Obviously everything we use involves trade-offs. The more secure it is, the more difficult it is to use. Having a human courier might be very secure but I doubt Internet commerce would be where it is today if that's all we used. You have to weight the benefits and the costs. A blanket statement like that is silly. At some point, we have to decide that even if a technology is not absolutely secured, it is good enough. Whatever lost we might experience is offset by the gains. This is why we continue to use imperfect technology. If all we do is use the perfect solution, we wouldn't be pass sticks and stones in our development.
Do mathematicians have to justify the purpose of their paper/research in the papers they publish? If so, I would be interested in reading it for this project because he would have to be a damn good English professor as well to pull that one over the eyes of the committee.:-)
Not a problem if you disc brakes, which is pretty much the way to go for mountain bikes becauses they can grip harder without damaging the rim and will not heat up the tires through friction. Also, since they are center mounted, they stay clean from dirt accumulated by the wheels.
Didn't realize this until my friend mentioned it, but does the sceenshots remind anyone else of that scene from "Jurassic Park" where the little girl puts on virtual reality gear to navigate through the files and thus "hack" it, while commenting, "It's an Unix system"?
The problem with that is a man is innocent until proven guilty, which is for the court to determine, not the lawyer. That's a consequence of due process.
While that is often the case, I find it unfair that they are often referred to as thought they planned the whole thing. It is not as thought they had a meeting and decided that part of the group will sue and the other group will defend so the group can benefit as a whole. In general, lawyers and law students are very intelligent people who are active in pursuing what they believe and have often rendered charitable services.
I would rather blame the CEOs than the people who do their work. Lawyers work for both sides. The fact that one can usually find a lawyer to work for him guarantees access to our justice system.
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Until they develop faster than light travel and time traveling, there is no escape from the Slashdotting!
You laugh about that but it's kind of true. About 70% of my friends who are CS majors are going to law school or plan to after they graduate. Not all of them want to be litigators but want to be advisers to high tech computers to fend off lawsuits. One of them claims that the skill sets used in both law and CS are very similar, at least as far as the LSATs are concerned.
Well, on the bright side, when an overclocker screws up, he won't run the chance of ruining/taking his and non-participants lives and waste municipal resources to clean up his mess.
On a more serious note, I think you're missing the point. The similarity isn't about the risk taking. The similarity is in their desire to innovate on their own and confidence in their own understanding of the principles behind the machines.
The article doesn't provide much of the actual discussions so it's really hard for me to decide if I agree with the experts. From the article, it seems to imply that there are problems with software. That much is nothing new. Software is fragile and implemenation is difficult. However, the article doesn't really seem to get at the reason, other than to say we lack the necessary tools. So, while I agree with that much, it's nothing shocking or particularly insightful. It's disappointingly shallow for a Salon article.
The only real shocking part to me was the Bill Gates quote. He's an Open-Source man at heart or just a hypocrite.:P
TCP works poorly in a wireless environment because of the congestion control. When packets get lost, it assumes it's because of congestion and starts backing off, which slows down the connection even more. That's not always the case in wireless because packets can get lost due to interference and a number of other scenarios that do not exist for wired connections.
The link is down (Slashdotted probably) so I haven't read the article. Nonetheless, does DARPA really want to displace IP for the entire Internet or just for their own purposes? If it's the latter, then it shouldn't be nearly as difficult. It is afterall the military. I imagine it would be easier to get soldiers to comply with the new standard.
Before the Internet, for me, the World Book Encyclopedias was its precursor. Being the nerd that I was, I would randomly pick a volume and then random turn to a page and read an article about something. Then at the bottom of each article, it would list the related article and I would grab those volumes and read the articles and follow more links. Pretty soon, half of the volumes would be on the floor. Today, that habit has been replaced by Slashdot, Google, and tabbed browsing:-) Old habits die hard.
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The place where I used to work had "4-o'clock Fridays" when we would stop work, drink beer, and play WarCraft III. Good times.
Anyone surprised by the fact that it was a pair of LAWYERS that started this? Guess ambulance chasing wasn't bringing in enough money.
:-))
(J/K, There are some lovable lawyers, like the EFF and FSF ones
Obviously everything we use involves trade-offs. The more secure it is, the more difficult it is to use. Having a human courier might be very secure but I doubt Internet commerce would be where it is today if that's all we used. You have to weight the benefits and the costs. A blanket statement like that is silly. At some point, we have to decide that even if a technology is not absolutely secured, it is good enough. Whatever lost we might experience is offset by the gains. This is why we continue to use imperfect technology. If all we do is use the perfect solution, we wouldn't be pass sticks and stones in our development.
So it seems that the Russians have discovered out-sourcing to India as well.
If PETA has naked supermodels protesting for them, I'm going to out hunting with an AK-47 and RPGs.
Anyone know if the reanimation and Linux installation process described in the article can be adapted for use on a doll, as in the blow-up kind...
If this works, fun can be only a Perl script away...
That would also depend on where you are on the catenary. If you're at the top, you would presumably also slide.
Or just very drunken ones...
Do mathematicians have to justify the purpose of their paper/research in the papers they publish? If so, I would be interested in reading it for this project because he would have to be a damn good English professor as well to pull that one over the eyes of the committee. :-)
Not a problem if you disc brakes, which is pretty much the way to go for mountain bikes becauses they can grip harder without damaging the rim and will not heat up the tires through friction. Also, since they are center mounted, they stay clean from dirt accumulated by the wheels.
Didn't realize this until my friend mentioned it, but does the sceenshots remind anyone else of that scene from "Jurassic Park" where the little girl puts on virtual reality gear to navigate through the files and thus "hack" it, while commenting, "It's an Unix system"?
They never had the chance, couldn't even move, when the hammer fell. If only the bytes could scream...
What's next? How the Inuits saved the world from a race of flesh eating aliens coming through an intergalactic portal in the North Pole?
The problem with that is a man is innocent until proven guilty, which is for the court to determine, not the lawyer. That's a consequence of due process.
While that is often the case, I find it unfair that they are often referred to as thought they planned the whole thing. It is not as thought they had a meeting and decided that part of the group will sue and the other group will defend so the group can benefit as a whole. In general, lawyers and law students are very intelligent people who are active in pursuing what they believe and have often rendered charitable services.
I would rather blame the CEOs than the people who do their work. Lawyers work for both sides. The fact that one can usually find a lawyer to work for him guarantees access to our justice system.
Until they develop faster than light travel and time traveling, there is no escape from the Slashdotting!
You laugh about that but it's kind of true. About 70% of my friends who are CS majors are going to law school or plan to after they graduate. Not all of them want to be litigators but want to be advisers to high tech computers to fend off lawsuits. One of them claims that the skill sets used in both law and CS are very similar, at least as far as the LSATs are concerned.
Well, on the bright side, when an overclocker screws up, he won't run the chance of ruining/taking his and non-participants lives and waste municipal resources to clean up his mess.
On a more serious note, I think you're missing the point. The similarity isn't about the risk taking. The similarity is in their desire to innovate on their own and confidence in their own understanding of the principles behind the machines.
The article doesn't provide much of the actual discussions so it's really hard for me to decide if I agree with the experts. From the article, it seems to imply that there are problems with software. That much is nothing new. Software is fragile and implemenation is difficult. However, the article doesn't really seem to get at the reason, other than to say we lack the necessary tools. So, while I agree with that much, it's nothing shocking or particularly insightful. It's disappointingly shallow for a Salon article.
:P
The only real shocking part to me was the Bill Gates quote. He's an Open-Source man at heart or just a hypocrite.
Maybe they can fly over the SCO headquarters and bomb them from the sky...
Wouldn't it have to fly through some civilian regions on the way up? Also, you don't want a single stray spark to bring down the whole thing.
It's understandable that investors would be a little jittery at the thought of a German airship
TCP works poorly in a wireless environment because of the congestion control. When packets get lost, it assumes it's because of congestion and starts backing off, which slows down the connection even more. That's not always the case in wireless because packets can get lost due to interference and a number of other scenarios that do not exist for wired connections.
The link is down (Slashdotted probably) so I haven't read the article. Nonetheless, does DARPA really want to displace IP for the entire Internet or just for their own purposes? If it's the latter, then it shouldn't be nearly as difficult. It is afterall the military. I imagine it would be easier to get soldiers to comply with the new standard.
Before the Internet, for me, the World Book Encyclopedias was its precursor. Being the nerd that I was, I would randomly pick a volume and then random turn to a page and read an article about something. Then at the bottom of each article, it would list the related article and I would grab those volumes and read the articles and follow more links. Pretty soon, half of the volumes would be on the floor. Today, that habit has been replaced by Slashdot, Google, and tabbed browsing :-) Old habits die hard.