Interestingly enough, prior to the whole "theory of evolution" thing catching on, the Darwin family already had a claim to fame. Erasmus Darwin, Chuck's father (or was it grandfather?) was a moderately successful poet. A lot of his stuff is reportedly pretty lewd too. So I guess this stuff is just coming full-circle in a weird sort of way.:)
There are still issues involved there, particularly with the loading of the coprocessors. (Distribution of the coprocessors shouldn't be an issue because they can prove their identity if the loading is done correctly.) But I would argue that if one threw enough money and effort at that single step, it could be made open and secure as well.
The other issue is the terminal between the coprocessor and the user. It seems to me that as long as the (correctly implemented) smartcard the voter uses authenticates itself to the coprocessor, and the coprocessor authenticates itself to the smartcard, the worst a hostile terminal can do is deny service... so long as the smartcard itself accepts the input from the voter and not the terminal.:)
Voting systems are a huge bag of worms, but I'm confident that they can be done right... maybe not in the foreseeable future, but someday.:)
Try to find a plot of deficit spending in constant (inflation adjusted) dollars versus time for the twentieth century. You'll see a lil' bump in the 30s. The jump in defecit spending in the 80s is about 10-30x the magnitude of the deficit spending of the 30s, IIRC. Also, the deficit spending of the 30s all went towards building national infrastructure --an investment that we're still getting returns on. How much will we be benefiting from Reagan-bought tanks in fifty years? Unless rust gains significantly in value in that time, not a whole lot.
I think it is safe to say that Reagan invented deficit spending as we know it today.
Geckos are living critters, this stuff isn't. If you base a robot on this stuff, I'm guessing it will work for a day, then fall off the ceiling when the fibers are worn down. Keratin is the big clue there. It's the same protein that's in our fingernails.
Just got off the phone with tech support, and the Maxtor guy was great. All I had to do is put my HDD on the phone, and the guy sent a replacement unit + a box to return the defective unit with.
Zero hold time, and the phone menus were straight forward. I think I pressed all '1's. How often does that get you to a human these days?
We should start a support group for good people who end up with bad hardware.
I just got a Maxtor (120G) in the mail. Lost about half my day to it so far, it's not working to say the least. I'm glad it didn't fry my WD drive with 2 years worth of data on it when it was shaking like a hello-kitty massager in it's enclosure for a few minutes before I realized that it wasn't my new fan that was making all that noise. Now it's running with 5 layers of paper towels between it and my case to keep it from vibrating my entire case while I run Maxtor's diagnostics so I can get my RMA.
So I get the machine running just for this purpose, fire up the web browser, and this article is the first thing that pops up in my face.:)
*sigh*
A few years ago I bought one of those Intel-based motherboards with the faulty MMU chip shielding the week before it got recalled. I didn't have an Intel implementation of course, just the chipset. I had a SuperMicro. Their tech support people assured me that they used extra shielding on their boards, so they didn't need to honor the recall. Right. That's how they got the cheapest solution to market: extra shielding. Why didn't I think of that. And I guess that my machine freaking out at every LAN party I went to was my imagination too. I'm an AMD fanboy now. And I do more research before purchasing. Didn't save me from this disk though.
Enough venting now. I'm gonna go work on getting my RMA. And I'll start testing my disks before running them too. I had no idea I could jeopardize my _other_ drives with a faulty one.
Good writers borrow, great writers steal, and Hyperion is, hands down, the best sci-fi I've ever read. Keats, Beowulf, Shakespeare, Chaucer, The Bible, and the list goes on. Simmons takes some of the best bits of them all and weaves them into a world all his own. And it's not just the theft that's good: the setting is rich, and the characters are richer. It's simply a joy to read.
You can read the series on several levels, too. I read the first two books as a sort of attempt at finishing the plot of Keats' poem Hyperion in an alternate setting. The first book, like the unfinished manuscript indtroduces a lot while finishing little, and I think you can map entities and groups in the books into the world of the poem, reaching meaningful conclusions about where Simmons would have liked the poem to go.
Still, after the first book, the second is kind of a dissapointment. The whole rest of the series feels like it exists only to tie up the loose ends left by the first book, and develop and explore the universe. These are not bad aims, there's plenty left to develop and enjoy, but they fail to live up to the first, let alone manage to outdo it. That said, I still read and enjoyed each of them very much.
I scanned past the white-on-white comment, and I didn't read the "make check payable" line as a part of the "quote" from the paper.
So yeah, that's pretty funny.:) What's funnier is your moderation totals:
50% Informative
20% Insightful
20% Funny
So assuming the moderators are a representative sample, most people took you seriously. Still, sorry if my little flame ends up hurting your karma any.:(
I have access to the full text through a site license as a student at a major research university, and not only can I not find that text, the article starts on page 534.
On page 537: "Competing interests statement: The authors decleare that they have no competing financial interests."
Mod this libelous garbage back to where it belongs.
It doesn't matter what they expect. They don't have any legal (or quasi-legal) beef with you until _after_ you've violated their expectations, and hence, not until after you already have another source of income.
You'll probably be gainfully employed for at least a month or so before your recently-ex employer gets their ducks in a row and you have to start spending money defending yourself.
Okay, so do you think that if an Iraqi operative fired on GWB tonight, CNN would report that as a "decaptiation attack"? No. That would be an assasination attempt. That's how the press release would read.
I don't quite know why, but my morals tell me that even in a time of war, assasination is wrong. Maybe I feel that war should be restricted to armed combatants, I don't know. But there's something about dropping a bomb on a target that isn't manning a weapon that makes me a little queasy. Granted, a head of state isn't exactly a civilian, but should one really be considered a combatant? What are the implications?
That's fine. Those are your ethics. And I'm mostly fine with this decision too: if this is the kind of war he wants to fight, I say no one has a right to accuse him of personal cowardice.
But thanks to conformist reporting, the white house is choosing the color of the lens through which this event is viewed in the United States. This will not be how the lens is colored in Qatar, or the U.K., or France, or China. This is a key reason why Americans don't understand why we're so hated abroad: we're largely sheltered from examining the morality of the foreign policy decisions of our leadership.
Watching on TV, I keep hearing that this is a strike against a "Leadership Target." Other "Leadership Targets" in history have included Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy.
I wish the media would get off their knees long enough enough to report events the way they are as opposed to the way the news is handed to them. The word "assasination" can apply to actions taken by US officials, even if they choose not to describe their actions that way.
Your elitism has been commented on thoroughly, so I'll skip to the meat.:)
It takes 1.5 million queries to break an SSL key using this technique if you have an account on the same machine. That's for a local attack.
They go on to give evidence that a remote attack is possible, but don't actually give parameters that would indicate the complexity of the attack. 1.5 million queries is already kind of pushing it though, and I would imagine taking the attack to the remote setting, even with a small round trip, will explode the complexity significantly. So the attack may not be feasible at all.
Furthermore, adding random variance to latency data doesn't theoretically help much. Get enough samples, and that noise drops out. It raises the number of queries, yes, but doesn't stop the latency from forming a statistically usable distribution.
And coat coloration will always be different for tabbies because of the way cat genetics works.
Coat color is a sex linked trait, so females have two (distinct in the case of tabbies) coat color genes. Proper "gene dosage" for sex linked genes in cats (and humans) is 1 (so us males don't get too much more freakish than we already are.) Therefore, one of those coat color genes has to be turned off at all times. But which one? It's randomly, but permanently determined during growth, resulting in certain regions being one color, and certain regions being the other. But that random process is not gene-encoded, so you're going to get different coat patterns, even in tabby clones.
Kind of dissapointing. Both for the cat owners wanting to clone their tabby, and for the humans. We don't have sex-linked hair colors, so our females have less interesting coloration.:)
The optimization you describe seems to target transfer rates more than latency. Latency is the real killer, and though this solution would eliminate seek time (~9ms), the platter still needs to spin around, which on a 7200RPM disk, only spinning 120x/sec, that's.0083 seconds/rev or... 8ms. Expected latency is thus 4ms. That doesn't factor in bus latency and other factors, just the latency on the platter.
This ram drive thingy has a 6 _micro_second latency (if memory serves), roughly 1000X faster. Stick that in your RAID pipe and smoke it.:)
This makes me more than a little sick. Whenever they appear before Congress or talk to a journalist, the RIAA only talks about "The Artists" {rights, livelihood, right to compensation, insentive,...} but the second the royalty pickings get a little too slim for the studio's tastes, the artsists are the first ones to take the pay cut.
The specific immune system is a really complex beast, and what gets built where and when is probably missing the point.
This page: http://www.jdaross.mcmail.com/lymphatics6.h tm explains the function of the thymus.
It sounds like it doesn't shut down, but people might still be interested in having a thymus replacement every once in a while just to keep it fresh.
Possible consequences: loss of your immune response memory. It seems like lymphocytes retire there and protect you from the stuff they were good at killing in their youth. If you replaced your thymus, you'd probably be susceptible to chicken pox (and worse) again if it wasn't done very carefully.
But the T-lymphocyes come from the red blood marrow, not the thymus, which is a direct answer to your question, but isn't very useful.:)
I'm pretty sure T-lymphocyte refers both to helper T cells (what you just referred to as T-Cells) and killer T cells (which are macrophages.) Actually, I think that statement might be inaccurate. I seem to recall that there are something like five or six types of T cells with subtle distinctions, so some killers may or may not be macrophages, and vice versa. Once again: the specific immune system is a complex beast.
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Interestingly enough, prior to the whole "theory of evolution" thing catching on, the Darwin family already had a claim to fame. Erasmus Darwin, Chuck's father (or was it grandfather?) was a moderately successful poet. A lot of his stuff is reportedly pretty lewd too. So I guess this stuff is just coming full-circle in a weird sort of way.
-Lux
What about secure coprocessors running open-source software?
There are still issues involved there, particularly with the loading of the coprocessors. (Distribution of the coprocessors shouldn't be an issue because they can prove their identity if the loading is done correctly.) But I would argue that if one threw enough money and effort at that single step, it could be made open and secure as well.
The other issue is the terminal between the coprocessor and the user. It seems to me that as long as the (correctly implemented) smartcard the voter uses authenticates itself to the coprocessor, and the coprocessor authenticates itself to the smartcard, the worst a hostile terminal can do is deny service... so long as the smartcard itself accepts the input from the voter and not the terminal.
Voting systems are a huge bag of worms, but I'm confident that they can be done right... maybe not in the foreseeable future, but someday.
-Lux
When I try to manipulate the stock market, I make sure to do it as an AC.
>That said, 5 am is a very good excuse, canadian.
I think you might be jumping the gun on your head-flapper diagnosis here. I think on rare occasions, non-canadians end sentences with the word 'eh.'
That's not a bug. As long as DirectX still works, there's no reason to suspect the patch worked incorrectly.
-Lux
Try to find a plot of deficit spending in constant (inflation adjusted) dollars versus time for the twentieth century. You'll see a lil' bump in the 30s. The jump in defecit spending in the 80s is about 10-30x the magnitude of the deficit spending of the 30s, IIRC. Also, the deficit spending of the 30s all went towards building national infrastructure --an investment that we're still getting returns on. How much will we be benefiting from Reagan-bought tanks in fifty years? Unless rust gains significantly in value in that time, not a whole lot.
I think it is safe to say that Reagan invented deficit spending as we know it today.
>Pilots who land harshly often find themselves inches
>shorter and a life time of back and body problems.
So do non-pilots.
LOL! I get many of these, but probably less than half. Can anyone translate (expand?) the whole thing?
-Lux
So if we need to be able to check the mail box then I guess we'll have to settle for bgates@hotmail.com.
:)
Or is passport bug-free now?
Geckos are living critters, this stuff isn't. If you base a robot on this stuff, I'm guessing it will work for a day, then fall off the ceiling when the fibers are worn down. Keratin is the big clue there. It's the same protein that's in our fingernails.
Just got off the phone with tech support, and the Maxtor guy was great. All I had to do is put my HDD on the phone, and the guy sent a replacement unit + a box to return the defective unit with.
Zero hold time, and the phone menus were straight forward. I think I pressed all '1's. How often does that get you to a human these days?
We should start a support group for good people who end up with bad hardware.
:)
I just got a Maxtor (120G) in the mail. Lost about half my day to it so far, it's not working to say the least. I'm glad it didn't fry my WD drive with 2 years worth of data on it when it was shaking like a hello-kitty massager in it's enclosure for a few minutes before I realized that it wasn't my new fan that was making all that noise. Now it's running with 5 layers of paper towels between it and my case to keep it from vibrating my entire case while I run Maxtor's diagnostics so I can get my RMA.
So I get the machine running just for this purpose, fire up the web browser, and this article is the first thing that pops up in my face.
*sigh*
A few years ago I bought one of those Intel-based motherboards with the faulty MMU chip shielding the week before it got recalled. I didn't have an Intel implementation of course, just the chipset. I had a SuperMicro. Their tech support people assured me that they used extra shielding on their boards, so they didn't need to honor the recall. Right. That's how they got the cheapest solution to market: extra shielding. Why didn't I think of that. And I guess that my machine freaking out at every LAN party I went to was my imagination too. I'm an AMD fanboy now. And I do more research before purchasing. Didn't save me from this disk though.
Enough venting now. I'm gonna go work on getting my RMA. And I'll start testing my disks before running them too. I had no idea I could jeopardize my _other_ drives with a faulty one.
Good writers borrow, great writers steal, and Hyperion is, hands down, the best sci-fi I've ever read. Keats, Beowulf, Shakespeare, Chaucer, The Bible, and the list goes on. Simmons takes some of the best bits of them all and weaves them into a world all his own. And it's not just the theft that's good: the setting is rich, and the characters are richer. It's simply a joy to read.
You can read the series on several levels, too. I read the first two books as a sort of attempt at finishing the plot of Keats' poem Hyperion in an alternate setting. The first book, like the unfinished manuscript indtroduces a lot while finishing little, and I think you can map entities and groups in the books into the world of the poem, reaching meaningful conclusions about where Simmons would have liked the poem to go.
Still, after the first book, the second is kind of a dissapointment. The whole rest of the series feels like it exists only to tie up the loose ends left by the first book, and develop and explore the universe. These are not bad aims, there's plenty left to develop and enjoy, but they fail to live up to the first, let alone manage to outdo it. That said, I still read and enjoyed each of them very much.
I scanned past the white-on-white comment, and I didn't read the "make check payable" line as a part of the "quote" from the paper.
So yeah, that's pretty funny.
50% Informative
20% Insightful
20% Funny
So assuming the moderators are a representative sample, most people took you seriously. Still, sorry if my little flame ends up hurting your karma any.
I have access to the full text through a site license as a student at a major research university, and not only can I not find that text, the article starts on page 534.
On page 537: "Competing interests statement: The authors decleare that they have no competing financial interests."
Mod this libelous garbage back to where it belongs.
It doesn't matter what they expect. They don't have any legal (or quasi-legal) beef with you until _after_ you've violated their expectations, and hence, not until after you already have another source of income.
You'll probably be gainfully employed for at least a month or so before your recently-ex employer gets their ducks in a row and you have to start spending money defending yourself.
"But, if you're out of a job, you're probably not in the best position to fight anything."
:)
If you're violating a non-compete agreement, you're not out of a job.
Okay, so do you think that if an Iraqi operative fired on GWB tonight, CNN would report that as a "decaptiation attack"? No. That would be an assasination attempt. That's how the press release would read.
I don't quite know why, but my morals tell me that even in a time of war, assasination is wrong. Maybe I feel that war should be restricted to armed combatants, I don't know. But there's something about dropping a bomb on a target that isn't manning a weapon that makes me a little queasy. Granted, a head of state isn't exactly a civilian, but should one really be considered a combatant? What are the implications?
Or am I just being horribly naive?
That's fine. Those are your ethics. And I'm mostly fine with this decision too: if this is the kind of war he wants to fight, I say no one has a right to accuse him of personal cowardice.
But thanks to conformist reporting, the white house is choosing the color of the lens through which this event is viewed in the United States. This will not be how the lens is colored in Qatar, or the U.K., or France, or China. This is a key reason why Americans don't understand why we're so hated abroad: we're largely sheltered from examining the morality of the foreign policy decisions of our leadership.
Watching on TV, I keep hearing that this is a strike against a "Leadership Target." Other "Leadership Targets" in history have included Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy.
I wish the media would get off their knees long enough enough to report events the way they are as opposed to the way the news is handed to them. The word "assasination" can apply to actions taken by US officials, even if they choose not to describe their actions that way.
-Lux
I'm pretty sure you're trolling, but I'll bite...
:)
Your elitism has been commented on thoroughly, so I'll skip to the meat.
It takes 1.5 million queries to break an SSL key using this technique if you have an account on the same machine. That's for a local attack.
They go on to give evidence that a remote attack is possible, but don't actually give parameters that would indicate the complexity of the attack. 1.5 million queries is already kind of pushing it though, and I would imagine taking the attack to the remote setting, even with a small round trip, will explode the complexity significantly. So the attack may not be feasible at all.
Furthermore, adding random variance to latency data doesn't theoretically help much. Get enough samples, and that noise drops out. It raises the number of queries, yes, but doesn't stop the latency from forming a statistically usable distribution.
-Lux
And coat coloration will always be different for tabbies because of the way cat genetics works.
:)
Coat color is a sex linked trait, so females have two (distinct in the case of tabbies) coat color genes. Proper "gene dosage" for sex linked genes in cats (and humans) is 1 (so us males don't get too much more freakish than we already are.) Therefore, one of those coat color genes has to be turned off at all times. But which one? It's randomly, but permanently determined during growth, resulting in certain regions being one color, and certain regions being the other. But that random process is not gene-encoded, so you're going to get different coat patterns, even in tabby clones.
Kind of dissapointing. Both for the cat owners wanting to clone their tabby, and for the humans. We don't have sex-linked hair colors, so our females have less interesting coloration.
-Lux
The optimization you describe seems to target transfer rates more than latency. Latency is the real killer, and though this solution would eliminate seek time (~9ms), the platter still needs to spin around, which on a 7200RPM disk, only spinning 120x/sec, that's .0083 seconds/rev or... 8ms. Expected latency is thus 4ms. That doesn't factor in bus latency and other factors, just the latency on the platter.
:)
This ram drive thingy has a 6 _micro_second latency (if memory serves), roughly 1000X faster. Stick that in your RAID pipe and smoke it.
This makes me more than a little sick. Whenever they appear before Congress or talk to a journalist, the RIAA only talks about "The Artists" {rights, livelihood, right to compensation, insentive, ...} but the second the royalty pickings get a little too slim for the studio's tastes, the artsists are the first ones to take the pay cut.
The specific immune system is a really complex beast, and what gets built where and when is probably missing the point.
h tm
:)
This page:
http://www.jdaross.mcmail.com/lymphatics6.
explains the function of the thymus.
It sounds like it doesn't shut down, but people might still be interested in having a thymus replacement every once in a while just to keep it fresh.
Possible consequences: loss of your immune response memory. It seems like lymphocytes retire there and protect you from the stuff they were good at killing in their youth. If you replaced your thymus, you'd probably be susceptible to chicken pox (and worse) again if it wasn't done very carefully.
But the T-lymphocyes come from the red blood marrow, not the thymus, which is a direct answer to your question, but isn't very useful.
I'm pretty sure T-lymphocyte refers both to helper T cells (what you just referred to as T-Cells) and killer T cells (which are macrophages.) Actually, I think that statement might be inaccurate. I seem to recall that there are something like five or six types of T cells with subtle distinctions, so some killers may or may not be macrophages, and vice versa. Once again: the specific immune system is a complex beast.