I'll save everyone the hassle of going over to a Mac to try to view the pictures. The detail isn't there - the images are just dark, there is no secret hidden detail in them. If you aren't convinced, open Photoshop or something and apply a Gamma. Black becomes gray, but no details.
Ack! Stop moderating these posts up! That's not true! Go take discrete math!
The equation you listed there happens to be "Fermat's last theorum" which has been proven to have no solution. The proof was discovered in 1995 using the method of proof by contradiction, which is a common method for showing that an equation has no solution. You can get about his proof details here:
Some other famous ones in computer science are proofs that infinite compression is impossible, or Alan Turings famous disproof of "The Halting Problem" that is a basis for computer programming.
I was sitting around brainstorming with trek-geek Tronster, and he suggested that the final episode(s) of Voyager would result in them NOT returning home. Instead, the next movie, which is conveniently timed to be near the end of Voyager, would show Voyager returning home, but from the viewpoint of the Federation. We see DS9, and the Enterprise, then whoa! Voyager comes back. But surely someone will follow (Borg, Krenim, Haakon, Kazon) and the fun will ensue.
I am a Trekkie who seriously likes this. I'm sick of Captain X showing how morally great they are compared with everybody else. I think there are lot of people who would love to see the world from the view of a Klingon. Romulans would be tough since they are so different. Vulcans would work too but it might be boring.
Maybe it could take place on a planet/base that is in Romulan or Klingon territory before there is an alliance, and they are trying to rebel and join the federation. This way, the plot would be from the POV of a new alien race rather than from the Federation. And perhaps in the end they should end up winning the rebellion, but not being Fed either.
How silly! Let's just collect all the extra CO2 and use it to fix the atmosphere on Mars! A few green plants, some CO2, and...who cares about all that radiation. Then we have a whole NEW planet to screw up!
These micro-fans currently run at 100RPM. My current CPU fan is about 3000RPM. Shouldn't these things be faster since they have a smaller radius, not slower? Sounds like somebody came up with a great trick for making them, but that the methodology does not scale well.
> Most junk mail I get comes from companies with which I do business in some way..
Then it isn't junk mail. I get credit card offers, magazine offers, coupons... from places I've never done business with -- probably a factor of 10 beyond what I get from places I have done business with.
> Usually, it's credit card companies or software companies of some kind...The junk mail is paid for in my fees
I've never paid a "fee" to a credit card company in my life. Unless they change their model of business, I pay, every month, what I charged. I'm not sure how they make money off me, but it sure won't be from fees or stupid "free" offers.
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This is another case of the NYTimes screwing up the technical details and making something have totally different implications than one it sounds like. They are NOT stopping light AT ALL IN ANY WAY. I like the NYTimes, but the BBC reports this tech stuff better. They are not stopping light, just copying it's parameters into the gas, then recalling them.
The best way to catch bugs and security holes is to code review when changes are made, not read the entire source afterward.
If code reviews were done when this code went in, it would have been picked up. Most source control managers have differencing tools to see what changed, and that is crucial when auditing security related code.
I work at a mid-sized IT facility. My project manager walked by, and looked at the front page of the Slashdot article. He saw the welded carpet line, and said "Oh yea. They all have that. It reduces EMF transmission. They also have double walls that emit white noise, and shielded wiring... Its all standard stuff." essentially quoted me 3/4 of the article without reading it.
Apparently this is more common than we all realize.
...of Slashdot readers in general? If so, I'm not a normal Slashdot reader, and didn't quite realize it. I don't listen to heavy metal, and don't come home and do music/IRC/TV. When I was in school, that was what the "normal" kids did. They talked (on the phone mostly, some did IRC) and liked TV & music. The nerds were on their computers morning and night. That didn't mean IRC or Quake, it meant coding.
And another thing. Does everybody here think that because they read Slashdot that they are "different?"
Yes, it is. And exactly for the reasons you say. I wouldn't mind a school blocking porn, so long as it blocked just porn. That's why people like the.xxx idea, because it makes filtering easy.
Currently, schools do this. As do libraries, and other public institutions. Students cannot rent porn from the school library, and nobody complains thinking that it could get extended to valuable literature.
On page 5 of the floppies, it reads:
"In an effort to watch DVD movies on a computer running Linux, 15-year-old Norwegian Jon Johansen created and distributed a program called DeCSS that cracked DVD encryption, allowing users to freely transfer the unencrypted video over the Internet. He was questioned and released."
He was questioned and released? That's it? What? They aren't reading the same press reports I'm reading.
Internet junkies make great haste in ranting about banner ads, popups, etc. but as usual, noone can provide an alternative. What will we all do when Google goes down because they cannot stay alive without pop-up ads? How many people here would pay for search engine access? Or Slashdot?
Generally, the most vehement opponents of banner ads also won't pay for subscription services either. Much of the internet can remain free, but the NYT won't run their site if they cannot get either subscriptions, revenue, or ads. I think that the pay-per-page approach is viable. I would pay 1 peso to see that article on NYT. I can subscribe with some service who bills me monthly, or maybe via my ISP, so that NYT doesn't have to know my info (or wastefully bill me every month for 5cents).
FortKnox said "He wants to get into programming..." not "I want him to get into programming..." It is great that everyone mentioned the social aspects of development, and that people are concerned about him being pushed. These are good points, but of all the highly moderated posts, not one answers the question!
The question is "what would be the appropriate things to teach him?"
I would recommend the same tools that an adult would use. Books, the internet, and lots of hands on experience "hacking." Take a loose path, lean it more in their areas of interest, and less toward the purely academic areas (unless they are into that). Most good CS people claim they learned mostly on their own, and liked it that way. Let him/her be more self-motivated than a normal child at that age.
I do that too (under Windows) and it is the best backup I've ever owned. But my drive lets me use it like a standard drive, so I can just drag files onto it as I wish. I don't think such convenience exists under Linux.
Is it really possible to stop MP3? Software and source code exists on every platform there is. Free source gives it an infinite lifetime. Who cares if Fraunhofer won't license it? I can go download the LAME source and make my own. I can compile it, upload it to my friends, burn CDs... I can even make a car MP3 player without their licenses.
Why should I worry? Am I missing something? If so, please reply to this and tell me.
from the article:
"Moreover, EULAs play an important role in curbing software piracy...EULAs inform end users that making extra copies is not permitted (except for backup purposes)..."
The article seems to be saying that any sort of copying, other than for backup, is illegal. This is not true. I can copy the software onto another PC so long as they are not in simultaneous use. I can also copy to a more convenient media (moving to a DVD or ZIP or HD instead of a CD-ROM). The article also doesn't mention those cases of companies adding copy protection schemes and not allowing copying at all, even if their EULA does not dissallow it.
Netscape would have been better served by enhancing the Mozilla preject in the key areas it is lacking (speed, bugs) rather than adding tons of useless marketing features.
Netscape _was_ a "champion" of OSS and a leader in the anti-MS compaign. Their key followers held their torch because of these things. Too bad they spend their effort alienating their strongest supporters.
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I'll save everyone the hassle of going over to a Mac to try to view the pictures. The detail isn't there - the images are just dark, there is no secret hidden detail in them. If you aren't convinced, open Photoshop or something and apply a Gamma. Black becomes gray, but no details.
Ack! Stop moderating these posts up! That's not true! Go take discrete math!
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The equation you listed there happens to be "Fermat's last theorum" which has been proven to have no solution. The proof was discovered in 1995 using the method of proof by contradiction, which is a common method for showing that an equation has no solution. You can get about his proof details here:
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/dr.math/problems/sale
Some other famous ones in computer science are proofs that infinite compression is impossible, or Alan Turings famous disproof of "The Halting Problem" that is a basis for computer programming.
I was sitting around brainstorming with trek-geek Tronster, and he suggested that the final episode(s) of Voyager would result in them NOT returning home. Instead, the next movie, which is conveniently timed to be near the end of Voyager, would show Voyager returning home, but from the viewpoint of the Federation. We see DS9, and the Enterprise, then whoa! Voyager comes back. But surely someone will follow (Borg, Krenim, Haakon, Kazon) and the fun will ensue.
Any opinions?
I am a Trekkie who seriously likes this. I'm sick of Captain X showing how morally great they are compared with everybody else. I think there are lot of people who would love to see the world from the view of a Klingon. Romulans would be tough since they are so different. Vulcans would work too but it might be boring.
Maybe it could take place on a planet/base that is in Romulan or Klingon territory before there is an alliance, and they are trying to rebel and join the federation. This way, the plot would be from the POV of a new alien race rather than from the Federation. And perhaps in the end they should end up winning the rebellion, but not being Fed either.
How silly! Let's just collect all the extra CO2 and use it to fix the atmosphere on Mars! A few green plants, some CO2, and ...who cares about all that radiation. Then we have a whole NEW planet to screw up!
Should OpenSSH be renamed to a name that does not include the term SSH?
or maybe:
New name for OpenSSH:
He hinted at another reason for all this:
"OpenSSH is doing a disservice to the whole inernet security community by lengthing the life cycle of the fundamentally broken SSH1 protocols."
Also - Isn't the actual protocol, as recognized by the IETF, named "SSH" - if so, how can you trademark that?
These micro-fans currently run at 100RPM. My current CPU fan is about 3000RPM. Shouldn't these things be faster since they have a smaller radius, not slower? Sounds like somebody came up with a great trick for making them, but that the methodology does not scale well.
> Most junk mail I get comes from companies with which I do business in some way..
Then it isn't junk mail. I get credit card offers, magazine offers, coupons... from places I've never done business with -- probably a factor of 10 beyond what I get from places I have done business with.
> Usually, it's credit card companies or software companies of some kind...The junk mail is paid for in my fees
I've never paid a "fee" to a credit card company in my life. Unless they change their model of business, I pay, every month, what I charged. I'm not sure how they make money off me, but it sure won't be from fees or stupid "free" offers.
This is another case of the NYTimes screwing up the technical details and making something have totally different implications than one it sounds like. They are NOT stopping light AT ALL IN ANY WAY. I like the NYTimes, but the BBC reports this tech stuff better. They are not stopping light, just copying it's parameters into the gas, then recalling them.
Read the posts by zCyl and Ferzerp to see why.
This site seems to sell pcMods stuff, and offers some additional opinions and uses: http://www.dansdata.com/neon.htm
The best way to catch bugs and security holes is to code review when changes are made, not read the entire source afterward.
If code reviews were done when this code went in, it would have been picked up. Most source control managers have differencing tools to see what changed, and that is crucial when auditing security related code.
I work at a mid-sized IT facility. My project manager walked by, and looked at the front page of the Slashdot article. He saw the welded carpet line, and said "Oh yea. They all have that. It reduces EMF transmission. They also have double walls that emit white noise, and shielded wiring... Its all standard stuff." essentially quoted me 3/4 of the article without reading it.
Apparently this is more common than we all realize.
...of Slashdot readers in general? If so, I'm not a normal Slashdot reader, and didn't quite realize it. I don't listen to heavy metal, and don't come home and do music/IRC/TV. When I was in school, that was what the "normal" kids did. They talked (on the phone mostly, some did IRC) and liked TV & music. The nerds were on their computers morning and night. That didn't mean IRC or Quake, it meant coding.
And another thing. Does everybody here think that because they read Slashdot that they are "different?"
Perhaps you should read this article. And do a search for jon johansen while you are at it.
Yes, it is. And exactly for the reasons you say. I wouldn't mind a school blocking porn, so long as it blocked just porn. That's why people like the .xxx idea, because it makes filtering easy.
Currently, schools do this. As do libraries, and other public institutions. Students cannot rent porn from the school library, and nobody complains thinking that it could get extended to valuable literature.
On page 5 of the floppies, it reads:
"In an effort to watch DVD movies on a computer running Linux, 15-year-old Norwegian Jon Johansen created and distributed a program called DeCSS that cracked DVD encryption, allowing users to freely transfer the unencrypted video over the Internet. He was questioned and released."
He was questioned and released? That's it? What? They aren't reading the same press reports I'm reading.
If anyone forgot about this link, it is the best way to explain to people why censorship software is bad.
http://dfn.org/focus/censor/contest.htm
Internet junkies make great haste in ranting about banner ads, popups, etc. but as usual, noone can provide an alternative. What will we all do when Google goes down because they cannot stay alive without pop-up ads? How many people here would pay for search engine access? Or Slashdot?
Generally, the most vehement opponents of banner ads also won't pay for subscription services either. Much of the internet can remain free, but the NYT won't run their site if they cannot get either subscriptions, revenue, or ads. I think that the pay-per-page approach is viable. I would pay 1 peso to see that article on NYT. I can subscribe with some service who bills me monthly, or maybe via my ISP, so that NYT doesn't have to know my info (or wastefully bill me every month for 5cents).
FortKnox said "He wants to get into programming..." not "I want him to get into programming..." It is great that everyone mentioned the social aspects of development, and that people are concerned about him being pushed. These are good points, but of all the highly moderated posts, not one answers the question!
The question is "what would be the appropriate things to teach him?"
I would recommend the same tools that an adult would use. Books, the internet, and lots of hands on experience "hacking." Take a loose path, lean it more in their areas of interest, and less toward the purely academic areas (unless they are into that). Most good CS people claim they learned mostly on their own, and liked it that way. Let him/her be more self-motivated than a normal child at that age.
I do that too (under Windows) and it is the best backup I've ever owned. But my drive lets me use it like a standard drive, so I can just drag files onto it as I wish. I don't think such convenience exists under Linux.
Is it really possible to stop MP3? Software and source code exists on every platform there is. Free source gives it an infinite lifetime. Who cares if Fraunhofer won't license it? I can go download the LAME source and make my own. I can compile it, upload it to my friends, burn CDs... I can even make a car MP3 player without their licenses.
Why should I worry? Am I missing something? If so, please reply to this and tell me.
from the article:
"Moreover, EULAs play an important role in curbing software piracy...EULAs inform end users that making extra copies is not permitted (except for backup purposes)..."
The article seems to be saying that any sort of copying, other than for backup, is illegal. This is not true. I can copy the software onto another PC so long as they are not in simultaneous use. I can also copy to a more convenient media (moving to a DVD or ZIP or HD instead of a CD-ROM). The article also doesn't mention those cases of companies adding copy protection schemes and not allowing copying at all, even if their EULA does not dissallow it.
Netscape would have been better served by enhancing the Mozilla preject in the key areas it is lacking (speed, bugs) rather than adding tons of useless marketing features.
Netscape _was_ a "champion" of OSS and a leader in the anti-MS compaign. Their key followers held their torch because of these things. Too bad they spend their effort alienating their strongest supporters.
Everybody immediately thought design flaw. That would be bad bad bad. A manufacturing glitch is not such a problem.
:)
Hey! Who manufactures these chips for Transmeta anyhow? I see a potential scapegoat here...