"Flow State is an optimal psychological experience..." said Dr Costas Karageorghis, lecturer in sports psychology at Brunel University.
QUACK, quack, quack-- I am terribly sorry for that outburst. I have apparently left the duck key pressed on my computer. Please excuse me for a moment while I correct this.
I think you may wish to take a look at this article. It took me forever to find it again, even with google.
But occasionally, when an evil person dies, the Times swoops in and strips them of their honorific. Hitler was once "Mr. Hitler," as were Stalin and Mao. No more. Among the lesser totalitarian butchers, death cost Pol Pot his Times title: After his obit ran on April 16, 1998 he ceased being "Mr. Pol Pot." Serial killers Jeffrey Dahmer and Ted Bundy were demoted as well.
Now, not only does Ms. Crick have all that private information exposed on Google, she also has it all nicely collected in the New York Times. Oops.
I hope the New York Times is advocating that we burn past issues and library microfiches of their papers. Who knows how many private details could be contained inside all that publically published information?
Once something is published, it is published! It is public information. Destruction is no longer possible. Nor should it be.
P.S. Does anybody else hate the word 'Ms.'? Good god, I hate it when a woman introduces herself like that. Telling a man your marital status upon introduction is simply good manners. He can politely conduct the rest of the social exchange in a manner that keeps him out of a fist-fight later on.
I agree. And without the solar panels, these satellites will be mostly invisible until they start transmitting. So you have a back-up communications or spy array just in case China starts taking pot-shots at our birds with a laser.
Yes, politicians are liable for death penalty laws. But it is still good english for a criminal to be "liable for the death penalty." It is a common phrase. Do a google search.
I have 25 minutes to write out the parser. It's 11:35am September 30th, and our guys in marketing promised that C-Checker 5500 would be out in September. If its not finished on time, management will start complaining that we need to double the number of programmers or something crazy like that. The hard part of the problem is variable identifiction. Have to look up the standard keywords again and type them in, and make allowance for a couple of other things. After finishing that part I've got 10 minutes left. Now I zip through with a little routine that takes the first varible it comes across and replaces it and all future occurences of it with VAR#1, and so on. So I run my program on the main development project to test it out. I press compile on the modified program. Cherchunketa, cherchunketa --- boom! Compilier error messages out the wazoo. Who the hell named his loop counter VAR#37534? Goddamn that bastard! Who the hell does something that crazy? Now I have 3 minutes to implement the fix. Do I write in the simple check algorithm that all the CS students you managed to trick came up with? Hardly, I rename the thing to VARXY750#XXXXXX, and wait for a bug report.
As for the triple redundancy problem. Before you start going into your ANDs and ORs and wherefores, there are a few things to keep in mind. First off, if its really important, you need some non-local copies. What if there is a hard-drive crash? Or a nuclear war? The internet will still be around even if the main office is a glassed over glowing area in the North Western U.S. If it's important enough for triple redundancy, it's important to survive any forseeable catastrophe isn't it? So now you have to encrypt the numbers coming and going, and sign it, to keep the hackers from fooling you.
And so what is the easiest way to implement all this? Simple--there is no simple way. It'll take a lot of work. So you might as well throw your computer out of the window and tattoo the number to the back of your hand.
I didn't create an aerosol AIDS virus. I said that I was just kidding in the post itself. All I'm saying is that in a few years someone will create a virus and put it up on the internet, just like the polio virus was up on the internet.
That seems like an important issue, why is it flamebait?
There have actually been studies on animals and even humans using genetically engineered viruses (not made from scratch) to do this kind of thing for years. They keep killing people though, so I don't know that they're having as much success as they'd like.
Can I download a picture off the internet and then send it to someone? Is that 'sharing' my internet connection?
I don't think that the comparison between cable TV and cable internet is so cut and dried. After all, what if you make the argument that you are just buying bandwidth? Or, more presicely, that you were sold bandwidth?
I use AT&T cable internet. I run a wireless network at home. I have an ad-hoc network set up with internet sharing. AT&T says that I have to pay an extra $5 a month for each computer connected to the internet. (I don't think they understand the concept of ICS.) Since I don't, am I stealing? Or did I pay for bandwidth?
One way, just to have the random walker work for a set number of node changes, would A) be useless because it doesn't check enough nodes before ending, or B) be a bandwidth hog because they last so long and an attacker (or someone who just wants to search faster) can create a great many extra random walkers. Both ways would nearly useless for finding uncommon stuff, because of search replication.
The other way is to check back home to see whether the thing has already been found.
This might be easier for non-conforming members of the P2P net to disrupt (The RIAA). If everybody followed the rules, you'd be fine. But since the point of origin is contained in the walker itself, it would be trivial to crapflood the entire system with random walkers, all with different points of origin. Since random walkers are more bandwidth intensive than normal searches, you'd make everything slow as syrup.
Your sketch was more or less right on. When Compaq sold ALPHA to Intel, they said there would only be one more ALPHA chip.
Damn them to hell anyway. ALPHA was the best.
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The zone is real, of course. I object to this guy pretending to be conducting scientific research.
I am terribly sorry for that outburst. I have apparently left the duck key pressed on my computer. Please excuse me for a moment while I correct this.
Don't forget Effective STL. And along with that, Josuttis' The C++ Standard Library.
Now, not only does Ms. Crick have all that private information exposed on Google, she also has it all nicely collected in the New York Times. Oops.
I hope the New York Times is advocating that we burn past issues and library microfiches of their papers. Who knows how many private details could be contained inside all that publically published information?
Once something is published, it is published! It is public information. Destruction is no longer possible. Nor should it be.
P.S. Does anybody else hate the word 'Ms.'? Good god, I hate it when a woman introduces herself like that. Telling a man your marital status upon introduction is simply good manners. He can politely conduct the rest of the social exchange in a manner that keeps him out of a fist-fight later on.
I agree. And without the solar panels, these satellites will be mostly invisible until they start transmitting. So you have a back-up communications or spy array just in case China starts taking pot-shots at our birds with a laser.
Yes, politicians are liable for death penalty laws. But it is still good english for a criminal to be "liable for the death penalty." It is a common phrase. Do a google search.
Dumbass.
How is the view from the Ivory Tower?
Here is what actually happens:
I have 25 minutes to write out the parser. It's 11:35am September 30th, and our guys in marketing promised that C-Checker 5500 would be out in September. If its not finished on time, management will start complaining that we need to double the number of programmers or something crazy like that.
The hard part of the problem is variable identifiction. Have to look up the standard keywords again and type them in, and make allowance for a couple of other things.
After finishing that part I've got 10 minutes left.
Now I zip through with a little routine that takes the first varible it comes across and replaces it and all future occurences of it with VAR#1, and so on.
So I run my program on the main development project to test it out.
I press compile on the modified program. Cherchunketa, cherchunketa --- boom! Compilier error messages out the wazoo.
Who the hell named his loop counter VAR#37534? Goddamn that bastard! Who the hell does something that crazy?
Now I have 3 minutes to implement the fix. Do I write in the simple check algorithm that all the CS students you managed to trick came up with?
Hardly, I rename the thing to VARXY750#XXXXXX, and wait for a bug report.
As for the triple redundancy problem. Before you start going into your ANDs and ORs and wherefores, there are a few things to keep in mind. First off, if its really important, you need some non-local copies. What if there is a hard-drive crash? Or a nuclear war? The internet will still be around even if the main office is a glassed over glowing area in the North Western U.S. If it's important enough for triple redundancy, it's important to survive any forseeable catastrophe isn't it? So now you have to encrypt the numbers coming and going, and sign it, to keep the hackers from fooling you.
And so what is the easiest way to implement all this? Simple--there is no simple way. It'll take a lot of work. So you might as well throw your computer out of the window and tattoo the number to the back of your hand.
Ya got me. I was wrong.
How about life in prison then?
Under the new hacking legislation reported in slashdot earlier, could this make the creator liable for the death penalty?
I went to upgrade php and got that as well. It's the same for the mirrors. This doesn't bode well.
CNN must have read about it on Slashdot.
Can we prosecute Italy as computer hackers? Terrorist computer hackers?
So why isn't DeCSS legal for getting a DVD to play on Linux?
It's your player, not the DVDs.
Let me see if I get it: You're more than a walking database. You're a nurse with a database.
I wonder how much they get paid for them?
Most news sources have enough integrity to clearly separate the ads from the articles.
I didn't create an aerosol AIDS virus. I said that I was just kidding in the post itself. All I'm saying is that in a few years someone will create a virus and put it up on the internet, just like the polio virus was up on the internet.
That seems like an important issue, why is it flamebait?
I read a New York Times story about a year ago. Apparently two studies were canceled because of two separate incidents of patients dying.
There have actually been studies on animals and even humans using genetically engineered viruses (not made from scratch) to do this kind of thing for years. They keep killing people though, so I don't know that they're having as much success as they'd like.
I've posted an aerosol AIDS virus recipe to my website. Go there and check it out.
Sure it's a joke now, but just wait a few years...
Can I download a picture off the internet and then send it to someone? Is that 'sharing' my internet connection?
I don't think that the comparison between cable TV and cable internet is so cut and dried. After all, what if you make the argument that you are just buying bandwidth? Or, more presicely, that you were sold bandwidth?
I use AT&T cable internet. I run a wireless network at home. I have an ad-hoc network set up with internet sharing. AT&T says that I have to pay an extra $5 a month for each computer connected to the internet. (I don't think they understand the concept of ICS.) Since I don't, am I stealing? Or did I pay for bandwidth?
EULAs applying to hardware make just as much sense as they do applying to software.
...None at all.
It has to know how to stop somehow.
One way, just to have the random walker work for a set number of node changes, would A) be useless because it doesn't check enough nodes before ending, or B) be a bandwidth hog because they last so long and an attacker (or someone who just wants to search faster) can create a great many extra random walkers. Both ways would nearly useless for finding uncommon stuff, because of search replication.
The other way is to check back home to see whether the thing has already been found.
This might be easier for non-conforming members of the P2P net to disrupt (The RIAA). If everybody followed the rules, you'd be fine. But since the point of origin is contained in the walker itself, it would be trivial to crapflood the entire system with random walkers, all with different points of origin. Since random walkers are more bandwidth intensive than normal searches, you'd make everything slow as syrup.
Your sketch was more or less right on. When Compaq sold ALPHA to Intel, they said there would only be one more ALPHA chip. Damn them to hell anyway. ALPHA was the best.