Part of what got my my job was the fact that I'd started programming on a C64. Nothing to do with the actual job, other than that the company's first product was written for the C64.
You sure of that? At uni, we referred to the language we did everyday utility programming in as "C+". Basically, C with the function overloading, one-line comments, iostream library, and other useful features from C++, but without any attempt at object-oriented programming.
I grow weary of seeing lots of young 20-something applicants fresh out of school who claim they have excellent coding skills and then proceed to list about ten different languages including HTML. First, HTML is not a programming language. Secondly, it takes years to learn how to program WELL in a complex language like C++. You may know the basic syntax for ten different languages, but that doesn't mean you're an expert programmer in all. And I'd argue that if you think listing tons of languages makes you look impressive, I would argue you're not much of a programmer at all (unless you've been working for decades).
I'm 23, and I'm quite serious about the 17 years of programming experience I claim on my resume. I'm also quite serious about the dozen languages I list. I list the four languages I'm proficient in (Basic, C, C++, Perl) on one line each, along with years of experience. The other eight languages (ML, RoboTalk, Intel assembler, VAX assembler, PHP, Visual Basic, Delphi, and Bash scripting) are on a single line, prefaced with "Also know"
The biggest problem will most likely be weakening of the immune system. Spend enough time in space, and your immune system will be about as effective as that of someone with AIDS. Fortunately, the effect reverses itself quickly once you're back in a decent gravity field.
America's Army also has one feature that most other games of that type don't: consequences. If you get killed, you're dead for the rest of the round. If you shoot a teammate, you get kicked out. If you shoot a non-combatant, you get kicked out. Do any of this too often, you get thrown in Levenworth.
What about a partial compromise that gives access to files that are supposedly root-only, but doesn't give full root access? Or a physical security compromise that lets someone collect hashes?
From personal experience with cracking passwords, I wouldn't consider unmodified MD5 to be very secure. My computer can test 5 million MD5 hashes a second, or the entire 8-character password space in ten months.
DES is the Digital Encryption Standard. IIRC, it's a 56-bit symmetric-key encryption method, and is considered insecure, as a high-end desktop machine can crack anything encrypted with it in under 24 hours.
This sort of thing has been going on for at least a hundred and fifty years. The only thing "news" about it is that computers are being used to work out the districts, not working them out by hand. I don't see it doing any more to kill off democracy than it ever has.
I think they picked an asteroid that didn't make any approaches to other large asteroids in that 16-year period. If the only objects you need to worry about are the planets, it's a lot easier to calculate, particularly for a period as short as 16 years.
I wouldn't be so sure about that. SecondLife lets you go about in the nude in mature areas of the world, but I haven't seen many people taking advantage of the option. In fact, the most common form of nudity I've seen is people who forget they aren't wearing a bra under their body armor when changing outfits.
Bugger the electronic petition, and send a paper letter. That way, there is a verifiable paper trail of your request, and you know your representative (or at least his office) got it.
I don't think so. Because the jackpot is rolled over to the next drawing, this will have the effect of slightly increasing the size of the average jackpot, but not changing the total amount paid out.
I don't know about one person buying all the tickets to a lottery, but about twenty years ago, a group in California tried to get all possible tickets for the lottery as a publicity stunt. The convenience store chain they were working with managed to print out about 75% of the possible tickets before the drawing, when they had to stop. The group won, and managed to make a profit.
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Part of what got my my job was the fact that I'd started programming on a C64. Nothing to do with the actual job, other than that the company's first product was written for the C64.
You sure of that? At uni, we referred to the language we did everyday utility programming in as "C+". Basically, C with the function overloading, one-line comments, iostream library, and other useful features from C++, but without any attempt at object-oriented programming.
I grow weary of seeing lots of young 20-something applicants fresh out of school who claim they have excellent coding skills and then proceed to list about ten different languages including HTML. First, HTML is not a programming language. Secondly, it takes years to learn how to program WELL in a complex language like C++. You may know the basic syntax for ten different languages, but that doesn't mean you're an expert programmer in all. And I'd argue that if you think listing tons of languages makes you look impressive, I would argue you're not much of a programmer at all (unless you've been working for decades).
I'm 23, and I'm quite serious about the 17 years of programming experience I claim on my resume. I'm also quite serious about the dozen languages I list. I list the four languages I'm proficient in (Basic, C, C++, Perl) on one line each, along with years of experience. The other eight languages (ML, RoboTalk, Intel assembler, VAX assembler, PHP, Visual Basic, Delphi, and Bash scripting) are on a single line, prefaced with "Also know"
Where are the authorities? Busy chasing down crimes that involve losses greater than fractional pennies per victim.
So you're a tax accountant in addition to being a middle manager at Honda and one of the designers of the iPod?
Lead bricks have the advantage that they'll stop other things, like small meteors, in addition to the radiation.
Not to say that magnetic shielding doesn't have benefits. Google for "magsail" or "magnetic sail".
The biggest problem will most likely be weakening of the immune system. Spend enough time in space, and your immune system will be about as effective as that of someone with AIDS. Fortunately, the effect reverses itself quickly once you're back in a decent gravity field.
and maybe you'll be blown away by the next release. ...in about twenty years.
What will be the 21st century's analogue of the atom bomb?
I don't want to know.
It can catch cancer cells in the bloodstream, but it won't catch those spreading by the lymph system.
And for future reference, it's "metastasized".
The iron in hemoglobin isn't magnetic, so this won't have any more effect on blood cells than the "improve your circulation" magnets do.
America's Army also has one feature that most other games of that type don't: consequences. If you get killed, you're dead for the rest of the round. If you shoot a teammate, you get kicked out. If you shoot a non-combatant, you get kicked out. Do any of this too often, you get thrown in Levenworth.
Finally, an actual medical benefit from magnets!
Identical twins don't have identical fingerprints.
What about a partial compromise that gives access to files that are supposedly root-only, but doesn't give full root access? Or a physical security compromise that lets someone collect hashes?
From personal experience with cracking passwords, I wouldn't consider unmodified MD5 to be very secure. My computer can test 5 million MD5 hashes a second, or the entire 8-character password space in ten months.
DES is the Digital Encryption Standard. IIRC, it's a 56-bit symmetric-key encryption method, and is considered insecure, as a high-end desktop machine can crack anything encrypted with it in under 24 hours.
This sort of thing has been going on for at least a hundred and fifty years. The only thing "news" about it is that computers are being used to work out the districts, not working them out by hand. I don't see it doing any more to kill off democracy than it ever has.
I think they picked an asteroid that didn't make any approaches to other large asteroids in that 16-year period. If the only objects you need to worry about are the planets, it's a lot easier to calculate, particularly for a period as short as 16 years.
Apple already failed once with an ISP (eWorld, I think).
I wouldn't be so sure about that. SecondLife lets you go about in the nude in mature areas of the world, but I haven't seen many people taking advantage of the option. In fact, the most common form of nudity I've seen is people who forget they aren't wearing a bra under their body armor when changing outfits.
people will be thankful to have a anthropomorphic paperclip tell them what to do.
Remember "Bob" from Microsoft? The predecessor to "Clippy"?
Bugger the electronic petition, and send a paper letter. That way, there is a verifiable paper trail of your request, and you know your representative (or at least his office) got it.
I don't think so. Because the jackpot is rolled over to the next drawing, this will have the effect of slightly increasing the size of the average jackpot, but not changing the total amount paid out.
I don't know about one person buying all the tickets to a lottery, but about twenty years ago, a group in California tried to get all possible tickets for the lottery as a publicity stunt. The convenience store chain they were working with managed to print out about 75% of the possible tickets before the drawing, when they had to stop. The group won, and managed to make a profit.