Buddy, you've linked an article in NEW ZEALAND while the story is in the US. In the US you do not get 3 years for manslaughter. 1st degree murder or even felony murder gets you life or death penalty. Per linked article, the guy would have received 10 years to life in US.
Here's a case in the US from a few years ago, where a similar crime resulted in a 1 year jail sentence:
utter rubbish, you can't weaponize a fusion system designed for power generation, an electrical powered compression system that needs large buildings or many buildings isn't going into the volume of bucket for icbm launch nor into a briefcase.
Nobody is trying to weaponize NIF. However, even the NIF website explains that one of their missions is to support stockpile stewardship:
A better one is The UNIX-HATERS Handbook (http://simson.net/ref/ugh.pdf). Until you realize how terrible[1] Unix is, any program you write is suspect.
[1]: Yes, like most folks here, I use Unix-like systems almost exclusively. Donald A Norman sums it up well in the Foreward: "A horrible system, except that all the other commercial offerings are even worse."
I still think the best product placements were in Repo Man.
I've always wanted to drink a "drink", but I'm not sure about the "food", though I bet his mom was right and it would be better in a bowl...
The blue-label generics in Repo Man were based on real packaging (available in the 80s from Ralph's grocery stores in So. California, at least). My dad used to drink blue-label beer like the ones on the bottom left in this picture:
Well, i would guess less than.01% of all software developers know assembly. So it's pretty rare, and it requires a lot more skill to master.
Don't CS programs still require assembly? I had to take a course in assembly as an undergrad, and also had to use assembly quite a bit in my compiler courses. 1 developer in 10,000 seems way too low. (For what it's worth, I've never met a really good developer who couldn't program in assembly. I don't mean that they recall all of the syntax of a particular assembly language; only that they can map high-level code to pseudo-assembly language.)
As for skill, assembly is actually easy to write, though not that easy to read. It's just a combination of some simple primitives: load something into a register, or perform some arithmetic operation, or test a condition, or jump to another location in the code. Conceptually, it's much easier than a language like C++.
Just to clarify, the original version of SB1070 did pass and was signed into law. It was amended a week later after the massive outcry began. The amendment was a very good idea: in particular, witnesses to or victims of a crime should not arrested for being here illegally just because they reported a crime. Otherwise, since we have millions of illegal immigrants here who aren't going away anytime soon, we'd be creating a class of perfect victims.
I agree that an arrest should entail a full identification, and that immigration laws should be enforced at that point. The "lawful stop" part is gray area, though. I worry about scenarios where a citizen with an accent or a "foreign" appearance could be legally stopped (which doesn't imply an actual crime occurred) and then imprisoned until they proved their identity; I think it's safe to assume that this would not happen to a white person with a standard American accent.
If you are here *legally*, then you already have papers -- and that goes for every state, not just Arizona.
If you are are *illegally*, then you have committed a crime. Why exactly should you not "end up in prison."?
Please clarify.
In America, citizens don't need to carry identification papers, nor do they need to justify brown skin with proof of legal residency. The original version of SB1070 required police to check the residency status of anyone they came into contact with when there was "reasonable suspicion" (what does that mean?) that the person might be here illegally, and to imprison that person (possibly a U.S. citizen!) if they could not immediately produce proof of legal residency. See the problem?
Blue Gene is absolutely awesome to work on (I use Intrepid).
Seriously? That's the first time I've heard that. What do you like about it? The buggy toolchain and CNK? The joys of (sort-of) cross-compiling? The I/O bottlenecks? The blazing fast (for 1999) CPUs?
The only way I can see BG/P being a useful machine is either: 1) All you need to do is run LINPACK 2) You're booting Linux on the compute nodes (in which case a commodity Linux cluster would probably be a lot cheaper)
Keep telling yourself that lie. I have a master in Mathematics with focus in Computer Aided Applied Mathematics and have been a long time member of MAA, ACM and IEEE but I never see a Mac unless I sneak over to the School of Business to have lunch with a colleague of mine
Good for you, AC. Now, how much time have you spent in the national labs? My experience is that among the physicists and computer scientists, a large majority use Macs, almost all of the rest use Linux boxes, and an almost negligible number use Windows. (On the desktop, that is; our supercomputers either run Linux or special purpose, stripped-down Linux-like kernels like IBM's CNK.)
OSX is not a target because there are very few people running OSX who have access to the systems with information that dedicated, skilled attackers want to get to.
That's simply not true. For example, OS X is very popular among scientists and engineers at many of the national labs.
Yes indeed. "We wont tell you" is no different than a big fat "yes". I am sure that lots of people are dumb enough to be fooled by this though.:(
The intelligence community nearly always sticks to "we can neither confirm nor deny..." That's not a de facto confirmation. Suppose it went something like this:
You: Are you working with Adobe? NSA: No. You: Are you working with Twitter? NSA: No. You: Are you working with Google? NSA: No comment.
See the problem? That's why agencies (and individuals with clearances) are not supposed to confirm or deny allegations or leaks.
As a taxpayer i damm well DO have a right to know.
Should you have a right to know if Google is working with the NSA? I don't know. But being a taxpayer doesn't give you the right to all of the country's secrets; our collective security sometimes outranks your "right to know." You don't have the right to know who the FBI is investigating and the identities of undercover agents. You don't have the right to know the country's nuclear secrets. You don't have the right to know the security details for the White House or the plans for an upcoming military operations. There are legitimate reasons for the government to keep secrets.
For example, nobody with a Top Secret security clearance should have to undergo more than a cursory check. Their background, habits and the people they know have already been fully investigated.
You know, that sounds good at first, but probably isn't worth the effort:
Even the new HSPD-12 federal credentials don't list one's clearances in a standard way. For example, the DOE indicates the badge-holder's clearance level in an "Agency Specific Text" field:
Other agencies have different standards. How is a TSA agent supposed to correctly determine one's clearance level without access to a centralized database? And is it really worth the effort at that point?
One problem with your reasoning is that they don't need you to reveal your password to them; you just need to enter into the computer.
Also, if you store self-incriminating evidence (even in the form of a hashed password on a computer), the 5th Amendment might not help you. For example, your diary can be used against you in court:
The headline is useless. Proposing a million-core computer isn't news, since there's a 1.6 million core computer about to be deployed. The headline should reflect what they're planning to do with this machine.
A lot of people stream Netflix on their PC, myself included. I have a feeling that most of us will be celebrating the day Netflix drops their oh-so-crappy Silverlight player.
I use a Mac Mini with an HDTV as my home media center, and I watch of lot of Netflix on it. Netflix+Silverlight works better than any Flash-based streaming site I've used. I don't know who deserves the credit for it, but I'm happy with the service.
It must be nice to be able to consider $170 + $109 a minor expense.
My hourly cost to my company is a couple hundred dollars (salary, overhead, benefits, office, equipment, etc.). If my second monitor means I get an extra minute of work done per day, the monitor has more than paid for itself and the extra electricity it uses.
You'd have to be out of your mind to consider paying to do a technical degree these days.
In the last few months, I've been inundated with calls and emails from recruiters. I'm not looking for a new job, and I don't want to move, but some of the salaries being mentioned are obscene. Maybe it's a temporary boom, but it's not a bad time to be a computer scientist.
Chrome should allow you to close a tab and anything else attached to it, at any time. The current situation is unacceptable from a user's POV.
Chrome? Can't you use the Shift-Esc built in Chrome task manager and kill the window?
Actually, I just tried (Chrome on a Mac), and I couldn't kill the window through the Chrome Task Manager. Nothing I tried work: I either had to force-quit the browser or just click "OK" and let it run through the fake scan and download the.exe. I'm annoyed that Chrome doesn't seem to provide a way to block javascript hijacking (other than disabling javascript entirely or through explicit whitelists/blacklists). I don't EVER want a web page to be able to disable my right-click, back button, history, view page source' option, etc., all of which this popup did.
Wow, a BlueGene/P is being used to run something other than Linpack. That's gotta be a first.
Disclaimer: I didn't attend graduate school at U.C. Berkeley, nor am I presently employed by a software company that sells an infrastructure product named PI. I have, however, wasted way too much time trying to get codes to build and run (slowly!) on BG/* platforms.
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Funny, none of my firearms actually say don't point at face
It's usually engraved at the end of the barrel. Look closely.
Buddy, you've linked an article in NEW ZEALAND while the story is in the US. In the US you do not get 3 years for manslaughter. 1st degree murder or even felony murder gets you life or death penalty. Per linked article, the guy would have received 10 years to life in US.
Here's a case in the US from a few years ago, where a similar crime resulted in a 1 year jail sentence:
http://www.channel3000.com/news/20400719/detail.html
utter rubbish, you can't weaponize a fusion system designed for power generation, an electrical powered compression system that needs large buildings or many buildings isn't going into the volume of bucket for icbm launch nor into a briefcase.
Nobody is trying to weaponize NIF. However, even the NIF website explains that one of their missions is to support stockpile stewardship:
https://lasers.llnl.gov/about/missions/national_security/
My top 2: Numerical recipes in 'C', ...
Yep, that's an excellent example of how NOT to write numerical computations.
A better one is The UNIX-HATERS Handbook (http://simson.net/ref/ugh.pdf). Until you realize how terrible[1] Unix is, any program you write is suspect.
[1]: Yes, like most folks here, I use Unix-like systems almost exclusively. Donald A Norman sums it up well in the Foreward: "A horrible system, except that all the other commercial offerings are even worse."
I still think the best product placements were in Repo Man.
I've always wanted to drink a "drink", but I'm not sure about the "food", though I bet his mom was right and it would be better in a bowl...
The blue-label generics in Repo Man were based on real packaging (available in the 80s from Ralph's grocery stores in So. California, at least). My dad used to drink blue-label beer like the ones on the bottom left in this picture:
http://thefoxisblack.com/blogimages//generic-beer-cans-mary-and-matt.jpg
Well, i would guess less than .01% of all software developers know assembly. So it's pretty rare, and it requires a lot more skill to master.
Don't CS programs still require assembly? I had to take a course in assembly as an undergrad, and also had to use assembly quite a bit in my compiler courses. 1 developer in 10,000 seems way too low. (For what it's worth, I've never met a really good developer who couldn't program in assembly. I don't mean that they recall all of the syntax of a particular assembly language; only that they can map high-level code to pseudo-assembly language.)
As for skill, assembly is actually easy to write, though not that easy to read. It's just a combination of some simple primitives: load something into a register, or perform some arithmetic operation, or test a condition, or jump to another location in the code. Conceptually, it's much easier than a language like C++.
Just to clarify, the original version of SB1070 did pass and was signed into law. It was amended a week later after the massive outcry began. The amendment was a very good idea: in particular, witnesses to or victims of a crime should not arrested for being here illegally just because they reported a crime. Otherwise, since we have millions of illegal immigrants here who aren't going away anytime soon, we'd be creating a class of perfect victims.
I agree that an arrest should entail a full identification, and that immigration laws should be enforced at that point. The "lawful stop" part is gray area, though. I worry about scenarios where a citizen with an accent or a "foreign" appearance could be legally stopped (which doesn't imply an actual crime occurred) and then imprisoned until they proved their identity; I think it's safe to assume that this would not happen to a white person with a standard American accent.
I guess I don't understand.
If you are here *legally*, then you already have papers -- and that goes for every state, not just Arizona.
If you are are *illegally*, then you have committed a crime. Why exactly should you not "end up in prison."?
Please clarify.
In America, citizens don't need to carry identification papers, nor do they need to justify brown skin with proof of legal residency. The original version of SB1070 required police to check the residency status of anyone they came into contact with when there was "reasonable suspicion" (what does that mean?) that the person might be here illegally, and to imprison that person (possibly a U.S. citizen!) if they could not immediately produce proof of legal residency. See the problem?
Blue Gene is absolutely awesome to work on (I use Intrepid).
Seriously? That's the first time I've heard that. What do you like about it? The buggy toolchain and CNK? The joys of (sort-of) cross-compiling? The I/O bottlenecks? The blazing fast (for 1999) CPUs?
The only way I can see BG/P being a useful machine is either:
1) All you need to do is run LINPACK
2) You're booting Linux on the compute nodes (in which case a commodity Linux cluster would probably be a lot cheaper)
Good for NCSA! I just wish that the NNSA had the guts to do the same with the Blue Gene/Q.
Keep telling yourself that lie. I have a master in Mathematics with focus in Computer Aided Applied Mathematics and have been a long time member of MAA, ACM and IEEE but I never see a Mac unless I sneak over to the School of Business to have lunch with a colleague of mine
Good for you, AC. Now, how much time have you spent in the national labs? My experience is that among the physicists and computer scientists, a large majority use Macs, almost all of the rest use Linux boxes, and an almost negligible number use Windows. (On the desktop, that is; our supercomputers either run Linux or special purpose, stripped-down Linux-like kernels like IBM's CNK.)
OSX is not a target because there are very few people running OSX who have access to the systems with information that dedicated, skilled attackers want to get to.
That's simply not true. For example, OS X is very popular among scientists and engineers at many of the national labs.
Yes indeed. "We wont tell you" is no different than a big fat "yes". I am sure that lots of people are dumb enough to be fooled by this though. :(
The intelligence community nearly always sticks to "we can neither confirm nor deny..." That's not a de facto confirmation. Suppose it went something like this:
You: Are you working with Adobe?
NSA: No.
You: Are you working with Twitter?
NSA: No.
You: Are you working with Google?
NSA: No comment.
See the problem? That's why agencies (and individuals with clearances) are not supposed to confirm or deny allegations or leaks.
As a taxpayer i damm well DO have a right to know.
Should you have a right to know if Google is working with the NSA? I don't know. But being a taxpayer doesn't give you the right to all of the country's secrets; our collective security sometimes outranks your "right to know." You don't have the right to know who the FBI is investigating and the identities of undercover agents. You don't have the right to know the country's nuclear secrets. You don't have the right to know the security details for the White House or the plans for an upcoming military operations. There are legitimate reasons for the government to keep secrets.
For example, nobody with a Top Secret security clearance should have to undergo more than a cursory check. Their background, habits and the people they know have already been fully investigated.
You know, that sounds good at first, but probably isn't worth the effort:
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/10/screening_peopl.html
Even the new HSPD-12 federal credentials don't list one's clearances in a standard way. For example, the DOE indicates the badge-holder's clearance level in an "Agency Specific Text" field:
http://www.fedidcard.gov/images/card_front.jpg
http://www.hss.doe.gov/HSPD12/HSPD12_DOE_Credential_Samples_2_5_08.ppt
Other agencies have different standards. How is a TSA agent supposed to correctly determine one's clearance level without access to a centralized database? And is it really worth the effort at that point?
One problem with your reasoning is that they don't need you to reveal your password to them; you just need to enter into the computer.
Also, if you store self-incriminating evidence (even in the form of a hashed password on a computer), the 5th Amendment might not help you. For example, your diary can be used against you in court:
http://articles.latimes.com/1994-02-02/news/mn-18241_1_high-court
The headline is useless. Proposing a million-core computer isn't news, since there's a 1.6 million core computer about to be deployed. The headline should reflect what they're planning to do with this machine.
A lot of people stream Netflix on their PC, myself included. I have a feeling that most of us will be celebrating the day Netflix drops their oh-so-crappy Silverlight player.
I use a Mac Mini with an HDTV as my home media center, and I watch of lot of Netflix on it. Netflix+Silverlight works better than any Flash-based streaming site I've used. I don't know who deserves the credit for it, but I'm happy with the service.
Marc Cuban bought a lifetime American Airlines ticket on some airline
Some airline? Lemme guess . . . was it American Airlines?
It must be nice to be able to consider $170 + $109 a minor expense.
My hourly cost to my company is a couple hundred dollars (salary, overhead, benefits, office, equipment, etc.). If my second monitor means I get an extra minute of work done per day, the monitor has more than paid for itself and the extra electricity it uses.
You'd have to be out of your mind to consider paying to do a technical degree these days.
In the last few months, I've been inundated with calls and emails from recruiters. I'm not looking for a new job, and I don't want to move, but some of the salaries being mentioned are obscene. Maybe it's a temporary boom, but it's not a bad time to be a computer scientist.
Would be the one that has Turner Diaries in the amazon favorites.
Would you settle for Mein Kampf?
(You do realize this isn't Stormfront, right?)
Chrome should allow you to close a tab and anything else attached to it, at any time. The current situation is unacceptable from a user's POV.
Chrome? Can't you use the Shift-Esc built in Chrome task manager and kill the window?
Actually, I just tried (Chrome on a Mac), and I couldn't kill the window through the Chrome Task Manager. Nothing I tried work: I either had to force-quit the browser or just click "OK" and let it run through the fake scan and download the .exe. I'm annoyed that Chrome doesn't seem to provide a way to block javascript hijacking (other than disabling javascript entirely or through explicit whitelists/blacklists). I don't EVER want a web page to be able to disable my right-click, back button, history, view page source' option, etc., all of which this popup did.
Wow, a BlueGene/P is being used to run something other than Linpack. That's gotta be a first.
Disclaimer: I didn't attend graduate school at U.C. Berkeley, nor am I presently employed by a software company that sells an infrastructure product named PI. I have, however, wasted way too much time trying to get codes to build and run (slowly!) on BG/* platforms.