You're really funny. Brown (http://cs.brown.edu) has no University-wide requirements. We also have one of the best [13th according to some random website Google just showed me] CS departments in the US, and, as an Ivy, I somewhat suspect we're accredited. *cough* </snark>
I came here because I had roughly the same attitude as you, and, looking at the upmodded comments, I'm the only one who seems to be agreeing-ish. That said, most of the other upmodded comments make valid points. Let me elaborate:
Just because you don't have any requirements for gen-ed classes doesn't mean you want to take only CS classes. Almost everyone (all but 1 person I know) in the CS department who came in with our mentality has come to realize
taking only CS-ey classes is FAR too much work (at least for Brown's CS classes.)
unless every aspect of CS interests you, you'll run out. Don't OD on CS your first couple semesters.
being here [Brown] gives you a unique opportunity to take, with little risk, anything that sounds interesting. Taking a general "how to write" class, feh. On the other hand, "Beyond Narnia: The Literature of C.S. Lewis", "Color Me Cool: A Survey of Contemporary Graphic Novels", "Human Sexuality in a Social Context": you're not going to get opportunities like that in your life ever again. Seriously.
The name "functional" is a little confusing, since imperative languages are heavily based on functions as well, though they are not typically used in the same way.
Actually, imperative languages are typically based on procedures, not functions. The fact that such languages tend to call procedures "functions" is the confusing bit.
xmonad does what you want with desktops my default. Each of my monitors is bound to one specific workspace at a time; I can switch either monitor independently to any workspace, or manually stretch windows across the gap in between.
You can use xmonad as the window manager for GNOME.
It'll require a little bit of tweaking to make it look normal, though (you'll need to add window decorations, and configure it to make windows floating by default), or you could learn the keyboard shortcuts and use tiling, which sounds like it may work better with the way you want to think about screens anyway. (It sounds terrible, I know, but it's remarkably effective.)
In fact, during the same time period a guy named Craig Gentry solved a major open crypto problem --- namely, how to compute on encrypted data --- and it got a fraction of the press coverage.
This was nothing fundamentally new; google "secure multiparty computation." Or, FTFA, Gentry's technique requires a "trillion times" more computational power than existing techniques.
Not that I think his work wasn't awesome-- I've already queued the paper in my reading list. All I'm claiming is that he didn't "solve a major open problem".
FAT32: no POSIX metadata, 4GB file size limit is deadly. It's inefficient, and generally outdated and nasty.
NTFS: proprietary, sometimes complicated to get on Linux, hard to get on OSX.
ext*: bad-to-none support on non-Linux. IIRC, neither the Windows nor OSX drivers support journaling, for example.
HFS+: about the same boat as ext*, if you swap "Linux" and "OSX".
UDF: reasonably efficient, support for basic metadata (POSIX, though no EAs or forks), full support on Linux 2.6, OSX 10.5, Windows Vista/7, or (with third-party utils)
What you fail to understand is that the customer-accessible part of the manager food chain in the vast majority of companies is approximately two people tall: CSR and supervisor. (Depending on the company and nature of question, you may be able to get to tier2 support; hence the "approximately".)
You will have better luck...
Just calling back. Virgin Mobile's policies used to differ depending on which call center your call got routed to, but even in less extreme cases, some reps are nicer than others.
Turboing. In particular, some companies have started to have "Executive Support" hotlines (Sprint comes to mind.) Save these for a last resort. GetHuman is also useful.
Moving horizontally. Try web order support, activations, billing, customer service, terminations, etc.
Being nice instead of nasty.
Writing. Yes, seriously. I've resolved many issues just by sending the entity in question a nastygram. People still take snail-mail seriously.
Maybe because it's decent in suburban areas, because it's significantly cheaper than AT&T, Sprint, or Verizon, because we don't mind roaming, and because T-Mobile is slightly less obviously run by assholes than the other three aforementioned companies?
T-Mobile's ETF is $200. They can't offer you a subsidy of significantly more than $200, because then it would be to your advantage to buy a phone, cancel your contract, and sell the phone for a profit. Contract lengths are two years. Amortized over 2 years, by taking the subsidy, you save $8._33. Meanwhile, T-Mobile's has two tiers of plans. One gives you the subsidy, has a contract, and is $10 more a month. Thus: if you have the money up-front, buy your phone, save $240 in the cost of a plan over two years, and save yourself from a contract.
Consider the Motorola Cliq. As a user, it's a good phone.
but they haven't even bothered to make sure that only leaf certificates can be issued.
Nope; the CA only signed a what you call a leaf certificate, but the constraint which determines whether a key can is a branch ("CA = true") or leaf ("CA = false") was part of the cert that they were able to change. See the last paragraph of section 5.1
Without provocation, I've looked only at the sizes of home directories or the number of files in them.
When someone asks me something, though, I'll look in their home directory if it'll help resolve whatever they asked about. (Usually their home directory is o+rX anyway.) Also, if someone is over hard quota or ~100x over soft quota I've looked at people's home directories. I don't think any of the times I've had to do that, I've been looking in enough detail that I even would have noticed if they had a directory called "child_porn" or something:-)
You wrote a long comment, so I won't reply to every part individually. The main things I'd like to say:
> Additional cleanup, "scene is safe"
Again, I would hope, in such situations (any in which the building is no longer presenting a danger to the community around it), you'd do so only at discretion of the building's owner.
> Fire watches, hotspots
Hotspots are fair cause for concern; granted.
> Police investigations, workplaces, public buildings, building codes
Those shouldn't be the fire department's responsibility. Leave it to the police, labor regulators, commerce regulators, etc.
1. It proves the fire marshal was right in not allowing them to feed power in their. That the results of the decision the fire marshal made ended up being better than the results if they'd power on proves absolutely nothing; it's like saying "well, I pointed the revolver at my head and pulled the trigger, but that chamber was empty. Therefore, I made the right decision." (Understand, I'm attempting at all to claim that the marshal's decision was wrong, just that the decision can't be judged accurately with more information than was known at the time.)
2. It proves that when that big dumb fireman you see (who may be a volunteer who's also a network guy and software developer with an IQ above 95% of the world) may in fact have a good reason for the way they do things on scene.
Look, as a firefighter I don't set out to ruin someone's day. I set out to keep them safe. If that sounds paternalistic, well, It is paternalistic. It very much feels that way. In my small town, its how I feel. I wonder ever time I walk into a building, how I would protect MY PEOPLE in this building if a fire broke out or a hazmat incident started or whatever. You can't help it, its what you're trained to do. I should hope that, once the fire was out, you'd get the fuck away and let the owners of the building do whatever they wanted, because if not, you're seriously impinging on their rights without a pressing reason. As others have said below, if the there isn't an immediate threat to the public (i.e. there's no fire), you should have no ability to force yourself upon the building's owners.
Did you even bother to read the comment you just replied to? It wasn't the same person as the author comment you originally ranted to; on the contrary, he agreed with you.
Your first post was quite reasonable. This one made me think you're an asshat who thinks he's entitled to decide everything that might remotely affect him, and *not* just in your job.
Am I the only person who finds it bitterly ironic that, when a correction about a misleading summary is *finally* posted to Slashdot, the misleading summary was actually in some other news source?
The problem with that is that unless the form is also encrypted, you need to read the source to be sure the that when you click Submit, the form actually will go to the right place. If the form isn't under https, an attacker could modify it in transit to submit to somewhere else.
Slashdot Mirror
You're really funny. Brown (http://cs.brown.edu) has no University-wide requirements. We also have one of the best [13th according to some random website Google just showed me] CS departments in the US, and, as an Ivy, I somewhat suspect we're accredited. *cough* </snark>
I came here because I had roughly the same attitude as you, and, looking at the upmodded comments, I'm the only one who seems to be agreeing-ish. That said, most of the other upmodded comments make valid points. Let me elaborate:
Just because you don't have any requirements for gen-ed classes doesn't mean you want to take only CS classes. Almost everyone (all but 1 person I know) in the CS department who came in with our mentality has come to realize
Love,
Jon Sailor (cs.brown.edu/~jon)
Which is why it makes an easy target for a Scheme compiler, right?
http://github.com/dyoo/moby-scheme
http://planet.plt-scheme.org/display.ss?package=moby.plt&owner=dyoo
http://www.cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Talks/Moby-Bootstrap/
The name "functional" is a little confusing, since imperative languages are heavily based on functions as well, though they are not typically used in the same way.
Actually, imperative languages are typically based on procedures, not functions. The fact that such languages tend to call procedures "functions" is the confusing bit.
xmonad does what you want with desktops my default. Each of my monitors is bound to one specific workspace at a time; I can switch either monitor independently to any workspace, or manually stretch windows across the gap in between.
You can use xmonad as the window manager for GNOME.
It'll require a little bit of tweaking to make it look normal, though (you'll need to add window decorations, and configure it to make windows floating by default), or you could learn the keyboard shortcuts and use tiling, which sounds like it may work better with the way you want to think about screens anyway. (It sounds terrible, I know, but it's remarkably effective.)
Sure. It's all in what you consider "fundamental", I guess.
" but inefficient isn't the end of the world. Just means it's a first step towards something better."
That's like saying a break in AES to 2^40 isn't the end of the world, it just makes cracking it slightly more efficient. :-P
In fact, during the same time period a guy named Craig Gentry solved a major open crypto problem --- namely, how to compute on encrypted data --- and it got a fraction of the press coverage.
This was nothing fundamentally new; google "secure multiparty computation." Or, FTFA, Gentry's technique requires a "trillion times" more computational power than existing techniques.
Not that I think his work wasn't awesome-- I've already queued the paper in my reading list. All I'm claiming is that he didn't "solve a major open problem".
That's turboing.
FAT32: no POSIX metadata, 4GB file size limit is deadly. It's inefficient, and generally outdated and nasty.
NTFS: proprietary, sometimes complicated to get on Linux, hard to get on OSX.
ext*: bad-to-none support on non-Linux. IIRC, neither the Windows nor OSX drivers support journaling, for example.
HFS+: about the same boat as ext*, if you swap "Linux" and "OSX".
UDF: reasonably efficient, support for basic metadata (POSIX, though no EAs or forks), full support on Linux 2.6, OSX 10.5, Windows Vista/7, or (with third-party utils)
argue my way up the manager food chain
What you fail to understand is that the customer-accessible part of the manager food chain in the vast majority of companies is approximately two people tall: CSR and supervisor. (Depending on the company and nature of question, you may be able to get to tier2 support; hence the "approximately".)
You will have better luck...
Maybe because it's decent in suburban areas, because it's significantly cheaper than AT&T, Sprint, or Verizon, because we don't mind roaming, and because T-Mobile is slightly less obviously run by assholes than the other three aforementioned companies?
Let me elaborate a bit on a previous comment.
T-Mobile's ETF is $200. They can't offer you a subsidy of significantly more than $200, because then it would be to your advantage to buy a phone, cancel your contract, and sell the phone for a profit. Contract lengths are two years. Amortized over 2 years, by taking the subsidy, you save $8._33. Meanwhile, T-Mobile's has two tiers of plans. One gives you the subsidy, has a contract, and is $10 more a month. Thus: if you have the money up-front, buy your phone, save $240 in the cost of a plan over two years, and save yourself from a contract.
Consider the Motorola Cliq. As a user, it's a good phone.
Nope; the CA only signed a what you call a leaf certificate, but the constraint which determines whether a key can is a branch ("CA = true") or leaf ("CA = false") was part of the cert that they were able to change. See the last paragraph of section 5.1
Ah, same here. P(one likes sentence diagramming | he posts on /.) exceeds P(one likes sentence diagramming) by a pretty big amount.
Easy as pi? Sounds pretty hard then... I never could do the arithmetic to get a computation with pi exactly right :-P
Without provocation, I've looked only at the sizes of home directories or the number of files in them.
:-)
When someone asks me something, though, I'll look in their home directory if it'll help resolve whatever they asked about. (Usually their home directory is o+rX anyway.) Also, if someone is over hard quota or ~100x over soft quota I've looked at people's home directories. I don't think any of the times I've had to do that, I've been looking in enough detail that I even would have noticed if they had a directory called "child_porn" or something
("Score: 1, Troll"? Not really?)
Of course, that's still faster than common DSL in the US.
> More often than not, it will be above it,
[citation needed]
> and during a download I haven't seen it go below the cap
and no original research. Shame on you.
I track things the same way, but I've never seen that. You might just be unlucky.
You wrote a long comment, so I won't reply to every part individually. The main things I'd like to say:
> Additional cleanup, "scene is safe"
Again, I would hope, in such situations (any in which the building is no longer presenting a danger to the community around it), you'd do so only at discretion of the building's owner.
> Fire watches, hotspots
Hotspots are fair cause for concern; granted.
> Police investigations, workplaces, public buildings, building codes
Those shouldn't be the fire department's responsibility. Leave it to the police, labor regulators, commerce regulators, etc.
> "Owner"
Semantics; s/owner/owner or legal occupant/
1. It proves the fire marshal was right in not allowing them to feed power in their. That the results of the decision the fire marshal made ended up being better than the results if they'd power on proves absolutely nothing; it's like saying "well, I pointed the revolver at my head and pulled the trigger, but that chamber was empty. Therefore, I made the right decision." (Understand, I'm attempting at all to claim that the marshal's decision was wrong, just that the decision can't be judged accurately with more information than was known at the time.) 2. It proves that when that big dumb fireman you see (who may be a volunteer who's also a network guy and software developer with an IQ above 95% of the world) may in fact have a good reason for the way they do things on scene.
Look, as a firefighter I don't set out to ruin someone's day. I set out to keep them safe. If that sounds paternalistic, well, It is paternalistic. It very much feels that way. In my small town, its how I feel. I wonder ever time I walk into a building, how I would protect MY PEOPLE in this building if a fire broke out or a hazmat incident started or whatever. You can't help it, its what you're trained to do. I should hope that, once the fire was out, you'd get the fuck away and let the owners of the building do whatever they wanted, because if not, you're seriously impinging on their rights without a pressing reason. As others have said below, if the there isn't an immediate threat to the public (i.e. there's no fire), you should have no ability to force yourself upon the building's owners.
Did you even bother to read the comment you just replied to? It wasn't the same person as the author comment you originally ranted to; on the contrary, he agreed with you.
Your first post was quite reasonable. This one made me think you're an asshat who thinks he's entitled to decide everything that might remotely affect him, and *not* just in your job.
They also are going to have to reimburse all the affected customers (assuming they all have SLAs). That's not too cheap either.
Am I the only person who finds it bitterly ironic that, when a correction about a misleading summary is *finally* posted to Slashdot, the misleading summary was actually in some other news source?
The problem with that is that unless the form is also encrypted, you need to read the source to be sure the that when you click Submit, the form actually will go to the right place. If the form isn't under https, an attacker could modify it in transit to submit to somewhere else.