Quite honestly, maybe the time has come when people realize that while listening to a good songs is a nice thing, but doesn't deserve the insane amount of respect and money it gets today. I just don't see the significant contributions to society of a rock-star that justifies the insane rewards they get... I know that plenty of people are sheep enough to idolize people to the extreme, but maybe the golden ($$$) era for music is over (independent music anyone) and the record labels just can't deal with the fact that they wont make these insane amounts of money anymore. Deal with it, making music has become a lot easier and created new competition in the field!
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He isnt buying it for his kids - this is slashdot, its for himself of course!:)
I see the biggest possibility for this in the medical setting. Especially in emergency situations, even a whole team can forget about one extra aspect that should be kept in mind. The biggest advantage of systems like these could be to remind the team of necessary actions, but letting the system make decisions sounds way to risky to me. If they can get it to be a controlling system that evaluates your actions it sounds like it could help quite a bit.
I don't think that ad blocking should become more aggressive in standard versions of browsers. A lot of content on the web today is only free because of ad-revenue and by making ad-blocking mainstream, plenty of these business-models would break. Right now you can put in a little bit of effort to block ads with extensions and still enjoy a plethora of free content!
Yes, some of the medical research seems blatantly obvious, but medical trials are an extremely complex subject matter. The trials you are referring to had to be conducted in order to rule out possible side-effects that occured by combining drugs. Controlled clinical trials costs billions of dollars and trust me, in order to get funding for these kind of tests (phase IV of the trials, after the medication has been introduced already) you really need to have a solid case for. Clinical trials are a very, very late step in the development cycle of a drug and are heavily regulated by the FDA and the people financing your research.
Also, a meta-analysis is exactly that, an analysis, not an actual trial. (as it sounds like when reading your response)
...is extremely positive. In fact, I am using it to write this post. Not only is the software setup very good, it also dual boots (Fedora Core 2 and WinXP). Generally I am very happy with this, the only downside is the fact that it does not have.rpm support built in (which is an easy task for someone whos already running linux) This Laptop helped me switch to Linux with relatively little effort. As a college student I wanted a laptop but I did not have the time to put a lot of effort into it to get everything working. (Believe it or not, students occassionally do work hard) For a Linux beginner or someone switching, it is an excellent choice.
This is ridiculous, seeing this comment getting modded up +5 Insightful is a shame for Slashdot.
The one sentence "If you're American, I've got nothing against you." shows incredible ignorance by the author. I can only hope this was a case of bad writing...
I do understand it is Sept. 11th but this does not excuse this awful comment getting modded up at all.
I dont even remember when my family bought it but it was the one that got me started with computers. After neglecting it for many, many years I finally decided to look back into my childhood and discover what software and data I had back then. Actually it was the only time I personally got affected by the Y2K-bug, but loading with the boot-floppy (still perfectly working) solved the problem. (My organizer complained a bit about it being the year 1900 but everything else went smooth). Afer all these years of leaving this Laptop down in the basement collecting dust it was still working. I never expected that. (well I was a young kid back then when my family got it) I had hours of fun reading the notes in my old organizer...
I don't think so. If you do have a diploma, you did not get it just for programming, you got it for critical thinking and developing new technologies, not implementing other peoples ideas.
When I am finished with University, I will certainly not be programming, I will be inventing! (hopefully) If I wanted to program I could do so right now. What is your opinion on this?
The one time pad is the only 100% secure, mathematically proven form of encryption.
(Not considering Quantum Crypto)
The security of the one-time pad relies on the fact that it is used only ONCE.
This is how it works in a perfect world:
Take a random string, XOR it with your message (the plaintext) and transmit the result to your friend.
To decrypt the message, your friend has to XOR the message he got again with the random string.
There are two problems with that:
We are not able to produce real randomness, we can only use cryptographically secure pseudo-random number generators but these are not perfectly random.
The problem of transmitting the random string (the key). It has to be distributed in advance.
If a message gets encrypted twice with the same key, it is highly vulnerable to a statistical attack and therefore nearly useless.
Every few days, someone claims to have invented a perfectly secure cryptosystem and posts it on sci.crypt just to have it torn to pieces by them.
To the "inventor" of this new system:
If you really feel your algorithm is that strong, offer something about 10000$ to anyone who can break it. That way you can be sure it gets enough attention. This is common practice.
C++: Problem solving with C++ - The Object of programming by Walter Savitch
Data Abstraction and Problem solving with C++ by Carrano, Helman and Veroff (both books were used in my Harvard course "introduction to computer-science"
Networking: TCP/IP Illustrated Volume I - W. Richard Stevens
Security/Honeynets: Know your enemy by the Honeynet Project
Perl: Perl for Dummies by Paul Hoffman
google.com - the best search engine for finding information (try groups.google.com)
I don't care who wrote this, but he/she should be put into jail for a _long_ time. Maybe if he the creator didn't think about this: There is absolutely NO difference in blocking 911 and to kill someone else directly. It doesn't matter what a person dies of, what matters is the fact that he is dead. For me this is cruel murder. My bet is that someone really young wrote this virus and felt really good about being able to cut and paste some sourcecode. It is really sad that someone tries to kill hundreds of people just because he is able to... I just hope that nobody gets affected by this.
EnVisiCrypt is refering to a book with the title "Flowers for Algernon".
The book deals about a mentally retarded man that is made extremely smart by operating him. The scientists tested the operation on a mouse called "Algernon" and after some time Algernon goes crazy and the whole expermiment is a failure.
Read the book!
When I was working at the Technical University of Vienna, I got to know the admin who showed me a funny easteregg he implemented on www.prip.tuwien.ac.at find the invisible link! HINT: check the upper part of the image
What if you do a cron job (or similar) that checks if you login at least twice a month and you actually die and all your friends and parents already know! I wouldn't want them to get an email message from me a few days after they learned that I am dead that says "Could you please check on me?". This would be at least a little shock for them to just receive an email from me! Anyways the idea of erasing/encrypting your personal data is a good idea, but you should give the decryption key to someone so that your "important files" are not lost forever.
Actually I haven't read his book and I won't because I found this on his homepage:
"He is widely regarded as one of the world's most original scientists, as well as the most important innovator in scientific and technical computing today."
The most important innovator? He reminds me of Kim Schmitz (kimble) that self proclaimed "hacker-god". Maybe his ideas are worth a read, but I don't think he took enough other ideas into consideration. A big problem is, that most of the _really_ brilliant scientists don't "waste" their time by writing such books and don't get much attention from the broad public. I think this whole "few lines of code" talk is just a publicity gag.
This is what the bot offeres:
Let me help you with:
news sports
stocks library
weather fun and games
movies utilities
web search web site
zodiac what's new
~~~~~
help
What can I do for you? - It is actually a nice way to get information and I particularely like the dictionnary and the translations-feature.
Additionally: Did you never want to just tell your computer what do do in normal language? Kinda reminds me of Star Trek.
But there surely are some downsides: First of all, it seems to collect information on me, like where I am living. Me: What's the time? SmarterChild: The date and time in Vienna, VA is Wednesday April 17th, 2002 10:00:18 am. I won't even bother to talk about all the advertising that will be done, based on the collected data.
I experienced some problems when trying to go to the sample chapter 5 of the book. the server gave me a 404 and I did a quick search for the page and had no problems opening it with another link, but at exactly the same address. Maybe the admins check my webbrowsers vars and check if I came from slashdot.
For me it works to just copy the adress into another browser window:
[www.oreilly.com/catalog/jabber/chapter/ch05.html]
I hope I could help
They may produce high-quality video editing cards, but their web-design definitely sucks.
Try to mark their website with your mouse and you will see that in some blank lines they have just added a few characters in the color of the background.
I guess this was just lazy programming...
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Quite honestly, maybe the time has come when people realize that while listening to a good songs is a nice thing, but doesn't deserve the insane amount of respect and money it gets today. I just don't see the significant contributions to society of a rock-star that justifies the insane rewards they get... I know that plenty of people are sheep enough to idolize people to the extreme, but maybe the golden ($$$) era for music is over (independent music anyone) and the record labels just can't deal with the fact that they wont make these insane amounts of money anymore.
Deal with it, making music has become a lot easier and created new competition in the field!
He isnt buying it for his kids - this is slashdot, its for himself of course! :)
I see the biggest possibility for this in the medical setting. Especially in emergency situations, even a whole team can forget about one extra aspect that should be kept in mind. The biggest advantage of systems like these could be to remind the team of necessary actions, but letting the system make decisions sounds way to risky to me. If they can get it to be a controlling system that evaluates your actions it sounds like it could help quite a bit.
Dear Sir, the website you are looking for is www.fark.com. (no trap)
Sincerely,
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I don't think that ad blocking should become more aggressive in standard versions of browsers. A lot of content on the web today is only free because of ad-revenue and by making ad-blocking mainstream, plenty of these business-models would break.
Right now you can put in a little bit of effort to block ads with extensions and still enjoy a plethora of free content!
Yes, some of the medical research seems blatantly obvious, but medical trials are an extremely complex subject matter. The trials you are referring to had to be conducted in order to rule out possible side-effects that occured by combining drugs. Controlled clinical trials costs billions of dollars and trust me, in order to get funding for these kind of tests (phase IV of the trials, after the medication has been introduced already) you really need to have a solid case for. Clinical trials are a very, very late step in the development cycle of a drug and are heavily regulated by the FDA and the people financing your research.
Also, a meta-analysis is exactly that, an analysis, not an actual trial. (as it sounds like when reading your response)
...is extremely positive. .rpm support built in (which is an easy task for someone whos already running linux)
In fact, I am using it to write this post.
Not only is the software setup very good, it also dual boots (Fedora Core 2 and WinXP).
Generally I am very happy with this, the only downside is the fact that it does not have
This Laptop helped me switch to Linux with relatively little effort. As a college student I wanted a laptop but I did not have the time to put a lot of effort into it to get everything working.
(Believe it or not, students occassionally do work hard)
For a Linux beginner or someone switching, it is an excellent choice.
This is ridiculous, seeing this comment getting modded up +5 Insightful is a shame for Slashdot.
The one sentence "If you're American, I've got nothing against you." shows incredible ignorance by the author. I can only hope this was a case of bad writing...
I do understand it is Sept. 11th but this does not excuse this awful comment getting modded up at all.
I dont even remember when my family bought it but it was the one that got me started with computers.
After neglecting it for many, many years I finally decided to look back into my childhood and discover what software and data I had back then.
Actually it was the only time I personally got affected by the Y2K-bug, but loading with the boot-floppy (still perfectly working) solved the problem. (My organizer complained a bit about it being the year 1900 but everything else went smooth).
Afer all these years of leaving this Laptop down in the basement collecting dust it was still working. I never expected that. (well I was a young kid back then when my family got it)
I had hours of fun reading the notes in my old organizer...
Easy one:
Because Opera is not free (at least not the version without ads) and therefore is seen as a competitor to MS.
At least that's my explanation...
Is a CS-grad really just a programmer?
I don't think so. If you do have a diploma, you did not get it just for programming, you got it for critical thinking and developing new technologies, not implementing other peoples ideas.
When I am finished with University, I will certainly not be programming, I will be inventing! (hopefully) If I wanted to program I could do so right now.
What is your opinion on this?
what other important features has OSX that Linux has not. I am thinking about getting a Laptop with OSX so I was wondering how OXS compares to Linux.
This is how it works in a perfect world: Take a random string, XOR it with your message (the plaintext) and transmit the result to your friend. To decrypt the message, your friend has to XOR the message he got again with the random string.
There are two problems with that:
We are not able to produce real randomness, we can only use cryptographically secure pseudo-random number generators but these are not perfectly random.
The problem of transmitting the random string (the key). It has to be distributed in advance.
If a message gets encrypted twice with the same key, it is highly vulnerable to a statistical attack and therefore nearly useless. Every few days, someone claims to have invented a perfectly secure cryptosystem and posts it on sci.crypt just to have it torn to pieces by them.
To the "inventor" of this new system: If you really feel your algorithm is that strong, offer something about 10000$ to anyone who can break it. That way you can be sure it gets enough attention. This is common practice.
A quote from CNN.com:
"He can go on the Web and with a few clicks, zoom in on parts of the house or unlock doors from half a world away."
Anyone got the IP-adress to that site? I could really need some nice touchscreens...
Seriously, this definitely is a huge security problem , dont you think?
C++: Problem solving with C++ - The Object of programming by Walter Savitch
Data Abstraction and Problem solving with C++ by Carrano, Helman and Veroff (both books were used in my Harvard course "introduction to computer-science"
Networking: TCP/IP Illustrated Volume I - W. Richard Stevens
Security/Honeynets: Know your enemy by the Honeynet Project
Perl: Perl for Dummies by Paul Hoffman
google.com - the best search engine for finding information (try groups.google.com)
I don't care who wrote this, but he/she should be put into jail for a _long_ time.
Maybe if he the creator didn't think about this:
There is absolutely NO difference in blocking 911 and to kill someone else directly. It doesn't matter what a person dies of, what matters is the fact that he is dead. For me this is cruel murder.
My bet is that someone really young wrote this virus and felt really good about being able to cut and paste some sourcecode.
It is really sad that someone tries to kill hundreds of people just because he is able to...
I just hope that nobody gets affected by this.
EnVisiCrypt is refering to a book with the title "Flowers for Algernon". The book deals about a mentally retarded man that is made extremely smart by operating him. The scientists tested the operation on a mouse called "Algernon" and after some time Algernon goes crazy and the whole expermiment is a failure. Read the book!
When I was working at the Technical University of Vienna, I got to know the admin who showed me a funny easteregg he implemented on
www.prip.tuwien.ac.at
find the invisible link!
HINT:
check the upper part of the image
What if you do a cron job (or similar) that checks if you login at least twice a month and you actually die and all your friends and parents already know!
I wouldn't want them to get an email message from me a few days after they learned that I am dead that says "Could you please check on me?".
This would be at least a little shock for them to just receive an email from me!
Anyways the idea of erasing/encrypting your personal data is a good idea, but you should give the decryption key to someone so that your "important files" are not lost forever.
Actually I haven't read his book and I won't because I found this on his homepage:
"He is widely regarded as one of the world's most original scientists, as well as the most important innovator in scientific and technical computing today."
The most important innovator? He reminds me of Kim Schmitz (kimble) that self proclaimed "hacker-god".
Maybe his ideas are worth a read, but I don't think he took enough other ideas into consideration.
A big problem is, that most of the _really_ brilliant scientists don't "waste" their time by writing such books and don't get much attention from the broad public.
I think this whole "few lines of code" talk is just a publicity gag.
I am just wondering how it is possible to be forced to relax.
Won't this put even more pressure on the person?
Please tell me how this should work.
This is what the bot offeres:
Let me help you with:
news sports
stocks library
weather fun and games
movies utilities
web search web site
zodiac what's new
~~~~~
help
What can I do for you?
-
It is actually a nice way to get information and I particularely like the dictionnary and the translations-feature.
Additionally: Did you never want to just tell your computer what do do in normal language? Kinda reminds me of Star Trek.
But there surely are some downsides: First of all, it seems to collect information on me, like where I am living.
Me: What's the time?
SmarterChild: The date and time in Vienna, VA is Wednesday April 17th, 2002 10:00:18 am.
I won't even bother to talk about all the advertising that will be done, based on the collected data.
I experienced some problems when trying to go to the sample chapter 5 of the book. the server gave me a 404 and I did a quick search for the page and had no problems opening it with another link, but at exactly the same address. Maybe the admins check my webbrowsers vars and check if I came from slashdot. For me it works to just copy the adress into another browser window: [www.oreilly.com/catalog/jabber/chapter/ch05.html]
I hope I could help
They may produce high-quality video editing cards, but their web-design definitely sucks. Try to mark their website with your mouse and you will see that in some blank lines they have just added a few characters in the color of the background. I guess this was just lazy programming...
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