I agree. Versioning whenever the editor gets around to it is much more scalable than putting holds on updates until an editor has time to look at them. To me the question is that of user interface. Personaly I would default to the un-moderated version, then have a button to rollback to the last editor approved version.
(Didn't bother to RTFA but..) Why not just get K random sequences and XOR them together to get a 1 time pad. Then encrypt the data and store it in public view. You will need ALL the pads to unlock it.
I can't wait for a district attorney to go after one of the state senators who voted for this bill by nailing them the next time they go online to buy tickets to vegas.
How is online poker different than playing the options market on eTrade?? Yes, stock options make the market more efficent but some could argue poker does too. If you are good then you take money away from those who are not so good at poker:)
The real question is how many crooks are going to get off the hook because of this? Obtaining phone records without a warrant and then passing them to the FBI is going to get more than a few convictions vacated.
Why not just split adwords into daily/weekly/monthly ad campaigns and for each have "auctions" or where each company says I want to put X dollars on word Y. Then their ad would be displayed X/(total amount placed on Y) of the time. This model is impervious to click fraud, yet both Google and the business still get fair market pricing.
Google could help push the price up buy releasing the total amount in each pot and still report the number of clicks (although due to fraud this number is less and less important).
To re-imburse websites that host adwords they would have to come up with a new ranking system based on sales of companies who get hits off their sight. Google would have to give each company hosting an adword their own "click quality ranking system" where each company could divy out as many karma points as they paid for each adword.
The thing that bothers me the is the dismal minority/female enrollment. I have seen intro CS lectures with 100+ students but only 5 women, 1 african-american, and two hispanic americans. If we want to plug gaps in the IT workforce this would be the best target for untapped talent.
I agree. Start by standardizing the look/feel of the website with CSS. Just doing this step is all that is required if what you need is a "facelift" and not an actual "content" update.
As part of the previous step eleminate duplicated stuff and put it in a single location.
Now that you have a clean looking version of the old site that is easier to maintain figure out step by step what needs to be added. For each task give a list of options to management along with a timeline as to how long each solution will take. If management sees constant improvement, and is informed on the time it takes to complete each task they should be pacified.
The thing that sucks about being in IT is that many times you have to be our own management, seperating concerns into small tasks. Good luck.
I have a friend who owns an H&R block franchise, and they have been screwing them. Instead of giving the employees a browser based tax app, they instist on installing local copys of their crappy software each year. It is buggy as hell, and the user interface blows (IMHO).
Also, they are now insisting that they set up theese dinky Wal-Mart kiosks. Yes, they might get extra revenues, but franchise holders who already are running at full capacity are forced to take on more than they can handle.
H&R block needs to get its act together and:
(1) Create a browser based application that has been thouroughly tested by user interface professionals, not just their tax lawyers and software engineers. This would save franchise holders thousands in IT costs and most of the headache. The only downside I can see is that the IRS will scratch its head and wonder, "Why don't we make a user friendly web based tax form?", and H&R block would have to lobby like hell to keep the IRS from introducing "Socialized government competition into the billion dollar tax preparation market". (cough... bu||sh*t cough...)
(2)Properly compensate francises for their new Walmart ventures. Right now many have the choice of hiring compenent and very expensive temp management help which really cuts into profits, or go insane commuting between Walmart and the main office.
Those regulations seem to be departmental policy based on judical precident. I didn't see any laws cited that would prevent them from testifying if given a supena by congress.
Write your congressmen and ask them to drag these patent examiners in for questioning:
William G. Trost:
6,317,592 and 6,067,451 Electronic mail system with RF communications to mobile processors
Stephen Chin
6,272,190 System for wireless transmission and receiving of information and method of operation thereof
6,198,783 System for wireless serial transmission of encoded information
Poking around on the USPTO website this guy is a lawyer's goldmine. Here is a choice selection of his work: 7,000,184 Remote web site editing in a standard web browser without external software 6,996,775 Hypervideo: information retrieval using time-related multimedia 6,993,711 Style-sheet output apparatus and method, and style-sheet output system 6,990,629 Publishing system for intranet 6,988,242 Transforming a portion of a database into a custom spreadsheet
More can be found a uspto.gov by doing the advanced query for exp/(Sanjiv and Shah). direct link
IBM needs to release two SIMPLE tutorials if they want programmers to bother porting code specifically to the cell:
1. A cell program that solves linear equations Ax=b efficently using SPE's. This would help those with data intensive problems.
2. A cell program that speeds up depth first search (a la for SAT,GRAPH COLORING, MAX-CLIQUE) by using the SPE's. This would help those programming CPU intensive problems.
Mandatory licencing via a maximum 15% tariff on patented goods would solve the problem.
Right now the little guys get eaten alive having the burden of getting their goods to market without the propper resources to do so. With the 15% tariff all they need to do is patent their invention and the market will reap the profits for them.
Yes, big pharma might get lowballed for their R/D costs, but on the bright side they wouldn't have to spend billons on those drug ads that appear during prime time.
Also, software patents wouldn't be a problem because paying an extra 15 cents on your $1 software download isn't going to hurt much.
Rockwell collins designed a secure processor for the NSA that PROVABLY can run multiple threads where each thread can get no information about the others. That way they can run processes with different clearance levels on the same CPU.
Model checking can make you big bucks if you can find the customers to pay for it.
I don't think the result is all that suprising. Children infer a cultural context to what they are shown, while the chimps don't. There are a lot of things we do for cultural reasons, even though they are inefficent.
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I agree. Versioning whenever the editor gets around to it is much more scalable than putting holds on updates until an editor has time to look at them. To me the question is that of user interface. Personaly I would default to the un-moderated version, then have a button to rollback to the last editor approved version.
3) Calculate winning lotto numbers and donate the money to random charities
(Ben) Pak Ching Li is the guru if you are actually interested.
(link) to one of his papers.
(Didn't bother to RTFA but..)
Why not just get K random sequences and XOR them together to get a 1 time pad. Then encrypt the data and store it in public view. You will need ALL the pads to unlock it.
And in front of you is Bell South who wants to pick your pocket with monopolistic pleasure.
Haha. My bad. Spent way to much time reading CLRS. Don't post before the morning coffee.
So what is Rivest and Stein's piece of the pie?
I can't wait for a district attorney to go after one of the state senators who voted for this bill by nailing them the next time they go online to buy tickets to vegas.
How is online poker different than playing the options market on eTrade?? Yes, stock options make the market more efficent but some could argue poker does too. If you are good then you take money away from those who are not so good at poker :)
The real question is how many crooks are going to get off the hook because of this? Obtaining phone records without a warrant and then passing them to the FBI is going to get more than a few convictions vacated.
Why not just split adwords into daily/weekly/monthly ad campaigns and for each have "auctions" or where each company says I want to put X dollars on word Y. Then their ad would be displayed X/(total amount placed on Y) of the time. This model is impervious to click fraud, yet both Google and the business still get fair market pricing.
Google could help push the price up buy releasing the total amount in each pot and still report the number of clicks (although due to fraud this number is less and less important).
To re-imburse websites that host adwords they would have to come up with a new ranking system based on sales of companies who get hits off their sight. Google would have to give each company hosting an adword their own "click quality ranking system" where each company could divy out as many karma points as they paid for each adword.
The engineers eat CPU on it for computational fluid dynamics codes, so it's not all waste.
The thing that bothers me the is the dismal minority/female enrollment. I have seen intro CS lectures with 100+ students but only 5 women, 1 african-american, and two hispanic americans. If we want to plug gaps in the IT workforce this would be the best target for untapped talent.
I agree. Start by standardizing the look/feel of the website with CSS. Just doing this step is all that is required if what you need is a "facelift" and not an actual "content" update.
As part of the previous step eleminate duplicated stuff and put it in a single location.
Now that you have a clean looking version of the old site that is easier to maintain figure out step by step what needs to be added. For each task give a list of options to management along with a timeline as to how long each solution will take. If management sees constant improvement, and is informed on the time it takes to complete each task they should be pacified.
The thing that sucks about being in IT is that many times you have to be our own management, seperating concerns into small tasks. Good luck.
And I thought TPS reports were only from Office Space :)
I have a friend who owns an H&R block franchise, and they have been screwing them. Instead of giving the employees a browser based tax app, they instist on installing local copys of their crappy software each year. It is buggy as hell, and the user interface blows (IMHO).
Also, they are now insisting that they set up theese dinky Wal-Mart kiosks. Yes, they might get extra revenues, but franchise holders who already are running at full capacity are forced to take on more than they can handle.
H&R block needs to get its act together and:
(1) Create a browser based application that has been thouroughly tested by user interface professionals, not just their tax lawyers and software engineers. This would save franchise holders thousands in IT costs and most of the headache. The only downside I can see is that the IRS will scratch its head and wonder, "Why don't we make a user friendly web based tax form?", and H&R block would have to lobby like hell to keep the IRS from introducing "Socialized government competition into the billion dollar tax preparation market". (cough... bu||sh*t cough...)
(2)Properly compensate francises for their new Walmart ventures. Right now many have the choice of hiring compenent and very expensive temp management help which really cuts into profits, or go insane commuting between Walmart and the main office.
Wow. I started a flamewar :)
Those regulations seem to be departmental policy based on judical precident. I didn't see any laws cited that would prevent them from testifying if given a supena by congress.
Write your congressmen and ask them to drag these patent examiners in for questioning:
William G. Trost:
6,317,592 and 6,067,451 Electronic mail system with RF communications to mobile processors
Stephen Chin
6,272,190 System for wireless transmission and receiving of information and method of operation thereof
6,198,783 System for wireless serial transmission of encoded information
Looks like this isn't Sanjiv D. Shah's only blunder:
5 6255
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/24/0
Poking around on the USPTO website this guy is a lawyer's goldmine. Here is a choice selection of his work:
7,000,184 Remote web site editing in a standard web browser without external software
6,996,775 Hypervideo: information retrieval using time-related multimedia
6,993,711 Style-sheet output apparatus and method, and style-sheet output system
6,990,629 Publishing system for intranet
6,988,242 Transforming a portion of a database into a custom spreadsheet
More can be found a uspto.gov by doing the advanced query for exp/(Sanjiv and Shah).
direct link
Primary Examiner: Shah; Sanjiv
I am tempted to call/mail my congressmen and ask that this guy be given the boot.
I could not find in the patent where "rich media component" is defined. Am I blind?
IBM needs to release two SIMPLE tutorials if they want programmers to bother porting code specifically to the cell:
1. A cell program that solves linear equations Ax=b efficently using SPE's. This would help those with data intensive problems.
2. A cell program that speeds up depth first search (a la for SAT,GRAPH COLORING, MAX-CLIQUE) by using the SPE's. This would help those programming CPU intensive problems.
Mandatory licencing via a maximum 15% tariff on patented goods would solve the problem.
Right now the little guys get eaten alive having the burden of getting their goods to market without the propper resources to do so. With the 15% tariff all they need to do is patent their invention and the market will reap the profits for them.
Yes, big pharma might get lowballed for their R/D costs, but on the bright side they wouldn't have to spend billons on those drug ads that appear during prime time.
Also, software patents wouldn't be a problem because paying an extra 15 cents on your $1 software download isn't going to hurt much.
Easier actually.
http://www.rockwellcollins.com/news/page6237.html
Rockwell collins designed a secure processor for the NSA that PROVABLY can run multiple threads where each thread can get no information about the others. That way they can run processes with different clearance levels on the same CPU.
Model checking can make you big bucks if you can find the customers to pay for it.
I used to play club soccer with B.J. back in high school. He wasn't Pele, but he wasn't pudgy by any means.
I laughed my head off when I found he was on Undressed, and couldn't belive he got the part for Superman.
Hopefully this encourages more high school students to get involved in theater and paticipate in community plays. Glad the hard work paid off for him.
I don't think the result is all that suprising. Children infer a cultural context to what they are shown, while the chimps don't. There are a lot of things we do for cultural reasons, even though they are inefficent.