There's also a growing trend towards freelance jobs I'm seeing. Not very many small companies need a full time programmer for a endless time... they're willing to pay the premium to get you where they need you for a few months, then wait a bit while you find the next one.
Open source is a concept where people get together write code to solve a common problem they have... they understand that they will not directly profit from the coding, although they may be seen as experts in whatever area their project is in, and they can then profit selling hardware, consulting on implementations, and other things.
If a company hires away all the programmers and then have them do something else so they don't contribute anymore, the project either is frozen, or new developers fork the project away from the original developers and the project moves on...
PRML is simple to explain... we've agreed that we're talking in 0s and 1s and I just detected a.73 coming down the line. The best thing to do here is to assume they sent a 1 because that's closer than 0 and we know.73 can't be the true value for that bit.
What this is, trying to guess what comes next in a sequence is a bigger leap. I just got 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, and no clue what comes next. Is it okay to assume it's a 1 and not a 0?
Yeah, but they've got to sell those weight loss schemes somehow. Would you please link your Google Health weight statistic to your TV ad interest form?
Go buy a pre-paid phone with cash and take the battery out of your regular cell phone at random intervals.
How quickly we forget... If you pay for a phone with cash, you've consented to a wiretap. They want to know who you are. If you fail to identify yourself by recharging with a credit card, they keep wondering. If too many minutes are bought by cash, they start raising the price for everybody in the region. Okay, so the investigation on this was done by an organization that also employs Ryan Seacrest. Still, it's true.
All hard drives will fail eventually. Flash memory drives are starting to outlast them, but those will fail someday too. CD/DVDs age poorly. Nothing is safe in your house anyway.
So, a cloud with a big RAID where dead drives are replaced with no loss in a nice safe datacenter sounds like a nice option. The problem with that is that clouds are run by companies, and no company lasts forever either. Look at what happened to drive.com.... they were bought by AOL, and then thrown out. Users were given a couple of months to retrieve their data, after which everything was deleted.
Is there any way to write data and then 10 years later get that same data back?
Yep. Anything that connects to any phone network must allow dialing of 911 even when no service is being paid for. In fact, most modern cell phones make it easier to dial 911 when there's no paid service.
Most cloud services these days are funded by companies who have ad interests too. Google has the web's largest ad network, Amazon loves to sell things, Microsoft has an ad platform too. Will what you post on MySpace suddenly influence which ad you see when you're watching Fox? Should it?
A hard drive in your house is just as accessible as data in the cloud, they just need a warrant. However, they have a hard time hiding the fact they took your computer, it's somewhat questionable whether you can detect they got a wiretap, and outright impossible to tell what they copied out of a cloud... so the net change is that you'll have a harder time telling you've been snooped on, but that won't make it any easier to do the snooping. If you have info, they can make you turn it over whether you want to or not. What's at stake here is whether you know.
There's some logic to over-buying sometimes. PS3 has been compatible with every change to Blu-Ray such as BD Live. Some same-age players got left in the dust with that one.
They're calling this tech "Maximum Likelihood Sequence Estimation" because they couldn't get the trademark on "We'll go with our best guess what comes next."
There's a little more than just a firmware upgrade involved here. This is a computationally-intensive process, which means the PS3 might be able to handle this, but the $100 player you got at Wal-Mart most certainly won't.
Moore's Law means that this will become practical in the future, but this tech is definitely ahead of it's time.
A modern "turnstyle-less" gate system is used at some MBTA stations around Boston... the card is scanned at the reader, then an infrared system tracks when you've made it to the door, opens it, and then closes when you reach the other side. The lanes are reversable... that is to say an "enter" lane can change signs and become an "exit" where no fare is debited but they still need to control the door so nobody gets in without doing a 4 foot high jump.
Docken may have just gotten to the chicken...
Symantec effectively D-DOSed their update servers with code that made practically every one of their own customers think they hadn't updated recently enough and query to see if there was anything new. Nice work guys...
So that means the root cause would be taking a hex 2-digit value and doing integer math and then reading the result as if it was still hex. The correct value would have been 0x0a.
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There's also a growing trend towards freelance jobs I'm seeing. Not very many small companies need a full time programmer for a endless time... they're willing to pay the premium to get you where they need you for a few months, then wait a bit while you find the next one.
Open source is a concept where people get together write code to solve a common problem they have... they understand that they will not directly profit from the coding, although they may be seen as experts in whatever area their project is in, and they can then profit selling hardware, consulting on implementations, and other things.
If a company hires away all the programmers and then have them do something else so they don't contribute anymore, the project either is frozen, or new developers fork the project away from the original developers and the project moves on...
How quickly we forget... Microsoft was a major backer of HD-DVD. There was a format war, they lost.
PRML is simple to explain... we've agreed that we're talking in 0s and 1s and I just detected a .73 coming down the line. The best thing to do here is to assume they sent a 1 because that's closer than 0 and we know .73 can't be the true value for that bit.
What this is, trying to guess what comes next in a sequence is a bigger leap. I just got 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, and no clue what comes next. Is it okay to assume it's a 1 and not a 0?
No parents? No kids? No significant other? Oh yeah, I understand, You're on Slashdot.
Yeah, but they've got to sell those weight loss schemes somehow. Would you please link your Google Health weight statistic to your TV ad interest form?
Go buy a pre-paid phone with cash and take the battery out of your regular cell phone at random intervals.
How quickly we forget... If you pay for a phone with cash, you've consented to a wiretap. They want to know who you are. If you fail to identify yourself by recharging with a credit card, they keep wondering. If too many minutes are bought by cash, they start raising the price for everybody in the region. Okay, so the investigation on this was done by an organization that also employs Ryan Seacrest. Still, it's true.
FTC is just doing its job... government access isn't a bad thing to them, but people afraid of government snooping is bad for business.
Because they can force you to give up your crypto key or go to jail infinitely, which is a worse punishment than anything short of death.
All hard drives will fail eventually. Flash memory drives are starting to outlast them, but those will fail someday too. CD/DVDs age poorly. Nothing is safe in your house anyway.
So, a cloud with a big RAID where dead drives are replaced with no loss in a nice safe datacenter sounds like a nice option. The problem with that is that clouds are run by companies, and no company lasts forever either. Look at what happened to drive.com.... they were bought by AOL, and then thrown out. Users were given a couple of months to retrieve their data, after which everything was deleted.
Is there any way to write data and then 10 years later get that same data back?
Yep. Anything that connects to any phone network must allow dialing of 911 even when no service is being paid for. In fact, most modern cell phones make it easier to dial 911 when there's no paid service.
And so can turn over anybody who has physical access to your house. No safety in that.
Most cloud services these days are funded by companies who have ad interests too. Google has the web's largest ad network, Amazon loves to sell things, Microsoft has an ad platform too. Will what you post on MySpace suddenly influence which ad you see when you're watching Fox? Should it?
A hard drive in your house is just as accessible as data in the cloud, they just need a warrant. However, they have a hard time hiding the fact they took your computer, it's somewhat questionable whether you can detect they got a wiretap, and outright impossible to tell what they copied out of a cloud... so the net change is that you'll have a harder time telling you've been snooped on, but that won't make it any easier to do the snooping. If you have info, they can make you turn it over whether you want to or not. What's at stake here is whether you know.
futhermore, states can't tax cargo moving through... that's Interstate Commerce and only the feds can mess that up.
George W. Bush is already scheming how to dodge the updraft.
RTFA... they're using a processor-intensive program to estimate what the next bit should have been when they can't get to it.
I'm all for them upgrading their encryption rather than have them crying to courts that solving their encryption puzzle is illegal.
There's some logic to over-buying sometimes. PS3 has been compatible with every change to Blu-Ray such as BD Live. Some same-age players got left in the dust with that one.
Nah, that's why I posted the other one first. And I actually had 15 minutes to prepare both.
They're calling this tech "Maximum Likelihood Sequence Estimation" because they couldn't get the trademark on "We'll go with our best guess what comes next."
There's a little more than just a firmware upgrade involved here. This is a computationally-intensive process, which means the PS3 might be able to handle this, but the $100 player you got at Wal-Mart most certainly won't. Moore's Law means that this will become practical in the future, but this tech is definitely ahead of it's time.
A modern "turnstyle-less" gate system is used at some MBTA stations around Boston... the card is scanned at the reader, then an infrared system tracks when you've made it to the door, opens it, and then closes when you reach the other side. The lanes are reversable... that is to say an "enter" lane can change signs and become an "exit" where no fare is debited but they still need to control the door so nobody gets in without doing a 4 foot high jump.
Docken may have just gotten to the chicken... Symantec effectively D-DOSed their update servers with code that made practically every one of their own customers think they hadn't updated recently enough and query to see if there was anything new. Nice work guys...
So that means the root cause would be taking a hex 2-digit value and doing integer math and then reading the result as if it was still hex. The correct value would have been 0x0a.