Here is the complete Youtube playlist for the Yale course "Game Theory", lectured by Ben Polak. 24 lectures in total, about 1 h 15 min each.
Course description: This course is an introduction to game theory and strategic thinking. Ideas such as dominance, backward induction, Nash equilibrium, evolutionary stability, commitment, credibility, asymmetric information, adverse selection, and signaling are discussed and applied to games played in class and to examples drawn from economics, politics, the movies, and elsewhere.
I have had the intention of watching through this, but haven't had the time after the first few lectures. The material is recommended, though.
Nice info, but as I have understood the sun.* package hierarchy is not part of standard Java and thus the FloatingDecimal class might not necessarily exist on a non-Sun JVM.
Since the origin of the computers is unknown, the hardware cannot be trusted. The computers might be hacked and backdoored on the BIOS level. Modern BIOSes are quite sophisticated with a rich functionality, that can be misused invisibly from the OS' point of view.
You seem to worry much about losing your privacy. Most social networking sites have rather extensive privacy settings, so you get to select in detail what should be revealed and to whom.
The problem of course then is that managing these privacy settings can be quite tricky, if you don't have a clear picture of what knobs you have available to turn.
Here is a rather recent and extensive walk-through of the most central privacy settings Facebook offers:
Everyone interested in computer-age digital rights should see the Swedish Pirate Party's founder Rick Falkvinge's presentation "Copyright regime vs. civil liberties". Good stuff.
As I understood, the colo in question was not shut down per se, it was simply severed from its internet connectivity as its upstream/backbone internet providers terminated their contract with them. Nothing special about that; business relationships are initiated and terminated all over the world every day.
Consequently, there was no "vigilanteism" in the strict sense as such, where normals citizens take the law in their own hands and act as if they had higher authority than they really have.
It was simply a case of concerned security researchers going to the upstream providers with evidence and saying "look what scum you do business with by providing connectivity, this is bad for the internet on the whole and it hurts your reputation", and the ISPs in question took action. If innocent customers of the rouge colo got hurt when the lines got cut, then they simply have to suffer the consequences of picking a bad host to buy services from.
Of course, if the proof the security researchers had gathered also proved that the shut-down colo in question had committed crimes, then the appropriate authorities need to be involved. But that is another chain of events, separate from the disconnection of the lines.
If the UI is now snappier and more responsive so that the user feels more happy with his user experience, isn't that still good progress even if in reality the speedup is only subjective? Everything that makes the user more content using the product is good, right?
I understood that the disconnecting of the charger was because of that the "victim" laptop computer and the "attacker" desktop computer were connected to the same electrical mains network of the building.
By disconnecting the laptop charger it was proven that the keyboard signal was truly intercepted from over-the-air electromagnetic radiation, as the laptop was "independent" and not connected to anything. There was not any chance that the signal could have leaked or transmitted any other way.
I always vote. I always vote for the candidate that represents views that are closest to my own ideals. I don't care how good or bad a chance I estimate that my candidate will have, I still vote for him/her.
This way I get my voice heard. It might be that my candidate does not get elected, but hey, that's life. Majority wins and I happened to be in the minority. At least I got my say. And if my candidate wins, great! Decisions that I support will be made.
I have seen unfortunately too many people falling for the "My vote will not make a difference, so I will not vote" or "My candidate will not get elected, so I will vote for the most pleasing candidate that I reckon will have a chance to get elected even if I really don't like his politics" pitfalls. When enough people act like that no real change will ever have a chance to happen. If everybody voted, and everybody voted truthfully according to their true beliefs, like they really feel, the elected politicians will reflect the true will of the people.
Think about it: Imagine that there really is a 10% minority that would vote for a third-party candidate, and only 5% of them have the guts to really vote according to their true belief. So the third party candidate gets 0.5% of the total vote. A vote share of 0.5% can be neglected by the major parties, but if everybody voted and voted truthfully, could they disregard a 10% share?
Everybody interested in the history of the web and its predecessors in the line of networked electronic information storage, management and retrieval systems should check out Alex Wright's talk at Google called "The Web That Wasn't": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72nfrhXroo8. Very interesting!
Does any vendor offer an antivirus program that is delivered on an auto-booting CD-ROM / DVD-ROM?
Scenario: Aunt Tilly phones that she suspects viruses on her Windows computer. She got afraid so she shut down the computer. You arrive, but don't want to boot the computer up as it will activate the virus, too. You insert your bootable disc, the antivirus program boots up, auto-downloads the latest program updates along with the newest virus and malware definitions from the Internet, and you can successfully disinfect the computer without having to run any code from the infected computer's hard disk.
Does a solution like this exist? I tried to search the net but found only instructions how to make your own bootable antivirus floppy disks or making your own bootable rescue CD-ROM by combining different utilities with preinstalled Windows using BartPE, and so on.
I don't get the reference to the "internet bus lane"... He said: If you aren't prepared to cough up the extra cash, he says he'll put you in the Internet 'bus lane'.
But should it not be the other way around? Paying separately gives you the privilege to ride the congestion-free public transport lanes where each full bus frees up several tens of cars from the streets, while not paying forces you to keep tugging along in the traffic jam of private motorists?
As I have understood, the release today was for the complete "system administrator installation package" that is available on the Microsoft Download Center. SP1 will be pushed to Windows Update next month. On Windows Update, the download will be smaller since it's custom-tailored for the computer in question.
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Here is the complete Youtube playlist for the Yale course "Game Theory", lectured by Ben Polak. 24 lectures in total, about 1 h 15 min each.
Course description: This course is an introduction to game theory and strategic thinking. Ideas such as dominance, backward induction, Nash equilibrium, evolutionary stability, commitment, credibility, asymmetric information, adverse selection, and signaling are discussed and applied to games played in class and to examples drawn from economics, politics, the movies, and elsewhere.
I have had the intention of watching through this, but haven't had the time after the first few lectures. The material is recommended, though.
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6EF60E1027E1A10B
Well, I guess their LAN party is over now.
It's like the Egyptians -- all 83 million of them -- are having the world's largest LAN party! :)
Nice info, but as I have understood the sun.* package hierarchy is not part of standard Java and thus the FloatingDecimal class might not necessarily exist on a non-Sun JVM.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=BIKF+to+EGLL
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=BIKF+to+EIDW
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=BIKF+to+ENGM
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=BIKF+to+EKCH
Terminally III?
Is that, like, the sequel to Terminally II?
For more information about Nokia's efforts see:
http://www.nokia.com/technology/upcoming-innovations/indoor-positioning
http://conversations.nokia.com/2008/09/23/indoor-positioning-coming-to-life/
Since the origin of the computers is unknown, the hardware cannot be trusted. The computers might be hacked and backdoored on the BIOS level. Modern BIOSes are quite sophisticated with a rich functionality, that can be misused invisibly from the OS' point of view.
The first rule of seeking relationship advice on Slashdot:
1. Do not seek relationship advice on Slashdot.
"Next-Gen Nuclear Power Plant Breaks Ground In China"
Oh no, that is very unfortunate, I'm sad to hear about the breakage.
Do they yet know how much ground has been broken? Is it severely broken?
I suspect that this has been caused by the atomic radiation from the power plant.
Let's hope that the Chinese can get that ground fixed, they need all the space they need as there are so many of them.
You seem to worry much about losing your privacy. Most social networking sites have rather extensive privacy settings, so you get to select in detail what should be revealed and to whom.
The problem of course then is that managing these privacy settings can be quite tricky, if you don't have a clear picture of what knobs you have available to turn.
Here is a rather recent and extensive walk-through of the most central privacy settings Facebook offers:
http://www.allfacebook.com/2009/02/facebook-privacy/
Everyone interested in computer-age digital rights should see the Swedish Pirate Party's founder Rick Falkvinge's presentation "Copyright regime vs. civil liberties". Good stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08gfh_6sbQI
As I understood, the colo in question was not shut down per se, it was simply severed from its internet connectivity as its upstream/backbone internet providers terminated their contract with them. Nothing special about that; business relationships are initiated and terminated all over the world every day.
Consequently, there was no "vigilanteism" in the strict sense as such, where normals citizens take the law in their own hands and act as if they had higher authority than they really have.
It was simply a case of concerned security researchers going to the upstream providers with evidence and saying "look what scum you do business with by providing connectivity, this is bad for the internet on the whole and it hurts your reputation", and the ISPs in question took action. If innocent customers of the rouge colo got hurt when the lines got cut, then they simply have to suffer the consequences of picking a bad host to buy services from.
Of course, if the proof the security researchers had gathered also proved that the shut-down colo in question had committed crimes, then the appropriate authorities need to be involved. But that is another chain of events, separate from the disconnection of the lines.
If the UI is now snappier and more responsive so that the user feels more happy with his user experience, isn't that still good progress even if in reality the speedup is only subjective? Everything that makes the user more content using the product is good, right?
I understood that the disconnecting of the charger was because of that the "victim" laptop computer and the "attacker" desktop computer were connected to the same electrical mains network of the building.
By disconnecting the laptop charger it was proven that the keyboard signal was truly intercepted from over-the-air electromagnetic radiation, as the laptop was "independent" and not connected to anything. There was not any chance that the signal could have leaked or transmitted any other way.
My personal principles:
I always vote. I always vote for the candidate that represents views that are closest to my own ideals. I don't care how good or bad a chance I estimate that my candidate will have, I still vote for him/her.
This way I get my voice heard. It might be that my candidate does not get elected, but hey, that's life. Majority wins and I happened to be in the minority. At least I got my say. And if my candidate wins, great! Decisions that I support will be made.
I have seen unfortunately too many people falling for the "My vote will not make a difference, so I will not vote" or "My candidate will not get elected, so I will vote for the most pleasing candidate that I reckon will have a chance to get elected even if I really don't like his politics" pitfalls. When enough people act like that no real change will ever have a chance to happen. If everybody voted, and everybody voted truthfully according to their true beliefs, like they really feel, the elected politicians will reflect the true will of the people.
Think about it: Imagine that there really is a 10% minority that would vote for a third-party candidate, and only 5% of them have the guts to really vote according to their true belief. So the third party candidate gets 0.5% of the total vote. A vote share of 0.5% can be neglected by the major parties, but if everybody voted and voted truthfully, could they disregard a 10% share?
BIOS error, keypad not detected.
Press Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, A, B, A, B, Start to continue.
Close, but not quite, OMG-101:
http://naurunappula.com/120004/OMG_l0l
Another Finnish example, is probably a vanity plate, GAY-69:
http://kuvaton.com/kuvei/bmw2.jpg
Everybody interested in the history of the web and its predecessors in the line of networked electronic information storage, management and retrieval systems should check out Alex Wright's talk at Google called "The Web That Wasn't": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72nfrhXroo8. Very interesting!
Ah. Lazy me for not searching more closely before asking... just found this as one alternative: http://www.free-av.com/en/tools/12/avira_antivir_rescue_system.html.
A slightly related question:
Does any vendor offer an antivirus program that is delivered on an auto-booting CD-ROM / DVD-ROM?
Scenario: Aunt Tilly phones that she suspects viruses on her Windows computer. She got afraid so she shut down the computer. You arrive, but don't want to boot the computer up as it will activate the virus, too. You insert your bootable disc, the antivirus program boots up, auto-downloads the latest program updates along with the newest virus and malware definitions from the Internet, and you can successfully disinfect the computer without having to run any code from the infected computer's hard disk. Does a solution like this exist? I tried to search the net but found only instructions how to make your own bootable antivirus floppy disks or making your own bootable rescue CD-ROM by combining different utilities with preinstalled Windows using BartPE, and so on.
But are there any supported products available?
I don't get the reference to the "internet bus lane"... He said: If you aren't prepared to cough up the extra cash, he says he'll put you in the Internet 'bus lane'.
But should it not be the other way around? Paying separately gives you the privilege to ride the congestion-free public transport lanes where each full bus frees up several tens of cars from the streets, while not paying forces you to keep tugging along in the traffic jam of private motorists?
As I have understood, the release today was for the complete "system administrator installation package" that is available on the Microsoft Download Center. SP1 will be pushed to Windows Update next month. On Windows Update, the download will be smaller since it's custom-tailored for the computer in question.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b0c7136d-5ebb-413b-89c9-cb3d06d12674&DisplayLang=en http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=874a414b-32b2-41cc-bd8b-d71eda5ec07c&DisplayLang=en
TorrentFreak had a nice blog post summarizing various expert opinions expressed in the hearings.
That is only one mirror of several.
The original files were in a zip file hosted on RapidShare, and the link to RapidShare was in his YouTube profile.