It seems to me that we'd go a long way in fixing identity theft if we stopped treating knowledge of personal info as proof you are that person. My cable company uses my social security number as "proof" that it's really me - but god only knows how many people know my social security number. My bankers, my employer (and everyone who can touch the payroll system) my doctors office, my insurance companies. The list is very long.
It should be illegal to use the SSN as a shared secret, and anyone who does use it as a secret identifier should be liable for any expenses they incur. VISA would be a lot more effective at combating fraud if they had to pay for every false credit card opened in my name.
Even better, if we didn't have to treat SSNs as secret information anymore, it'd make our lives a lot easier. The SSN is a great primary key for me - it's one number I can remember, and it does a good job of uniquely identifying me. I want to be able to give it to more people.
If Congress really can act quickly when it wants to, a good way to bring this about is to require all members of Congress to publicly disclose their SSN on January 1st 2008.
I don't know what everyone was so upset about in the first place. Why would anyone trust unverified claims in the first place? His claimed to be a tenured professor "at a private university." If you won't name your university, my bullshit detector goes off, and I assume you're from either a po-dunk univeristy that isn't accredited or is just completely made up.
If it's not verifiable or reproducable, any scholar should automatically distrust it. Let people claim what they want.
So can we write apps to run on the phone/ipod, or target the Apple TV? It'd be way cool to write some apps that are running on the phone and can actually get at the GPS data, instead of just using the Apple/Google/Yahoo provided software and pages.
In the same vein, can anyone do anything with the Apple TV? Steve didn't talk about any TiVo-like capabilities, so I guess we're stuck recording and streaming from a Mac somewhere else in house. But can we stick a USB capture device on the AppleTV (what are the USB ports for anyway) and record direct on the device?
We've been hearing for most of our lives that "we're going back to the moon" or "we're going to Mars" but nothing ever happens. I don't think anyone believes this time will be any different. We'll spend billions of dollars and get an updated version of Apollo that goes to the ISS, if it ever actually goes anywhere.
The marketing-fluff webpage linked to talks about stepping back during a debugging session - is this for Objective-C only or is it available for every language? Now that is a compelling reason to upgrade
The First Amendment doesn't guarantee you the right to string any words together you want. What it does guarantee you is the right to express your thoughts and beliefs without repercussions for having those thoughts.
There are no ideas being expressed in "Kill $TEACHER". It does not get First Amendment protection. It's just a threat. The police can investigate it and see if it's credible. If it's credible, then it's a crime. If it's not, then it's just tasteless.
Words can express an idea, like "You will burn in the fires of hell for seeing this movie", or they can just be words, like "there are flames in this movie theater". The First Amendment protects the ideas, not the words. This is why "free speech" applies to paintings, photos, and mimes, even though there are no words involved.
the hard part is keeping the key safe but easy to use. I don't want to have to type in a password every time I boot up, but I obviously don't want the key anywhere on the hard drive.
What I really want is the encryption keys to live on a USB device that I boot from, something just small enough to bootstrap the system and start decoding from the hard drive. Ideally, it'd be some sort of smart card, like the U3 jump drives. I'd like to put all of the private keys for my system on the jump drive, and have sshd get the session key from the smart U3 device, so my ssh private host key never leaves the USB device. It's applying the principle of least privilege to my PC - I'd just as soon never trust Windows with my private keys.
When I'm done with the computer in a few years, I just pull out the USB key and I know that the data on the drive is completely useless to anyone else.
One of the arguments given for completing the ISS is that other nations have contributed to it, and it would not be in good faith for the US to stop working on it.
How much for us to just buy them out? I suspect much less than the cost of completeing it.
I don't know what the device will be in 10 years, but I know I'll use it in my home office. I've got my house set up for a place to work - and I'll want a computing device in there. 10 years isn't going to change that, I like my desk too much.
Will it be the same device that I play video games with in my living room? Maybe, but I know I'm not going to email in my home theater room.
The device might converge, but my life isn't going to.
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First of all, have you tried just asking her to stop using it so much? You didn't say if you want her to spend more time with you, or more time doing other things, or what, but in many relationships you can just ask the other person to change a behavior and they will. You can ask her to quit cold-turkey, or just step it down a little bit. If it's a big deal in your relationship, make that clear to her. If she won't change, try counseling or leave her.
If she wants to quit and can't, or you're concerned that her use is causing her harm, get real help. Computer addiction is real, and psychologists know how to treat it or at least can refer you to someone who does. It may not seem like a serious problem to you, but for some people they just can't quit without help.
Is there a non-profit out there that has produced an open-source voting machine? Either software that converts a regular PC into a voting machine, or maybe even take it a step further and is willing to build the hardware and sell it at cost to governments.
I had a (very small) amount of code in the Argonne entry, and they were writing to disk. (In fact, I hear that's why Argonne's number was low - the disks they were supposed to write to were doubled-booked, so they had to find a replacement set of destination servers and it wasn't nearly as good as the original plan)
The bandwidth challange used to be about copying from/dev/zero on one machine to/dev/null on another, or maybe even writing to a big ram disk, but now it's end to end - how fast can you get data off a remote server and on to the disks on the show floor, so it's obviously about clusters of servers, multiple data streams, and multiple destination servers.
Thus far, tons of the responses seems to be "If you refuse, they'll just fire you and hire someone else - there are 10 other people who want your job".
It's exactly this reason that Unions came into existance - when a worker can be replaced because easily, the boss can do whatever he wants.
Capitalism only works when both sides are equal in the partnership. I'm sick to death of the libertarian bullshit that infests this place - "just let the market take care of it". When the marketplace is fair, it's worth considering. But the only way to make it fair is to increase the power of the workers so that they have something to bargain with.
Most everything that makes our country great - the 40 hour work week, minimum (hopefully living in more and more places) wage, sick leave - where do you think it all came from? Generosity of employers? Hell no - it came from workers standing up for their rights.
Many, many people have been killed (read any good history book) just for trying to organize. Remember that the next time you say "we don't want a union".
Free-as-in-beer, on most major UNIX platforms. Check out our publications, we have several that give all the details you'd need to write it yourself.
Plenty of others, too - libckpt, there was a "Checkpointing Threaded Programs" paper at USENIX this past summer... there are some kernel patches that can do, most of them under the GPL.
I'm a researcher at the University of Wisconsin, though not in Biotech area. I've actually got a packet of documents asking me to sign over my code to the WARF
- the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, which is quasi-attached to the Unive
rsity, and by state law is who we're supposed to go to first if we want to patent anything. My undertanding of the rules are that we don't have to sign things over to them if we don't want to, but they have to be our first stop if we do. That's the sort of neat thing about the UW - the University doesn't automatically
own our work.
The WARF has a royalty distribution scheme that pays the inventor a cut, the Graduate School a cut, and the department a cut. The WARF has had some pretty big
patents before - adding Vitamin D to Milk was the WARF's first patent, and made
the University a lot of money. Another big one is Warfarin, which is a well-known rat poison (I've always enjoyed the fact that a building full of lawyers has a rat poison named after it)
Furthermore, "Grid Computing" != SETI@Home. Grid Computing is quite a bit more than just donating your spare CPU cycles to something like SETI@Home, distributed.net and such. Grid computing is going to happen. It may not include everyone and their grandmother's desktop machines as cycle providers.
Ask them. They're really the only people's whose opinions count. They're also very quick to listen whenever they hear "computer program" - the dollar signs from Mosaic/Netscape are still in their eyes.
Be prepared to be laughed at, since really, what intro-to-CS project is anyone going to give a shit about?
"Safety will improve. Troublemakers will be identified early, as data-mining software flags behavior in children that leads to crime, sparking remedial programs."
How nice. I think I'll live in my old-fashioned world, where we wait for someone to commit a crime before they're a criminal.
Depending on the application, UML may run worse than VMWare. I did a rough study of their performance, and system calls were usually roughly an order of magnitude slower under UML than they were under VMWare.
Also, at the moment UML only runs on x86 as well, though in theory it's not hard to port.
When you boot MacOSX to the finder you will see that about 25-50% of the virtual address space (around 1GB to 2GB) is gone. Launch some applications and each will take another huge chunk of it.
You do know that each application gets it's own Virtual Address space? (that's why it's called virtual) The finder can use all 4 gigs of it and it doesn't matter - each app gets it's own 4 gigs. The kernel swaps the bits in and out of physical RAM as needed.
Look,
It's not hard to build sandboxes to protect yourself against foreign code. The way to
do this has been well-documented - it can be as
simple as a chroot() call or as full-out as the
virtualization tricks that VMWare and plex86 pull.
Just because Sun and Microsoft haven't managed to get it right yet doesn't mean it's not possible.
And if you're really worried about abuse, let's take a quick paranoid-look at things.
Evil Groups:
1. Microsoft
2. NSA/CIA
3. Telecoms
I'd say that if the intelligence community wanted it's software on computers it's already got plenty of opportunities.
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It seems to me that we'd go a long way in fixing identity theft if we stopped treating knowledge of personal info as proof you are that person. My cable company uses my social security number as "proof" that it's really me - but god only knows how many people know my social security number. My bankers, my employer (and everyone who can touch the payroll system) my doctors office, my insurance companies. The list is very long.
It should be illegal to use the SSN as a shared secret, and anyone who does use it as a secret identifier should be liable for any expenses they incur. VISA would be a lot more effective at combating fraud if they had to pay for every false credit card opened in my name.
Even better, if we didn't have to treat SSNs as secret information anymore, it'd make our lives a lot easier. The SSN is a great primary key for me - it's one number I can remember, and it does a good job of uniquely identifying me. I want to be able to give it to more people.
If Congress really can act quickly when it wants to, a good way to bring this about is to require all members of Congress to publicly disclose their SSN on January 1st 2008.
I don't know what everyone was so upset about in the first place. Why would anyone trust unverified claims in the first place? His claimed to be a tenured professor "at a private university." If you won't name your university, my bullshit detector goes off, and I assume you're from either a po-dunk univeristy that isn't accredited or is just completely made up.
If it's not verifiable or reproducable, any scholar should automatically distrust it. Let people claim what they want.
So can we write apps to run on the phone/ipod, or target the Apple TV? It'd be way cool to write some apps that are running on the phone and can actually get at the GPS data, instead of just using the Apple/Google/Yahoo provided software and pages.
In the same vein, can anyone do anything with the Apple TV? Steve didn't talk about any TiVo-like capabilities, so I guess we're stuck recording and streaming from a Mac somewhere else in house. But can we stick a USB capture device on the AppleTV (what are the USB ports for anyway) and record direct on the device?
We've been hearing for most of our lives that "we're going back to the moon" or "we're going to Mars" but nothing ever happens. I don't think anyone believes this time will be any different. We'll spend billions of dollars and get an updated version of Apollo that goes to the ISS, if it ever actually goes anywhere.
Your electric rates seem very, very low. In Wisconsin, we're at $0.09 a kwh in the winter, and $0.10 in the summer.
The marketing-fluff webpage linked to talks about stepping back during a debugging session - is this for Objective-C only or is it available for every language? Now that is a compelling reason to upgrade
The First Amendment doesn't guarantee you the right to string any words together you want. What it does guarantee you is the right to express your thoughts and beliefs without repercussions for having those thoughts.
There are no ideas being expressed in "Kill $TEACHER". It does not get First Amendment protection. It's just a threat. The police can investigate it and see if it's credible. If it's credible, then it's a crime. If it's not, then it's just tasteless.
Words can express an idea, like "You will burn in the fires of hell for seeing this movie", or they can just be words, like "there are flames in this movie theater". The First Amendment protects the ideas, not the words. This is why "free speech" applies to paintings, photos, and mimes, even though there are no words involved.
the hard part is keeping the key safe but easy to use. I don't want to have to type in a password every time I boot up, but I obviously don't want the key anywhere on the hard drive.
What I really want is the encryption keys to live on a USB device that I boot from, something just small enough to bootstrap the system and start decoding from the hard drive. Ideally, it'd be some sort of smart card, like the U3 jump drives. I'd like to put all of the private keys for my system on the jump drive, and have sshd get the session key from the smart U3 device, so my ssh private host key never leaves the USB device. It's applying the principle of least privilege to my PC - I'd just as soon never trust Windows with my private keys.
When I'm done with the computer in a few years, I just pull out the USB key and I know that the data on the drive is completely useless to anyone else.
Anyone who wanted to have a serious school shooting discussion would have found a better way to start the discussion than this.
Also, the headline. "Too soon for a Columbine videogame?" As though it will someday be something we can joke about?
One of the arguments given for completing the ISS is that other nations have contributed to it, and it would not be in good faith for the US to stop working on it.
How much for us to just buy them out? I suspect much less than the cost of completeing it.
I don't know what the device will be in 10 years, but I know I'll use it in my home office. I've got my house set up for a place to work - and I'll want a computing device in there. 10 years isn't going to change that, I like my desk too much.
Will it be the same device that I play video games with in my living room? Maybe, but I know I'm not going to email in my home theater room.
The device might converge, but my life isn't going to.
First of all, have you tried just asking her to stop using it so much? You didn't say if you want her to spend more time with you, or more time doing other things, or what, but in many relationships you can just ask the other person to change a behavior and they will. You can ask her to quit cold-turkey, or just step it down a little bit. If it's a big deal in your relationship, make that clear to her. If she won't change, try counseling or leave her.
If she wants to quit and can't, or you're concerned that her use is causing her harm, get real help. Computer addiction is real, and psychologists know how to treat it or at least can refer you to someone who does. It may not seem like a serious problem to you, but for some people they just can't quit without help.
Is there a non-profit out there that has produced an open-source voting machine? Either software that converts a regular PC into a voting machine, or maybe even take it a step further and is willing to build the hardware and sell it at cost to governments.
I had a (very small) amount of code in the Argonne entry, and they were writing to disk. (In fact, I hear that's why Argonne's number was low - the disks they were supposed to write to were doubled-booked, so they had to find a replacement set of destination servers and it wasn't nearly as good as the original plan)
/dev/zero on one machine to /dev/null on another, or maybe even writing to a big ram disk, but now it's end to end - how fast can you get data off a remote server and on to the disks on the show floor, so it's obviously about clusters of servers, multiple data streams, and multiple destination servers.
The bandwidth challange used to be about copying from
Condor
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/
Thus far, tons of the responses seems to be "If you refuse, they'll just fire you and hire someone else - there are 10 other people who want your job".
It's exactly this reason that Unions came into existance - when a worker can be replaced because easily, the boss can do whatever he wants.
Capitalism only works when both sides are equal in the partnership. I'm sick to death of the libertarian bullshit that infests this place - "just let the market take care of it". When the marketplace is fair, it's worth considering. But the only way to make it fair is to increase the power of the workers so that they have something to bargain with.
Most everything that makes our country great - the 40 hour work week, minimum (hopefully living in more and more places) wage, sick leave - where do you think it all came from? Generosity of employers? Hell no - it came from workers standing up for their rights.
Many, many people have been killed (read any good history book) just for trying to organize. Remember that the next time you say "we don't want a union".
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/
Free-as-in-beer, on most major UNIX platforms. Check out our publications, we have several that give all the details you'd need to write it yourself.
Plenty of others, too - libckpt, there was a "Checkpointing Threaded Programs" paper at USENIX this past summer... there are some kernel patches that can do, most of them under the GPL.
The WARF has a royalty distribution scheme that pays the inventor a cut, the Graduate School a cut, and the department a cut. The WARF has had some pretty big patents before - adding Vitamin D to Milk was the WARF's first patent, and made the University a lot of money. Another big one is Warfarin, which is a well-known rat poison (I've always enjoyed the fact that a building full of lawyers has a rat poison named after it)
Furthermore, "Grid Computing" != SETI@Home. Grid Computing is quite a bit more than just donating your spare CPU cycles to something like SETI@Home, distributed.net and such. Grid computing is going to happen. It may not include everyone and their grandmother's desktop machines as cycle providers.
Ask them. They're really the only people's whose opinions count. They're also very quick to listen whenever they hear "computer program" - the dollar signs from Mosaic/Netscape are still in their eyes.
Be prepared to be laughed at, since really, what intro-to-CS project is anyone going to give a shit about?
Instead, you should just use GRUB, which probably already does what you need, and is free-as-in-speech to match.
A quote:
"Safety will improve. Troublemakers will be identified early, as data-mining software flags behavior in children that leads to crime, sparking remedial programs."
How nice. I think I'll live in my old-fashioned world, where we wait for someone to commit a crime before they're a criminal.
Depending on the application, UML may run worse than VMWare. I did a rough study of their performance, and system calls were usually roughly an order of magnitude slower under UML than they were under VMWare.
Also, at the moment UML only runs on x86 as well, though in theory it's not hard to port.
You do know that each application gets it's own Virtual Address space? (that's why it's called virtual) The finder can use all 4 gigs of it and it doesn't matter - each app gets it's own 4 gigs. The kernel swaps the bits in and out of physical RAM as needed.
And if you're really worried about abuse, let's take a quick paranoid-look at things.
Evil Groups:
1. Microsoft
2. NSA/CIA
3. Telecoms
I'd say that if the intelligence community wanted it's software on computers it's already got plenty of opportunities.
-Erik