You're a happy little corporate lick-spittle aren't you.
The issue is, and at least some companies appreciate this, is that people are primarily people and not employees. They have a need to communicate outside of the office for work and social reasons, and shouldn't be denied this right. Treating them as mindless labour with no other rights from 9-5 other than to work is bad for moral and productivity. Their are other solutions to IT security problems that don't involve throwing the baby out with the bath water. Less vulnerable applications and operating systems for one.
the point is, broken or not, I should not be running ssh AT ALL on the firewall, with access from outside.
But, since it was my home system, nothin really important got compromised. I think the dude just tried to set an account and use my relay to spam a bit. Damn me.
I think you are either making this up or are just simply wrong.
And why don't you just allow ssh to a few trusted machines anyway?
Bandwidth licensing annoys the crap out of me. Not only do us poor wireless schmoes have to use the resonent-frequency-of-water-molecule-so-no-bloody- corporations-actually-want it 2.4GHz band anyway now some irrelevent radio twats are complaining that the popular services that make what use they can out of it might interfere with a service they don't even provide yet. And apparantly the FCC will probably rule in their favour. Why don't they just be honest about it and give the vote to large corporations since the vast majority of legislation nowadays seems to be devoted to serving their interests anyway. </rant>
My ATI Radeon 8500 get better results than my brother's gf3 does on benchmarks and when playing tribes 2. I don't care that it was released a few months later.
And 3D API's don't provide functionality. 3D Card manufacturers do. D3D can invent any sort of wonderful function they like but if there aren't cards to support it then it is useless. AFAIK nvidia and other card manufacturers are still committed to providing opengl support. Go to nvidia.com and you can read The NVIDIA DetonatorTM XP Unified Driver Architecture (UDA) delivers new performance optimizations and features in both DirectX® and OpenGL®
For one thing, QCs do exist - in fact, they demonstrated Peter Shor's 1994 factoring algorithm on a recently built 7-qubit box, factoring 15 into 3 and 7.
I wouldn't get too exited about this. Shor's factoring algorithm is a probabilistic algorithm, and for a small number such as 15 you could replace the entire quantum part by rolling some dice and still manage to find factors. So it's possible that the demonstration you refer to messed up somewhere but still managed to factor 15.
Also, NMR quantum computing (which was used for that demonstration) is fundamentally limited to a maximum of around 12 qubits, and I seriously doubt the NSA has got anywhere near 10.
Secondly, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle only states that you can't predict with 100% accuracy which eigenstate a qubit will collapse into upon measurement
This is not the Uncertainty principle. This is the measurement postulate.
The Heisenberg uncertaintly principle says things like " if you know the position of a particle precisely then you can't know anything about it's momentum" etc. Or, to wax technical, the products of the "errors" for position and momentum being greater than half the expectation value of the commutator of the operators represneting position and momentum.
Australian immigration minister Phillip Ruddock is reported to have asked scientists to submit a viability report on sending asylum seekers to these planets.
Alston and company are incompetent twits. They are atypical of an endangered species of Australian politician and/or upper corporate manager - overweight, not too bright and utterly ineffectual.
Let them strut around Canberra spouting drivel about anti-censorship views suggesting the holder is in league with "drug pushers and paedophiles." I have not noticed a single difference to my internet access in the 2.5 odd years that Alston has been around.
So I might be apathic, but I also have faith that dinosaurs like this are on the way out.
Actually one of the flaws in NMR quantum computation is that the signal strength used for measurement decreases exponetially with the addition of more qubits. That's pretty fundamental.
IANAFL but in Australia, at least, the consumer has a right to reasonable guarantees irrespective of any "no warranty" claims on the product. Whether this is covered is a question for someone else.
I consider myself an above average linux user, I can compile kernels, compile and use modules not in the standard source tree. I set up my own firewall/gateway for a home lan. I can get awesome framerates out of my gf2 playing quake.
Thawte is a south african company. Mark is thus a representative of the continent of Africa, and probably the first person from said continent to go into space.
which is being distributed in some amounts to the otherwise dirt-poor peasants (making them slightly less than dirt-poor).
In the UAE large amounts of this money go to building roads, hospitals, housing, schools, desalination plants etc. Sure the Sheiks live in "next 3 exits" palaces and drive mercedes but your comment is a pretty rank generalisation.
I lived in the United Arab Emirates from age 8 through to 15 and had a similar experience with the Arabs there. The biggest complaints I ever heard from westerners there was that they weren't allowed to drink alcohol in public. I'll let you spot the uncivilised side of that argument.
In that case I suggest you stick to reading PC Weekly or an equivalent. They have pages and pages about new products being shipped by companies and where you can buy them from.
The funny thing is that these guys [sandia.gov] are on the verge of making this technology a reality
I suppose that depends on what you mean by "verge". But now that they have Charlton Heston narrating a promotional video I suppose anything is possible.
And if you'll excuse the pun, there is a big difference between microtechnology and nanotechnology. The idea of nano-scale mechanical robots with gears and motors is impractical. Imagine normal robots trying to work whilst having bowling balls slammed into them from all sides and you have a pretty good reason why.
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It's not a mirror, it's not a different interview. It is quite funny, however.
You're a happy little corporate lick-spittle aren't you.
The issue is, and at least some companies appreciate this, is that people are primarily people and not employees. They have a need to communicate outside of the office for work and social reasons, and shouldn't be denied this right. Treating them as mindless labour with no other rights from 9-5 other than to work is bad for moral and productivity. Their are other solutions to IT security problems that don't involve throwing the baby out with the bath water. Less vulnerable applications and operating systems for one.
Anyway, I'd better get back to work.
of course I was ;-)
the point is, broken or not, I should not be running ssh AT ALL on the firewall, with access from outside.
But, since it was my home system, nothin really important got compromised. I think the dude just tried to set an account and use my relay to spam a bit. Damn me.
I think you are either making this up or are just simply wrong.
And why don't you just allow ssh to a few trusted machines anyway?
Bandwidth licensing annoys the crap out of me. Not only do us poor wireless schmoes have to use the resonent-frequency-of-water-molecule-so-no-bloody
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What pop up adds? I don't see any.
Counter-Strike?
:)
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and then they let ATI and Matrox catch up later
My ATI Radeon 8500 get better results than my brother's gf3 does on benchmarks and when playing tribes 2. I don't care that it was released a few months later.
And read this
And 3D API's don't provide functionality. 3D Card manufacturers do. D3D can invent any sort of wonderful function they like but if there aren't cards to support it then it is useless. AFAIK nvidia and other card manufacturers are still committed to providing opengl support. Go to nvidia.com and you can read The NVIDIA DetonatorTM XP Unified Driver Architecture (UDA) delivers new performance optimizations and features in both DirectX® and OpenGL®
For one thing, QCs do exist - in fact, they demonstrated Peter Shor's 1994 factoring algorithm on a recently built 7-qubit box, factoring 15 into 3 and 7.
I wouldn't get too exited about this. Shor's factoring algorithm is a probabilistic algorithm, and for a small number such as 15 you could replace the entire quantum part by rolling some dice and still manage to find factors. So it's possible that the demonstration you refer to messed up somewhere but still managed to factor 15.
Also, NMR quantum computing (which was used for that demonstration) is fundamentally limited to a maximum of around 12 qubits, and I seriously doubt the NSA has got anywhere near 10.
Secondly, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle only states that you can't predict with 100% accuracy which eigenstate a qubit will collapse into upon measurement
This is not the Uncertainty principle. This is the measurement postulate.
The Heisenberg uncertaintly principle says things like " if you know the position of a particle precisely then you can't know anything about it's momentum" etc. Or, to wax technical, the products of the "errors" for position and momentum being greater than half the expectation value of the commutator of the operators represneting position and momentum.
Australian immigration minister Phillip Ruddock is reported to have asked scientists to submit a viability report on sending asylum seekers to these planets.
Alston and company are incompetent twits. They are atypical of an endangered species of Australian politician and/or upper corporate manager - overweight, not too bright and utterly ineffectual.
Let them strut around Canberra spouting drivel about anti-censorship views suggesting the holder is in league with "drug pushers and paedophiles." I have not noticed a single difference to my internet access in the 2.5 odd years that Alston has been around.
So I might be apathic, but I also have faith that dinosaurs like this are on the way out.
Gosh, it looks like the Windows Media test ends on Jan 2, while the Ogg test continues until Jan 2002.
Yes, and while they have half a dozen PCs being using in the Ogg Vorbis trial there's only 6 being used in the Media player one.
Actually one of the flaws in NMR quantum computation is that the signal strength used for measurement decreases exponetially with the addition of more qubits. That's pretty fundamental.
IANAFL but in Australia, at least, the consumer has a right to reasonable guarantees irrespective of any "no warranty" claims on the product. Whether this is covered is a question for someone else.
I consider myself an above average linux user, I can compile kernels, compile and use modules not in the standard source tree. I set up my own firewall/gateway for a home lan. I can get awesome framerates out of my gf2 playing quake.
But I'm fucked if I can set the clock on my VCR,
Thawte is a south african company. Mark is thus a representative of the continent of Africa, and probably the first person from said continent to go into space.
Coincidently, IBM shares dropped.
which is being distributed in some amounts to the otherwise dirt-poor peasants (making them slightly less than dirt-poor).
In the UAE large amounts of this money go to building roads, hospitals, housing, schools, desalination plants etc. Sure the Sheiks live in "next 3 exits" palaces and drive mercedes but your comment is a pretty rank generalisation.
No, there has been plenty of "overnight change" in the Middle East, most of it for the worse.
That's exactly his point. There was overnight change in 1949 and a violent reaction which is still ongoing.
Hear hear.
I lived in the United Arab Emirates from age 8 through to 15 and had a similar experience with the Arabs there. The biggest complaints I ever heard from westerners there was that they weren't allowed to drink alcohol in public. I'll let you spot the uncivilised side of that argument.
In that case I suggest you stick to reading PC Weekly or an equivalent. They have pages and pages about new products being shipped by companies and where you can buy them from.
There was that story about grafting brain cells onto circuits or whatever it was. The first I ever heard of that was in William Gibson's Neuromancer.
Can anyone tell me what "phaser" actually stands for? Because "Phase Amplification By Stimulated Emmission of Radiation" doesn't make any sense.
The funny thing is that these guys [sandia.gov] are on the verge of making this technology a reality
I suppose that depends on what you mean by "verge". But now that they have Charlton Heston narrating a promotional video I suppose anything is possible.
And if you'll excuse the pun, there is a big difference between microtechnology and nanotechnology. The idea of nano-scale mechanical robots with gears and motors is impractical. Imagine normal robots trying to work whilst having bowling balls slammed into them from all sides and you have a pretty good reason why.
Doesn't make any sense to me with those assumptions. Are you a boot camp sergeant major?
And your links are broken.
Good stuff, definitely, especially if what you want is C++ and portability.
QT is excellent on both counts.