Shameless plug: I wrote dudders, a DNS UPDATE client a few years ago for basically this purpose. It only supports SIG(0) rather than TSIG (but public key authentication is cool, right?), but I had it running on my OpenWRT-based router happily (unfortunately nsupdate wouldn't fit).
ya like haiku? Here's one for ya: "Long, Limb, Sharp Saw, Hard Drop" ROFLMAO.
hey! who left the light on in the barn!
late at night at the edge o da farm, somethin creepin in the woods gonna do ya harm all ya gots 2 do 2 make it go away is pay pay pay pay
Seems to imply Cassidy had the property under surveillance, and sounds threatening to me. The last one is just your example with more innuendo.
Abstinence and marital fidelity are the only effective methods that can stop this deadly trend. In fact, in light of the scientific and historical evidence, it is gross negligence bordering on manslaughter to promote "sex education" as a cure when millions suffer from the effects of this "civilised" education.
Is shipping the data to a country where it is known that you run an increased risk of agencies and interested 3rd parties taking a peek at the data 'due diligence'? Is that a 'reasonable' action in protecting the privacy of individuals and the execution of commercial contracts guaranteeing that privacy?
What if you zipped it up and put it on a public website with a readme.txt that said "don't download this"?
I don't have any particular knowledge about the increased accessibility of data in the US versus the EU, but it seems to me if you knowingly increased the exposure of the data that you're contractually meant to be keeping private, that might be a breach.
No, the inference devices in Wolpert's paper can be as simple as answering yes/no questions about the worldline. Essentially there always exists a question that can't be answered by a device from within that worldline. That "future we end up in" can be defined as a paradox and hence not exist.
Even at a slower rate than real time you cannot simulate the universe from within the universe. This has been proved by Cantor diagonalization (see Wolpert's "Physical limits of inference" paper).
Embarrassing? Why? Because they don't run a bunch of unneeded services off the bat like some other OS's do/have-done-in-the-past? The bricks of my house have proved secure against *all* remote attacks, and I suspect they may be capable of RFC1149. If I start advertising them as a secure competitor to OpenBSD (0 is less than 2, after all, and who needs useless services like SSH), I'd have no reason to feel embarassed, right?
I'm not sure what the legislation here in Australia is like, but there is an (arguably non-neutral) peering network in Western Australia called WAIX. Participating ISPs do not count traffic internal to this network toward bandwidth quotas. Most users like this and it even gave rise to WAIX P2P and gaming communities. I realise this isn't the same thing as billing upstream content providers, but it still introduces a parity between the cost of peered traffic and external traffic (the cost being a fraction of bandwidth quotas, which are paid for in $), using an optionally-exercised discount.
Society is best served when every individual is free to choose his own actions as long as those actions don't harm the physical body or property of another.
Let's use the generic counterexample: pollution. Nobody "owns" the atmosphere, but we all lose as the air quality is degraded. You need regulation to ensure externalities are recognised by private parties in a free market.
The horrible character set doesn't help: those characters are visually offensive. Why would you use them when there are only 41 distinct base symbols? The possibility that the cipher could have anything to do with their UCS positions is a turn-off.
I expect experimenting with all the extra semantics (super/subscripting, and whatever sequences are used to signal alphabet changes) would be tedious. However, I also suspect that a serious cryptographer would have solved it by now: it looks like spaces are un-substituted (English-like word length distribution), hence many of the shorter-length words would be guessable.
There are other ciphertexts that are more fun/profitable to decipher (like Kryptos-4 and the RSA ones).
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I once read a SF short story about the nth generation of a human team that had landed on a planet inhospitable due to its atmosphere and agressive wildlife. The humans had managed to build a shelter and were holed up in it until they could find a way to face the outside world; meanwhile the outside world was slowly wearing away the walls of their shelter. Over many generations, they made alterations to their genetics and behaviour so that they grew tusks (I think?) and became aggressive; but also they were ultimately unrecognisable as 'human'. The story ends with some of the new-breed being sent out into the outside world and presumably killing everything in the vicinity, but only to replace the animals outside in attacking the walls of the shelter.
Are you supposed to laugh at Gates's shortsightedness because "hobbyists" developed enterprise grade software like Linux, Apache, etc. for free? (a myth)
While the myth assertion may hold for those examples, c.f. (FTA):
What hobbyist can put 3-man years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product and distribute for free?
It's not uncommon, especially if you have an independent paid job. Caveats are that you don't find all bugs, but was Altair really bug-free?
Requiring a code-walkthrough isn't going to catch the skilled but lazy CS students. I don't have a problem explaining fragments of code I've never seen before (providing they're reasonably sane). This is basically what happens whenever I need to patch something so it Just Works. OTOH, should students who write insane code (and thus can't explain it the next week) be labelled as plagiarists?
It's much harder to explain why you chose a particular design (especially for complex OO systems) if you haven't taken the time to grok it. For us, code is usually worth 50% or less of an assignment, with a lot of marks going to reports.
The other issue is that most of the early undergraduate homework is fairly trivial (data structures, language basics) and is thus prone to similar/identical implementations. Even in a moderately challenging first year haskell assignment, several of my functions turned out identical to another student's (although my whitespace was prettier:D), and although we'd had fairly broad discussions about algorithms, our code was written indepedently. Although the collaboration between all the functions was subtle, each function was in itself trivial and usually less than 4 lines long. It makes sense to put more emphasis on the design aspect.
The little blue cubes do have a different smell (not worse than normal urinal cakes), and they do seem to erode pretty quickly (I tried to bore a hole through the centre of one... beware of splashback!). There was a urine smell outside the social science lecture theatre for a while last semester, but the actual toilets behind the theatre were fine AFAIK.
I read on the propaganda sheet sitting next to the urinals that they're meant to be flushed with 20 litres regularly anyway, which I would expect to be enough.
Looks like it casts null to a pointer to a function with no parameters that returns void, and calls it. Remind me how this "touches on complex computing concepts"?
I thought about that then realized that I would probably have to tell the keyboard's software what key combinations did what to begin with.
This could be solved with hacks for the GUI API. For instance, the keyboard driver will be informed of menu items with accellerators and icons in whatever application has focus. This wouldn't work well where there's no standard API (eg. an X11 desktop with GTK/Qt/*tif, games).
There is still the problem in the Ctrl+Shift+Space example that that particular function is still hidden by two modifiers. Say there are 24 non-alphanumeric keys. To find it, the user would have to scan through 60 (ctrl modified) + 24 (shift modified non-alphanumeric) + 60 (ctrl+shift modified) keys to find the function. This is analgous to having menus corresponding to each of the $\sum_{i=1}^n{nCi}$ combinations of the n modifier keys, with 60 entries (you could get away with 34 for shift if you discarded the obvious shift+x = X for alpha). The advantage of the keyboard would be that it's more obvious to the user (sitting on the keys he's searching) and there's also some association between function and physical layout.
The other way of looking at it is the user already knows what key combo he wants to press, and wants to query the function it effects. In this case the keyboard wins easily, but it isn't the approach you'd expect most users to take.
I use both layouts, mainly Dvorak though; I made the switch about 2 years ago. At first after becoming proficient with Dvorak, my Qwerty skills were atrocious: about 30WPM or so (they had been 90WPM). It was embarassing to use other people's keyboards.
However, if you're constantly using Qwerty and Dvorak layouts (I use Qwerty on the Windows computers at uni because security permissions make changing the layout harder than adapting) then you'll learn to "mentally" switch between both. It's similar to changing the way you interpret a musical staff depending on the clef when you're playing the piano. Currently I type 100WPM in Dvorak and 60WPM in Qwerty (benchmarked with the gtypist speed tests).
Some of this may have been influenced by the way I learnt: on a Qwerty-labelled keyboard, just visualising the Dvorak layout.
I switch using shift+shift, from setxkbmap -layout dvorak,us -option grp:shift_toggle
PDFs are almost exclusively used today as a read-only format (or maybe fixed content with editable forms). Until that changes, which would require Acrobat to become useable as an editor, there's only a very fine overlap. You can download both PDF and word document readers for free as in beer.
Just to confirm, I'm running 8.0 beta 1 on linux with "Block unwanted pop-ups". I use this setting because some sites I frequent, however poorly designed, use pop-ups to present content.
I visited two of the sites mentioned in the article (howstuffworks.com and drudgereport.com). I clicked the content links on howstuffworks, and sure enough, Opera informed me that it had blocked pop-ups/unders. Visiting drudgereport.com from the address bar spawns a pop-up that Opera didn't block, and clicking Cancel or closing the pop-up got me a redirect to http://www.usseek.com/
It may be that the relatively small number of Opera UA requests don't justify the R&D of a script to specifically fool Opera. However, pop-ups are the lesser of two evils: the most annoying ads I experience are the layers that follow you down the page as you scroll, often obscuring text, and there's no (easy) way to close them without breaking websites that use layers non-maliciously.
The laws of chance dictate that the generators should churn out equal numbers of ones and zeros - which would be represented by a nearly flat line on the graph.
What? The laws of probability, as I understand them, dictate that where the probability p of an event being successful (1) is 0.5, the probability of 0.5n out of n (even) events is
This section of the X-strike force FAQ explains the plan. The linked thread contains your answer, but my summary sees: some technical refactoring issues and some license issues.
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Shameless plug: I wrote dudders, a DNS UPDATE client a few years ago for basically this purpose. It only supports SIG(0) rather than TSIG (but public key authentication is cool, right?), but I had it running on my OpenWRT-based router happily (unfortunately nsupdate wouldn't fit).
Seems to imply Cassidy had the property under surveillance, and sounds threatening to me. The last one is just your example with more innuendo.
Abstinence and marital fidelity are the only effective methods that can stop this deadly trend. In fact, in light of the scientific and historical evidence, it is gross negligence bordering on manslaughter to promote "sex education" as a cure when millions suffer from the effects of this "civilised" education.
Actually, public health policy based solely on abstinence has not been shown to be effective.; it has a failure rate at a population level.
"They certainly have done due dilligence."
Is shipping the data to a country where it is known that you run an increased risk of agencies and interested 3rd parties taking a peek at the data 'due diligence'? Is that a 'reasonable' action in protecting the privacy of individuals and the execution of commercial contracts guaranteeing that privacy?
What if you zipped it up and put it on a public website with a readme.txt that said "don't download this"?
I don't have any particular knowledge about the increased accessibility of data in the US versus the EU, but it seems to me if you knowingly increased the exposure of the data that you're contractually meant to be keeping private, that might be a breach.
No, the inference devices in Wolpert's paper can be as simple as answering yes/no questions about the worldline. Essentially there always exists a question that can't be answered by a device from within that worldline. That "future we end up in" can be defined as a paradox and hence not exist.
Even at a slower rate than real time you cannot simulate the universe from within the universe. This has been proved by Cantor diagonalization (see Wolpert's "Physical limits of inference" paper).
I'm not sure what the legislation here in Australia is like, but there is an (arguably non-neutral) peering network in Western Australia called WAIX. Participating ISPs do not count traffic internal to this network toward bandwidth quotas. Most users like this and it even gave rise to WAIX P2P and gaming communities. I realise this isn't the same thing as billing upstream content providers, but it still introduces a parity between the cost of peered traffic and external traffic (the cost being a fraction of bandwidth quotas, which are paid for in $), using an optionally-exercised discount.
Let's use the generic counterexample: pollution. Nobody "owns" the atmosphere, but we all lose as the air quality is degraded. You need regulation to ensure externalities are recognised by private parties in a free market.
But seriously, how large can it scale before it gets tagged a WMD?
I expect experimenting with all the extra semantics (super/subscripting, and whatever sequences are used to signal alphabet changes) would be tedious. However, I also suspect that a serious cryptographer would have solved it by now: it looks like spaces are un-substituted (English-like word length distribution), hence many of the shorter-length words would be guessable.
There are other ciphertexts that are more fun/profitable to decipher (like Kryptos-4 and the RSA ones).
I once read a SF short story about the nth generation of a human team that had landed on a planet inhospitable due to its atmosphere and agressive wildlife. The humans had managed to build a shelter and were holed up in it until they could find a way to face the outside world; meanwhile the outside world was slowly wearing away the walls of their shelter. Over many generations, they made alterations to their genetics and behaviour so that they grew tusks (I think?) and became aggressive; but also they were ultimately unrecognisable as 'human'. The story ends with some of the new-breed being sent out into the outside world and presumably killing everything in the vicinity, but only to replace the animals outside in attacking the walls of the shelter.
While the myth assertion may hold for those examples, c.f. (FTA):
It's not uncommon, especially if you have an independent paid job. Caveats are that you don't find all bugs, but was Altair really bug-free?
Requiring a code-walkthrough isn't going to catch the skilled but lazy CS students. I don't have a problem explaining fragments of code I've never seen before (providing they're reasonably sane). This is basically what happens whenever I need to patch something so it Just Works. OTOH, should students who write insane code (and thus can't explain it the next week) be labelled as plagiarists?
It's much harder to explain why you chose a particular design (especially for complex OO systems) if you haven't taken the time to grok it. For us, code is usually worth 50% or less of an assignment, with a lot of marks going to reports.
The other issue is that most of the early undergraduate homework is fairly trivial (data structures, language basics) and is thus prone to similar/identical implementations. Even in a moderately challenging first year haskell assignment, several of my functions turned out identical to another student's (although my whitespace was prettier :D), and although we'd had fairly broad discussions about algorithms, our code was written indepedently. Although the collaboration between all the functions was subtle, each function was in itself trivial and usually less than 4 lines long. It makes sense to put more emphasis on the design aspect.
Er.. that should have been "it only needs".
Sure it could: it doesn't need the line of symmetry going from top-left to bottom-right.
The little blue cubes do have a different smell (not worse than normal urinal cakes), and they do seem to erode pretty quickly (I tried to bore a hole through the centre of one... beware of splashback!). There was a urine smell outside the social science lecture theatre for a while last semester, but the actual toilets behind the theatre were fine AFAIK.
I read on the propaganda sheet sitting next to the urinals that they're meant to be flushed with 20 litres regularly anyway, which I would expect to be enough.
Looks like it casts null to a pointer to a function with no parameters that returns void, and calls it. Remind me how this "touches on complex computing concepts"?
This could be solved with hacks for the GUI API. For instance, the keyboard driver will be informed of menu items with accellerators and icons in whatever application has focus. This wouldn't work well where there's no standard API (eg. an X11 desktop with GTK/Qt/*tif, games).
There is still the problem in the Ctrl+Shift+Space example that that particular function is still hidden by two modifiers. Say there are 24 non-alphanumeric keys. To find it, the user would have to scan through 60 (ctrl modified) + 24 (shift modified non-alphanumeric) + 60 (ctrl+shift modified) keys to find the function. This is analgous to having menus corresponding to each of the $\sum_{i=1}^n{nCi}$ combinations of the n modifier keys, with 60 entries (you could get away with 34 for shift if you discarded the obvious shift+x = X for alpha). The advantage of the keyboard would be that it's more obvious to the user (sitting on the keys he's searching) and there's also some association between function and physical layout.
The other way of looking at it is the user already knows what key combo he wants to press, and wants to query the function it effects. In this case the keyboard wins easily, but it isn't the approach you'd expect most users to take.
I use both layouts, mainly Dvorak though; I made the switch about 2 years ago. At first after becoming proficient with Dvorak, my Qwerty skills were atrocious: about 30WPM or so (they had been 90WPM). It was embarassing to use other people's keyboards.
However, if you're constantly using Qwerty and Dvorak layouts (I use Qwerty on the Windows computers at uni because security permissions make changing the layout harder than adapting) then you'll learn to "mentally" switch between both. It's similar to changing the way you interpret a musical staff depending on the clef when you're playing the piano. Currently I type 100WPM in Dvorak and 60WPM in Qwerty (benchmarked with the gtypist speed tests).
Some of this may have been influenced by the way I learnt: on a Qwerty-labelled keyboard, just visualising the Dvorak layout.
I switch using shift+shift, from setxkbmap -layout dvorak,us -option grp:shift_togglePDFs are almost exclusively used today as a read-only format (or maybe fixed content with editable forms). Until that changes, which would require Acrobat to become useable as an editor, there's only a very fine overlap. You can download both PDF and word document readers for free as in beer.
I visited two of the sites mentioned in the article (howstuffworks.com and drudgereport.com). I clicked the content links on howstuffworks, and sure enough, Opera informed me that it had blocked pop-ups/unders. Visiting drudgereport.com from the address bar spawns a pop-up that Opera didn't block, and clicking Cancel or closing the pop-up got me a redirect to http://www.usseek.com/
It may be that the relatively small number of Opera UA requests don't justify the R&D of a script to specifically fool Opera. However, pop-ups are the lesser of two evils: the most annoying ads I experience are the layers that follow you down the page as you scroll, often obscuring text, and there's no (easy) way to close them without breaking websites that use layers non-maliciously.
What? The laws of probability, as I understand them, dictate that where the probability p of an event being successful (1) is 0.5, the probability of 0.5n out of n (even) events is
This section of the X-strike force FAQ explains the plan. The linked thread contains your answer, but my summary sees: some technical refactoring issues and some license issues.