I doubt they can talk to anyone in their family the same way they can talk to a shrink, or about the same stuff. I'm just guessing, but I would think details of their mission would be classified.
Whoosh.
That was the GP's point. They do not have anyone to talk to about this because they go home to their families when the working day is over.
The two phrases "If I'd asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse." and "They can have any color they want as long as its black" both imply he did not care what the customer wanted.
To me, the first phrase imply that he DID care what the customer wanted - and he also knew that the customer didn't know it yet.
My way of remembering passwords was to pick a word, take two consecutive letters of that word, represent them as their phonetic equivalents (A = alpha, B = bravo, etc.) and separate them with a symbol (I used "%" every month).
So anyone who knew your method would only have to test 28^2 passwords...
is the so called professor revising his "expertise" so quickly and so radically. Now it would be interesting to know (or the court forcing him to say) on WHAT he based his first expertise and what new publicly available information made him change his mind, and why he did not make use of this information for the first written testimony.
I would also be interested in the type of evidence from the GPS unit.
If it was a typical NMEA log of both time, speed and position with reasonably small intervals (preferrably 1 second which is standard on many GPS receivers), the accuracy of the speed and position measurements will be very easy to verify - assuming that they have not been tampered with, of course.
By plotting the recorded positions on a road map, you can see if they actually hit the road or they are 30 meters outside the road. (The GPS receiver itself does not snap to roads. This is something navigation systems do.) If the accuracy in the perpendicular direction to the driving direction is good, then the accuracy in the driving direction is probably also good).
You can also look at the recorded speeds and positions, see if they are consistent, and see if the speed was constant over a longer period of time when the measurement occured. There can be an error in the speed measured between two positions recorded shortly after each other, but if the measured speeds matches the measured positions, the accumulated error over a longer time interval will have to be near zero. So if you have for example 30 seconds of 1 second readings, and they all show around 45 mph, and the total and intermediate distances between the 31 positions are consistent with the measured speed, I will consider the measurement reliable enough.
If you are really reluctant to accept the accuracy of the measured positions, you can identify two distinct, known positions on the road before and after the speed trap, for example road turns or full stops and, find those positions in the log and repeat the above check.
So if such a log exists and he has just dismissed it without checking the contents - well, I don't know what to say...
I can't think of a better person to solve our energy crisis than a sociologist. They have insights that we scientists and engineers simply lack.
I know it was meant to be irony - but ironically, you were right.
He is not solving our energy crisis or any other technical problem. He is looking for solution to a problem which is much more sociological than technical: How do we make sure that important information is passed on to our descendants for thousands of years?
I am an engineer, and I would certainly consider the typical engineer unfit for solving this type of problems.
While #1 would be cool, it's mostly up to the authors who create the installations to support this.
I think his point was that you can't trust those authors. Instead, the OS must protect us against rogue installers.
This could be done by creating an "installation user", with privileges somewhere between an administrator and a limited user. This user should have access to creation of files and directories in "C:\Program Files" (or whatever it is called in different locales), creation of program shortcuts in the Start menu and other normal installation activities. He should not have access to change the Windows installation itself.
To get the "Windows XX compatible" logo on the box of "normal" (not system related) programs, it should be proved that it is possible to run the program's installer as this user.
People won't think twice about sending you an email for stupid little things at 10:00 PM, because they're working and figure everyone else should be as well.
Uh, no.
We mail other people at 22.00 because we are working at that time, and we expect other people to read the mail when they arrive next morning.
If someone think he has to read my mail outside his working hours, that is his problem, not mine.
Well, my point is that the solution to the bus-factor is not to constantly reduce your team's productivity with "rotation" (gasp!)
Glad to hear that. I think most of us read your first post as: "Well, my point is that the solution to the bus-factor is not to keep employees at a safe distance from buses."
I can really recommend the Slashdotter extension for Firefox. Among other nice functions it adds links to cached versions after all links in the summary.
When Microsoft has shit flashing on the screen automatically to remind you to do updates, it's evil intrusion in to one's privacy. But when Firefox does exactaly the same thing, they're God's gift to enlightenment.
I would wish that Firefox had shit flashing on the screen automatically.
Unfortunately, it only does so if I run Windows as a user with administrative privileges or have Firefox installed in an alternate location where I have write access.
As a limited user, I don't even get a message that it is time to login as an administrator to get the newest update.
I wonder how many of those 16.7 % are actually among the few of us who have their Windows user account configured correctly.
I find it disturbing that a browser which is being marketed as a safe browser has an update mechanism which relies on an unsafe Windows configuration.
(Disclaimer: Somewhere around 2.0.0.12 I granted myself write access to the FF directory, and now I get the updates. So the problem described above may have been solved since then without me noticing.)
helpfully he prints his return address on the back of the envelope, so these days they go straight in the bin, unopened and unread
This person is obviously a lawyer. He is preparing you for the real and very important letter that he is obliged by law to send you but really does not want you to read before it is too late.
When you use salami tactics, you only ask for the slice. And when you get it, you ask for another slice, and another one, and...
The post you responded to described the tactics of asking for a truckload of salami, knowing that you will at least end up getting the slice you really wanted.
??? 'allo,'allo' dubbed? It is the stupid accents and the way the do the foreign voices that make that programme, how would it work dubbed?
Worse yet. How do you dub something into a language, when the original is English with the accent of that language?
In the dubbed version, the German soldiers will be speaking German, and will have to make it sound like someone speaking English with very bad German accent.
(Anyway, that is not much different from watching an Arnold movie with German dubbing. Perhaps I should switch over to one of those German TV channels some day to see how that works.)
or pushing the mouse further to the right (real fun to reach for it, you know...)
When I first saw someone put their mouse in front of the keyboard, I thought they were silly. It looks like something that only computer inept people would do.
But one day I tried it, and I have never looked back. I only have to move the hand 10 cm away from the typing position to reach the mouse.
You go right ahead and wait for it to come back, carry it DOWN your ladder, carry it AND your ladder to the next corner, and carry it back UP your ladder, smart guy.
I'll just carry my ladder to the next corner and wait for it to arrive so I can help it around the corner.:p
Don't you have gutters in two directions from each corner? I have in my house, at least.
I would think that using the reverse, you only have to be at two corners. Without using the reverse, you have to be at all 4 corners. (On a rectangular roof of course).
No it hasn't. It's detractors just haven't taken to time to read their central thesis. It's easy to just shoot from the hip and call it philosophy or a non science, etc. But as Plank said, the establishment wont change, you have to wait for them to die out!
Whoosh.
Was the "Intelligent Design has evolved" joke too hard to catch?
If the AI provides energy to make the circuitry of the camera run, it's POWERing it.
I was actually rather disappointed over this story. When I read the headline, I thought that they had made mobile CCTVs with some AI enabling them to find and connect to random power sources.
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Whoosh.
That was the GP's point. They do not have anyone to talk to about this because they go home to their families when the working day is over.
To me, the first phrase imply that he DID care what the customer wanted - and he also knew that the customer didn't know it yet.
So anyone who knew your method would only have to test 28^2 passwords...
This discussion seems a little circular.
I would also be interested in the type of evidence from the GPS unit.
If it was a typical NMEA log of both time, speed and position with reasonably small intervals (preferrably 1 second which is standard on many GPS receivers), the accuracy of the speed and position measurements will be very easy to verify - assuming that they have not been tampered with, of course.
By plotting the recorded positions on a road map, you can see if they actually hit the road or they are 30 meters outside the road. (The GPS receiver itself does not snap to roads. This is something navigation systems do.) If the accuracy in the perpendicular direction to the driving direction is good, then the accuracy in the driving direction is probably also good).
You can also look at the recorded speeds and positions, see if they are consistent, and see if the speed was constant over a longer period of time when the measurement occured. There can be an error in the speed measured between two positions recorded shortly after each other, but if the measured speeds matches the measured positions, the accumulated error over a longer time interval will have to be near zero. So if you have for example 30 seconds of 1 second readings, and they all show around 45 mph, and the total and intermediate distances between the 31 positions are consistent with the measured speed, I will consider the measurement reliable enough.
If you are really reluctant to accept the accuracy of the measured positions, you can identify two distinct, known positions on the road before and after the speed trap, for example road turns or full stops and, find those positions in the log and repeat the above check.
So if such a log exists and he has just dismissed it without checking the contents - well, I don't know what to say...
So if the speed limit was 70, it makes a real difference if his speed was 76 or 75.
Note that the GP did not mention the speed limit, only the measured speeds.
What are you trying to say?
I know it was meant to be irony - but ironically, you were right.
He is not solving our energy crisis or any other technical problem. He is looking for solution to a problem which is much more sociological than technical:
How do we make sure that important information is passed on to our descendants for thousands of years?
I am an engineer, and I would certainly consider the typical engineer unfit for solving this type of problems.
I think his point was that you can't trust those authors. Instead, the OS must protect us against rogue installers.
This could be done by creating an "installation user", with privileges somewhere between an administrator and a limited user. This user should have access to creation of files and directories in "C:\Program Files" (or whatever it is called in different locales), creation of program shortcuts in the Start menu and other normal installation activities. He should not have access to change the Windows installation itself.
To get the "Windows XX compatible" logo on the box of "normal" (not system related) programs, it should be proved that it is possible to run the program's installer as this user.
What plant are you from?
A power plant?
Uh, no.
We mail other people at 22.00 because we are working at that time, and we expect other people to read the mail when they arrive next morning.
If someone think he has to read my mail outside his working hours, that is his problem, not mine.
So you have your own, personal language barrier?
Glad to hear that. I think most of us read your first post as:
"Well, my point is that the solution to the bus-factor is not to keep employees at a safe distance from buses."
Cached version here:
http://future-design.freehostia.com.nyud.net:8090/future-design/meet-the-laptop-youll-use-in-2015/
I can really recommend the Slashdotter extension for Firefox. Among other nice functions it adds links to cached versions after all links in the summary.
I would wish that Firefox had shit flashing on the screen automatically.
Unfortunately, it only does so if I run Windows as a user with administrative privileges or have Firefox installed in an alternate location where I have write access.
As a limited user, I don't even get a message that it is time to login as an administrator to get the newest update.
I wonder how many of those 16.7 % are actually among the few of us who have their Windows user account configured correctly.
I find it disturbing that a browser which is being marketed as a safe browser has an update mechanism which relies on an unsafe Windows configuration.
(Disclaimer: Somewhere around 2.0.0.12 I granted myself write access to the FF directory, and now I get the updates. So the problem described above may have been solved since then without me noticing.)
This person is obviously a lawyer. He is preparing you for the real and very important letter that he is obliged by law to send you but really does not want you to read before it is too late.
No, it is not.
When you use salami tactics, you only ask for the slice. And when you get it, you ask for another slice, and another one, and...
The post you responded to described the tactics of asking for a truckload of salami, knowing that you will at least end up getting the slice you really wanted.
Worse yet. How do you dub something into a language, when the original is English with the accent of that language?
In the dubbed version, the German soldiers will be speaking German, and will have to make it sound like someone speaking English with very bad German accent.
(Anyway, that is not much different from watching an Arnold movie with German dubbing. Perhaps I should switch over to one of those German TV channels some day to see how that works.)
When I first saw someone put their mouse in front of the keyboard, I thought they were silly. It looks like something that only computer inept people would do.
But one day I tried it, and I have never looked back. I only have to move the hand 10 cm away from the typing position to reach the mouse.
This reminds of the time when Myth Busters fooled a fingerprint detector door lock - using a photo copy of a finger print:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=LA4Xx5Noxyo
(The photo copy test is at 2:15)
Don't you have gutters in two directions from each corner? I have in my house, at least.
I would think that using the reverse, you only have to be at two corners. Without using the reverse, you have to be at all 4 corners. (On a rectangular roof of course).
Whoosh.
Was the "Intelligent Design has evolved" joke too hard to catch?
I was actually rather disappointed over this story. When I read the headline, I thought that they had made mobile CCTVs with some AI enabling them to find and connect to random power sources.
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Those of us who are not native English speakers don't make those mistakes.
No.
It is not a translation.
It is not a Babelfish translation.
It is a very funny attempt at replacing German words with roughly identically looking English words with a totally different meaning.
I enjoyed it. Because I got the point.
Am I the only one who find this a bit hypocritical?
When you tell the public that you were offered a knighthood but refused it, you are using this knighthood just as much as if you had accepted it.