'We cheat. We get to read what [academics] publish. We do not publish what we research,'
That's all well and good for cryptanalysis, which is more or less provable, but for new encryption algorithms the more eyes you have looking at your algorithm the more certain you can be of its strengths. Not letting people look at your encryption algorithms seems to be relying on security through obscurity.
It isn't about security through obscurity. They are cheating because they get ideas from the academics but don't have to return the favor. It becomes a pull relationship and ignores the push.
Think of it this way (with made up stats), NSA has 40% of all available industry resources and ideas, while the academics have the remaining 60%. So, while the NSA only has 40% but gets to view 100%, while academics have 60% but are stuck at 60%. If you use your position of power to use all available resources, even ones that are not yours without allowing others access to your resources, then that is cheating.
I have a similar story, except I went to my father after getting beat up. His response astonished me..."do you know how to hit?" I was floored. I expected my father, a fine Christian man, to tell me to just simply ignore the bully, to turn the other cheek. Nope, he gave me a five minute lesson on punching and he went back to work. I only hit that bully one time and never had another problem in that group of friends ever again.
A few years after this we were playing football (American) and one of the older boys didn't like that I was better than him. The fact that my family's income was orders of magnitude less than his didn't make this easier for him (he was raise to think he's the best at everything). So he started leading his team in chants about killing me and other various things, trying to get the rest of the team to kill me no matter which way the ball went. So every time I touched the ball I ran straight at him trying my hardest to run him over. He quickly stopped leading the chants and sending his thugs after me after he got thumped a few times. After that, I just ran away from him...usually past him for a touchdown. The only way he could claim victory was by trying to get everyone to quit with him...didn't work.
Third and final story. So I'm playing basketball at the gym at Purdue University. A guy on the other team was a major cock who thought he was all that and a little more and enjoyed telling everyone that he was an awesome player. During the game he led a fastbreak and almost dunked, but his team ended up losing just barely. Trying to show that his team's failure was not his fault, after the game he does a one-handed dunk. I grab a ball, and do the same thing. He then does a two-handed dunk...I do the same. It's now a classic pissing contest. He then tries to do a two-handed reverse dunk and completely makes a hash of it...I calmly grab his brick and do a perfect two-handed reverse dunk. Everyone laughed him off the court. I have never been able to repeat those dunks ever again. I only pulled those dunks off because of my momentary hatred of this guy that thought he was better than everyone else.
Mind you, these are basically just examples of the classic knuckle dragging bully. They usually just need one quick knock on the head (in whatever way is needed) and they go away. Simple directed aggression (not always violence) works wonders. If they cannot assume a position of power, they will leave to find a simpler target.
My dad says that people should move every couple of years to knock loose the rust on our possessions; allowing us to make room for more needful things, give to the more needy or simply to rid ourselves of excess.
The interviewer in the linked CNBC video agrees with your initial thought. She stated, "I'm glad I went to college when I did. I love the smell of my books."
My question is this. If you were in college right now, would you rather have the eReader version that makes all your highlights and books safe, or the paper version? You've already highlighted many of the pluses of the eReader version, but do the following pros outweigh them? Being able to buy and sell the used version of a book (lower capital investment, and greater potential percentage resale price). Being able to lend someone a book without lending them your whole book collection.
Unfortunately a lot of the hardware out there doesn't have VT technology which is a prerequisite for Virtual PC. MS would like to keep a 100% MS solution.
A friend of mine working for LargeCompany couldn't use the company's VPN tech because it only supported 32-bit versions of windows. Wanting to use Virtual PC on his brand new laptop, he purchased and installed Windows 7 Ultimate only to find Virtual PC wouldn't run without VT. After his struggles he asked for my help, and I simply installed VirtualBox and he's on his way. Thankfully he was able to get the student version of Windows 7 for only $25 and wasn't out too much. Well, he also lost his McAfee license due to the reinstall so he needs a new AV solution. Personally I think ridding another computer of McAfee is a bonus rather than a negative.
First of all, thanks for the information. It's always cool to get the behind the scenes look. Second, why post AC when you then link back to your company?
I'm not trying to excuse these bugs, but I remember how crazy it was for programmers to simply add hacks to make Y2K work. Once Y2K rolled past without incident, the MBA's couldn't be bothered with another doomsday since they had just spent mega dollars fixing this one. When there isn't funding or approval, the code doesn't get refactored. If there isn't enough space in your DB, add it before it fills up instead of short-shrifting on storage space for properly formatted dates. Also, another problem I've seen is attributes (explicitly dates) being stored in ID fields. If you really want that to work, combine them but don't shorted them. end rant.
The probability of digging into any old hillside and create a facility like this is quite low and would be quite expensive. The reason this exists is due to a (profitable) mining operation in the first place. So, that should answer your question. Yes, mining is a profitable business and it is worth the cost to take natural elements out of a mountain. Once the resources have been harvested simply starting a data center in the space left over would be worth the cost. Another geological bonus for this location is a nearby underground lake that can be used as for thermal transfer.
Unfortunately you posted to undo bad moderation with bad content.
The video is of a game playing quick and snappy (60 fps), but according to TFA there was a video creation problem. *speculation* One possible reason could be due to youtube only allowing 30fps. If the content is created at 60fps and it is displayed at 30fps, it would be twice as slow. *end speculation*
This is silly even before the stated "instant and ever-present" information. The only way something like this works is if the newspaper sends out retractions after a criminal leaves prison. Ummm, today 57 criminals were released from prison, but we cannot say their names, so please throw away Section B, C and J from December 12, 2001 to March 3, 2006. This law is completely idiotic. I can understand their thoughts about "new" news articles, but the articles that are already there are stating facts that cannot be erased...get over it.
After backing up my 9.04 install, I performed a fresh 9.10 install which allowed me to change from ext3 to ext4 (kept/boot as etx3).
Blank and flickering screens: No
Failure to recognize hard drives: Nope
Defaulting to old 2.6.28 Linux kernel: Nope, I'm on 2.6.31-14
Failure to get encryption running: well, yeah, but only because I didn't use it.
PulseAudio now works in Skype
My webcam now works and doesn't freeze after 3 minutes.
Boot times are a lot faster (although I haven't really had to reboot except to install the nvidia 185.18.36 driver)
Movie Player now actually plays video while Firefox is running.
Sound in VMWare works without making any changes or customizations.
My dual monitor setup now works properly through the Nvidia control panel
Flash video works a lot better in Firefox.
OK, can all of these good things be attributed to 9.10? Probably not, but I'd just like to show that 9.10 is working great. I've submitted a bug report already, but I always do. Great work to the Ubuntu and Linux community. I have a lot of friends that have upgraded and all have had tons more positives in 9.10 than negatives.
From the Summary:
"The article states that some subscribers have had their access cut off for more than two years." WRONG.
From the Article:
"The terms and conditions Karoo enforce are not new - the BBC has spoken to customers whose accounts were suspended over two years ago." In actuality, this only means that the enforcement of this policy has been in use for over two years, not that actual customers have been without internet access for that time duration.
Agreed. I'm optimistic that there will be a day when there are no wars, but unfortunately I think that will be right after the meteor wipes us humans off the face of the earth.
Sometimes keeping people employed on large projects is a good enough reason for a government job, stimulating the economy and trying to keep unemployment numbers down.
I'm sorry, but all of these are irrelevant arguments. Michelangelo was commissioned to paint the Sistine Chapel, so he already had his money. Mozart was in debt for most of his life, but he was likewise paid in advance for most of his pieces. Leonardo da Vinci also was commissioned to create most of his art. Don't compare the artist to the people who paid for the art. If the Sistine Chapel wanted to charge an admittance fee to see the art they purchased, that would be absolutely fine.
Your examples can be generalized, did some artist that sold his art try to return after the sale and demand that he be given more money? No, because he had already sold his right to do so.
Look, I hate Sony just as much as the next guy and cannot remember the last time I actually purchased a Sony product accidentally or planned. Even if the PS3 becomes the only console out there, I wouldn't buy it. I would make my own console out of cardboard and imagine the game being projected on the wall. Every time Sony puts a product in the marketplace it is an investment on their part. The only option that I have to protest their idiocy is by not giving them a ROI (money). If enough consumers actually care about Sony's practices and likewise refuse to purchase their investments, then Sony will have to adapt. Anyway, I have no idea how your comments were marked as "Insightful" as they lack insight and are blindingly fallacious.
We had a contractor wire our office and had no problems until we started using roaming profiles. A few of the connection terminators were bad and only allowed a 1mb/s connection. The computers that had these problems normally only transfered a text files from the server, or surfed the internet and weren't really using more than that bandwidth anyway. So, with large file copies associated with roaming profiles, we finally found the problem. At that point, I distrusted the contractors work and had every connection redone (40 total) and retested to the full 1000mbs our network actually supported.
So my suggestion is this. Unless someone kicks the cable every day, there isn't much to go wrong. Monitor for abnormally high number of collisions on one port, and yearly perform throughput tests.
You forgot to correct the AC on his/her ellipse usage. Although ellipses are accepted in less formal settings, a semi-colon is often preferred. For a more pedantic view of the English language, you should read "Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation." It's amazing how many nationalized differences there are with punctuation usage and spelling.
And now for something on-topic that doesn't feed the trolls. Although the "horse already left the barn", that won't stop the MPAA from getting the FBI to nail someone to the barn door. Given enough publicity, even a pathetic attempt at stopping the spread of an already leaked movie will probably deter some people from future movie pirating. This makes me think of older criminal punishments with a high "public spectacle" quotient like the stockades or the fictional "Scarlet Letter." Anyway, through their eyes, disrupting 50 business and possibly 911 services is a minor inconvenient means to an end.
The vote happened at 22:45 (10:45pm). So, let's hypothetically walk through the events of the night leading up to this point. 41 hours and 40 minutes earlier (TFA doesn't actually give a start time), so they started discussions Wednesday morning at 3:05am. This seems amazing for Frenchmen. Anyway, after about 40 hours and 55 minutes, around 10:00pm the next day, everyone thinks it's late and this is getting a little over the top. So, everyone starts mingling around and leaving. By 10:40pm just about everyone is gone, so the decision to take the vote happens. The four who voted "no" were actually supposed to vote "yes", but were so tired at this point that they raised their hands at the wrong time. With marathon sessions like this, no wonder silly laws get passed. By the end they don't even know what they are voting for.
Right now, I live in a house with 8 other guys. No one has a TV, so most of the guys use legal sites like Hulu to watch shows they like. We have a house rule of only legit movie/music/app torrents unless your name is on the bill. Since, he's the one to potentially get in trouble if the RIAA comes knocking so let him take the risk if he really wants to. Anyway, even with that rule in place, we would cruise through a 40Gb/month plan in a little more than a day, and a 40GB/month plan in just over a week. If everyone was torrenting, I don't even want to know how quickly we would hit the limit at 20Mb/s down and 10Mb/s up.
All you "moral guardian" types are still stuck up on the crazy idea that condoms promote evil, bad sex, and think that the AIDS pandemic deserves nothing more than a crate of bibles shipped to Africa every few months. You haven't got a leg to stand on.
I'm not arguing against your attitude of anger. What I'm suggesting is their goal it to develop a culture change. Condoms break, promiscuous sexual attitudes breeds complacency toward precautions. I would venture to say that no group sending aid to Africa is doing it 100% correctly. Although, together I hope that the disease can be treated AND a culture of change can occur.
If you are trying to teach managers a lesson about what happens when admins are not around, why do you need to shut down all the servers in the server room before going home? The only need for the admin is to administer the computers: make changes as needed to keep the systems running smoothly and as per spec. Your list follows that except #3.
My guess is that most servers would be fine for one day (otherwise the admin is doing a horrible job), but the thing that management couldn't handle is that there would be no one to hold their hand while figuring out how to make a horrid looking template for Outlook.
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That's all well and good for cryptanalysis, which is more or less provable, but for new encryption algorithms the more eyes you have looking at your algorithm the more certain you can be of its strengths. Not letting people look at your encryption algorithms seems to be relying on security through obscurity.
It isn't about security through obscurity. They are cheating because they get ideas from the academics but don't have to return the favor. It becomes a pull relationship and ignores the push.
Think of it this way (with made up stats), NSA has 40% of all available industry resources and ideas, while the academics have the remaining 60%. So, while the NSA only has 40% but gets to view 100%, while academics have 60% but are stuck at 60%. If you use your position of power to use all available resources, even ones that are not yours without allowing others access to your resources, then that is cheating.
Or the one that grade school girls play on little nerd boys... "elephant shoe" looks like "I love you".
Thanks for that. AutoPager works like a charm.
I have a similar story, except I went to my father after getting beat up. His response astonished me..."do you know how to hit?" I was floored. I expected my father, a fine Christian man, to tell me to just simply ignore the bully, to turn the other cheek. Nope, he gave me a five minute lesson on punching and he went back to work. I only hit that bully one time and never had another problem in that group of friends ever again.
A few years after this we were playing football (American) and one of the older boys didn't like that I was better than him. The fact that my family's income was orders of magnitude less than his didn't make this easier for him (he was raise to think he's the best at everything). So he started leading his team in chants about killing me and other various things, trying to get the rest of the team to kill me no matter which way the ball went. So every time I touched the ball I ran straight at him trying my hardest to run him over. He quickly stopped leading the chants and sending his thugs after me after he got thumped a few times. After that, I just ran away from him...usually past him for a touchdown. The only way he could claim victory was by trying to get everyone to quit with him...didn't work.
Third and final story. So I'm playing basketball at the gym at Purdue University. A guy on the other team was a major cock who thought he was all that and a little more and enjoyed telling everyone that he was an awesome player. During the game he led a fastbreak and almost dunked, but his team ended up losing just barely. Trying to show that his team's failure was not his fault, after the game he does a one-handed dunk. I grab a ball, and do the same thing. He then does a two-handed dunk...I do the same. It's now a classic pissing contest. He then tries to do a two-handed reverse dunk and completely makes a hash of it...I calmly grab his brick and do a perfect two-handed reverse dunk. Everyone laughed him off the court. I have never been able to repeat those dunks ever again. I only pulled those dunks off because of my momentary hatred of this guy that thought he was better than everyone else.
Mind you, these are basically just examples of the classic knuckle dragging bully. They usually just need one quick knock on the head (in whatever way is needed) and they go away. Simple directed aggression (not always violence) works wonders. If they cannot assume a position of power, they will leave to find a simpler target.
My dad says that people should move every couple of years to knock loose the rust on our possessions; allowing us to make room for more needful things, give to the more needy or simply to rid ourselves of excess.
The interviewer in the linked CNBC video agrees with your initial thought. She stated, "I'm glad I went to college when I did. I love the smell of my books."
My question is this. If you were in college right now, would you rather have the eReader version that makes all your highlights and books safe, or the paper version? You've already highlighted many of the pluses of the eReader version, but do the following pros outweigh them? Being able to buy and sell the used version of a book (lower capital investment, and greater potential percentage resale price). Being able to lend someone a book without lending them your whole book collection.
Unfortunately a lot of the hardware out there doesn't have VT technology which is a prerequisite for Virtual PC. MS would like to keep a 100% MS solution.
A friend of mine working for LargeCompany couldn't use the company's VPN tech because it only supported 32-bit versions of windows. Wanting to use Virtual PC on his brand new laptop, he purchased and installed Windows 7 Ultimate only to find Virtual PC wouldn't run without VT. After his struggles he asked for my help, and I simply installed VirtualBox and he's on his way. Thankfully he was able to get the student version of Windows 7 for only $25 and wasn't out too much. Well, he also lost his McAfee license due to the reinstall so he needs a new AV solution. Personally I think ridding another computer of McAfee is a bonus rather than a negative.
First of all, thanks for the information. It's always cool to get the behind the scenes look. Second, why post AC when you then link back to your company?
I'm not trying to excuse these bugs, but I remember how crazy it was for programmers to simply add hacks to make Y2K work. Once Y2K rolled past without incident, the MBA's couldn't be bothered with another doomsday since they had just spent mega dollars fixing this one. When there isn't funding or approval, the code doesn't get refactored. If there isn't enough space in your DB, add it before it fills up instead of short-shrifting on storage space for properly formatted dates. Also, another problem I've seen is attributes (explicitly dates) being stored in ID fields. If you really want that to work, combine them but don't shorted them. end rant.
The probability of digging into any old hillside and create a facility like this is quite low and would be quite expensive. The reason this exists is due to a (profitable) mining operation in the first place. So, that should answer your question. Yes, mining is a profitable business and it is worth the cost to take natural elements out of a mountain. Once the resources have been harvested simply starting a data center in the space left over would be worth the cost. Another geological bonus for this location is a nearby underground lake that can be used as for thermal transfer.
Unfortunately you posted to undo bad moderation with bad content. The video is of a game playing quick and snappy (60 fps), but according to TFA there was a video creation problem. *speculation* One possible reason could be due to youtube only allowing 30fps. If the content is created at 60fps and it is displayed at 30fps, it would be twice as slow. *end speculation*
Any place someone feels (correctly or incorrectly) they've been treated wrongly, it is a place for lawyers to grow and make money.
This is silly even before the stated "instant and ever-present" information. The only way something like this works is if the newspaper sends out retractions after a criminal leaves prison. Ummm, today 57 criminals were released from prison, but we cannot say their names, so please throw away Section B, C and J from December 12, 2001 to March 3, 2006. This law is completely idiotic. I can understand their thoughts about "new" news articles, but the articles that are already there are stating facts that cannot be erased...get over it.
After backing up my 9.04 install, I performed a fresh 9.10 install which allowed me to change from ext3 to ext4 (kept /boot as etx3).
Blank and flickering screens: No
Failure to recognize hard drives: Nope
Defaulting to old 2.6.28 Linux kernel: Nope, I'm on 2.6.31-14
Failure to get encryption running: well, yeah, but only because I didn't use it.
PulseAudio now works in Skype
My webcam now works and doesn't freeze after 3 minutes.
Boot times are a lot faster (although I haven't really had to reboot except to install the nvidia 185.18.36 driver)
Movie Player now actually plays video while Firefox is running.
Sound in VMWare works without making any changes or customizations.
My dual monitor setup now works properly through the Nvidia control panel
Flash video works a lot better in Firefox.
OK, can all of these good things be attributed to 9.10? Probably not, but I'd just like to show that 9.10 is working great. I've submitted a bug report already, but I always do. Great work to the Ubuntu and Linux community. I have a lot of friends that have upgraded and all have had tons more positives in 9.10 than negatives.
From the Summary:
"The article states that some subscribers have had their access cut off for more than two years." WRONG.
From the Article:
"The terms and conditions Karoo enforce are not new - the BBC has spoken to customers whose accounts were suspended over two years ago." In actuality, this only means that the enforcement of this policy has been in use for over two years, not that actual customers have been without internet access for that time duration.
Agreed. I'm optimistic that there will be a day when there are no wars, but unfortunately I think that will be right after the meteor wipes us humans off the face of the earth.
Sometimes keeping people employed on large projects is a good enough reason for a government job, stimulating the economy and trying to keep unemployment numbers down.
I'm sorry, but all of these are irrelevant arguments. Michelangelo was commissioned to paint the Sistine Chapel, so he already had his money. Mozart was in debt for most of his life, but he was likewise paid in advance for most of his pieces. Leonardo da Vinci also was commissioned to create most of his art. Don't compare the artist to the people who paid for the art. If the Sistine Chapel wanted to charge an admittance fee to see the art they purchased, that would be absolutely fine.
Your examples can be generalized, did some artist that sold his art try to return after the sale and demand that he be given more money? No, because he had already sold his right to do so.
Look, I hate Sony just as much as the next guy and cannot remember the last time I actually purchased a Sony product accidentally or planned. Even if the PS3 becomes the only console out there, I wouldn't buy it. I would make my own console out of cardboard and imagine the game being projected on the wall. Every time Sony puts a product in the marketplace it is an investment on their part. The only option that I have to protest their idiocy is by not giving them a ROI (money). If enough consumers actually care about Sony's practices and likewise refuse to purchase their investments, then Sony will have to adapt. Anyway, I have no idea how your comments were marked as "Insightful" as they lack insight and are blindingly fallacious.
We had a contractor wire our office and had no problems until we started using roaming profiles. A few of the connection terminators were bad and only allowed a 1mb/s connection. The computers that had these problems normally only transfered a text files from the server, or surfed the internet and weren't really using more than that bandwidth anyway. So, with large file copies associated with roaming profiles, we finally found the problem. At that point, I distrusted the contractors work and had every connection redone (40 total) and retested to the full 1000mbs our network actually supported.
So my suggestion is this. Unless someone kicks the cable every day, there isn't much to go wrong. Monitor for abnormally high number of collisions on one port, and yearly perform throughput tests.
You forgot to correct the AC on his/her ellipse usage. Although ellipses are accepted in less formal settings, a semi-colon is often preferred. For a more pedantic view of the English language, you should read "Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation." It's amazing how many nationalized differences there are with punctuation usage and spelling.
And now for something on-topic that doesn't feed the trolls. Although the "horse already left the barn", that won't stop the MPAA from getting the FBI to nail someone to the barn door. Given enough publicity, even a pathetic attempt at stopping the spread of an already leaked movie will probably deter some people from future movie pirating. This makes me think of older criminal punishments with a high "public spectacle" quotient like the stockades or the fictional "Scarlet Letter." Anyway, through their eyes, disrupting 50 business and possibly 911 services is a minor inconvenient means to an end.
The vote happened at 22:45 (10:45pm). So, let's hypothetically walk through the events of the night leading up to this point. 41 hours and 40 minutes earlier (TFA doesn't actually give a start time), so they started discussions Wednesday morning at 3:05am. This seems amazing for Frenchmen. Anyway, after about 40 hours and 55 minutes, around 10:00pm the next day, everyone thinks it's late and this is getting a little over the top. So, everyone starts mingling around and leaving. By 10:40pm just about everyone is gone, so the decision to take the vote happens. The four who voted "no" were actually supposed to vote "yes", but were so tired at this point that they raised their hands at the wrong time. With marathon sessions like this, no wonder silly laws get passed. By the end they don't even know what they are voting for.
Right now, I live in a house with 8 other guys. No one has a TV, so most of the guys use legal sites like Hulu to watch shows they like. We have a house rule of only legit movie/music/app torrents unless your name is on the bill. Since, he's the one to potentially get in trouble if the RIAA comes knocking so let him take the risk if he really wants to. Anyway, even with that rule in place, we would cruise through a 40Gb/month plan in a little more than a day, and a 40GB/month plan in just over a week. If everyone was torrenting, I don't even want to know how quickly we would hit the limit at 20Mb/s down and 10Mb/s up.
Your mythical strawman arguments are typical of politicians.
There I fixed it for you.
All you "moral guardian" types are still stuck up on the crazy idea that condoms promote evil, bad sex, and think that the AIDS pandemic deserves nothing more than a crate of bibles shipped to Africa every few months. You haven't got a leg to stand on.
I'm not arguing against your attitude of anger. What I'm suggesting is their goal it to develop a culture change. Condoms break, promiscuous sexual attitudes breeds complacency toward precautions. I would venture to say that no group sending aid to Africa is doing it 100% correctly. Although, together I hope that the disease can be treated AND a culture of change can occur.
If you are trying to teach managers a lesson about what happens when admins are not around, why do you need to shut down all the servers in the server room before going home? The only need for the admin is to administer the computers: make changes as needed to keep the systems running smoothly and as per spec. Your list follows that except #3.
My guess is that most servers would be fine for one day (otherwise the admin is doing a horrible job), but the thing that management couldn't handle is that there would be no one to hold their hand while figuring out how to make a horrid looking template for Outlook.