You are also misquoting him by omission. There is a comma at the end of the sentence - not a period. The whole quote is as follows:
If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place, but if you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines including Google do retain this information for some time, and it's important, for example that we are all subject in the United States to the Patriot Act
I think his quote is entirely appropriate and not scary at all. If you are doing something and you don't want anyone to know about it, you should consider whether or not you ought to be doing it in the first place. That's almost Kant's categorical imperative; instead of "would I be okay if everyone else did this", it's "would I be okay if everyone knew I did this". Not quite as strong a basis for a moral system, but still something to consider.
If you decide that yes, you ought to be doing this but it should also be a secret, don't put it on the Internet. Nothing on the Internet is a secret. That's all he's saying.
The point of a lot of lower-division undergraduate CS is not to re-use code; it is to re-invent or re-implement code, so you know how it works. It's one thing to study linked lists; it's another thing entirely to write your own. It's the difference between studying the thermodynamic efficiencies of gasoline vs compressed air engines, and building your own compressed air engine in engineering lab; you learn a lot more about how stuff actually works.
So yes, lower division CS courses should require you to re-implement a lot of things, just like lower division mathematics courses should require you to solve calculus problems that have been solved a billion times before, and lower division English courses should require you to write papers about books that have been analyzed to death.
You may be surprised to learn that the Earth is a sphere. If you move far enough from the West to the East, you end up in the West again. It's kind of like Asteroids.
That's basically what we did when I went to college. Someone would host the DC++ server, and everyone else would connect to it and share files over it. You had to have 1 GB of shared files to join.
ResNet didn't give a shit, and in fact for a couple of years the guy who hosted the server was about as high up in ResNet as a student can get. We were using a ton of bandwidth, but as long as it was on the internal on-campus network they didn't care. In fact, I heard that we were kind of wink-and-nudge supported by the actual network administrators - college students are going to pirate stuff anyway, so they'd far prefer we do it on the local network, and leave the gathering of new materials to guys who'll use a VPN to a dedicated usenet box.
Good lord, for the last time, it's "cue". "Cue", not "queue". One is a line of waiting people or a data structure or a hairstyle, the other one is a signal for others to carry out an action.
This is getting worse than they're vs their, for goodness sakes.
My theory is that if you have the technology to survive the 400 year journey to Alpha Centauri at 0.1 c, why would you bother actually going to Alpha Centauri? You clearly have the technology to survive almost indefinitely in deep space, so why not just colonize the Kuiper belt? It's closer, and there's far more raw matter.
There's basically no reason to leave your home stellar system, besides a pride thing, until your star starts dying.
Father Dougal:Come on, Ted. Sure it's no more peculiar than all that stuff we learned in the seminary, you know, Heaven and Hell and everlasting life and all that type of thing.
We need to get away from this paradigm of "You must work 40 hours a week" to the paradigm of "You must do this, this, and this for me and I will pay you X."
The problem with that philosophy is that if you are worth X, "this, this and this" invaribly changes to "this, this, this, this and set up the server" - while X remains constant.
And then the business wonders why good tech workers change jobs more often than they change their shorts.
... and how exactly is a mature and financially stable company different from a mature and financially stable government? Besides being, you know, smaller and less interested in the public good?
Also, for $100 you can buy a reasonable 1 TB hard drive. A 500 GB non-insane speed drive should cost ~$50.
Since the movies won't come unlocked, you're paying ~$50 for 50 GB worth of data you could otherwise get for almost free, and which is almost free for them to provide. Is the movie industry just incapable of coming up with a business plan that doesn't involve ripping people off?
Yeah, this makes no sense to me. He basically replaced everything but the bleeding edge engineering sample? If it was my computer, that's the third thing I'd swap out once it gets to the point of potential hardware failure (ram is really easy to replace so why not, and hard drives are only marginally harder as long as you've already got the case open)
Manager: "Put out a job description, but word it so that we won't get any applicants. We just want an excuse to import an H1B who'll work for peanuts." HR: "Okay!"
---- later ---
Manager: "Oh shit, an actual American who expects some kind of quality of life applied! Quick, get rid of him somehow!" Interviewer: "So what's the difference between a String and a StringBuilder?"
Anyone can be replaced by an Indian code monkey, it just takes management more interested in the upcoming quarterly than in quality.
I can be replaced with a code monkey. Next year though, they'll have to hire two of me: one to replace the monkey, and one to clean up the shit he's been flinging around.
And the modern conservative party's answer to every problem is to throw more money at a different country. If we're going to be tossing money around, I'd prefer if it got spent here, thanks.
And if you dislike the fact that the modern conservative party isn't actually conservative, then maybe you should get off your asses and kick out the asshole politicians who think that pandering to paranoid idiots is a good way to get elected. It makes sense though, because those idiots never check what the politicians actually do (after all, liberal media is so biased and conservative media is so truthy), so the politicians can go ahead and do whatever they want as long as they mouth the right words.
Uhm, I would like to point out that Big Bang theory works to within measurable experimental error (hence this XKCD comic).
Big Bang theory does not cover inflation, matter vs anti-matter, large-scale matter distribution, or whether or not the laws of physics are constant over all space and time. When you say that you sound like one of those Intelligent Design tards who claim that evolution is flawed because it doesn't explain the evolution of galaxies and stars.
Big Bang theory does cover the very initial conditions of the Universe, and with it we can predict what the cosmic microwave background should be to an astonishing degree of accuracy.
If you are interested in what modern physics thinks of the beginning of the Universe, I would recommend starting with the "The Greatest Story Ever Told" posts on Starts With A Bang
They were badly formed questions for a literacy test. Instead of asking if they agree with the statement "The universe began with a big explosion", they should have asked something to determine IF people had a firm grasp of what the big bang theory WAS. Sure, personally I think that is by far the most likely theory (and that evolution is clearly fact at this point), but literacy is about comprehension, not belief.
I think that by definition, if people think that their religion trumps science in places as well-explored as the big bang and evolution, then those people are scientifically illiterate. As is their religion.
The only reason why the NSB would want to hide this is because they don't want to face the fact that the faiths in the United States are anti-reality. I mean hell, it makes no sense at all - the same segment of the report has been in there for the last few years.
What's really bad is that there are people who actually believe this. After all, if God has a plan for everyone, then clearly the people who are at the top are up there because God wants them there. It's sort of like free-market Calvinism.
If you look at the graphs for IE8 and IE9, it shows the CPU usage has been greatly reduced by offloading the tasks to the GPU. It went from 50% CPU usage to an average of 12%.
Yeah, and it pegged the GPU. So basically the GP is right; IE 9 is so inefficient that they have to offload computation to the GPU to make it usable.
And also: you know what else uses the GPU in Windows 7? Aero, the user interface. That means that if IE 9 uses up too much GPU time, your computer will be just as unresponsive.
Either it's Wikileaks pretending that they never received the keys, in order to force the DOD to cast a wider net (the DOD will have to look for people who have access to the encrypted video + might know its contents, not just people who have access to the unencrypted video), or the encryption scheme required six weeks of computer time just to decrypt - which is not as strange as it may sound, if you include "figuring out what encryption scheme was used" as part of decryption. You also need to factor in how long it took for them to analyze the actual video, plus some buffer time to be mysterious.
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You are also misquoting him by omission. There is a comma at the end of the sentence - not a period. The whole quote is as follows:
I think his quote is entirely appropriate and not scary at all. If you are doing something and you don't want anyone to know about it, you should consider whether or not you ought to be doing it in the first place. That's almost Kant's categorical imperative; instead of "would I be okay if everyone else did this", it's "would I be okay if everyone knew I did this". Not quite as strong a basis for a moral system, but still something to consider.
If you decide that yes, you ought to be doing this but it should also be a secret, don't put it on the Internet. Nothing on the Internet is a secret. That's all he's saying.
So what you are saying, then, is that the La Mulana Let's Play is art? It's definitely full of pathos.
Hah, you're lucky I even bothered to finish my se
The point of a lot of lower-division undergraduate CS is not to re-use code; it is to re-invent or re-implement code, so you know how it works. It's one thing to study linked lists; it's another thing entirely to write your own. It's the difference between studying the thermodynamic efficiencies of gasoline vs compressed air engines, and building your own compressed air engine in engineering lab; you learn a lot more about how stuff actually works.
So yes, lower division CS courses should require you to re-implement a lot of things, just like lower division mathematics courses should require you to solve calculus problems that have been solved a billion times before, and lower division English courses should require you to write papers about books that have been analyzed to death.
You may be surprised to learn that the Earth is a sphere. If you move far enough from the West to the East, you end up in the West again. It's kind of like Asteroids.
That's basically what we did when I went to college. Someone would host the DC++ server, and everyone else would connect to it and share files over it. You had to have 1 GB of shared files to join.
ResNet didn't give a shit, and in fact for a couple of years the guy who hosted the server was about as high up in ResNet as a student can get. We were using a ton of bandwidth, but as long as it was on the internal on-campus network they didn't care. In fact, I heard that we were kind of wink-and-nudge supported by the actual network administrators - college students are going to pirate stuff anyway, so they'd far prefer we do it on the local network, and leave the gathering of new materials to guys who'll use a VPN to a dedicated usenet box.
Good lord, for the last time, it's "cue". "Cue", not "queue". One is a line of waiting people or a data structure or a hairstyle, the other one is a signal for others to carry out an action.
This is getting worse than they're vs their, for goodness sakes.
My theory is that if you have the technology to survive the 400 year journey to Alpha Centauri at 0.1 c, why would you bother actually going to Alpha Centauri? You clearly have the technology to survive almost indefinitely in deep space, so why not just colonize the Kuiper belt? It's closer, and there's far more raw matter.
There's basically no reason to leave your home stellar system, besides a pride thing, until your star starts dying.
Father Dougal: Come on, Ted. Sure it's no more peculiar than all that stuff we learned in the seminary, you know, Heaven and Hell and everlasting life and all that type of thing.
The problem with that philosophy is that if you are worth X, "this, this and this" invaribly changes to "this, this, this, this and set up the server" - while X remains constant.
And then the business wonders why good tech workers change jobs more often than they change their shorts.
... and how exactly is a mature and financially stable company different from a mature and financially stable government? Besides being, you know, smaller and less interested in the public good?
So remind me again how I bookmark a specific place in a Flash applet?
Also, for $100 you can buy a reasonable 1 TB hard drive. A 500 GB non-insane speed drive should cost ~$50.
Since the movies won't come unlocked, you're paying ~$50 for 50 GB worth of data you could otherwise get for almost free, and which is almost free for them to provide. Is the movie industry just incapable of coming up with a business plan that doesn't involve ripping people off?
Yeah, this makes no sense to me. He basically replaced everything but the bleeding edge engineering sample? If it was my computer, that's the third thing I'd swap out once it gets to the point of potential hardware failure (ram is really easy to replace so why not, and hard drives are only marginally harder as long as you've already got the case open)
Splitting and stacking wood doesn't involve subtasks that can be NP-Complete.
Yeah, exactly. This is how it went:
Manager: "Put out a job description, but word it so that we won't get any applicants. We just want an excuse to import an H1B who'll work for peanuts."
HR: "Okay!"
---- later ---
Manager: "Oh shit, an actual American who expects some kind of quality of life applied! Quick, get rid of him somehow!"
Interviewer: "So what's the difference between a String and a StringBuilder?"
I can be replaced with a code monkey. Next year though, they'll have to hire two of me: one to replace the monkey, and one to clean up the shit he's been flinging around.
And the modern conservative party's answer to every problem is to throw more money at a different country. If we're going to be tossing money around, I'd prefer if it got spent here, thanks.
And if you dislike the fact that the modern conservative party isn't actually conservative, then maybe you should get off your asses and kick out the asshole politicians who think that pandering to paranoid idiots is a good way to get elected. It makes sense though, because those idiots never check what the politicians actually do (after all, liberal media is so biased and conservative media is so truthy), so the politicians can go ahead and do whatever they want as long as they mouth the right words.
Uhm, I would like to point out that Big Bang theory works to within measurable experimental error (hence this XKCD comic).
Big Bang theory does not cover inflation, matter vs anti-matter, large-scale matter distribution, or whether or not the laws of physics are constant over all space and time. When you say that you sound like one of those Intelligent Design tards who claim that evolution is flawed because it doesn't explain the evolution of galaxies and stars.
Big Bang theory does cover the very initial conditions of the Universe, and with it we can predict what the cosmic microwave background should be to an astonishing degree of accuracy.
If you are interested in what modern physics thinks of the beginning of the Universe, I would recommend starting with the "The Greatest Story Ever Told" posts on Starts With A Bang
I think that by definition, if people think that their religion trumps science in places as well-explored as the big bang and evolution, then those people are scientifically illiterate. As is their religion.
The only reason why the NSB would want to hide this is because they don't want to face the fact that the faiths in the United States are anti-reality. I mean hell, it makes no sense at all - the same segment of the report has been in there for the last few years.
Silly goose, your money is your vote!
What's really bad is that there are people who actually believe this. After all, if God has a plan for everyone, then clearly the people who are at the top are up there because God wants them there. It's sort of like free-market Calvinism.
Yeah, and it pegged the GPU. So basically the GP is right; IE 9 is so inefficient that they have to offload computation to the GPU to make it usable.
And also: you know what else uses the GPU in Windows 7? Aero, the user interface. That means that if IE 9 uses up too much GPU time, your computer will be just as unresponsive.
The fun part is the answer to the converse question: "How much space has matter in it?"
The answer to that is: "Close to none, and it's decreasing all the time."
Take that, fine tuning!
Either it's Wikileaks pretending that they never received the keys, in order to force the DOD to cast a wider net (the DOD will have to look for people who have access to the encrypted video + might know its contents, not just people who have access to the unencrypted video), or the encryption scheme required six weeks of computer time just to decrypt - which is not as strange as it may sound, if you include "figuring out what encryption scheme was used" as part of decryption. You also need to factor in how long it took for them to analyze the actual video, plus some buffer time to be mysterious.