Plus, ipv4 is easy to manage; your average network engineer has IPs memorized for when things break, or at least a somewhat logical addressing scheme so it's super-easy to guess the IP of a specific component when DNS breaks or is inaccessible, to be able to log into the device and fix it. the dot-quads make things really easy, four integers with a max of three digits (people memorize numbers and spelling most easily when broken down into chunks of three or less) per integer.
You can make it as hard as you want to. It does not have to be difficult. I have a substantial network at home and my scheme is:
"My/48" : "the VLAN" : "host"
My/48 is pretty easy to remember after I type it in 50 billion times. Its just one number. I have no problem memorizing multiple CCs, SS#, phone #s, so memorizing my/48 prefix isn't very challenging. I will be very pissed when/if I ever get "native" ipv6 and lose my tunnel and my ISP gives me a new/48 via DHCP every week.
Anyway, the VLAN is encoded very simply, blah:0100:blah is the/64 for vlan 100. I could do something ridiculous and convert 100 decimal into 64 hex and then encode that as blah:0064:blah but that is a complete waste of time and brain cycles.
The host is also beyond simple. Take a wild guess what my static host address is for a router? How bout blah::1? If, as usual, I have multiple routers in a vlan they number up from::1. Luckily I have less than 24 routers... can you guess why? My DNS server lives at blah::53 and web server at blah::80. Take a wild guess what address my ntp server lives at?
I only use static addresses for stuff that matters... pure clients just get whatever radvd gives out, much as I don't care what ipv4 address my dhcp server gives pure client machines.
Also, frankly, lets be honest here, the days of having to justify buying a dedicated $15000 sparcstation with 4 megs of ram to barely handle running BINDv4 over my thinnet coaxial ethernet are kinda long since over... I have no shortage of secondary/backup DNS servers, and I can't remember the last time I completely lost DNS...
there's no reason for ISPs to make the effort to support... converting their users over to IPv6.
Only DOCSIS 3 cablemodems are being manufactured. DOCSIS 3 requires ipv6 support. This is apparently the thin edge of the wedge, or the egg in the which came first the chicken or the egg, or whatever metaphor or analogy you'd like.
But in my adult world, I don't see the attraction to the risk/reward equation of a LinkedIn hijacking.
I can come up with a couple, identify theft scenarios and a couple outright theft scenarios. All basically just social engineering with greater odds of success because of massive inside info.
"Hi HR droid, I'm vinn01, oh you saw my linkedin profile, cool, nice pic, huh? Well I need a copy of the form to add a medical insurance dependent faxed to me.. Uh huh, we named him something really trendy, Illegal Alien, yeah, what could go wrong with that?"
"Hi, travel dept, I'm vinn01 over here in slashdot editing... yes you're right I DO work for Cmdr Taco as his personal valet, uh huh, so I was wondering if you could get me a rental car for that big trip to nowheresville I've been posting about on linkedin. uh huh, well, see, uh, I'm in a big hurry, running late, and I was wondering if you could leave the rental car keys at the new receptionist's desk, I'll pick them up on my way out."
The you wanna really get creepy, you figure 1 in a 1000 "healthy young people" croak per year, and imagine you're unemployed and have all the time in the world... So you get a bunch of company sponsored life insurance beneficiaries for single people changed to your name, since they're single probably no one will even notice, as soon as one croaks in a car accident and you collect your check (described on the form as "domestic partner" I suppose) then buy your private island...
Even just simple theft. Troll until you find a mark who matches your demographics, find the newest coworker IT guy, who probably doesn't know the mark, call around to figure out the mark has the day off, walk into the office, convince the IT guy to loan the mark (actually the crook posing as the mark) a new laptop, wander off with new laptop.
Then too, you can gather info and sell it, even if its psuedo private. If we go back in time, someone at linked in has a new coworker devoted to IPO issues and they were probably hired before the IPO was publicly announced... Notice the Apple employee suddenly has a bunch of new coworkers with certain peculiar experience profiles indicating the near future release of unannounced groundbreaking product, the iLoo, certain to revolutionize plumbing, complete with an app store and a very glossy plunger...
Crooks might be lazy, but at least they're sometimes creative.
Here's what a tool like this needs to be able to do, download the package which is then converted into a package format appropriate for the system (DEB, RPM, TGZ, etc.)
Why has no one done this yet?
You're confusing what it means to be a file format with what it means to be a software package.
A Debian package is only a Debian package because it was accepted into the archives because it follows a couple hundred pages of Debian Policy.
I could put random atari2600 roms into a.DEB formatted file and install into C:\WAREZ\ , but that doesn't make it a "Debian package"
Serious question: It seems like it could be possible to use an infinite number of colors with interpolated laster on pulse modulation to transmit an infinite amount of information. Why won't this work?
According to the Shannons theory it'll work just fine assuming you have infinite transmitter power with zero receiver noise so as to get that infinite SNR it would require.
On the other hand, dispersion thru any media, optical fiber, even air, will totally screw it up at an infinitely short distance. Basically you will not be surprised to know that light travels at different speeds in glass or whatever depending on its frequency... that is pretty much how a prism makes a rainbow... So your 1500 nm bitstream will rapidly cover an area of 1499.(lots a 9s) to 15.(lots of 0s)1.
The other problem is you'd like to think single mode fiber Really Means single mode, but theres dispersion there too. I suppose if you had an infinitely small point source for the transmitter, and the fiber were perfectly straight...
I gotta disagree. What could be more "ones and zeroes" than radioactive decay? It's the ultimate yes-or-no question.
Agreed, on the smallest scale. Once you get up to observable masses of the stuff, everything is a steaming pile of differential equations. And a hideous stack of statistics. Kind of like arguing I can simulate my car suspension using ones and zeros at a very low level but in the real world theres a lot of analog going on in there.
Eeeek, prices have gone up. 20 years ago those sold for about $15 each. I'm not sure if the price of anything but gold, oil, and silver has more than quadrupled since then.
Been there, done that. Humorously, WRT the NRC exempt samples, the main problem is each source is moderately expensive (think of the cost of a nice lunch). And nuts think it would be funny, cool, scary and 'leet to steal them. So its kind of like walking up to the lab counter in the chem building and asking for a bottle of gold chloride... they probably have it in stock, and they're probably not amused at the idea of "loaning" it to you without leaving behind an ID and signatures blah blah. The main danger is usually storing the sources in bare lead, lead is not something you want in your body. The other problem is stereotypically NRC exempt sources Usually have ridiculous half lives, like 60 days or whatever. Aside from only being 1 uCi, they also decay away to just about nothing in a couple years. So, despite the original expense, you might get them to give one away to you if its old and useless enough.
The registered sources I got to play with were generally intrinsically safe. Sure, you can play with the Ra sources... They're permanently mounted in the bottom of a 55 gallon drum full of cement with a sample tube in the center that you can drop your sample / scintillator into. And of course the sources are in the basement and they went to great effort to remove elevator access to the basement and the stairs were replaced with cheapy wooden ones that will shatter at about a 1000 pound load, and the 55 gallon drum of cement and lead weight about 2000 pounds, so... (admittedly this was long before the ADA law existed) And there was a drainage "moat" in front of the stairs that had a grate over it that I am told was designed to shatter if you shoved a heavy source over it...
They were much more nervous about people playing with the easily stealable exempt sources than the unstealable registered sources.
"Point it at a smoke detector" won't work: the americium in smoke detectors emits alpha radiation
Most of your post is sooo good but this tiny part is soooo far off. I can tell you're quoting some simplified "book learning" not having done experiments in a lab with some Am241 and even a cheapy scintillator MCA. Trust me, you get a nice assortment of gammas from Am-241.
Go to google image search, enter "am 241 gamma spectrum" and see pretty graphs of Am241 gamma emission.
Also, never forget that there is no such thing as a chemically pure (or especially isotope pure) substance. The instant that miraculously 100% pure Am-241 target was refined, 237Np started building up, and 237Np leads inevitably to 233Pa, 233Pa leads inevitably to 232U while emitting a nice strong beta, etc. So, in any "real world" sample you'll have a whole vegetable soup of pretty much... everything.
Now ratios, yeah, you're gonna see exactly one zillion alphas for every geiger detectable gamma. That in no way excludes the detection of gammas and betas from a chunk of 241Am.
Radiology is a very analog science... the digital 1s and 0s types have a rough time in radiology.
I dare say much of the folks who enroll in college would be better off at a trade school or two-year tech school.
Talk to them about what they want, and they demand training, and make fun of education. To some extent the administrators cater to them. For cultural reasons we'll never get rid of the idea of paying six figures for a 4 year degree between ages of 18 and 22, HOWEVER also note that McDonalds Hamburger U is the future of modern education, not an anomaly.
I expect that very soon, "Universities" and "Colleges" will start offering four year $150000 BA / BS degrees in plumbing, welding, drafting, and other traditional "votech school" programs. Dorm buildings not full of architecture students, but bachelor in science of carpentry students... As a general rule, if it involves taking money from or otherwise destroying the middle class, that's the way the country goes, so it seems an inevitable outcome?
I'm not entirely certain this would be bad, of all votech programs you'd think carpenters would be the most familiar with geometry and trig, yet I've heard some real whoppers from carpentry friends, mostly along the lines of "we'll just have to build it and see if it fits" or "there's no way to figure that out, other than building a model or making a diagram using rulers".
but just because I flunked once, doesn't mean I'm never going to walk again. Maybe there's something larger to be learned from a system that is bound to fail some kids, like learning to not pussy out when the going gets rough.
How would that fit in with the modern near-omnipresent educational philosophy of "everyone gets a participation trophy" and social promotion and all that other social engineering stuff?
I can not think of many inherent positive attributes of sports in school, but when all OTHER areas of K-12 education have removed the option of failure, school sports might be the only time K-12 students are taught how to face failure.
the problem is the student doesn't know how to solve problems and write down the solution
Any ideas what to do with those people, other than let them flunk out of "intro to Java"? I'm not looking for micro solutions but much larger scale...
Its not a programming problem. The same ailment affects some wannabe draftsmen, wannabe machinists, wannabe construction trades, wannabe car mechanics, etc. I hang with some of those people, and they have almost exactly the same reaction toward the failing noobs as the CS people, although obviously expressed much more illiterately due to their cultural requirements not to sound too smart.
So don't make the mistake of thinking the magic bullet is starting with the new language of the week, because the solution will inherently also apply to teaching welders, tool and die machinists, and plumbers, and I don't think they're going to buy the idea that teaching the first class in Scheme instead of C++ will teach the FNGs how to arrange sub tasks in the correct order.
Is it just and applied IQ test thing? Some folks just have brains that can plan, and some don't, and that's just how its gonna be?
I believe that expecting a student to learn to program well enough to study Computer Science in a single 15-week course is almost as absurd as expecting a student with no instrumental musical experience to be ready to join the university orchestra after 15 weeks.'
I believe that expecting a student to learn to program well enough to study Computer Science in a single 15-week course is almost as absurd as expecting a student with no arithmetic experience to be ready to earn a Fields Medal after 15 weeks.
All the guy is really saying is the intro work MUST be done before university. Just like you cannot expect to graduate on-time with a degree in math if you enter uni not knowing how to count to 5 (athletic scholarship, have enough money, etc) then you cannot expect to graduate with a CS degree on time if you have never touched a keyboard before your first freshman class.
CS students don't need to know that a stack is implemented differently in C++, Pascal or Java.
what a CS major learns should enable them to make the right choices when learning/using languages
Please select one side of the argument or the other.
If I had what was inherently a stack-problem, I would not select Pascal, and intelligently selecting C++ or Java has a lot more to do with scalability than implementation.
In an IT curriculum it doesn't matter, you'll simply be trained on what the hiring managers are hiring for this year, doesn't matter how it works or how well it works. Knowing how to use it is apparently somewhat optional in the industry today, also.
It used to seem like a reliable idea that every five years or so, consoles would catch up to the PC
Well, that's a mistaken idea.
Assuming they mean meaningless specs-man-ship, I've had a 1600x1200 monitor on my desk since the late 90s or so... Not sure which console in the early 00s "caught up" to that.
Assuming they mean variety of gameplay, where's my hex strategic wargames? My non-arcade flight sims? Assuming we start the console era around 1980, that means they're about 30 years late?
In short, crowd intelligence only works in cases where the opinion of others is considered but not blindly followed, where individuals think for themselves.
and a culture / society where that is not strongly discouraged from youth onward. In other words forget the US, but it might work in other areas, maybe.
I guess an optimistic paranoid is hoping that the next security technology is better than the one before, but never really trusting anything or anyone.
There are numerous unknown enemies out there trying to get me, and my known enemies (such as the merger of govt and big business being given 1984 style tools of oppression) would of course do awful things, but its always possible to optimistically define something worse that isn't (yet) happening.
So just summarize this for me, is nethack eligible for a grant or not? I was always more of a TOME and Angband player but I recognize the great ancestors...
Not to mention that its pretty far away from the population centers that actually *need* the electricity being generated
Its apparently much cheaper to move the population than to build provably perfectly indestructible infrastructure.
One big problem is attitude. A blizzard (of which I've survived a hundred or so) is pretty much no big deal for the non-darwin award winners who live there and know what to do. Its just windy snow, who cares other than journalists trying to hype it up. A coastie transplant who never saw snow before might run around like a chicken with its head cut off before their first blizzard, but for the natives its pretty much a nice excuse for a day off.
Another problem is people tend to be pretty apathetic about stuff they expect and experience on a regular basis; look at big city dwellers attitudes toward high crime, or Californian attitudes toward earthquakes, for example. Forcing people away from an area that gets a hurricane once a generation, is going to be... difficult. Best finish getting rid of civil rights before bothering to try it.
Not seeing a problem, sounds like it killed the nerves pretty effectively. Not sure why gangrene didn't set in on the other tissues resulting in immediate amputation, maybe it did, and all but the nerve tissue (obviously) recovered?
Theyd be much more likely to do something untoward with it. And, if they do, then how would destroying small known stocks be anything but symbolism?
Rather than symbolism, wouldn't it be the trigger? "Good, the other guys don't have stocks anymore, that means no more MAD, so we can now open our test tubes!"
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Plus, ipv4 is easy to manage; your average network engineer has IPs memorized for when things break, or at least a somewhat logical addressing scheme so it's super-easy to guess the IP of a specific component when DNS breaks or is inaccessible, to be able to log into the device and fix it. the dot-quads make things really easy, four integers with a max of three digits (people memorize numbers and spelling most easily when broken down into chunks of three or less) per integer.
You can make it as hard as you want to. It does not have to be difficult. I have a substantial network at home and my scheme is:
"My /48" : "the VLAN" : "host"
My /48 is pretty easy to remember after I type it in 50 billion times. Its just one number. I have no problem memorizing multiple CCs, SS#, phone #s, so memorizing my /48 prefix isn't very challenging. I will be very pissed when/if I ever get "native" ipv6 and lose my tunnel and my ISP gives me a new /48 via DHCP every week.
Anyway, the VLAN is encoded very simply, blah:0100:blah is the /64 for vlan 100. I could do something ridiculous and convert 100 decimal into 64 hex and then encode that as blah:0064:blah but that is a complete waste of time and brain cycles.
The host is also beyond simple. Take a wild guess what my static host address is for a router? How bout blah::1? If, as usual, I have multiple routers in a vlan they number up from ::1. Luckily I have less than 24 routers... can you guess why? My DNS server lives at blah::53 and web server at blah::80. Take a wild guess what address my ntp server lives at?
I only use static addresses for stuff that matters... pure clients just get whatever radvd gives out, much as I don't care what ipv4 address my dhcp server gives pure client machines.
Also, frankly, lets be honest here, the days of having to justify buying a dedicated $15000 sparcstation with 4 megs of ram to barely handle running BINDv4 over my thinnet coaxial ethernet are kinda long since over... I have no shortage of secondary/backup DNS servers, and I can't remember the last time I completely lost DNS ...
there's no reason for ISPs to make the effort to support ... converting their users over to IPv6.
Only DOCSIS 3 cablemodems are being manufactured. DOCSIS 3 requires ipv6 support. This is apparently the thin edge of the wedge, or the egg in the which came first the chicken or the egg, or whatever metaphor or analogy you'd like.
But in my adult world, I don't see the attraction to the risk/reward equation of a LinkedIn hijacking.
I can come up with a couple, identify theft scenarios and a couple outright theft scenarios. All basically just social engineering with greater odds of success because of massive inside info.
"Hi HR droid, I'm vinn01, oh you saw my linkedin profile, cool, nice pic, huh? Well I need a copy of the form to add a medical insurance dependent faxed to me.. Uh huh, we named him something really trendy, Illegal Alien, yeah, what could go wrong with that?"
"Hi, travel dept, I'm vinn01 over here in slashdot editing... yes you're right I DO work for Cmdr Taco as his personal valet, uh huh, so I was wondering if you could get me a rental car for that big trip to nowheresville I've been posting about on linkedin. uh huh, well, see, uh, I'm in a big hurry, running late, and I was wondering if you could leave the rental car keys at the new receptionist's desk, I'll pick them up on my way out."
The you wanna really get creepy, you figure 1 in a 1000 "healthy young people" croak per year, and imagine you're unemployed and have all the time in the world... So you get a bunch of company sponsored life insurance beneficiaries for single people changed to your name, since they're single probably no one will even notice, as soon as one croaks in a car accident and you collect your check (described on the form as "domestic partner" I suppose) then buy your private island...
Even just simple theft. Troll until you find a mark who matches your demographics, find the newest coworker IT guy, who probably doesn't know the mark, call around to figure out the mark has the day off, walk into the office, convince the IT guy to loan the mark (actually the crook posing as the mark) a new laptop, wander off with new laptop.
Then too, you can gather info and sell it, even if its psuedo private. If we go back in time, someone at linked in has a new coworker devoted to IPO issues and they were probably hired before the IPO was publicly announced... Notice the Apple employee suddenly has a bunch of new coworkers with certain peculiar experience profiles indicating the near future release of unannounced groundbreaking product, the iLoo, certain to revolutionize plumbing, complete with an app store and a very glossy plunger...
Crooks might be lazy, but at least they're sometimes creative.
Here's what a tool like this needs to be able to do, download the package which is then converted into a package format appropriate for the system (DEB, RPM, TGZ, etc.)
Why has no one done this yet?
You're confusing what it means to be a file format with what it means to be a software package.
A Debian package is only a Debian package because it was accepted into the archives because it follows a couple hundred pages of Debian Policy.
I could put random atari2600 roms into a .DEB formatted file and install into C:\WAREZ\ , but that doesn't make it a "Debian package"
Serious question: It seems like it could be possible to use an infinite number of colors with interpolated laster on pulse modulation to transmit an infinite amount of information. Why won't this work?
According to the Shannons theory it'll work just fine assuming you have infinite transmitter power with zero receiver noise so as to get that infinite SNR it would require.
On the other hand, dispersion thru any media, optical fiber, even air, will totally screw it up at an infinitely short distance. Basically you will not be surprised to know that light travels at different speeds in glass or whatever depending on its frequency... that is pretty much how a prism makes a rainbow... So your 1500 nm bitstream will rapidly cover an area of 1499.(lots a 9s) to 15.(lots of 0s)1.
The other problem is you'd like to think single mode fiber Really Means single mode, but theres dispersion there too. I suppose if you had an infinitely small point source for the transmitter, and the fiber were perfectly straight...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_delay_and_phase_delay
I gotta disagree. What could be more "ones and zeroes" than radioactive decay? It's the ultimate yes-or-no question.
Agreed, on the smallest scale. Once you get up to observable masses of the stuff, everything is a steaming pile of differential equations. And a hideous stack of statistics. Kind of like arguing I can simulate my car suspension using ones and zeros at a very low level but in the real world theres a lot of analog going on in there.
You have absolutely no chance to get anything close to it on your own, so just don't.
We disagree
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/GammaSpectrometry
Eeeek, prices have gone up. 20 years ago those sold for about $15 each. I'm not sure if the price of anything but gold, oil, and silver has more than quadrupled since then.
Been there, done that. Humorously, WRT the NRC exempt samples, the main problem is each source is moderately expensive (think of the cost of a nice lunch). And nuts think it would be funny, cool, scary and 'leet to steal them. So its kind of like walking up to the lab counter in the chem building and asking for a bottle of gold chloride... they probably have it in stock, and they're probably not amused at the idea of "loaning" it to you without leaving behind an ID and signatures blah blah. The main danger is usually storing the sources in bare lead, lead is not something you want in your body. The other problem is stereotypically NRC exempt sources Usually have ridiculous half lives, like 60 days or whatever. Aside from only being 1 uCi, they also decay away to just about nothing in a couple years. So, despite the original expense, you might get them to give one away to you if its old and useless enough.
The registered sources I got to play with were generally intrinsically safe. Sure, you can play with the Ra sources... They're permanently mounted in the bottom of a 55 gallon drum full of cement with a sample tube in the center that you can drop your sample / scintillator into. And of course the sources are in the basement and they went to great effort to remove elevator access to the basement and the stairs were replaced with cheapy wooden ones that will shatter at about a 1000 pound load, and the 55 gallon drum of cement and lead weight about 2000 pounds, so... (admittedly this was long before the ADA law existed) And there was a drainage "moat" in front of the stairs that had a grate over it that I am told was designed to shatter if you shoved a heavy source over it...
They were much more nervous about people playing with the easily stealable exempt sources than the unstealable registered sources.
"Point it at a smoke detector" won't work: the americium in smoke detectors emits alpha radiation
Most of your post is sooo good but this tiny part is soooo far off. I can tell you're quoting some simplified "book learning" not having done experiments in a lab with some Am241 and even a cheapy scintillator MCA. Trust me, you get a nice assortment of gammas from Am-241.
http://wiki.4hv.org/index.php/Americium-241
Go to google image search, enter "am 241 gamma spectrum" and see pretty graphs of Am241 gamma emission.
Also, never forget that there is no such thing as a chemically pure (or especially isotope pure) substance. The instant that miraculously 100% pure Am-241 target was refined, 237Np started building up, and 237Np leads inevitably to 233Pa, 233Pa leads inevitably to 232U while emitting a nice strong beta, etc. So, in any "real world" sample you'll have a whole vegetable soup of pretty much ... everything.
Now ratios, yeah, you're gonna see exactly one zillion alphas for every geiger detectable gamma. That in no way excludes the detection of gammas and betas from a chunk of 241Am.
Radiology is a very analog science... the digital 1s and 0s types have a rough time in radiology.
I dare say much of the folks who enroll in college would be better off at a trade school or two-year tech school.
Talk to them about what they want, and they demand training, and make fun of education. To some extent the administrators cater to them. For cultural reasons we'll never get rid of the idea of paying six figures for a 4 year degree between ages of 18 and 22, HOWEVER also note that McDonalds Hamburger U is the future of modern education, not an anomaly.
I expect that very soon, "Universities" and "Colleges" will start offering four year $150000 BA / BS degrees in plumbing, welding, drafting, and other traditional "votech school" programs. Dorm buildings not full of architecture students, but bachelor in science of carpentry students... As a general rule, if it involves taking money from or otherwise destroying the middle class, that's the way the country goes, so it seems an inevitable outcome?
I'm not entirely certain this would be bad, of all votech programs you'd think carpenters would be the most familiar with geometry and trig, yet I've heard some real whoppers from carpentry friends, mostly along the lines of "we'll just have to build it and see if it fits" or "there's no way to figure that out, other than building a model or making a diagram using rulers".
but just because I flunked once, doesn't mean I'm never going to walk again. Maybe there's something larger to be learned from a system that is bound to fail some kids, like learning to not pussy out when the going gets rough.
How would that fit in with the modern near-omnipresent educational philosophy of "everyone gets a participation trophy" and social promotion and all that other social engineering stuff?
I can not think of many inherent positive attributes of sports in school, but when all OTHER areas of K-12 education have removed the option of failure, school sports might be the only time K-12 students are taught how to face failure.
the problem is the student doesn't know how to solve problems and write down the solution
Any ideas what to do with those people, other than let them flunk out of "intro to Java"? I'm not looking for micro solutions but much larger scale...
Its not a programming problem. The same ailment affects some wannabe draftsmen, wannabe machinists, wannabe construction trades, wannabe car mechanics, etc. I hang with some of those people, and they have almost exactly the same reaction toward the failing noobs as the CS people, although obviously expressed much more illiterately due to their cultural requirements not to sound too smart.
So don't make the mistake of thinking the magic bullet is starting with the new language of the week, because the solution will inherently also apply to teaching welders, tool and die machinists, and plumbers, and I don't think they're going to buy the idea that teaching the first class in Scheme instead of C++ will teach the FNGs how to arrange sub tasks in the correct order.
Is it just and applied IQ test thing? Some folks just have brains that can plan, and some don't, and that's just how its gonna be?
I believe that expecting a student to learn to program well enough to study Computer Science in a single 15-week course is almost as absurd as expecting a student with no instrumental musical experience to be ready to join the university orchestra after 15 weeks.'
I believe that expecting a student to learn to program well enough to study Computer Science in a single 15-week course is almost as absurd as expecting a student with no arithmetic experience to be ready to earn a Fields Medal after 15 weeks.
All the guy is really saying is the intro work MUST be done before university. Just like you cannot expect to graduate on-time with a degree in math if you enter uni not knowing how to count to 5 (athletic scholarship, have enough money, etc) then you cannot expect to graduate with a CS degree on time if you have never touched a keyboard before your first freshman class.
CS students don't need to know that a stack is implemented differently in C++, Pascal or Java.
what a CS major learns should enable them to make the right choices when learning/using languages
Please select one side of the argument or the other.
If I had what was inherently a stack-problem, I would not select Pascal, and intelligently selecting C++ or Java has a lot more to do with scalability than implementation.
In an IT curriculum it doesn't matter, you'll simply be trained on what the hiring managers are hiring for this year, doesn't matter how it works or how well it works. Knowing how to use it is apparently somewhat optional in the industry today, also.
It used to seem like a reliable idea that every five years or so, consoles would catch up to the PC
Well, that's a mistaken idea.
Assuming they mean meaningless specs-man-ship, I've had a 1600x1200 monitor on my desk since the late 90s or so... Not sure which console in the early 00s "caught up" to that.
Assuming they mean variety of gameplay, where's my hex strategic wargames? My non-arcade flight sims? Assuming we start the console era around 1980, that means they're about 30 years late?
In short, crowd intelligence only works in cases where the opinion of others is considered but not blindly followed, where individuals think for themselves.
and a culture / society where that is not strongly discouraged from youth onward. In other words forget the US, but it might work in other areas, maybe.
However political parties leader will not waver too far off their ideology core as the group in the hole still follows that ideology.
Occams razor says "divide and conqueror" makes more sense to explain why we have two political parties.
I guess an optimistic paranoid is hoping that the next security technology is better than the one before, but never really trusting anything or anyone.
There are numerous unknown enemies out there trying to get me, and my known enemies (such as the merger of govt and big business being given 1984 style tools of oppression) would of course do awful things, but its always possible to optimistically define something worse that isn't (yet) happening.
So just summarize this for me, is nethack eligible for a grant or not? I was always more of a TOME and Angband player but I recognize the great ancestors...
notice that the grant is only for non-profit organizations."
You mean like the National Football league which makes billions of dollars a year and is a 501(c)6 designated nonprofit organization?
I envision a national StarCraft league...
it would take covering 15% of all flat land in Japan
Why do PV panels require flat land? Or, for that matter, land?
Not to mention that its pretty far away from the population centers that actually *need* the electricity being generated
Its apparently much cheaper to move the population than to build provably perfectly indestructible infrastructure.
One big problem is attitude. A blizzard (of which I've survived a hundred or so) is pretty much no big deal for the non-darwin award winners who live there and know what to do. Its just windy snow, who cares other than journalists trying to hype it up. A coastie transplant who never saw snow before might run around like a chicken with its head cut off before their first blizzard, but for the natives its pretty much a nice excuse for a day off.
Another problem is people tend to be pretty apathetic about stuff they expect and experience on a regular basis; look at big city dwellers attitudes toward high crime, or Californian attitudes toward earthquakes, for example. Forcing people away from an area that gets a hurricane once a generation, is going to be ... difficult. Best finish getting rid of civil rights before bothering to try it.
"Electrocute" means "kill by electricity".
Not seeing a problem, sounds like it killed the nerves pretty effectively. Not sure why gangrene didn't set in on the other tissues resulting in immediate amputation, maybe it did, and all but the nerve tissue (obviously) recovered?
Theyd be much more likely to do something untoward with it. And, if they do, then how would destroying small known stocks be anything but symbolism?
Rather than symbolism, wouldn't it be the trigger? "Good, the other guys don't have stocks anymore, that means no more MAD, so we can now open our test tubes!"