If it was smaller you could carry more than two across a crowded pub. But with pints, you can just buy for yourself and a sheila and let your mates buy their own.
It only requires one extra bit if they would just implement RFC 3514. In case anyone thinks it is obsolete, the IETF RFC 3514 Working Group (IETFRFC3514WG) should have it updated for IPv6 by 4/1/09.
It's javascript in firefox, so the malware writers could have made it platform-independent with a little bit more work. But did they? NO! Yet another example of ignoring the Linux platform.
Estimates of software reliability are 1 - 10 errors per 1000 code lines in production code. Hardware is many orders of magnitude more reliable, so spending any lines of code worrying about random hardware errors is a mistake - it introduces more errors than it will ever fix. The system reliability has to be based on other factors like redundancy, end-to-end parity/ECC, journalling, etc.
OK, perhaps I should have mentioned "in the context of avionics systems." A watchdog timer is a timer that resets a CPU system if a timeout is reached. It is a way of attempting to achieve reliability in the presence of less reliable hardware.
A watchdog timer is a timer that is periodically reset. If it times out the system does whatever it is designed to do in that case, which is not necessarily to reset the CPU. The use in high-availability systems is usually to transfer control to a standby when the primary system has failed.
Do you believe it doesn't? The atmosphere stops gamma rays from hitting your equipment. These gamma rays change the value of variables (as in, the gamma ray flips the DFF circuit to the opposite value in your CPU). That means you cannot rely on variables to make sure your loop exits. Therefor loops are bad.
Hogwash. If you can't depend on variables or CPU registers, then you can't depend on your if-statements branching to the correct location. Your example makes no sense.
I have a multimillion dollar budget that says I am not - how about you?
The CEO of AIG has a bigger budget than you, so is he even more correct?
Executive Orders are not law, and neither are "signing statements", no matter what GB thinks. The big difference with Watergate is that this was done to combat terrorism and not for politics. I think many people disagree with Bush's beliefs and methods who don't disagree with his motives.
Thank you for proving my point! The proper, best practices way to program a flight control system is a huge series of if statements. No loops are allowed, because the computer hardware has to be considered in the engineered design! If you put in loops, an infinite loop can occur - if you use a series of if statements, that is not possible.
That's absurd. If you don't understand how to prove a loop will exit then you should not be working on critical system software. I've seen vital logic designs (vital == human lives depend on correct operation) and there was no restriction on use of loops. There was an emphasis on proving correct operation.
Since ISPs pay for inter-ISP data and get intra-ISP data "free" you would think they would be willing to spend money on developing the tracker software. Downloads are a significant fraction of their traffic.
Storing energy. And apparently not a very efficient one.
But then again, the first internal combustion engines weren't very efficient either and look where we are now.
Ha ha ha... Wait...
I assume that was a joke? Because ICEs are one of the most inefficient sources of energy in the world, they waste about %80 of their energy.
Any car energy source is inefficient. If you drive 100 miles and then drive back you have done no net work, so any energy you used is "wasted". I don't think that any car can live up to your standards.
Unfortunately, the comment is wrong. The Kaminsky bug is not cache poisoning by fraudulent UDP packets (which is a concern), it is using glue records to provide false NS address. Example:
You visit a website which pulls an image from subdomain.malicious.example.com. To get that, you need to know its nameserver. So you ask malicious.example.com who tells you that the nameserver is ns.citibank.com and oh, BTW that address is 666.666.666 (glue record). Now your cache has a phony address for ns.citibank.com. This would be the same whether you were using TCP, UDP or carrier pigeon. Glue records are part of the DNS protocol.
The way to fix the Kaminsky bug is not to switch to TCP or DNSSEC, it is to not cache glue records.
I am a large convicted monopolist software producer. Over time I have seen the price of my product driven downwards by free competition. Fortunately, I have been able to maintain some price level by using secret APIs to link my OS with proprietary application software and by illegal deals with hardware manufacturers. But over the long run I can see some problems with this business model. Can you help me?
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What is the normal amount of solar particles when facing away from the sun? I'm thinking not very high.
If it was smaller you could carry more than two across a crowded pub. But with pints, you can just buy for yourself and a sheila and let your mates buy their own.
"Where'd all these girls come from lately, anyway?"
Just because someone doesn't advertise their gender, why would you assume they are male? Do you believe that you can tell from their comments?
You can have secure long distance tubes using IPSEC - Internet Pneumatics with Steel Enforced Cases.
What I want to know is what about Net Neutrality? Do I have to use their expensive pneumatic cylinders or can I buy my own?
It only requires one extra bit if they would just implement RFC 3514. In case anyone thinks it is obsolete, the IETF RFC 3514 Working Group (IETFRFC3514WG) should have it updated for IPv6 by 4/1/09.
That's true. 99% of the lawyers make the other 1% look bad.
But you do need an expert witness to dispute the testimony of a credentialed engineer.
It's javascript in firefox, so the malware writers could have made it platform-independent with a little bit more work. But did they? NO! Yet another example of ignoring the Linux platform.
Did you know bad/cheap memory can cause memory leaks? {citation needed}
Estimates of software reliability are 1 - 10 errors per 1000 code lines in production code. Hardware is many orders of magnitude more reliable, so spending any lines of code worrying about random hardware errors is a mistake - it introduces more errors than it will ever fix. The system reliability has to be based on other factors like redundancy, end-to-end parity/ECC, journalling, etc.
OK, perhaps I should have mentioned "in the context of avionics systems." A watchdog timer is a timer that resets a CPU system if a timeout is reached. It is a way of attempting to achieve reliability in the presence of less reliable hardware.
A watchdog timer is a timer that is periodically reset. If it times out the system does whatever it is designed to do in that case, which is not necessarily to reset the CPU. The use in high-availability systems is usually to transfer control to a standby when the primary system has failed.
Do you believe it doesn't? The atmosphere stops gamma rays from hitting your equipment. These gamma rays change the value of variables (as in, the gamma ray flips the DFF circuit to the opposite value in your CPU). That means you cannot rely on variables to make sure your loop exits. Therefor loops are bad.
Hogwash. If you can't depend on variables or CPU registers, then you can't depend on your if-statements branching to the correct location. Your example makes no sense.
I have a multimillion dollar budget that says I am not - how about you?
The CEO of AIG has a bigger budget than you, so is he even more correct?
> OK, and I don't want you working on avionics, thanks!
>
> There are several ways to deal with the problems presented
what problems are you talking about?
> - apparently you are not intelligent enough to judge that the industry-wide best
> practices for avionics software engineering are good.
ad hominem attack
> Learn what a watchdog timer is,
I have
> and why it is a bad idea for avionics,
No clue - It's used in vital logic for failover between redundant controllers.
I bet it is used in avionics systems for the same purpose.
> and why loops in avionics controls are bad
No clue
> before telling me that I "don't understand how to prove a loop will exit."
Saying that one type of control statement is good and another one is bad
is absurd: if and loop are both just conditional branch statements.
> (Hint: Avionics often flies above the atmosphere - variables do not necessarily
> keep the values you given them)
What does the one have to do with the other?
Do you believe that flying above the atmosphere changes your variables?
I think you are just spouting random gibberish.
Executive Orders are not law, and neither are "signing statements", no matter what GB thinks. The big difference with Watergate is that this was done to combat terrorism and not for politics. I think many people disagree with Bush's beliefs and methods who don't disagree with his motives.
Thank you for proving my point! The proper, best practices way to program a flight control system is a huge series of if statements. No loops are allowed, because the computer hardware has to be considered in the engineered design! If you put in loops, an infinite loop can occur - if you use a series of if statements, that is not possible.
That's absurd. If you don't understand how to prove a loop will exit then you should not be working on critical system software. I've seen vital logic designs (vital == human lives depend on correct operation) and there was no restriction on use of loops. There was an emphasis on proving correct operation.
Since ISPs pay for inter-ISP data and get intra-ISP data "free" you would think they would be willing to spend money on developing the tracker software. Downloads are a significant fraction of their traffic.
google much? Average sentences imposed on Federal offenders sentenced in U.S. District Courts Oct 1, 2000 to Sep 30, 2001.
Violent_Felonies 90.7_months
Drug_Felonies 73.9_months
http://anthonyf.wordpress.com/2006/07/07/solving-the-knights-tour
I think even if you didn't know any lisp you would find this solution to be pretty readable.
Some top charities in 2007:
Salvation Army. Highest salary $187,482. Revenue that goes to charitable services 83%
Nature Conservancy. Highest salary $406,933. Revenue that goes to charitable services 78%
Some top charities in 2008:
Citigroup. Highest salary $14.4M. Revenue that goes to charitable services 0%.
AIG. Highest salary $7.66M. Revenue that goes to charitable services 0%.
Any car energy source is inefficient. If you drive 100 miles and then drive back you have done no net work, so any energy you used is "wasted". I don't think that any car can live up to your standards.
Unfortunately, the comment is wrong. The Kaminsky bug is not cache poisoning by fraudulent UDP packets (which is a concern), it is using glue records to provide false NS address. Example:
You visit a website which pulls an image from subdomain.malicious.example.com. To get that, you need to know its nameserver. So you ask malicious.example.com who tells you that the nameserver is ns.citibank.com and oh, BTW that address is 666.666.666 (glue record). Now your cache has a phony address for ns.citibank.com. This would be the same whether you were using TCP, UDP or carrier pigeon. Glue records are part of the DNS protocol.
The way to fix the Kaminsky bug is not to switch to TCP or DNSSEC, it is to not cache glue records.
USA has the highest incarceration rate in the world; mostly due to stupid, zero-tolerance drug laws.
Not the worst accident that's happened due to a dropped tool.
"I don't get why are cellphones themselves a problem, and why the solution is jamming them."
http://mediaresearchhub.ssrc.org/grants/funded-projects/prison-phone-service-provider-contracts-kickbacks-and-fiscal-impact-on-prisoners2019-families
The state makes a fortune off prison telephones. All of the talk about "planning crimes" or "drug deals" is total BS.
For those ones you need a screwdriver.
I am a large convicted monopolist software producer. Over time I have seen the price of my product driven downwards by free competition. Fortunately, I have been able to maintain some price level by using secret APIs to link my OS with proprietary application software and by illegal deals with hardware manufacturers. But over the long run I can see some problems with this business model. Can you help me?