Oops. I saw two different photos. One is using a voltmeter while the panel is illuminated by a CFL and the other is the one with him standing holding a CFL.
If everyone wants to quibble over the little things, then i'm going to call bullshit on current flowing.
"Suppose that an amount of charge dq flows past some given point of the wire, in a time dt; then the electric current is defined as charge divided by the time..."
What bad things did those people do? You're argument is works against cars, knives, fertilizer, etc. who cares if you can do some bad things if you can do 10 orders of magnitude above that in good things?
If you even have to think like it's an arms race, you're doing it wrong to begin with.
Tell that to antibiotics, MRSA, and such...The "wrong" way is sometimes better than no way.
Trends and fashions and demographics change. Mathematical principles don't.
But that is the problem. Mathematics won't solve the security problem. Security is a people problem.
The math might not have changed. But the engineering principles are based on what is feasible on today's (+10 years) hardware. So the math behind public-key encryption won't change, but suppose someone discovers a way to easily factor large prime numbers?
Chapter 31: People like to believe in absolutes. Some people will believe their computers are completely safe and others think security is a complete joke. In between those two sets of people are a large number of reasonable people.
Our toys are much more advanced today, and their rate of advance continues to increase, but just what is it that makes our pulling of information from a 10+-year-old book harmful?
The field moves very fast because it is an "arms race." On that alone, i think it warrants having someone go back and re-evaluate the underlying assumptions that were in play during the last edition.
I understand the concept. I'm just not sure how you would recommend getting rid of racist assholes. Between where we are now and your end goal we need to take a lot of smaller steps. If you are saying we are stepping in the wrong direction that is one thing.
But if we are stepping in the right direction, albeit, somewhat diagonal, it is still taking us closer. (if you are suggesting that are diagonal step costs us the ability to then take a better approach then that is something different)
I guess one reason for focusing on Britain is the need to start somewhere. Turning should be an easy victory as his contributions are quite considerable and it is easy to illustrate how wretchedly he was "rewarded."
Another reason is to elevate and build up the countries that *should* be leaders.
I completely agree that in a perfect world we would want to apply (spend) our energy on the wrongs that can currently affect the most people. As a pragmatist, i'm just happy to see some/any steps in the right direction.
I do agree with your sentiment about concentrating on the "biggest bang for the buck." Like, we spend billions on terrorism prevention, yet heart attacks are the leading killer in the US.
(i'm particularly thin-skinned when i hear what sounds like justifications based on what other people are doing -- i heard that a lot over the last 8 years w/r/t Iraq)
[quote]I don't think any of the major players in world politics lack *current* policies that aren't doing harm for self-interested reasons. And I can't imagine the nations we don't hear about are any better.[/quote] Why is it always a race to the bottom with you people? It's like when i go home to my family. There are always excuses for not trying to become better. At least i'm not as fat as.... It's this defensive attitude that being average or just better than other people is a good thing to strive for. It's an unspoken attitude like the following: "You think you are too good for us with all your trying to better yourself".
[quote]If you want someone to apologise to Turing (or, rather, to you about Turing, because he's dead and therefore doesn't care) then why not go after the people who still persecute homosexuals. Better yet, get them to apologise to people who are still alive for things that they've actually done.[/quote] Having the State announce that what it did was wrong goes a huge way towards preventing mistakes in the future. It's not for Turning's sake, it's for all of us.
Why is it so hard to understand that an apology can sometimes benefit both the person giving the apology and the receiver?
[quote]these things were very normal and standard. [/quote] Does that matter?
Apologizing for a past mis-deed is taking responsibility for doing something that is wrong. If you don't think the action was wrong that is one thing, but if you are saying the action was wrong, but everyone was doing it back then, that's something different. If we realize that today that action was wrong, it still makes the action wrong. Even if we would have made the same decision with the same information.
I'm not saying a country needs to find "victims" to pay money to or anything, but officially apologizing for a mistake makes it clear that it is something the gov't does not stand for. It also gives them the moral high ground for denouncing another country for doing the same action today without appearing to have a double-standard.
They can say, when we did it we were wrong and you doing it now is wrong.
Wait, didn't Dell get indemnified by Microsoft when they bought the OS? If only Dell could have bought some kind of insurance to cover their losses if their OS turned out to be poisoned....
This injunction is only going to make it harder to get software companies to stand by their product.
Man, don't waste Bzzzzts, dude. WTF. You Bzzzzt when you are wrong and you weaken Bzzzzts for the rest of us.
Go pour concrete in the winter time and come back and talk to me. There are lots of other factors related to fitness of cured concrete but the reaction is definitely slowed down by low temperatures.
The other reply already addressed this. I didn't really understand that aspect of his point because it doesn't really matter.
Since he was worried about strength, i thought he was more concerned with the year of cure time and the weakness of it until fully cured.
I had to write a damned Fortran program that calculated cure time based on temperature in a freshman washout class a long time ago (the only fortran i've ever had to do). It was motivated by some huge power plant cooling tower that collapsed during construction because the temperature dropped as winter approached but the construction speed stayed constant. Eventually the thing collapsed during construction killing a bunch of people.
I guess he wanted to punish us too, so we had to use Fortran77.
Pidgin's credibility was thrown away when they decided their users didn't matter. Look it up. You'll find an epic bug report of the developers being asshats.
Let me guess? You're own of the pidgin asshats? I thought your project imploded after everyone realized what the developers really thought about their users.
The ability to use $10 million dollars worth of hardware for a month without spending $10 million dollars?
Let alone the fact that since, like you say hardware prices are constantly going down, you don't eat the 30% depreciation a year. Also, what good does your terabyte drive do you when it dies?
If you aren't looking for rapid scalability, saving money on huge capital investment, large amounts of CPU and data, then the Cloud might not be for you. It's stupid in the same way that buying millions of dollars of NetApp or EMC hardware is if you are only going to run a blog off of it.
It's not really enforceable. It's just going to be used to threaten and punish registered sex offenders when they don't have any evidence on them.
"We know you aren't innocent. We'll find something. Ah. You went to slashdot. A social networking site! We'll let you plead down to just a fine of $10,000 dollars."
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Oops. I saw two different photos. One is using a voltmeter while the panel is illuminated by a CFL and the other is the one with him standing holding a CFL.
Did it every occur to you that the CFL was there to illustrate the solar panel producing 9V?
If everyone wants to quibble over the little things, then i'm going to call bullshit on current flowing.
"Suppose that an amount of charge dq flows past some given point of the wire, in a time dt; then the electric current is defined as charge divided by the time..."
What bad things did those people do? You're argument is works against cars, knives, fertilizer, etc. who cares if you can do some bad things if you can do 10 orders of magnitude above that in good things?
If you even have to think like it's an arms race, you're doing it wrong to begin with.
Tell that to antibiotics, MRSA, and such...The "wrong" way is sometimes better than no way.
Trends and fashions and demographics change. Mathematical principles don't.
But that is the problem. Mathematics won't solve the security problem. Security is a people problem.
The math might not have changed. But the engineering principles are based on what is feasible on today's (+10 years) hardware. So the math behind public-key encryption won't change, but suppose someone discovers a way to easily factor large prime numbers?
Chapter 31: People like to believe in absolutes. Some people will believe their computers are completely safe and others think security is a complete joke. In between those two sets of people are a large number of reasonable people.
The field moves very fast because it is an "arms race." On that alone, i think it warrants having someone go back and re-evaluate the underlying assumptions that were in play during the last edition.
I understand the concept. I'm just not sure how you would recommend getting rid of racist assholes. Between where we are now and your end goal we need to take a lot of smaller steps. If you are saying we are stepping in the wrong direction that is one thing.
But if we are stepping in the right direction, albeit, somewhat diagonal, it is still taking us closer. (if you are suggesting that are diagonal step costs us the ability to then take a better approach then that is something different)
Thank you for the even-handed reply.
I guess one reason for focusing on Britain is the need to start somewhere. Turning should be an easy victory as his contributions are quite considerable and it is easy to illustrate how wretchedly he was "rewarded."
Another reason is to elevate and build up the countries that *should* be leaders.
I completely agree that in a perfect world we would want to apply (spend) our energy on the wrongs that can currently affect the most people. As a pragmatist, i'm just happy to see some/any steps in the right direction.
I do agree with your sentiment about concentrating on the "biggest bang for the buck." Like, we spend billions on terrorism prevention, yet heart attacks are the leading killer in the US.
(i'm particularly thin-skinned when i hear what sounds like justifications based on what other people are doing -- i heard that a lot over the last 8 years w/r/t Iraq)
So what you are saying is that when people apologize it doesn't benefit them? Why do they apologize then?
Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
How do you propose to grow from where we are today to reach this utopia where everyone is respected?
[quote]I don't think any of the major players in world politics lack *current* policies that aren't doing harm for self-interested reasons. And I can't imagine the nations we don't hear about are any better.[/quote] .... It's this defensive attitude that being average or just better than other people is a good thing to strive for. It's an unspoken attitude like the following: "You think you are too good for us with all your trying to better yourself".
Why is it always a race to the bottom with you people? It's like when i go home to my family. There are always excuses for not trying to become better. At least i'm not as fat as
Why is bettering oneself a bad thing?
[quote]If you want someone to apologise to Turing (or, rather, to you about Turing, because he's dead and therefore doesn't care) then why not go after the people who still persecute homosexuals. Better yet, get them to apologise to people who are still alive for things that they've actually done.[/quote]
Having the State announce that what it did was wrong goes a huge way towards preventing mistakes in the future. It's not for Turning's sake, it's for all of us.
Why is it so hard to understand that an apology can sometimes benefit both the person giving the apology and the receiver?
[quote]these things were very normal and standard. [/quote]
Does that matter?
Apologizing for a past mis-deed is taking responsibility for doing something that is wrong. If you don't think the action was wrong that is one thing, but if you are saying the action was wrong, but everyone was doing it back then, that's something different. If we realize that today that action was wrong, it still makes the action wrong. Even if we would have made the same decision with the same information.
I'm not saying a country needs to find "victims" to pay money to or anything, but officially apologizing for a mistake makes it clear that it is something the gov't does not stand for. It also gives them the moral high ground for denouncing another country for doing the same action today without appearing to have a double-standard.
They can say, when we did it we were wrong and you doing it now is wrong.
Wait, didn't Dell get indemnified by Microsoft when they bought the OS? If only Dell could have bought some kind of insurance to cover their losses if their OS turned out to be poisoned....
This injunction is only going to make it harder to get software companies to stand by their product.
Man, don't waste Bzzzzts, dude. WTF. You Bzzzzt when you are wrong and you weaken Bzzzzts for the rest of us.
Go pour concrete in the winter time and come back and talk to me. There are lots of other factors related to fitness of cured concrete but the reaction is definitely slowed down by low temperatures.
The other reply already addressed this. I didn't really understand that aspect of his point because it doesn't really matter.
Since he was worried about strength, i thought he was more concerned with the year of cure time and the weakness of it until fully cured.
I had to write a damned Fortran program that calculated cure time based on temperature in a freshman washout class a long time ago (the only fortran i've ever had to do). It was motivated by some huge power plant cooling tower that collapsed during construction because the temperature dropped as winter approached but the construction speed stayed constant. Eventually the thing collapsed during construction killing a bunch of people.
I guess he wanted to punish us too, so we had to use Fortran77.
The small amount of heat he is pumping in won't hurt that and will make the reaction slightly faster.
Promote AV software that blocks IPs from those countries?
I'd sooner deal with the problem of spam being sent internally than externally--compartmentalize the problem.
Then i block all email from those countries on my personal mail server.
Pidgin's credibility was thrown away when they decided their users didn't matter. Look it up. You'll find an epic bug report of the developers being asshats.
Let me guess? You're own of the pidgin asshats? I thought your project imploded after everyone realized what the developers really thought about their users.
The ability to use $10 million dollars worth of hardware for a month without spending $10 million dollars?
Let alone the fact that since, like you say hardware prices are constantly going down, you don't eat the 30% depreciation a year. Also, what good does your terabyte drive do you when it dies?
If you aren't looking for rapid scalability, saving money on huge capital investment, large amounts of CPU and data, then the Cloud might not be for you. It's stupid in the same way that buying millions of dollars of NetApp or EMC hardware is if you are only going to run a blog off of it.
It's not really enforceable. It's just going to be used to threaten and punish registered sex offenders when they don't have any evidence on them.
"We know you aren't innocent. We'll find something. Ah. You went to slashdot. A social networking site! We'll let you plead down to just a fine of $10,000 dollars."
Would that make cyber-rape, cyber-violence?
SRSLY? What does rape have to do with being online?