...to a gun just being a gun? I'm all for keeping dangerous criminals away from firearms, and I think that legislation for waiting periods and against concealed-carry is a great idea...BUT, the real problem is not guns, no matter how much some people complain it is.
What if the sensors got dirty or damaged? What if there was a software glitch? What if the batteries die?! In the off chance I need the gun for self-defense, I would just as soon have a knife. A glock, however, that had been buried, beaten, and soaked in water for the next umpteen years, would probably still fire just fine.
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If you're looking to hire the best, spend the time to do so. What's the hurry? Google's not looking to hire someone for $7/hr. They're looking to hire the best of the best. If you're going to have an intimate working relationship with a person, and require from them a deep intellect and ability to work with others in some capacity, you can't just test these skills with an aptitude test and a 2-hour pre-packaged interview. Some things about a person only come out with time.
Ever had a wrong first impression of someone? Or, just an inadequate one? You didn't know your impression was wrong until you got to know the person a little better, right? I'd like to see a shortcut, but haven't yet...I've known people for quite a while before I found out they are not who/what they seemed to be.
Are you afraid of your refrigerator? My mom's afraid of her computer...I'm sure she couldn't care less whether it runs Windows or Linux or OSX or Plan9 (well, maybe not Plan9). It's something that's hard enough to confront as-is and, if by rote memorization she can get to Word and an email program, she's doing fine in my book.
Really, why bother for her to change? The videos do look interesting though and really, the car analogy probably works for anyone born much after 1950;)
I can see the security guard at the front doors now: "Whoa, hold on there sir, you can't leave the hospital--you have the wrong spleen. That's right, the RFID tag identifies it as the wrong one. Just hand it over nicely, sir, and we won't have to involve the authorities..."
There are other methods to attempt to date the artifact itself but AFAIK none are considered very accurate--carbon dating of organic material via estimated decay rate is the best we have.
Even so, this method has yielded evidence of human inhabitance in South America up to 70,000-100,000 years ago. Very few people take these numbers seriously. In short, this study could easily be 25000 years off, leaving no spectacular findings.
Television, much like radio and most other media for that matter, is moving gradually in the direction of niche programming. This is supported by on-demand, tivo, etc. The science channel looks like something that would appeal to a limited number of people, depending on the format, but enough to warrant the programming. I personally like the speed channel and I really can't imagine that most people watch it that much--Nascar is in, but not racing in general in the US.
Just a matter of time before I can just pick up the remote, find which category and specific type of program I want to watch, choose which episode/installment, and there I go.
Sure, announce it to the world why don't you? Now every cop around here will start carrying a cable broadcast satellite in the back of the patrol car just to stop people like us. Way to go!
I would agree that this is a useful feature. But, what ever happened to trusting your employees? I've seen a lot of talk that this will somehow keep people from doing something that is apparently likely to take place. That's not to say that you should be insecure...a few basic measures are definitely in order. If, however, someone is bent on stealing your data, and this person is an employee who has access to that data, sorry, you (the sysadmin) lose.
In a large corporation tight security makes a lot of sense; the more employees, the greater number of potential thieves, and the less chance of real intimate knowledge of co-workers. For most companies, however, draconian security measures really don't prevent theft, but encourage it. Good developers know way more than most sysadmins about ways to smuggle data off a system. Treating intelligent people like irresponsible children is just a good way to piss them off. Bad idea, in general.
You have no idea how many times I've been double-billed in a month by these people. Not just me either, but my gf had their service and got double-billed the last month of using it.
Yeah but Konqueror really _is_ incompatible with a large number of pages. Gmail, most notably, but I've found problems with most sites I've visited in accepting post data. It's enough of a PITA that I just use Mozilla. Too bad, I do like Konqueror's interface.
Unless something has changed since I first looked into it, there is no mathematical proof substantiating a one-way hash. We just think they exist because they are so phenomenally complex compared to the amount of damage that computer-based attacks have been able to do to them. So far.
I would imagine that one-way hashes in the form of digests (SHA, MD5, etc.), do not actually exist. The collision found in SHA-0 is very interesting and comes from data of the same length. Nonetheless, you're correct, a spoof attack would be horribly impractical based on this data alone.
The problem is, this is big news and will help further research by quite a bit, I would speculate, based on my previous assumption that there are not really one-way hashes. At some point we will be able to forge digital signatures of SHA and MD5. When that point comes it may be too late to change rapidly to a better system. Time to start looking around for a better solution now. No crypto will be good forever.
One could also potentially derive data from certain combinations of atoms, e.g. molecular structures. So you can end up with a plethora of data far outnumbering the sum of their components.
People often think that we will reach practical limits in things like:
computing
air speed
landspeed, particularly NHRA stuff
size of the universe (was much smaller until hubble)
Etc. While there probably are limits, I personally doubt that we're even close on the computing end of things.
Agreed. I had little reality on this until I undertook to learn the Dvorak keyboard. I did not take this very seriously but I had some time and after a couple days was typing at about 25WPM.
I could barely do my job. An email was an epic task compared to my ~100WPM normal typing. Thing is, even though I could type along at a steady pace with Dvorak, the typing process was distracting b/c I would occasionally have to think about typing, not just do it. I suspect that many hunt-and-peck typists end up losing productivity not so much from their typing speeds but from the effort required to type. I can, however, understand that this would not be an issue if someone does it enough (read years), like anything.
Well, if most people actually would vote, maybe we could see whether it does or not. The voter turnout rate in the US is so abysmal that you probably have a point.
If you don't vote, however, you really have no right to complain about the way things work. This is a democracy after all, even if it has its share of problems, and individuals can work to change things, even if they aren't 100% successful.
These are all small steps in a longer process of trying to control something that is very difficult to control: The internet. The RIAA has now set a precedent of successful subpoenas on user records of people appearing to violate copyright law. Other regulations like the DMCA don't apply so directly, but in an indirect fashion result in free speech on the net being truncated. Currently there's a lot of stuff going on legally around these issues and it's all very confusing. As is intended.
The PATRIOT act put into law many things for which the legal system had already set precedent in one form or another; there was just no codification of these items into law until a moment of panic ensued and *whoosh* along come laws that certain members of law enforcement have been trying to get through for years. Along comes a limitation on freedom in exchange for the perception of heightened safety.
I see internet-related regulation going in much the same fasion. The obvious answer with this one, however, lies with all of us: don't do illegal shit and no one will have to pass these laws. Stop using P2P to share copyrighted works. We have already gotten ourselves in enough trouble with the DMCA, don't let it go any further.
Sounds like, per previous posts, this just artifically increases the paging size. Those "bits" would normally refer to the chip's bandwidth for handling data, which could not be expanded by any software known to man;)
In another crippling bombshell to the beleagered/. community, Netcraft showed abysmal uptimes from the/. servers over the last several weeks. Part of the downtime was attributed to lame jokes, which caused the sysadmins to not care whether the site was running or not.
Actually, that stat is for Netscape 5.x+ including Mozilla. I'm not entirely sure what Netscape 5.x is since IIRC they ditched that whole development branch but I assume it includes Netscape 6 and 7.
We actually used to test for Netscape compliance, which I did not explicitly mention in my post, but with a new product line and the death of Netscape I wondered how much point there was to this, thus my trip to the network admin for our server stats.
I am all for firefox/mozilla. These are awesome products far and away superior to IE. I'm just continually astounded by the bone-crushing dominance in market share of IE. Hopefully this turns around in the near future...
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What if the sensors got dirty or damaged? What if there was a software glitch? What if the batteries die?! In the off chance I need the gun for self-defense, I would just as soon have a knife. A glock, however, that had been buried, beaten, and soaked in water for the next umpteen years, would probably still fire just fine.
Ever had a wrong first impression of someone? Or, just an inadequate one? You didn't know your impression was wrong until you got to know the person a little better, right? I'd like to see a shortcut, but haven't yet...I've known people for quite a while before I found out they are not who/what they seemed to be.
Really, why bother for her to change? The videos do look interesting though and really, the car analogy probably works for anyone born much after 1950;)
I can see the security guard at the front doors now: "Whoa, hold on there sir, you can't leave the hospital--you have the wrong spleen. That's right, the RFID tag identifies it as the wrong one. Just hand it over nicely, sir, and we won't have to involve the authorities..."
Even so, this method has yielded evidence of human inhabitance in South America up to 70,000-100,000 years ago. Very few people take these numbers seriously. In short, this study could easily be 25000 years off, leaving no spectacular findings.
..Back in my day, tele-immersion was sitting in front of the TV for 15 hours a day!
Actually it says he is a "...26-year ESA veteran", but you were closer than the other guy;)
Just a matter of time before I can just pick up the remote, find which category and specific type of program I want to watch, choose which episode/installment, and there I go.
Sure, announce it to the world why don't you? Now every cop around here will start carrying a cable broadcast satellite in the back of the patrol car just to stop people like us. Way to go!
In a large corporation tight security makes a lot of sense; the more employees, the greater number of potential thieves, and the less chance of real intimate knowledge of co-workers. For most companies, however, draconian security measures really don't prevent theft, but encourage it. Good developers know way more than most sysadmins about ways to smuggle data off a system. Treating intelligent people like irresponsible children is just a good way to piss them off. Bad idea, in general.
You have no idea how many times I've been double-billed in a month by these people. Not just me either, but my gf had their service and got double-billed the last month of using it.
...is, of course, here.
Ironically, it's been taken down from google.fi too. A conspiracy, to be sure...
Yeah but Konqueror really _is_ incompatible with a large number of pages. Gmail, most notably, but I've found problems with most sites I've visited in accepting post data. It's enough of a PITA that I just use Mozilla. Too bad, I do like Konqueror's interface.
I would imagine that one-way hashes in the form of digests (SHA, MD5, etc.), do not actually exist. The collision found in SHA-0 is very interesting and comes from data of the same length. Nonetheless, you're correct, a spoof attack would be horribly impractical based on this data alone.
The problem is, this is big news and will help further research by quite a bit, I would speculate, based on my previous assumption that there are not really one-way hashes. At some point we will be able to forge digital signatures of SHA and MD5. When that point comes it may be too late to change rapidly to a better system. Time to start looking around for a better solution now. No crypto will be good forever.
People often think that we will reach practical limits in things like:
- computing
- air speed
- landspeed, particularly NHRA stuff
- size of the universe (was much smaller until hubble)
Etc. While there probably are limits, I personally doubt that we're even close on the computing end of things.I could barely do my job. An email was an epic task compared to my ~100WPM normal typing. Thing is, even though I could type along at a steady pace with Dvorak, the typing process was distracting b/c I would occasionally have to think about typing, not just do it. I suspect that many hunt-and-peck typists end up losing productivity not so much from their typing speeds but from the effort required to type. I can, however, understand that this would not be an issue if someone does it enough (read years), like anything.
Would you fly a plane into a building? Sounds pretty fucking stupid to me...
If you don't vote, however, you really have no right to complain about the way things work. This is a democracy after all, even if it has its share of problems, and individuals can work to change things, even if they aren't 100% successful.
The PATRIOT act put into law many things for which the legal system had already set precedent in one form or another; there was just no codification of these items into law until a moment of panic ensued and *whoosh* along come laws that certain members of law enforcement have been trying to get through for years. Along comes a limitation on freedom in exchange for the perception of heightened safety.
I see internet-related regulation going in much the same fasion. The obvious answer with this one, however, lies with all of us: don't do illegal shit and no one will have to pass these laws. Stop using P2P to share copyrighted works. We have already gotten ourselves in enough trouble with the DMCA, don't let it go any further.
Then his site loses a battle against slashdot.
You must not be looking very hard...
Sounds like, per previous posts, this just artifically increases the paging size. Those "bits" would normally refer to the chip's bandwidth for handling data, which could not be expanded by any software known to man;)
In another crippling bombshell to the beleagered /. community, Netcraft showed abysmal uptimes from the /. servers over the last several weeks. Part of the downtime was attributed to lame jokes, which caused the sysadmins to not care whether the site was running or not.
We actually used to test for Netscape compliance, which I did not explicitly mention in my post, but with a new product line and the death of Netscape I wondered how much point there was to this, thus my trip to the network admin for our server stats.
I am all for firefox/mozilla. These are awesome products far and away superior to IE. I'm just continually astounded by the bone-crushing dominance in market share of IE. Hopefully this turns around in the near future...