I'd saw remotely unplugging the room at the router is probably better than entering the room and unplugging the computer.
That way the admin would never obtain *physical* access to the computer (e.g. this removes a tiny amount of doubt that he could have tampered with the computer, e.g. with a boot disk/cd before the police arrive ).
Paragraph 1 of the Verizon terms state plainly that the Unlimited plain means unlimited bandwidth for a particular small set of uses:
Well, what they are doing is still illegal.
What if someone was downloading movies via:
1) The Internet (i.e. HTTP, "Internet Browsing") 2) A remote, dedicated IMAP server ("email") 3) Via a VPN connection to a remote "intranet"
If I send you my Star Trek collection tapes via postal mail, that is still POSTAL MAIL. If the package is waiting in the post office and you have to go to the post office to get it, it is still POSTAL MAIL.
Thus, if one used Verizon's "unlimited" service to download/exchange files over a remote mail server, this would appear to be a legitimate use under their terms (I didn't read the rest of them).
Yes, this is not what they may have intended. But they are a multinational company with swarms of lawyers... They have the resources to do things right. (whether it be the level of service provided or the claims in their advertisements).
The younger slashdot crowd may not remember just a few years ago when AOL was either fined or successfully sued because they over-advertised their service (their phone lines were so busy, nobody could use it).
Every time I do this, I am temporarily distracted from my main task, which is driving the car safely.
Aye, that's the problem.
When you are sitting in the driver's seat, your main tasks are (in order of priority):
1. Talk on the cell phone. 2. Attempt to retrieve objects that are on the floor or backseat 3. Fiddle with the radio/ac/etc 4. Attempt to drive the car safely.
By default, Outlook 2007 uses Microsoft Word to display e-mail messages which protects customers from the HTML e-mail preview and attack vector.
I think the important thing here to note is that MS is actually delivering on it's promise to deliver a more secure OS and set of applications for users.
I've also noticed that Outlook uses *Word* to display HTML... That just sounds really wrong... Does Word do Javascript? Can HTML pages trigger Word macros? Can they interact with other Word documents? Can the Word templates be accessed? I'd hope the answer is no in all cases, but this is Microsoft we're talking about... And they have had trouble with this type of stuff before.
The algorithm he intended to use it to accomplish is not; it's just an artifact of math, and subject to the natural laws clause.
Math isn't patentable? Ha ha ha! That's a good one.
Try searching for patents related to the physical layer of Telecommunications (ADSL modem, etc).
Yes, the analog circuit design is a critical and patentable issue... But there are also thousands of patents on the mathematical algorithms that actually make the modem work. These algorithms are either implemented in software or (often straightforward) digital logic. (At least in Communications), the method in which something should be invent is often blatantly obvious once all the math is worked out.
The first claim is only a very very simple algorithm.
Doesn't Acrobat Reader and Photoshop show on the opening screen that the software is covered by a few hundred patents?
Or, if algorithms aren't really patentable but devices are, then can't someone just patent any device making use of "algorithm X"? Could Adobe patent something like "a system for displaying documents on a computer"?
For reference, the density of uranium metal is 18 g/cm^3, so 1 lb of uranium metal would only be 25 cm^3 in size.
Let's double check here... 1 lb / 18g == 25.2
If you have 25 pieces that are each 1cm^3 in size, the total size is NOT 25cm^3. (25cm^3 is huge!). Using your density value, 1lb of Uranium is only about CubeRoot(25)*1cm^3 == 3cm^3 == 0.18in^3... If it were a cube, it would only measure about 0.5" on each side.
I'm guessing 1 pound of Uranium could be made into a large bullet...
I would be interested to know whether the right wing right-to-lifers would be pissed off that you're raising innocent animals for the sole purpose of slaughtering and harvesting them for their organs,...
Me too.. And do these people eat Veal? Raising animals for their organs is a very old practice...
ow about an auto-commenting compiler. All you have to do is put tags in it where you want comments and it automatically comments them.
Do you really know the difference between a compiler and an development environment?
What "comments" is a compiler going to derive from your code? Something like "EAX will contain the result of the last add." is NOT going to be a useful comment in most situations. What do you expect the *compiler* to be able to tell you about *your* code?
And I believe it is widely held that comments should often describe higher-level things (such as what a function does, when it can be called, requirements on its inputs/outputs) -- things other than just what the following code literally does...
In C/C++, things like this do not help anyone:
++i;// increment i by one.
The idea of a compiler modifying the source code is a bit stupid and dangerous.
And in lowlevel implementation, vectorized processing, parallel processing, and multi-threaded processing are all entirely different. The granularity they operate at dictates how efficiently they can parallelize things.
One could automatically parallelize a simple for loop on a Beowulf cluster of 10000 nodes each with the latest processors... It just make take a few million times longer to run than it would on a single 80386 PC from the 1990s...
Computer Science should be about the _science_ of computing, not the design and programming needs of the commercial software industry.
That's what I thought too....
I have been subscribing to the IEEE's "Computer" magazine in vain.
I think my entire first year's worth of issues focused on nothing but management practices for software design... It was entirely focused on the inter-personal aspects of software development without much regard to anything else.
"Software Engineering" is neither Science nor Engineering... Its Management! It's IT! People need to start recognizing it as such...
Disclaimer: I studied ECE (Electrical/Computer Engineering).
Perhaps I'm biased, but I also share similar concerns... At least someone in ECE with a BS (might) know how to program but also at least have some ability in calculus, electrical circuit or digital logic design, and maybe operating systems.
What does a person with a CS degree learn?
That being said, I've met very very few (10) people with who studied electrical/computer engineering who actually knew (or wanted to know) how to program well...
The parent makes one of the most insightful comments I have ever seen on slashdot.
Even "camping" on mars would be difficult. What would one eat? What if a supply ship doesn't make it or can't launch?
Hundreds of year ago, the people who settled uninhabited areas lived pretty tough lives... They had relatively short dependency chains compared to our lifestyle. But they had the ability to move to resource-rich areas... In some sense, the (animals) food and water were already naturally present before they arrived. They could chop trees for fuel, housing, and transportation. They could make clothing, tools, etc from the animals they hunted... It also took a quite a while (decades/centuries?) for things to get really established. And lots of colonists died from disease, famine, etc.
Now take Mars... Little/no flowing water! No animals! No trees! Could we grow anything there if we wanted to?
Mars does have a lot of rocks and dirt... I'm just not sure a colony can thrive just on these. I don't think we would be willing to send so many people to their deaths either.
Assume that we have plants here that would grow on Mars... How would they get water? (e.g. How would the ice be transported?) Gas-powered machines? HA!
The southwestern US was colonized a long time ago.. But at least that region has rain, animals, and plants.
Amazing, just a few years ago most people didn't think they had to have a cell phone, let alone use it all the time. Yet these days I know some families that have gone over the top with them. ...
Sorry, but having a $50 to $100+ new monthy expense is not my idea of progress. What is truly amazing is that the Cell providers marketing worked so well.....
That sir, is the MIRACLE of marketing... Water falls from the sky yet people pay handsomely for it... Not only has a massive cellphone industry quickly sprouted up, but it will likely also succeed into conning people to pay 2x as much as they currently do for something that they don't truly *need* in the first place. I bet some bigshots in accounting/marketing/management will get nice bonus if this idea of "progress" succeeds.
I don't really understand why people need so many minutes. I spend the daytime during weekdays at work, not yakking on the phone. I talk to friends and family on mainly weeknights or on the weekends -- i.e. mostly when I'm NOT at work. Am I that weird?
Some carriers are now moving their "unlimited nighttime" cutoff to 7pm instead of 9pm... Before 7pm, I'm too preoccupied with getting home and eating than I am talking on away the phone.
I would be in favor of halving my minutes if it halved my phone bill. Unfortunately, the cell phone companies don't see it that way.
It scares my boss a little in that I have every single email we've ever exchanged for the last 6-7 years. But then again I don't work for a fourtune 500 company.
I did well in high school but went to the local state university for undergrad. It is something like a 3rd tier school not even assigned a numerical rank for my field...
The state PAID me $800/year + tuition to attend for 4 years. I had good teachers, learned a lot, and did well. After that, I was interested in grad school and was accepted in a "top 10" university with a fellowship.
I think my experience is not all that unusual. If you are thinking you might ever get a Masters or PhD, I wouldn't spend much for undergrad. Go somewhere nice, where you will actually enjoy life. And the same if you aren't going to grad school. Everyone uses the same textbooks anyway. The only difference is what you decide to get out of it.
Your undergrad days will probably be some of the best days of your life. Grad school is stressful as hell. Full-time work can also be, unless you are lucky and enjoy what you do.
And after having attended many "career fairs" at both my undergrad and grad schools, I can say one thing about them: you will probably not get a job from them, no matter how well qualified you are. I am also an EE. When I went to a telecom company's booth, and told them that I was an EE and interested in communications, they thought I was double-majoring in the Humanities. Sheesh.
Get to know your professors while your in school. The student-teacher wall that we develop throughout elementary & high-school is really destructive. The active professors will have connections and can get you a job -- and a good one at that. Show them how motivated you are.
Most of it's trying to peddle western products to American consumers, the Chinese people have nothing to do with it
I think I know what you are trying to say, but your statement as written above is probably not accurate..
Most "western products" (including the USA's flag), that I've have seen say "Made in China" on the bottom/back. I would say there would be those residing in China who would be interested in bumping up sales through all possible means.
I would not want a deaf user signing while driving:P
That might not be so bad... The ability to hear and use one's hands for driving don't seem to do much good for the vast majority of the public. At least deaf people would be are used to it.
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I'd saw remotely unplugging the room at the router is probably better than entering the room and unplugging the computer.
That way the admin would never obtain *physical* access to the computer (e.g. this removes a tiny amount of doubt that he could have tampered with the computer, e.g. with a boot disk/cd before the police arrive ).
Worse still, planes dump their output at high altitudes where the blanketing effect is far greater.
High speed trains are definitely a better way to go on that score.
Wow... That explains two things:
1) Why the toilet flush is so strong in an airborne airplane.
2) Why they don't like people in trains using the toilet when its in the station.
I don't see the average consumer being smart enough to lobby for multi-threaded software....?
I don't see the average programmer experienced enough to write multi-threaded software...
Paragraph 1 of the Verizon terms state plainly that the Unlimited plain means unlimited bandwidth for a particular small set of uses:
Well, what they are doing is still illegal.
What if someone was downloading movies via:
1) The Internet (i.e. HTTP, "Internet Browsing")
2) A remote, dedicated IMAP server ("email")
3) Via a VPN connection to a remote "intranet"
If I send you my Star Trek collection tapes via postal mail, that is still POSTAL MAIL. If the package is waiting in the post office and you have to go to the post office to get it, it is still POSTAL MAIL.
Thus, if one used Verizon's "unlimited" service to download/exchange files over a remote mail server, this would appear to be a legitimate use under their terms (I didn't read the rest of them).
Yes, this is not what they may have intended. But they are a multinational company with swarms of lawyers... They have the resources to do things right. (whether it be the level of service provided or the claims in their advertisements).
The younger slashdot crowd may not remember just a few years ago when AOL was either fined or successfully sued because they over-advertised their service (their phone lines were so busy, nobody could use it).
I had a buddy who drilled through a wall and straight into the mains once.
Your use of past tense is all the more curious.
Every time I do this, I am temporarily distracted from my main task, which is driving the car safely.
Aye, that's the problem.
When you are sitting in the driver's seat, your main tasks are (in order of priority):
1. Talk on the cell phone.
2. Attempt to retrieve objects that are on the floor or backseat
3. Fiddle with the radio/ac/etc
4. Attempt to drive the car safely.
Thus the trend toward touch-screen controls.
Indeed.. I used to really enjoy skiing to chase down those green triangles running away from me...
By default, Outlook 2007 uses Microsoft Word to display e-mail messages which protects customers from the HTML e-mail preview and attack vector.
I think the important thing here to note is that MS is actually delivering on it's promise to deliver a more secure OS and set of applications for users.
I've also noticed that Outlook uses *Word* to display HTML... That just sounds really wrong... Does Word do Javascript? Can HTML pages trigger Word macros? Can they interact with other Word documents? Can the Word templates be accessed? I'd hope the answer is no in all cases, but this is Microsoft we're talking about... And they have had trouble with this type of stuff before.
The algorithm he intended to use it to accomplish is not; it's just an artifact of math, and subject to the natural laws clause.
Math isn't patentable? Ha ha ha! That's a good one.
Try searching for patents related to the physical layer of Telecommunications (ADSL modem, etc).
Yes, the analog circuit design is a critical and patentable issue... But there are also thousands of patents on the mathematical algorithms that actually make the modem work. These algorithms are either implemented in software or (often straightforward) digital logic. (At least in Communications), the method in which something should be invent is often blatantly obvious once all the math is worked out.
This is a very simple algorihtm (but a hard-to-read patent)
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/4679227.html
The first claim is only a very very simple algorithm.
Doesn't Acrobat Reader and Photoshop show on the opening screen that the software is covered by a few hundred patents?
Or, if algorithms aren't really patentable but devices are, then can't someone just patent any device making use of "algorithm X"? Could Adobe patent something like "a system for displaying documents on a computer"?
For reference, the density of uranium metal is 18 g/cm^3, so 1 lb of uranium metal would only be 25 cm^3 in size.
Let's double check here... 1 lb / 18g == 25.2
If you have 25 pieces that are each 1cm^3 in size, the total size is NOT 25cm^3. (25cm^3 is huge!).
Using your density value, 1lb of Uranium is only about CubeRoot(25)*1cm^3 == 3cm^3 == 0.18in^3... If it were a cube, it would only measure about 0.5" on each side.
I'm guessing 1 pound of Uranium could be made into a large bullet...
I would be interested to know whether the right wing right-to-lifers would be pissed off that you're raising innocent animals for the sole purpose of slaughtering and harvesting them for their organs,...
Me too.. And do these people eat Veal? Raising animals for their organs is a very old practice...
ow about an auto-commenting compiler. All you have to do is put tags in it where you want comments and it automatically comments them.
// increment i by one.
Do you really know the difference between a compiler and an development environment?
What "comments" is a compiler going to derive from your code? Something like "EAX will contain the result of the last add." is NOT going to be a useful comment in most situations. What do you expect the *compiler* to be able to tell you about *your* code?
And I believe it is widely held that comments should often describe higher-level things (such as what a function does, when it can be called, requirements on its inputs/outputs) -- things other than just what the following code literally does...
In C/C++, things like this do not help anyone:
++i;
The idea of a compiler modifying the source code is a bit stupid and dangerous.
And in lowlevel implementation, vectorized processing, parallel processing, and multi-threaded processing are all entirely different. The granularity they operate at dictates how efficiently they can parallelize things.
One could automatically parallelize a simple for loop on a Beowulf cluster of 10000 nodes each with the latest processors... It just make take a few million times longer to run than it would on a single 80386 PC from the 1990s...
Computer Science should be about the _science_ of computing, not the design and programming needs of the commercial software industry.
That's what I thought too....
I have been subscribing to the IEEE's "Computer" magazine in vain.
I think my entire first year's worth of issues focused on nothing but management practices for software design... It was entirely focused on the inter-personal aspects of software development without much regard to anything else.
"Software Engineering" is neither Science nor Engineering... Its Management! It's IT! People need to start recognizing it as such...
Disclaimer: I studied ECE (Electrical/Computer Engineering).
Perhaps I'm biased, but I also share similar concerns... At least someone in ECE with a BS (might) know how to program but also at least have some ability in calculus, electrical circuit or digital logic design, and maybe operating systems.
What does a person with a CS degree learn?
That being said, I've met very very few (10) people with who studied electrical/computer engineering who actually knew (or wanted to know) how to program well...
The parent makes one of the most insightful comments I have ever seen on slashdot.
Even "camping" on mars would be difficult. What would one eat? What if a supply ship doesn't make it or can't launch?
Hundreds of year ago, the people who settled uninhabited areas lived pretty tough lives... They had relatively short dependency chains compared to our lifestyle. But they had the ability to move to resource-rich areas... In some sense, the (animals) food and water were already naturally present before they arrived. They could chop trees for fuel, housing, and transportation. They could make clothing, tools, etc from the animals they hunted... It also took a quite a while (decades/centuries?) for things to get really established. And lots of colonists died from disease, famine, etc.
Now take Mars... Little/no flowing water! No animals! No trees! Could we grow anything there if we wanted to?
Mars does have a lot of rocks and dirt... I'm just not sure a colony can thrive just on these. I don't think we would be willing to send so many people to their deaths either.
Assume that we have plants here that would grow on Mars... How would they get water? (e.g. How would the ice be transported?) Gas-powered machines? HA!
The southwestern US was colonized a long time ago.. But at least that region has rain, animals, and plants.
Sorry, but having a $50 to $100+ new monthy expense is not my idea of progress. What is truly amazing is that the Cell providers marketing worked so well.
That sir, is the MIRACLE of marketing... Water falls from the sky yet people pay handsomely for it... Not only has a massive cellphone industry quickly sprouted up, but it will likely also succeed into conning people to pay 2x as much as they currently do for something that they don't truly *need* in the first place. I bet some bigshots in accounting/marketing/management will get nice bonus if this idea of "progress" succeeds.
I don't really understand why people need so many minutes. I spend the daytime during weekdays at work, not yakking on the phone. I talk to friends and family on mainly weeknights or on the weekends -- i.e. mostly when I'm NOT at work. Am I that weird?
Some carriers are now moving their "unlimited nighttime" cutoff to 7pm instead of 9pm... Before 7pm, I'm too preoccupied with getting home and eating than I am talking on away the phone.
I would be in favor of halving my minutes if it halved my phone bill. Unfortunately, the cell phone companies don't see it that way.
That's effectively why alternative operating systems are impenetrable to virii and other nasty things.
No, no no no. Did you not intend:
That's why alternative operating systems are effectively impenetrable to virii and other nasty things.
The words of ordering make a difference!
It scares my boss a little in that I have every single email we've ever exchanged for the last 6-7 years. But then again I don't work for a fourtune 500 company.
Well, don't ever expect to get a job at Intel!
Best part of the job... testing the surfboards in warm water and banging the hottest chicks in the world here in Hawaii.
Damnit... I always knew I should have studied AutoCAD instead of Verilog...
I did well in high school but went to the local state university for undergrad. It is something like a 3rd tier school not even assigned a numerical rank for my field...
The state PAID me $800/year + tuition to attend for 4 years. I had good teachers, learned a lot, and did well. After that, I was interested in grad school and was accepted in a "top 10" university with a fellowship.
I think my experience is not all that unusual. If you are thinking you might ever get a Masters or PhD, I wouldn't spend much for undergrad. Go somewhere nice, where you will actually enjoy life. And the same if you aren't going to grad school. Everyone uses the same textbooks anyway. The only difference is what you decide to get out of it.
Your undergrad days will probably be some of the best days of your life. Grad school is stressful as hell. Full-time work can also be, unless you are lucky and enjoy what you do.
And after having attended many "career fairs" at both my undergrad and grad schools, I can say one thing about them: you will probably not get a job from them, no matter how well qualified you are. I am also an EE. When I went to a telecom company's booth, and told them that I was an EE and interested in communications, they thought I was double-majoring in the Humanities. Sheesh.
Get to know your professors while your in school. The student-teacher wall that we develop throughout elementary & high-school is really destructive. The active professors will have connections and can get you a job -- and a good one at that. Show them how motivated you are.
Remember the ads on TV.. where there's a forklift, ...
Well no... But I bet that forklift is worn out from moving $12 billion in cash.
Most of it's trying to peddle western products to American consumers, the Chinese people have nothing to do with it
I think I know what you are trying to say, but your statement as written above is probably not accurate..
Most "western products" (including the USA's flag), that I've have seen say "Made in China" on the bottom/back. I would say there would be those residing in China who would be interested in bumping up sales through all possible means.
What technology would you like to have seen applied in your kindergarten?
I request that this newfangled technology called "written language" be applied in kindergarten.
Yes, I realize it's still in beta as it's only been around for a few thousand years, but I think written language is ready for the kindergarten level.
Such language can be implemented with either a traditional pencil/china-marker or the more technologically advanced "ball-point pen".
I would not want a deaf user signing while driving :P
That might not be so bad... The ability to hear and use one's hands for driving don't seem to do much good for the vast majority of the public. At least deaf people would be are used to it.
You're far more likely to be struck and killed by frozen turds dropped from a Boeing 747 than contract bird flu.
That's not a pandemic... that's a disease!
Ask your doctor about "aerial fecal syndrome" (AES). Pharm companies are selling cures.