Having one software repository for Russia, allows a single point at which back doors can be inserted.
If everybody has to get their software from that one place. Most people are not in a position to check the source code, plus there may be "incentives" (backed by the KGB) not to tell others about any back doors you have found (similar to the USA and their SS^H^H Homeland Security agents).
It will become unpatriotic to use source code directly from outside Russia, apart from a few designated trusted individuals. You will find state organisations responsible for obtaining software and Russianizing it.
They will send back some patches, but it would pay to be very wary. Individual patches may be okay, but apparently unrelated patches may make it easier for the Russians to compromise non-Russian sites.
Actually I don't believe in Evolution, any more than I believe in Gravity.
Both Evolution and the notion of Gravity, derive from conclusions drawn for careful examination of the evidence. Neither, require belief.
Religions require belief, as the there is no competent evidence that even hints of the existence of a god, nor is there any valid argument for the existence of a god.
... to evaluate what threats there are to Amerca's infrastructure via the Internet, and what is involved to counteract that.
A lot of that may involve encouraging other parties to "pull finger", as some of the necessary policies and law changes would be outside his scope.
In World War II the RAF was responsible to defend Great Britain from German Bombers, but civilians had to play their part by complying with blackout regulations. Also many other facets of government had to be involved.
So to with Cyber Security, it is beyond the capability of the most funded and competent miltitary to carry the burden by themselves.
Disrupting America's electricity distribution grids would be easier, more cost effective, and quicker; than attempting to use conventional munitions, which would need to delivered by aircraft and/or rockets.
Early warning and accuarate estimates of any attack in progress, and the capacity to respond in a timely and appropriate manner would also be high in priority.
Unfortunately, it is probably politically impossible to ban the use of Microsoft systems being connected directly to the Internet. Even if that could be done, there is still the problem of infected memory sticks left in parking lots...
Have you tried using sage?
http://www.sagemath.org/
[...]
Sage is a free open-source mathematics software system licensed under the GPL. It combines the power of many existing open-source packages into a common Python-based interface.
[...]
You can write a bash script to automate command line actions, and remotely apply them to other Linux boxen. You can remotely use GUI's to do things on other Linux boxen, but only one at a time. With a script you can do the same thing to lots of boxen at the same time.
With a script, once you have got it working, you can invoke it several times reliably. However, with a GUI, you have to ensure that you follow the correct steps in the correct order, and there is much greater chance of getting the steps out of order, or not doing the right steps.
Also with a script you can document each step, so that someone else can understand it, and make modifications.
Plus it might take several minutes to work your way through several GUI screens, even if the there are no noticeable delays at any stage. Whereas, a script for the same thing could run in seconds or less. But consider something that might take 12 hours to run, don you want to sit there in front of the GUI making changes every hour or so, or just run a script and check it when it finishes? So in some case you could fire off the script go home, and come back to find the job done - with a GUI, someone would have to stay overnight to babysit the job!
XML is human readable yet can readily processed by programs using well developed libraries in a number of compter languages su ch as Java - so you can use any decent text editor to change it, though an IDE like eclipse can be ageat help. To be fair, being processed by software, was a more important goal than being suitable to write English essays - but it was never intened to be seen by end users.
XML files are esily compressed to be much smaller, so it verbosity is irrelevant.
If you look at te design goals of XML, you might be able to reailize that although XML is nor perfect, it does avery good job - so much so, it is widely used for many puposes.
XML is used extensively for configuration files for enterprise Java systems, and to control the maven build process. But there are many other areas of application.
XML is not designed to be used to dictate how the content should be disoplayed to the end user like HTML.
We have 4 limbs same as a horse, but in our case two are specialised legs and the other two can be used as legs or as specialized manipulation devices.
As has been said elsewhere, evolution of land mammals and reptiles occurred after 4 legs had become the maximum. For such complicated organisms, evolving six legs would have meant a prohibitive number of individuals in vastly uncompetitive configurations for lots of generations, so much so that the probability of winning your favourite lottery every year by chance for your life would be much more likely!
I agree that having 6 legs would be good, armoured cars have 6 wheels rather than just 4 for the same reason for improved redundancy (ege better able to operate with one or more wheels/legs out of commission). Also as you have said, it would make it easier to cope with rugged terrain.
I think that normally 8 would be overkill, also more legs are not necessarily be better as they would have to be lighter and more easily damaged by enemy activity. However, I think 4 legs is too few.
I have thought about this problem on and off since I was about 6, when I saw a picture of a six legged vehicle and wondered how it moved.
Actually 200 Celsius is not twice the temperature of boiling water, as zero Celsius is not absolute zero. The Kelvin scale is the measure of absolute temperature.
When you retire: the adults who will look after you, or at least provide the goods and services that you will purchase, are today's children.
To raise children properly, it requires both parents and other members of society to cooperate.
If you don't want to raise children yourself, at least support those that do, otherwise you will be sponging off the efforts of today's parents when you retire, if not before.
The quality of society when you retire will depend on how well today's children are raised and educated.
If you use 'nx' on both the server and client machines, you will find x applications running much faster.
The nx application intelligently caches x commands.
# yum info nx Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit [...] Installed Packages Name : nx Arch : x86_64 Version : 3.3.0 Release : 38.fc10 Size : 12 M Repo : installed From repo : updates Summary : Proxy system for X11 URL : http://www.nomachine.com/ License : GPLv2 and MIT Description: NX provides a proxy system for the X Window System.
http://www.sagemath.org/ [...] Sage is a free open-source mathematics software system licensed under the GPL. It combines the power of many existing open-source packages into a common Python-based interface.
Mission: Creating a viable free open source alternative to Magma, Maple, Mathematica and Matlab. [...]
Well Asimov had 4 laws of robotics!
(But he started of with only 3)
He added the Zeroth law that allowed a robot to harm one group of humans if it gave a greater benefit to a larger number.
The Zeroth law was required for robots that controlled things on a planet wide basis and law enforcement robots, otherwise such robots would be unable to act. Consider someone about to shoot down an aeroplane with hundreds of people on it - one life against many.
http://www.sagemath.org/ [...] Sage is a free open-source mathematics software system licensed under the GPL. It combines the power of many existing open-source packages into a common Python-based interface.
Mission: Creating a viable free open source alternative to Magma, Maple, Mathematica and Matlab. [...]
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Having one software repository for Russia, allows a single point at which back doors can be inserted.
If everybody has to get their software from that one place. Most people are not in a position to check the source code, plus there may be "incentives" (backed by the KGB) not to tell others about any back doors you have found (similar to the USA and their SS^H^H Homeland Security agents).
It will become unpatriotic to use source code directly from outside Russia, apart from a few designated trusted individuals. You will find state organisations responsible for obtaining software and Russianizing it.
They will send back some patches, but it would pay to be very wary. Individual patches may be okay, but apparently unrelated patches may make it easier for the Russians to compromise non-Russian sites.
Fair enough.
Just that talking about scientific things in terms belief, encourages some people to claim Science is a religion.
I have been told that there is no proof Darwin existed - as though the existence of Darwin was linked to the validity of Evolution!
Actually I don't believe in Evolution, any more than I believe in Gravity.
Both Evolution and the notion of Gravity, derive from conclusions drawn for careful examination of the evidence. Neither, require belief.
Religions require belief, as the there is no competent evidence that even hints of the existence of a god, nor is there any valid argument for the existence of a god.
Droidian ?
Dedroid ??
Dedroidian ???
... to evaluate what threats there are to Amerca's infrastructure via the Internet, and what is involved to counteract that.
A lot of that may involve encouraging other parties to "pull finger", as some of the necessary policies and law changes would be outside his scope.
In World War II the RAF was responsible to defend Great Britain from German Bombers, but civilians had to play their part by complying with blackout regulations. Also many other facets of government had to be involved.
So to with Cyber Security, it is beyond the capability of the most funded and competent miltitary to carry the burden by themselves.
Disrupting America's electricity distribution grids would be easier, more cost effective, and quicker; than attempting to use conventional munitions, which would need to delivered by aircraft and/or rockets.
Early warning and accuarate estimates of any attack in progress, and the capacity to respond in a timely and appropriate manner would also be high in priority.
Unfortunately, it is probably politically impossible to ban the use of Microsoft systems being connected directly to the Internet. Even if that could be done, there is still the problem of infected memory sticks left in parking lots...
Sage is free and rivals Matlab/Mathematica.
See http://www.sagemath.org/
Sage has very fast 3d plotting capabilities! http://www.sagemath.org/
Have you tried using sage? http://www.sagemath.org/ [...] Sage is a free open-source mathematics software system licensed under the GPL. It combines the power of many existing open-source packages into a common Python-based interface. [...]
You can write a bash script to automate command line actions, and remotely apply them to other Linux boxen. You can remotely use GUI's to do things on other Linux boxen, but only one at a time. With a script you can do the same thing to lots of boxen at the same time.
With a script, once you have got it working, you can invoke it several times reliably. However, with a GUI, you have to ensure that you follow the correct steps in the correct order, and there is much greater chance of getting the steps out of order, or not doing the right steps.
Also with a script you can document each step, so that someone else can understand it, and make modifications.
Plus it might take several minutes to work your way through several GUI screens, even if the there are no noticeable delays at any stage. Whereas, a script for the same thing could run in seconds or less. But consider something that might take 12 hours to run, don you want to sit there in front of the GUI making changes every hour or so, or just run a script and check it when it finishes? So in some case you could fire off the script go home, and come back to find the job done - with a GUI, someone would have to stay overnight to babysit the job!
Hmm...
XML is human readable yet can readily processed by programs using well developed libraries in a number of compter languages su ch as Java - so you can use any decent text editor to change it, though an IDE like eclipse can be ageat help. To be fair, being processed by software, was a more important goal than being suitable to write English essays - but it was never intened to be seen by end users.
XML files are esily compressed to be much smaller, so it verbosity is irrelevant.
If you look at te design goals of XML, you might be able to reailize that although XML is nor perfect, it does avery good job - so much so, it is widely used for many puposes.
XML is used extensively for configuration files for enterprise Java systems, and to control the maven build process. But there are many other areas of application.
XML is not designed to be used to dictate how the content should be disoplayed to the end user like HTML.
We have 4 limbs same as a horse, but in our case two are specialised legs and the other two can be used as legs or as specialized manipulation devices.
As has been said elsewhere, evolution of land mammals and reptiles occurred after 4 legs had become the maximum. For such complicated organisms, evolving six legs would have meant a prohibitive number of individuals in vastly uncompetitive configurations for lots of generations, so much so that the probability of winning your favourite lottery every year by chance for your life would be much more likely!
I agree that having 6 legs would be good, armoured cars have 6 wheels rather than just 4 for the same reason for improved redundancy (ege better able to operate with one or more wheels/legs out of commission). Also as you have said, it would make it easier to cope with rugged terrain.
I think that normally 8 would be overkill, also more legs are not necessarily be better as they would have to be lighter and more easily damaged by enemy activity. However, I think 4 legs is too few.
I have thought about this problem on and off since I was about 6, when I saw a picture of a six legged vehicle and wondered how it moved.
Actually 200 Celsius is not twice the temperature of boiling water, as zero Celsius is not absolute zero. The Kelvin scale is the measure of absolute temperature.
100 C = 372 Kelvin (approx)
200 C = 472 Kelvin (approx)
So 200 C is less than a third more than 100 C.
PostgreSQL is also far superior to Access, plus it is faster and easier to use than MySQL (I have a client with MySQL).
Hmm...
'starch', 'edible dyes', 'glucose', are all either chemicals or mixtures of chemicals.
Any substance comprising one or more chemical elements, is a chemical.
I don't like 'mushroom farmers' - people who prefer to keep people in the dark and feed them bullshit.
Hmm...
When you retire: the adults who will look after you, or at least provide the goods and services that you will purchase, are today's children.
To raise children properly, it requires both parents and other members of society to cooperate.
If you don't want to raise children yourself, at least support those that do, otherwise you will be sponging off the efforts of today's parents when you retire, if not before.
The quality of society when you retire will depend on how well today's children are raised and educated.
If you use 'nx' on both the server and client machines, you will find x applications running much faster.
The nx application intelligently caches x commands.
# yum info nx
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
[...]
Installed Packages
Name : nx
Arch : x86_64
Version : 3.3.0
Release : 38.fc10
Size : 12 M
Repo : installed
From repo : updates
Summary : Proxy system for X11
URL : http://www.nomachine.com/
License : GPLv2 and MIT
Description: NX provides a proxy system for the X Window System.
#
I fremember, as a child in England, deliberately going into a shoe shop to have a look at the bones in my feet.
It appeared that no-one suspected any possible health problems with these devices.
Have you had a look at
http://www.sagemath.org/
[...]
Sage is a free open-source mathematics software system licensed under the GPL. It combines the power of many existing open-source packages into a common Python-based interface.
Mission: Creating a viable free open source alternative to Magma, Maple, Mathematica and Matlab.
[...]
For file names I append yyyymmdd (e.g. 20091021), but for other uses I prefer dd-MMM-yy (e.g. 21-Oct-09, rather than 21/10/09).
Using the first 3 characters of the month's name makes it unambiguous.
The date 9/11/01 could be interpreted as either 9-Nov-01 (the most obvious to most people), or as 11-Sep-01 to most people in the USA.
Well Asimov had 4 laws of robotics! (But he started of with only 3) He added the Zeroth law that allowed a robot to harm one group of humans if it gave a greater benefit to a larger number. The Zeroth law was required for robots that controlled things on a planet wide basis and law enforcement robots, otherwise such robots would be unable to act. Consider someone about to shoot down an aeroplane with hundreds of people on it - one life against many.
The single quote after -10 is spurious. I tested it, and I got 2 failures on my userid - most likely mistyping on my part!
It was actually, #9 The Larch, repeated at least 3 times, during the same show... AFAICAR
I've seen the position after
:-)
1. f3 e5
2. g4 Qh4 mate
At school when I was 17 I ran the chess club, a 13ryr old came up and asked if this was checkmate...
Often called fool's mate for some reason!
Have you tried using sage?
http://www.sagemath.org/
[...]
Sage is a free open-source mathematics software system licensed under the GPL. It combines the power of many existing open-source packages into a common Python-based interface.
Mission: Creating a viable free open source alternative to Magma, Maple, Mathematica and Matlab.
[...]