There are easy numeric methods for determining how random data is. Optical inspection would be unnecessary to discover this modification. You might even get away with generating a few megabytes of data, zipping it, and then comparing the resulting compression ratio to a known good chip.
Is this the same guy that was on/. a few weeks ago because he taught undercover agents who *told* him they were planning to commit a crime with the information he gave them? A/. lawyer indicated that helping someone who told you they were going to commit a crime, is a crime. That makes sense to me. If I'm driving my taxi and some pleasant old lady gets in and asks to be driven to the bank so she can rob it, I'm going to get out of the car and call the police, not drive her to the bank. Does that count as a car analogy?
I watch netflix in ubuntu. I accomplished it by adding one rep and installing one package. It manages the wine version, the windows firefox version, the silverlight version, and whatever other unholy nonsense is involved in making it work. The only glitch is that sometimes the audio is on fastforward when I first start watching something and I have to wait for it to go back to normal, then start the show over. This is on a relatively ancient macbook (it has an ethernet port), and it is still fast enough.
I like the rishi 100% masala chai, which is as you say, just spices and tea. I don't know which spice does it, but it is consistent. The tazo bags do it to, but they have essential oils of some spices rather than the dried spice.
Ingredients: Organic and Fair Trade Certified black tea, organic cinnamon, organic cardamom, organic ginger root, organic black pepper, organic cloves.
I can rule out the tea, cinnamon, and pepper because I eat those in many other things. It could be a combination I suppose.
I found that even diet drinks make me unable to concentrate after a few days of regular consumption. As an experiment I switched from diet cola colored drinks to a diet clear drink that had even more caffeine. The problem went away. Whatever the chemical is, chai tea (diffuser in water, not the starbucks crap) does the same thing to me after a few days, while black and green tea do not.
Some areas use the term "soft drink" or "cold drink" to describe what any sensible person would refer to as a "coke". Because these beverages bubbliness has nothing to do with any alkaline with sodium in it, I would argue that soda is no more appropriate than those three terms or "pop". Carbonated drink, or fizzy drink both seem quite reasonable.
TFA indicates they rooted the attacking computers using holes in the browsers they were attacking with, and then used the visible wifi hotspots to locate the machines. It does not say that they checked to make sure the machine was not being remotely controlled, or itself a honeypot. Using this technique not all the sophisticated attacks came from China, some were U.S., Japan, France, etc. but over half were from China. Also not all the honeypots were in the U.S., so its not only the U.S. being targeted.
Even standard mathematical notation is ambiguous. You can take the same math describing the same relationship, and publications from different fields will use entirely different notation and conventions. For that reason I prefer to convey mathematical relationships using code, whether it is matlab, c, c#, or what have you, all of them can be unambiguously interpreted by a machine. Even the best math paper cannot be parsed by a machine. I sometimes use math notation as a quick sketch on a whiteboard or an IM to someone to say "do something kinda like this but think it out", but if I have already thought it out, I put it in code so it is absolutely clear what I mean. I think hard math, even abstract math would benefit from using a computer language instead of math notation, its old and flawed and not as universal as people like to think. Even if the code isn't in a language you know, the syntax is clearly defined somewhere. If I read a paper in the journal of applied dendromorphology and they re-derive stokes theorem (and try to patent it) and have little tick marks everywhere, how am I supposed to know that "everyone uses those for time derivatives here! what else would you use"? You laugh, but I have seen stranger stuff, much stranger.
Originally the term middle class was used to describe the wealthy merchant class that lived like born nobility but were not. In the US which never had nobility, upper class was redefined to be the european middle class, the wealthy merchants, and that left the boundary between middle and lower a bit ambiguous.
You say people who claimed the tracking was going on were thought to be paranoid, but everyone I know considered it a forgone conclusion it was happening. Every time someone said "oops better not say that on the phone " were they just passing along a meme they didn't believe? More than anything I am surprised that anyone at all was surprised by any of this. The patriot act passed 98-1 in the senate, if it had been proposed as an amendment it probably would have still been passed. The notion it might violate the 4th amendment is interesting, but at the time it had enough support, or at least indifference, from us that it could have legally trumped the 4th amendment. Like V said, look in the mirror to find the problem. Rule one, assume any power you give the government for purposes from fighting terrorists and pedos all the way to business regulations, that can be abused, will be abused. Rule two, don't vote for anyone who gives the government these powers on your behalf, and tell them of your decision before they vote if possible. We screwed up on the patriot act and it would seem the effects of that spread east. Please limeys, stomp this thing out now for everyone's sake. Vote out every last person who spoke favorably of it, and those who spoke favorably of those people. Have bulimia fests on street corners, refuse to help friends and relatives unblock or work around the filters so that they feel the bite and speak out, speak out civilly to every single person you know. Maybe they will just think you are paranoid, or maybe they will think you are just joking about what the filters could lead to, make it clear it isn't a joke. Its better to be thought paranoid.
I'd be worried I would miss a jury duty notice or similar, and end up with a warrant out for my arrest. That is the only reason I check my mail now, government correspondence. And when my credit card expires and they send me a new one. Lately UPS has been letting USPS deliver packages the last leg, so I guess that counts too.
I'd feel lucky to just have had to do an appendectomy! When I was three I had to do an appendix *transplant* into myself. You don't know how good you had it.
Seriously though, the OP's religion's standpoint seems quite sensible and individualistic. Only first world country with that mindset these days is New Zealand it seems.
I'm just guessing, but the op probably doesn't go to doctors either. I had neighboring family like that when I grew up. I don't remember what the religion was, but if they got sick, they slept a lot and drank water. I never thought to ask about broken bones. If they refuse to get medical help and just die, it probably lowers the overall cost of healthcare. Kind of like how smokers reduce costs.
Its $3.34 here. Still this is the sane way to handle batteries, its a quick fillup and ensures recycling for EOL batteries. I still think the heat issues they have make them unreasonable in hot climates.
It isn't a tablet interface. It is a more efficient desktop interface. I wish I could get it on my workstations where I work, I am much more productive in it. With the initial release I had the same complaint as most everyone, that when you selected terminal (or any app) the second time it just took you to the first instance. I tried holding control while I selected it thinking that would obviously start a second instance, but it did not. But the second release they added the control thing and it is essentially my perfect UI. I think they could use a little more intelligence with the smart docking, but other than that nothing.
Using it for a tablet I would find very rough, every time I start an app I'm typing its name and hitting enter, (I remove all the favorites, I don't like clicky icons and you can't have one for everything you might run anyway), and text entry on a tablet is universally painful until they get the speech thing to work robustly.
Fudge doesn't have much water in it, just a cup of creme. Butter, sugar, and cocoa aren't polar I don't think, so I would guess they let it pass. Making bread in the microwave doesn't work so well because the middle of the loaf turns to charcoal before the outside gets cooked.
Verhoeven and Pendray claim they found the recipe for Damascus, and their paper sounds plausible to me. But reading (and understanding) metalurgy 101 is the extent of my knowledge. More to the point modern tool steel surpasses the original damascus in hardness, strength, and wear resistance. Also, Japanese swords don't cut gun barrels or cleave through armor like paper. I don't know anything about violins, but I know that good whiskey uses all the tech tricks it can. While it always comes down to one person's judgement making it (which I think does qualify it as art), science makes the art better. Also you can make better fudge with a microwave and an IR thermometer than with a gas stove and a candy thermometer. Blasphemy I know, but true. The way in which the microwave heats from the inside out with no agitation from the thermometer makes it creamier. I've been told liquid nitrogen makes the best icecream.
It is unromantic, but I suspect that gas chromatograph readings of tons of wines, fed into a pandora/netflix type singular value decomposition engine where thousands of people rate the wines, would result in good recommendations. You would want "channels" though, as you need more than just like or dislike for something with that many varieties.
"Proper software engineering" doesn't work. Code that actually does work is invariably ugly and violates any best practices you can possibly imagine. Code that follows those best practices and whatever the current paradigm fad is, are over budget, over schedule, and even though they incorporate all the correct patterns for abstraction and maintainability, this results in such a huge volume of excess sloc, that it is less maintainable as a function of sheer size. You don't need process or patterns, or even documentation (though it would be nice). The only thing you need are good engineers that actually communicate with each other, and if you don't have that, then no amount of process or patterns or paradigms or practices can save you. I should note however, that if you just want to generate billable hours then you absolutely want every last one of those Ps and mediocre (but not bad) engineers.
Last I read, one of their patents is already past its date (2011), and the other is up next year. Monsanto has pubicly stated they will not fight this, which i can only assume means they will have some slightly different strain that will then be patented, and a new herbicide and or pesticide that isn't compatible with the old strain, while they stop producing roundup.
That said, someone will produce roundup, and someone will continue to produce the old strains too. We might see a dramatic uptick in GM crops after next year.
We are in the embedded sector as well. With the added constraints on these systems its always good to have what will be generated in mind. We aren't all procedural dinosaurs either, Knowing the assembler generated for OO and functional patterns is important too. I find knowing how to read assembler for your platform can still be important just for debugging purposes. Writing it not so much, as the optimizers have gotten so good. Those same optimizers are kind of screwy at times though, I've heard of cases where moving a statement with no effect on the other statements on an inner loop around within that inner loop dramatically altered performance with the VS optimizer. PPC optimizers are not quite as smart, but they are (slightly) more predictable as well. Also PPC assembler isn't as painful to read, though there are at least 3 ways to do anything, there have been chips that reduced the redundancy, but someone would always complain.
Also the game modding community, my dad does that, and he can look at x86 assembler and see c code.
As far as instruction goes, schools still teach courses using 68000 and MIPS assembler at the university I went to, at least a couple years ago anyway.
Telling people what they need to be doing, and then never punishing them won't work. If people start getting fired for failure to follow security practice, it would stick more. And communicating good security practice doesn't require a consultant or speaker. There are videos out there; examples of what to look for. I agree hiring a big name to train everyone at your company who uses a computer is a waste of funds better spent, but ignoring the human element is willful ignorance. It is disingenuous for someone with a security background to even hint that technology could ever reach the point that it could prevent users from insecure behavior. The fleshy computers have to get patched too, and when they stop accepting patches, you ditch them and get new ones. You find out if the patch was installed by testing them.
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There are easy numeric methods for determining how random data is. Optical inspection would be unnecessary to discover this modification. You might even get away with generating a few megabytes of data, zipping it, and then comparing the resulting compression ratio to a known good chip.
Is this the same guy that was on /. a few weeks ago because he taught undercover agents who *told* him they were planning to commit a crime with the information he gave them? A /. lawyer indicated that helping someone who told you they were going to commit a crime, is a crime. That makes sense to me. If I'm driving my taxi and some pleasant old lady gets in and asks to be driven to the bank so she can rob it, I'm going to get out of the car and call the police, not drive her to the bank. Does that count as a car analogy?
I watch netflix in ubuntu. I accomplished it by adding one rep and installing one package. It manages the wine version, the windows firefox version, the silverlight version, and whatever other unholy nonsense is involved in making it work. The only glitch is that sometimes the audio is on fastforward when I first start watching something and I have to wait for it to go back to normal, then start the show over. This is on a relatively ancient macbook (it has an ethernet port), and it is still fast enough.
I like the rishi 100% masala chai, which is as you say, just spices and tea. I don't know which spice does it, but it is consistent. The tazo bags do it to, but they have essential oils of some spices rather than the dried spice.
Ingredients: Organic and Fair Trade Certified black tea, organic cinnamon, organic cardamom, organic ginger root, organic black pepper, organic cloves.
I can rule out the tea, cinnamon, and pepper because I eat those in many other things. It could be a combination I suppose.
I found that even diet drinks make me unable to concentrate after a few days of regular consumption. As an experiment I switched from diet cola colored drinks to a diet clear drink that had even more caffeine. The problem went away. Whatever the chemical is, chai tea (diffuser in water, not the starbucks crap) does the same thing to me after a few days, while black and green tea do not.
Some areas use the term "soft drink" or "cold drink" to describe what any sensible person would refer to as a "coke". Because these beverages bubbliness has nothing to do with any alkaline with sodium in it, I would argue that soda is no more appropriate than those three terms or "pop". Carbonated drink, or fizzy drink both seem quite reasonable.
TFA indicates they rooted the attacking computers using holes in the browsers they were attacking with, and then used the visible wifi hotspots to locate the machines. It does not say that they checked to make sure the machine was not being remotely controlled, or itself a honeypot. Using this technique not all the sophisticated attacks came from China, some were U.S., Japan, France, etc. but over half were from China. Also not all the honeypots were in the U.S., so its not only the U.S. being targeted.
Even standard mathematical notation is ambiguous. You can take the same math describing the same relationship, and publications from different fields will use entirely different notation and conventions. For that reason I prefer to convey mathematical relationships using code, whether it is matlab, c, c#, or what have you, all of them can be unambiguously interpreted by a machine. Even the best math paper cannot be parsed by a machine. I sometimes use math notation as a quick sketch on a whiteboard or an IM to someone to say "do something kinda like this but think it out", but if I have already thought it out, I put it in code so it is absolutely clear what I mean. I think hard math, even abstract math would benefit from using a computer language instead of math notation, its old and flawed and not as universal as people like to think. Even if the code isn't in a language you know, the syntax is clearly defined somewhere. If I read a paper in the journal of applied dendromorphology and they re-derive stokes theorem (and try to patent it) and have little tick marks everywhere, how am I supposed to know that "everyone uses those for time derivatives here! what else would you use"? You laugh, but I have seen stranger stuff, much stranger.
Originally the term middle class was used to describe the wealthy merchant class that lived like born nobility but were not. In the US which never had nobility, upper class was redefined to be the european middle class, the wealthy merchants, and that left the boundary between middle and lower a bit ambiguous.
You say people who claimed the tracking was going on were thought to be paranoid, but everyone I know considered it a forgone conclusion it was happening. Every time someone said "oops better not say that on the phone " were they just passing along a meme they didn't believe? More than anything I am surprised that anyone at all was surprised by any of this. The patriot act passed 98-1 in the senate, if it had been proposed as an amendment it probably would have still been passed. The notion it might violate the 4th amendment is interesting, but at the time it had enough support, or at least indifference, from us that it could have legally trumped the 4th amendment. Like V said, look in the mirror to find the problem. Rule one, assume any power you give the government for purposes from fighting terrorists and pedos all the way to business regulations, that can be abused, will be abused. Rule two, don't vote for anyone who gives the government these powers on your behalf, and tell them of your decision before they vote if possible. We screwed up on the patriot act and it would seem the effects of that spread east. Please limeys, stomp this thing out now for everyone's sake. Vote out every last person who spoke favorably of it, and those who spoke favorably of those people. Have bulimia fests on street corners, refuse to help friends and relatives unblock or work around the filters so that they feel the bite and speak out, speak out civilly to every single person you know. Maybe they will just think you are paranoid, or maybe they will think you are just joking about what the filters could lead to, make it clear it isn't a joke. Its better to be thought paranoid.
I'd be worried I would miss a jury duty notice or similar, and end up with a warrant out for my arrest. That is the only reason I check my mail now, government correspondence. And when my credit card expires and they send me a new one. Lately UPS has been letting USPS deliver packages the last leg, so I guess that counts too.
There is a FL 2012 statue that says acquittal by reason of self-defense provides immunity from civil suits. This is in several states now.
I'd feel lucky to just have had to do an appendectomy! When I was three I had to do an appendix *transplant* into myself. You don't know how good you had it.
Seriously though, the OP's religion's standpoint seems quite sensible and individualistic. Only first world country with that mindset these days is New Zealand it seems.
What fork is this AC OP?
I'm just guessing, but the op probably doesn't go to doctors either. I had neighboring family like that when I grew up. I don't remember what the religion was, but if they got sick, they slept a lot and drank water. I never thought to ask about broken bones. If they refuse to get medical help and just die, it probably lowers the overall cost of healthcare. Kind of like how smokers reduce costs.
Its $3.34 here. Still this is the sane way to handle batteries, its a quick fillup and ensures recycling for EOL batteries. I still think the heat issues they have make them unreasonable in hot climates.
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It isn't a tablet interface. It is a more efficient desktop interface. I wish I could get it on my workstations where I work, I am much more productive in it. With the initial release I had the same complaint as most everyone, that when you selected terminal (or any app) the second time it just took you to the first instance. I tried holding control while I selected it thinking that would obviously start a second instance, but it did not. But the second release they added the control thing and it is essentially my perfect UI. I think they could use a little more intelligence with the smart docking, but other than that nothing.
Using it for a tablet I would find very rough, every time I start an app I'm typing its name and hitting enter, (I remove all the favorites, I don't like clicky icons and you can't have one for everything you might run anyway), and text entry on a tablet is universally painful until they get the speech thing to work robustly.
Fudge doesn't have much water in it, just a cup of creme. Butter, sugar, and cocoa aren't polar I don't think, so I would guess they let it pass. Making bread in the microwave doesn't work so well because the middle of the loaf turns to charcoal before the outside gets cooked.
Verhoeven and Pendray claim they found the recipe for Damascus, and their paper sounds plausible to me. But reading (and understanding) metalurgy 101 is the extent of my knowledge. More to the point modern tool steel surpasses the original damascus in hardness, strength, and wear resistance. Also, Japanese swords don't cut gun barrels or cleave through armor like paper. I don't know anything about violins, but I know that good whiskey uses all the tech tricks it can. While it always comes down to one person's judgement making it (which I think does qualify it as art), science makes the art better. Also you can make better fudge with a microwave and an IR thermometer than with a gas stove and a candy thermometer. Blasphemy I know, but true. The way in which the microwave heats from the inside out with no agitation from the thermometer makes it creamier. I've been told liquid nitrogen makes the best icecream.
It is unromantic, but I suspect that gas chromatograph readings of tons of wines, fed into a pandora/netflix type singular value decomposition engine where thousands of people rate the wines, would result in good recommendations. You would want "channels" though, as you need more than just like or dislike for something with that many varieties.
"Proper software engineering" doesn't work. Code that actually does work is invariably ugly and violates any best practices you can possibly imagine. Code that follows those best practices and whatever the current paradigm fad is, are over budget, over schedule, and even though they incorporate all the correct patterns for abstraction and maintainability, this results in such a huge volume of excess sloc, that it is less maintainable as a function of sheer size. You don't need process or patterns, or even documentation (though it would be nice). The only thing you need are good engineers that actually communicate with each other, and if you don't have that, then no amount of process or patterns or paradigms or practices can save you. I should note however, that if you just want to generate billable hours then you absolutely want every last one of those Ps and mediocre (but not bad) engineers.
Last I read, one of their patents is already past its date (2011), and the other is up next year. Monsanto has pubicly stated they will not fight this, which i can only assume means they will have some slightly different strain that will then be patented, and a new herbicide and or pesticide that isn't compatible with the old strain, while they stop producing roundup.
That said, someone will produce roundup, and someone will continue to produce the old strains too. We might see a dramatic uptick in GM crops after next year.
We are in the embedded sector as well. With the added constraints on these systems its always good to have what will be generated in mind. We aren't all procedural dinosaurs either, Knowing the assembler generated for OO and functional patterns is important too. I find knowing how to read assembler for your platform can still be important just for debugging purposes. Writing it not so much, as the optimizers have gotten so good. Those same optimizers are kind of screwy at times though, I've heard of cases where moving a statement with no effect on the other statements on an inner loop around within that inner loop dramatically altered performance with the VS optimizer. PPC optimizers are not quite as smart, but they are (slightly) more predictable as well. Also PPC assembler isn't as painful to read, though there are at least 3 ways to do anything, there have been chips that reduced the redundancy, but someone would always complain.
Also the game modding community, my dad does that, and he can look at x86 assembler and see c code.
As far as instruction goes, schools still teach courses using 68000 and MIPS assembler at the university I went to, at least a couple years ago anyway.
cia factbook and the gp both said 19 million per day, not month
I propose a 7 macro limit.
Telling people what they need to be doing, and then never punishing them won't work. If people start getting fired for failure to follow security practice, it would stick more. And communicating good security practice doesn't require a consultant or speaker. There are videos out there; examples of what to look for. I agree hiring a big name to train everyone at your company who uses a computer is a waste of funds better spent, but ignoring the human element is willful ignorance. It is disingenuous for someone with a security background to even hint that technology could ever reach the point that it could prevent users from insecure behavior. The fleshy computers have to get patched too, and when they stop accepting patches, you ditch them and get new ones. You find out if the patch was installed by testing them.