I think you're wrong. I think that what you've just cited is a long list of executive and legislative abuses that will never stand up to court challenges. Thank God the federal courts in this country are still sane.
What do they mean by "terror mails?" Are these messages coordinating the attack? Or are they messages that provide warning of the attack? The police could by shooting themselves in the foot, nevermind that WEP is easy to hack.
I don't mean to sound rude, but you probably won't do anything anyone would care to steal (aside from another student) while you're in school anyway.
It may not be fair to state this for a school career in general, but almost certainly as an undergrad your professors aren't going to be interested in any of your completed assignments.
Neither of you really characterizes the kinds of class projects that are likely to get you somewhere. If your professor assigns you a project whose requirements are very-well spelled out, then it's probably been done before, and you're doing it only for the educational value, and it's probably not worth stealing. If your professor gives you very loose guidelines (typically asking you to propose a project that you're going to do that's related to the course subject matter) and you look for a place to advance the state of the art, then the result may be something publishable/patentable/stealable.
As an undergraduate, almost all of your projects will be of the first type. As a graduate student (or an undergrad in a graduate level class) then I'd guesstimate that you have a 1 in 5 chance of participating in the second type of project in a given class, which means that you will actually do a couple of these kinds of projects in your graduate career. (And it may be more likely at better-ranking universities.) Take advantage of those opportunities because those could turn into a PhD dissertation if your idea is good enough, and you follow through after the class ends.
(Sometimes professors in the second type of class make it easier by giving you a bunch of ideas that are relevant to their actual research, but that they don't have the manpower to accomplish, so the idea is cheap and they don't mind giving it away in class.)
This talk about universities building patent portfolios concerns situations where a research team developed some useful invention, and felt that patenting it would be valuable, primarily becuase this would make it possible for a company to pick up and commercialize the invention. (And only secondarily because it would bring funding for the research team.) But most university patents start when the researchers who did the work decide a patent is valuable, and only then to they start the patent process, which becomes a part of the University's IP.
Unless you have a really malicious professor (unlikely), universities won't steal your work without your knowledge and consent. An important part of a university's mission is to help their students build a body of knowledge in their name and build reputations, so if something you did in class is worth patenting or publishing your professor will talk to you about it and present it to you as a career- and reputation-building opportunity.
If you want money from your patents, there may be restrictions in University rules, or in the form of a contract that you sign, which prevent you from going off and patenting your work for the university on your own (iIn other words, the University will own your IP), but they can't patent something without your help.
The proper way to do this would be with division and modulus, which gives you a nice constant time solution even if you're still using your Zune in 2108. They ought to read Calendrical Calculations by Nachum Dershowitz and Ed Reingold and learn how to do this properly.
The GP is describing the Bell-LaPadula security model which is what the DoD uses, and ensures secrecy of secret documents by only giving them to people who are trusted not to leak them (i.e. they have security clearences).
Using the computer for completely technical control (trusting minimal humans) requires an originator-controlled security model. A big assumption of this is that the underlying system can enforce it. In essence today, this requires that the document cannot leave the computer or network that it originated from.
To enforce either of these with any degree of perfection would require restrictions that most non-military settings would consider ridiculously restrictive, for example disallowing USB thumb drives, laptops, non-approved devices.
Are you using IPSec in Tunnel mode or Transport mode? If you're using it in tunnel mode, then you're not going to fix your bandwidth problem, because all data has to go through corporate HQ anyway because that's where the tunnels end.
Writing this column really scares me because I wonder whether everything else in the media is as shamelessly, venally, manipulatively, one-sidedly, selectively reported on as the things I know about. But this week the reality editing was truly without comparison.
Yes, as a matter of fact, the situation with the Palestinain terroist governments in Israel is just even more biased against Israel than the press was against MMR this week.
No, it's not about the best tool for the job. Learning the nooks and crannies of every language (more so today with the size of the libraries available) is a significant investment. Saying "the best tool for the job" is like telling someone to learn French, Japanese, Hebrew, and Hindi in 6 months because their job's going to require them to travel. There's so much vocabulary it can't be done, which is why people perfer to become fluent in one language at a time, and use it for as much as they can.
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A very good reason to use a language that delimits its blocks explicitly. C will work great even in forums that lose their linebreaks. (Perl too? I don't use it enough to know.)
Don't spout out a bunch of cliches about programming languages, just to sound smart. Prolog is interesting because it lends itself well to a certain type of AI task. But it hits its limits fast.
For example Ivan Bratko's "PROLOG Programming for Artificial Intelligence" gives a very simple and intutive solver for inference in Bayesian networks. But in reality, it's just too slow and too limited for the kinds of problems most people are dealing with. Most such problems can't get an exact solution tractably, so approximation is in order. Once there, it's a lot easier to write an efficient algorithm in C or Java, and package it up into its own library with its own domain specific language as the frontend, like JAGS ("Just Another Gibbs Sampler") does for Bayesian networks.
Also, does Prolog lend itself well to Neural Networks? Or machine learning algorithms? Didn't think so. Every implementation of these things that I've seen is written in Java or C. (One oddball that I happen to find quite useful is written in OCaml.)
I haven't had any serious use for Prolog since I started my PhD in Natural Language Processing.
Likewise, Lisp is actually relatively interesting to people using Ruby because they go really far metaprogramming Ruby, and then they want just a little bit more flexibility than Ruby allows.
Python, Ruby, and Perl all seem to have pretty much the same goals and the same uses, but with very different styles. Pick your favorite, and don't let anybody get you down about your choice. In the long term, you should know your way around all 3, because you need to edit or understand other people's code written in these languages.
Also, you should definitely know your way around in C, even if you don't enjoy programming in it, even if you don't want to use it for anything big.
True. But I could think of all kinds of places where we would want cell-phone jammers (synagogues, churches, maybe some restaurants) just out of a sense of enforced politieness, that could be repurposed.
If you were redecorating paint that was already there, just for asthetics, you could just paint over it. But the cell-phone blocking paint would still be blocking cell phones. I think it would take a massive amount of work to remove the "jamming" paint first.
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I think you're wrong. I think that what you've just cited is a long list of executive and legislative abuses that will never stand up to court challenges. Thank God the federal courts in this country are still sane.
Well, thanks to MercExchange vs EBay, it's becoming less true. Also, In re Bilski should hopefully take a bite out of what they can accomplish here.
I'd bet there's prior art for this patent too Unix has been around a long time, and Multics was around before that.
FWIW, they Broadcom didn't help with the wireless drivers either.
What do they mean by "terror mails?" Are these messages coordinating the attack? Or are they messages that provide warning of the attack? The police could by shooting themselves in the foot, nevermind that WEP is easy to hack.
I don't mean to sound rude, but you probably won't do anything anyone would care to steal (aside from another student) while you're in school anyway.
It may not be fair to state this for a school career in general, but almost certainly as an undergrad your professors aren't going to be interested in any of your completed assignments.
Neither of you really characterizes the kinds of class projects that are likely to get you somewhere. If your professor assigns you a project whose requirements are very-well spelled out, then it's probably been done before, and you're doing it only for the educational value, and it's probably not worth stealing. If your professor gives you very loose guidelines (typically asking you to propose a project that you're going to do that's related to the course subject matter) and you look for a place to advance the state of the art, then the result may be something publishable/patentable/stealable.
As an undergraduate, almost all of your projects will be of the first type. As a graduate student (or an undergrad in a graduate level class) then I'd guesstimate that you have a 1 in 5 chance of participating in the second type of project in a given class, which means that you will actually do a couple of these kinds of projects in your graduate career. (And it may be more likely at better-ranking universities.) Take advantage of those opportunities because those could turn into a PhD dissertation if your idea is good enough, and you follow through after the class ends.
(Sometimes professors in the second type of class make it easier by giving you a bunch of ideas that are relevant to their actual research, but that they don't have the manpower to accomplish, so the idea is cheap and they don't mind giving it away in class.)
This talk about universities building patent portfolios concerns situations where a research team developed some useful invention, and felt that patenting it would be valuable, primarily becuase this would make it possible for a company to pick up and commercialize the invention. (And only secondarily because it would bring funding for the research team.) But most university patents start when the researchers who did the work decide a patent is valuable, and only then to they start the patent process, which becomes a part of the University's IP.
Unless you have a really malicious professor (unlikely), universities won't steal your work without your knowledge and consent. An important part of a university's mission is to help their students build a body of knowledge in their name and build reputations, so if something you did in class is worth patenting or publishing your professor will talk to you about it and present it to you as a career- and reputation-building opportunity.
If you want money from your patents, there may be restrictions in University rules, or in the form of a contract that you sign, which prevent you from going off and patenting your work for the university on your own (iIn other words, the University will own your IP), but they can't patent something without your help.
The proper way to do this would be with division and modulus, which gives you a nice constant time solution even if you're still using your Zune in 2108. They ought to read Calendrical Calculations by Nachum Dershowitz and Ed Reingold and learn how to do this properly.
It's time to start lobbying for an internet question (or two) on the census.
The GP is describing the Bell-LaPadula security model which is what the DoD uses, and ensures secrecy of secret documents by only giving them to people who are trusted not to leak them (i.e. they have security clearences).
Using the computer for completely technical control (trusting minimal humans) requires an originator-controlled security model. A big assumption of this is that the underlying system can enforce it. In essence today, this requires that the document cannot leave the computer or network that it originated from.
To enforce either of these with any degree of perfection would require restrictions that most non-military settings would consider ridiculously restrictive, for example disallowing USB thumb drives, laptops, non-approved devices.
The publications are usually coauthored with the grad students who did the research.
Nobody. They don't have an HTTPS site.
Are you using IPSec in Tunnel mode or Transport mode? If you're using it in tunnel mode, then you're not going to fix your bandwidth problem, because all data has to go through corporate HQ anyway because that's where the tunnels end.
Please use the permenant link to the article http://legalpad.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/12/08/a-no-fly-zone-to-protect-linux-from-patent-trolls/ not the link to the front page of the blog.
Writing this column really scares me because I wonder whether everything else in the media is as shamelessly, venally, manipulatively, one-sidedly, selectively reported on as the things I know about. But this week the reality editing was truly without comparison.
Yes, as a matter of fact, the situation with the Palestinain terroist governments in Israel is just even more biased against Israel than the press was against MMR this week.
I don't know. I haven't used Python.
You might look at this comparison, or just have a look at some sample code.
An automatic indenter can make the code readable too, like GNU indent or astyle.
Just to bolster my point, David Welton explains why a toolbox may be a better metaphor.
No, it's not about the best tool for the job. Learning the nooks and crannies of every language (more so today with the size of the libraries available) is a significant investment. Saying "the best tool for the job" is like telling someone to learn French, Japanese, Hebrew, and Hindi in 6 months because their job's going to require them to travel. There's so much vocabulary it can't be done, which is why people perfer to become fluent in one language at a time, and use it for as much as they can.
this line must be indented but slashdot does not allow me to
A very good reason to use a language that delimits its blocks explicitly. C will work great even in forums that lose their linebreaks. (Perl too? I don't use it enough to know.)
Don't spout out a bunch of cliches about programming languages, just to sound smart. Prolog is interesting because it lends itself well to a certain type of AI task. But it hits its limits fast.
For example Ivan Bratko's "PROLOG Programming for Artificial Intelligence" gives a very simple and intutive solver for inference in Bayesian networks. But in reality, it's just too slow and too limited for the kinds of problems most people are dealing with. Most such problems can't get an exact solution tractably, so approximation is in order. Once there, it's a lot easier to write an efficient algorithm in C or Java, and package it up into its own library with its own domain specific language as the frontend, like JAGS ("Just Another Gibbs Sampler") does for Bayesian networks.
Also, does Prolog lend itself well to Neural Networks? Or machine learning algorithms? Didn't think so. Every implementation of these things that I've seen is written in Java or C. (One oddball that I happen to find quite useful is written in OCaml.)
I haven't had any serious use for Prolog since I started my PhD in Natural Language Processing.
Likewise, Lisp is actually relatively interesting to people using Ruby because they go really far metaprogramming Ruby, and then they want just a little bit more flexibility than Ruby allows.
Python, Ruby, and Perl all seem to have pretty much the same goals and the same uses, but with very different styles. Pick your favorite, and don't let anybody get you down about your choice. In the long term, you should know your way around all 3, because you need to edit or understand other people's code written in these languages.
Also, you should definitely know your way around in C, even if you don't enjoy programming in it, even if you don't want to use it for anything big.
Wait until they combine this with Debian's 2^16 weak ssh keys. Do you think that will be easier or harder to crack than passwords?
True. But I could think of all kinds of places where we would want cell-phone jammers (synagogues, churches, maybe some restaurants) just out of a sense of enforced politieness, that could be repurposed.
If you were redecorating paint that was already there, just for asthetics, you could just paint over it. But the cell-phone blocking paint would still be blocking cell phones. I think it would take a massive amount of work to remove the "jamming" paint first.
The grid is barley taxed during the night, so this is a match made in heaven.
Until you find out some surprises about people's real usage patterns for their cars