I think the simple solution is for Apple to generate unique strings (either random, or increasing integers) and sign them using some signature system, concatenating the value onto the plaintext.
But the serial number on a gift card is not nearly long enough to contain enough data to be any secure kind of public key crypto.
I know you're joking, but I see this a lot in serious contexts and I need to get this off my chest:
English is NOT derived from German. Yes, it is a Germanic language, but it comes from a language much older than German. German and English are in a cousin, rather than parent/child relationship.
This is just a simple case of The Left Hand Doesn't Know What The Right Hand Is Doing.
Seriously, in any organization of Microsoft's size, these type of things will happen.
I'll bet that the guys developing IE8 really want to make it 100% standards-complaint, but the web developers dudes didn't get the memo. (Or more sinisterly, there are forces in Redmond whose interests do not lie that way.)
The images from the cams suck though. I'd expect better if they wanted to secretly spy on us.
Don't you watch TV or movies? All they have to do is load the pictures into their computers and say "enhance". That pretty much gives them infinite resolution.
I honestly don't mean this as a troll, but seriously, how much non-Mormon tourism is there in Utah?
Apparently a lot of people like to strap long slats to their feet and then hurtle down snow covered mountains at high speeds. Some say Utah is a good place to do this.
Also, every January thousands of black-clad posers come and put on some kind of film festival. Something about dancing on the sun.
The crux of the issue is of course what you mean by spam.
The best definition I've seen is: bulk, unsolicated commercial communications. (Due I think to Brad Templeton.)
In this particular case the commercial aspect is missing, so this is not spam.
This tendency to label of anything you don't like as either "spam" or "terrorism" is getting pretty tiresome.
The sun is the center of the universe? I though the sun orbited the Milkey Way Galaxy's central black hole?
So Copernicus was not 100% correct. But his theory was still more right than the one it replaced (Ptolemaic geocentrism). Newton wasn't 100% correct either, and I'm sure that Einstein's theories will also be shown to be only approximations. But so what? All these theories have advanced science, even if they are not the final word.
A question for you math geeks: can an object of infinite size even HAVE a center?
Well, you can certainly come up with an infinite space that has a "natural" center. For example, an infinite 3-space curved in higher dimensions might have only one point where the curvature is zero. That would be a natural center.
Not that our universe necessarily has that structure.
(Why call an English translation Genesis, which is not an English word? Either call it by its translated name "In the Beginning", or its actual name which is Bereshit.)
"Genesis" is from Greek, meaning origin or beginning. I believe it is the first word in the Greek version of the Hebrew Bible, a.k.a. the Septuagint. The reason we use the Greek word instead of the Hebrew one probably lies in the fact that once Christianity expanded to non-Jewish groups, more Christians used Greek than Hebrew.
"In the beginning the Gods created the Heavens and the Earth" - the word "Elohim" is in the form of a Hebrew plural.
Elohim does have the plural ending, but this is usually taken as an honorific. Especially since the verb conjugations used with Elohim are singular, not plural. I'll grant you though that this may point to earlier versions of the Genesis story where multiple gods were involved.
But how did we communicate our plans and schemes to actually be present at "hotspots" when the shit really went down? Stenography.
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Of course it's possible to break that kind of thing, but the point of stenography
So you hid your messages with stenography? The action of process of writing in shorthand or taking dictation?
This word you keep using... I do not think it means what you think it means.
It's unfortunate that this guy decided to fork rather than submit bug fixes (or even file bugs). Several of the issues he identified are bugs, not intentional behavior in Chromium.
I disagree. While it may be true that the Iron developer(s) are mostly fixing bugs, the main reason for the fork still stands: there are those who like Google's technology, but don't want to share their data with Google.
Yes, they could just not enable those features in Chrome, but I understand the desire to have those features completely gone. What if you forget about one? What if an update (inadvertently or not) resets them to "send it all to Google"?
Perhaps the developers' are motivated only by the fame and glory. Perhaps this particular fork will fizzle out and be forgotten. But there will always be people who will want what it provides.
This (and things like it other posters have pointed out) can work, and are what I usually end up doing when I program with pthreads. But the downside is that you have to make all your threads do the signaling manually. You can't wait on arbitrary threads that do not have this functionality added to them. Whereas with the Win32 API, you don't have to remember to do that for every thread you create.
Like the author, I have programmed with both pthreads and the Win32 threading API. I like the design of the pthreads API better, but (as the author also points out), pthreads has no equivalent to WaitForMultipleObjects. Sometimes it is very convenient to be able to wait on many objects and be able to be signaled by any one of them. With pthreads there is no way to do this.
Or am I missing something? Please someone, tell me how to wait on multiple objects (and be triggered by just one) with pthreads!
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Google funds student's
Google funds a student's what?
Here's a link to explain 3rd grade grammar:
Bob's Quick Guide to the Apostrophe, You Idiots
"So, ten out of ten for style, but minus several million for good thinking, huh?"
I think the simple solution is for Apple to generate unique strings (either random, or increasing integers) and sign them using some signature system, concatenating the value onto the plaintext.
But the serial number on a gift card is not nearly long enough to contain enough data to be any secure kind of public key crypto.
So smart or not, that's not what they're doing.
And don't forget Postscritpt. And LaTeX.
At the ICFP08 conference, there was a student who'd written an autonomous (simulated) robot controller, in LaTeX.
I thought latex was supposed to protect us from viruses!!
I guess I'll just throw away all those condoms ...
I know you're joking, but I see this a lot in serious contexts and I need to get this off my chest:
English is NOT derived from German. Yes, it is a Germanic language, but it comes from a language much older than German. German and English are in a cousin, rather than parent/child relationship.
This is just a simple case of The Left Hand Doesn't Know What The Right Hand Is Doing.
Seriously, in any organization of Microsoft's size, these type of things will happen.
I'll bet that the guys developing IE8 really want to make it 100% standards-complaint, but the web developers dudes didn't get the memo. (Or more sinisterly, there are forces in Redmond whose interests do not lie that way.)
The images from the cams suck though. I'd expect better if they wanted to secretly spy on us.
Don't you watch TV or movies? All they have to do is load the pictures into their computers and say "enhance". That pretty much gives them infinite resolution.
Also their computers have some pretty sweet GUIs
I honestly don't mean this as a troll, but seriously, how much non-Mormon tourism is there in Utah?
Apparently a lot of people like to strap long slats to their feet and then hurtle down snow covered mountains at high speeds. Some say Utah is a good place to do this.
Also, every January thousands of black-clad posers come and put on some kind of film festival. Something about dancing on the sun.
Why did two-thirds of the House have to approve the measure? Why not a simple majority?
After all, it's not like they were passing a constitutional amendment or overriding a presidential veto.
You *have* to go shopping sure, but nothing is ever easy.
I have found that most of the pain of shopping can be alleviated through the judicious use of a flask.
Now I can go clothes shopping with the wife all the time and it hardly hurts at all. Sometimes I don't even remember it happened.
Or if he brings in his daughter, you marry her.
Dude, gay marriage has opened this whole thing up. It doesn't matter if it's his son or daughter!
Sure a rogue/geologist sounds pretty cool, but multi-classing is not a smart decision. You're better off just focusing all your levels in one class.
The crux of the issue is of course what you mean by spam. The best definition I've seen is: bulk, unsolicated commercial communications. (Due I think to Brad Templeton.) In this particular case the commercial aspect is missing, so this is not spam. This tendency to label of anything you don't like as either "spam" or "terrorism" is getting pretty tiresome.
Using your brain to talk ... just imagine what that would mean for Slashdot! Total upheaval.
The sun is the center of the universe? I though the sun orbited the Milkey Way Galaxy's central black hole?
So Copernicus was not 100% correct. But his theory was still more right than the one it replaced (Ptolemaic geocentrism). Newton wasn't 100% correct either, and I'm sure that Einstein's theories will also be shown to be only approximations. But so what? All these theories have advanced science, even if they are not the final word.
A question for you math geeks: can an object of infinite size even HAVE a center?
Well, you can certainly come up with an infinite space that has a "natural" center. For example, an infinite 3-space curved in higher dimensions might have only one point where the curvature is zero. That would be a natural center.
Not that our universe necessarily has that structure.
What in the world were they thinking? Don't they study their own history?
If history teaches us anything, it's that almost no one studies their own history.
(Why call an English translation Genesis, which is not an English word? Either call it by its translated name "In the Beginning", or its actual name which is Bereshit.)
"Genesis" is from Greek, meaning origin or beginning. I believe it is the first word in the Greek version of the Hebrew Bible, a.k.a. the Septuagint. The reason we use the Greek word instead of the Hebrew one probably lies in the fact that once Christianity expanded to non-Jewish groups, more Christians used Greek than Hebrew.
"In the beginning the Gods created the Heavens and the Earth" - the word "Elohim" is in the form of a Hebrew plural.
Elohim does have the plural ending, but this is usually taken as an honorific. Especially since the verb conjugations used with Elohim are singular, not plural. I'll grant you though that this may point to earlier versions of the Genesis story where multiple gods were involved.
I've always had a warm spot for stenography
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But how did we communicate our plans and schemes to actually be present at "hotspots" when the shit really went down? Stenography.
...
Of course it's possible to break that kind of thing, but the point of stenography
So you hid your messages with stenography? The action of process of writing in shorthand or taking dictation? This word you keep using ... I do not think it means what you think it means.
It's unfortunate that this guy decided to fork rather than submit bug fixes (or even file bugs). Several of the issues he identified are bugs, not intentional behavior in Chromium.
I disagree. While it may be true that the Iron developer(s) are mostly fixing bugs, the main reason for the fork still stands: there are those who like Google's technology, but don't want to share their data with Google.
Yes, they could just not enable those features in Chrome, but I understand the desire to have those features completely gone. What if you forget about one? What if an update (inadvertently or not) resets them to "send it all to Google"?
Perhaps the developers' are motivated only by the fame and glory. Perhaps this particular fork will fizzle out and be forgotten. But there will always be people who will want what it provides.
these lawyers should be de-barred (or whatever the correct term is).
'dismembered'
This (and things like it other posters have pointed out) can work, and are what I usually end up doing when I program with pthreads.
But the downside is that you have to make all your threads do the signaling manually. You can't wait on arbitrary threads that do not have this functionality added to them. Whereas with the Win32 API, you don't have to remember to do that for every thread you create.
Like the author, I have programmed with both pthreads and the Win32 threading API. I like the design of the pthreads API better, but (as the author also points out), pthreads has no equivalent to WaitForMultipleObjects. Sometimes it is very convenient to be able to wait on many objects and be able to be signaled by any one of them. With pthreads there is no way to do this.
Or am I missing something? Please someone, tell me how to wait on multiple objects (and be triggered by just one) with pthreads!
What a waste of money. The other night I drank one $7 bottle of sake and I was able to see individual quarks moving.
Letters from fiends, eh? Maybe you're talking about the Screwtape letters?
No year without a new release of Nethack can be considered a good year for Open Source.