There is a famous Jimmy Carter quote that goes somthing like: if I was overseeing the US voting system I would reject it as it does not pass the basic levels required by the mandated international standards.... or somthing like that...
I did a quick google, I couldn't find it so you'll have to either think I'm a liar, go look for yourself or just believe me. Most people don't believe me so one of the other two look like your best option.
The last line in the article I did point to is telling but not the quote I was looking for.
If paper ballots exist they can be easily verified and if the paper that went though the machine tallies what the machine says then it's not Dyebold's fault, it's someone else messing with the ballots or as you say an outright lie. So, in any case, Dyebold can be cleared...
I was taught that the three branches of of government were in place to avoid concentration of power. What I'm saing is that the judicial branch should have the power over elections since we obviously can't trust the legislative or the executive. Whatever else you're reading into it is in your mind not mine. Although, I do like Montana, it's a beautiful state !
The U.S. voting system does not meet international mandated guidelines for a "democratic" election yet we say we are the "greatest democracy on earth", go figure....
Until there is a viable independantly managed standard, it's impossible for citizens to truly trust the outcome of elections. Given that fellow citizens have died to save our democracy, anything less that the utmost trust in our voting system is to show fallen the utmost disrespect.
Other countries have very strict voting rules. If the shennanigans on the HBO special were to have happened in any other true democracy, they would have been rounded up in election fraud arrests the next day. It's that serious.
I'm sorry, but who in their right mind would blow money on a voting machine for 80 votes.
Our election officials have gone mad !
I think I can tally 80 votes in less than 15 minutes so it's not as if "time to tally" is at issue.
Accuracy is certainly not at issue either.
I think the US must stop having elections driven by locals and have a federally mandated independant voting "authority" that answers only to the judicial branch. Politicians must not have any say in the way it is run and the legal standards must be very stringently applied.
The HBO special really did shock me more than I expected it to. Unless we have utmost confidence in our voting system, we will alienate our society.
Oh, while we are at it, we should also go to a preference system as this two party system just means can never hit your own party where it counts without voting for the dark side.
I don't know why this has not been requested by the voters. This is the information age. In theory, I could copy all the data from every voting machine in the entire country across my DSL link in matter of minutes. And why not ?
I think there should be a law, where the system capturing the vote is required to send its vote to multiple independant systems that can "verify" the vote. Anyone who is capable of digesting the data from voting machines is allowed to collect the data. Tabulators that have discrepancies must be investigated.
So the question is how do you do this so as to remove issues on secrecy.
So this is the system I think should happen. It does require networking the vote entry machines. Firstly, a poll booth requests a number of vote public keys that are verifiably generated from a central vote key generator. These vote keys are handed to voters on a one-to-one basis. The vote key generator does not disclose which polling booth got which keys. Only upon presentation of N (N>5) passphrases can the vote key generator data be discovered.
Voting terminals take the vote and encrypt it with the vote public key and send it to N independant collators which are required to only store the information in real time.
A third collection of independant machines take the collator machine data and then decrypty and process it to determine the winner. The vote private keys are made available only after the the polling booths have closed and so no results can be given until all votes are in.
Now there are definitive checks and balances. If there are discrepancies (like I got 1000 more votes than I have voters), I can track down which polling booth authorized the votes and track them down.
So, if I really really need to, I can check which election official allowed more voters than were checked off on their roll.
In essance this is a verifiable system, even more verifiable than regular paper ballots.
Enough ranting, this does entirely depend on the notion of independant operators othe various system components.
wouldn't it have made the point about as well, but likely avoided a whole lot of trouble
No.
The TSA has known about this for too long and has done nothing. So in essance they have has more than ample opportunity to do somthing and for the sake of "appearances" have wasted alot of your and my time and money on next to useless initiatives.
Every time you print a boarding pass, you get a "program" to do it directly from your airline. A "terrie" or other "perp" has no need for Chris's software, they can get it directly from the airline.
Contary to popular opinion, your IP address is traceable and I bet that the NSA knows every IP address that hit Chris's site. Why would a terrie or a perp want to go there ? So Chris's site is ONLY useful as a political comment as far as I can tell.
Have the FBI nothing better to do that to raid Chris's home ? VERY VERY sad state of affairs if that is so and we should be looking at taking some of that funding out of the FBI and putting it into educating our little citizens about the country they want to live in and no be so scared of.
It's time we told our elected officials we're sick and tired of "appearances" and we're looking for cost effective and substantial initiatives that don't erode out freedoms. "The Patriot" act is a total joke. Do you know of any real terrie that's been convicted on those measures ? I don't. I know a bunch of cases where we have has regular people criminalized for the most trivial acts tho.
I have no idea why the citizens of this country don't take the erosion of our freedoms in the name of "War on Terror" with indignation. Perhaps when they hear of this they will start to get a little annoyed.
Just hope the following citation is misplaced...
When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.
When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.
When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.
If you don't think this situation is going to become this serious, think again. The number of underhanded laws that have been enacted in the name of "War on Terror" is mind blowing.
The NEWS in the USA is a joke. There is very little serious reporting happening any more. Have you seen FOX news ? If you think that that farce of an excuse for news is anything but political manouvering, you're sadly misguided, yet a vast proportion of the population eats that stuff.
We have far more to fear of real harm from our own government that we ever will from the "terries".
I still stand by what I said and your response of me being itellectually dishonest not only is itself a dishonest attack on me but lacks any intelligence or honesty on your part. I'm curious, do you think it's some tactic that's going to convince others of your pov ?
If I was a member of the jury and I saw the facts in front of me that I see at the moment then I would vote to aquit Chris, it's that simple. If you think you would vote to convict, you're playing at loosing our freedoms which is not what I would like to see happening in my world.
Wake up, and smell the napalm. This is a "War on Terror" we're fighting here and our government it the terrorist. If we all sit backand do nothing, you will loose everything. If you don't understand what Chris did here, then take another hard look and be less critical of your neighbor. He is on your side, the TSA is not. What he did was non-violent and didn't hurt ANYONE except for the pride of some officials who have not done their job to protect US.
Just for the record, I am no huXor an neither is Chris as far as I can see. What he did was honest, somewhat controversial but in the end, you and I are likely better off because of it. I have no idea what you're whining about.
You do not get might point. It is a law of probabilities.
Do you seriously believe that having Chris's site available for the few days it made it any more likely that a terrorist would use it ? If I took your argument then no-one should use computers because they make information crimes easier which is assenine. Ever since I printed my first boarding pass I knew it could be exploited. It turns out that to make it easier for me to print I created postscript versions of the print-outs. Do you know just how easy it is to twiddle the name and details on postscript files ? OOOPS, let's make it a crime if someone saves a postscript version of a boarding pass because it's too easy to change the details - WITH NOTEPAD -- OOPS let's ban notepad.
Society is about doing the right thing not about "being in possession of the wrong thing". As far as I am concerned you can have a million fake boarding passes in your briefcase when you pass a TSA checkpoint just as long as you present one that reflects what you believe to be true information. Then, from my perspective, I am a happy citizen and I have no idea what you worry about. I don't even care if the boarding pass you present to the TSA is one you generated, as long as the information on that BP is true, why should anyone care - nothing wrong would happen.
The issue is that the TSA has inconvenienced the entire air travel society with a farce of a security system and "SECRET" reglations. I am far more concerned about the behaviour of our goverment agencies than I would ever be by Chris's BP generator. The TSA has cost me and the travelling public far more than a Chris would ever do. Let's face it, the real crime here is the farce at the airports we call a "War On Terror". 9/11 would not have happened if our government did it's job. The previous administration (Clinton & co) did what they could, albeit somewhat clumsy, Bush & Condie really screwed it up. Bush is performing far worse than a bull in a china shop. This whole Iraq war is an unmitigated disaster - there is over $300 BILLION dollars of yours and my money that we could be using for anything from education to medical research and NO - let's get the FBI to raid Chris's computers - yep, there's got to be a terrie in the somewhere. Let's get our elected officials to act on OUR behalf, and not at the whim of some loon in the TSA who can't tell the difference between security and a ham sandwich.
Dude, get a grip. Chris did "you" more good in one week than Bush has done in 7 years.
The question is whether the benefit of (a) outweighs the dangers of (b).
You're kidding right ?
You don't need Chris's program to fake a boarding pass. It was simply a demonstration, a very simple one.
You could just as easily use photoshop to do it, does that mean we shut down Adobe ? Of course not.
If he was releasing some secret key that allowed you to to compromise somthing more easily, then we can start arguing on the real merits of exposing security issues, but in this case the system flaw is of such a low threshold that what Chris did is tantamount to writing an article about it. At this point, I would say he's done an excellent job given the level of publicity so far. I wish more people had Chris's attitude and I truly wish our elected officials reward him with kindness instead of a legal barrage.
I have been researching notebooks in the last few hours and the only ones I can definitly say are 64 bit capable are the AMD AM2 Turion's. Also, if you look at this link:
AMD benchmark PDF, it's hard to imagine that the intel offering is at all interesting.
I need a fast AMD64/EMT64 capable notebook, I don't mind if it's Intel or AMD. I can't see a better offering from a value for money or even just outright value perspective than the AMD TL-60 based notebooks (if you look at CPU that is.)
If you can kindly point out how the Intel offerings are dramatically superior, I'm listening.
DRM. Is it about protecting music, or is it about preventing competition?
I can answer that. When I spoke with an industry illuminary (to remain anonymous), and pointed out that any form of DRM is susceptible to piracy simply because of the nature of DRM. His answer to me was... no, you misunderstand, it's (DRM) not about stopping piracy, it's about making it difficult for average consumers to make copies. So, the good guy, who buys the music/video/whatever is who is being inconvenienced. Who in their right mind would buy a Ferrari with the gearbox stuck in 1st gear ? Apparently that's exactly what the music industry wants you to do.
So, I have only been buying music from non-RIAA affiliated artists with no Digital Restrictions Management. My favorite is Candyrat. Superb musicians can be found there. What would you do?
I've been buying DRM free music from Candyrat.com for a while. High bitrate MP3's and a few "cover" pages to boot. Besides the music is about the most impressive I have ever heard.
Some of these have been in production for many years. Chaincast is/was the leader in radio streaming (at one time).
There are more advantages with P2P streaming/downloads than meet the eye. You also get better sharing of data in the local network. i.e. you're at Starbucks, you see someone watching somthing you want too - start the download an you get it at full speed from one laptop directly to the next. Also, from an infrastructure pespective, it's automatically fault tolerant.
We used C++, no other language could match the portability and performance requirements. (Windows, Linux, MAC)
The system we built is a P2P real-time communications system layered over TCP/HTTP and UDP of which we implemented a virtual file system for sharing files as well as data streams (telephony and streaming video/audio).
The performance was needed becuase of the need to minimize the number of root servers we need and the stability is required because the clients run for hours and hours and crashing is not an option.
We used smart pointers for everything that is dynamically allocated (either reference counted Austria C++ smart pointers or std::auto_ptr).
We wrote our own serializer/deserializer (which took about 3 days to write) which uses standard C++ and does some pretty clever type safety (hard to serialize somthing you're not supposed to be able to - in fact you get compile-time errors). As an aside, all the libraries we wrote follow the "catch errors in the compiler if you can" rule, making it harder to write broken code.
Virtually everything has a unit test (using the Austria C++ unit test environment).
Automated builds and tests. We have 2 machines that continuously build and test for Linux and Win32. Often we find errors in the code that only show up in one of the builds but the error is truly a problem in the other system as well.
There are a whole bunch of other things we do as well but these are the ones that get you 80% of the way.
There are not just school rules, but professional ethics...
This is a great ethics example for that prospective doctor. If you don't like someone or someone made you mad then kick them out ! How about - talk to them and try to understand where they're coming from and be really nice to them even if they do it again and again.
Go by the rules that if someone makes you mad then read it like - "I let myself get mad". Usually when I get mad I realize that the person I'm getting mad about is probably partially right. After all, the blog is feedback of one kid's perception wether valid or not. If he's willing to share it, be willing to take it otherwise don't bother reading it.
I find it very troubling that a school like this would resort to this kind of childish retribution. I'd keep far away from that school if I was shopping for onw.
I suspect that there is now use for that 300-megapixel sensor.
Considering that we already have gigabit memory chips, I can see that it's plausible to have gigapixel light sensors (sometime in the future).
Given that 4 (good looking - low noise) megapixels would satisfy most non-professional type photographers, I think this is not that unreasonable to sacrifice pixel count for ease of use.
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Apart from the issue of the vote being secret, I think you have a great idea. Nothing should get in the way of a good town party !
That byzantine bureaucracy works very very well in many countries.
Right now, I don't think I have ever personally witnessed an unrigged US election. I have very little confidence in this system.
I need to *know* that it can be verified.
I did a quick google, I couldn't find it so you'll have to either think I'm a liar, go look for yourself or just believe me. Most people don't believe me so one of the other two look like your best option.
The last line in the article I did point to is telling but not the quote I was looking for.
Except in this case there are paper ballots.
If paper ballots exist they can be easily verified and if the paper that went though the machine tallies what the machine says then it's not Dyebold's fault, it's someone else messing with the ballots or as you say an outright lie. So, in any case, Dyebold can be cleared ...
see http://www.afsa.org/fsj/feb01/carter01.cfm
We mandate the democratic election standards through aid funding to needy countries, yet we don't meet the same standard ourselves.
Go figure.
If what you said wasn't true, it would be funny. Sad, very very sad.
I was taught that the three branches of of government were in place to avoid concentration of power. What I'm saing is that the judicial branch should have the power over elections since we obviously can't trust the legislative or the executive. Whatever else you're reading into it is in your mind not mine. Although, I do like Montana, it's a beautiful state !
Until there is a viable independantly managed standard, it's impossible for citizens to truly trust the outcome of elections. Given that fellow citizens have died to save our democracy, anything less that the utmost trust in our voting system is to show fallen the utmost disrespect.
Other countries have very strict voting rules. If the shennanigans on the HBO special were to have happened in any other true democracy, they would have been rounded up in election fraud arrests the next day. It's that serious.
I'm sorry, but who in their right mind would blow money on a voting machine for 80 votes.
Our election officials have gone mad !
I think I can tally 80 votes in less than 15 minutes so it's not as if "time to tally" is at issue.
Accuracy is certainly not at issue either.
I think the US must stop having elections driven by locals and have a federally mandated independant voting "authority" that answers only to the judicial branch. Politicians must not have any say in the way it is run and the legal standards must be very stringently applied.
The HBO special really did shock me more than I expected it to. Unless we have utmost confidence in our voting system, we will alienate our society.
Oh, while we are at it, we should also go to a preference system as this two party system just means can never hit your own party where it counts without voting for the dark side.
I don't know why this has not been requested by the voters. This is the information age. In theory, I could copy all the data from every voting machine in the entire country across my DSL link in matter of minutes. And why not ?
I think there should be a law, where the system capturing the vote is required to send its vote to multiple independant systems that can "verify" the vote. Anyone who is capable of digesting the data from voting machines is allowed to collect the data. Tabulators that have discrepancies must be investigated.
So the question is how do you do this so as to remove issues on secrecy.
So this is the system I think should happen. It does require networking the vote entry machines. Firstly, a poll booth requests a number of vote public keys that are verifiably generated from a central vote key generator. These vote keys are handed to voters on a one-to-one basis. The vote key generator does not disclose which polling booth got which keys. Only upon presentation of N (N>5) passphrases can the vote key generator data be discovered.
Voting terminals take the vote and encrypt it with the vote public key and send it to N independant collators which are required to only store the information in real time.
A third collection of independant machines take the collator machine data and then decrypty and process it to determine the winner. The vote private keys are made available only after the the polling booths have closed and so no results can be given until all votes are in.
Now there are definitive checks and balances. If there are discrepancies (like I got 1000 more votes than I have voters), I can track down which polling booth authorized the votes and track them down.
So, if I really really need to, I can check which election official allowed more voters than were checked off on their roll.
In essance this is a verifiable system, even more verifiable than regular paper ballots.
Enough ranting, this does entirely depend on the notion of independant operators othe various system components.
No.
The TSA has known about this for too long and has done nothing. So in essance they have has more than ample opportunity to do somthing and for the sake of "appearances" have wasted alot of your and my time and money on next to useless initiatives.
Every time you print a boarding pass, you get a "program" to do it directly from your airline. A "terrie" or other "perp" has no need for Chris's software, they can get it directly from the airline.
Contary to popular opinion, your IP address is traceable and I bet that the NSA knows every IP address that hit Chris's site. Why would a terrie or a perp want to go there ? So Chris's site is ONLY useful as a political comment as far as I can tell.
Have the FBI nothing better to do that to raid Chris's home ? VERY VERY sad state of affairs if that is so and we should be looking at taking some of that funding out of the FBI and putting it into educating our little citizens about the country they want to live in and no be so scared of.
It's time we told our elected officials we're sick and tired of "appearances" and we're looking for cost effective and substantial initiatives that don't erode out freedoms. "The Patriot" act is a total joke. Do you know of any real terrie that's been convicted on those measures ? I don't. I know a bunch of cases where we have has regular people criminalized for the most trivial acts tho.
I have no idea why the citizens of this country don't take the erosion of our freedoms in the name of "War on Terror" with indignation. Perhaps when they hear of this they will start to get a little annoyed.
Just hope the following citation is misplaced...
When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.
When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.
When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.
If you don't think this situation is going to become this serious, think again. The number of underhanded laws that have been enacted in the name of "War on Terror" is mind blowing.
The NEWS in the USA is a joke. There is very little serious reporting happening any more. Have you seen FOX news ? If you think that that farce of an excuse for news is anything but political manouvering, you're sadly misguided, yet a vast proportion of the population eats that stuff.
We have far more to fear of real harm from our own government that we ever will from the "terries".
Wow, pushed the wrong button did we?
I still stand by what I said and your response of me being itellectually dishonest not only is itself a dishonest attack on me but lacks any intelligence or honesty on your part. I'm curious, do you think it's some tactic that's going to convince others of your pov ?
If I was a member of the jury and I saw the facts in front of me that I see at the moment then I would vote to aquit Chris, it's that simple. If you think you would vote to convict, you're playing at loosing our freedoms which is not what I would like to see happening in my world.
Wake up, and smell the napalm. This is a "War on Terror" we're fighting here and our government it the terrorist. If we all sit backand do nothing, you will loose everything. If you don't understand what Chris did here, then take another hard look and be less critical of your neighbor. He is on your side, the TSA is not. What he did was non-violent and didn't hurt ANYONE except for the pride of some officials who have not done their job to protect US.
Just for the record, I am no huXor an neither is Chris as far as I can see. What he did was honest, somewhat controversial but in the end, you and I are likely better off because of it. I have no idea what you're whining about.
Have a nice life while you still can.
Do you seriously believe that having Chris's site available for the few days it made it any more likely that a terrorist would use it ? If I took your argument then no-one should use computers because they make information crimes easier which is assenine. Ever since I printed my first boarding pass I knew it could be exploited. It turns out that to make it easier for me to print I created postscript versions of the print-outs. Do you know just how easy it is to twiddle the name and details on postscript files ? OOOPS, let's make it a crime if someone saves a postscript version of a boarding pass because it's too easy to change the details - WITH NOTEPAD -- OOPS let's ban notepad.
Society is about doing the right thing not about "being in possession of the wrong thing". As far as I am concerned you can have a million fake boarding passes in your briefcase when you pass a TSA checkpoint just as long as you present one that reflects what you believe to be true information. Then, from my perspective, I am a happy citizen and I have no idea what you worry about. I don't even care if the boarding pass you present to the TSA is one you generated, as long as the information on that BP is true, why should anyone care - nothing wrong would happen.
The issue is that the TSA has inconvenienced the entire air travel society with a farce of a security system and "SECRET" reglations. I am far more concerned about the behaviour of our goverment agencies than I would ever be by Chris's BP generator. The TSA has cost me and the travelling public far more than a Chris would ever do. Let's face it, the real crime here is the farce at the airports we call a "War On Terror". 9/11 would not have happened if our government did it's job. The previous administration (Clinton & co) did what they could, albeit somewhat clumsy, Bush & Condie really screwed it up. Bush is performing far worse than a bull in a china shop. This whole Iraq war is an unmitigated disaster - there is over $300 BILLION dollars of yours and my money that we could be using for anything from education to medical research and NO - let's get the FBI to raid Chris's computers - yep, there's got to be a terrie in the somewhere. Let's get our elected officials to act on OUR behalf, and not at the whim of some loon in the TSA who can't tell the difference between security and a ham sandwich.
Dude, get a grip. Chris did "you" more good in one week than Bush has done in 7 years.
You're kidding right ?
You don't need Chris's program to fake a boarding pass. It was simply a demonstration, a very simple one.
You could just as easily use photoshop to do it, does that mean we shut down Adobe ? Of course not.
If he was releasing some secret key that allowed you to to compromise somthing more easily, then we can start arguing on the real merits of exposing security issues, but in this case the system flaw is of such a low threshold that what Chris did is tantamount to writing an article about it. At this point, I would say he's done an excellent job given the level of publicity so far. I wish more people had Chris's attitude and I truly wish our elected officials reward him with kindness instead of a legal barrage.
This link (http://download.intel.com/design/mobile/datashts/ 30922105.pdf) points to the Core Duo data sheet. Where does it say it is 64 bit capable ? I can't see it.
I have been researching notebooks in the last few hours and the only ones I can definitly say are 64 bit capable are the AMD AM2 Turion's. Also, if you look at this link: AMD benchmark PDF, it's hard to imagine that the intel offering is at all interesting.
I need a fast AMD64/EMT64 capable notebook, I don't mind if it's Intel or AMD. I can't see a better offering from a value for money or even just outright value perspective than the AMD TL-60 based notebooks (if you look at CPU that is.)
If you can kindly point out how the Intel offerings are dramatically superior, I'm listening.
I can answer that. When I spoke with an industry illuminary (to remain anonymous), and pointed out that any form of DRM is susceptible to piracy simply because of the nature of DRM. His answer to me was... no, you misunderstand, it's (DRM) not about stopping piracy, it's about making it difficult for average consumers to make copies. So, the good guy, who buys the music/video/whatever is who is being inconvenienced. Who in their right mind would buy a Ferrari with the gearbox stuck in 1st gear ? Apparently that's exactly what the music industry wants you to do.
So, I have only been buying music from non-RIAA affiliated artists with no Digital Restrictions Management. My favorite is Candyrat. Superb musicians can be found there. What would you do?
I've been buying DRM free music from Candyrat.com for a while. High bitrate MP3's and a few "cover" pages to boot. Besides the music is about the most impressive I have ever heard.
Movilink (Sony+other studios) - couldn't be given away.
Starz/Real partnership - dead.
Kontiki/AOL - Kontiki dead.
Netmovies - (napster + others) dead.
Tivo + Netflix - dead dead dead
+ many many more
What makes this so special ?
Yes, it is required for standard C++.
Chaincast
NetCableTV
Red Swoosh
Kontiki
Just to name a few.
Some of these have been in production for many years. Chaincast is/was the leader in radio streaming (at one time).
There are more advantages with P2P streaming/downloads than meet the eye. You also get better sharing of data in the local network. i.e. you're at Starbucks, you see someone watching somthing you want too - start the download an you get it at full speed from one laptop directly to the next. Also, from an infrastructure pespective, it's automatically fault tolerant.
It's big.
We used C++, no other language could match the portability and performance requirements. (Windows, Linux, MAC)
The system we built is a P2P real-time communications system layered over TCP/HTTP and UDP of which we implemented a virtual file system for sharing files as well as data streams (telephony and streaming video/audio).
The performance was needed becuase of the need to minimize the number of root servers we need and the stability is required because the clients run for hours and hours and crashing is not an option.
We used smart pointers for everything that is dynamically allocated (either reference counted Austria C++ smart pointers or std::auto_ptr).
We wrote our own serializer/deserializer (which took about 3 days to write) which uses standard C++ and does some pretty clever type safety (hard to serialize somthing you're not supposed to be able to - in fact you get compile-time errors). As an aside, all the libraries we wrote follow the "catch errors in the compiler if you can" rule, making it harder to write broken code.
Virtually everything has a unit test (using the Austria C++ unit test environment).
Automated builds and tests. We have 2 machines that continuously build and test for Linux and Win32. Often we find errors in the code that only show up in one of the builds but the error is truly a problem in the other system as well.
There are a whole bunch of other things we do as well but these are the ones that get you 80% of the way.
This is a great ethics example for that prospective doctor. If you don't like someone or someone made you mad then kick them out ! How about - talk to them and try to understand where they're coming from and be really nice to them even if they do it again and again.
Go by the rules that if someone makes you mad then read it like - "I let myself get mad". Usually when I get mad I realize that the person I'm getting mad about is probably partially right. After all, the blog is feedback of one kid's perception wether valid or not. If he's willing to share it, be willing to take it otherwise don't bother reading it.
I find it very troubling that a school like this would resort to this kind of childish retribution. I'd keep far away from that school if I was shopping for onw.
You don't even need a proxy for this. class SmartArray { double * operator[](int idx); };
I suspect that there is now use for that 300-megapixel sensor.
Considering that we already have gigabit memory chips, I can see that it's plausible to have gigapixel light sensors (sometime in the future).
Given that 4 (good looking - low noise) megapixels would satisfy most non-professional type photographers, I think this is not that unreasonable to sacrifice pixel count for ease of use.
Just goes to you that the RIAA and all affiliated with it do not deserve your attention.
It's your time, your attention. Place your valuable time in artists who trust you and don't treat you like criminals.
We should start creating a list of idie labels that practice a more acceptable license - like this one from Candyrat Records.
They have 60 seconds of each track available to preview the music (again no DRM).
Plug - take a listen - It's real music - not some mass market crap pushed down your throat.