This should be seen as an opportunity rather than a problem, since it's a real pain in todays global society that multiple people have the same moniker. Simply require that each persons name be unique in order to qualify for a.tel, and if it isn't they must change it by deed poll (or whatever legal mechanism in their country) to be so, by addition of one or more middle or nick names, or other modification. Thus JeffHemosBates.tel etc.
Which is kind of the whole problem many of us Brits have with the whole European project - it's our tax euros being spent, but without anything like the sense of obligation to the taxpayers that there ought to be. You point out that the ESA isn't an agency of the European Union, but even if it was it would make much difference, I could start citing examples, but I better end this OT rant before I get carried away.
This is also why we in the US will be paying $5/gallon for gas soon... not because of our demand but because of Asia's demand.
Yeah, if the restof the world would just stick to bicycles and donkeys, Americans could carry on driving 10 mile/gallon SUVs practically for free. It's so unfair that the rest of the world thinks they should have cars too.
Well, they could just buy parts of Sony. I could see MS wanting the Playstation, PSP, personal audio products, maybe even the music and movies divisions. But I agree, this sounds like some fools random speculation, rather than anything even vaguely concrete.
Huh-huh, you said "proteinaceous protuberance", huh-huh;).
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Really I was just taking the opportunity to take a dig at McCartney;). Actually I agree, they've been pretty sensible about managing the Beatles legacy.
I'd guess the reason they've stayed out of the download market is more down to them selling a disproportionate amount of high-added-value box-sets etc, rather than them not being up on technology. That's just a guess on my part, but selling individual tracks on downloads might well have an impact on sales of such items.
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The Beatles have historically been 'behind the times' technologically, what we might call 'late adopters'.
By "The Beatles", you presumably mean the talentless gits still cashing in on John Lennons talent? The Beatles as an entity ceased to exist in 1970, but were quite technologically advanced for their day (in terms of production techniques etc).
... but the article seams to imply that students were divided into a red team and a blue team and had to hack each others systems
Only if you didn't, like, read it. The red team were not students.
Red Team:
Joe Harwell: Joe is a Security Specialist for Nortel Government Solutions. He currently is responsible for design, integration and testing of many of the "three letter agencies" security systems, and has over 15 years of experience in the field. He was CERT penetration tester for the US Army in a previous life.
Ryan Trost: Ryan is a Senior Security Engineer for Criterion Systems, currently working on a DHS contract. When not overseeing the security architecture of his team, he spends his free time developing a Network Security Snap-on Application that involves IDS Geocoding (patent pending). Ryan will be graduating from George Washington University this May with a Masters in Computer Science.
Adam Meyers, CCE, IAM, IEM: As an information security professional and consultant, Adam Meyers provides clients with complete security expertise, ranging from assessments, forensics, incident response, penetration testing, and security architecture. Additionally he provides physical security assessments and threat analysis. Mr. Meyers is a Certified Computer Examiner (CCE). Prior to joining SRA, he worked with the George Washington University Security Team, as the Network Manager for the 2000 National Democratic Convention, and as a private security consultant, all while pursuing a degree in political science with specific attention to inter-state information warfare.
Tom Parker: Tom is a computer security analyst who, alongside his work providing integral security services for some of the world's largest organizations, is widely known for his vulnerability research on a wide range of platforms and commercial products. Tom regularly presents at closed-door and public security conferences, including the Blackhat briefings, and is often referenced by the world's media on matters relating to computer security.
I don't think the social engineering aspect was absent from this setup. FTA:
He next reached inside his bag and pulled out a complete description of the student's setup, including all operating systems, services, web applications, and IP addresses he had obtained from an anonymous source. Everyone in the room immediately got a slightly evil grin on their face as they realized the results of this social engineering reward.
Unfortunately, there are too many companies in the market that could care less about their customers
Ok, I've got karma to burn;). The phrase is "Couldn't care less". As in, it's not possible to care less than they do. "Could care less" implies that they could actually care less than they do. Why is this so hard for people to get right?
I agree with her that students should be spending their time thinking about what she's saying, but writing notes on paper doesn't facilitate that any more than laptops do. My favourite lecturer at university gave us printed notes for every lecture, precisely so we didn't have to write anything down, and could focus on thinking about the subject. I did great in that class, and to this day I don't understand why many lecturers still insist on making people take notes instead of following suit.
Automotive safey glass is a laminate with a layer of flexible plastic in the middle. The plastic is designed to stretch so placing an IC in that layer shouldn't present any problem. Can't say about the heat issue though.
The article is dumb. 100 times as strong as skeletal muscle is a statement with no meaning unless you specify what exactly you mean
I agree with most of your post, but BBC aims their content at Joe Public, it's not a scientific journal. Joe public will read from that that if he replaced his muscles with these artificial muscles, he'd be able to bench-press a lot more than he can now. That's as much as he needs or wants to know, and more importantly, he'll absorb it before his short attention span is exhausted and he moves on to the celebrity gossip column.
The scientifically minded like you and I must seek other sources for more technical details, we can't expect publications aimed at the average Joe to provide the kind of detail we'd like on these stories.
Well, a lot of people don't seem to be taking that as quite so black-and-white. On The Register, their interpretation is that the PS3 will probably ship with cheaper no-harddrive version for those that just want basic console gameplay, and a more expensive premium version with harddrive. Considering the cost figures floating around, that would make a lot of sense, and they did state the harddrive would be upgradeable, so it's not hard to do the two versions.
The summary says Right now Verizon digs up streets and lays out expensive fiber to get homes online, but new tech may let them accomplish that task for much less hassle and expense, but the article is talking about using pre-installed coax to connect computers within the home to broadband, it has nothing about getting the broadband to the home.
I doubt that it's an Ubuntu thing, they didn't write grub, but I do sympathize. I guess Linux has less chance of dealing with every possible quirk of hardware, due to the smaller installed base compared to Windows. I had a machine a while back that three different Linux distros would consistently lock up during partitioning of the drive. Every test in a Windows machine showed the drive was fine. Eventually I partitioned it under Windows (ironically) with Ranish Partition Manager, then I successfully installed Linux.
Fox may be a memory hog, but I have not seen it to be out of line in most modern systems. Plus, I get really low useage when i turn off all the extensions i have added to it for customizing.
Yeah well, the reply on the support forums to any memory problems is always "must be extensions at fault", and it's almost certainly true. The thing is, ask me to choose between Firefox without extensions and Opera, and there is no contest, Opera wins hands down.
I think the Firefox team should be focussing on ways to ensure that extensions behave. They could do any number of things. Put together a team of people whose job it is to check extensions for obvious flaws, and make a list of "approved" extensions that pass muster. Improve the APIs used by extension developers. Work on tools to help extension developers write robust code. Seems to me more useful than some of the stuff they're working for. That's not to say they haven't done a great job so far, I just think that would be a useful thing to focus on at this point.
What was interesting was what the first result was. In the case of Live the first result was a photo studio run by Galen and Barbara Powell. For Google the first result was much more relevant: a link to the University of Virgina Health System which talked about the medical practice from the past of which Galen is listed in the links.
The Live result was just as relevant to your keyword as the Google result. Expecting psychic powers from search engines is a fools game, a search engine can only go on your keywords, it can't know which of the many contexts you happen to be thinking about for those keywords at the time. As you say yourself, one test doesn't mean much, but I don't expect that Google would do much better in the long run with the criteria you seem to be applying.
Their million page count doesn't include stubs/redirects. Short articles is another matter, but some things only merit a short entry, even in Britannica.
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This should be seen as an opportunity rather than a problem, since it's a real pain in todays global society that multiple people have the same moniker. Simply require that each persons name be unique in order to qualify for a .tel, and if it isn't they must change it by deed poll (or whatever legal mechanism in their country) to be so, by addition of one or more middle or nick names, or other modification. Thus JeffHemosBates.tel etc.
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So how much exactly does a domain name weight? I'm thinking those that paid half a million dollars got ripped off badly.
Which is kind of the whole problem many of us Brits have with the whole European project - it's our tax euros being spent, but without anything like the sense of obligation to the taxpayers that there ought to be. You point out that the ESA isn't an agency of the European Union, but even if it was it would make much difference, I could start citing examples, but I better end this OT rant before I get carried away.
This is also why we in the US will be paying $5/gallon for gas soon... not because of our demand but because of Asia's demand.
Yeah, if the restof the world would just stick to bicycles and donkeys, Americans could carry on driving 10 mile/gallon SUVs practically for free. It's so unfair that the rest of the world thinks they should have cars too.
Well, they could just buy parts of Sony. I could see MS wanting the Playstation, PSP, personal audio products, maybe even the music and movies divisions. But I agree, this sounds like some fools random speculation, rather than anything even vaguely concrete.
Huh-huh, you said "proteinaceous protuberance", huh-huh ;).
Really I was just taking the opportunity to take a dig at McCartney ;). Actually I agree, they've been pretty sensible about managing the Beatles legacy.
I'd guess the reason they've stayed out of the download market is more down to them selling a disproportionate amount of high-added-value box-sets etc, rather than them not being up on technology. That's just a guess on my part, but selling individual tracks on downloads might well have an impact on sales of such items.
The Beatles have historically been 'behind the times' technologically, what we might call 'late adopters'.
By "The Beatles", you presumably mean the talentless gits still cashing in on John Lennons talent? The Beatles as an entity ceased to exist in 1970, but were quite technologically advanced for their day (in terms of production techniques etc).
... but the article seams to imply that students were divided into a red team and a blue team and had to hack each others systems
Only if you didn't, like, read it. The red team were not students.
Red Team:
Joe Harwell: Joe is a Security Specialist for Nortel Government Solutions. He currently is responsible for design, integration and testing of many of the "three letter agencies" security systems, and has over 15 years of experience in the field. He was CERT penetration tester for the US Army in a previous life.
Ryan Trost: Ryan is a Senior Security Engineer for Criterion Systems, currently working on a DHS contract. When not overseeing the security architecture of his team, he spends his free time developing a Network Security Snap-on Application that involves IDS Geocoding (patent pending). Ryan will be graduating from George Washington University this May with a Masters in Computer Science.
Adam Meyers, CCE, IAM, IEM: As an information security professional and consultant, Adam Meyers provides clients with complete security expertise, ranging from assessments, forensics, incident response, penetration testing, and security architecture. Additionally he provides physical security assessments and threat analysis. Mr. Meyers is a Certified Computer Examiner (CCE). Prior to joining SRA, he worked with the George Washington University Security Team, as the Network Manager for the 2000 National Democratic Convention, and as a private security consultant, all while pursuing a degree in political science with specific attention to inter-state information warfare.
Tom Parker: Tom is a computer security analyst who, alongside his work providing integral security services for some of the world's largest organizations, is widely known for his vulnerability research on a wide range of platforms and commercial products. Tom regularly presents at closed-door and public security conferences, including the Blackhat briefings, and is often referenced by the world's media on matters relating to computer security.
I don't think the social engineering aspect was absent from this setup. FTA:
He next reached inside his bag and pulled out a complete description of the student's setup, including all operating systems, services, web applications, and IP addresses he had obtained from an anonymous source. Everyone in the room immediately got a slightly evil grin on their face as they realized the results of this social engineering reward.
Unfortunately, there are too many companies in the market that could care less about their customers
;). The phrase is "Couldn't care less". As in, it's not possible to care less than they do. "Could care less" implies that they could actually care less than they do. Why is this so hard for people to get right?
Ok, I've got karma to burn
Q. How to make more money from expensive AIDS drugs?
A. Obvious - sell it to people who don't have AIDS as well as people who do.
As I understand, these drugs are very expensive, and personally I can't see any justification for using them prophylactically.
Well, to be fair, the moon does have an atmosphere, just about, though not much of one, to be sure.
I agree with her that students should be spending their time thinking about what she's saying, but writing notes on paper doesn't facilitate that any more than laptops do. My favourite lecturer at university gave us printed notes for every lecture, precisely so we didn't have to write anything down, and could focus on thinking about the subject. I did great in that class, and to this day I don't understand why many lecturers still insist on making people take notes instead of following suit.
Automotive safey glass is a laminate with a layer of flexible plastic in the middle. The plastic is designed to stretch so placing an IC in that layer shouldn't present any problem. Can't say about the heat issue though.
The article is dumb. 100 times as strong as skeletal muscle is a statement with no meaning unless you specify what exactly you mean
I agree with most of your post, but BBC aims their content at Joe Public, it's not a scientific journal. Joe public will read from that that if he replaced his muscles with these artificial muscles, he'd be able to bench-press a lot more than he can now. That's as much as he needs or wants to know, and more importantly, he'll absorb it before his short attention span is exhausted and he moves on to the celebrity gossip column.
The scientifically minded like you and I must seek other sources for more technical details, we can't expect publications aimed at the average Joe to provide the kind of detail we'd like on these stories.
Well, a lot of people don't seem to be taking that as quite so black-and-white. On The Register, their interpretation is that the PS3 will probably ship with cheaper no-harddrive version for those that just want basic console gameplay, and a more expensive premium version with harddrive. Considering the cost figures floating around, that would make a lot of sense, and they did state the harddrive would be upgradeable, so it's not hard to do the two versions.
Here's the Wikipedia entry for MoCA, for more info.
The summary says Right now Verizon digs up streets and lays out expensive fiber to get homes online, but new tech may let them accomplish that task for much less hassle and expense, but the article is talking about using pre-installed coax to connect computers within the home to broadband, it has nothing about getting the broadband to the home.
I doubt that it's an Ubuntu thing, they didn't write grub, but I do sympathize. I guess Linux has less chance of dealing with every possible quirk of hardware, due to the smaller installed base compared to Windows. I had a machine a while back that three different Linux distros would consistently lock up during partitioning of the drive. Every test in a Windows machine showed the drive was fine. Eventually I partitioned it under Windows (ironically) with Ranish Partition Manager, then I successfully installed Linux.
Fox may be a memory hog, but I have not seen it to be out of line in most modern systems. Plus, I get really low useage when i turn off all the extensions i have added to it for customizing.
Yeah well, the reply on the support forums to any memory problems is always "must be extensions at fault", and it's almost certainly true. The thing is, ask me to choose between Firefox without extensions and Opera, and there is no contest, Opera wins hands down.
I think the Firefox team should be focussing on ways to ensure that extensions behave. They could do any number of things. Put together a team of people whose job it is to check extensions for obvious flaws, and make a list of "approved" extensions that pass muster. Improve the APIs used by extension developers. Work on tools to help extension developers write robust code. Seems to me more useful than some of the stuff they're working for. That's not to say they haven't done a great job so far, I just think that would be a useful thing to focus on at this point.
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So how come with Live, boobies get through, but titties are blocked? Google wins anyway.
What was interesting was what the first result was. In the case of Live the first result was a photo studio run by Galen and Barbara Powell. For Google the first result was much more relevant: a link to the University of Virgina Health System which talked about the medical practice from the past of which Galen is listed in the links.
The Live result was just as relevant to your keyword as the Google result. Expecting psychic powers from search engines is a fools game, a search engine can only go on your keywords, it can't know which of the many contexts you happen to be thinking about for those keywords at the time. As you say yourself, one test doesn't mean much, but I don't expect that Google would do much better in the long run with the criteria you seem to be applying.
Personally, I'd have knocked down the church instead. Less practical, but infinitely more satisfying.
Their million page count doesn't include stubs/redirects. Short articles is another matter, but some things only merit a short entry, even in Britannica.