Substitute ``private'' for ``classified'' and consider this:
...
Somebody sent to me an on-line order confirmation including your name, e-mail address, billing address, date of birth, social security number and credit card number with 3-digit security code.
I forwarded it to Slashdot.org, a public forum.
I cannot be indicted for conspiracy to commit identity theft because It was not ``marked as private information at the time'' and there is no direct evidence that anyone has used it for any unauthorized purchases.
Yes, thanks: it was a failed attempt at satire of the general prevalence of scientific illiteracy that still permeates planet Earth, with no specific target or group of targets in mind. The fact that the modbots marked it as ``offtopic'' teaches me not to waste bandwidth this way in future. Live and learn. Peace.
At only 3.8 billion miles away, that will hit us in about 5 years, given the speed of light. It looks like the Mayans were right afterall in their prediction of the End of the World. They were just off by five years or so because they had not foreseen the change from the Praetorian calendar to the Julienne calendar in 1066 and they had not accurately computed the speed of light using their Stonehedge calculators.
It's clearly time to sell all our stocks and buy gold to move into a fallout shelter and former nuclear missile silo deep in the Mountains of Iowa!
Finally, this just irrefutably proves the devastating impact of Global Warming once and for all. I blame El Nino, fracking and President Bush, The Lesser. And I wouldn't be surprised if Commander Taco also had a hand in it. And maybe Julian ``Chelsea'' Snowden as well. Oh, and the Gnomes of Munich.
Why isn't the mainstream media reporting on this!!!
Encryption is an inherently criminal activity: the only people who would ever think to engage in it are obviously nefarious cretins w/ something to hide.
Therefore, anyone who refuses to immediately give up their password/passphrase to Deputy Fife or Mall Cop Paul should automatically be sentenced to 20 years minimal time at hard labor.
Note that these evil terrorists also assert the following additional abominable outrages:
1. Right to exercise free religion, free speech, free press, free open assembly, and protests against government
2. Right to keep and bear arms and form militias
3. Right to reject occupying forces ...among maybe a few others.
It's high time we pass a bill to outlaw all these assaults on theology and geometry!
A NASA panel yesterday announced [...] the upper end of model-based predictions [...].
I for one am sick and tired of these pesky NASA models dictating how we spend trillions of tax-payer dollars looking up at the sky staring at clouds and such. I lived near the NASA Ames research center in CA and, trust, me: those fat bloated NASA bastard scientists and filthy computer geeks are not a pretty sight, prancing about in their cheap wigs and stiletto heels! It's positively repulsive!!
I say we stop funding all this ridiculous scare mongering and put these climatologist asshats to work doing something useful for society, like digging a huge moat around the continental United States to thwart the onslaught of this mongrel sea level incursion on our sovereign borders. That would also solve the problem of the growing wave of illegal immigrants flooding our southern shores with rapists and drug smugglers. Two birds, one stone.
Clearly the United Nations needs to impose severe sanctions against Greenland for negligently discarding their ice shelves and endangering world peace and prosperity. Such arrogance!
And yet the ACA (``Obamacare'') requires by federal law that those who participate via healthcare.gov be exposed to these sorts of privacy liabilities. Ain't socialized healthcare great? *smirk*
Socialism: a collective political system designed by liars, implemented by fools, and enforced by thieves.
So if I see cops in an unlawful traffic maneuver— like rolling through a red light without their lights and/or sirens on— should I be able to pull them over?
Should there be some automated device or mechanism that forces their vehicle to comply with my demands? Turn about is fair play, after all: if I surrender my civil rights to them shouldn't they be required to surrender theirs to me in turn?
What if there's a high speed chase and I am a civilian crossing guard at a senior citizen home and I think the coppers are endangering my homies?
I'm sorry, but no, that is incorrect. I chose the word ``unlawful'' carefully. Thank you for bringing up this nuance.
Specifically, what she did in setting up a privately owned & operated server outside of government control for conducting official State Department business was contrary to official government policy at the time, as stated by the U.S. district judge cited in the lead sentence of the article.
Therefore, although this was not contrary to law at the time, it was contrary to official policy. So, although it was not ``illegal'', it was ``unlawful''. To wit:
illegal — contrary to or forbidden by law, especially criminal law.
unlawful — not conforming to, permitted by, or recognized by law or rules.
What she did did not conform to the rules (i.e., official policy). I stand by my word choice: her personal server was an unlawful server, by definition.
Beyond Hilbert, the open problem to determine whether P = NP still intrigues, inspires and stymies many computer scientists to this day.
But perhaps a more fitting term for the field of medicine, though, might be ``remaining mysteries in medicine'' or some such, since they may view unresolved questions in treatment, diagnosis, and underlying mechanisms more as mysteries than as problems per se?
What the heck is ``SLS''? The first paragraph of the linked article helps to decrypt some of the unexpanded acronyms from this jargon-heavy newsworthy article:
NASA officials have admitted the interim Upper Stage for the Space Launch System [SLS] is at the top of their “worry list”, as the Agency’s key advisory group insists NASA should make a decision about bringing the more powerful Exploration Upper Stage (EUS) online sooner. The Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP) fears NASA is at risk of wasting $150m on an Upper Stage they intend to “toss away”.
By the way, NASA is the United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration, not to be confused with the National Security Agency [NSA].;-/
I recall at the end of World War I (then called The Great War) that the great nations of the world agreed to eliminate all future wars by forming an international body to formally instill world peace. It was called the League of Nations. But then came the second war to end all ways (WWII) some 30 or so years later. So the present day United Nations was formed so the world wouldn't destroy itself and, while we're at it, so we could eliminate pestilence, famine and plague as well (along with war).
Yeah, right. I'll believe it when I see it. I suspect that the only way to ensure the elimination of all human use of fossil fuels is to eliminate all humans. Welcome to The Futurama!
Knuth's multi-volume opus is a very low-level (assembly language) presentation of classic algorithms. Its scope is very narrowly focused but very deep w.r.t. nuts and bolts details. If exposure to core algorithms is your goal (along with more modern techniques of algorithm analysis & design, and a CD-ROM of sample code from the book to tinker with), you may be better served by a more high-level / modern approach like Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest and Klein's Introduction to Algorithms:
Abelson and Sussman's S&ICP, by contrast, is a broad immersion in fundamental core concepts in programming at large, including algorithms, software engineering paradigms, language design & implementation, and more, all with an emphasis on trade-offs and alternative styles of approaching programming tasks. Its focus is very broad but still concrete enough to be comprehensive. This textbook, along with sample code from the book, representative problem sets (classroom assignments), a teaching guide, errata, and a complete implementation of the version of the Scheme programming language used in the book, are all available for downloading free on line from the MIT Press:
This makes S&ICP an ideal fit for your goal of brushing up on programming fundamentals while off line.
Note that the goal of the book is not to teach you Scheme/Lisp per se nor functional programming as dogma: its goal is to teach you how to think about programming, how to effectively comminicate ideas via programs, and how to think like a professional programmer without letting baroque language details or pragmatic implementation constraints distract from the core ideas. It happens to use Scheme to accomplish that because Scheme is a minimal, simple yet powerful language in which to bootstrap, prototype and explore a broad space of ideas (including non-functional / stateful / OOPS programming, static -vs- dynamic typing, interpreters -vs- compilers, syntax extensions, and so on) without letting the trees obscure your vision of the forest.
Once you've grasped the material in the book, picking up some other more-industrial languages and development environments afterward should be relatively painless, since you'll be well equipped to read between the lines about implicit assumptions they may embody about various trade offs that might otherwise seem arbitrary or capricious or opaque. That's the intent of the S&ICP approach, anyway. Read the excellent forward and introduction closely, for example. They explicitly say as much, and more plainly and clearly than I could in this short(ish) missive.
Slashdot Mirror
Somebody sent to me an on-line order confirmation including your name, e-mail address, billing address, date of birth, social security number and credit card number with 3-digit security code.
I forwarded it to Slashdot.org, a public forum.
I cannot be indicted for conspiracy to commit identity theft because It was not ``marked as private information at the time'' and there is no direct evidence that anyone has used it for any unauthorized purchases.
Yeah, right.
Capisci?
Yes, thanks: it was a failed attempt at satire of the general prevalence of scientific illiteracy that still permeates planet Earth, with no specific target or group of targets in mind. The fact that the modbots marked it as ``offtopic'' teaches me not to waste bandwidth this way in future. Live and learn. Peace.
At only 3.8 billion miles away, that will hit us in about 5 years, given the speed of light. It looks like the Mayans were right afterall in their prediction of the End of the World. They were just off by five years or so because they had not foreseen the change from the Praetorian calendar to the Julienne calendar in 1066 and they had not accurately computed the speed of light using their Stonehedge calculators.
It's clearly time to sell all our stocks and buy gold to move into a fallout shelter and former nuclear missile silo deep in the Mountains of Iowa!
Finally, this just irrefutably proves the devastating impact of Global Warming once and for all. I blame El Nino, fracking and President Bush, The Lesser. And I wouldn't be surprised if Commander Taco also had a hand in it. And maybe Julian ``Chelsea'' Snowden as well. Oh, and the Gnomes of Munich.
Why isn't the mainstream media reporting on this!!!
Encryption is an inherently criminal activity: the only people who would ever think to engage in it are obviously nefarious cretins w/ something to hide.
Therefore, anyone who refuses to immediately give up their password/passphrase to Deputy Fife or Mall Cop Paul should automatically be sentenced to 20 years minimal time at hard labor.
Note that these evil terrorists also assert the following additional abominable outrages:
...among maybe a few others.
1. Right to exercise free religion, free speech, free press, free open assembly, and protests against government
2. Right to keep and bear arms and form militias
3. Right to reject occupying forces
It's high time we pass a bill to outlaw all these assaults on theology and geometry!
----
Right is right and left is wrong.
Ignatius J. Reilly
This calls for a meme!
A NASA panel yesterday announced [...] the upper end of model-based predictions [...].
I for one am sick and tired of these pesky NASA models dictating how we spend trillions of tax-payer dollars looking up at the sky staring at clouds and such. I lived near the NASA Ames research center in CA and, trust, me: those fat bloated NASA bastard scientists and filthy computer geeks are not a pretty sight, prancing about in their cheap wigs and stiletto heels! It's positively repulsive!!
I say we stop funding all this ridiculous scare mongering and put these climatologist asshats to work doing something useful for society, like digging a huge moat around the continental United States to thwart the onslaught of this mongrel sea level incursion on our sovereign borders. That would also solve the problem of the growing wave of illegal immigrants flooding our southern shores with rapists and drug smugglers. Two birds, one stone.
And another thing: we should all start boycotting America's Next Top Model. It's a public outrage against geometry and theology!
Now back to my video games.
--
No witness, no crime.
Ignatius J. Reilly
Greenland alone is adding 0.8mm / year
Clearly the United Nations needs to impose severe sanctions against Greenland for negligently discarding their ice shelves and endangering world peace and prosperity. Such arrogance!
And yet the ACA (``Obamacare'') requires by federal law that those who participate via healthcare.gov be exposed to these sorts of privacy liabilities. Ain't socialized healthcare great? *smirk*
Socialism: a collective political system designed by liars, implemented by fools, and enforced by thieves.
So if I see cops in an unlawful traffic maneuver— like rolling through a red light without their lights and/or sirens on— should I be able to pull them over?
It's called a ``citizen's arrest'' in most states in the U.S. and various other former British colonies (like the Republic of Ireland, the Kingdom of Scotland, et al. ;-).
Should there be some automated device or mechanism that forces their vehicle to comply with my demands? Turn about is fair play, after all: if I surrender my civil rights to them shouldn't they be required to surrender theirs to me in turn?
What if there's a high speed chase and I am a civilian crossing guard at a senior citizen home and I think the coppers are endangering my homies?
Just askin' (*wink*). (And, yes, this is intended to be a bit tongue in cheek.)
The big red button.
You mean like this?
There was nothing unlawful about that server.
I'm sorry, but no, that is incorrect. I chose the word ``unlawful'' carefully. Thank you for bringing up this nuance.
Specifically, what she did in setting up a privately owned & operated server outside of government control for conducting official State Department business was contrary to official government policy at the time, as stated by the U.S. district judge cited in the lead sentence of the article.
Therefore, although this was not contrary to law at the time, it was contrary to official policy. So, although it was not ``illegal'', it was ``unlawful''. To wit:
illegal — contrary to or forbidden by law, especially criminal law.
unlawful — not conforming to, permitted by, or recognized by law or rules.
What she did did not conform to the rules (i.e., official policy). I stand by my word choice: her personal server was an unlawful server, by definition.
In mathematics & computer science, we tend to more charitably call these ``open problems''.
For example, German mathematician David Hilbert made a quite inspiring list of 23 of them in 1900, many of which are now famously only partially resolved (e.g., Hilbert's 2nd is only partially resolved due to Gödel's second incompleteness theorem) while others have only recently been resolved to great fanfare (e.g., Hilbert's 10th involves Gödel's first incompleteness theorem and relates to Fermat's Last Theorem), and a few others stubbornly defy proof or disproof still to this day (e.g., The Riemann Hypothesis is Hilbert's 8th).
Beyond Hilbert, the open problem to determine whether P = NP still intrigues, inspires and stymies many computer scientists to this day.
But perhaps a more fitting term for the field of medicine, though, might be ``remaining mysteries in medicine'' or some such, since they may view unresolved questions in treatment, diagnosis, and underlying mechanisms more as mysteries than as problems per se?
2. Did she claim an income tax deduction for the cost of buying/installing/maintaining her secret e-mail server?
Tax payers want to know.
What the heck is ``SLS''? The first paragraph of the linked article helps to decrypt some of the unexpanded acronyms from this jargon-heavy newsworthy article:
NASA officials have admitted the interim Upper Stage for the Space Launch System [SLS] is at the top of their “worry list”, as the Agency’s key advisory group insists NASA should make a decision about bringing the more powerful Exploration Upper Stage (EUS) online sooner. The Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP) fears NASA is at risk of wasting $150m on an Upper Stage they intend to “toss away”.
By the way, NASA is the United States' National Aeronautics and Space Administration, not to be confused with the National Security Agency [NSA]. ;-/
I recall at the end of World War I (then called The Great War) that the great nations of the world agreed to eliminate all future wars by forming an international body to formally instill world peace. It was called the League of Nations. But then came the second war to end all ways (WWII) some 30 or so years later. So the present day United Nations was formed so the world wouldn't destroy itself and, while we're at it, so we could eliminate pestilence, famine and plague as well (along with war).
Yeah, right. I'll believe it when I see it. I suspect that the only way to ensure the elimination of all human use of fossil fuels is to eliminate all humans. Welcome to The Futurama!
--Bender
They're kind of a dull read. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs and some version of Scheme will be interesting, challenging, and informative.'
Knuth's multi-volume opus is a very low-level (assembly language) presentation of classic algorithms. Its scope is very narrowly focused but very deep w.r.t. nuts and bolts details. If exposure to core algorithms is your goal (along with more modern techniques of algorithm analysis & design, and a CD-ROM of sample code from the book to tinker with), you may be better served by a more high-level / modern approach like Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest and Klein's Introduction to Algorithms:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...
Abelson and Sussman's S&ICP, by contrast, is a broad immersion in fundamental core concepts in programming at large, including algorithms, software engineering paradigms, language design & implementation, and more, all with an emphasis on trade-offs and alternative styles of approaching programming tasks. Its focus is very broad but still concrete enough to be comprehensive. This textbook, along with sample code from the book, representative problem sets (classroom assignments), a teaching guide, errata, and a complete implementation of the version of the Scheme programming language used in the book, are all available for downloading free on line from the MIT Press:
http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/
This makes S&ICP an ideal fit for your goal of brushing up on programming fundamentals while off line.
Note that the goal of the book is not to teach you Scheme/Lisp per se nor functional programming as dogma: its goal is to teach you how to think about programming, how to effectively comminicate ideas via programs, and how to think like a professional programmer without letting baroque language details or pragmatic implementation constraints distract from the core ideas. It happens to use Scheme to accomplish that because Scheme is a minimal, simple yet powerful language in which to bootstrap, prototype and explore a broad space of ideas (including non-functional / stateful / OOPS programming, static -vs- dynamic typing, interpreters -vs- compilers, syntax extensions, and so on) without letting the trees obscure your vision of the forest.
Once you've grasped the material in the book, picking up some other more-industrial languages and development environments afterward should be relatively painless, since you'll be well equipped to read between the lines about implicit assumptions they may embody about various trade offs that might otherwise seem arbitrary or capricious or opaque. That's the intent of the S&ICP approach, anyway. Read the excellent forward and introduction closely, for example. They explicitly say as much, and more plainly and clearly than I could in this short(ish) missive.
-z
M-x hanoi
Or, for added drama:
M-8 M-x hanoi
Consider it a benchmark.