It's pretty common for the contents of a table to be encrypted. The administrator might see, for example, that ten new patients were added today, but there is no reason for that data to be available in plaintext. A quick google for references gave this practical introduction.
According to the pdf it has to meet FIPS 140-2, and implies ssl/tls level of encryption. (IANANES, so I'm not sure just how good that is.)
It's pretty good. It also has requirements for user-level authentication (machine-to-machine is not good enough) and approved key-generation algorithms. It's also actively maintained by people who know what they are doing, which makes it a much better decision than trying to write your own security requirements spec.
Why that should get you out of reporting data loss is what I don't follow. When it might be someone sniffing the data at your ISP, you need to report it, but when you have a FIPS certification proving that it must be a serious problem, you can keep it secret?
I can hear people saying I must be new here but I only skimmed TFA.
I think the point was that Sony corp. made an official public statement by about what they feel a stolen song is worth, and filed it in court. Even if the case verdict isn't a legal precedent, surely the researched market analysis filed in a foreign court can still be cited as a fair assessment that is endorsed by Sony. (Ok, IANAL, and the case in the U.S.A. was probably some legally-independent entity, completely separate from the Sony-owned company in this case, but it still has to count for something.)
Network television allows regional broadcasters to insert local advertisements, which tailors them geographically as well. It's even possible to insert advertisements into the background of sports broadcasts:
Real time advertisement insertion in baseball video based on advertisement effect. So you can advertise by show and region. Customizing to the actual person is a neat idea though. How about not showing any advertisement to people who are in a bad mood? If they don't look likely to receive the ad well, then just show a generic picture?
The more they fancied them, the worse their score.
This means the women involved in conducting the study chatted with 40 men who then evaluated how attractive they found the woman they were talking with. I bet there were some interesting talks over coffee after those results were processed.
Oh, I get it now. It's a first-post. I thought that was just an interview technique: if he shows up on time, he's too aware of his surroundings to be a real hacker.
So it wouldn't save a drive head, since there will be a sudden acceleration, but it might stop the case from deforming so the screen pops out. If I can believe the hype, then we won't have drive heads for much longer anyway. If all the internal bits are well attached, I guess that could be enough.
The only honest and correct comparison would be to say if the *European Union* stated that it was going to take over all of it's member nations health care and run them from Brussels. If (and when - sorry Europe it's inevitable) it does say that watch the about face...
A big difference between the European and U.S.A. governments is that the European central government has minimal involvement in healthcare funding today, and the component states mostly have the situation in hand with decent coverage and quality of care. Their success at managing the cost varies, but there are few who would call the situation a crisis. The U.S.A., on the other hand, has huge federal spending today on healthcare (medicare/medicaid, VA, tax breaks for employer-funded insurance, insurance for federal employees), and that spending is set to increase. If significant healthcare reform doesn't happen, the existing situation will break down. It is not "taking over" individual programs; it is fixing a growing crisis with a national program that it already has.
It doesn't seem likely that the EU will want to take on something expensive like healthcare so long as the existing system is working. If the individual states of the U.S.A. had 52 systems that provided reasonable coverage, and were not a direct drain on the federal budget, I don't think federal healthcare would be on the agenda for them either.
I think the "you" in that statement referred to the company adopting Android for their niche phone, not Android itself.
I don't know how far Mr. Gruber wanted the metaphor to go, but Porsche recently overreached itself in an attempt to take over Volkswagen, and ended up getting swallowed for its ambition. If you take the statement a little farther, it brings to mind the vulnerability of small, high-quality products to poor management decisions.
Yeah, but that's because it's easy to prove. The game is to come up with a proof, then compare it to the hundreds of others for originality. I suspect it was popular in the same way that people built magic squares for fun (like sudoku, but you start with an empty piece of paper). A simple and elegant proof of Fermat's Last Theorem will be hard, and there is probably only one (if it exists).
There is another social medium, without which the whole event's existence can't even be proven: Good old fashioned direct human-to-human communication.
I was wondering the same thing. Wouldn't "ticketed fans can't 'produce or disseminate (or aid in producing or disseminating) any material or information about the Event" mean that anyone wearing merchandise from one of the teams (hats, shirts, etc.) would have to refrain from looking either happy or sad when leaving the stadium? Somebody driving by might get the result without listening to a sponsoring radio station. If you don't enforce the contract on the masses of people leaving the stadium and shouting about the result, can you selectively enforce it on the people who tweeted about it? Is it ok to tweet the result, but not each goal? The policy presented above seems insanely vague. Will it be enforceable, or is it just a request that's been worded to sound legal?
Ok, true but unhelpful, so here is my guess (only slightly educated): The rules of refraction (like those of reflection) change when the surface of an interfering object has a diameter close to (or less than) the wavelength of the radiation. The most significant interference by the atmosphere on incoming light is not due to the change in density from the vacuum of space to a steadily increasing atmospheric density (which would cause refraction), but from the large number of small suspended bits in the atmosphere.
Does that sound right?
I don't think the suggestion is that the error had to be internal to a single set of code, but probably in communication between two. One sent a string while the other was expecting to receive an integer. Neither C nor C++ encodes type information with serialized data (like Java does, for example) so they would not necessarily catch it. If they were using a decent ASN.1 module, it should have been able to notice a different encoding definition, but I don't suppose they were doing anything like that.
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I once forgot to write an EOF to an open file on the hard drive, and bytes got corrupted in random files all over the place. We were finding single corrupted bytes for weeks, like when you smash a glass in the living room and never quite find all the bits. There were some good points about having so few abstraction layers between your code and the hardware, but a lack of memory protection was not one of them.
I agree that it's a good idea to learn assembly / machine language to understand what a compiler is doing, but learning the assembly language of the computer you use at home is not as reasonable a suggestion today as it once was. Learning to code to a 6802 wasn't bad; it only has a few instructions, and it's very instructive (and fun) to find out how many things you can do with just those. I think trying to write for your home PC in assembly is now beyond a beginner exercise though.
Microcontroller manufacturers often provide emulators and assemblers for their products, so you might download one of those to try. Then, when you get the hang of it, maybe a developer board and some 7-seg LEDs to build a calculator or something. Coding to this year's Intel chips is best left to the compilers and the mystics.
Anybody out there know a good emulator for teaching assembly programming?
That's one reason writing content for the internet is more fun than writing it for a company: you don't have to argue about whether it's a good idea. You put it out there, you tell a few people about it, and it either works or it doesn't. If the Wikipedia content works out to be more complete and/or reliable, then I guess allpinouts.com won't last long; if people find it easier to locate the pinout for their vintage graphics tablet, or contributors find less hassle in uploading information, then it will probably become a trusted resource.
They do need to address scalability though. Still/.ed.
I try to avoid stereotyping when reading slashdot, but it looks like most of the posters on this article have never seen the inside of an art museum (or even a furniture store that doesn't feature arrows on the floor to show customers which way to walk.) How much did it cost
Jeff Koons to build a giant balloon dog out of steel so it looked like actual balloons? And that can't even be used as practical furniture. Any revenue from selling individual pieces should be incidental; if they market it right, the machine itself will tour art exhibits. Things that move, but don't need to be plugged into the wall? Gold. What about furniture with a design that reflects the ambient light inside a Guggenheim museum? It's not Jean Tinguely, but I think Mr. Chino will find somewhere to exhibit.
I wondered about this too. I think it could do with some reverb and general acoustic massage, but then I thought that might be the point. They are simulating the "pure" sound, which can then be combined with some other model to make it sound like it's in a cave, cathedral, street, etc. Their paper is about producing that initial input, so that's the version they present, although they might do well to include a processed version as well (just for interest).
Often, the proposal may start as reasonable, except that it assumes cooperation from the customer, and become unreasonable in the client's specific bureaucracy. I don't know what happened with this project, but I've seen it a few times before.
If you ask a professional to repaint a building, he can look it over and give a reasonable estimate. Then, three weeks before the job, he sends you a note to remind you that you need to specify a colour. Two weeks before the job, you still haven't chosen a colour, so he takes time away from other work to make a personal visit and force an answer from you. One week before the job, you finally tell him, and he needs to pay his supplier extra for a short-notice order on all the paint. Then he shows up on the appointed day, but you forgot to tell the building management to reserve the parking spaces the painter said would be required, and somebody from a different part of the company scheduled an all-day media event in the lobby because your company doesn't have a decent system for reserving facility use...
Incompetent customers can cause overruns in reasonable estimates.
Right. That's why it's interesting. It needs to interpret the questions, construct a query, process and rank the results, as well as store and index all the information it needs for the game (no live connection to the internet).
If the questions aren't from the same group as usual, it won't be worth much. I would hope they wouldn't be specifically designed to either help or stump the computer.
I know nobody on slashdot reads the article, but if you want to flip over there for a second: the FCC were refused entry, so they went away, told a court, and the guy got fined $7000. Simple, and a protest would probably not go to jury.
Not sure where you are in Canada, but you know that an Ontario fire marshal can enter any building where he believes there to be a fire hazard, right? (Interesting summary here.)
I have never heard of this power being abused, and I don't have any problem with it; but if you think the problem is a willingness to let public officials use personal judgement in entering private property, then Canada isn't the solution.
The example from the article was in searching private property that was operating a pirate radio station. If they needed warrants, do you think they would have had any difficulty getting them?
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It's pretty common for the contents of a table to be encrypted. The administrator might see, for example, that ten new patients were added today, but there is no reason for that data to be available in plaintext. A quick google for references gave this practical introduction.
According to the pdf it has to meet FIPS 140-2, and implies ssl/tls level of encryption. (IANANES, so I'm not sure just how good that is.)
It's pretty good. It also has requirements for user-level authentication (machine-to-machine is not good enough) and approved key-generation algorithms. It's also actively maintained by people who know what they are doing, which makes it a much better decision than trying to write your own security requirements spec.
Why that should get you out of reporting data loss is what I don't follow. When it might be someone sniffing the data at your ISP, you need to report it, but when you have a FIPS certification proving that it must be a serious problem, you can keep it secret?
I can hear people saying I must be new here but I only skimmed TFA.
Right. Most people wouldn't have skimmed it.
I think the point was that Sony corp. made an official public statement by about what they feel a stolen song is worth, and filed it in court. Even if the case verdict isn't a legal precedent, surely the researched market analysis filed in a foreign court can still be cited as a fair assessment that is endorsed by Sony. (Ok, IANAL, and the case in the U.S.A. was probably some legally-independent entity, completely separate from the Sony-owned company in this case, but it still has to count for something.)
Network television allows regional broadcasters to insert local advertisements, which tailors them geographically as well. It's even possible to insert advertisements into the background of sports broadcasts: Real time advertisement insertion in baseball video based on advertisement effect. So you can advertise by show and region. Customizing to the actual person is a neat idea though. How about not showing any advertisement to people who are in a bad mood? If they don't look likely to receive the ad well, then just show a generic picture?
The more they fancied them, the worse their score.
This means the women involved in conducting the study chatted with 40 men who then evaluated how attractive they found the woman they were talking with. I bet there were some interesting talks over coffee after those results were processed.
Oh, I get it now. It's a first-post. I thought that was just an interview technique: if he shows up on time, he's too aware of his surroundings to be a real hacker.
So it wouldn't save a drive head, since there will be a sudden acceleration, but it might stop the case from deforming so the screen pops out. If I can believe the hype, then we won't have drive heads for much longer anyway. If all the internal bits are well attached, I guess that could be enough.
The only honest and correct comparison would be to say if the *European Union* stated that it was going to take over all of it's member nations health care and run them from Brussels. If (and when - sorry Europe it's inevitable) it does say that watch the about face ...
A big difference between the European and U.S.A. governments is that the European central government has minimal involvement in healthcare funding today, and the component states mostly have the situation in hand with decent coverage and quality of care. Their success at managing the cost varies, but there are few who would call the situation a crisis. The U.S.A., on the other hand, has huge federal spending today on healthcare (medicare/medicaid, VA, tax breaks for employer-funded insurance, insurance for federal employees), and that spending is set to increase. If significant healthcare reform doesn't happen, the existing situation will break down. It is not "taking over" individual programs; it is fixing a growing crisis with a national program that it already has.
It doesn't seem likely that the EU will want to take on something expensive like healthcare so long as the existing system is working. If the individual states of the U.S.A. had 52 systems that provided reasonable coverage, and were not a direct drain on the federal budget, I don't think federal healthcare would be on the agenda for them either.
I think the "you" in that statement referred to the company adopting Android for their niche phone, not Android itself.
I don't know how far Mr. Gruber wanted the metaphor to go, but Porsche recently overreached itself in an attempt to take over Volkswagen, and ended up getting swallowed for its ambition. If you take the statement a little farther, it brings to mind the vulnerability of small, high-quality products to poor management decisions.
Yeah, but that's because it's easy to prove. The game is to come up with a proof, then compare it to the hundreds of others for originality. I suspect it was popular in the same way that people built magic squares for fun (like sudoku, but you start with an empty piece of paper). A simple and elegant proof of Fermat's Last Theorem will be hard, and there is probably only one (if it exists).
There is another social medium, without which the whole event's existence can't even be proven: Good old fashioned direct human-to-human communication.
I was wondering the same thing. Wouldn't "ticketed fans can't 'produce or disseminate (or aid in producing or disseminating) any material or information about the Event" mean that anyone wearing merchandise from one of the teams (hats, shirts, etc.) would have to refrain from looking either happy or sad when leaving the stadium? Somebody driving by might get the result without listening to a sponsoring radio station. If you don't enforce the contract on the masses of people leaving the stadium and shouting about the result, can you selectively enforce it on the people who tweeted about it? Is it ok to tweet the result, but not each goal? The policy presented above seems insanely vague. Will it be enforceable, or is it just a request that's been worded to sound legal?
Ok, true but unhelpful, so here is my guess (only slightly educated): The rules of refraction (like those of reflection) change when the surface of an interfering object has a diameter close to (or less than) the wavelength of the radiation. The most significant interference by the atmosphere on incoming light is not due to the change in density from the vacuum of space to a steadily increasing atmospheric density (which would cause refraction), but from the large number of small suspended bits in the atmosphere. Does that sound right?
What's the difference between Rayleigh scattering and refraction from a large number of small, independent refractors?
I don't think the suggestion is that the error had to be internal to a single set of code, but probably in communication between two. One sent a string while the other was expecting to receive an integer. Neither C nor C++ encodes type information with serialized data (like Java does, for example) so they would not necessarily catch it. If they were using a decent ASN.1 module, it should have been able to notice a different encoding definition, but I don't suppose they were doing anything like that.
I once forgot to write an EOF to an open file on the hard drive, and bytes got corrupted in random files all over the place. We were finding single corrupted bytes for weeks, like when you smash a glass in the living room and never quite find all the bits. There were some good points about having so few abstraction layers between your code and the hardware, but a lack of memory protection was not one of them.
How about hiking naked through a quiet farming area? For some people, that tears at the social fabric, but others don't seem to understand the fuss.
I agree that it's a good idea to learn assembly / machine language to understand what a compiler is doing, but learning the assembly language of the computer you use at home is not as reasonable a suggestion today as it once was. Learning to code to a 6802 wasn't bad; it only has a few instructions, and it's very instructive (and fun) to find out how many things you can do with just those. I think trying to write for your home PC in assembly is now beyond a beginner exercise though.
Microcontroller manufacturers often provide emulators and assemblers for their products, so you might download one of those to try. Then, when you get the hang of it, maybe a developer board and some 7-seg LEDs to build a calculator or something. Coding to this year's Intel chips is best left to the compilers and the mystics.
Anybody out there know a good emulator for teaching assembly programming?
That's one reason writing content for the internet is more fun than writing it for a company: you don't have to argue about whether it's a good idea. You put it out there, you tell a few people about it, and it either works or it doesn't. If the Wikipedia content works out to be more complete and/or reliable, then I guess allpinouts.com won't last long; if people find it easier to locate the pinout for their vintage graphics tablet, or contributors find less hassle in uploading information, then it will probably become a trusted resource.
They do need to address scalability though. Still /.ed.
I try to avoid stereotyping when reading slashdot, but it looks like most of the posters on this article have never seen the inside of an art museum (or even a furniture store that doesn't feature arrows on the floor to show customers which way to walk.) How much did it cost Jeff Koons to build a giant balloon dog out of steel so it looked like actual balloons? And that can't even be used as practical furniture. Any revenue from selling individual pieces should be incidental; if they market it right, the machine itself will tour art exhibits. Things that move, but don't need to be plugged into the wall? Gold. What about furniture with a design that reflects the ambient light inside a Guggenheim museum? It's not Jean Tinguely, but I think Mr. Chino will find somewhere to exhibit.
I wondered about this too. I think it could do with some reverb and general acoustic massage, but then I thought that might be the point. They are simulating the "pure" sound, which can then be combined with some other model to make it sound like it's in a cave, cathedral, street, etc. Their paper is about producing that initial input, so that's the version they present, although they might do well to include a processed version as well (just for interest).
Often, the proposal may start as reasonable, except that it assumes cooperation from the customer, and become unreasonable in the client's specific bureaucracy. I don't know what happened with this project, but I've seen it a few times before.
If you ask a professional to repaint a building, he can look it over and give a reasonable estimate. Then, three weeks before the job, he sends you a note to remind you that you need to specify a colour. Two weeks before the job, you still haven't chosen a colour, so he takes time away from other work to make a personal visit and force an answer from you. One week before the job, you finally tell him, and he needs to pay his supplier extra for a short-notice order on all the paint. Then he shows up on the appointed day, but you forgot to tell the building management to reserve the parking spaces the painter said would be required, and somebody from a different part of the company scheduled an all-day media event in the lobby because your company doesn't have a decent system for reserving facility use...
Incompetent customers can cause overruns in reasonable estimates.
Sorry, I used information from outside the original article without a citation. This is from the team's web info:
... just like human competitors, Watson will not be connected to the Internet or have any other outside assistance.
Right. That's why it's interesting. It needs to interpret the questions, construct a query, process and rank the results, as well as store and index all the information it needs for the game (no live connection to the internet).
If the questions aren't from the same group as usual, it won't be worth much. I would hope they wouldn't be specifically designed to either help or stump the computer.
I know nobody on slashdot reads the article, but if you want to flip over there for a second: the FCC were refused entry, so they went away, told a court, and the guy got fined $7000. Simple, and a protest would probably not go to jury.
Not sure where you are in Canada, but you know that an Ontario fire marshal can enter any building where he believes there to be a fire hazard, right? (Interesting summary here.)
I have never heard of this power being abused, and I don't have any problem with it; but if you think the problem is a willingness to let public officials use personal judgement in entering private property, then Canada isn't the solution.
The example from the article was in searching private property that was operating a pirate radio station. If they needed warrants, do you think they would have had any difficulty getting them?