I guess it'll never happen ! Otherwise, companies could easy filter access to these sites based on domain extensions, making them much less valuable...:)
So, some guys have "high working memory" capacity... whatever that means. This is never defined precisely in the summary or the article. And these guys are called "smart". And they tend to crack under pressure. OK.
Now, another definition of "smart" could precisely be "people that do not crack under pressure". It is very misleading to associate the undefined technical specific caracteristic of "high working memory" with smartness. When recruiting, we have people coding some simple program in a very limited amount of time, this is a way to figure "smart" people in our sense.
Also, working under pressure is mostly acquired through experience, be it for math or for dismantling bomb (and I'm not talking about movies here, some people actually dismantle landmines).
So I fail to see what is demonstrated here... Maybe the original article is much clearer than the summary and the summary of the summary;)
Quite amusingly, a number of words seem to be censored... It you type, say, sex, then you have no more suggestions... Even, if you type it within a word...
Just curious, why can't a virus be protected by the American DMCA if it has obfuscating techniques making it difficult to understand how it works ? Reverse engineering and publishing the results seems to enable the bypass of the virus protection.
So OK, a virus is "BAAAAD", while a DRM system, is... well... "legitimate(?)", but apart from this, is there any legal ground to allow virus reverse-engineering ?
Oh well... Does anyone know a GOOD url where all these myths regarding java are debunked ?
We have a codebase of + 1000000 loc in java, and they all run server side, client side (applets) and in mobile phones. The generated bytecode is small and efficient. Bad programmers will write slow, obeist and heavy code no matter the language, and Java is actually probably much more tolerant to bad programming than many other languages...
A friend of mine is a lawyer. I installed firefox on his desktop a few months ago because he had some problems with IE, and to my surprise I realized a few days ago that he had replaced IE on his laptop too... And removed Windows Media Player to replace it by some other software. His only problem was that the IE icon kept on coming back on the desktop apparently;)
What strikes me in this licence is the way the claim to be compatible with the GPL. Essentially, it say that the CeCILL licence can be "transformed" into the GPL if a CeCILL licenced software uses of includes a GPL piece of software.
This seems somewhat weird as it seems to imply that all CeCILL licence code can easily be transformed into GPL, thus removing all the specificies and french-law related subtelties of the original licence...
1) Check your spelling. Are the words in your query spelled correctly? 2) Try using synonyms. Maybe the site you're looking for uses slightly different words, like "film" instead of "movie". 3) Make your search more general. For example, instead of using specific product names, try using the generic product category.
Just curious and not flamebait: What about security ? Don't you think the Java VM is able to control what the java bytecode is doing much more precisely than what the.NET VM can ? Isn't the Java bytecode much more structured than the.NET one ? (And isn't that actually one of the reason java bytecode can be produced almost only from Java ?)
Quite frankly, I am fairly dubious regarding the security of the bytecode produced by a C program:)
We do not resell our drives for exactly this reason. We destroy them. And we are actually trying to figure out the most cost-and-simplicity effective way to do so... So far, we tear them apart and keep the platters, but we are not to sure how to destroy the platters simply... Any advice ?:)
Well, if you bid $500, this means you are willing to pay up to $500. Period. You might end up paying these, or lower. In a regular auction, you start with a small bet an increase till (a) you have what you want or (b) you have reached your maximum price. In a Dutch auction, you give your maximum price right away, and you will pay the price of the highest bidder among the people who bid too low to have shares.
Psychological factors aside, a Dutch auction is giving exactly the same results as a regular auction but in only one round.
So if a lot of people bet $500, yes, the price could possibly be as much as $500, or at least increase, as the highest bid of the "losers" will be higher.
So well, this is desired: if a lot of people indicate that they are willing to put as much as $500, it makes perfect sense that the price increases...
The lethal dose for an average person is around 10g, and a cup is worth about 200mg. So, about 50 cups in a row could possibly kill you. Now, I'm not sure how fast you get rid of caffeine, so it could be that drinking them in 24h would leave you behind the limit . At any rate, you would substantially raise your risk of dying of a heart attack, or at the very least of a _very_ bad day;)
I remember seeing a web site long time ago that compared coffee and marijuana, their claim was that about 70 cups of coffee could kill you, but that you needed to smoke 70000 joints in a row to take the same risk;) Now, as always, don't believe whatever you see on the web:)
This idea has been around for more than 10 years. There are a bunch of research papers and patents on it. The big stopper is that these kind of systems can only work is ALL mail clients implement it. Although if MS actually implements it, all the others would have to follow, or else it would become impossible to sent non-spammed-tagged mail from a non-MS mailer to an MS mailer... So... maybe...
Yeah, you should switch. The point is that the host knows where the prize is, and that he is giving away a lot of info by opening one door. It would be useless to switch if he opened the door at random and could possible find the prize himself.
If you picked the correct door upfront (1/3), and switch, you lose.
If you picked the wrong door upfront (2/3), and switch, you win.
so you should switch. As simple as that:)
And, your demo prg must be wrong. Remember that the host should use his knowledge and always open and empty door, never the correct one...
They get to an interview... "Do you have experience with MS Excel, MS Word, and MS Access?" "No sir, but I have used Kblah, OOBlah, and StarBlah."
I would LOVE to see interviewers more tech. savvy and understand what those applications are. I doubt that day will come anytime soon. They are just too entrenched.
Well, being familiar with Linux or *BSD and being able to use either vi or emacs is more a less a requirement for any tech position in our (small) company. Even for sales or marketing positions, being familiar with Linux is a plus.
The right interview question should have been: "do you have experience with Spreadsheet softwares, Text Processing or Text Formatting softwares, and (simple) Relational Databases softwares, and if so which ones ?"
It took maybe 1 minute for former Excel users to get used to gnumeric (which happens to be the spreadsheet program we use).
So, this virus has no payload. It does basically nothing except spreading, and, how sweeet of him, it will stop spreading on July 14th.
Am I the only one to think that the only people getting benefits from such a virus are people selling anti-virus ?
I mean, why would all virus writers suddenly become so nice ? Most of the virus nowadays are doing almost no damage. I can hardly remember a virus back in the 90 that would not at least erase a little file here or there from your system.
We have ONE single Windows Box in our company whose goal is essentially to be able to read and write Word documents. So yes, if people could use PDF or ASCII as a standard, that would allow us to get rid of this computer;)
On the other hand, Word is pretty good to select candidates. When someone is sending his resume in PS or PDF, it's clearly a better start than when it is sent in Word...
Well, I'm doing all my coding under Vim, and I've also written my PhD dissertation under Vim.
I still discover some cool commands from time to time, but you figure out the most important ones rather fast. Vimtutor is a pretty good start.
Err, you probably mean risking your very life saving severely wounded people in the street by driving your ambulance among the gun shots?
(And you didn't really steal the ambulance... it just happened to be there;) )
Now the question is: could it be possible to play XBox games on a PC. After all, the if the XBox is basically a PC, why would someone buy a XBox if games could be played on a regular PC, assuming that one already has a powerful PC?
Is there any intrisical problem that would prevent to do this or not?
"This seems like a good idea - it would allow many people who don't wish to be subjected to violence/nudity/language a chance to watch any movie they want without waiting months for it to be released on network television, already PG-13ized."
Look, if there is some part of the movie you don't like, just don't watch the movie. A movie (well, a good movie, at least) is an artwork and it probably meant to be seen as a while. In the case of good movies, sex and/or violence is rarely free. Take, say, Clockwork Orange. It is extremely violent, but the whole point of this violence is to make people react to the movie and think...
In some movies, there are some scenes that I literaly hated, but I would have been even more pissed if I wouldn't have been given the chance to see them.
I guess the kind of people who are going to use these features are the same as the one who don't mind watching a dubbed movie...
Putting a crypto backdoor in a piece of software is fairly trivial. There is quite a lot of litterature about it and inserting a backdoor in say SSL is a very good exercise for students.
Companies which take security seriously don't use windows for this reason and I doubt that any intelligence service would ever use any piece of software that has been created in an country other than its own. So how can one possibly imagine that "bad guys" would used backdoored softwares. They'll rewrite one of their own, that's all. Implementing a RC4 is a matter of hours...
People have to realize that the Internet sets information free. Any kind of information. From anyone. To anyone. And there is nothing you can do against this.
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I guess it'll never happen ! Otherwise, companies could easy filter access to these sites based on domain extensions, making them much less valuable... :)
So, some guys have "high working memory" capacity... whatever that means. This is never defined precisely in the summary or the article. And these guys are called "smart". And they tend to crack under pressure. OK.
;)
Now, another definition of "smart" could precisely be "people that do not crack under pressure". It is very misleading to associate the undefined technical specific caracteristic of "high working memory" with smartness. When recruiting, we have people coding some simple program in a very limited amount of time, this is a way to figure "smart" people in our sense.
Also, working under pressure is mostly acquired through experience, be it for math or for dismantling bomb (and I'm not talking about movies here, some people actually dismantle landmines).
So I fail to see what is demonstrated here... Maybe the original article is much clearer than the summary and the summary of the summary
Quite amusingly, a number of words seem to be censored... It you type, say, sex, then you have no more suggestions... Even, if you type it within a word...
Just curious, why can't a virus be protected by the American DMCA if it has obfuscating techniques making it difficult to understand how it works ? Reverse engineering and publishing the results seems to enable the bypass of the virus protection.
... well... "legitimate(?)", but apart from this, is there any legal ground to allow virus reverse-engineering ?
So OK, a virus is "BAAAAD", while a DRM system, is
Oh well... Does anyone know a GOOD url where all these myths regarding java are debunked ?
...
We have a codebase of + 1000000 loc in java, and they all run server side, client side (applets) and in mobile phones. The generated bytecode is small and efficient. Bad programmers will write slow, obeist and heavy code no matter the language, and Java is actually probably much more tolerant to bad programming than many other languages
Yep. Agreed.
;)
A friend of mine is a lawyer. I installed firefox on his desktop a few months ago because he had some problems with IE, and to my surprise I realized a few days ago that he had replaced IE on his laptop too... And removed Windows Media Player to replace it by some other software. His only problem was that the IE icon kept on coming back on the desktop apparently
What strikes me in this licence is the way the claim to be compatible with the GPL. Essentially, it say that the CeCILL licence can be "transformed" into the GPL if a CeCILL licenced software uses of includes a GPL piece of software.
...
This seems somewhat weird as it seems to imply that all CeCILL licence code can easily be transformed into GPL, thus removing all the specificies and french-law related subtelties of the original licence
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Just curious and not flamebait: What about security ? Don't you think the Java VM is able to control what the java bytecode is doing much more precisely than what the .NET VM can ? Isn't the Java bytecode much more structured than the .NET one ? (And isn't that actually one of the reason java bytecode can be produced almost only from Java ?)
:)
Quite frankly, I am fairly dubious regarding the security of the bytecode produced by a C program
We do not resell our drives for exactly this reason. We destroy them. And we are actually trying to figure out the most cost-and-simplicity effective way to do so... So far, we tear them apart and keep the platters, but we are not to sure how to destroy the platters simply... Any advice ? :)
Well, if you bid $500, this means you are willing to pay up to $500. Period. You might end up paying these, or lower. In a regular auction, you start with a small bet an increase till (a) you have what you want or (b) you have reached your maximum price. In a Dutch auction, you give your maximum price right away, and you will pay the price of the highest bidder among the people who bid too low to have shares.
Psychological factors aside, a Dutch auction is giving exactly the same results as a regular auction but in only one round.
So if a lot of people bet $500, yes, the price could possibly be as much as $500, or at least increase, as the highest bid of the "losers" will be higher.
So well, this is desired: if a lot of people indicate that they are willing to put as much as $500, it makes perfect sense that the price increases...
The lethal dose for an average person is around 10g, and a cup is worth about 200mg. So, about 50 cups in a row could possibly kill you. Now, I'm not sure how fast you get rid of caffeine, so it could be that drinking them in 24h would leave you behind the limit . At any rate, you would substantially raise your risk of dying of a heart attack, or at the very least of a _very_ bad day ;)
;) Now, as always, don't believe whatever you see on the web :)
I remember seeing a web site long time ago that compared coffee and marijuana, their claim was that about 70 cups of coffee could kill you, but that you needed to smoke 70000 joints in a row to take the same risk
This idea has been around for more than 10 years. There are a bunch of research papers and patents on it. The big stopper is that these kind of systems can only work is ALL mail clients implement it. Although if MS actually implements it, all the others would have to follow, or else it would become impossible to sent non-spammed-tagged mail from a non-MS mailer to an MS mailer... So... maybe ...
The point is that the host knows where the prize is, and that he is giving away a lot of info by opening one door. It would be useless to switch if he opened the door at random and could possible find the prize himself.
so you should switch. As simple as that
And, your demo prg must be wrong. Remember that the host should use his knowledge and always open and empty door, never the correct one
They get to an interview... "Do you have experience with MS Excel, MS Word, and MS Access?" "No sir, but I have used Kblah, OOBlah, and StarBlah."
I would LOVE to see interviewers more tech. savvy and understand what those applications are. I doubt that day will come anytime soon. They are just too entrenched.
Well, being familiar with Linux or *BSD and being able to use either vi or emacs is more a less a requirement for any tech position in our (small) company. Even for sales or marketing positions, being familiar with Linux is a plus.
The right interview question should have been: "do you have experience with Spreadsheet softwares, Text Processing or Text Formatting softwares, and (simple) Relational Databases softwares, and if so which ones ?"
It took maybe 1 minute for former Excel users to get used to gnumeric (which happens to be the spreadsheet program we use).
So, this virus has no payload. It does basically nothing except spreading, and, how sweeet of him, it will stop spreading on July 14th.
Am I the only one to think that the only people getting benefits from such a virus are people selling anti-virus ?
I mean, why would all virus writers suddenly become so nice ? Most of the virus nowadays are doing almost no damage. I can hardly remember a virus back in the 90 that would not at least erase a little file here or there from your system.
Go to http://www.google.com/linux and type in "windows". I'm really wondering whether the first hit is here as an eastern egg or not ;)
It is strange that Forbes confuses spending and investing. Most of their examples are actually investments, not expenses.
I believe is it in fact very hard (except through donations) to spend a billion dollar, while it is extremely easy to invest them.
We have ONE single Windows Box in our company whose goal is essentially to be able to read and write Word documents. So yes, if people could use PDF or ASCII as a standard, that would allow us to get rid of this computer ;)
On the other hand, Word is pretty good to select candidates. When someone is sending his resume in PS or PDF, it's clearly a better start than when it is sent in Word...
Well, I'm doing all my coding under Vim, and I've also written my PhD dissertation under Vim.
I still discover some cool commands from time to time, but you figure out the most important ones rather fast. Vimtutor is a pretty good start.
Err, you probably mean risking your very life saving severely wounded people in the street by driving your ambulance among the gun shots? ;) )
(And you didn't really steal the ambulance... it just happened to be there
Now the question is: could it be possible to play XBox games on a PC. After all, the if the XBox is basically a PC, why would someone buy a XBox if games could be played on a regular PC, assuming that one already has a powerful PC?
Is there any intrisical problem that would prevent to do this or not?
"This seems like a good idea - it would allow many people who don't wish to be subjected to violence/nudity/language a chance to watch any movie they want without waiting months for it to be released on network television, already PG-13ized."
Look, if there is some part of the movie you don't like, just don't watch the movie. A movie (well, a good movie, at least) is an artwork and it probably meant to be seen as a while. In the case of good movies, sex and/or violence is rarely free. Take, say, Clockwork Orange. It is extremely violent, but the whole point of this violence is to make people react to the movie and think...
In some movies, there are some scenes that I literaly hated, but I would have been even more pissed if I wouldn't have been given the chance to see them.
I guess the kind of people who are going to use these features are the same as the one who don't mind watching a dubbed movie...
Putting a crypto backdoor in a piece of software is fairly trivial. There is quite a lot of litterature about it and inserting a backdoor in say SSL is a very good exercise for students.
Companies which take security seriously don't use windows for this reason and I doubt that any intelligence service would ever use any piece of software that has been created in an country other than its own. So how can one possibly imagine that "bad guys" would used backdoored softwares. They'll rewrite one of their own, that's all. Implementing a RC4 is a matter of hours...
People have to realize that the Internet sets information free. Any kind of information. From anyone. To anyone. And there is nothing you can do against this.