Give a man a fish - and he will eat dinner. Teach a man to fish and he can feed himself for life.
Why should we worry about feeding people that don't want to bother helping themselves. I am much more concerned with the percentage of the population (20% rather than the 1% that you report as going hungry) that is overeating and obese (not just fat - but obese)
Basic science has a payback much higher than the costs to do the research... it is a very good investment (if you don't think so - get off the internet, another one of those big multimillion dollar government investment in meaningless stuff)
All of us driving our cars and polluting with our industries are catching up with us. There is no other explaination of this extra energy leaving the sun for outer space
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I'd vote for the "Send my daughter to a decent school" charity - it costs about 13K after taxes...
I really hate when people say, just give the money to charity - like I don't have charities of my own to give too (and charities that I will never give to) - The biggest of these scams has to be the United Way, oh the "company" will pay the united way overhead - all of YOUR money will go to charity. Well thank you very much, I can write my own check to my own charity and have that charity get all of the money that I want without any overhead (ok a stamp, envelope, and check)
Insightful ? I thought it was more sarcastic. I have had an RFID in my employment for over 5 years. Do I care - not a bit, beats the hell out of having to swipe it every time I want to go through secure doors.
But the great part of it is, I was prewarned about the money hacks in the game - therefor didn't go out and get a billion credits and train my levelups. I have struggled going up and have really appreciated the game so far... Might have to pickup one or both of the followons
As a customer, I use your software - if there is a vulnerability, your company comes back in and reimburses my costs for the vulnerability... Sounds perfectly secure to me ?
Go and write a million lines of security software and don't provide the guarantee - it isn't worth as much to the customer.
What you have to realize is that it is an easy equation for your company
How many reimbursements do they have to pay out on an annual basis. vs. How much will it cost to lower that number.
I am betting they are paying out pretty close to 0 in reimbursements (which is why they are advertising this)- how much of your salary will it take to make the product even slightly more secure ?
Well I guess game length wouldn't be so bad if games cost something closer to 10 dollars rather than 50.
I am just starting Morrowind - Great game, lots of content. I will be going back to this one for years, I just love it... Daggerfall was on this list for me as well.
I love games with more content - they are going to be the ones I go back to year after year. Fine if you don't have the content, I guess I will just win it and chunk it on the shelf going "what a waste".
Easy - the cost of the "Linux Licence"... Since they aren't entitled to it - I shouldn't have to pay... I will sue in court saying that... make them spend the lawyers time (long before IBM ever makes it) to show that they are entitled to the money.
The joy of small claims court is there is a low bar - and all of the judges I have ever run into are very down to earth and will listen to common sense
The 6bone has been running for quite a while with MANY networks attached. Infact it is not shutting down for full IPv6 service on the internet.
I hope the DOD isn't building a network larger than this, why the heck would they waste the money on millions of machines that would be needed to be larger than the 6bone was. I can see claims that it is the largest single entity deployment of IPv6 - now that would be a useful claim
Don't know about the law across the US - but where I have filed small claims actions in Oregon it works like this...
Go to district court house - get paper and fill it out including damages (lets set damages at the full price 1398 - or the maximum allowed in your juristiction) that were incurred and cost of delivering the summons.
Find the local lawyer for SCO in your juristiction (they have to have one - it is public record) and get the papers served
Wait and watch SCO go "Oh Shit"
(ps. We all $profit$)
What is nice about this is if enough geeks file papers in enough courts across the country SCO can't possibly defend themselves from the claims, and they will have to payup or shutup.
I propose a geek stampeed - The week of the 8th of December seems like a good time to file lawsuits
Please join in the protest by going to the district courthouse in your district and file a small claims lawsuit then
PS... Don't make it a class action either - that makes the legal costs for SCO go down - and none of us will see the money at that point. Small claims court - we just say SCO is saying we owe them 1.4K - we say they don't so we are suing to get the money from them.
Hate to say it, but a 5 G database isn't considered monster by any strech of the imagination... It will also run fine on an even slightly tuned 32 bit system...
What you want to look at is something well north of 100 G, oh and of that you want a 20-30 G working set... Now you are talking about something that can use 64 bits
While a book would be nice - a class is structured around taking 100s of pictures and figuring out which ones are good. This has relatively high cost for film photography, but in the digital world - there is the wonderful erase button.
Go out and find a subject you like - a flower, a person, a mountain (a combination of these ?) and take about 100 pictures of it with the different settings (ok, don't go crazy on the way over/under exposed settings) find out which ones you like. This will help you with the technical workings of the camera (playing with depth of focus, over/under exposing the overall picture to get a certain part into clarity, etc). By having a simple subject you can attempt beginning on composition (where do you put the subject of your picture... turns out it is almost never in the center of the picture) and focusing techniques. One of the things I hate about simple cameras is they tend to auto focus to the center of the picture which is where your subject SHOULDN'T be.
Then go back and take 100 more at different times of the day (or under different lighting conditions if you are doing indoor) and figure out what you like. Here is where we will learn about lighting effects - back lighting, shading, etc. Lots of fun to play around here and see what you can do and what it will do to the end image
I have a friend who drives to the coast a couple times a month after work, because he likes to photograph sunsets - he'll take a couple hundred pictures a month - every sunset is different. Honestly MOST of his pictures are crap - but every once in a while WOW
Once you get "good" you can reduce the number of experiments you do (number of pictures you take) and hope the quality of your pictures has gone up so that you still get the same number of great shots
By the way - this doesn't apply to sports photography, probably not animal, or kid photography (there it is subject manipulation that makes the picture - you have to know the technical details to start with, after all you may only get one shot at a certain picture)
End result - go play with your new toy... you will get more out of it than any book can impart - take a class if you want too, but expect the class to basically be - here are some things to try, go out and take 100 pictures and show me the best ones.
Ok, there are a few applications that 64 bits really help - some public key cryptography, and any application that has a process space over 4 GB (ok really 3 - but that is another story)
actually I don't know this... does Athlon 64 have a 64 bit x 64 bit = 128 bit result operation ?
The other applications that do really well with more memory are database type operations, where you are caching 16 GB of tables in memory so you don't have to go to disk (note, yes this means you need about 20 GB of RAM on the system)
Reminds me of a blind study done by the anti-audiophile crowd years ago. The arguement was over the quality of cables for a digital conection between a periferal and the amp. They reviewed a 100 dollar cable, a normal cable, and a coat hanger with the connecters attached to each end.
It was funny how the reviewers were spectacularly in favor of the 100 dollar cables, but couldn't distinguish the difference between the 100 cables and the coathanger (duh - it is a digital signal you twerp)
I gave up on "audiophile" years ago - I just can't hear it... just like I can't see those stupid pictures in the wierd drawings that are supposed to pop out in 3D
What is the consequence of failure letting defects get to your print shop ?
What is the occurance ?
Now multiply the two together and that is the cost to your business of failure
Now, getting a new printing environment - should lower the occurance of the failure, and therefor you have how much it is worth it to your company to buy a new printing environment. I guess the interesting analysis would be - which printing environment lowers the occurance by how much (and how much does that setup cost)
Notice I am intentionaly calling it an environment - there are many factors beyond a simple printer that can cause failre
As a successful student I NEVER did homework alone. What is the point - it is one of the worst ways of learning. My professors encouraged us to get together, work through problems and potential solutions in a group.
Well what happens with people who copy ?... Well homework was worth 10-20% of the grade, tests 50-60% (labs the rest) so if you weren't doing/understanding the homework - you flunked the test
Is the purpose of the homework to really show that I know how to type in some silly answer - or is it about working towards a demonstrated mastery of the skill. If it is the former - you are probably wasting your students time. If it is the latter - change the architected behavior of what cheating is (make the students admit who they are studying with, ask homework problems knowing about group behavior, whatever) you will be much more effective as a T.A.
Note - I know you probably have almost zero influence over the homework sets, how they are graded, whatever as a T.A. But sometime you might actually be teaching a class and can take these points into consideration
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The lack of security design is another. Using nicks as identifiers just isn't a fantastic idea -- in this day and age, a public key can reasonably be part of an identifier. Encryption should be simply part of the protocol, at least client-to-client, and ideally to the server as well. There isn't *that* much traffic from each client (though it'd certainly put more load on the server, and might require a more fanned-out-network.
Ok... Security 101 class - what does a public key give you on IRC that a nick doesn't ???
Absolutely nothing without a trust relationship beyond knowing that the same key is used to log in (and probably attaching nick usage to a private key somehow usefully). Oh and at 1.5kbit (or ~190 bytes without parity checking) private keys are a little large to throw around on a per message bassis.
Quiz II - What are you protecting from when you encrypt between you and the server (lets assume you also ment authenticate as well - since encryption without authentication is worthless)
Well I would say nothing, because your message will be decrypted - and re-encrypted to anyone that was listening to you where they can post it anywhere they want (to a log file maybe ?) - also the irc server has the message in the clear, so you have to trust it as well... not a pretty site.
Ok, I guess sometimes it is OK to RTFA on slashdot... so here is someone making an agruement that he shouldn't pay extra to HBO to watch it other than his monthly payment (he doesn't want to buy the expansion pack - plus pay a monthly service charge)
There's nothing wrong with an expansion pack for a video game. End-product games, that is, games that are single item purchases, need to be able to provide extended value to both the gamer and those responsible for bringing it to the store shelf (the developer and publisher). Multiplayer modes of gameplay are one method of extending the value of the game. Expansion packs are another. Expansions sell for less money because the core technology and a large portion of the artwork have already been developed. However, they are still sold because many man-hours are spent creating the new experience upon these existing assets. This is a different case than with MMO expansion packs for one simple reason: the gamer is already paying, each and every month.
Since MMOs are service-based products, it is difficult to justify this double charging of the customer for development. After all, I'm already paying for the service, right? I like to use cable television as another analogy for these types of examples. I subscribe to HBO because I enjoy watching The Sopranos. I pay my monthly fee, because I feel that it's worth it. One of the things that make it worth it to me is the knowledge that a new season of The Sopranos is currently being filmed for my enjoyment. In addition, HBO offers a variety of other entertainment formats, from more shows to movies to boxing, etc. The point, however, is that when that new season of The Sopranos starts next year, I won't be receiving a bill from HBO for an additional $30. My monthly subscription has helped pay for the development already.
So what he appears to be suggesting - is that instead of everyone paying 20 bucks a month and getting different content based on the expansion packs that have been bought - Everyone pays 50 up front, then pay more each month for the extra cost of service (just like HBO is an extra feature to my cable - I pay extra) so some people will pay 20 a month, those with expansion 1 will pay 25 a month - and so on.
I am sure that isn't what he was intending - but his annalogy can sure be built that way.
Also if you drive his arguement to where it finally ends up - why should I buy the game at all. After all - I will be paying 20 a month for the game, why kick out 50 for the game to start with. I buy cable and EVERYONE gives free installation (and many months free too sometimes). So why buy the game, give it to me free for download from your website when I give you my credit card for monthly service fees
No wonder Vegas makes good money if someone that has a good degree that hopefully includes mathematics, statistics, and probabilities
You were kidding about that strategy comment right ?
Flip a coin 100 times - all heads... what is the chance of flipping it again and getting 101 heads in a row ???
If you want a game where you can have strategy learn to play blackjack well, REALLY well. The only game where you can statistically beat the house over a LONG period of time - it just requires a graduate level degree in mathematics and statistics to do it in your head
So you never specify how much this DS-3 card runs you. I can't see volumes being that high, so I am assuming it is a multi-hundred dollar card (and not breaking into the thousands). That said - are you planning on a reliable Linux Router (multi power supplies, redundant yada yada yada's) or just a low end box with a couple of these cards thrown in.
If you are talking about the former - you might be suprised to find out you won't be much under 30K (those reliability things are expensive), if not - how much are you willing to give up in reliability (6 9s w/ Cisco - 3 9s with Linux + cheap hardware) and what is the cost of the downtime.
If you all ready have the Cisco kit (you did say you would run it for redundancy) - why change a working configuration for Linux ? Is it because "Linux is cool" or is there a business reason. If it is the former - I doubt you will be successful. If it is the later do the analisis above and see what the answer really is
Don't bother yet. Realize that this is an initial draft (you use all.0 software right? - Same goes for standards documents) AND an individual submission.
I haven't looked in on the politics of this one but there are two kinds of individual submissions
1 - Any idiot can mail something properly formatted to internet-drafts@ietf.org and get it published as an internet draft... don't believe me look here
Individual Submissions - you will find this draft somewhere on this page
2 - A working group is looking for a new working group item - so they ask the author to post an individual submission so they can consider his work before making a decision - These actually become RFCs
Want a clue on WG items in the ietf - they come in the form draft-ietf-WGName-topic-rev.txt - The key is to not be fooled by people that post draft-ietf-lastname-topic-rev.txt
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Why should we worry about feeding people that don't want to bother helping themselves. I am much more concerned with the percentage of the population (20% rather than the 1% that you report as going hungry) that is overeating and obese (not just fat - but obese)
Basic science has a payback much higher than the costs to do the research... it is a very good investment (if you don't think so - get off the internet, another one of those big multimillion dollar government investment in meaningless stuff)
I really want a Beowulf cluster of these though
All of us driving our cars and polluting with our industries are catching up with us. There is no other explaination of this extra energy leaving the sun for outer space
I really hate when people say, just give the money to charity - like I don't have charities of my own to give too (and charities that I will never give to) - The biggest of these scams has to be the United Way, oh the "company" will pay the united way overhead - all of YOUR money will go to charity. Well thank you very much, I can write my own check to my own charity and have that charity get all of the money that I want without any overhead (ok a stamp, envelope, and check)
#1 Aquire Hardware #2 Aquire Media #3 Install Linux #4 ??? #5 Profit >>> From a sign outside my door
Insightful ? I thought it was more sarcastic. I have had an RFID in my employment for over 5 years. Do I care - not a bit, beats the hell out of having to swipe it every time I want to go through secure doors.
But the great part of it is, I was prewarned about the money hacks in the game - therefor didn't go out and get a billion credits and train my levelups. I have struggled going up and have really appreciated the game so far... Might have to pickup one or both of the followons
Go and write a million lines of security software and don't provide the guarantee - it isn't worth as much to the customer.
What you have to realize is that it is an easy equation for your company
How many reimbursements do they have to pay out on an annual basis. vs. How much will it cost to lower that number.
I am betting they are paying out pretty close to 0 in reimbursements (which is why they are advertising this)- how much of your salary will it take to make the product even slightly more secure ?
I am just starting Morrowind - Great game, lots of content. I will be going back to this one for years, I just love it... Daggerfall was on this list for me as well.
I love games with more content - they are going to be the ones I go back to year after year. Fine if you don't have the content, I guess I will just win it and chunk it on the shelf going "what a waste".
The joy of small claims court is there is a low bar - and all of the judges I have ever run into are very down to earth and will listen to common sense
I hope the DOD isn't building a network larger than this, why the heck would they waste the money on millions of machines that would be needed to be larger than the 6bone was. I can see claims that it is the largest single entity deployment of IPv6 - now that would be a useful claim
Go to district court house - get paper and fill it out including damages (lets set damages at the full price 1398 - or the maximum allowed in your juristiction) that were incurred and cost of delivering the summons.
Find the local lawyer for SCO in your juristiction (they have to have one - it is public record) and get the papers served
Wait and watch SCO go "Oh Shit"
(ps. We all $profit$)
What is nice about this is if enough geeks file papers in enough courts across the country SCO can't possibly defend themselves from the claims, and they will have to payup or shutup.
I propose a geek stampeed - The week of the 8th of December seems like a good time to file lawsuits
Please join in the protest by going to the district courthouse in your district and file a small claims lawsuit then
PS... Don't make it a class action either - that makes the legal costs for SCO go down - and none of us will see the money at that point. Small claims court - we just say SCO is saying we owe them 1.4K - we say they don't so we are suing to get the money from them.
What you want to look at is something well north of 100 G, oh and of that you want a 20-30 G working set... Now you are talking about something that can use 64 bits
Go out and find a subject you like - a flower, a person, a mountain (a combination of these ?) and take about 100 pictures of it with the different settings (ok, don't go crazy on the way over/under exposed settings) find out which ones you like. This will help you with the technical workings of the camera (playing with depth of focus, over/under exposing the overall picture to get a certain part into clarity, etc). By having a simple subject you can attempt beginning on composition (where do you put the subject of your picture... turns out it is almost never in the center of the picture) and focusing techniques. One of the things I hate about simple cameras is they tend to auto focus to the center of the picture which is where your subject SHOULDN'T be.
Then go back and take 100 more at different times of the day (or under different lighting conditions if you are doing indoor) and figure out what you like. Here is where we will learn about lighting effects - back lighting, shading, etc. Lots of fun to play around here and see what you can do and what it will do to the end image
I have a friend who drives to the coast a couple times a month after work, because he likes to photograph sunsets - he'll take a couple hundred pictures a month - every sunset is different. Honestly MOST of his pictures are crap - but every once in a while WOW
Once you get "good" you can reduce the number of experiments you do (number of pictures you take) and hope the quality of your pictures has gone up so that you still get the same number of great shots
By the way - this doesn't apply to sports photography, probably not animal, or kid photography (there it is subject manipulation that makes the picture - you have to know the technical details to start with, after all you may only get one shot at a certain picture)
End result - go play with your new toy... you will get more out of it than any book can impart - take a class if you want too, but expect the class to basically be - here are some things to try, go out and take 100 pictures and show me the best ones.
actually I don't know this... does Athlon 64 have a 64 bit x 64 bit = 128 bit result operation ?
The other applications that do really well with more memory are database type operations, where you are caching 16 GB of tables in memory so you don't have to go to disk (note, yes this means you need about 20 GB of RAM on the system)
Have fun
Reminds me of a blind study done by the anti-audiophile crowd years ago. The arguement was over the quality of cables for a digital conection between a periferal and the amp. They reviewed a 100 dollar cable, a normal cable, and a coat hanger with the connecters attached to each end.
It was funny how the reviewers were spectacularly in favor of the 100 dollar cables, but couldn't distinguish the difference between the 100 cables and the coathanger (duh - it is a digital signal you twerp)
I gave up on "audiophile" years ago - I just can't hear it... just like I can't see those stupid pictures in the wierd drawings that are supposed to pop out in 3D
What is the occurance ?
Now multiply the two together and that is the cost to your business of failure
Now, getting a new printing environment - should lower the occurance of the failure, and therefor you have how much it is worth it to your company to buy a new printing environment. I guess the interesting analysis would be - which printing environment lowers the occurance by how much (and how much does that setup cost)
Notice I am intentionaly calling it an environment - there are many factors beyond a simple printer that can cause failre
Well what happens with people who copy ?... Well homework was worth 10-20% of the grade, tests 50-60% (labs the rest) so if you weren't doing/understanding the homework - you flunked the test
Is the purpose of the homework to really show that I know how to type in some silly answer - or is it about working towards a demonstrated mastery of the skill. If it is the former - you are probably wasting your students time. If it is the latter - change the architected behavior of what cheating is (make the students admit who they are studying with, ask homework problems knowing about group behavior, whatever) you will be much more effective as a T.A.
Note - I know you probably have almost zero influence over the homework sets, how they are graded, whatever as a T.A. But sometime you might actually be teaching a class and can take these points into consideration
Ok... Security 101 class - what does a public key give you on IRC that a nick doesn't ???
Absolutely nothing without a trust relationship beyond knowing that the same key is used to log in (and probably attaching nick usage to a private key somehow usefully). Oh and at 1.5kbit (or ~190 bytes without parity checking) private keys are a little large to throw around on a per message bassis.
Quiz II - What are you protecting from when you encrypt between you and the server (lets assume you also ment authenticate as well - since encryption without authentication is worthless)
Well I would say nothing, because your message will be decrypted - and re-encrypted to anyone that was listening to you where they can post it anywhere they want (to a log file maybe ?) - also the irc server has the message in the clear, so you have to trust it as well... not a pretty site.
I won't argue too hard with the rest though
I am sure that isn't what he was intending - but his annalogy can sure be built that way.
Also if you drive his arguement to where it finally ends up - why should I buy the game at all. After all - I will be paying 20 a month for the game, why kick out 50 for the game to start with. I buy cable and EVERYONE gives free installation (and many months free too sometimes). So why buy the game, give it to me free for download from your website when I give you my credit card for monthly service fees
No wonder Vegas makes good money if someone that has a good degree that hopefully includes mathematics, statistics, and probabilities
You were kidding about that strategy comment right ?
Flip a coin 100 times - all heads... what is the chance of flipping it again and getting 101 heads in a row ???
If you want a game where you can have strategy learn to play blackjack well, REALLY well. The only game where you can statistically beat the house over a LONG period of time - it just requires a graduate level degree in mathematics and statistics to do it in your head
If you are talking about the former - you might be suprised to find out you won't be much under 30K (those reliability things are expensive), if not - how much are you willing to give up in reliability (6 9s w/ Cisco - 3 9s with Linux + cheap hardware) and what is the cost of the downtime.
If you all ready have the Cisco kit (you did say you would run it for redundancy) - why change a working configuration for Linux ? Is it because "Linux is cool" or is there a business reason. If it is the former - I doubt you will be successful. If it is the later do the analisis above and see what the answer really is
When the damned kernel code I am currently working on panics and I have to debug it
Of course this only applies to about .1% of people doing development - but I hate watching systems boot - it happens WAY too often for me
I haven't looked in on the politics of this one but there are two kinds of individual submissions
1 - Any idiot can mail something properly formatted to internet-drafts@ietf.org and get it published as an internet draft... don't believe me look here Individual Submissions - you will find this draft somewhere on this page
2 - A working group is looking for a new working group item - so they ask the author to post an individual submission so they can consider his work before making a decision - These actually become RFCs
Want a clue on WG items in the ietf - they come in the form draft-ietf-WGName-topic-rev.txt - The key is to not be fooled by people that post draft-ietf-lastname-topic-rev.txt
I have developed this... For linux - no thank you, I prefer a paycheck