Mozilla says: "the browser is more of an operating system than a data display application"
Wasn't a key "innovation" of Google Chrome to go just the opposite direction and make each browser tab its own OS process?
I mean, there was all this work done by someone to write an OS already, and by golly there are other processes running on the OS that is running the browser, so, I mean, what exactly are you guys talking about?
I wonder to what extent misinterpretation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 has contributed to the reduction of national security. It is one thing to extend nondiscrimination laws to protect descendants of slaves and quite another to extend those laws to all foreigners applying for US jobs. But muddled thinking here seems to have become de rigeur for those receiving government funding -- so much so that it seems to be considered "discrimination" to apply serious background checks.
It is certainly true that applying equally rigorous background checks to all applicants would have disparate impact on foreigners.
There is AND concurrency where multiple independent evaluations must successfully complete for join evaluation to complete. This is otherwise known as functional programming which degenerates into procedural programming by making the environment a parameter passed between functional blocks known as "statements".
There is OR concurrency where multiple independent evaluations provide alternatives. This is otherwise known as relational programming. This subsumes not only the obvious relational databases, but also exception handling.
Just start an "online phenomenon" in which anyone who refers to "The International Space Station" rather than as "The Colbert Space Station" is treated as though they had just referred to Barack Obama as "That Nigger President".
That'll teach 'em to ignore The Will of the People.
If it's that cheap to buy Congressmen then just reallocate $150M from buying Congressmen to buy more H-1bs so we can dispense with the datacenter entirely: Just have a huge call center with people instead of 'pooterz! More Green Jobs!
To build a new data center for the Social Security Administration all you need is $200M for immigration lawyers to draft legislation to lift the H-1b cap, $200M to buy Congressmen to pass it despite increased unemployment and $100M for labor! Build the whole thing out of recycled Windows XP machines and, BINGO, Green Jobs!
$6/watt installed isn't much better than the current price of photo-voltaic cells.
I thought the Chinese could do mass production and were wanting to go into hybrid cars in a big way -- so what's the problem with storage? Just require everyone to plug their hybrids into the grid.
This is a lineage that goes back to at least Principia Mathematica's attempt to derive "relation arithmetic" as a way of orienting our descriptions of the world around relations rather than around objects.
Give priority to prisoner preferences for wings, cell blocks and cell mates, and the vast majority of nonconsentual activity will disappear.
Also, accept invitations from foreign governments, under extradition treaties, to take those prisoners off your hands that consent to transfer to those countries. Of course this requires actual enforcement of immigration laws.........
Strange we don't see "stiffer sentences" being handed down for more "sophisticated" legal techniques to violate the immigration law or financial fraud.
'TV Judge Greg Mathis and filmmaker Matty Rich are teaming up to create game for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 called Mathis âoeDetroitâ Street Judge.'
'The game is expected to be reminiscent of Grand Theft Auto - but with prison rape.'
'Huh?'
'Mathis says his goal as a judge, and as a gamer, is to introduce consequences todayâ(TM)s youth and the best way to do that is through videogames.'
'âoeThe main difference between our game and Grand Theft Auto is that players will have to deal with the justice system and consequences for their actions,â said Mathis.'
'âoeWhen you go to prison, you gain credibility when you come back on the streets. On the other hand, when you go to prison you can also be raped. So take your chances. We may see young people who make the wrong choice and go to prison and are assaulted repeatedly (in this game).â'
I wonder how long before some "geek" responds with a video game where the judges, bureaucrats, politicians and fortune 1000 executives are being killed en masse by the "sophisticated technologists" who got prison raped?
Feavered says: 'The subjects that have generated the most vitriol during my tenure in this role are race and immigration,' writes Feaver. 'But I am heartened by the fact that such comments do not go unchallenged by readers. In fact, comment strings are often self-correcting and provide informative exchanges.'
Uh, maybe Feavered didn't notice (even though it is the subject of his commentary) it but those "exchanges" are edited by politically correct editors who will edit out the most politically threatening information.
Who reads the Washington Post anymore anyway? If you want to see interesting exchanges about race and immigration, you won't see it in places where the best arguments against the political zeitgeist have been edited out and then proclaimed not to exist.
Clearly these strippers are an example of Aryan Supremacists attempting to bilk hapless men from around the world out of their money and outsource jobs that should rightfully go to other girls. Can't the European Union do something to stop these Hate Strippers?
So we can't expect the unbiased truth from North Korea's propaganda ministry, but what the hell is this about "complete and utter failure" when the first stage apparently worked?
Was Space-X's initial failure to orbit payload portrayed here at/. as "complete and utter failure"?
I have uploaded a mirror of Alexander Ratushnyak's new submission to
the Hutter prize to
http://cs.fit.edu/~mmahoney/compression/text.html#1323
It is in the paq8hp12 section. Scroll down to the bottom of the list
of versions just above the table. The submission is decomp8.zip which
contains 2 files, decomp8.exe and archive8.bin, the decompressor and
compressed file. There is no compressor. To decompress:
decomp8 archive8.bin enwik8
The direct link is http://cs.fit.edu/~mmahoney/compression/decomp8.zip
Decompression took about 2 hours on my computer and used a little over
924 MB memory. The total size of the 2 files is 15,986,677 which
passes the 3% threshold improvement from his previous submission of
16,481,655 bytes on May 14, 2007.
The submission was Mar. 23. The 30 day comment period before awarding
the prize ends Apr. 22, 2009.
Food... You know... the stuff that comes from the grocery store rather than those frontier hicks who can't form a coherent sentence. Just stay where you are...
It's now going on 10 years that I've been saying the folks criticizing iron fertilization on the grounds that it might not sequester carbon are trying to destroy the Amazon rainforest, Subsaharan Africa's wild species and coastal ecosystems so that they can malnurish most of humanity -- they should therefore be taken out to the parking-lot and summarily shot. Well, ok, maybe that's a little harsh, but how about beating them to a bloody pulp or whatever it takes to STOP THEM?
I hate to break it to you sophomores but the fact that so-called "creationists" have their cranks that insist on the literal interpretation of Genesis doesn't mean you can just dismiss the field.
In its strictest sense, ROM refers only to mask ROM (the oldest type of solid state ROM), which is fabricated with the desired data permanently stored in it, and thus can never be modified
It might have been understandable to leave out hardware protections for the BIOS boot sequence in the earliest flashable MBs but it really is getting to be rather inexcusable. Did some guy named Gödel prove you may as well give up on it? I'd really like to see the proof.
SOMEHOW the hardware must support protection of the bios code or you are screwed -- no matter what security architecture you layer on top of it. What is strange is not that there would exist exploits like this, but that hardware manufacturers would be, after all these decades of manufacturing PCs, still be making systems that don't have hardware protection of their bios boot code.
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Wasn't a key "innovation" of Google Chrome to go just the opposite direction and make each browser tab its own OS process?
I mean, there was all this work done by someone to write an OS already, and by golly there are other processes running on the OS that is running the browser, so, I mean, what exactly are you guys talking about?
We are the disease... we are the cure... we are the disease... we are the cure...
SUCKER!
It is certainly true that applying equally rigorous background checks to all applicants would have disparate impact on foreigners.
Check out A relational programming system with inferred representations.
There is OR concurrency where multiple independent evaluations provide alternatives. This is otherwise known as relational programming. This subsumes not only the obvious relational databases, but also exception handling.
There are no others.
Just start an "online phenomenon" in which anyone who refers to "The International Space Station" rather than as "The Colbert Space Station" is treated as though they had just referred to Barack Obama as "That Nigger President".
That'll teach 'em to ignore The Will of the People.
If it's that cheap to buy Congressmen then just reallocate $150M from buying Congressmen to buy more H-1bs so we can dispense with the datacenter entirely: Just have a huge call center with people instead of 'pooterz! More Green Jobs!
To build a new data center for the Social Security Administration all you need is $200M for immigration lawyers to draft legislation to lift the H-1b cap, $200M to buy Congressmen to pass it despite increased unemployment and $100M for labor! Build the whole thing out of recycled Windows XP machines and, BINGO, Green Jobs!
1) more than 1% .1% to 1% .1%
2)
3) less than
We still don't know which range we're dealing with and, uh, like, it matters.
All it would take is to focus on a standard sample like Mexico City hospital interns, process their swabs STAT and count the deaths so far.
Seriously, folks, where are the adults?
How about a "Summer of Code" for good 3D physics in this plugin?
$6/watt installed isn't much better than the current price of photo-voltaic cells. I thought the Chinese could do mass production and were wanting to go into hybrid cars in a big way -- so what's the problem with storage? Just require everyone to plug their hybrids into the grid.
This is a lineage that goes back to at least Principia Mathematica's attempt to derive "relation arithmetic" as a way of orienting our descriptions of the world around relations rather than around objects.
Also, accept invitations from foreign governments, under extradition treaties, to take those prisoners off your hands that consent to transfer to those countries. Of course this requires actual enforcement of immigration laws.........
Perhaps it has something to do with this attitude:
I wonder how long before some "geek" responds with a video game where the judges, bureaucrats, politicians and fortune 1000 executives are being killed en masse by the "sophisticated technologists" who got prison raped?
Start listening at 51:40.
Uh, maybe Feavered didn't notice (even though it is the subject of his commentary) it but those "exchanges" are edited by politically correct editors who will edit out the most politically threatening information.
Who reads the Washington Post anymore anyway? If you want to see interesting exchanges about race and immigration, you won't see it in places where the best arguments against the political zeitgeist have been edited out and then proclaimed not to exist.
Clearly these strippers are an example of Aryan Supremacists attempting to bilk hapless men from around the world out of their money and outsource jobs that should rightfully go to other girls. Can't the European Union do something to stop these Hate Strippers?
So we can't expect the unbiased truth from North Korea's propaganda ministry, but what the hell is this about "complete and utter failure" when the first stage apparently worked?
Was Space-X's initial failure to orbit payload portrayed here at /. as "complete and utter failure"?
I have uploaded a mirror of Alexander Ratushnyak's new submission to the Hutter prize to http://cs.fit.edu/~mmahoney/compression/text.html#1323 It is in the paq8hp12 section. Scroll down to the bottom of the list of versions just above the table. The submission is decomp8.zip which contains 2 files, decomp8.exe and archive8.bin, the decompressor and compressed file. There is no compressor. To decompress:
decomp8 archive8.bin enwik8
The direct link is http://cs.fit.edu/~mmahoney/compression/decomp8.zip Decompression took about 2 hours on my computer and used a little over 924 MB memory. The total size of the 2 files is 15,986,677 which passes the 3% threshold improvement from his previous submission of 16,481,655 bytes on May 14, 2007.
The submission was Mar. 23. The 30 day comment period before awarding the prize ends Apr. 22, 2009.
Food... You know... the stuff that comes from the grocery store rather than those frontier hicks who can't form a coherent sentence. Just stay where you are...
It's now going on 10 years that I've been saying the folks criticizing iron fertilization on the grounds that it might not sequester carbon are trying to destroy the Amazon rainforest, Subsaharan Africa's wild species and coastal ecosystems so that they can malnurish most of humanity -- they should therefore be taken out to the parking-lot and summarily shot. Well, ok, maybe that's a little harsh, but how about beating them to a bloody pulp or whatever it takes to STOP THEM?
I hate to break it to you sophomores but the fact that so-called "creationists" have their cranks that insist on the literal interpretation of Genesis doesn't mean you can just dismiss the field.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read-only_memory
But then I'm an old guy.
It might have been understandable to leave out hardware protections for the BIOS boot sequence in the earliest flashable MBs but it really is getting to be rather inexcusable. Did some guy named Gödel prove you may as well give up on it? I'd really like to see the proof.
As if that weren't a contradiction in terms.
This points to the underlying problem though:
SOMEHOW the hardware must support protection of the bios code or you are screwed -- no matter what security architecture you layer on top of it. What is strange is not that there would exist exploits like this, but that hardware manufacturers would be, after all these decades of manufacturing PCs, still be making systems that don't have hardware protection of their bios boot code.
Its interesting that the hardware would be designed so that the firmware has no real control over itself. Where do they get these guys?