The vandals could obtain sensitive information related to the campaign of presidential candidate John Kerry.
Because you can never know too much about what a presidential candidate ate for breakfast.
Or they could unleash an attack that would bring down the network and throw the convention into chaos.
I thought all these political conventions consisted of was pure chaos? The political machine draws on entropy, if these things provide further chaos and uncertianty to the issues then I'd assume the campaigners would be in favor of it.
When I'm in a setting where paper makes sense (and I don't have lots of large screens just laying around) then I choose paper.
Otherwise (and far more often than the paper setting) I enjoy carrying 300MB of books, contacts, and other assorted data around with me that I can access, edit, add to, or remove with a few seconds of work.
I also carry my laptop for longer sessions of adding/editing and internet access.
600dpi for contact and appointment info and reference reading is inappropiate. It'll come eventually, but only when it doesn't cost lots of power, size, weight, durability, etc.
I can see the latest and greatest publishing craze: Extreme Writing and Extreme Editing modeled after Extreme programming.
Not only will authors be able to publish the same day they write "The End" (with their editer looking over their shoulder in typical pair writing style) they can issue revisions for future copies.
No need to think too deeply about plot, if it doesn't sell well in the first few days - rewrite the thing!
Oh wait, that already happens now without the rewriting part...
The practical problem with multicast was that it requires an intelligent network and dumb clients. In other words: routers have to be able to keep a table of information on which links to relay multicast information, and that has to be dynamically updated periodically.
There is a multicast overlay on top of the internet which consists of routers that can handle this load.
But the combination of no hardware/software support in the network, and no real huge push for this technology left multicast high and dry.
Brief idea of how multicast works:
1) A source send out a "I have a multicast feed" to its immediate routers. Those routers 'publish' this feed to their connected routers until every segment on the internet has seen this feed broadcast.
2) At the end points, individual computers see this message on their segment. They can subscribe to the feed by sending a message to their upstream router. This router places an entry in its table saying, "Someone on segment X wants feed Y, which I get from segment Z" It then sends a subscribe message to the router it got the original broadcast from, which does the same thing on upward until it hits the originating server.
3) Each router, when it sees a multicast packet, consults its table to see which (if any) segments it should forward the packet to. Eventually the packet makes its way to all the endpoints of the network
4) The publish broadcast is initiated periodically. Each router also periodically checks the table to see if they haven't received a re-subscribe message since the last publish broadcast. If no one resubscribes then the table entry is not refreshed - there is no unsubscribe, if you no longer want the feed just ignore it and it'll go away if no one else on your segment wants it. Only one subscriber on each segment needs to subscribe, so if I want it and my co worker wants it then if I see his subscribe packet before I send mine out then I won't send mine out since it'll be put on my segment anyway.
It's quite elegant, but when a router is dealing with 40+Gbps of packets it barely has time to figure out where each packet goes, nevermind statefully inspecting multicast packets and forwarding them appropiately. Not impossible, but it hasn't been rolled out and few providers see any money in supporting it.
Do a Google search, and you'll find companies, tools and instructions, etc to help you do this if you are unable or unwilling to purchase the required equipment/software to do it yourself.
Of course, half the problem is knowing the correct question to ask. That's why google is so popular - it gets good results with bad questions, and you can refine your question with repeated searches.
It ends with Will smith losing his left index finger.
Fortunately they were able to upload a virus to the mothership which caused all the robots to crash, not unlike Anakin's fortuitious encounter with the drone control ship off naboo.
I'm sure that if we continued this conversation you could come up with some barely concievable, twisted story that would demonstrate that he could indeed play chess in Yugoslavia at the time.
The simple fact is that he was not in trouble for playing chess. They don't care what he did that caused money to be spent there.
What they do care about is that he provided a financial boost to the economy, no matter how small or large that boost was as a US citizen it was illegal for him to do so.
And yes, incidently, it would have been illegal for him to simply go there and play the match for fun, rankings, etc. He would have still needed to pay for his meals and accomodations - or someone would have to pay for them - and under certian sanctions while one may be allowed to travel to the country in question, they are not allowed to spend money or have money spent in their behalf.
So, go ahead and change the circumstances in some twisted way that got around all these restrictions. The simple fact is that whatever you come up with is not what happened, Bobby knew full well what he was getting into, and he broke the law.
Bobby's profession is Chess. He makes money playing chess. Others make money when he plays chess. When he plays chess it draws tourists.
It's not any different than if I practiced my profession there. Just because chess can be played as game with absolutely no money involved by 'regular' chess players doesn't mean that in this case he was not practising his profession and thereby generating financial transactions.
What if the game wasn't for money? What if he just played for fun
Then he wouldn't have gone. He went to make money, among other (lesser) reasons.
Now that the tide is turning, I wonder what they will rename the "Brain Drain" to!?
The economy is just further down the stream. Now it's the 'brain treatment plant'. If you're lucky you'll get a nice cushy job as 'chlorinated, flouridated brain'.
-Adam
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Until you fully understand what sanctions are, what they are meant to achieve, and just how fully bobby broke them, then you can't possibly simplify this arrest into "Don't arrest him because he's insane." That doesn't even enter into the argument, although it is information being used to publicly disgrace him and make this action somewhat more palatable to the public rather than explaining what exactly he did wrong in each newspaper article.
He has done something substantially criminal, and before he did so he fully understood the consequences. He's not stupid.
-Adam
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He was not merely playing chess. He was providing a significant boost in the economy of a nation which the US then had sanctions against.
You should at least try to understand the climate and issues at the time before offhandedly trying to make it sound as simple as a freindly game.
Even today if someone did the same thing in Cuba they would be subject to the same penalties.
For those keeping track of world events, those are essentially the same sanctions against Cuba. Many people say that it's illegal to travel there, but that's false - travelling there is fine - you just can't spend any money there.
I'm sorry, since when is an institution, such as oxford, not allowed to make rules for students to follow?
If an employee breaks into a part of the network they are not allowed to, then prints the instructions or other sensitive data in the company newsletter, do you honestly expect the company to pat them on the back and let them continue to work there?
If a someone breaks into a pharamacy, opens the narcotics cabinet, takes pictures and closes everything then does the pharmacy clap them on the back and thank them for such a wonderful job defeating the locks?
The system cannot be perfectly secure.
Let me be clear: There is no such thing as a perfectly secure network
There are locks on the door. There are obvious policies on what a student is allowed to use the network for. The students knew they were accessing forbidden data/networks/packets. They knew they were intentionally misusing university resources.
The locks are there to prevent petty theft, and to warn experienced intruders that they are indeed crossing into priviledged space.
To draw an analogy:
Those who believe that they should crack security systems without permission in order to show weaknesses believe in the principle of preemption. Specifically, they do not want to wait for the cow to be stolen - they'll steal it to prove that it can be. Except that any reasonable person knows that the cow can always be stolen - it's only a matter of resources available to the attacker.
Today's trains can run on the tracks of the 1800's (baring the fact that originally there were two major standards in the US which eventually settled on one that became today's standard)
Today's cars can drive on the old dirt roads made way back when.
Today's water still passes through some of the piping and aquaducts of old.
What the author is getting at is that a professional programmer, like a professional architect, now needs to focus on building reliable, verifiable programs around open standards for common record sets (library, parking, DMV, etc). This programmer will be paid for the work, just like an architect, and if future modifications are made a programmer (not necessarily to original) will be consulted to see if modifications can be made without a full rebuild. In either case, the old source is available, the standards are available (and extendable), and the new programmer is as able to do the work as a new architect could look at an old building built before his time and know its mysteries.
Most software developed will still be of the packaged, upgrade every 5 year variety that you speak of.
Infrastructure software, where the requirements change infrequently, should follow a different development and business model.
Professional event photographers have to follow a huge profit margin repeat customer business model, or they will go out of business.
End of story.
There is no other way for a person to make enough money doing photography full time without this business model.
Further, they are (or consider themselves) to be professional artists. When they make a shot the shot is a combination of their skill and equipment. They own the copyright just as an author's skill and equipment allowed him to immortalise "It was a dark and stormy night," regardless of the prints made, or the people in the prints.
Of course you'll find all the acrimony you want here for this business model - it's the same model followed music and movie artists, and bears striking resemblance to software and other frivolous patents.
There are plenty of photographers 'out there' who will be happy to shoot your wedding. Be aware that the shots and reprints are not going to have the same qualities that a full time professional will give you - but you may not want those qualities.
Also remember that a full time photographer has to make you look good in your pictures, otherwise you won't buy reprints. Their business model depends on how well they take the shots. A regular photographer who is only being payed to be a shutterbug has no incentive to do a great job - just good enough to add one or two photos to his portfolio and good enough that you don't stiff him his payment.
I'm not suggesting that this business model is right for you, but it has its advantages and disadvantages.
There are others out there that will give you what you want, within reason given how little you seem to be willing to pay.
If it's just different then there would be no need to restate previous earnings. You'd say, "From day X onward we're using a different method to calculate revenue from subscriptions."
No, they are clearly back paddling and deploying a ton of PR to control the slide. They know now that what they've been doing was incorrect. Chances are good that they knew it wasn't kosher before, but thought it wasn't punishable or thought they could get away with it and didn't think the repercussions if discovered would be too bad for the possible gain.
Just flashed my LDW-851S. Everything is ok so far... yay:)
Unfortunately she's called the police and they'll be here to question you about your 'flashing' any minute now. BTW, "LDW-851S" is very poor leet speak for "Ladies".
Nitrogen oxides are formed when the combustion temperature gets very high. If you lower the temperature of combustion you greatly reduce the occurance of this poison.
This is the purpose of the EGR system. The Exhaust Gas Recirculation valve allows a portion of the exhaust gas to go into the intake, which lowers the temperature of the combustion, regardless of the engine temperature. This puts one more EPA regulated emission directly under the control of the car's computer.
And honestly, if you think a little charged plate pulling charged oxygen atoms towards the intake is going to change the nitrogen to oxygen ratio by more than a few percent at the rate the engine sucks air then you need to hit the books.
You'd have to change the design of the engine considerably to support an air intake consisting of mostly oxygen. Fluid dynamics and the space taken up by the nitrogen plays very heavily in current engine design.
Now, if only they could make these street-legal...
That would be great. Then we could all put around in our aluminum frame, 1" ground clearance, back breaking go carts. He's probably wincing and holding his right hand near his head because he just sliced off a few fingers in the wheel spokes. Oops.
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The vandals could obtain sensitive information related to the campaign of presidential candidate John Kerry.
Because you can never know too much about what a presidential candidate ate for breakfast.
Or they could unleash an attack that would bring down the network and throw the convention into chaos.
I thought all these political conventions consisted of was pure chaos? The political machine draws on entropy, if these things provide further chaos and uncertianty to the issues then I'd assume the campaigners would be in favor of it.
-Adam
And you, of course, are posting as an anonymous coward, giving something as fact and not giving us verification from multiple sources?
You could be right, but at this point he's identified himself, and you're hiding. Who would you trust in this situation?
-Adam
If you had a choice, which would you pick ?
When I'm in a setting where paper makes sense (and I don't have lots of large screens just laying around) then I choose paper.
Otherwise (and far more often than the paper setting) I enjoy carrying 300MB of books, contacts, and other assorted data around with me that I can access, edit, add to, or remove with a few seconds of work.
I also carry my laptop for longer sessions of adding/editing and internet access.
600dpi for contact and appointment info and reference reading is inappropiate. It'll come eventually, but only when it doesn't cost lots of power, size, weight, durability, etc.
-Adam
... can ... could potentially ... could contain ... can retain ... can be read ... can represent ... can also achieve ...
Thanks, but I'll wait for "does" and "Is on sale for less than $100/terabyte."
-Adam
I can see the latest and greatest publishing craze: Extreme Writing and Extreme Editing modeled after Extreme programming.
Not only will authors be able to publish the same day they write "The End" (with their editer looking over their shoulder in typical pair writing style) they can issue revisions for future copies.
No need to think too deeply about plot, if it doesn't sell well in the first few days - rewrite the thing!
Oh wait, that already happens now without the rewriting part...
-Adam
The practical problem with multicast was that it requires an intelligent network and dumb clients. In other words: routers have to be able to keep a table of information on which links to relay multicast information, and that has to be dynamically updated periodically.
There is a multicast overlay on top of the internet which consists of routers that can handle this load.
But the combination of no hardware/software support in the network, and no real huge push for this technology left multicast high and dry.
Brief idea of how multicast works:
1) A source send out a "I have a multicast feed" to its immediate routers. Those routers 'publish' this feed to their connected routers until every segment on the internet has seen this feed broadcast.
2) At the end points, individual computers see this message on their segment. They can subscribe to the feed by sending a message to their upstream router. This router places an entry in its table saying, "Someone on segment X wants feed Y, which I get from segment Z" It then sends a subscribe message to the router it got the original broadcast from, which does the same thing on upward until it hits the originating server.
3) Each router, when it sees a multicast packet, consults its table to see which (if any) segments it should forward the packet to. Eventually the packet makes its way to all the endpoints of the network
4) The publish broadcast is initiated periodically. Each router also periodically checks the table to see if they haven't received a re-subscribe message since the last publish broadcast. If no one resubscribes then the table entry is not refreshed - there is no unsubscribe, if you no longer want the feed just ignore it and it'll go away if no one else on your segment wants it. Only one subscriber on each segment needs to subscribe, so if I want it and my co worker wants it then if I see his subscribe packet before I send mine out then I won't send mine out since it'll be put on my segment anyway.
It's quite elegant, but when a router is dealing with 40+Gbps of packets it barely has time to figure out where each packet goes, nevermind statefully inspecting multicast packets and forwarding them appropiately. Not impossible, but it hasn't been rolled out and few providers see any money in supporting it.
-Adam
Do a Google search, and you'll find companies, tools and instructions, etc to help you do this if you are unable or unwilling to purchase the required equipment/software to do it yourself.
Of course, half the problem is knowing the correct question to ask. That's why google is so popular - it gets good results with bad questions, and you can refine your question with repeated searches.
-Adam
We have to give the canadians something to win since hockey just isn't doing it for them anymore.
-Adam
It ends with Will smith losing his left index finger.
Fortunately they were able to upload a virus to the mothership which caused all the robots to crash, not unlike Anakin's fortuitious encounter with the drone control ship off naboo.
-Adam
I'm sure that if we continued this conversation you could come up with some barely concievable, twisted story that would demonstrate that he could indeed play chess in Yugoslavia at the time.
The simple fact is that he was not in trouble for playing chess. They don't care what he did that caused money to be spent there.
What they do care about is that he provided a financial boost to the economy, no matter how small or large that boost was as a US citizen it was illegal for him to do so.
And yes, incidently, it would have been illegal for him to simply go there and play the match for fun, rankings, etc. He would have still needed to pay for his meals and accomodations - or someone would have to pay for them - and under certian sanctions while one may be allowed to travel to the country in question, they are not allowed to spend money or have money spent in their behalf.
So, go ahead and change the circumstances in some twisted way that got around all these restrictions. The simple fact is that whatever you come up with is not what happened, Bobby knew full well what he was getting into, and he broke the law.
-Adam
Have you ever played whack a mole with a 5 pound sledghammer? It's quite fun, and the darn mole doesn't come back up after 9 strikes.
So, about using the internet as a spellchecker...
-Adam
Bobby's profession is Chess. He makes money playing chess. Others make money when he plays chess. When he plays chess it draws tourists.
It's not any different than if I practiced my profession there. Just because chess can be played as game with absolutely no money involved by 'regular' chess players doesn't mean that in this case he was not practising his profession and thereby generating financial transactions.
What if the game wasn't for money? What if he just played for fun
Then he wouldn't have gone. He went to make money, among other (lesser) reasons.
-Adam
Now that the tide is turning, I wonder what they will rename the "Brain Drain" to!?
The economy is just further down the stream. Now it's the 'brain treatment plant'. If you're lucky you'll get a nice cushy job as 'chlorinated, flouridated brain'.
-Adam
Until you fully understand what sanctions are, what they are meant to achieve, and just how fully bobby broke them, then you can't possibly simplify this arrest into "Don't arrest him because he's insane." That doesn't even enter into the argument, although it is information being used to publicly disgrace him and make this action somewhat more palatable to the public rather than explaining what exactly he did wrong in each newspaper article.
He has done something substantially criminal, and before he did so he fully understood the consequences. He's not stupid.
-Adam
He was not merely playing chess. He was providing a significant boost in the economy of a nation which the US then had sanctions against.
You should at least try to understand the climate and issues at the time before offhandedly trying to make it sound as simple as a freindly game.
Even today if someone did the same thing in Cuba they would be subject to the same penalties.
-Adam
For those keeping track of world events, those are essentially the same sanctions against Cuba. Many people say that it's illegal to travel there, but that's false - travelling there is fine - you just can't spend any money there.
-Adam
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-Adam
I'm sorry, since when is an institution, such as oxford, not allowed to make rules for students to follow?
If an employee breaks into a part of the network they are not allowed to, then prints the instructions or other sensitive data in the company newsletter, do you honestly expect the company to pat them on the back and let them continue to work there?
If a someone breaks into a pharamacy, opens the narcotics cabinet, takes pictures and closes everything then does the pharmacy clap them on the back and thank them for such a wonderful job defeating the locks?
The system cannot be perfectly secure.
Let me be clear: There is no such thing as a perfectly secure network
There are locks on the door. There are obvious policies on what a student is allowed to use the network for. The students knew they were accessing forbidden data/networks/packets. They knew they were intentionally misusing university resources.
The locks are there to prevent petty theft, and to warn experienced intruders that they are indeed crossing into priviledged space.
To draw an analogy:
Those who believe that they should crack security systems without permission in order to show weaknesses believe in the principle of preemption. Specifically, they do not want to wait for the cow to be stolen - they'll steal it to prove that it can be. Except that any reasonable person knows that the cow can always be stolen - it's only a matter of resources available to the attacker.
-Adam
Today's trains can run on the tracks of the 1800's (baring the fact that originally there were two major standards in the US which eventually settled on one that became today's standard)
Today's cars can drive on the old dirt roads made way back when.
Today's water still passes through some of the piping and aquaducts of old.
What the author is getting at is that a professional programmer, like a professional architect, now needs to focus on building reliable, verifiable programs around open standards for common record sets (library, parking, DMV, etc). This programmer will be paid for the work, just like an architect, and if future modifications are made a programmer (not necessarily to original) will be consulted to see if modifications can be made without a full rebuild. In either case, the old source is available, the standards are available (and extendable), and the new programmer is as able to do the work as a new architect could look at an old building built before his time and know its mysteries.
Most software developed will still be of the packaged, upgrade every 5 year variety that you speak of.
Infrastructure software, where the requirements change infrequently, should follow a different development and business model.
-Adam
Professional event photographers have to follow a huge profit margin repeat customer business model, or they will go out of business.
End of story.
There is no other way for a person to make enough money doing photography full time without this business model.
Further, they are (or consider themselves) to be professional artists. When they make a shot the shot is a combination of their skill and equipment. They own the copyright just as an author's skill and equipment allowed him to immortalise "It was a dark and stormy night," regardless of the prints made, or the people in the prints.
Of course you'll find all the acrimony you want here for this business model - it's the same model followed music and movie artists, and bears striking resemblance to software and other frivolous patents.
There are plenty of photographers 'out there' who will be happy to shoot your wedding. Be aware that the shots and reprints are not going to have the same qualities that a full time professional will give you - but you may not want those qualities.
Also remember that a full time photographer has to make you look good in your pictures, otherwise you won't buy reprints. Their business model depends on how well they take the shots. A regular photographer who is only being payed to be a shutterbug has no incentive to do a great job - just good enough to add one or two photos to his portfolio and good enough that you don't stiff him his payment.
I'm not suggesting that this business model is right for you, but it has its advantages and disadvantages.
There are others out there that will give you what you want, within reason given how little you seem to be willing to pay.
-Adam
If it's just different then there would be no need to restate previous earnings. You'd say, "From day X onward we're using a different method to calculate revenue from subscriptions."
No, they are clearly back paddling and deploying a ton of PR to control the slide. They know now that what they've been doing was incorrect. Chances are good that they knew it wasn't kosher before, but thought it wasn't punishable or thought they could get away with it and didn't think the repercussions if discovered would be too bad for the possible gain.
-Adam
Just flashed my LDW-851S. Everything is ok so far... yay :)
Unfortunately she's called the police and they'll be here to question you about your 'flashing' any minute now. BTW, "LDW-851S" is very poor leet speak for "Ladies".
-Adam
I hope he read the warning label:
Caution: do not microwave person with RFID tag. Tag may vent with flame causing serious and possibly fatal wounds.
But don't worry. Microwave safe RFID tags are surely just around the corner.
-Adam
Are there better solutions?
Nitrogen oxides are formed when the combustion temperature gets very high. If you lower the temperature of combustion you greatly reduce the occurance of this poison.
This is the purpose of the EGR system. The Exhaust Gas Recirculation valve allows a portion of the exhaust gas to go into the intake, which lowers the temperature of the combustion, regardless of the engine temperature. This puts one more EPA regulated emission directly under the control of the car's computer.
And honestly, if you think a little charged plate pulling charged oxygen atoms towards the intake is going to change the nitrogen to oxygen ratio by more than a few percent at the rate the engine sucks air then you need to hit the books.
You'd have to change the design of the engine considerably to support an air intake consisting of mostly oxygen. Fluid dynamics and the space taken up by the nitrogen plays very heavily in current engine design.
-Adam
Now, if only they could make these street-legal...
That would be great. Then we could all put around in our aluminum frame, 1" ground clearance, back breaking go carts. He's probably wincing and holding his right hand near his head because he just sliced off a few fingers in the wheel spokes. Oops.
-Adam