Instead of throwing people's laptops around, these guys need to get to work. There is plenty of work to go around, from airports to every other kind of transportation facility you can think of.
Federal agencies are full of people who want to carry and gun and work security, since it's easier to stomp around with a badge than to do the drudge work of investigation. Every agency wants to have a police force of its own.
TSA is a special case, since it actually is a sort of police force. So put these smart guy agents on the front line, at airport screening lines, where their elite abilities can be better appreciated. And shorten waiting times.
More to the point, he is willing to speak out on bad ethics in math, and VERY few mathematicians do so. Whether it is due to conformity, as he says, or a more complex reason, I cannot say. But he is correct that the open nature of math goes along with a lot of questionable crediting of work. Sometimes it is just people trying to make a difficult academic situation function. The subject has become so vast that students have a hard time reaching competence by the end of their PhD's. (Physics has a more regularized system of post-docs.) And full supervision of dissertations becomes lax: other faculty are too specialized and too busy and too lazy. Add to these more or less well-meaning types of lapses actual greedy chicanery and it all becomes rather unpleasant.
There have been worse times in math. The competition for jobs in the 1930s was brutal, and professors were expected (to some extent) to appear mean, not nice as now. But our period has its peculiar frustrations. You almost cannot exaggerate the vastness of published work these days, something which has happened across academia, but causes its own particular stresses in math. You will hear mathematicians complain about that, but not so much the ethical problems of which they are well aware.
Maybe it is under control, relative to other disciplines, who knows. But keeping problems in proportion is not a strong suit for many math types!
Java is slow. Look at what happens to the web browser when Java starts. Or consider OpenOffice's start up speed. The new standard Java Quick Starter is even worse, as it slows down the whole system. And on every upgrade, the Quick Starter pref is turned back on. (I support typical WinXP boxes, nothing super fast.) It's too bad, because memory sandboxing is such a good idea. So now we get entire operating system VM's instead of the potentially nicer JVM.
Also illegal. When the shit starts to come down, people consult lawyers. Same thing happened in Watergate: plenty of people chose not to destroy evidence, up to and including Nixon himself (a lawyer by training).
Removing your friends from public view is possible. Instead of privacy settings, just go to your profile and click the pencil icon that magically appears next to "Friends" when you mouse-over. Terrible UI to have this stuff split up and not explained.
Google Analytics should recommend authors use the new "asynch" attribute in the script tag. Browsers are beginning to support it, such as Firefox 3.6 beta.
Meanwhile site authors can apply the attribute themselves, if they care.
The status bar thing may be a semi-bug, where the browser is actually waiting for another page element started earlier.
JavaScript loading is usually blocking the rendering whereas img loading usually not.
NYT loads an astounding amount of JS. At home I use an especially slow dial-up and turn off image loading, so I was surprised to spend so much time waiting for "graphics8.nytimes.com". Then I looked in Firebug's Net panel. NYT home page launches 41 requests for 141K of data:
HTML: 5 requests, 31KB CSS: 4 requests, 13KB Flash: 2 requests, 37KB JS: all the rest, 30 requests, 60KB
(Flashblock is allowing those 2 requests for some reason. I don't use AdBlockPlus.)
So next for me is to find or write an extension to block JS per-site.
They haven't really decided. Rule of thumb, all the U.K. areas except England tend to go by their own name, and England goes by British about 50-50, depending on age, politics, etc. But what do I know? That is just my guess from observing some Wikipedia disputes over this issue.
The "demonym" for the U.K. is "British". That includes Northern Ireland... an awkward situation. Of course, we have "Americans" meaning just the U.S. And back in the olden days, you either called the people of the USSR "Russians" (wrong) or "Soviets" (sort of wrong).
Now all you UKians with you witty humor, just read the funny thread.
That tool helped fix two WinXPs for me that would not complete Windows Update. So I'd say it's a common problem, because I don't administer that many PCs. Fuller instructions here.. Even with the tool, you're looking at a minimum 30 minutes of uninstalling, typically, 4 versions of DotNet, and reinstalling them, requiring several reboots. If you don't reinstall them all, who knows what installed software will no longer run.
1. If the file is jpeg, use jpegtran -copy none "$from" "$to" That will have the benefit of also removing any cruft, like camera model or author. Sufficient even if there is no comment? In other words, will it strip any payload?
2. For non-jpegs, use imagemagick to convert to PNG: convert "$from" -flatten "$to.jpg" Is that sufficient, even if $from is a png? The -flatten will take care of any animated GIF.
Both "jpegtran" and "convert" are pretty standard on Linux setups I think. Jpegtran re-saves a jpeg without loss.
Are the some some other command options that would be advisable?
To make SSL the underlying transport protocol, for better security and compatibility with existing network infrastructure. Although SSL does introduce a latency penalty, we believe that the long-term future of the web depends on a secure network connection. In addition, the use of SSL is necessary to ensure that communication across existing proxies is not broken.
But the testing is on both TCP and SSL/TCP, since:
SSL poses other latency and deployment challenges. Among these are: the additional RTTs for the SSL handshake; encryption; difficulty of caching for some proxies. We need to do more SSL tuning.
Awesome bar came standard with Firefox 3.0. And I too dreaded it but now find it works very well. Typing one or two very short word starts, space between them, is easier for me than mousing to a bookmark.
The Firefox developers have really wrestled a monster codebase down to a pretty quick machine. Switching to SQL for storage helped (eventually), and user Javascript is faster.
As for building the whole thing on top of a Javascript layer, well, it worked out OK, and was key to extensibility. So far, it has better performance than building Open Office on a Java layer. I've never understood why the dominant word processors run so slowly, when the old ones ran on primitive systems and did much of the same work.
But Firefox still has a lot of delicate code and issues of where to use C++ and where to use the JS layer. For me, Opera is my speed browser, and Firefox my workhorse.
That's D.C. for you. As I recall it, California drivers are actually pretty good at that when the lights go out. The state has a lot of 4-way stop signs.
Slashdot Mirror
Firebug can show all connections as well. Sites like NYTimes.com load an amazing amount of Javascript these days, about 40 requests.
Instead of throwing people's laptops around, these guys need to get to work. There is plenty of work to go around, from airports to every other kind of transportation facility you can think of.
Federal agencies are full of people who want to carry and gun and work security, since it's easier to stomp around with a badge than to do the drudge work of investigation. Every agency wants to have a police force of its own.
TSA is a special case, since it actually is a sort of police force. So put these smart guy agents on the front line, at airport screening lines, where their elite abilities can be better appreciated. And shorten waiting times.
More to the point, he is willing to speak out on bad ethics in math, and VERY few mathematicians do so. Whether it is due to conformity, as he says, or a more complex reason, I cannot say. But he is correct that the open nature of math goes along with a lot of questionable crediting of work. Sometimes it is just people trying to make a difficult academic situation function. The subject has become so vast that students have a hard time reaching competence by the end of their PhD's. (Physics has a more regularized system of post-docs.) And full supervision of dissertations becomes lax: other faculty are too specialized and too busy and too lazy. Add to these more or less well-meaning types of lapses actual greedy chicanery and it all becomes rather unpleasant.
There have been worse times in math. The competition for jobs in the 1930s was brutal, and professors were expected (to some extent) to appear mean, not nice as now. But our period has its peculiar frustrations. You almost cannot exaggerate the vastness of published work these days, something which has happened across academia, but causes its own particular stresses in math. You will hear mathematicians complain about that, but not so much the ethical problems of which they are well aware.
Maybe it is under control, relative to other disciplines, who knows. But keeping problems in proportion is not a strong suit for many math types!
Java is slow. Look at what happens to the web browser when Java starts. Or consider OpenOffice's start up speed. The new standard Java Quick Starter is even worse, as it slows down the whole system. And on every upgrade, the Quick Starter pref is turned back on. (I support typical WinXP boxes, nothing super fast.) It's too bad, because memory sandboxing is such a good idea. So now we get entire operating system VM's instead of the potentially nicer JVM.
Also illegal. When the shit starts to come down, people consult lawyers. Same thing happened in Watergate: plenty of people chose not to destroy evidence, up to and including Nixon himself (a lawyer by training).
My mistake, munging the URL reveals his friends, as pointed out in another comment here: http://www.facebook.com/friends/?id=zuck
Removing your friends from public view is possible. Instead of privacy settings, just go to your profile and click the pencil icon that magically appears next to "Friends" when you mouse-over. Terrible UI to have this stuff split up and not explained.
The walk-through tries to change all your settings to everyone (less private). If you just click "OK", that's what you get.
It's amazing Facebook tried to pawn this off as an improvement in privacy; it is the opposite.
Thanks now I have installed NoScript. It is massive, but it made no changes by default. NYT is now on my block list.
Google Analytics should recommend authors use the new "asynch" attribute in the script tag. Browsers are beginning to support it, such as Firefox 3.6 beta.
Meanwhile site authors can apply the attribute themselves, if they care.
The status bar thing may be a semi-bug, where the browser is actually waiting for another page element started earlier.
...then you're giving third-party content access to your site's security zone, which is a terrible idea.
Not true, Google "Same Origin Policy."
JavaScript loading is usually blocking the rendering whereas img loading usually not.
NYT loads an astounding amount of JS. At home I use an especially slow dial-up and turn off image loading, so I was surprised to spend so much time waiting for "graphics8.nytimes.com". Then I looked in Firebug's Net panel. NYT home page launches 41 requests for 141K of data:
HTML: 5 requests, 31KB
CSS: 4 requests, 13KB
Flash: 2 requests, 37KB
JS: all the rest, 30 requests, 60KB
(Flashblock is allowing those 2 requests for some reason. I don't use AdBlockPlus.)
So next for me is to find or write an extension to block JS per-site.
For the Flash cookies, maybe? Dunno what the trade-off is vs. users who block Flash by default.
Also, SWF can uses vector graphics and the animated files are tiny.
Wrong, the U.K. was formed in 1800.
They haven't really decided. Rule of thumb, all the U.K. areas except England tend to go by their own name, and England goes by British about 50-50, depending on age, politics, etc. But what do I know? That is just my guess from observing some Wikipedia disputes over this issue.
The "demonym" for the U.K. is "British". That includes Northern Ireland... an awkward situation. Of course, we have "Americans" meaning just the U.S. And back in the olden days, you either called the people of the USSR "Russians" (wrong) or "Soviets" (sort of wrong).
Now all you UKians with you witty humor, just read the funny thread.
That tool helped fix two WinXPs for me that would not complete Windows Update. So I'd say it's a common problem, because I don't administer that many PCs. Fuller instructions here.. Even with the tool, you're looking at a minimum 30 minutes of uninstalling, typically, 4 versions of DotNet, and reinstalling them, requiring several reboots. If you don't reinstall them all, who knows what installed software will no longer run.
The Bing results are similar to Google, when searching from the U.S. in Chinese. But Google over all shows more of the 1989 protest.
"Tianamen" in Simplified Chinese:
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=%E5%A4%A9%E5%AE%89%E9%97%A8%E5%B9%BF%E5%9C%BA&go=&form=QBIL&qs=n
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&rlz=1C1CHMB_en-GBAU309AU309&um=1&sa=1&q=%E5%A4%A9%E5%AE%89%E9%97%A8%E5%B9%BF%E5%9C%BA&btnG=Search+images&aq=f&oq=&aqi=&start=0
(No democracy statue in either set.)
"Tianamen" in Traditional Chinese:
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=%E5%A4%A9%E5%AE%89%E9%96%80%E5%BB%A3%E5%A0%B4&go=&form=QBIR
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&rlz=1C1CHMB_en-GBAU309AU309&um=1&sa=1&q=%E5%A4%A9%E5%AE%89%E9%96%80%E5%BB%A3%E5%A0%B4&btnG=Search+images&aq=f&oq=&aqi=&start=0
(Democracy statue in both sets, scroll way down in Bing though.)
"Tianamen Incident" in Simplified Chinese
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=%E5%A4%A9%E5%AE%89%E9%97%A8%E4%BA%8B%E4%BB%B6&go=&form=QBIR&qs=n
http://images.google.com/images?gbv=2&hl=en&um=1&sa=1&q=%E5%A4%A9%E5%AE%89%E9%97%A8%E4%BA%8B%E4%BB%B6&btnG=Search+images&aq=f&oq=&aqi=&start=0
(Tank Man in both sets, much more prominent in Google though.)
"Tianamen Incident" in Traditional Chinese
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=%E5%A4%A9%E5%AE%89%E9%96%80%E4%BA%8B%E4%BB%B6&go=&form=QBIR&qs=n
http://images.google.com/images?gbv=2&hl=en&sa=1&q=%E5%A4%A9%E5%AE%89%E9%96%80%E4%BA%8B%E4%BB%B6&btnG=Search+images&aq=f&oq=&aqi=&start=0
(Tank Man in both sets)
The characters I used came from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989
Correction, of course it's:
convert "$from" -flatten "$to.png"
How about this fix for processing uploads:
1. If the file is jpeg, use
jpegtran -copy none "$from" "$to"
That will have the benefit of also removing any cruft, like camera model or author. Sufficient even if there is no comment? In other words, will it strip any payload?
2. For non-jpegs, use imagemagick to convert to PNG:
convert "$from" -flatten "$to.jpg"
Is that sufficient, even if $from is a png? The -flatten will take care of any animated GIF.
Both "jpegtran" and "convert" are pretty standard on Linux setups I think. Jpegtran re-saves a jpeg without loss.
Are the some some other command options that would be advisable?
It says the goal is
But the testing is on both TCP and SSL/TCP, since:
Awesome bar came standard with Firefox 3.0. And I too dreaded it but now find it works very well. Typing one or two very short word starts, space between them, is easier for me than mousing to a bookmark.
The Firefox developers have really wrestled a monster codebase down to a pretty quick machine. Switching to SQL for storage helped (eventually), and user Javascript is faster.
As for building the whole thing on top of a Javascript layer, well, it worked out OK, and was key to extensibility. So far, it has better performance than building Open Office on a Java layer. I've never understood why the dominant word processors run so slowly, when the old ones ran on primitive systems and did much of the same work.
But Firefox still has a lot of delicate code and issues of where to use C++ and where to use the JS layer. For me, Opera is my speed browser, and Firefox my workhorse.
Yes, it will send messages via lightning into the past.
No, it's two different plugins.
1. Shockwave Flash 10.0 r32
2. Shockwave for Director 11.5
You can have 1 without 2, latest versions.
Looks some crazed half-forgotten branding initiative.
Interestingly, the player test page http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/welcome/ tries to install an old version if you have only Flash:
Macromedia Shockwave Player 10.1
That's the old branding and an old version. But anyway it fails to install. Maybe Adobe is confused by my nightly version of Firefox.
That's D.C. for you. As I recall it, California drivers are actually pretty good at that when the lights go out. The state has a lot of 4-way stop signs.
That's a sane default at least. Never overestimate a large software system...
... such as "having a simultaneous green phase for bikes to go in all directions at once."
Here's a piece about traffic lights optimized for furry bicyclists... http://hembrow.blogspot.com/2008/09/default-to-green.html