Yep. little math bits are a good choice because
typically I/O programming [which tends to be
steep learning curve in a new lang.] is, or can be
minimal. and though its certainly a trivial exercise, one of my favorites was to type in an
infinite loop Fibonacci number generator...its
as small a program as you can write that lets you find out how the language handles printf, arrays and arithmetic overflow for integer types.
/. readers nailed the baloney in Ballmer's missives when they first came to slashdot The digs at Linux from Microsoft bigwigs have gotten more strident and less factual than some recent politcal advertisements. To me this signals one thing: Microsoft has finally, at the highest levels, gotten as scared as/. readers have always said it SHOULD be. Here we have Ballmer, a shrewd manager and businessman saying pure nonsense that he could not possibly believe. A few weeks back/. reported a Gates interview blaming the flakey reputation of his joined-at-hip browser/os duo on the way users use the products...do you think Billy Billions really can be that stupid and still have made the company as dominant as it is? Billy bull and Ballmy bull! This is pure desperation talking at us
the standards the feds will use to crack your hard drive if you are ever investigated: from my trove of rejected articles:
2004.10.11: "the standard for getting evidence from a computer"
Most of us love, or have at least grown highly dependent upon
our computer[s] and PDAs, some of us keep very personal stuff
in our computer. So here is a
sobering little page
on how your government plans to interrogate your hard drive if
you ever fall afoul of the law.
NIST is asking for comments by
November 1 on a
draft proposal of ways and standards to prove that a disk imaging
tool is accurately dredging up your dirty little secrets. NIST also
has a brief article about how it is looking into
ways to recover forensic data from PDAs. The most
interesting link there pointed to a PDF
describing some tools you may not be aware of. The DOJ and Homeland
Security put NIST up to this task.
"....Counsel for the defense my now cross examine the FAT."
assuming the safety issues can be addressed, does the technique permit focusing the virtual image on parts of the retina OTHER THAN the fovea? For people with macular degeneration and other impairments to vision, the combination of the placiticy of human neural connections and the ability to create novel stimulation might allow the "retraining" of visual pathways to improve visual function.
While we are waiting for that poor server to get back on its feet, let me tell you about a less common scam that has a higher percentage of success because it is more disarming to its victims. It is the "overpayment for a large purchase, to defray shipping costs" scheme. It goes roughly as follows.
you advertise an expensive item on line..car, piano etc.
an "agent" for an interested buyer responds, perhaps in an exchange of several emails to build
your confidence...after all YOU initiated this transaction.
if scammer is in a big hurry, he offers an extra few thousand $ "for shipping" and , sight-unseen sends you a cashiers check with sometimes complex instructions that the check should be cashed immediately and the excess mailed or wired to some 4th party who is the "shipper" and requires payment before he will pick up the goods.
your bank honors the cashiers check
you wire the money
3 days later the bank tells you the check was a forgery and debits its full amount from your account.
and of course, no shipper ever arrives
For me, the eagerness of the "agent" to pay full price for a piano they never saw set off alarms. My state's atty Gen. office had a web page exactly describing the scam. The headers on the email were hard to trace but I could not tell whether the buyer was supposedly in NY or London. When the FEDEX arrived with the check and the country code was NG, that was the last straw. I now have a totally phoney cashiers check , a good piece to study if you want to learn how to spot forgeries, framed in the den. We got one phone call [which I wish I knew how to trace...don't give out your phone number!] and several frantic e-mails from our scammer. When I offered to "save" him some money by waiting until the check cleared and sending him back the excess over what the shipping would really have cost, he protested that the buyer might soon change their mind about the purchase. When I subsequently gave him the URL for the AGO's website and accused him of fraud he acted hurt. I never told him about the typo in the fine-print stripe urging me to read the missing "Bank of America water mark". Uh, anybody want to by a piano?
if you are going to play these games, you might want to bookmark the Fedex country codes page and set up one or more spam-hole email accounts.
forestalling a DDOS launched from non-us domains was
my theory too. And I think they were jiggering
the servers to enable this back on the 20th when it
looked like the pages went off line a while.
Does anyone know if the RNC page is also unavailable from outside US?
back on 20 oct, the bush and RNC pages
began to load slowly then were unavailable for an hour or so [/. eds were not interested in the story I submitted]. Though people were quick to assume it was a DOS attack against the Repbulican web site, the monitoring companies said otherwise:
The fact that two sites suffered outages simultaneously suggests such a coordinated attack.
But analysts with AlertSite and Keynote say other evidence suggests a technical problem.
A switch-over in the servers or DNS provisions that make the pages available may have been in progress and not gone smoothly...do think they would ever admit to the public that to forstall a DDOS launched from oustide the US, they were just going to refuse all HTTP requests from domains they recognize as foreign? hell no!
This month's Sci. American outlines the way dualies
ease the chip maker's problems in keeping pace with Moore's law...and its not just physics. Economics kills proposed new microprocessors just as dead as insurmountable heat dissipation problems. Sci Am does not put up current content on its site for free. Go to the library.
Fortunately for us, sunlight does not have X-ray in its spectrum. To do better at microelectronic fab, you need shorter wavelength light sources...the ones we have now are already bright enough. If you mean to improve microscopy [for viewing cells in vivo as suggested] by using a light source millions of times brighter than the sun, you better look darn quick...that lil' puppy is gonna vaporize in a microsecond or two and you with it if you don't stand back far enough. Obviously I gotta RTFA cause what I know of synchrotron radiation is that its for tunable X-ray...good for crystalography but instant cremation for living things so the/. on it is a bit confusing.
Vivid Video Disembowelment Inc to split three for one. In other news, we have one bankruptcy to report. The company that labored to develop the multi-player computer role-playing game called "Political Corrections" has gone out of business. To date, the open-sourced code for the game has garnered zero downloads. Simon Pure, former CEO of the company, released the source when no buyer could be found for the rights to the game and the producers of "Barney and Friends" dropped their options on the game citing its unreality and lack of relevance to any known target audiance or demographic. A few conservative christian customers had purchased the game but returned it when they found the game's filters and rules made it impossible to create what they considered realistic characters for John Kerry and Hillary Clinton, or anyone from Massachusetts. Reaction from customers was muted. One player said "I liked the cool laser cannons and way the flesh would blister when you zapped the other players but when it wouldn't let my character call Kerry a douchebag, I tossed it.
its all Roland's fault. I you google for "roland piqu"...not even the whole name, the top link returned is roland's ratings. The guy is on a quest to draw more hits than cnn.com but as a side effect of nobody remembering how to spell his name, the lookups pump a lot of traffic through google.
Lisp is a language that doesn't get in your way with a lot of syntax...the very opposite of , say Ada which presumes [with its 277 BNF production rules] to have a sytactic straightjacket that will keep you from doing something stupid. Knowing how to think: analyzing, compartmentalizing and being able to create coherent whole solutions from components is something you are as likely to learn as a physicist or a mathematician. Knowing how to program is all that a BSCS degree promises and with that you can get
programming squables of the sort going on between McKitrick and Michaels. Knowing how to think, it is handy to have a language like Lisp that is amorphous, taking its shape from your structuring of the problem/solution. This begins to sound like academic BS but harken: Here is a company that wrote the world's fastest airfare pricing engine in Lisp and makes a nice living selling its services to travel booking websites like Orbitz. But you have to think to get a job there! their job application has a humbling day-long programming test in the language of your choice that would sorely try any Google applicant's skills.
At my kid's H.S. they are moving away from C/C++ and going to Java. Basic, oddly enough, never seems to have taken on the teaching role it was originally invented for. I know you said Undergrad but everything else I learned as a college freshman is now tought in H.S. programming included [though they say "what?" when you say "Fortran"]
Mac Pascal, Lightspeed C! I thought I was the only living person who climbed that learning curve. Problem was; it turned in to a learning cliff that I then fell off. I was good for nothing but assembler and BLISS for years until Pascal came along. This means we are due for a birthday party for the original MS-Basic pretty soon.
But didnt Pascal lead people to think of P-code which foreshadowed Java bytecode?
a link off the article's link seems to agree with my memory...so i better not read it too carefully;)
and I certainly didn't use pascal just for academics. When I execavated the basement hole for my house, on an ostensibly unbuildable scrap of bedrock-studded land, a pascal contour mapping program that I wrote detected the one spot where the bedrock would be flat and need no blasting...back hoe guy was amazed an amateur could show him right where to dig.
Good bye Carnivore? James bond wants one of these. The FBI, when they finally figure out what this is, will want it banned. I have dreamed of doing something like this with an applet but this is much slicker and more powerful. Next questions, can I
tunnel through with VOIP? How "special" does my correspondent/recipient
have to be for the trail for eavesdroppers to go cold on both ends of the connection?
Re:Oh, that's just ducky!
on
Replacing TCP?
·
· Score: 1
If Detroit had advanced automotive technology the way computer's have advanced, your car would only cost about $1000 but you'd be driving a car that had thieves in the back seat who take the car out to drop junk mail in peoples mailboxes when it pleased them, was 2 years old because you were afraid to buy the new model, you couldn't buy it until two years after it was supposed to be in the dealer's show rooms, whenever you put too much stuff in the trunk the cruise control would suddenly begin to respond to a Korean teenager with a souped up RC model controller and you'd be wondering why the guy's with Volkwagens and Saabs never had to pay for their cars. For no extra charge, UPS would deliver saftey-critical repair parts at odd hours of the night on a weekly basis. And of course, you'd have to restart the car two or three times to get wherever you were going.
[which plays on Cringely's which plays on the original rather boastful comparison of silicon+computing adavances vs the sloth of Detroit. ] I dispise cars and our dependence on them but what have they done to deserve assimilation?
Now that I finally tought my firewall to discard all UDP packets somebody goes and makes them the kingpin of some hot new protocol. I'm not paid to keep up with all these changes, no matter how good for me or some the mythical average user they are claimed to be. Just hope they don't foist a new protocol layer or application type on us until they make it MORE RESISTANT to spoof and DOS attacks and design OUT OF IT all the possibilities for errors and botched error handling around illegal message field contents or sizes. We have certainly had our noses rubbed in what abuse is possible with TCP so PLEASE, PLEASE get it right this time around.
I'll be looking for that RFC with a microscope and a shotgun.
Microsoft has finally, at the highest levels, gotten as scared as/. readers have always said it SHOULD be. Here we have Ballmer, a shrew manager and businessman saying pure nonsense that he could not possibly believe. And last week/. reported a Gates interview blaming the flakey reputation of his joined-at-hip browser/os duo on the way users use the products...do you think Billy Billions really can be that stupid and still have made the company as dominant as it is? Billy bull and Ballmy bull! This is pure desperation talking at us.
you mean I gotta RTFA? I only read the 1st paragraph. Serves me right to get caught out.
Most of the responses mention how hard it is to buy a CD that costs 6% of your monthly take-home pay...so I just assumed the article was saying the buyers were the poor. Don't suppose it would make sense to go into bootlegging if you didn't want the money but there is an upfont investment and it can be lucrative.
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Yep. little math bits are a good choice because typically I/O programming [which tends to be steep learning curve in a new lang.] is, or can be minimal. and though its certainly a trivial exercise, one of my favorites was to type in an infinite loop Fibonacci number generator...its as small a program as you can write that lets you find out how the language handles printf, arrays and arithmetic overflow for integer types.
/. readers nailed the baloney in Ballmer's missives when they first came to slashdot The digs at Linux from Microsoft bigwigs have gotten more strident and less factual than some recent politcal advertisements. To me this signals one thing: Microsoft has finally, at the highest levels, gotten as scared as /. readers have always said it SHOULD be. Here we have Ballmer, a shrewd manager and businessman saying pure nonsense that he could not possibly believe. A few weeks back /. reported a Gates interview blaming the flakey reputation of his joined-at-hip browser/os duo on the way users use the products...do you think Billy Billions really can be that stupid and still have made the company as dominant as it is? Billy bull and Ballmy bull! This is pure desperation talking at us
the standards the feds will use to crack your hard drive if you are ever investigated: from my trove of rejected articles:
2004.10.11: "the standard for getting evidence from a computer"
Most of us love, or have at least grown highly dependent upon our computer[s] and PDAs, some of us keep very personal stuff in our computer. So here is a sobering little page on how your government plans to interrogate your hard drive if you ever fall afoul of the law. NIST is asking for comments by November 1 on a draft proposal of ways and standards to prove that a disk imaging tool is accurately dredging up your dirty little secrets. NIST also has a brief article about how it is looking into ways to recover forensic data from PDAs. The most interesting link there pointed to a PDF describing some tools you may not be aware of. The DOJ and Homeland Security put NIST up to this task.
"....Counsel for the defense my now cross examine the FAT."
http://www.dawn.com/2004/10/31/int7.htm What else does everybody but americans know about america?
It's the politics that leave the last "country mile" of fiber dark. For instance, here is a CNET story of a Texas misappropriation of agricultural $ub$idie$ earmarked for getting internet to farm communities that instead is bringing broadband to slightly exurban millionaire homes where the closest thing to farming is the maintenance of putting greens and fairways.
assuming the safety issues can be addressed, does the technique permit focusing the virtual image on parts of the retina OTHER THAN the fovea? For people with macular degeneration and other impairments to vision, the combination of the placiticy of human neural connections and the ability to create novel stimulation might allow the "retraining" of visual pathways to improve visual function.
girl friend that her photo was going to wind up on a slashdotted page;?)
Next time you leave a link that funny , warn us! When I start laughing out loud people just KNOW I am not working any more.
- you advertise an expensive item on line..car, piano etc.
- an "agent" for an interested buyer responds, perhaps in an exchange of several emails to build
your confidence...after all YOU initiated this transaction.
- if scammer is in a big hurry, he offers an extra few thousand $ "for shipping" and , sight-unseen sends you a cashiers check with sometimes complex instructions that the check should be cashed immediately and the excess mailed or wired to some 4th party who is the "shipper" and requires payment before he will pick up the goods.
- your bank honors the cashiers check
- you wire the money
- 3 days later the bank tells you the check was a forgery and debits its full amount from your account.
- and of course, no shipper ever arrives
For me, the eagerness of the "agent" to pay full price for a piano they never saw set off alarms. My state's atty Gen. office had a web page exactly describing the scam. The headers on the email were hard to trace but I could not tell whether the buyer was supposedly in NY or London. When the FEDEX arrived with the check and the country code was NG, that was the last straw. I now have a totally phoney cashiers check , a good piece to study if you want to learn how to spot forgeries, framed in the den. We got one phone call [which I wish I knew how to trace...don't give out your phone number!] and several frantic e-mails from our scammer. When I offered to "save" him some money by waiting until the check cleared and sending him back the excess over what the shipping would really have cost, he protested that the buyer might soon change their mind about the purchase. When I subsequently gave him the URL for the AGO's website and accused him of fraud he acted hurt. I never told him about the typo in the fine-print stripe urging me to read the missing "Bank of America water mark".Uh, anybody want to by a piano?
if you are going to play these games, you might want to bookmark the Fedex country codes page and set up one or more spam-hole email accounts.
forestalling a DDOS launched from non-us domains was my theory too. And I think they were jiggering the servers to enable this back on the 20th when it looked like the pages went off line a while. Does anyone know if the RNC page is also unavailable from outside US?
reception were a lot funnier when they weren't true.
This month's Sci. American outlines the way dualies ease the chip maker's problems in keeping pace with Moore's law...and its not just physics. Economics kills proposed new microprocessors just as dead as insurmountable heat dissipation problems.
Sci Am does not put up current content on its site for free. Go to the library.
Fortunately for us, sunlight does not have X-ray in its spectrum. To do better at microelectronic fab, you need shorter wavelength light sources...the ones we have now are already bright enough. If you mean to improve microscopy [for viewing cells in vivo as suggested] by using a light source millions of times brighter than the sun, you better look darn quick...that lil' puppy is gonna vaporize in a microsecond or two and you with it if you don't stand back far enough. /. on it is a bit confusing.
Obviously I gotta RTFA cause what I know of synchrotron radiation is that its for tunable X-ray...good for crystalography but instant cremation for living things so the
Vivid Video Disembowelment Inc to split three for one. In other news, we have one bankruptcy to report. The company that labored to develop the multi-player computer role-playing game called "Political Corrections" has gone out of business. To date, the open-sourced code for the game has garnered zero downloads. Simon Pure, former CEO of the company, released the source when no buyer could be found for the rights to the game and the producers of "Barney and Friends" dropped their options on the game citing its unreality and lack of relevance to any known target audiance or demographic. A few conservative christian customers had purchased the game but returned it when they found the game's filters and rules made it impossible to create what they considered realistic characters for John Kerry and Hillary Clinton, or anyone from Massachusetts. Reaction from customers was muted. One player said "I liked the cool laser cannons and way the flesh would blister when you zapped the other players but when it wouldn't let my character call Kerry a douchebag, I tossed it.
its all Roland's fault. I you google for "roland piqu"...not even the whole name, the top link returned is roland's ratings. The guy is on a quest to draw more hits than cnn.com but as a side effect of nobody remembering how to spell his name, the lookups pump a lot of traffic through google.
Lisp is a language that doesn't get in your way with a lot of syntax...the very opposite of , say Ada which presumes [with its 277 BNF production rules] to have a sytactic straightjacket that will keep you from doing something stupid. Knowing how to think: analyzing, compartmentalizing and being able to create coherent whole solutions from components is something you are as likely to learn as a physicist or a mathematician. Knowing how to program is all that a BSCS degree promises and with that you can get programming squables of the sort going on between McKitrick and Michaels. Knowing how to think, it is handy to have a language like Lisp that is amorphous, taking its shape from your structuring of the problem/solution. This begins to sound like academic BS but harken: Here is a company that wrote the world's fastest airfare pricing engine in Lisp and makes a nice living selling its services to travel booking websites like Orbitz. But you have to think to get a job there! their job application has a humbling day-long programming test in the language of your choice that would sorely try any Google applicant's skills.
At my kid's H.S. they are moving away from C/C++ and going to Java. Basic, oddly enough, never seems to have taken on the teaching role it was originally invented for. I know you said Undergrad but everything else I learned as a college freshman is now tought in H.S. programming included [though they say "what?" when you say "Fortran"]
Mac Pascal, Lightspeed C! I thought I was the only living person who climbed that learning curve. Problem was; it turned in to a learning cliff that I then fell off. I was good for nothing but assembler and BLISS for years until Pascal came along. This means we are due for a birthday party for the original MS-Basic pretty soon.
But didnt Pascal lead people to think of P-code which foreshadowed Java bytecode? a link off the article's link seems to agree with my memory...so i better not read it too carefully;)
and I certainly didn't use pascal just for academics. When I execavated the basement hole for my house, on an ostensibly unbuildable scrap of bedrock-studded land, a pascal contour mapping program that I wrote detected the one spot where the bedrock would be flat and need no blasting...back hoe guy was amazed an amateur could show him right where to dig.
Good bye Carnivore?
James bond wants one of these. The FBI, when they finally figure out what this is, will want it banned. I have dreamed of doing something like this with an applet but this is much slicker and more powerful.
Next questions, can I tunnel through with VOIP? How "special" does my correspondent/recipient have to be for the trail for eavesdroppers to go cold on both ends of the connection?
ok, not ALL UDP packets.
I dispise cars and our dependence on them but what have they done to deserve assimilation?
Now that I finally tought my firewall to discard all UDP packets somebody goes and makes them the kingpin of some hot new protocol. I'm not paid to keep up with all these changes, no matter how good for me or some the mythical average user they are claimed to be. Just hope they don't foist a new protocol layer or application type on us until they make it MORE RESISTANT to spoof and DOS attacks and design OUT OF IT all the possibilities for errors and botched error handling around illegal message field contents or sizes. We have certainly had our noses rubbed in what abuse is possible with TCP so PLEASE, PLEASE get it right this time around.
I'll be looking for that RFC with a microscope and a shotgun.
Microsoft has finally, at the highest levels, gotten as scared as /. readers have always said it SHOULD be. Here we have Ballmer, a shrew manager and businessman saying pure nonsense that he could not possibly believe. And last week /. reported a Gates interview blaming the flakey reputation of his joined-at-hip browser/os duo on the way users use the products...do you think Billy Billions really can be that stupid and still have made the company as dominant as it is? Billy bull and Ballmy bull! This is pure desperation talking at us.
you mean I gotta RTFA? I only read the 1st paragraph. Serves me right to get caught out. Most of the responses mention how hard it is to buy a CD that costs 6% of your monthly take-home pay...so I just assumed the article was saying the buyers were the poor. Don't suppose it would make sense to go into bootlegging if you didn't want the money but there is an upfont investment and it can be lucrative.