I remember them doing something like this before, where they wouldn't allow 40-bit encryption system for the public (or something like that), because it meant the NSA couldn't crack it in a reasonable time. Privacy is illegal.
If that isn't a troll, I don't know what is. Unfortunately, some people don't seem to recognize it as being one. The NSA has set up export regulations for the strength of encryption. Encryption itself, however, is protected free speech for US citizens. Even before export restrictions were loosened a _whole_ _bunch_, the NSA couldn't legally do anything about the strength of encryption you used.. Hence IDEA, RSA, Triple DES, AES, and other forms of very strong encryption that were produced and spread in the US.
With a 'wrong' mod, you end up with people disagreeing with each other over pure opinion. For instance, if someone says that MS is cool, and gives some non-flamish and non-trollish reasons why, someone can just negatively mod them to be 'wrong.'
Also, when I meta-moderate, I research things - facts, links, etc. When reviewing an informative rating, people should do as much. Maybe I'm too optimistic, though. =T
Seriously, there's a need for a "wrong" modifier, so people can mod such posts down without fear of recourse from meta-moderators who think the post is correct.
Mod it overrated. If it isn't really informative and it's modded so, take the points away - it's just as effective.
There's a freshman in my Russian II class who was majoring in CS.. After hearing him complain for a while about how much his programming classes sucked, I deemed it necessary to inform him of the problems with outsourcing and the difficulties of getting a job as a CS graduate. He's now an undeclared major, and has his eyes on auditioning for acceptance into the university's guitar program.
To tell you the truth, I didn't lie to him either. I simply told him that, right now, a lot companies are looking at (and using) India as a viable market for employees, and that CS grads have a difficult time getting a job right out of graduation, and tend to make less than $50k a year.
So hopefully he and all the other CS students jumping boat will find something they enjoy, instead of a dead end tech support job.. But in the meantime, here's to those of us who see computers as a form of enjoyment, as opposed as a means to money.
For crypto, decent pseudo-random sequences (or the old "pull from an analog source" trick) is perfectly fine. This is overkill for realworld crypto (not to mention broadcast via the internet), which means that this is primarily useful - to math scientists.
Say _WHAT_? I sure as hell hope not. I'd rather not have some half-assed pseudo-random sequence for a OTP used on extremely sensitive corporate documents. If you're a huge company (say, IBM), and you have documents that could be feasibly worth one billion dollars, are you going to entrust them to a pseudo-random generator?
Yes, I know that there are weaker links (namely people), but it's probably best not to have one of those links be something that's preventable, and cheap.
You might just be surprised since most people don't buy a computer because it has Windows but because it is "Internet Ready" or plays DVDs, or any number of things that even a default install of Mandrake is capable of doing.
And you know what's beautiful? HP has the clout to make Mandrake a viable desktop solution. They can push for the hardware compatibility where it lacks, and they can tweak the UI to make it work for grandma'. If a company like HP had the balls to switch from Windows to Linux, they could also have a _great_ marketting campaign: "Internet ready PC, play your favorite movies, and don't even _worry_ about viruses or spyware!"
Unfortunately that's just a wet dream for now, as any company who went without Windows now would lose a whole lot of profitability.;.;
I've an uncle who was in the currency branch of the Secret Service.. He said that, like destroyed money, they'll also investigate any possibly counterfeit money, and to send him all the bills I needed checked right away.
This is a win-win situation for IBM. If Sun goes for it, IBM gets it's hand in the development of an open implementation of Java. If Sun doesn't, IBM can say that they tried. Either way, IBM appeals to the open source community.
As for Sun, it's almost lose, lose. If Sun goes for it, they lose complete control over Java, which is a cash crop for them. If they don't, they look stingy to the open source community, and alienate a lot of us.
It's a nice list, but the Napster lawsuit doesn't belong. Ripping a CD and sharing the files with a hundred strangers is hardly fair use.
So.. What's wrong with sharing your own personal mp3 that you created on Napster? I'm just saying that the basis of the lawsuit was wrong, and didn't accomplish much for the RIAA/Metallic (see Kazaa, Gnutella, and the other million filesharing services.) As people have said, sue the individuals breaking the law, not the technologies that happen to allow it.
If you live in the US is there a single, non public channel that isn't controlled by ClearChannel?
There's 99.7 FM in Atlanta.. I only listen to them 'cause the play 90's rock on the weekends (the _good_ stuff), and they have a great ad. It's something along the lines of..
First voice: 99.7, based in Atlanta, run from Atlanta, with real DJs from Atlanta.
Second voice: I think he means we're not ClearChannel.
I laughed so hard when heard that that tears were streaming down my face.
Not really. I'm thinking stike two, or maybe strike fifty, or strike [insert big number here.] There's the DMCA, the Napster lawsuit, 2600's issues with the MPAA over DeCSS, UnTrusted Computing, and on, and on, and on. This most certainly isn't the first, and there's no way it'll be the last.
Having a single AGP bus has miffed me for a while. I've always wanted to stick my GF 4 and my GF FX in the same computer, but nooo.. It'll be nice when one can run more than two monitors and a very nice quality for a game. =D
Of course, I'll be able to achieve this in four years, when I have enough money.. =T
Three screen Quake3, anyone?
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There is, and it's perfectly legal. Put chicken wire, or sheets of aluminum in your walls, and ground them. Faraday cages don't produce any sort of interference, so they're completely legal. You could then put your sign out front that says "No signal," or what have you.
You know, when it comes to CS at the University level, I've found that the stereotype doesn't fit reality at all. In one of my university classes, there are four women out of thirty students. And from what I can tell, at _least_ two of them are working hard, and appear to be enjoying it, and I don't know anything about the other two.
I wish the same ratio applied to the guys - I often hear them complain about how hard regular expressions are, and how such and such a class sucks.
I guess that I'm trying to say that, due to the general stereotype that girls don't know anything about CS, you get more who actually enjoy it, are interested, and _want_ to be there, as opposed to the people who are in it for the "big bucks" (good luck on finding those.)
Already envisioned. William Gibson's Mona Lisa Overdrive, from the Bridge Trilogy, recalled that some of her "Johns" would "try on" suits at places similar to how this is describing, and the store would make you look better than you actually would. It's like.. Current advertising, just with _more_ lieing.
Big Blue has done great things for Linux. Everyone knows this. But.. Patenting a method for paying OSS workers?! What kind of crap is that? Inventions. Not vague concepts.
A lot of you are saying that it's a defensive patent, that IBM doesn't exercise their patents, etc., so it's okay. Vague patents are wrong. I don't care who's applying and receiving them. If IBM really wanted to defend OSS workers against evil patents, then use prior art. And if another company has prior art to IBM's prior art.. Well, IBM's patent won't really hold regardless.
From my point of view, this is a blatant abuse of the patent system by an otherwise decent company. Sorry IBM, but you misstepped here.
As for the faster-than-light communications, we could do that with tangled photons. Einstein was troubled by the fact that quantum entanglment causes an instantaneous change across a large distance.
As far as everything I've read, that actually isn't possible. I mean, there is (demonstratably) the EPR quantum entanglement, but it doesn't violate Einstein's statements about us not being able to transfer information faster than the speed of light. It's actually kinda weird - like the universe set out for a lot of our sci-fi novels to not be too accurate
I'm not sure if other hard-sci-fi authors have addressed this, but Stephen Baxter's Manifold Space used a theory like this to address the Fermi Paradox: if we assume that physical laws are constant throughout the universe, why hasn't there been contact with other species? His answer? A sort of galactic reset.. When conditions are just right, two neutron stars (or other heavy bodies) will enter a decaying orbit, and release gravitational energy in the form of gamma rays (I believe.) In short, resetting the biological clock of our galaxy. Different from destroying the ozone layer, but this article makes it seem a little less far fetched, doesn't it?
Have the questions been adjusted to account for use of all these fancy calculators?
Absolutely. The test has been adjusted quite well for those calculators.. If you know how to use a TI-89, you can get at least a four. The questions seemed like they were designed for 89/92 gurus.. I'm a math major now, and I knew my stuff back then, but that test (AP Calculus BC) went a lot faster with the 89, and it was/is completely legitamite. Yeah, yeah, you have to show work, and half the test you can't use a calculator.. But it is nice to be able to do a Riemann sum with a calculator just to make sure you didn't screw up anywhere. ^.^
There's a reason people call "AP Calc" "AP Calculator."
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I remember them doing something like this before, where they wouldn't allow 40-bit encryption system for the public (or something like that), because it meant the NSA couldn't crack it in a reasonable time. Privacy is illegal.
If that isn't a troll, I don't know what is. Unfortunately, some people don't seem to recognize it as being one. The NSA has set up export regulations for the strength of encryption. Encryption itself, however, is protected free speech for US citizens. Even before export restrictions were loosened a _whole_ _bunch_, the NSA couldn't legally do anything about the strength of encryption you used.. Hence IDEA, RSA, Triple DES, AES, and other forms of very strong encryption that were produced and spread in the US.
In fact, he does not even know c++ or java.
Well, if that's not a good enough reason to lock him up, I don't know what is. Just for that they should tack on another 5 years.
Do _what_? Personally, I think they should take time off of his sentence for not knowing C++ or Java. That's a merit, not a flaw!
With a 'wrong' mod, you end up with people disagreeing with each other over pure opinion. For instance, if someone says that MS is cool, and gives some non-flamish and non-trollish reasons why, someone can just negatively mod them to be 'wrong.'
Also, when I meta-moderate, I research things - facts, links, etc. When reviewing an informative rating, people should do as much. Maybe I'm too optimistic, though. =T
Seriously, there's a need for a "wrong" modifier, so people can mod such posts down without fear of recourse from meta-moderators who think the post is correct.
Mod it overrated. If it isn't really informative and it's modded so, take the points away - it's just as effective.
There's a freshman in my Russian II class who was majoring in CS.. After hearing him complain for a while about how much his programming classes sucked, I deemed it necessary to inform him of the problems with outsourcing and the difficulties of getting a job as a CS graduate. He's now an undeclared major, and has his eyes on auditioning for acceptance into the university's guitar program.
To tell you the truth, I didn't lie to him either. I simply told him that, right now, a lot companies are looking at (and using) India as a viable market for employees, and that CS grads have a difficult time getting a job right out of graduation, and tend to make less than $50k a year.
So hopefully he and all the other CS students jumping boat will find something they enjoy, instead of a dead end tech support job.. But in the meantime, here's to those of us who see computers as a form of enjoyment, as opposed as a means to money.
The way that's server's going now, I'm willing to bet that their stock is about to be real hot.. As in, on fire hot.
For crypto, decent pseudo-random sequences (or the old "pull from an analog source" trick) is perfectly fine. This is overkill for realworld crypto (not to mention broadcast via the internet), which means that this is primarily useful - to math scientists.
Say _WHAT_? I sure as hell hope not. I'd rather not have some half-assed pseudo-random sequence for a OTP used on extremely sensitive corporate documents. If you're a huge company (say, IBM), and you have documents that could be feasibly worth one billion dollars, are you going to entrust them to a pseudo-random generator?
Yes, I know that there are weaker links (namely people), but it's probably best not to have one of those links be something that's preventable, and cheap.
You might just be surprised since most people don't buy a computer because it has Windows but because it is "Internet Ready" or plays DVDs, or any number of things that even a default install of Mandrake is capable of doing.
;.;
And you know what's beautiful? HP has the clout to make Mandrake a viable desktop solution. They can push for the hardware compatibility where it lacks, and they can tweak the UI to make it work for grandma'. If a company like HP had the balls to switch from Windows to Linux, they could also have a _great_ marketting campaign: "Internet ready PC, play your favorite movies, and don't even _worry_ about viruses or spyware!"
Unfortunately that's just a wet dream for now, as any company who went without Windows now would lose a whole lot of profitability.
I've an uncle who was in the currency branch of the Secret Service.. He said that, like destroyed money, they'll also investigate any possibly counterfeit money, and to send him all the bills I needed checked right away.
This is a win-win situation for IBM. If Sun goes for it, IBM gets it's hand in the development of an open implementation of Java. If Sun doesn't, IBM can say that they tried. Either way, IBM appeals to the open source community.
As for Sun, it's almost lose, lose. If Sun goes for it, they lose complete control over Java, which is a cash crop for them. If they don't, they look stingy to the open source community, and alienate a lot of us.
Poor sun, nice IBM. .
Holy _crap._ The world's coming to an end, no doubt about it.
/. My view on life is now changed.
That's right, I just saw someone use and post a bilbliography on
It's a nice list, but the Napster lawsuit doesn't belong. Ripping a CD and sharing the files with a hundred strangers is hardly fair use.
So.. What's wrong with sharing your own personal mp3 that you created on Napster? I'm just saying that the basis of the lawsuit was wrong, and didn't accomplish much for the RIAA/Metallic (see Kazaa, Gnutella, and the other million filesharing services.) As people have said, sue the individuals breaking the law, not the technologies that happen to allow it.
If you live in the US is there a single, non public channel that isn't controlled by ClearChannel?
There's 99.7 FM in Atlanta.. I only listen to them 'cause the play 90's rock on the weekends (the _good_ stuff), and they have a great ad. It's something along the lines of..
First voice: 99.7, based in Atlanta, run from Atlanta, with real DJs from Atlanta.
Second voice: I think he means we're not ClearChannel.
I laughed so hard when heard that that tears were streaming down my face.
Strike one for fair use.
Not really. I'm thinking stike two, or maybe strike fifty, or strike [insert big number here.] There's the DMCA, the Napster lawsuit, 2600's issues with the MPAA over DeCSS, UnTrusted Computing, and on, and on, and on. This most certainly isn't the first, and there's no way it'll be the last.
For Valentine's day, I received.. A bunch of pictures from a party I was at (wishing I had a SO), that I took on my digital camera?
/., what with your women == money link.
I'll make you a deal. I'll take the best care I can of your goldfish for you, if you throw in your girlfriend.
Okay, I'm trying to be funny, not an ass. =) Though, I do hope she doesn't read
Having a single AGP bus has miffed me for a while. I've always wanted to stick my GF 4 and my GF FX in the same computer, but nooo.. It'll be nice when one can run more than two monitors and a very nice quality for a game. =D
Of course, I'll be able to achieve this in four years, when I have enough money.. =T
Three screen Quake3, anyone?
There is, and it's perfectly legal. Put chicken wire, or sheets of aluminum in your walls, and ground them. Faraday cages don't produce any sort of interference, so they're completely legal. You could then put your sign out front that says "No signal," or what have you.
You know, when it comes to CS at the University level, I've found that the stereotype doesn't fit reality at all. In one of my university classes, there are four women out of thirty students. And from what I can tell, at _least_ two of them are working hard, and appear to be enjoying it, and I don't know anything about the other two.
I wish the same ratio applied to the guys - I often hear them complain about how hard regular expressions are, and how such and such a class sucks.
I guess that I'm trying to say that, due to the general stereotype that girls don't know anything about CS, you get more who actually enjoy it, are interested, and _want_ to be there, as opposed to the people who are in it for the "big bucks" (good luck on finding those.)
Already envisioned. William Gibson's Mona Lisa Overdrive, from the Bridge Trilogy, recalled that some of her "Johns" would "try on" suits at places similar to how this is describing, and the store would make you look better than you actually would. It's like.. Current advertising, just with _more_ lieing.
Big Blue has done great things for Linux. Everyone knows this. But.. Patenting a method for paying OSS workers?! What kind of crap is that? Inventions. Not vague concepts.
A lot of you are saying that it's a defensive patent, that IBM doesn't exercise their patents, etc., so it's okay. Vague patents are wrong. I don't care who's applying and receiving them. If IBM really wanted to defend OSS workers against evil patents, then use prior art. And if another company has prior art to IBM's prior art.. Well, IBM's patent won't really hold regardless.
From my point of view, this is a blatant abuse of the patent system by an otherwise decent company. Sorry IBM, but you misstepped here.
They use a Bullshit Compressor. Politicians have been using it for years. Thta's hwo you get 10 pounds of manure in a 5 pound bag.
How true. And just like every time I've handled bags of manure, SCO has broken open and started to spill crap everywhere.
As for the faster-than-light communications, we could do that with tangled photons. Einstein was troubled by the fact that quantum entanglment causes an instantaneous change across a large distance.
As far as everything I've read, that actually isn't possible. I mean, there is (demonstratably) the EPR quantum entanglement, but it doesn't violate Einstein's statements about us not being able to transfer information faster than the speed of light. It's actually kinda weird - like the universe set out for a lot of our sci-fi novels to not be too accurate
My parents complain about skipping Stones.. I just told them to buy a new CD, but nooooo.
I'm not sure if other hard-sci-fi authors have addressed this, but Stephen Baxter's Manifold Space used a theory like this to address the Fermi Paradox: if we assume that physical laws are constant throughout the universe, why hasn't there been contact with other species? His answer? A sort of galactic reset.. When conditions are just right, two neutron stars (or other heavy bodies) will enter a decaying orbit, and release gravitational energy in the form of gamma rays (I believe.) In short, resetting the biological clock of our galaxy. Different from destroying the ozone layer, but this article makes it seem a little less far fetched, doesn't it?
Have the questions been adjusted to account for use of all these fancy calculators?
Absolutely. The test has been adjusted quite well for those calculators.. If you know how to use a TI-89, you can get at least a four. The questions seemed like they were designed for 89/92 gurus.. I'm a math major now, and I knew my stuff back then, but that test (AP Calculus BC) went a lot faster with the 89, and it was/is completely legitamite. Yeah, yeah, you have to show work, and half the test you can't use a calculator.. But it is nice to be able to do a Riemann sum with a calculator just to make sure you didn't screw up anywhere. ^.^
There's a reason people call "AP Calc" "AP Calculator."