For those writing in assembly (and why waste time writing in any less efficent language?), I find the best rule is that every single line must have a comment. Additional comments can be added as needed. I can actually go back and understand my assembly code this way.
I only maintain my land line now for my HD Tivo to dial out from.
I sure never liked the idea of a Tivo needing to dial out on a telephone line. This really sucks, in my area it would mean you would spend about an extra $30 (including all the extras the telco wants to tack on, and not including features like caller ID) just so your Tivo can call home. As VoIP gains ground I hope any service that expects to be provided a land line will feel the pressure on their bottom line as customers abandon them.
So they say NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. But if the winner is defined as the person who makes the 500 Millionth download, then it's a pretty meaningless statement.
Well you would guess very wrong. The USPS has a special media rate that includes DVDs and is dirt cheap. And the mailer needs to be no fancier than the cardboard sleve that AOL sends out CDs in (in fact that's about what you get with the $1 bin DVD's except those are square and to be mailed cheaply I think the mailer has to be rectangular.I assure you that the last 60 CDs that AOL didn't spend anywhere near the $3 range each to send me the last 50 CDS they mailed me, and it would not cost much more to send a lot of DVDs by media rate than to mail out AOL CDs bulk rate.
Of course, the mailers might indeed want to charge four or five dollars each to send you DVDs, just like BMG music does for every CD when it sends it's marks 12 cds for a "penny", even though it packs them in the same package and gets the media postal rate. But the actual cost is pennies.
is from any negligible costs for congressional staffers to disseminate these reports
By negligible costs for congressional staffers I assume you mean like the negligible one huundred million the congressional staffers were paid to create them in the first place.
I understand the taxpayers already spent 100 million on this, likely a lot more, but are they really worth anything at all? Isn't it just going to cost the taxpayers more to make 8000 or more reports available for free? Do these reports have any real value at all, or are they just noise and opnions?
$1385.00 for a notebook computer and additional costs in excess of $1800.00 each computer for the software, all at taxpayer expense, handed out to highschool kids, and the kids not even allowed to use their own notebooks instead. Poor security and over reaction when the high school students defeat it. I see the real crime here. Quick, lets arrest some students before the tax payers figure out who the real criminals are.
Don't the kid's have a perfect defense here under the legal concept of "attractive nuisance"?
That's my point. I didn't really need to check with wikipedia to figure it out. But if the AP story is accurate (and I read it on the Internet so it must be true) then the craft would have ditched the shield as soon as it could, causing the problem.
One of the widely available stories about this on the Internet is by Associated Press. An AP graphic that acompanies it and quotes it source as "The Planetary Society" has a very interesting quote that, if accurate, might shed some light on the failure: "At an altitude of 500 miles from the gravitional center of the Earth Cosmos 1 discards its protective cover". Given that that would cause Cosmos 1 to discard the protective cover as soon as it got control at launch, the failure is assured.
I certainly question the wisdom of leaving a device like the Xbox on in the belief that doing so is going to extend it's life. But even if you do believe that (and I'll grant there is some truth to the idea that thermal shock of cycling on and off does in electronics, I just think it's outweighed by other factors in this case), it is still bogus to say With all that horsepower in a machine that is used for only a fraction of a day, we should offer gamers a chance to put these unused resources to good use. Running programs likel Seti or Prime Number searches eats a lot of power over just letting the box sit on but idle. You're likely shortening you console's life by constant operation this way, and your certainly expending a lot of power. Not only does this have a personal cost for you, but a cost for the nation and world in general. I for one don't like the idea of tens of millions of Xboxes and Playststions being left on and cranking up the power usage day and night at the same time oil prices are hitting all time highs and the resource is rapidly running out.
Interesting marketing concept. Come up with a product and try to give it away. When you find that you can't give it away, offer to sell someone the same thing, but without the Internet backup system needd to use it, for 30 cents each, but they have to buy 500 thousand of them!
Well, nothing could go wrong here, since we all know that all C programmers are over 21. And if by any chance the winner wasn't over 21 they would make that clear and refuse their prize.
The next day the headlines read" "C Programmers Give Minors Beer, Drunken Night of Celebration Kills 6 in Traffic Acciident". Reactionary congressmen urged on by a powerful lobby from Washington State quickly pass laws to outlaw all C programming outside of Microsoft.
John Kheit followed up his MacObsorne article, which others have since covered minus the parts detailing a Steve Jobs uncanny ability to repeat his own mistakes, with a scathing editorial damning the most of the Mac Press, Apple's managment and parts of the user base as a bunch of deranged goose-stepping lemmings that are ignoring the costs associated with the Mac PPC to Intel switch. In the editorial, he links to an older article on BOZO (bitter obstanate zealot order) users causing market share loss. All of which makes me wonder, what's for dinner?
Collisions are NOT and accidential everyday occurance. What is being discussed here is a deliberate md5 match, created by making just the right changes to a document to intentionally get an md5 match.
2^128 is huge. It's larger by far than the number of all the files in all of the computers in the world. It larger than the number of stars in the universe. Chance collisions will not become an everyday occurance. No accidental collision has ever been found yet. Switching to larger keys will not change anything. Sure, they might make it slightly harder to make a deliberate collision (although I don't know for a fact that they make it harder at all, there were some reports of someone in Japan being able to create a collision by hand with only pencil and paper), but just wait 2 months and the computing power will catch up with that. It's not a matter of the size of the hash function.
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Do you understand that buying this, as well as lots of overpriced games, is entirely optional?
For those writing in assembly (and why waste time writing in any less efficent language?), I find the best rule is that every single line must have a comment. Additional comments can be added as needed. I can actually go back and understand my assembly code this way.
I thought I felt a disturbance in the force.
I sure never liked the idea of a Tivo needing to dial out on a telephone line. This really sucks, in my area it would mean you would spend about an extra $30 (including all the extras the telco wants to tack on, and not including features like caller ID) just so your Tivo can call home. As VoIP gains ground I hope any service that expects to be provided a land line will feel the pressure on their bottom line as customers abandon them.
Correction: Study shows 66.66% chance that 1/3 of studies are nonsense.
So they say NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. But if the winner is defined as the person who makes the 500 Millionth download, then it's a pretty meaningless statement.
If my business were to do something like this I expect I would be sued and shut down quickly. Why can Apple do something that others legally can not?
Not sure what planet Rob and Zonk are from, but to most of us this is good news.
Now that this has been published on /. it will have to be revised to "no effective tracking of security problems by the good guys".
It would have sounded better, which is good. It would have made sense, which is even better.
you might want to look up the meaning of the above work, a better choice would have been accepting.
Well you would guess very wrong. The USPS has a special media rate that includes DVDs and is dirt cheap. And the mailer needs to be no fancier than the cardboard sleve that AOL sends out CDs in (in fact that's about what you get with the $1 bin DVD's except those are square and to be mailed cheaply I think the mailer has to be rectangular.I assure you that the last 60 CDs that AOL didn't spend anywhere near the $3 range each to send me the last 50 CDS they mailed me, and it would not cost much more to send a lot of DVDs by media rate than to mail out AOL CDs bulk rate. Of course, the mailers might indeed want to charge four or five dollars each to send you DVDs, just like BMG music does for every CD when it sends it's marks 12 cds for a "penny", even though it packs them in the same package and gets the media postal rate. But the actual cost is pennies.
By negligible costs for congressional staffers I assume you mean like the negligible one huundred million the congressional staffers were paid to create them in the first place.
I understand the taxpayers already spent 100 million on this, likely a lot more, but are they really worth anything at all? Isn't it just going to cost the taxpayers more to make 8000 or more reports available for free? Do these reports have any real value at all, or are they just noise and opnions?
Don't the kid's have a perfect defense here under the legal concept of "attractive nuisance"?
That's my point. I didn't really need to check with wikipedia to figure it out. But if the AP story is accurate (and I read it on the Internet so it must be true) then the craft would have ditched the shield as soon as it could, causing the problem.
One of the widely available stories about this on the Internet is by Associated Press. An AP graphic that acompanies it and quotes it source as "The Planetary Society" has a very interesting quote that, if accurate, might shed some light on the failure: "At an altitude of 500 miles from the gravitional center of the Earth Cosmos 1 discards its protective cover" . Given that that would cause Cosmos 1 to discard the protective cover as soon as it got control at launch, the failure is assured.
This ain't the dot slash crowd. You're in the wrong place.
Thank goodness for editors, right?
I certainly question the wisdom of leaving a device like the Xbox on in the belief that doing so is going to extend it's life. But even if you do believe that (and I'll grant there is some truth to the idea that thermal shock of cycling on and off does in electronics, I just think it's outweighed by other factors in this case), it is still bogus to say With all that horsepower in a machine that is used for only a fraction of a day, we should offer gamers a chance to put these unused resources to good use. Running programs likel Seti or Prime Number searches eats a lot of power over just letting the box sit on but idle. You're likely shortening you console's life by constant operation this way, and your certainly expending a lot of power. Not only does this have a personal cost for you, but a cost for the nation and world in general. I for one don't like the idea of tens of millions of Xboxes and Playststions being left on and cranking up the power usage day and night at the same time oil prices are hitting all time highs and the resource is rapidly running out.
Copulation in the 'clay"? Figures the porn industry would rush to get involved in this.
I prefer to think of it as body modifications providing important hiring visual queues for IT managers.
Interesting marketing concept. Come up with a product and try to give it away. When you find that you can't give it away, offer to sell someone the same thing, but without the Internet backup system needd to use it, for 30 cents each, but they have to buy 500 thousand of them!
Well, nothing could go wrong here, since we all know that all C programmers are over 21. And if by any chance the winner wasn't over 21 they would make that clear and refuse their prize.
The next day the headlines read" " C Programmers Give Minors Beer, Drunken Night of Celebration Kills 6 in Traffic Acciident ". Reactionary congressmen urged on by a powerful lobby from Washington State quickly pass laws to outlaw all C programming outside of Microsoft.
John Kheit followed up his MacObsorne article, which others have since covered minus the parts detailing a Steve Jobs uncanny ability to repeat his own mistakes, with a scathing editorial damning the most of the Mac Press, Apple's managment and parts of the user base as a bunch of deranged goose-stepping lemmings that are ignoring the costs associated with the Mac PPC to Intel switch. In the editorial, he links to an older article on BOZO (bitter obstanate zealot order) users causing market share loss. All of which makes me wonder, what's for dinner?
2^128 is huge. It's larger by far than the number of all the files in all of the computers in the world. It larger than the number of stars in the universe. Chance collisions will not become an everyday occurance. No accidental collision has ever been found yet. Switching to larger keys will not change anything. Sure, they might make it slightly harder to make a deliberate collision (although I don't know for a fact that they make it harder at all, there were some reports of someone in Japan being able to create a collision by hand with only pencil and paper), but just wait 2 months and the computing power will catch up with that. It's not a matter of the size of the hash function.