I suspect that the most expensive of all is trying to teach the president of a company that running open wireless routers is a very serious security problem.
It might be easier to convince an alligator to voluntarily become a vegetarian.
In the days of Napster, a nephew of mine spent a year living with me while going to college nearby.
His use of Napster would make the cable modem connection unusable. In response, I'd go to the home firewall device (had one of the early Linksys models) and block the traffic.
Yes. The Russian mafia. They have much more than sufficient resource - not merely access to supercomputers, but also access to large botnets of other people's PCs. Cracking encryption is a task well suited to distributed computing.
Yes, these people can and routinely do crack military grade encryption, if the data is valuable enough. This data is valuable enough.
Would you perhaps have some real information to support those claims?
If they are cracking military grade encryption, which I very seriously doubt, then they are likely doing so by buying the keys from someone, not by brute forcing it.
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As per the article, that's not an option. Even if the poster's parents grudgingly slap on a dish, they're living in an area where there's likely to be local ordinances against blatantly jarring or modern features on houses.
Local ordinances don't amount to a hill of beans if the dish can also be used for satellite television.
FCC trumps local ordinances. And they are reportedly quite aggressive about it.
So, you problem is that programmers make use of undocumented API calls. While "undocumented" does not always equal "unsupported", using them is just plain stupid. Whether it is Windows, Linux, MS-DOS, DR-DOS, OSux using the system in an undocumented/unsupported way is well, U N S U P P O R T E D. Don't blame the OS or the those that coded it, blame those that wrote against the API in an unsupported way.
You aren't real familiar with developing Windows software, are you?
Many undocumented API calls are there precisely to give Microsoft an enormous advantage over their competitors. Microsoft uses them for their software but would rather everyone else be unable to implement a number of features.
If you want to compete with Microsoft and with other software written for Windows, using undocumented API calls is pretty much a necessity.
Just out of curiousity, are you using a frame in the house?
If I ever build my own house, I'll probably use compressed earth blocks, stabilized with cement, and a good quality plaster inside and outside.
But I'm undecided on whether or not to use a frame. Around here, seismic activity is nearly nonexistant and so I wouldn't be too worried about it collapsing during an earthquake.
Another way to be more environmentally friendly would be to use adobe or compressed earth building techniques.
In this area, we get about the same amount of yearly rainfall as in places like Santa Fe, New Mexico where the use of adobe is very common. I think it would do quite well.
For cooling, swamp coolers work quite well for us.
I've been wanting to do this on the family farm for years. My concern is not really about reducing power usage as it is about having power during the power failures that are not all that uncommon.
There is also a big push to put the big corporate wind turbines on the local farms. Those could easily make the difference between making a profit or losing money on a farming operation.
I spent yesterday afternoon and this morning at a local wind turbine construction site where they are putting up approximately 75 turbines this year. The owner of the land said he had been working for seven years just to get to the point where they are putting them in.
He was my committee chairman's (for my masters) committee chairman (for his phd).
I've heard John Wheeler speak on several occasions including a banquet in which he was the guest speaker. The talks were always very interesting and informative.
The best I saw was someone solving a burglary in something like 2 hours on the internet. The stolen goods were recovered in something like 4 hours or so.
I gave up years ago trying to get the company to provide me with an up to date computer. If I left it to the company, I'd still be using a 233 MHz computer and a 14 inch monitor.
So I use my own computers and monitors.
Every computer that I use that has company information on it is owned by me. That is two computers with Linux, one computer with OpenBSD, and two computers with Windows 2000. Every last piece of backup media here is mine, too. And the hard drives on the file server are mine, too.
If I should leave or retire, and I feel like being really nice to them, I'll give them a copy of their programs and data. If I just feel somewhat nice, I'll sell them the copies. Or maybe I'll just offer them the computers and media at their original list prices plus a markup for carrying costs.
Just what risks do ISPs have for the file sharing by their customers?
THe last I heard, ISPs have a safe harbor as long as they just act as a conduit.
As such, any ISP that worries about their liabilities for the issue are wasting their time on nothing. To the best of my knowledge, there are no risks for the ISPs.
I'm certainly no Democrat. And I'm certainly no Hillary supporter. But unless Hillary screws up, I think she will be the next President.
The biggest issue will be the economy, not Iraq, unless we some kind of economic miracle over the next 10 months. With a continuing credit crunch, a likely recession, more housing problems, serious inflation on the horizon, and rising unemployment, most of those on the fence are going to be voting for the Democratic candidate.
Add in the fact that the Republicans haven't accomplished much at all the last few years. That is largely because President Bush did not make very good decisions about selecting people on his team and turning far too much power over to them, especially to Karl Rove.
Karl Rove didn't understand Washington DC, yet he was the one selected to try to push through legislation. He failed miserably at that.
I started predicting a Hillary win when President Bush nominated Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court in 2005. That showed that President Bush was far too insulated from the rest of the world and that his advisors were incapable of giving good advice. Or maybe he just refused to listen to good advice. At that point, it was clear why the Republican administration and the Republican Congress were unable to accomplish much at all. They made a lot of noise since then, but have precious little to show for it.
I sure wish Ron Paul would win, but that is extraordinarily unlikely.
One interesting variation involves installing power lines. This was brought up by Edward Teller in a lecture I attended in 1972.
Suppose you wanted to provide power to n-1 locations (i.e. n points on the map including the power plant) and you want to minimize the distance for the lines. Assume, of course, that right of way is related linearly to distance.
It may not be intuitive, but there will be times when you can introduce another point and result in less distance than the traveling salesman distance.
For example, consider a right isosceles triangle with two sides of length 1. The traveling salesman distance would be 2.
By introducing a junction point a little ways from the right angle and running the lines to it, you can reduce the total distance to something like 1.92.
It's not too difficult to solve this for three points, but try it for four randomly points that aren't in a line.
I assume that you tell them you are coming and have appointments set up based on what is convenient to you and to the customers. In that case, the ordering is determined more by the appointments than whether or not you can save a few miles overall.
You might also have preferred places to spend the night. How about if you have a favorite restaurant along the way and you want to order your visits so that you can go there for supper one night of the trip? How about if an old friend lives near one brewery and you'd live to stop and visit him one night? These could all easily affect the order.
And if it takes more than a week (considerably more in this case), you might want to go home on the weekends.
And you might have to stop by your company's offices once a week or so. More variances.
In other words, in real life, the most optimal route is rarely going to be the shortest route except in the simplest of cases.
If you want to select some number of real cities, just go ahead and select them and figure out the distances from each city to each other city. Google Maps might help figuring out the distance, but that's about it.
It seems rather pointless, though. How many salesmen do you know who travel in the manner in the problem? The problem is important, but not for real life traveling salesmen.
One of the goals of our CEB development is to neo-commercialize it: provide an open source business model for producing the machines, where all enabling information is in the public domain. No strings attached.
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I suspect that the most expensive of all is trying to teach the president of a company that running open wireless routers is a very serious security problem.
It might be easier to convince an alligator to voluntarily become a vegetarian.
In the days of Napster, a nephew of mine spent a year living with me while going to college nearby.
His use of Napster would make the cable modem connection unusable. In response, I'd go to the home firewall device (had one of the early Linksys models) and block the traffic.
He thought the cable company was doing it.
Would you perhaps have some real information to support those claims?
If they are cracking military grade encryption, which I very seriously doubt, then they are likely doing so by buying the keys from someone, not by brute forcing it.
Local ordinances don't amount to a hill of beans if the dish can also be used for satellite television.
FCC trumps local ordinances. And they are reportedly quite aggressive about it.
You aren't real familiar with developing Windows software, are you?
Many undocumented API calls are there precisely to give Microsoft an enormous advantage over their competitors. Microsoft uses them for their software but would rather everyone else be unable to implement a number of features.
If you want to compete with Microsoft and with other software written for Windows, using undocumented API calls is pretty much a necessity.
Just out of curiousity, are you using a frame in the house?
If I ever build my own house, I'll probably use compressed earth blocks, stabilized with cement, and a good quality plaster inside and outside.
But I'm undecided on whether or not to use a frame. Around here, seismic activity is nearly nonexistant and so I wouldn't be too worried about it collapsing during an earthquake.
Another way to be more environmentally friendly would be to use adobe or compressed earth building techniques.
In this area, we get about the same amount of yearly rainfall as in places like Santa Fe, New Mexico where the use of adobe is very common. I think it would do quite well.
For cooling, swamp coolers work quite well for us.
I've been wanting to do this on the family farm for years. My concern is not really about reducing power usage as it is about having power during the power failures that are not all that uncommon.
There is also a big push to put the big corporate wind turbines on the local farms. Those could easily make the difference between making a profit or losing money on a farming operation.
I spent yesterday afternoon and this morning at a local wind turbine construction site where they are putting up approximately 75 turbines this year. The owner of the land said he had been working for seven years just to get to the point where they are putting them in.
He was my committee chairman's (for my masters) committee chairman (for his phd).
I've heard John Wheeler speak on several occasions including a banquet in which he was the guest speaker. The talks were always very interesting and informative.
I'll have to find the thread. When/If I do, I'll post a link.
The best I saw was someone solving a burglary in something like 2 hours on the internet. The stolen goods were recovered in something like 4 hours or so.
I gave up years ago trying to get the company to provide me with an up to date computer. If I left it to the company, I'd still be using a 233 MHz computer and a 14 inch monitor.
So I use my own computers and monitors.
Every computer that I use that has company information on it is owned by me. That is two computers with Linux, one computer with OpenBSD, and two computers with Windows 2000. Every last piece of backup media here is mine, too. And the hard drives on the file server are mine, too.
If I should leave or retire, and I feel like being really nice to them, I'll give them a copy of their programs and data. If I just feel somewhat nice, I'll sell them the copies. Or maybe I'll just offer them the computers and media at their original list prices plus a markup for carrying costs.
I don't believe that most, if any, ISPs would qualify as a common carrier.
The safe harbor is in copyright law.
Just what risks do ISPs have for the file sharing by their customers?
THe last I heard, ISPs have a safe harbor as long as they just act as a conduit.
As such, any ISP that worries about their liabilities for the issue are wasting their time on nothing. To the best of my knowledge, there are no risks for the ISPs.
I don't think so.
I'm certainly no Democrat. And I'm certainly no Hillary supporter. But unless Hillary screws up, I think she will be the next President.
The biggest issue will be the economy, not Iraq, unless we some kind of economic miracle over the next 10 months. With a continuing credit crunch, a likely recession, more housing problems, serious inflation on the horizon, and rising unemployment, most of those on the fence are going to be voting for the Democratic candidate.
Add in the fact that the Republicans haven't accomplished much at all the last few years. That is largely because President Bush did not make very good decisions about selecting people on his team and turning far too much power over to them, especially to Karl Rove.
Karl Rove didn't understand Washington DC, yet he was the one selected to try to push through legislation. He failed miserably at that.
I started predicting a Hillary win when President Bush nominated Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court in 2005. That showed that President Bush was far too insulated from the rest of the world and that his advisors were incapable of giving good advice. Or maybe he just refused to listen to good advice. At that point, it was clear why the Republican administration and the Republican Congress were unable to accomplish much at all. They made a lot of noise since then, but have precious little to show for it.
I sure wish Ron Paul would win, but that is extraordinarily unlikely.
He wasn't far behind McCain in Maine.
I think McCain had 21% and Paul had 19%.
I don't know that accidentally stumbling across such a web site would make one an infringer. The infringer would be the one distributing the music.
In many cases, people who aren't interested in the music don't even have speakers, or if they have them, they may not be turned on.
I use Opera for most of my web browsing and I have the play sounds part disabled.
I know plenty of people who have never downloaded any music off the Internet and are not interested in doing so.
So why would it be right to make them pay for something they will never use?
If they are old enough to eat at McDonald's, they are old enough to play video games.
But parents should not permit their children to eat at McDonald's until they are at least 21.
I like that. It made me laugh pretty good.
However, his best path might still be suboptimal.
One interesting variation involves installing power lines. This was brought up by Edward Teller in a lecture I attended in 1972.
Suppose you wanted to provide power to n-1 locations (i.e. n points on the map including the power plant) and you want to minimize the distance for the lines. Assume, of course, that right of way is related linearly to distance.
It may not be intuitive, but there will be times when you can introduce another point and result in less distance than the traveling salesman distance.
For example, consider a right isosceles triangle with two sides of length 1. The traveling salesman distance would be 2.
By introducing a junction point a little ways from the right angle and running the lines to it, you can reduce the total distance to something like 1.92.
It's not too difficult to solve this for three points, but try it for four randomly points that aren't in a line.
I assume that you tell them you are coming and have appointments set up based on what is convenient to you and to the customers. In that case, the ordering is determined more by the appointments than whether or not you can save a few miles overall.
You might also have preferred places to spend the night. How about if you have a favorite restaurant along the way and you want to order your visits so that you can go there for supper one night of the trip? How about if an old friend lives near one brewery and you'd live to stop and visit him one night? These could all easily affect the order.
And if it takes more than a week (considerably more in this case), you might want to go home on the weekends.
And you might have to stop by your company's offices once a week or so. More variances.
In other words, in real life, the most optimal route is rarely going to be the shortest route except in the simplest of cases.
Neural nets are useful for the proper application, but I don't see how this could be anything close to being able to use a neural net.
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But since you suggested it, I'm willing to give you the benefit of the doubt.
Please fill in a few details such as the number of inputs and their form, the number of levels, how the output will be interpreted,
I don't see the point at all.
Maybe I misunderstand the question.
If you want to select some number of real cities, just go ahead and select them and figure out the distances from each city to each other city. Google Maps might help figuring out the distance, but that's about it.
It seems rather pointless, though. How many salesmen do you know who travel in the manner in the problem? The problem is important, but not for real life traveling salesmen.
For a different kind of open source hardware, how about open source compressed earth block machine?
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