A friend of mine was marking University math tests and found that one student had excellent work, every step shown, and all the right answers... to a different test administered to another class. None of his answers made any sense in the context of the questions given, and this had initially confused him until he realized he recognized the answers from that other test.
I still remember my highschool physics teacher. He took almost exactly the problems we'd dealt with in class, but added irrelevant data to the problem. If you had memorized the forumlae but didn't understand the concepts, you probably wouldn't do so well. If you understood the material, the irrelevant values and facts stood out.
That and when he started the exam he pointed out he'd written it himself (doing the answers) with full work in about 2h50, and we had 3h to complete it. Only if you knew the material as well as he did would you get a perfect grade.
I still find it entertaining that contrary to public opinion, as gaming has opened up to a wider audience it has become less mature and more low-brow than ever.
The gamers of a generation ago got their share of slanderous nicknames but they seemed to be more respectful, intelligent and mature in general than those found today.
The idea isn't to find bugs, but to validate that there aren't back doors (at the behest of the NSA for example). However, without being able to build it, you can't tell if this really is the source code to the version of Windows you're running or not. A build test with a binary comparison would be a real assurance.
That said, when your link is transmitting at full speed and you try to throw another packet down the pipe, you get queueing delays and/or packet drops resulting in delays.
Those delays add up to effective latency.
Sure, one device may still be exactly 24ms from another device on the wire, but if there's no room for that extra data, you have to wait longer for it to get there.
Latency doesn't just mean actual wire latency of a specific packet. It has a nice English definition that allows it to be used in sentences to mean "I've got high latency on this video chat because my bandwidth is too low to handle it". That is to say, the a/v is encoded at 1.5Mb and you have 1.0Mb transmission available, you're going to be waiting for the data to show up.
No, its not the same thing as a ping time, but its the layer 7 bit that matters to the user.
Not really sure why we're talking about the phones though. The exploit in this case didn't necessarily have much to do with the actual handsets themselves.
People still say PC to mean Windows though. They associate the hardware with the software they're most typically running on it.
Did Intel's chipsets or CPUs suck in some way to prevent addressing over 3GB of RAM? Not really, no. But people still commented on PCs not being able to use that memory, when they meant Windows. Linux users weren't affected the same way, for example.
The app store only exists on the iphone/pad/pod platform, and with Apple's attempt to integrate them so tightly, we may as well discuss them as one big entity.
dot-com is international, so are dot-org and dot-net. If you're hosting an American centric website, use dot-us.
I use dot-ca for mine, since I'm Canadian, but my registrar is still American, for what its worth. Does that mean the US government should be allowed to shut down DNS for my Canadian website hosted in Canada because my DNS registrar is American?
The registrar only handles the name of your website. The name of their website was not illegal, and a proper understanding of Internet law at some point in the future will probably prevent this type of seizure too.
This is equivalent to removing someone's name from the white pages of the phone book because they might have broken the law (notice: no convictions, these are suspects, not convicts). The DNS and registrar system are the white pages of the Internet, they are not the content.
When do you think they came up with Android exactly? Yesterday? Android (which runs on Linux for the less technical people) has been in development quite some time, including long before the now infamous 1.5 phones were released. That's just a modern example.
Web interfaces like Hotmail were running on other free OSs many many moons ago, long before the likes of Microsoft bought them out.
Last I checked, Linux developers are less than a dime a dozen, many of them donate their code for free. That code reuse alone would save huge development dollars on a kiosk system.
Not that I was writing Linux-based GUI kiosk interfaces ten years ago or anything... oh wait, yes I was.
And congrats, your stick no longer works in secondary devices like televisions, video game consoles, printers and other devices that only know FAT-32, all of which are handy when you have a USB stick of photos.
I have the same problem convincing people to just use 'const' in C programs where they don't expect to modify a value. Its an easy step and it lets the compiler catch a whole host of problems for you (not to mention do optimizations) but its too much typing for some people.
That's a major failure in the way the company is structured then.
If you don't have a system that allows people with insight and power to make decisions that affect your customers without the latter going to the media and crying foul, you're doing it wrong.
For example, the Sega headset used dual LCD screens. Todays 3D televisions generally use a single screen, usually with glasses to isolate the eyes. That's a major difference, and probably enough to invalidate the previous research for any use other than fear mongering.
A major difference between the two technologies is focal depth, among others.
That said, even 'how to prevent eyestrain' manuals for office workers tell you to look away from the screen periodically to refocus your eyes and prevent strain.
Is that a threat or just a moronic retort without substance?
Reading legal documents is almost always a good idea, whether you think they can be upheld or not. At the very least, you'll learn what the other party expects of you.
I'm quite certain you'd find that "being in the closet" is exactly the same condition of the mind, and seems to have been quite common and probably still is.
If those persons wanting gay marriage signed a petition but lived in a location where they feared retribution, would that also make them cowards and not deserving of expressing their sympathy to a cause anonymously?
That is to say, is safety only guaranteed to the liberal?
Recently we've been hearing about how Apple has grown bigger then MS, but their R&D budget was 10% of Microsoft's in 2009. Investors have became angry with other companies for spending so much on R&D and they point to the example of Apple that makes better much money by spending their money on marketing.
So do Coke and Pepsi and other basic consumer brands.
Apple is not the next Lockheed Martin, its trying to be Coke; ubiquitous and popular, not particularly innovative.
I'm sure a few people are checking the Android source files right now to tell you how... or at least blog about it.
Personally I use an unofficial Android distribution on my phone CyanogenMod, but with the Google apps such as the Market installed as well. I'm not sure if this is a feature of the Market app itself, or of the Android OS.
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A friend of mine was marking University math tests and found that one student had excellent work, every step shown, and all the right answers ... to a different test administered to another class. None of his answers made any sense in the context of the questions given, and this had initially confused him until he realized he recognized the answers from that other test.
I still remember my highschool physics teacher. He took almost exactly the problems we'd dealt with in class, but added irrelevant data to the problem. If you had memorized the forumlae but didn't understand the concepts, you probably wouldn't do so well. If you understood the material, the irrelevant values and facts stood out.
That and when he started the exam he pointed out he'd written it himself (doing the answers) with full work in about 2h50, and we had 3h to complete it. Only if you knew the material as well as he did would you get a perfect grade.
I despise easy grades -- they're meaningless.
If your final project isn't supervised its pretty easy to cheat.
I had so many memories of this game when that movie with the blue people came out. I went looking for my 3.5" floppy box.
I still find it entertaining that contrary to public opinion, as gaming has opened up to a wider audience it has become less mature and more low-brow than ever.
The gamers of a generation ago got their share of slanderous nicknames but they seemed to be more respectful, intelligent and mature in general than those found today.
The idea isn't to find bugs, but to validate that there aren't back doors (at the behest of the NSA for example). However, without being able to build it, you can't tell if this really is the source code to the version of Windows you're running or not. A build test with a binary comparison would be a real assurance.
Of course they're not the same.
That said, when your link is transmitting at full speed and you try to throw another packet down the pipe, you get queueing delays and/or packet drops resulting in delays.
Those delays add up to effective latency.
Sure, one device may still be exactly 24ms from another device on the wire, but if there's no room for that extra data, you have to wait longer for it to get there.
Latency doesn't just mean actual wire latency of a specific packet. It has a nice English definition that allows it to be used in sentences to mean "I've got high latency on this video chat because my bandwidth is too low to handle it". That is to say, the a/v is encoded at 1.5Mb and you have 1.0Mb transmission available, you're going to be waiting for the data to show up.
No, its not the same thing as a ping time, but its the layer 7 bit that matters to the user.
People still say PC to mean Windows though. They associate the hardware with the software they're most typically running on it.
Did Intel's chipsets or CPUs suck in some way to prevent addressing over 3GB of RAM? Not really, no. But people still commented on PCs not being able to use that memory, when they meant Windows. Linux users weren't affected the same way, for example.
The app store only exists on the iphone/pad/pod platform, and with Apple's attempt to integrate them so tightly, we may as well discuss them as one big entity.
You mean like the .us tld they didn't use?
dot-com is international, so are dot-org and dot-net. If you're hosting an American centric website, use dot-us.
I use dot-ca for mine, since I'm Canadian, but my registrar is still American, for what its worth. Does that mean the US government should be allowed to shut down DNS for my Canadian website hosted in Canada because my DNS registrar is American?
The registrar only handles the name of your website. The name of their website was not illegal, and a proper understanding of Internet law at some point in the future will probably prevent this type of seizure too.
This is equivalent to removing someone's name from the white pages of the phone book because they might have broken the law (notice: no convictions, these are suspects, not convicts). The DNS and registrar system are the white pages of the Internet, they are not the content.
Really observant drivers will notice that many of those people also dive over the curb making a right without talking on their cell phones.
The problem isn't the cell phone, the problem is the licensing system.
When do you think they came up with Android exactly? Yesterday? Android (which runs on Linux for the less technical people) has been in development quite some time, including long before the now infamous 1.5 phones were released. That's just a modern example.
Web interfaces like Hotmail were running on other free OSs many many moons ago, long before the likes of Microsoft bought them out.
Last I checked, Linux developers are less than a dime a dozen, many of them donate their code for free. That code reuse alone would save huge development dollars on a kiosk system.
Not that I was writing Linux-based GUI kiosk interfaces ten years ago or anything ... oh wait, yes I was.
And congrats, your stick no longer works in secondary devices like televisions, video game consoles, printers and other devices that only know FAT-32, all of which are handy when you have a USB stick of photos.
I have the same problem convincing people to just use 'const' in C programs where they don't expect to modify a value. Its an easy step and it lets the compiler catch a whole host of problems for you (not to mention do optimizations) but its too much typing for some people.
That's a major failure in the way the company is structured then.
If you don't have a system that allows people with insight and power to make decisions that affect your customers without the latter going to the media and crying foul, you're doing it wrong.
To expand on the AC parent, how many teenagers commit suicide from emotional abuse vs. physical?
Notably, most people know there's a different between physical discipline and physical abuse.
Ask a security guard sometime.
Oh wait, we have one of those already :).
"Did your parents not spank you?" is now one of my favourite subtle insults.
If you're a disrespectful jerk, you probably didn't get appropriately punished as a child. Just my theory.
A major difference between the two technologies is focal depth, among others.
That said, even 'how to prevent eyestrain' manuals for office workers tell you to look away from the screen periodically to refocus your eyes and prevent strain.
Is that a threat or just a moronic retort without substance?
Reading legal documents is almost always a good idea, whether you think they can be upheld or not. At the very least, you'll learn what the other party expects of you.
... obviously, but has nothing whatsoever to do with what I said, nor the post I replied to.
I'm quite certain you'd find that "being in the closet" is exactly the same condition of the mind, and seems to have been quite common and probably still is.
If those persons wanting gay marriage signed a petition but lived in a location where they feared retribution, would that also make them cowards and not deserving of expressing their sympathy to a cause anonymously?
That is to say, is safety only guaranteed to the liberal?
So do Coke and Pepsi and other basic consumer brands.
Apple is not the next Lockheed Martin, its trying to be Coke; ubiquitous and popular, not particularly innovative.
Only complete idiots don't realize SI exists.
Friends of the researcher in question could install the APK without the market.
I'm sure a few people are checking the Android source files right now to tell you how... or at least blog about it.
Personally I use an unofficial Android distribution on my phone CyanogenMod, but with the Google apps such as the Market installed as well. I'm not sure if this is a feature of the Market app itself, or of the Android OS.