Democracy is one of the most fundamental things we have. I don't think there are many greater treasons than attacking our demcracy. But for example giving away nuclear secrets might be one of those things.
Rivest, the R of RSA, came out with this a couple months ago. I think he covered pretty much all the attacks on an election. I need to think about this punchscan thing some more, but it feels like it's missing something.
I have a new MBP 2.33 GHz 15". So far it runs at its hottest running WoW, but even then I can comfortably have it on my lap.
This is only true if it has been on my lap the whole time. A desk doesn't cool as well. Lots of heat gets trapped on the bottom and it will then get uncomfortably hot. It cools down pretty quickly though. The fans spin down in about a minute after the big load stops.
Someone asked about temperature. At its hottest I can still have it on my lap (wearing pants, dunno if it's cool enough to Quake nekkid or anytihng). Most of the time it runs cool. It's fast and snappy. It rules.
Most annoying part is that I had to recompile all the open source things I'd built for my previous ppc machine. Apparently the emulator doesn't work for command line things.
"Man, if you gotta ask, you ain't never gonna know."
You get into it by getting into it. You start by starting. Go do something!
I started in 8th grade by just saving my allowance and buying parts from radio shack and the local hardware store. Just try something. Build whatever you want to build. If you need to learn something to build what you want to build, learn it. If you're building something to impress your friends, fine, build something shiney and awesome. Otherwise, just do what you want and follow your bliss.
I'm an idealist and I think everyone should be using what is obviously the best thing.
What if the world is right and I'm wrong? I guess I'll accomodate the world, but I won't like it, and I may still claim that I'm right and push for my way. Making the non IE page better may be part of that push.
I've never really checked it out, but there it is, so I guess I should try Opera.
Yes. I don't have IE or any M$ software. M$ doesn't exist in my world.
With some searching I did finally find a windows box lying around at work and test a couple pages. And now my website serves a crippled minimal feature version unless your user-agent string says "Firefox" or "Safari", and it adds a "Get Firefox" button.
If M$ really wants to walk the standards walk, fix Internet Exploder already. I hate it when I design my website to work fine with Firefox and Safari and some IE user comes along and it doesn't work.
1. Create internet fad. 2. Get bought out. (Profit!) 3. there is no step 3
Step 2 might be expanded "get bought out by people with more money than understanding of internet fads". But really, after step 2 who cares about step 3? That's for the new owner to worry about.
Right now the thing stopping me from buying a MacBook is its weak 3d graphics abilities. Putting an awesome new CPU in it might almost overcome that, dunno.
Or maybe this is the way Apple wants it. I guess there's supposed to be some reason to go with the Pro model.
Because I am a Mac fanboy, if I were to write a game I'd write it on the Mac first, then port it to Linux which ought to be pretty easy, and then let some porting company produce the Windows port if they cared to.
Some of each. String.split(String) is awfully convenient, and awfully wasteful because of the regex backend. Other places where I had more complex regex I did break them out and keep the patterns. I still wound up replacing most of those uses also.
I'm glad that it's there, and I suppose it was useful during my prototype phase, but a little profiling revealed that my app was spending half its time parsing input. Dumping out the input to String and sometimes char[] and doing the parsing myself in hand tooled code almost completely erased the speed hit I was taking on load.
I am a software engineer on emebedded systems. I see a lot of boards like this.
The ability to boot from different sources is a normal debugging feature, not in itself sinister. Should they have cleaned that up on the production model? Yeah, sure. But verifiability is ultimately a human concern anyway, not a tech one.
It all comes down to who you trust.
If you don't trust the polling place, make the voting machine tamper proof. But then you have to trust the guy who built the voting machine. You have to trust the guy who loaded the software on it at the factory or the elections office. You have to trust the guy who wrote the code. Even if you inspected the code, you have to trust him to give you a binary based on that and not pull a fast one. You have to trust his compiler to give him a binary without compiled in back doors. I feel like I probably haven't listed all the points where this voting machine chain of trust can break down.
The biggest earthquake measured has much less than 1g of acceleration so laptop sensors might not have the best resolution for this application, but I still wonder at the possibilities for mapping the effects of a quake at many places due to distributed sensing logged in people's accelerometer enabled computers.
B5 on iTMS, cropped and cropped again
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The iTMS versions of B5 are probably only 50% of the original show.
The DVDs were artificially made "wide screen" by chopping off the top and bottom of each frame. You can tell on "Voice of the Resistance" test pattern or the Psi Corps ad on ISN with the frame that flashes "trust the corps". Those were full screen designs for tv and are now cut off.
I watched a sample of an episode on iTMS and it looks like it's the same vertical image as the DVDs but has now been chopped off on the left and right to fit the TV/iPod screen size, where letterboxing would look stupid.
So, I'm holding onto my VHS taped-off-the-air copies of B5 until they release the original-original series.
Yeah, it's big, everyone's amazed. This too shall pass.
I played for 6 months, beat the game, got to the point where it sucked and I quit. I'm ready for the next big thing now. Sooner or later, the next big thing will come along (or given the gigantism of WoW, 10 next big things) and people who have left WoW or even never played it will pick up the new thing.
Some of these guys are just whining. There's some truth that it's harder to build multiplayer critical mass in this market, but I think mostly their games just aren't good enough. Defining "good enough" is left as an exercise to the reader.
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That'd be much more interesting if the story played out like Mr. A.C. Clarke wrote it./>
Democracy is one of the most fundamental things we have. I don't think there are many greater treasons than attacking our demcracy. But for example giving away nuclear secrets might be one of those things.
http://theory.csail.mit.edu/~rivest/Rivest-TheThre eBallotVotingSystem.pdf
Rivest, the R of RSA, came out with this a couple months ago. I think he covered pretty much all the attacks on an election. I need to think about this punchscan thing some more, but it feels like it's missing something.
I have a new MBP 2.33 GHz 15". So far it runs at its hottest running WoW, but even then I can comfortably have it on my lap.
This is only true if it has been on my lap the whole time. A desk doesn't cool as well. Lots of heat gets trapped on the bottom and it will then get uncomfortably hot. It cools down pretty quickly though. The fans spin down in about a minute after the big load stops.
Someone asked about temperature. At its hottest I can still have it on my lap (wearing pants, dunno if it's cool enough to Quake nekkid or anytihng). Most of the time it runs cool. It's fast and snappy. It rules.
Most annoying part is that I had to recompile all the open source things I'd built for my previous ppc machine. Apparently the emulator doesn't work for command line things.
For great justice, move every page rank!
I'm surprised I don't see a link to the original story yet, so here it is:
http://www.mydd.com/story/2006/10/24/122153/98
From the story:
that is all
"Man, if you gotta ask, you ain't never gonna know."
You get into it by getting into it. You start by starting. Go do something!
I started in 8th grade by just saving my allowance and buying parts from radio shack and the local hardware store. Just try something. Build whatever you want to build. If you need to learn something to build what you want to build, learn it. If you're building something to impress your friends, fine, build something shiney and awesome. Otherwise, just do what you want and follow your bliss.
I'm not a professional designer, just a hobbiest. But, I'm trying to make something useful. IE gets in the way.
I'm an idealist and I think everyone should be using what is obviously the best thing.
What if the world is right and I'm wrong? I guess I'll accomodate the world, but I won't like it, and I may still claim that I'm right and push for my way. Making the non IE page better may be part of that push.
I've never really checked it out, but there it is, so I guess I should try Opera.
Yes. I don't have IE or any M$ software. M$ doesn't exist in my world.
With some searching I did finally find a windows box lying around at work and test a couple pages. And now my website serves a crippled minimal feature version unless your user-agent string says "Firefox" or "Safari", and it adds a "Get Firefox" button.
If M$ really wants to walk the standards walk, fix Internet Exploder already. I hate it when I design my website to work fine with Firefox and Safari and some IE user comes along and it doesn't work.
> How much time does it take to finish an infinite loop?
Exactly as much time as it takes for Apple to go out of business.
1. Create internet fad.
2. Get bought out. (Profit!)
3. there is no step 3
Step 2 might be expanded "get bought out by people with more money than understanding of internet fads". But really, after step 2 who cares about step 3? That's for the new owner to worry about.
Are you astroturf? Really, such content-free cheerleading is suspicious to me.
To counter you, I have to plug my favorite alternative PostgreSQL.
Right now the thing stopping me from buying a MacBook is its weak 3d graphics abilities. Putting an awesome new CPU in it might almost overcome that, dunno.
Or maybe this is the way Apple wants it. I guess there's supposed to be some reason to go with the Pro model.
Because I am a Mac fanboy, if I were to write a game I'd write it on the Mac first, then port it to Linux which ought to be pretty easy, and then let some porting company produce the Windows port if they cared to.
Some of each. String.split(String) is awfully convenient, and awfully wasteful because of the regex backend. Other places where I had more complex regex I did break them out and keep the patterns. I still wound up replacing most of those uses also.
I'm glad that it's there, and I suppose it was useful during my prototype phase, but a little profiling revealed that my app was spending half its time parsing input. Dumping out the input to String and sometimes char[] and doing the parsing myself in hand tooled code almost completely erased the speed hit I was taking on load.
Clearly we need EAL7 certified open source voting machines.
;-)
OR
We need hand counted paper ballots.
Let's vote on it.
I am a software engineer on emebedded systems. I see a lot of boards like this.
The ability to boot from different sources is a normal debugging feature, not in itself sinister. Should they have cleaned that up on the production model? Yeah, sure. But verifiability is ultimately a human concern anyway, not a tech one.
It all comes down to who you trust.
If you don't trust the polling place, make the voting machine tamper proof.
But then you have to trust the guy who built the voting machine.
You have to trust the guy who loaded the software on it at the factory or the elections office.
You have to trust the guy who wrote the code. Even if you inspected the code, you have to trust him to give you a binary based on that and not pull a fast one.
You have to trust his compiler to give him a binary without compiled in back doors.
I feel like I probably haven't listed all the points where this voting machine chain of trust can break down.
On top of all that, voting machines are not cost effective vs hand counted paper ballots. So, I advocate for no voting machines.
The biggest earthquake measured has much less than 1g of acceleration so laptop sensors might not have the best resolution for this application, but I still wonder at the possibilities for mapping the effects of a quake at many places due to distributed sensing logged in people's accelerometer enabled computers.
The iTMS versions of B5 are probably only 50% of the original show.
The DVDs were artificially made "wide screen" by chopping off the top and bottom of each frame. You can tell on "Voice of the Resistance" test pattern or the Psi Corps ad on ISN with the frame that flashes "trust the corps". Those were full screen designs for tv and are now cut off.
I watched a sample of an episode on iTMS and it looks like it's the same vertical image as the DVDs but has now been chopped off on the left and right to fit the TV/iPod screen size, where letterboxing would look stupid.
So, I'm holding onto my VHS taped-off-the-air copies of B5 until they release the original-original series.
Yeah, it's big, everyone's amazed. This too shall pass.
I played for 6 months, beat the game, got to the point where it sucked and I quit. I'm ready for the next big thing now. Sooner or later, the next big thing will come along (or given the gigantism of WoW, 10 next big things) and people who have left WoW or even never played it will pick up the new thing.
Some of these guys are just whining. There's some truth that it's harder to build multiplayer critical mass in this market, but I think mostly their games just aren't good enough. Defining "good enough" is left as an exercise to the reader.
under which namespace will I find the tag?