[the commission] is recommending streamlining the NASA bureaucracy, relying more heavily on the private sector, and maintaining more oversight of the nation's space program at the White House.
My leap to a conclusion leads me to believe that this is just another chapter in killing NASA completely. This means that more funding previously routed to NASA/JPL will go to the private sector. Whitehouse oversight further implies that the administration does not trust NASA with what little self-governance it has remaining to it, particularly after the most recent shuttle disaster.
Which all just points to the private sector being the future of spaceflight for all practical applications. Hopefully companies will do a better job than our government has been doing.
I don't know nearly enough math to understand the proof, but judging that the hypothesis was made by Reimann quite a while ago, and this is a proof of that hypothesis, I would conclude that the theory has been extant but unsubstantiated until now.
So, in short, no, no help for cracking crypto based on primes...though the article does mention possible crypto applications down the line. I'm not sure what, exactly, those would be.
Apology - 2: a formal written defense of something you believe in strongly
This should at most have earned a "Funny", or is there something I'm missing here?
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err...server side opengl animation, viewable through a web page? Even then, I think the bandwidth limitations would kill anything very cool, and not many people could view it at once on today's processors.
My other thought is that this is a convenient port of opengl to any platforms that currently do not support it.
I was wondering the same. This should be doable, to my knowledge, on any HDD that hasn't been encrypted or damaged. Even if some of the data was encrypted, it may not be very hard to crack depending on the algorithms used. Nonetheless, if he was trying to protect his data it would seem that his wishes were for nobody else to have it, and it was probably best left unread.
Here, here! I see a lot of universe out there to explore and colonize. Just because a few naysayers are convinced that immortality is not worthwhile, won't stop me from trying to extend my life. There's always a beneficial solution somewhere, if you are creative enough to think of it.
Carr's article speaks more to the past
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If business executives follow Carr's advice, who will provide innovation's test beds? How will new technologies find their markets?
Some businesses need to ignore Carr's advice. Those who can afford it. I've seen (mostly during the.com boom) small companies invest ridiculous amounts in bleeding edge technology when they should have been focusing on building a viable business. Carr's article points out a lot of the faults that led to where we are now. He should be heeded.
Metcalf seems to talk around this point and I don't think he did a very good job debunking. IT _is_ moving ahead, but I don't feel that anyone has a good grasp on where it's going.
You're right in regards to Gmail, IMO. However, this is a small example of a larger effort by the government (any government) to protect the people. What if Gmail was some nefarious product that would hurt people who used it, and it was just too complicated for most users to understand the potential harm? Then the government's restrictions would most likely be lauded. Many here and elsewhere are for the government placing restrictions on MS, which I think is bunk myself. Oh, well...
That sony's playback device won't handle DVDs. With 20GB storage space, that's 3-4 DVDs in storage capacity. I wonder if the processor is just inadequate or the CSS is too much a pain...but $1000 for a portable dvd player is still far enough outside my budget that it would seem like a good idea.
To my knowledge, SETI@home has never really been tampered with. There were a few vulnerabilities found over the years which were patched quickly. People did spoof their work unit counts but this should be fixed with boinc. Security doesn't seem like the biggest concern.
As far as IP data, that's fine, why go with a big studio? This may give smaller firms the means to do high quality CG animation that they otherwise could not afford, if they'd be willing to give up their "trade secrets." Maybe not Shrek 3, but it could be cool nonetheless.
From browsing through the site, it would appear that this requires a special 3D display to work properly. So it looks like yet another stereoscopic display algorithm for converting 2d images into split frames for each eye, but designed to work without the stupid glasses or heavy goggles.
I'd be more interested to see how the 3d display work, myself.
Several people have mentioned blocking all of China, but what good will this do? Okay, most of the spam originates from there, but this wouldn't be an interesting study if most of the spam were obviously from China. I would imagine that most spammers are using relays of some sort and have a pretty good idea what they are doing. The country-wide blacklist may not be a bad idea but I question its effectiveness.
Since I had nothing else to do (PearPC took 99% of my processor and all the RAM it could possibly find), I actually started to clean my bed/computer room. Thank you, PearPC.
Other testimonials:
PearPC changed my life! I no longer have to use this silly pacemaker - Dorothy Krutz, West VA.
Without PearPC, I wouldn't have been able to achieve cold fusion in my livingroom! Thanks, PearPC! - Johnny Taylor, Age 12, Branson, MO
PEARPC HAS MOST GRACEFULLY HELPED MY EMAILING BUSINESS, BASED IN NIGERIA. THANK YOU MOST SINCERELY, PEARPC - Mganda Ngawe, Nigeria
Re:I think there's a problem with his reasoning...
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Presumably, the prosecution will have adequate evidence against someone who did this and got in trouble. If they were lacking this information, they would doubtfully prosecute in the first place. IMO it's just inviting trouble.
I think there's a problem with his reasoning...
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Even if this were somehow excusable, do you really want anyone and everyone running free on your network? The longer you leave your node sitting out there, the greater the chance someone else is going to use it for something illegal. If you got caught pirating movies, you would have to convince not only your own ISP, but also the MPAA, that you weren't at fault. Hope you have a good lawyer...
From the sound of it, the real thing and the unreal thing, as you put it, are inseperable once the curative virus enters your system. So, in other words, you would get both, and pass them on as usual, unless you were for some reason injected only with the good virus. In that case, I would suspect that the good virus would die out for lack of food (real HIV virus)...
I am not a biologist...can anyone here explain why this:
"...if the treatment inhibits HIV too much, the good virus won't be able to propogate. "
is a problem? Seems to me that if the HIV has become that inhibited, the "good" virus has done its job and does not need to continue to spread. Why is the point of greatest return not the complete inhibition of the HIV virus?
[re: star/open office]Their stated goal is to clone Office97, and they are so focused on that that there simply isn't anything to learn from or appreciate.
While I understand his point, I don't see much innovation between office 2000/XP at all, at least not from an end-user perspective. It's become, to a large extent, bloatware. How much innovation does an office suite need, anyway? You get things like clippy when innovating a basically simply product to death. KISS.
"...enterprises have to install security patches very rapidly, deal with outages caused by secondary problems with these patches, and deploy additional layers of security technology."
I see one bad thing and two good things here...anyone else with me? I mean, shouldn't we work our best to keep our environments 1) current and 2) as secure as we can afford to?
The patches and the closed-sourcedness are, however, a PITA.
As far as TCO goes, I see the same people just working more salaried hours to fix issues arising from bugs, etc. And they haven't had to have the admittedly more extensive training behind running a *nix environment.
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[the commission] is recommending streamlining the NASA bureaucracy, relying more heavily on the private sector, and maintaining more oversight of the nation's space program at the White House.
My leap to a conclusion leads me to believe that this is just another chapter in killing NASA completely. This means that more funding previously routed to NASA/JPL will go to the private sector. Whitehouse oversight further implies that the administration does not trust NASA with what little self-governance it has remaining to it, particularly after the most recent shuttle disaster.
Which all just points to the private sector being the future of spaceflight for all practical applications. Hopefully companies will do a better job than our government has been doing.
So, in short, no, no help for cracking crypto based on primes...though the article does mention possible crypto applications down the line. I'm not sure what, exactly, those would be.
Apology - 2: a formal written defense of something you believe in strongly
This should at most have earned a "Funny", or is there something I'm missing here?
My other thought is that this is a convenient port of opengl to any platforms that currently do not support it.
I was wondering the same. This should be doable, to my knowledge, on any HDD that hasn't been encrypted or damaged. Even if some of the data was encrypted, it may not be very hard to crack depending on the algorithms used. Nonetheless, if he was trying to protect his data it would seem that his wishes were for nobody else to have it, and it was probably best left unread.
Here, here! I see a lot of universe out there to explore and colonize. Just because a few naysayers are convinced that immortality is not worthwhile, won't stop me from trying to extend my life. There's always a beneficial solution somewhere, if you are creative enough to think of it.
Some businesses need to ignore Carr's advice. Those who can afford it. I've seen (mostly during the .com boom) small companies invest ridiculous amounts in bleeding edge technology when they should have been focusing on building a viable business. Carr's article points out a lot of the faults that led to where we are now. He should be heeded.
Metcalf seems to talk around this point and I don't think he did a very good job debunking. IT _is_ moving ahead, but I don't feel that anyone has a good grasp on where it's going.
You're right in regards to Gmail, IMO. However, this is a small example of a larger effort by the government (any government) to protect the people. What if Gmail was some nefarious product that would hurt people who used it, and it was just too complicated for most users to understand the potential harm? Then the government's restrictions would most likely be lauded. Many here and elsewhere are for the government placing restrictions on MS, which I think is bunk myself. Oh, well...
That sony's playback device won't handle DVDs. With 20GB storage space, that's 3-4 DVDs in storage capacity. I wonder if the processor is just inadequate or the CSS is too much a pain...but $1000 for a portable dvd player is still far enough outside my budget that it would seem like a good idea.
As far as IP data, that's fine, why go with a big studio? This may give smaller firms the means to do high quality CG animation that they otherwise could not afford, if they'd be willing to give up their "trade secrets." Maybe not Shrek 3, but it could be cool nonetheless.
I'd be more interested to see how the 3d display work, myself.
Several people have mentioned blocking all of China, but what good will this do? Okay, most of the spam originates from there, but this wouldn't be an interesting study if most of the spam were obviously from China. I would imagine that most spammers are using relays of some sort and have a pretty good idea what they are doing. The country-wide blacklist may not be a bad idea but I question its effectiveness.
$score = int(rand(6));
print $score;
Don't let it get out that the code's been leaked...
Wait, that's a different movie. Copycats.
Yeah, my freebsd system (FFS?) does the same thing and works quite well. I've never seen performance issues from its defragging.
Since I had nothing else to do (PearPC took 99% of my processor and all the RAM it could possibly find), I actually started to clean my bed/computer room. Thank you, PearPC.
Other testimonials:
PearPC changed my life! I no longer have to use this silly pacemaker - Dorothy Krutz, West VA.
Without PearPC, I wouldn't have been able to achieve cold fusion in my livingroom! Thanks, PearPC! - Johnny Taylor, Age 12, Branson, MO
PEARPC HAS MOST GRACEFULLY HELPED MY EMAILING BUSINESS, BASED IN NIGERIA. THANK YOU MOST SINCERELY, PEARPC - Mganda Ngawe, Nigeria
Presumably, the prosecution will have adequate evidence against someone who did this and got in trouble. If they were lacking this information, they would doubtfully prosecute in the first place. IMO it's just inviting trouble.
Even if this were somehow excusable, do you really want anyone and everyone running free on your network? The longer you leave your node sitting out there, the greater the chance someone else is going to use it for something illegal. If you got caught pirating movies, you would have to convince not only your own ISP, but also the MPAA, that you weren't at fault. Hope you have a good lawyer...
...so, Darl has finally been trained to do something useful?
From the sound of it, the real thing and the unreal thing, as you put it, are inseperable once the curative virus enters your system. So, in other words, you would get both, and pass them on as usual, unless you were for some reason injected only with the good virus. In that case, I would suspect that the good virus would die out for lack of food (real HIV virus)...
"...if the treatment inhibits HIV too much, the good virus won't be able to propogate. "
is a problem? Seems to me that if the HIV has become that inhibited, the "good" virus has done its job and does not need to continue to spread. Why is the point of greatest return not the complete inhibition of the HIV virus?
[re: star/open office]Their stated goal is to clone Office97, and they are so focused on that that there simply isn't anything to learn from or appreciate.
While I understand his point, I don't see much innovation between office 2000/XP at all, at least not from an end-user perspective. It's become, to a large extent, bloatware. How much innovation does an office suite need, anyway? You get things like clippy when innovating a basically simply product to death. KISS.
Canadians have about .25 guns/person, the US has about .89 guns/person.
Umm...yeah--no.
I see one bad thing and two good things here...anyone else with me? I mean, shouldn't we work our best to keep our environments 1) current and 2) as secure as we can afford to?
The patches and the closed-sourcedness are, however, a PITA.
As far as TCO goes, I see the same people just working more salaried hours to fix issues arising from bugs, etc. And they haven't had to have the admittedly more extensive training behind running a *nix environment.