Wired had a study in which people in the back seats were 5 times as likely to survive an accident as the front seats. Can't find the link, but that is true.
Isn't that just HTML 5? "Persistent storage. Both key / value and a SQL database are supported.... An API that enables offline Web applications. " - we don't need another program, we need spec-following browsers, unlike IE has been in the past. Sure, it'll be 10 years before HTML5 is widespread, but it's better to have a standard than use a proprietary, closed-source runtime enviroment. Look at how long Java took to become standardized.
What dictionary are you using again? He's trying to break out of a deep-seated sense of boredom, although it isn't working. Enigma would not make sense.
(no, I didn't use a dictionary and understood every word.)
Where do you have to go that needs flash? I specifically use 64-bit Epiphany without flash so I don't have that load for the minor benefits. It's cheifly used for advertising, as far as I have observed, and video. For video, it's not that hard to fire up 32-bit firefox with flash when I do want to watch them. Why do you need flash so?
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so programmers don't have to see or care how much overhead is involved
...students who know how to put a simple program together, but do not know how to program. A further pitfall of the early use of libraries and frameworks is that it is impossible for the student to develop a sense of the run-time cost of what is written because it is extremely hard to know what any method call will eventually execute.
You know, this is off-topic, but I'm tired of hearing about people claiming the employees never see the benefits of tax breaks. Even if they don't get paid more and the product doesn't get cheaper, the employees can BUY STOCK in their company and reap the benefits of greater profits from less taxes. Why does anyone not own any stock in the company they work for??
They're not using the PageRank algorithm itself, but an algorithm similar to how they conjecture Google works. In actuality, they're building a graph of interactions and finding the most linked to nodes, which is a fairly easy graph problem and nothing too exciting. It's the novelity of using this in hospitals that makes it notable. The PageRank reference is just for media attention/allowing non-compsci people to understand it, though.
How long do you think it'll be before Congress amends the Constitution to force encryption keys to be given up? Or, if the government claims they're trying to rebel, they could suspend it so that some parts of the Constitution are no longer in force.
At the present time, only one company is developing such craft. There is the risk that no other company will step up and we'll have a space Microsoft. Why can we trust private enterprise with this when only one company is interested?
I'm going to be pedantic about the origins of C: C was not an AT&T invention, but was invented by Bell Labs researchers, which was not at the time wholly owned by AT&T. Ownership was evenly split between AT&T and Western Electric. Nowadays, Bell Labs is not even part of AT&T, but is owned by Alcatel-Lucent.
C'mon, it's not that hard to get an asteroid named after you. I've got an asteroid named after me: 23128 Dorminy. If I have one, why is this important?
"In fact, four out of five of the boroughs with the most cameras have a record of solving crime that is below average."
All this suggests is that those boroughs have a lot of crime, and as a result extra security cameras were installed. It would be unwise to judge the efficacy of security cameras based on these statistics alone, since surely the very reason the cameras are there is because those areas are already predisposed to crime?
is the first comment by RandomVisitor on the story at Bruce Schneier's blog. It's really quite true; we can't judge based on these statistics whether it's working or not.
Your gcc that you used to build Firefox could have modified the code so that gcc.gnu.org goes to some other site that looks identical. Once your gcc has a backdoor, you can't trust *any* program compiled with it. For that matter, you can't trust any program on the same system, since the gcc could have built backdoors into all your programs. md5sum? Can be modified. Filesize? ls can be changed. You can't even trust the kernel if your gcc is hacked.
True, paranoia is difficult. However, it's a lot easier to have a backdoor in your gcc than to have backdoor in your cpu. You only have to backdoor gcc once and you can't trust it until you reinstall from scratch, with a CD burned on a trusted computer. The CPU is a lot harder to backdoor.
You always have to trust your compiler; it is possible to change the compiler so that it compiles everything with a backdoor, even the compiler itself. The compiler is all-powerful. How do you find a trusted compiler?
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Wired had a study in which people in the back seats were 5 times as likely to survive an accident as the front seats. Can't find the link, but that is true.
I'm guessing part of the reason we get rid of them after one or two terms as president is because of the 22nd amendment.
Isn't that just HTML 5? "Persistent storage. Both key / value and a SQL database are supported. ... An API that enables offline Web applications. " - we don't need another program, we need spec-following browsers, unlike IE has been in the past. Sure, it'll be 10 years before HTML5 is widespread, but it's better to have a standard than use a proprietary, closed-source runtime enviroment. Look at how long Java took to become standardized.
(no, I didn't use a dictionary and understood every word.)
When Dell bought Alienware (who used AMD CPUs) Dell began using AMD.
Gumstix. The eBox, if you want something much, much meatier for $300ish.
I wonder if I could cite classified information being on the laptop as a reason not to turn it over, if I worked for, say Boeing, and truly did?
Where do you have to go that needs flash? I specifically use 64-bit Epiphany without flash so I don't have that load for the minor benefits. It's cheifly used for advertising, as far as I have observed, and video. For video, it's not that hard to fire up 32-bit firefox with flash when I do want to watch them. Why do you need flash so?
Which is how we got to the point where, Dr. Dewar and Dr. Schonberg:
And you're saying overhead doesn't matter?You know, this is off-topic, but I'm tired of hearing about people claiming the employees never see the benefits of tax breaks. Even if they don't get paid more and the product doesn't get cheaper, the employees can BUY STOCK in their company and reap the benefits of greater profits from less taxes. Why does anyone not own any stock in the company they work for??
Methinks someone has been dealing with too many jolts at work recently...
Harrison Bergeron, if you haven't read. /karmawhoring
They're not using the PageRank algorithm itself, but an algorithm similar to how they conjecture Google works. In actuality, they're building a graph of interactions and finding the most linked to nodes, which is a fairly easy graph problem and nothing too exciting. It's the novelity of using this in hospitals that makes it notable. The PageRank reference is just for media attention/allowing non-compsci people to understand it, though.
How long do you think it'll be before Congress amends the Constitution to force encryption keys to be given up? Or, if the government claims they're trying to rebel, they could suspend it so that some parts of the Constitution are no longer in force.
Will these chips end up like Winmodems? no intelligence in the chip and impossible to get drivers for?
At the present time, only one company is developing such craft. There is the risk that no other company will step up and we'll have a space Microsoft. Why can we trust private enterprise with this when only one company is interested?
The tagline was "Informed Customer is best customer!" yesterday.
I'm going to be pedantic about the origins of C: C was not an AT&T invention, but was invented by Bell Labs researchers, which was not at the time wholly owned by AT&T. Ownership was evenly split between AT&T and Western Electric. Nowadays, Bell Labs is not even part of AT&T, but is owned by Alcatel-Lucent.
Mind enlightening us on who these pedophiles are?
C'mon, it's not that hard to get an asteroid named after you. I've got an asteroid named after me: 23128 Dorminy. If I have one, why is this important?
Corrected link: Schneier's blog. That'll teach me not to use Preview.
is the first comment by RandomVisitor on the story at Bruce Schneier's blog. It's really quite true; we can't judge based on these statistics whether it's working or not.
Your gcc that you used to build Firefox could have modified the code so that gcc.gnu.org goes to some other site that looks identical. Once your gcc has a backdoor, you can't trust *any* program compiled with it. For that matter, you can't trust any program on the same system, since the gcc could have built backdoors into all your programs. md5sum? Can be modified. Filesize? ls can be changed. You can't even trust the kernel if your gcc is hacked.
True, paranoia is difficult. However, it's a lot easier to have a backdoor in your gcc than to have backdoor in your cpu. You only have to backdoor gcc once and you can't trust it until you reinstall from scratch, with a CD burned on a trusted computer. The CPU is a lot harder to backdoor.
You always have to trust your compiler; it is possible to change the compiler so that it compiles everything with a backdoor, even the compiler itself. The compiler is all-powerful. How do you find a trusted compiler?