I've given some thought to that, and I think I'd define it a bit more simply..
Life is that which goes against the obvious path of least resistance.
Chemicals will interact, then when they get to a lower-energy state, become inert. Rocks will fall from high places and lay where they are, until something happens that they can move again. Fusion in starts takes place because there is an abundance in energy, some atoms fuse and release some, and are left in a lower state.
Life, on the other hand.. we walk up hills, bacterium absorb items from their surroundings and metabolize it, parasites attach themselves to a host (rather than fall off) and feed.. things along these lines.
While you might say that the various chemical reactions going on within life are merely chemical reactions exerting energy causing other facets of live objects to do the things they do, I think that would sorta be included in the definition of life;-) Rocks don't have this going on, stars don't.. so perhaps anything that _does_, no matter how unlifelike we might see it, should be considered alive.
So.. do viruses go against the grain in any instances?... Sorry for any incoherence, I just woke up.
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I'm confused.. what do you need a coder for? I googled Mike Perry man in the middle SSL, and I came across a discussion of things..
but, as is stated, there's no work to be done on this issue. If a certificate is invalid, you probably have a man in the middle -- at least, that's how a tor user should take it. If it's not invalid, then accept it and go with trust.
From what I understand, these things are _already_ implemented.
As for getting the word out more, perhaps a full click-through screen with big red text saying "BAD!" and a little puny button that does a jump-around-the-page-on-mouseover thing four times before you can continue. Even place the button over the four most appropriate words in turn, so they're looking at the word after the button moves. Don't use runon sentences like I just did, and get rid of the yes/no popup with uniform, boring text that looks like the standard, "Do you want to blah blah or not?" box. Of course they want to do what they're trying to do. They just don't know they shouldn't want to.
I think that'd strike a negative for usability, though;-)
What the _article_ is saying, though, is that if a mere mathematical bug is present, an exploit could happen. Perhaps you could use it so that a virus signature is calculated in just the wrong way. There -- now you don't need to read the article. Or the summary.
As a comparison, think of the recent Excel (wasn't it?) bug about adding numbers to 65536 and getting 100 000. In that case, if you're selling something, and you can arrange the sale in just the right order.. imagine the profits! Or perhaps you can manage the same sort of thing if you're selling, imagine the savings.
The computer builder I work for regularly does 3.7-3.75 on air cooling, just not a stock cooler. I think the FSB is set around 1600MHz as well, though I believe these are dual core and not quad.
As is said.. it seems to not take much.
Still, while we offer high end, our specialty is in multiple monitors:-) up to 8 on a single computer is fairly common, 12 quite doable, and.. well, if you use tricks.. how about 24?;-) I need to get writing the program to configure those. Geez..</brag>
Contrary to what another person that replied to you said, I feel that ignorance _generally_ should not be a valid defense.
You may be aware of the terms "jurisdiction" and "community standards". In general, you're expected to abide by the terms of the jurisdiction you're in and to live up to the community standards around you. Thus, they can make laws and expect you to follow them _because_ those laws should merely be enforcing the community standards. If you already follow the community standards, you're already following the law -- if you're not, well, now they can _officially_ raise a fuss about what you're doing.
Remember, difference is crime, and visitors are criminals...
I tend to feel that ignorance is a _valid_ defense in such cases as when the laws aren't obvious (hiding a speed limit sign behind a tree, the 2257 record keeping law), or when you're a visitor to a new area (age of consent, varying speed limits through housing/construction zones, using open WAPs,...)
1) If [...] their shirt seems to be walking around the school...
2) RFID is only an identifier, not a tracker.
Wait, what? make up your mind -- either you can track someone with it or you can't.
Personally, I'm quite sure they could trivially easily. Read other posts here for comments on that. I was particularly surprised about a comment of how someone could get beat up and their shirt stolen, just to get them in trouble.. and sadly, I can easily see this happening. I wouldn't even expect a teacher to believe the kid if it were the case, either.
Ripping small patches out (the RFID tags) and taping them to someone's back, then they've been wandering around with that person all day long. Stick it on the wall by the girls locker room, grab it back later, suddenly they were spying for a while.. who knows. The possibilities seem horrendous.
If you're looking for serious techies, I'll be looking for someone like you. If you don't intend to micro manage me so much, provide a decent place to work with a decent wage, benefits, some introduction to what you use and how you use it, proper documentation, and patience to let me learn the atmosphere and improve things I'm assigned (I like to automate -- I write scripts _all_the_time_; Takes longer now, saves time forever more), and I'll be interested.
E-mail me. I'll be ready to relocate towards the beginning of the year. Wouldn't mind talking about how things could be made to work out around that time. light moogle at hotmail
Yeah. Just because they're using my marker and writing on my wall with it doesn't mean they don't have a write to get their message across to me! To hell if I have to paint over it later./sarcasm
Maybe they should start treating spam as graffiti, destruction of personal property, unauthorized use of computer resources, trespass,...
Seriously, though, if you use a _power_ sander to sand a platter, it will die. Just like wood, just like metal. Once you get rid of the shine, nothing will be recovered -- assuming you got rid of it mechanically/chemically and not just by covering it.
When faced with the issue of implementing getopt on Windows, I merely took the code from FreeBSD: src/lib/libc/stdlib/getopt.c
I love FreeBSD. (I once changed the motherboard, rebooted, went, "Oh.. shit," and proceeded to login. All drivers are compiled as modules, in less time than my lean linux kernel.:-/)
I sidestepped the license issue, stripped out extraneous header files, changed a couple referenced to _getprogname() (either to static string "" or to a global var, as it is in libc), read the man page to figure out how to use it and had a short-form option parser in.. probably under an hour.
Some things you have to code. For everything else, the Regents of the University of California has done it for you.
The processes under the new scheduler are awarded CPU time as needed, as opposed to blindly. Yet at the same time, you're not discriminating solely on the user running the process.
I'd say it sounds good, but I'm not sure how internet analogies work vs processor time...
and on an off note, I really would like it to improve things cause my linux experience (wine * 3, azureus, md5summing/sorting/awking 500 meg files, multiple times in a row) tends to be exceedingly jerky, slow, and can be brought to its knees relatively easily. Even significantly worse than Windows at times. I rather want to try this scheduler to see how things go; though I just installed kernel 2.6.22 and have noticed improvement with the CFS IO scheduler. Interesting.
I, too, did a stage 1 install.. actually, perhaps 3-5 of them. That, however, was back in the time when a stage-1 install was a _supported_ method of setting up a Gentoo box. Now, I agree with their stage-3 philosophy: start with a stage 3, and just recompile world when you get it up and running (`emerge -eD world` should do the trick).
Really, there is no compelling reason to start at stage 1: the only thing it offers is another stage of compilation (3rd stage won't compile quickly enough to save that second stage build, just because of an optimized GCC). Whether you start in stage 1 or stage 3, you still customize the use vars, module params, syslog daemon, pcmcia-utils, wireless-utils, set up partitions, input network settings, compile your own kernel, whatever you may need.
Give it a second look.. I'm willing to bet that stage1 installs don't give you anything extra. At the same time, I often find a need to look up some hardware information or otherwise use the internet as I'm installing Gentoo, and stage 3 allows me to do this, unlike stage1.
Sounds somewhat familiar. Vice President Cheney came to my girlfriend's hometown one day to give a speech at the highschool. My girlfriend was in Highschool at the time. One group she was in was Amnesty International, a truly peaceful human rights group, and they had a meeting somewhere around the visit (that day? week?). Their highschool amnesty international meeting was bugged by the secret service/FBI.
From what I remember about it, they had fun that day and they would sorta speak in a fake whisper, teasing the bugs. Apparently they didn't say anything obnoxious; no one got arrested.
I have to disagree... to an extent. Bill gates is/was running Microsoft. I feel he hasn't been into the technology work since the Altair basic days, and even then, many innovations may be attributed to other members of his team (of... him and one other person, I believe) rather than to Gates. So, Bill Gates may have done nothing aside from:
Gates is an exceptional business man. He seems to know how and when to get the best deal, and put himself on top. He used this for Microsoft at the beginning, at the expense of other people.
Unfortunately, I'm certainly a bit like this... I'm perfectly willing to pump myself up at the expense of other businesses -- so long as I don't drive the human constituents into the ground. If I can build my fortune, I can do as Gates is now:
Gates is giving his fortune away. He's created the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, a _charity_, and is giving away a great deal of money to help people and organizations advance themselves. This, in my mind, is a _very_ good thing, and given the wealth and power of the United States (as it is generally perceived), I'd be curious to see the good he could perform.
I don't think Bill is evil.. if anything, he was very unethical and still may be very unethical, but he seems to be working towards good. If we look beyond Microsoft, he may just be accomplishing something.
It feels like the only real way to violate the GPL is to distribute GPL software without distributing the source/copyright notice. In this violation, it is most likely that the companies would be using the GPL software source code in their own projects, but stating that they own the code or not giving the credit due to the original author.
The net impact of the CAS latency: 0-0.002%. Almost _nothing_.
The great thing about this article is that it goes into just about every aspect available in the bios, giving you a good idea of what _does_ work (a brief scan-through reveals clock speed as the primary contributor, dram command rate and Active to Command (Trcd?)).
if it only saves *one* life, it will have been worth it.
Translation: won't somebody PLEASE think of the children?!?
There could easily be better places to spend money that would be thrown into this. If it saves only one life, it's not worth much more than the time one person put into it. Please, think practically, not idealistically.
You seem to be quite foolish. Of all the thought I've ever given it, I've seen it spelled and I hear it as "should've." It's a contraction; it's not two separate words. You're letting your misconceptions teach you, it would seem.
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I've given some thought to that, and I think I'd define it a bit more simply..
;-) Rocks don't have this going on, stars don't.. so perhaps anything that _does_, no matter how unlifelike we might see it, should be considered alive.
Life is that which goes against the obvious path of least resistance.
Chemicals will interact, then when they get to a lower-energy state, become inert. Rocks will fall from high places and lay where they are, until something happens that they can move again. Fusion in starts takes place because there is an abundance in energy, some atoms fuse and release some, and are left in a lower state.
Life, on the other hand.. we walk up hills, bacterium absorb items from their surroundings and metabolize it, parasites attach themselves to a host (rather than fall off) and feed.. things along these lines.
While you might say that the various chemical reactions going on within life are merely chemical reactions exerting energy causing other facets of live objects to do the things they do, I think that would sorta be included in the definition of life
So.. do viruses go against the grain in any instances?... Sorry for any incoherence, I just woke up.
I'm confused.. what do you need a coder for? I googled Mike Perry man in the middle SSL, and I came across a discussion of things..
;-)
http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Aug-2006/msg00316.html
but, as is stated, there's no work to be done on this issue. If a certificate is invalid, you probably have a man in the middle -- at least, that's how a tor user should take it. If it's not invalid, then accept it and go with trust.
From what I understand, these things are _already_ implemented.
As for getting the word out more, perhaps a full click-through screen with big red text saying "BAD!" and a little puny button that does a jump-around-the-page-on-mouseover thing four times before you can continue. Even place the button over the four most appropriate words in turn, so they're looking at the word after the button moves. Don't use runon sentences like I just did, and get rid of the yes/no popup with uniform, boring text that looks like the standard, "Do you want to blah blah or not?" box. Of course they want to do what they're trying to do. They just don't know they shouldn't want to.
I think that'd strike a negative for usability, though
-DrkShadow
Well, no shit.
What the _article_ is saying, though, is that if a mere mathematical bug is present, an exploit could happen. Perhaps you could use it so that a virus signature is calculated in just the wrong way. There -- now you don't need to read the article. Or the summary.
As a comparison, think of the recent Excel (wasn't it?) bug about adding numbers to 65536 and getting 100 000. In that case, if you're selling something, and you can arrange the sale in just the right order.. imagine the profits! Or perhaps you can manage the same sort of thing if you're selling, imagine the savings.
-DrkShadow
The computer builder I work for regularly does 3.7-3.75 on air cooling, just not a stock cooler. I think the FSB is set around 1600MHz as well, though I believe these are dual core and not quad.
:-) up to 8 on a single computer is fairly common, 12 quite doable, and.. well, if you use tricks.. how about 24? ;-) I need to get writing the program to configure those. Geez..</brag>
As is said.. it seems to not take much.
Still, while we offer high end, our specialty is in multiple monitors
-DrkShadow
Contrary to what another person that replied to you said, I feel that ignorance _generally_ should not be a valid defense.
...)
You may be aware of the terms "jurisdiction" and "community standards". In general, you're expected to abide by the terms of the jurisdiction you're in and to live up to the community standards around you. Thus, they can make laws and expect you to follow them _because_ those laws should merely be enforcing the community standards. If you already follow the community standards, you're already following the law -- if you're not, well, now they can _officially_ raise a fuss about what you're doing.
Remember, difference is crime, and visitors are criminals...
I tend to feel that ignorance is a _valid_ defense in such cases as when the laws aren't obvious (hiding a speed limit sign behind a tree, the 2257 record keeping law), or when you're a visitor to a new area (age of consent, varying speed limits through housing/construction zones, using open WAPs,
-DrkShadow
1) If [...] their shirt seems to be walking around the school...
2) RFID is only an identifier, not a tracker.
Wait, what? make up your mind -- either you can track someone with it or you can't.
Personally, I'm quite sure they could trivially easily. Read other posts here for comments on that. I was particularly surprised about a comment of how someone could get beat up and their shirt stolen, just to get them in trouble.. and sadly, I can easily see this happening. I wouldn't even expect a teacher to believe the kid if it were the case, either.
Ripping small patches out (the RFID tags) and taping them to someone's back, then they've been wandering around with that person all day long. Stick it on the wall by the girls locker room, grab it back later, suddenly they were spying for a while.. who knows. The possibilities seem horrendous.
-DrkShadow
If you're looking for serious techies, I'll be looking for someone like you. If you don't intend to micro manage me so much, provide a decent place to work with a decent wage, benefits, some introduction to what you use and how you use it, proper documentation, and patience to let me learn the atmosphere and improve things I'm assigned (I like to automate -- I write scripts _all_the_time_; Takes longer now, saves time forever more), and I'll be interested.
E-mail me. I'll be ready to relocate towards the beginning of the year. Wouldn't mind talking about how things could be made to work out around that time.
light moogle at hotmail
Yeah. Just because they're using my marker and writing on my wall with it doesn't mean they don't have a write to get their message across to me! To hell if I have to paint over it later. /sarcasm
...
Maybe they should start treating spam as graffiti, destruction of personal property, unauthorized use of computer resources, trespass,
-DrkShadow
Use an IBM Deskstar hard drive:
http://www.astro.ufl.edu/~ken/crash/index.html
Seriously, though, if you use a _power_ sander to sand a platter, it will die. Just like wood, just like metal. Once you get rid of the shine, nothing will be recovered -- assuming you got rid of it mechanically/chemically and not just by covering it.
-DrkShadow
Indeed. Aside from Clippy, which is the first thing that leapt to mind, I believe Microsoft Bob, from the 80's, implemented predictive interfaces.
Sigh... the USPTO.. I just.. *sigh*
-DrkShadow
By NOT taking anything, these people are accusing me of theft! Great!
-DrkShadow
When faced with the issue of implementing getopt on Windows, I merely took the code from FreeBSD: src/lib/libc/stdlib/getopt.c
:-/)
I love FreeBSD. (I once changed the motherboard, rebooted, went, "Oh.. shit," and proceeded to login. All drivers are compiled as modules, in less time than my lean linux kernel.
I sidestepped the license issue, stripped out extraneous header files, changed a couple referenced to _getprogname() (either to static string "" or to a global var, as it is in libc), read the man page to figure out how to use it and had a short-form option parser in.. probably under an hour.
Some things you have to code. For everything else, the Regents of the University of California has done it for you.
You're a criminal now, huh?
-DrkShadow
To me, it seems to sound more like QoS:
The processes under the new scheduler are awarded CPU time as needed, as opposed to blindly. Yet at the same time, you're not discriminating solely on the user running the process.
I'd say it sounds good, but I'm not sure how internet analogies work vs processor time...
and on an off note, I really would like it to improve things cause my linux experience (wine * 3, azureus, md5summing/sorting/awking 500 meg files, multiple times in a row) tends to be exceedingly jerky, slow, and can be brought to its knees relatively easily. Even significantly worse than Windows at times. I rather want to try this scheduler to see how things go; though I just installed kernel 2.6.22 and have noticed improvement with the CFS IO scheduler. Interesting.
-DrkShadow
I, too, did a stage 1 install.. actually, perhaps 3-5 of them. That, however, was back in the time when a stage-1 install was a _supported_ method of setting up a Gentoo box. Now, I agree with their stage-3 philosophy: start with a stage 3, and just recompile world when you get it up and running (`emerge -eD world` should do the trick).
Really, there is no compelling reason to start at stage 1: the only thing it offers is another stage of compilation (3rd stage won't compile quickly enough to save that second stage build, just because of an optimized GCC). Whether you start in stage 1 or stage 3, you still customize the use vars, module params, syslog daemon, pcmcia-utils, wireless-utils, set up partitions, input network settings, compile your own kernel, whatever you may need.
Give it a second look.. I'm willing to bet that stage1 installs don't give you anything extra. At the same time, I often find a need to look up some hardware information or otherwise use the internet as I'm installing Gentoo, and stage 3 allows me to do this, unlike stage1.
Sounds somewhat familiar. Vice President Cheney came to my girlfriend's hometown one day to give a speech at the highschool. My girlfriend was in Highschool at the time. One group she was in was Amnesty International, a truly peaceful human rights group, and they had a meeting somewhere around the visit (that day? week?). Their highschool amnesty international meeting was bugged by the secret service/FBI.
From what I remember about it, they had fun that day and they would sorta speak in a fake whisper, teasing the bugs. Apparently they didn't say anything obnoxious; no one got arrested.
-DrkShadow
I have to disagree... to an extent. Bill gates is/was running Microsoft. I feel he hasn't been into the technology work since the Altair basic days, and even then, many innovations may be attributed to other members of his team (of... him and one other person, I believe) rather than to Gates. So, Bill Gates may have done nothing aside from:
Gates is an exceptional business man. He seems to know how and when to get the best deal, and put himself on top. He used this for Microsoft at the beginning, at the expense of other people.
Unfortunately, I'm certainly a bit like this... I'm perfectly willing to pump myself up at the expense of other businesses -- so long as I don't drive the human constituents into the ground. If I can build my fortune, I can do as Gates is now:
Gates is giving his fortune away. He's created the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, a _charity_, and is giving away a great deal of money to help people and organizations advance themselves. This, in my mind, is a _very_ good thing, and given the wealth and power of the United States (as it is generally perceived), I'd be curious to see the good he could perform.
I don't think Bill is evil.. if anything, he was very unethical and still may be very unethical, but he seems to be working towards good. If we look beyond Microsoft, he may just be accomplishing something.
-DrkShadow
She's absolutely right! You can label images together with your daughter!
Well, have fun with that. I'm sure she'll find it's a blast.. and as a team, just imagine where your points can go.
-DrkShadow
Yes.. because, after all, vegetable oil is a horribly inappropriate solution for their recycled cluster. Sigh.
-DrkShadow
You may be all for it, but I'm pretty sure you're the only one that can turn your ipod down.
Apparently responsibility GOES with age.
-DrkShadow
It feels like the only real way to violate the GPL is to distribute GPL software without distributing the source/copyright notice. In this violation, it is most likely that the companies would be using the GPL software source code in their own projects, but stating that they own the code or not giving the credit due to the original author.
-DrkShadow
I remember an article published on Slashdot a year or two (or three or four?) ago about a memory timing analysis. A copy is available here:
_ timings/index_3.shtml
http://www.techwarelabs.com/reviews/memory/memory
The net impact of the CAS latency: 0-0.002%. Almost _nothing_.
The great thing about this article is that it goes into just about every aspect available in the bios, giving you a good idea of what _does_ work (a brief scan-through reveals clock speed as the primary contributor, dram command rate and Active to Command (Trcd?)).
Happy reading.
-DrkShadow
if it only saves *one* life, it will have been worth it.
Translation: won't somebody PLEASE think of the children?!?
There could easily be better places to spend money that would be thrown into this. If it saves only one life, it's not worth much more than the time one person put into it. Please, think practically, not idealistically.
-DrkShadow
You seem to be quite foolish. Of all the thought I've ever given it, I've seen it spelled and I hear it as "should've." It's a contraction; it's not two separate words. You're letting your misconceptions teach you, it would seem.
-DrkShadow
Imagine a farm of these! You could power a Beowulf cluster!
-DrkShadow