Doesn't Dell sell some computers with DrDOS? You might try harrasing Dell's lawyers about it. You would probably get a much quicker response. I don't think Dell will be happy knowing that one of their vendors is giving them "pirated" software to install.
Why not keep New Orleans flooded for a while and dredge silt out of the rest of the Missippi delta to put on top of New Orleans? Even a modest raise of a couple of feet would be a big improvement.
Otherwise, New Orleans isn't worth being rebuilt unless they:
(1) Rebuild residental properties inland and provide great public transportation to the coast for industry.
(2) Put a city ordinance in place that no part of a building under sea level can be used as a residental dwelling. FEMA/HUD would probably have to pick up the tab for building theese flood proof appartments, but they would probably save a lot of tax dollars in the long run. Whith housing prices the way they are now the government might even come out ahead if it sells portions of the top floors as nice condos. Also, I'd build three grades of appartment and try to evenly space them throughout each building so it doesn't turn into one of the "projects". Who wouldn't want to live in a building with a grocery store on the first level?
Use block scheduling for small high schools. Instead of having 8 class periods every day have 4 one day and 4 the next. This allows pricey math and science teachers to commute between small high schools.
For a while Iowa has been in a consolidation bid. This saved money in the short term, but it is coming back to bite them with higher bussing costs. If they would have done block scheduling/teacher commuting they could have saved more money.
I agree. Lawmakers can't impose laws after the fact, even if they were negligent in not passing them earlier. Florida should have been on the ball in the mid 90s when GPS became mainstream.
Article 1,Clause 3 of the US constitution: No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.
If you look that the first few passages of Genesis, the whole story is about evolution.
In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, 2the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters.
Hmm. Sounds like our universe before the big bang.
Then God said, 'Let there be light'; and there was light. And God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.
Cool. Big bang and the formation of solar systems.
And God said, 'Let there be a dome in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.' So God made the dome and separated the waters that were under the dome from the waters that were above the dome. And it was so. God called the dome Sky. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.
Awesome, the formation of a atmosphere suitable for life.
And God said, 'Let the waters under the sky be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear.' And it was so. God called the dry land Earth, and the waters that were gathered together he called Seas.
Great, we developed oceans.
And God saw that it was good. Then God said, 'Let the earth put forth vegetation: plants yielding seed, and fruit trees of every kind on earth that bear fruit with the seed in it.' And it was so. The earth brought forth vegetation: plants yielding seed of every kind, and trees of every kind bearing fruit with the seed in it. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.
Photosynthetic bacteria, alge, and plants.
And God said, 'Let there be lights in the dome of the sky to separate the day from the night; and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years, and let them be lights in the dome of the sky to give light upon the earth.' And it was so. God made the two great lights--the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night--and the stars. God set them in the dome of the sky to give light upon the earth, to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day.
Ok, I have to admit this passage doesn't fit to well. We have to remember that the story of Genesis was an oral history for thousands of years. This passage could be chalked up to editorial flurish, or maybe a scribe got his notes mixed up.
And God said, 'Let the waters bring forth swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the dome of the sky.' So God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, of every kind, with which the waters swarm, and every winged bird of every kind. And God saw that it was good. God blessed them, saying, 'Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.' And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.
Plants evolved into critters and birds. Modern paleontologists have found a close link between birds and dinosaurs, so this passage is acurate.
And God said, 'Let the earth bring forth living creatures of every kind: cattle and creeping things and wild animals of the earth of every kind.' And it was so. God made the wild animals of the earth of every kind, and the cattle of every kind, and everything that creeps upon the ground of every kind. And God saw that it was good.
Evolution of mammals, not to shabby.
Then God said, 'Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the
This is a big problem in all of Computer Science. Journals and conferences should get a backbone and refuse to publish experimental results without source code. There is simply no excuse. The ability to re-produce results is vital. Especialy in fields like AI.... That's why I try to stick to theory;)
The thing that sets google apart is its "Did you mean...?" feature. MS Search is years behind. For example type in:
"f*ck m*cr*s*f"
Remember to insert your favorite vowels, but also leave of that 't'. Microsoft search gives no "Did you mean...?" Google however gives a correct spelling.
I object! What about small/medium size businesses that have little legacy development? Open source has a few things going for it.
-Open Standards: Open source many times means open standards for file formats and API's. When you leave the company they can cut and paste in a worker that is trained on the proprietary version with little hastle.
-Productivity: Ruby/MySQL/apache or C#/oracle/Windows Server?
-Portability: Mac, Windows, linux, Solaris... no OS lockin.
-Outsourcing: Say you have a shop in China. Why mess with procucts that have little internationalization. Open source apps are used around the world so many have been ported to a wide range of languages. Also, if VIA comes out with a new cut-rate chip that they are only selling to the asian market you don't have to pay the vender $100,000 to port the application.
Wait a second... the FBI violates copyright laws by downloading $250,000 worth of material and this guy is blamed for it? Serving it up is shady, but the act of copying it off the server when you do not own the material is illegal. This kind of sounds like entrapment to me.
The problem I have when I play Civ3 to much is I have a hard time getting propper sleep. After three hours of gaming I can't get the map out of my head, which takes me for ever to get to sleep. When I do get to sleep I have fuzzy dreams about playing Civ3, and when I wake up I donot feel very rested.
And yes... after played GTA3 for the first time I thought about obtaining the FBI car while driving. This was a one time thing and after another play session I was desesitized. Maybe the problem with some people is that they didn't play long enough;)
How about your university? Back in the day the IT for our computer science department was totaly student run. Drake University probably still has one of the best Linux labs/ beowulf clusters for students at a small liberal arts institution. Check with the guys in your campus IT department and see if they want a free security intern.
Just make sure you stick to security and don't try to automate their jobs away. From my expirence most professional univerity IT departments go out of their way to "create" jobs.
If they did release a warez version for free with no restrictions it would be public domain. Those sharing and copying the halflife2 warez could not be sued/prosictued. I want a copy!
Why restirct your data to only two locations? Assume you want to spread your data across k locations.
Let F be the file we want to encrypt, and spread over k juristictions, so that all k encrypted files are needed to decrypt F.
1. Create k-1 random files the same size as F, and call them X1,X2,...,Xk-1.
2. Create another file Xk by assigning the nth bit of Xn to 1 if an odd number of ones existed in the nth bit over all the files, and put a zero otherwise.
3. For every bit of Xk, if it differs from the nth bit of F, then set the bit to 1. Else, set the bit to zero.
We now have k random files that together encode our original file F. To get it back count the number of 1's for each bit, and put a 0 for even and a 1 for odd.
As long as one of your locations is secure the attacker has nothing but a collection of random files.
Let A be your data to encrypt, and B be a file of random bits that is the same size as A. Compute A xor B =C. Now store B in one juristiction, and C in the other. If someone comes accross your data in eiter juristiction they will have nothing but random bits. However, you can recompute A by doing C xor B =A.
If you want to store A localy you can use a ramdisk, which will disapate as soon as your computer is shut down.
I hate automated systems like this. When I am looking for a book on a certain subject I like to browse through all the adjacent books to see what I may be missing.
Arxiv documents are encouraged to be modified. Reviews would go along with the version number, and hopefully authors would make corrections and improvements based on moderator feedback.
Of course some sort of new WYSIWYG PDF/PS editing software that allowed reviewers to put notes on top of a document in a different color would be great along with a raw moderation score.
Nominate reviewers in the scientific community. Rate articles, and if they get a high enough score they are posted to the main page. The few with the highest scores each month are "Published" in a special monthly addition.
Motivation is the gain for scientific knowledge. Reviews will be better because 50 eyes are better than 3. Funding for the server shouldn't be to hard.
arxiv.org is already a good place for many scientists to publish their work. All that is needed is moderation.
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They have a Dell logo on their customer page so they must sell them something: http://www.drdos.com/customers/index.htm
Yeah, I just looked and couldn't find any DrDos PCs in Dell's online catalog either. Who knows. Maybe they just do consulting for Dell.
Doesn't Dell sell some computers with DrDOS? You might try harrasing Dell's lawyers about it. You would probably get a much quicker response. I don't think Dell will be happy knowing that one of their vendors is giving them "pirated" software to install.
Why not keep New Orleans flooded for a while and dredge silt out of the rest of the Missippi delta to put on top of New Orleans? Even a modest raise of a couple of feet would be a big improvement.
Otherwise, New Orleans isn't worth being rebuilt unless they:
(1) Rebuild residental properties inland and provide great public transportation to the coast for industry.
(2) Put a city ordinance in place that no part of a building under sea level can be used as a residental dwelling. FEMA/HUD would probably have to pick up the tab for building theese flood proof appartments, but they would probably save a lot of tax dollars in the long run. Whith housing prices the way they are now the government might even come out ahead if it sells portions of the top floors as nice condos. Also, I'd build three grades of appartment and try to evenly space them throughout each building so it doesn't turn into one of the "projects". Who wouldn't want to live in a building with a grocery store on the first level?
Use block scheduling for small high schools. Instead of having 8 class periods every day have 4 one day and 4 the next. This allows pricey math and science teachers to commute between small high schools.
For a while Iowa has been in a consolidation bid. This saved money in the short term, but it is coming back to bite them with higher bussing costs. If they would have done block scheduling/teacher commuting they could have saved more money.
Why DVORAK? If you are going to switch, why not evolve your own tailored for your typing needs?
p df
Find a large body of text similar to what you type, come up with your own 2D keyboard mapping, and through it through a genetic algorithm.
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~crb002/ie574final.
Source is available at:
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~crb002/ie574/code/
If anybody thinks this is usefull I can put a better user interface on it.
How about GNU octave? Mathworks hosed our university site licence. I switched to octave and haven't had a problem runing any of my Matlab code.
I agree. Lawmakers can't impose laws after the fact, even if they were negligent in not passing them earlier. Florida should have been on the ball in the mid 90s when GPS became mainstream.
Article 1,Clause 3 of the US constitution: No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.
If you look that the first few passages of Genesis, the whole story is about evolution.
In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, 2the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters.
Hmm. Sounds like our universe before the big bang.
Then God said, 'Let there be light'; and there was light. And God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.
Cool. Big bang and the formation of solar systems.
And God said, 'Let there be a dome in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.' So God made the dome and separated the waters that were under the dome from the waters that were above the dome. And it was so. God called the dome Sky. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.
Awesome, the formation of a atmosphere suitable for life.
And God said, 'Let the waters under the sky be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear.' And it was so. God called the dry land Earth, and the waters that were gathered together he called Seas.
Great, we developed oceans.
And God saw that it was good. Then God said, 'Let the earth put forth vegetation: plants yielding seed, and fruit trees of every kind on earth that bear fruit with the seed in it.' And it was so. The earth brought forth vegetation: plants yielding seed of every kind, and trees of every kind bearing fruit with the seed in it. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.
Photosynthetic bacteria, alge, and plants.
And God said, 'Let there be lights in the dome of the sky to separate the day from the night; and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years, and let them be lights in the dome of the sky to give light upon the earth.' And it was so. God made the two great lights--the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night--and the stars. God set them in the dome of the sky to give light upon the earth, to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day.
Ok, I have to admit this passage doesn't fit to well. We have to remember that the story of Genesis was an oral history for thousands of years. This passage could be chalked up to editorial flurish, or maybe a scribe got his notes mixed up.
And God said, 'Let the waters bring forth swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the dome of the sky.' So God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, of every kind, with which the waters swarm, and every winged bird of every kind. And God saw that it was good. God blessed them, saying, 'Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.' And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.
Plants evolved into critters and birds. Modern paleontologists have found a close link between birds and dinosaurs, so this passage is acurate.
And God said, 'Let the earth bring forth living creatures of every kind: cattle and creeping things and wild animals of the earth of every kind.' And it was so. God made the wild animals of the earth of every kind, and the cattle of every kind, and everything that creeps upon the ground of every kind. And God saw that it was good.
Evolution of mammals, not to shabby.
Then God said, 'Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the
Since software under the GPL has not yet been released comercially, is sharing it illegal under this act?
Add more hashes... i.e. how many bits gzip will compress the file to, what is the hash of the file XORED with the digis of pi,...
Oh, and the most important. Does the file play corectly and not produce "random" sound and noise?
This is a big problem in all of Computer Science. Journals and conferences should get a backbone and refuse to publish experimental results without source code. There is simply no excuse. The ability to re-produce results is vital. Especialy in fields like AI.... That's why I try to stick to theory ;)
The thing that sets google apart is its "Did you mean...?" feature. MS Search is years behind. For example type in:
"f*ck m*cr*s*f"
Remember to insert your favorite vowels, but also leave of that 't'. Microsoft search gives no "Did you mean...?" Google however gives a correct spelling.
I object! What about small/medium size businesses that have little legacy development? Open source has a few things going for it.
-Open Standards: Open source many times means open standards for file formats and API's. When you leave the company they can cut and paste in a worker that is trained on the proprietary version with little hastle.
-Productivity: Ruby/MySQL/apache or C#/oracle/Windows Server?
-Portability: Mac, Windows, linux, Solaris... no OS lockin.
-Outsourcing: Say you have a shop in China. Why mess with procucts that have little internationalization. Open source apps are used around the world so many have been ported to a wide range of languages. Also, if VIA comes out with a new cut-rate chip that they are only selling to the asian market you don't have to pay the vender $100,000 to port the application.
Wait a second... the FBI violates copyright laws by downloading $250,000 worth of material and this guy is blamed for it? Serving it up is shady, but the act of copying it off the server when you do not own the material is illegal. This kind of sounds like entrapment to me.
The problem I have when I play Civ3 to much is I have a hard time getting propper sleep. After three hours of gaming I can't get the map out of my head, which takes me for ever to get to sleep. When I do get to sleep I have fuzzy dreams about playing Civ3, and when I wake up I donot feel very rested.
;)
And yes... after played GTA3 for the first time I thought about obtaining the FBI car while driving. This was a one time thing and after another play session I was desesitized. Maybe the problem with some people is that they didn't play long enough
How about your university? Back in the day the IT for our computer science department was totaly student run. Drake University probably still has one of the best Linux labs/ beowulf clusters for students at a small liberal arts institution. Check with the guys in your campus IT department and see if they want a free security intern.
Just make sure you stick to security and don't try to automate their jobs away. From my expirence most professional univerity IT departments go out of their way to "create" jobs.
If they did release a warez version for free with no restrictions it would be public domain. Those sharing and copying the halflife2 warez could not be sued/prosictued. I want a copy!
Oops. That Xn in instruction 2 should read Xk. Don't post after midnight ;)
Why restirct your data to only two locations? Assume you want to spread your data across k locations.
Let F be the file we want to encrypt, and spread over k juristictions, so that all k encrypted files are needed to decrypt F.
1. Create k-1 random files the same size as F, and call them X1,X2,...,Xk-1.
2. Create another file Xk by assigning the nth bit of Xn to 1 if an odd number of ones existed in the nth bit over all the files, and put a zero otherwise.
3. For every bit of Xk, if it differs from the nth bit of F, then set the bit to 1. Else, set the bit to zero.
We now have k random files that together encode our original file F. To get it back count the number of 1's for each bit, and put a 0 for even and a 1 for odd.
As long as one of your locations is secure the attacker has nothing but a collection of random files.
The Method:
Let A be your data to encrypt, and B be a file of random bits that is the same size as A. Compute A xor B =C. Now store B in one juristiction, and C in the other. If someone comes accross your data in eiter juristiction they will have nothing but random bits. However, you can recompute A by doing C xor B =A.
If you want to store A localy you can use a ramdisk, which will disapate as soon as your computer is shut down.
I hate automated systems like this. When I am looking for a book on a certain subject I like to browse through all the adjacent books to see what I may be missing.
Arxiv documents are encouraged to be modified. Reviews would go along with the version number, and hopefully authors would make corrections and improvements based on moderator feedback.
Of course some sort of new WYSIWYG PDF/PS editing software that allowed reviewers to put notes on top of a document in a different color would be great along with a raw moderation score.
Nominate reviewers in the scientific community. Rate articles, and if they get a high enough score they are posted to the main page. The few with the highest scores each month are "Published" in a special monthly addition.
Motivation is the gain for scientific knowledge. Reviews will be better because 50 eyes are better than 3. Funding for the server shouldn't be to hard.
arxiv.org is already a good place for many scientists to publish their work. All that is needed is moderation.
$80000000/$100000=800. Hmm...
800 faculty years of almost anyone in the world, or one building. Good going UIUC.
Please direct all fan mail to the head of Palisade, Doug Jacobson. dougj@iastate.edu
Check out his senate testimony(Google Cache). This guy makes a living spooking the spooks.