You go to and take the depression screening test. You may be depressed, and if so a couple of nice little pills and you'll feel lke your old self again. Possibly better.
I gave up on programming contests in grad school, after I discovered that ill-defined questions and untested submission software were the norm. Maybe if I were the sort of person who likes hacking out -- er, reverse engineering -- random code I would have been happier, but IM absolutely correct O real computer science and/or software engineering is about something other than the ability to guess what errors the judges might have made.
Sun just got tired of Microsoft claiming that buggy version 98 of Windows was somehow better. It's not Sun's fault that they only need to go through a couple of decimal versions to get something working....
(ObHint: Solaris 8 is still SunOS v 5.8. Can you say "Marketing"?)
You're wrong. Badly wrong, and I think Jim Gosling should sue your ass (although he won't because he's too nice a guy, and you're an Anonymous Coward.)
Gosling's clone of Emacs was the first C version (remember the original Emacs was a mess of TECO macros.) It did become a commercial version of Emacs, (UNIPRESS Emacs) and is lonng gone so far as I know.
While I'm not sure which previous posters you mean, let's re-emphasize the point that XEmacs IS under the GPL, and XEmacs was built on the basis of GNU Emacs (starting with version 18 I recall.) Sun and Lucid paid money to help develop it, but don't have any proprietary rights to it whatsoever.
Oh Christ. Try to get at least a little bit of historical perspective in this, okay?
While you're whinging about how cars, phones, computer etc, were supposed to solve our problems (and implying that they didn't) let's think just a bit about what the problems were before cars, phones, computers, etc:
Women dying in childbirth from childbed fever
The fastest communications average people could afford for the usual purposes was physical mail --- ergo the feeling that a telegram meant bad news
Something like 90 percent of the population was occupied growing food --- and there was more hunger by far than today
"Those who don't remember history are doomed to make fools of themselves talking about the present."
It's actually pretty easy to figure out quantitatively how secure an authentication scheme will be. Bascially, the easiest measure is how many trials it takes for a random attempt to expect to break the account. If we assume the trials are uniformly distributed over a space P of possible passwords, the expected number of trials is E = card(P)/2 where card(_) is the number of elements of P. If we have a username/password scheme where you don't get back any feedback whether or not the username was known, and take 8 character alphanumeric usernames and passwords, then this expectation is E = 3.98e24 (approximately) -- or thought of another way, the chances are only about 1 in 1e24 of getting in.
The trick, of course, is that it assumes we can use ANY password and ANY username, and neither of those is true. If we used only words in/usr/dict/words, there's about 3e8 possibilities, and a determined cracker with a computer could process that in hours, or even minutes.
What you need to ask is "what is the value of this information"? Don't say "incalculable" or "priceless" because then any authentication scheme won't be good enough -- because you have to ask "does it cost more to find it than the information is worth"?
Banks get by with a card-number and password on retail bank web sites because usually Aunt Minnie only has $83.74 in her checking account anyway -- so no one thinks its worth trying to crack her accunt for the whole $83 it would pay them. You need to make a similar analysis for the medical information: how much is the information worth, or how much could you be sued for if it got out?
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You're just thinking about certain fusion processes. D-3He (deuterium/helium-3) is nearly aneutronic.
Also, power can be extracated from a hot plasma in several ways, not _just_ through the radiation flux. (eg, MHD.)
I gave up on programming contests in grad school, after I discovered that ill-defined questions and untested submission software were the norm. Maybe if I were the sort of person who likes hacking out -- er, reverse engineering -- random code I would have been happier, but IM absolutely correct O real computer science and/or software engineering is about something other than the ability to guess what errors the judges might have made.
To quote Mark Twain: "God made an idiot for practice. Then He made a school board."
Wasn't that Al Gore?
Just a quibble -- Jack Valenti, at 78, is no baby boomer. He's a baby boomer's father.
Sun just got tired of Microsoft claiming that buggy version 98 of Windows was somehow better. It's not Sun's fault that they only need to go through a couple of decimal versions to get something working....
(ObHint: Solaris 8 is still SunOS v 5.8. Can you say "Marketing"?)
So get a fucking clue, would'ja?
While you're whinging about how cars, phones, computer etc, were supposed to solve our problems (and implying that they didn't) let's think just a bit about what the problems were before cars, phones, computers, etc:
"Those who don't remember history are doomed to make fools of themselves talking about the present."
The trick, of course, is that it assumes we can use ANY password and ANY username, and neither of those is true. If we used only words in /usr/dict/words, there's about 3e8 possibilities, and a determined cracker with a computer could process that in hours, or even minutes.
What you need to ask is "what is the value of this information"? Don't say "incalculable" or "priceless" because then any authentication scheme won't be good enough -- because you have to ask "does it cost more to find it than the information is worth"?
Banks get by with a card-number and password on retail bank web sites because usually Aunt Minnie only has $83.74 in her checking account anyway -- so no one thinks its worth trying to crack her accunt for the whole $83 it would pay them. You need to make a similar analysis for the medical information: how much is the information worth, or how much could you be sued for if it got out?