to securely permit voting online.
No, you miss an important difference between dollars and votes.
If a dollar is lost, it can be replaced by another dollar so banks figure in a loss rate and charge for it somehow.
A vote is unique, secret, and anonymous so if a vote is lost, it cannot simply be replaced by another (because you don't know what the vote was). In addition, a vote should be verifiable, e.g. there needs to be some way to check that the voting method worked (e.g. with a recount).
The source paper is a beautifully written document including a complete review of underlying mechanisms -- highly recommended!
Two quotes in the conclusion are interesting:
"Two factors contribute to this problem: the degree to which the browser state is controlled by the attacker; and the extensible plugin architecture of modern browsers."
"The authors expect these problems to be addressed in future releases of Windows and browser plugins shipped by third parties.
I know that you specified doing things on your own, but I recommend that you consider team sports. I'm an old geek in my fifties and participate in team sports. You'd be surprised how tolerant people are with others who are non-athletic and getting started at something. You simply need to find the right group. Some teams are for the hard core, but there are many that are not. Ask around. I guarantee that there is something you can get into.
I say this because I find individual workouts so boring that I cannot keep up with them.
I'll second the comments about choosing to live reasonably close to work and biking. Not everyone can do that, but many can.
Excellent example. The name for that is a 'man-in-the-middle' attack (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_in_the_middle). The reason is that the bank is authenticating you, but you are not authenticating the bank. It is the difference between the similar sounding 'two-factor authentication' and 'two-way authentication'.
I buy the argument that a labor shortage should show up as increased pay.
However, the "IT field" has such a wide range of meaning that it is pretty useless in the context of employment. Consider this quote from the article:
"If the demand was really there, if these critical shortages that Gartner is forecasting started to happen, guess what? Businesses would start sending some of their experienced users to technology school and a few months later they'd become technology experts who understand the business very well,"
A few months of study and we have a trained IT worker(!?). However, we don't have a skilled programmer. Yet, this statement is in an article which also talks about skilled programmers. They aren't the same, but the writer doesn't know that.
In 1980 I lived in NH and there was a recount of both the Democratic and Republican primaries. I happened to have time off so my wife and I volunteered for the recount. In a big room in the capital they set up tables -- one room for the Democratic recount and one for the Republican recount. Maybe 20 tables in each room? An official would bring you a box of votes and you would sit and count them. Across from you at the table would be representatives from each candidate to keep an eye on your count. If there was a dispute over a vote, the ballot went into a disputed pile to be decided on by others. A dispute might come from a check mark outside of a box. We spent days counting the state. At the time I believe that only the city of Manchester had mechanical voting machines -- everything else was paper ballots.
We started on the Democratic side and when those few votes were recounted we helped with the larger Republican vote -- the demographics of NH were quite different 30 years ago. Occasionally, we would come across a town missing ballots. An official would call the local voting official who would try to find the ballots. I remember one small town located the ballots safely stashed in the town crypt! A state police car would be sent to fetch the ballots.
There were, of course, write in votes: Miss Piggy, Donald Duck, etc. We dutifully recorded all.
One memorable candidate was Lyndon LaRouche (D) whose representatives were out-of-state young men in three-piece suits (as opposed to local volunteers for other candidates). They disputed every vote because they knew that the whole election was rigged because they knew that LaRouche had won. I learned a lot from them. For example, our drug problem was because the Queen of England was smuggling drugs into the US. LaRouche later served time in federal prison for tax fraud. He is still politically active.
I have given an assignment to work on a Wikipedia article, and I would be amazed if there weren't many more. Students thoroughly enjoyed the assignments.
What this instructor did was great. I'm not sure it is newsworthy.
I applied for a patent in 1999. It was awarded this year. The delay involved a dispute with the patent examiner. He finally saw the light, but it took years. After reading this article, maybe the problem was that he didn't have time to understand it.
My university will pay for the lawyer fees to file the patent, and collect that first if any money is generated -- sounds reasonable. My first patent was sold for about $25K, but I got nothing -- the lawyers got it all.
By the way, both were nanoscale devices -- not software patents.
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Been standing for over a year. As many have said: a good floor mat is not optional. Another commented that good shoes are necessary and I concur. However, standing all day is bad for some people (e.g. check out varicose veins). I sit regularly. For example, if I need to read something, I print it out (if I can) and sit and read it. I highly recommend it. Ease into it and figure out ways to sit regularly. (I'm over age 60.)
Motorola has an Assist app that detects when you are in motion. If enabled and a call comes in, it will identify the caller and ask you if you want to ignore it. You reply verbally. If you say "ignore," it will ask if you want to send a text "I'm driving I'll call later" (something like that) or have you create a message. Also, you can have it read text messages as they arrive. If you aren't the driver, you can simply turn it off. I find it to be a nice compromise between a nanny app and nothing.
Here is an alternative idea: a Silicon Valley school without technology
Maybe they could start by separating networks for the critical functions and entertainment systems.
Cars used to have multiple busses, but they unified them to save weight to improve fuel efficiency.
That is, they chose fuel efficiency over security. Remember, right now fuel efficiency will sell more cars than a more nebulous "security" that few can appreciate (until something really bad happens).
The Redwall series by Brian Jacques is excellent for young kids. The characters are animals, and the stories are engaging. There are quite a few titles in the series. Many of the suggestions are excellent suggestions, but in my opinion are better for slightly older kids, YMMV. My son is now a young adult and started with Redwall. He has read many classics such as LOTR, is into the Game of Thrones (happens to be reading Lolita at the moment and loves Hemmingway).
Kahn's math videos are excellent, but the Python ones are not, especially for someone who hasn't programmed before.
Classmates has notified me weekly of multiple sign-ins to my guest book for years, adding up to more guest book sign-ins than students in my graduating class. Apparently I had not realized how popular I was! Being a nerd led to a reluctance to socialize that saved me from this fraud.
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5232943/RockYou.com_UserAccount-passwords
One point missed on all posts is that overheated brakes don't work. If brake operation allows them to heat up too much before enough stopping occurs, you will get to complete failure. I can see it possible to be racing down the road, get the brakes heated, and then fail to generate enough braking to stop the vehicle.
Having said that, I'm on the side of "user error" in these cases.
I grew up in NH and spent my youth hiking and camping in the White Mountains. I like the proposed glass "old man". It is a nice memorial to the fallen face, and both the viewing platform and the internal water fall are clever ideas. If you have to hike to get in it, I would be in favor of it. However, if a road is going to be built to it, I'm not in favor. That part of the plan is not specified in the linked article, but presumably it would be car accessible. A lot of back-country territory would be spoiled to make that spot car accessible and that would be a shame. I now qualify for some senior-citizen discounts but would rather struggle up the slope than drive, and it won't be too long before I won't even be able to do that.
Here is a better, brief summary of the work. It shows a standard, deterministic processor with the probabilistic processor as a co-processor.
I believe that the first course should be about problem solving. In particular, problem solving using a computer.
Use a language that lets you focus on problem solving and not on the details of the language. My personal favorite is Python.
(I've taught introductory programming using FORTRAN, Pascal, C, and C++, and, yes, I do have gray hair).
I know a bank CEO who refused to transfer money for a Nigerian scam, and the woman accuses him of standing in the way of her making millions. A variety of people have spoken with her, but she is adamant. This standoff has existed for weeks. I don't know the final status.
"You can fool some of the people all the time ..."
Wrong.
Votes are not dollars: one dollar can substitute for another. Some loss within financial institutions is assumed and is covered by fees. That concept does not apply to votes.
Also, an error with your mortgage can be easily fixed after the fact.
You mention printers. That is a potential improvement, but a printout of erroneous data is not a solution. See UCSB video demos of hacking Sequoia systems. And printers break down.
Marking machine readable ballots (used here in MI) provides a simple, voter-verifiable system with an audit trail that is more difficult to hack to create large scale fraud (Note that I said "difficult" not "impossible" and I included "large scale fraud").
Ask yourself the question: what problem are electronic machines solving and do they create bigger problems than they solve?
Procedure: Alica and Bob have their own picture stored on their own phone. They each take a picture of the other so each has a picture pair (Alice+Bob) and construct a symmetric key from the picture pair.
Crack: Eve takes a picture of Alice and Bob to get a picture pair (Alice+Bob) and constructs the same symmetric key.
If banks can securely (with ~ 99.999% security) transfer thousands of dollars online, then the technology exists to securely permit voting online.
No, you miss an important difference between dollars and votes.
If a dollar is lost, it can be replaced by another dollar so banks figure in a loss rate and charge for it somehow.
A vote is unique, secret, and anonymous so if a vote is lost, it cannot simply be replaced by another (because you don't know what the vote was). In addition, a vote should be verifiable, e.g. there needs to be some way to check that the voting method worked (e.g. with a recount).
The source paper is a beautifully written document including a complete review of underlying mechanisms -- highly recommended!
Two quotes in the conclusion are interesting:
"Two factors contribute to this problem: the degree to which the browser state is controlled by the attacker; and the extensible plugin architecture of modern browsers."
"The authors expect these problems to be addressed in future releases of Windows and browser plugins shipped by third parties.
I know that you specified doing things on your own, but I recommend that you consider team sports. I'm an old geek in my fifties and participate in team sports. You'd be surprised how tolerant people are with others who are non-athletic and getting started at something. You simply need to find the right group. Some teams are for the hard core, but there are many that are not. Ask around. I guarantee that there is something you can get into.
I say this because I find individual workouts so boring that I cannot keep up with them.
I'll second the comments about choosing to live reasonably close to work and biking. Not everyone can do that, but many can.
"So You Want to Be a Wizard" by Diane Duane is a wonderful book for pre-teens about a pre-teen. It is a wizard book which predates Harry Potter.
"The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman was another enjoyed by my pre-teens
Excellent example. The name for that is a 'man-in-the-middle' attack (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_in_the_middle).
The reason is that the bank is authenticating you, but you are not authenticating the bank. It is the difference between the similar sounding 'two-factor authentication' and 'two-way authentication'.
However, the "IT field" has such a wide range of meaning that it is pretty useless in the context of employment. Consider this quote from the article:
A few months of study and we have a trained IT worker(!?). However, we don't have a skilled programmer. Yet, this statement is in an article which also talks about skilled programmers. They aren't the same, but the writer doesn't know that.
Story...
In 1980 I lived in NH and there was a recount of both the Democratic and Republican primaries. I happened to have time off so my wife and I volunteered for the recount. In a big room in the capital they set up tables -- one room for the Democratic recount and one for the Republican recount. Maybe 20 tables in each room? An official would bring you a box of votes and you would sit and count them. Across from you at the table would be representatives from each candidate to keep an eye on your count. If there was a dispute over a vote, the ballot went into a disputed pile to be decided on by others. A dispute might come from a check mark outside of a box. We spent days counting the state. At the time I believe that only the city of Manchester had mechanical voting machines -- everything else was paper ballots.
We started on the Democratic side and when those few votes were recounted we helped with the larger Republican vote -- the demographics of NH were quite different 30 years ago. Occasionally, we would come across a town missing ballots. An official would call the local voting official who would try to find the ballots. I remember one small town located the ballots safely stashed in the town crypt! A state police car would be sent to fetch the ballots.
There were, of course, write in votes: Miss Piggy, Donald Duck, etc. We dutifully recorded all.
One memorable candidate was Lyndon LaRouche (D) whose representatives were out-of-state young men in three-piece suits (as opposed to local volunteers for other candidates). They disputed every vote because they knew that the whole election was rigged because they knew that LaRouche had won. I learned a lot from them. For example, our drug problem was because the Queen of England was smuggling drugs into the US. LaRouche later served time in federal prison for tax fraud. He is still politically active.
I have given an assignment to work on a Wikipedia article, and I would be amazed if there weren't many more. Students thoroughly enjoyed the assignments.
What this instructor did was great. I'm not sure it is newsworthy.
I applied for a patent in 1999. It was awarded this year. The delay involved a dispute with the patent examiner. He finally saw the light, but it took years. After reading this article, maybe the problem was that he didn't have time to understand it.
My university will pay for the lawyer fees to file the patent, and collect that first if any money is generated -- sounds reasonable. My first patent was sold for about $25K, but I got nothing -- the lawyers got it all.
By the way, both were nanoscale devices -- not software patents.
A Google search revealed this intelligent discussion of the scheme.
http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/asrg/current/msg12403.html