Starcraft is the basics....you don't learn quantum physics until you learn regular physics...and before that you learn 2 + 2 = 4. Complicated games can't be anaylzed by N00BS as easily.
And unless you're playing one of those lame unlimited resources maps stealing drones or SCVs is useless. It's almost always a waste of time and resources.
Considering he has Asperger's syndrome I doubt much social engineering was involved here. The problem is the code.
You can't blame a child for playing with a gun. You can blame the parent for leaving it around. Autism don't necessarily know whats right and wrong. So....Quit hiring cheap programmers and actually pay for someone who can write something secure. People with
Go with the Cisco girl so that the work will be contracted out. I'd rather have private sector people who know what they're doing working for the government rather than sucky techs working in the government. As long as there are no moral issues no one can argue against private sector work.
The problem isn't hardware. It is software. I use DD-WRT on my linksys router and if I want IPv6 support I need to recompile with some fixes. It quite frankly would take too much time and I already get IPv6 connectivity through my sixxs tunnel.
The only benefit to having my router support IPv6 is that 6to4 tunneling is faster.
I don't remember my passwords. I just use biometrics. Does that mean if I was a sex offender in Georgia I'd have to hand over my finger? Talk about illegal search and seizure.
The only way to make passwords more secure is to use other more personal mechanisms to identify yourself. Too bad politicians don't have foresight.
They don't generate heat as such, but AC->DC conversion does, index of refraction of the casing material presents a problem, as well that leds don't generate white light by themselves (they use phosphor?) and all that reduces the light given off.
LEDs only work in one direction because it's a diode. If you put it to a AC circuit it would only be illuminated during half the cycle. Use two in opposite directions and you can have light during both halfs of the cycle. AC->DC is not required.
The Supreme Court, however, has enunciated a definitive test to determine whether a process claim is tailored narrowly enough to encompass only a particular application of a fundamental principle rather than to pre-empt the principle itself. A claimed process is surely patent-eligible under  101 if: (1) it is tied to a particular machine or apparatus, or (2) it transforms a particular article into a different state or thing.
I don't know if Linux or Windows has an automatic mechanism to schedule task priority based on processor caches, but the study didn't even mention Windows. Seeing that the scheduling and managing the caches are OS problems this seems kind of important.
The other thing that seems odd is they were using a 2.6.18 Kernel and in 2.6.23 they added the Completely Fair Scheduler which could potentially change their results. It doesn't seem logical to base a cutting edge study on stuff that was released years ago.
Seems very anti-internet protocol. Internet protocol was designed route dynamically. Basically this only detects something if something is not going through a known route. Averages must be taken from every known route or the alarm will go off all the time, so in a lot of cases it's not very practical. New routes are added all the time. All these points become moot when you start using encryption like you're suppose to.
When you sell a million units a penny means $10,000 and $1 means a brand new Lamborghini. I guess this article only covers enterprise software where the number of machines thats running your code could be in the thousands. The opposite argument can be made when you talk about consumer products where the unit counts are in the millions.
I always wonder why colleges start out teaching Java first. Procedure based languages are easier. You learn 2 + 2 = 4 before you learn a^2 + b^2 = c^2.
You can learn the basics in any language. The syntax is all very similar. Lets look at the difference. in C explain a routine. int main(int argc, char *argv[]){
return 0; } In java explain a class and a routine. Plus the string class is more complicated than a char * and an int.
class javaprog {
public static void main(String args[])
{
}
}
Always start with the fundamentals. You should know what pointers are and what memory is before you learn what a class is.
A programmer needs to know why if he allocates 2 million empty string classes why his memory gets chewed up. To a C programmer the answer is obvious. Fundamentals! Fundamentals! Fundamentals!
Seriously if I was the person managing the DoE budget and I saw something that say "dark energy research" I would think it was a practical joke.
I know it's called dark energy, but since when has astronomic phenomenon been within the realm of the Department of Energy. The DoE is responsible for energy policies. I could understand investment in potential energy producing technologies, but there is not one scientist who could tell me how to harness dark energy. Let NASA figure out what it is and when NASA says we can harness it then get the DoE involved.
Then they will use WPA2 using AES like the rest of us concerned about security. I doubt AES will be cracked anytime soon if ever except through brute force techniques. BTW, you can use rainbow tables on WPA2. Just don't use short passwords or generic SSIDs(salted with the SSID). Either would make you immune to rainbow table cracks.
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Supply depots wall!!!
You'll be defeated by my bunker wall!!!!
Starcraft is the basics....you don't learn quantum physics until you learn regular physics...and before that you learn 2 + 2 = 4. Complicated games can't be anaylzed by N00BS as easily.
And unless you're playing one of those lame unlimited resources maps stealing drones or SCVs is useless. It's almost always a waste of time and resources.
Considering he has Asperger's syndrome I doubt much social engineering was involved here. The problem is the code.
You can't blame a child for playing with a gun. You can blame the parent for leaving it around. Autism don't necessarily know whats right and wrong.
So....Quit hiring cheap programmers and actually pay for someone who can write something secure. People with
E=mc^2
Only works if you destroy the original.
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA!!!!
Go with the Cisco girl so that the work will be contracted out. I'd rather have private sector people who know what they're doing working for the government rather than sucky techs working in the government. As long as there are no moral issues no one can argue against private sector work.
Your home ubuntu machine or windows machine won't be effected directly by this.
If you're retiring a few dozen computers, even that gets old, and you start looking for the thermite.
The screen savers beat you to the idea about 5 years ago. Quite spectacularly I might add.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4147847319296070400
The problem isn't hardware. It is software. I use DD-WRT on my linksys router and if I want IPv6 support I need to recompile with some fixes. It quite frankly would take too much time and I already get IPv6 connectivity through my sixxs tunnel.
The only benefit to having my router support IPv6 is that 6to4 tunneling is faster.
I don't remember my passwords. I just use biometrics. Does that mean if I was a sex offender in Georgia I'd have to hand over my finger? Talk about illegal search and seizure.
The only way to make passwords more secure is to use other more personal mechanisms to identify yourself. Too bad politicians don't have foresight.
They don't generate heat as such, but AC->DC conversion does, index of refraction of the casing material presents a problem, as well that leds don't generate white light by themselves (they use phosphor?) and all that reduces the light given off.
LEDs only work in one direction because it's a diode. If you put it to a AC circuit it would only be illuminated during half the cycle. Use two in opposite directions and you can have light during both halfs of the cycle. AC->DC is not required.
The Supreme Court, however, has enunciated a definitive test to determine
whether a process claim is tailored narrowly enough to encompass only a particular
application of a fundamental principle rather than to pre-empt the principle itself. A
claimed process is surely patent-eligible under  101 if: (1) it is tied to a particular
machine or apparatus, or (2) it transforms a particular article into a different state or
thing.
http://ipwatchdog.com/cases/bilski.pdf
Lets all work to invalidate frivolous software patents.
We'll just get the armies real gun wielding robot's to take out the water cannons. I think our IT is safe.
I don't know if Linux or Windows has an automatic mechanism to schedule task priority based on processor caches, but the study didn't even mention Windows. Seeing that the scheduling and managing the caches are OS problems this seems kind of important.
The other thing that seems odd is they were using a 2.6.18 Kernel and in 2.6.23 they added the Completely Fair Scheduler which could potentially change their results. It doesn't seem logical to base a cutting edge study on stuff that was released years ago.
Seems very anti-internet protocol. Internet protocol was designed route dynamically. Basically this only detects something if something is not going through a known route. Averages must be taken from every known route or the alarm will go off all the time, so in a lot of cases it's not very practical. New routes are added all the time. All these points become moot when you start using encryption like you're suppose to.
if(units() * savings() > programmercost())
hireprogrammer();
When you sell a million units a penny means $10,000 and $1 means a brand new Lamborghini. I guess this article only covers enterprise software where the number of machines thats running your code could be in the thousands. The opposite argument can be made when you talk about consumer products where the unit counts are in the millions.
NOOOOOO!!!!!
I would....Just so I can break them. ;-)
Wine Is Not an Emulator.
It's not an emulator it's a reimplementation of the win32(or win64 in the wine64 case) library.
Taiwan, Germany and South Korea all appear poised to offer some assistance to their DRAM chip makers.
Thank you Taiwan, Germany and South Korea for subsidizing my DRAM.
I guess subsidizing US cars though more than makes up for that.
This is why socialism doesn't work well on a global scale.
I always wonder why colleges start out teaching Java first. Procedure based languages are easier. You learn
2 + 2 = 4
before you learn
a^2 + b^2 = c^2.
You can learn the basics in any language. The syntax is all very similar. Lets look at the difference.
in C explain a routine.
int main(int argc, char *argv[]){
return 0;
}
In java explain a class and a routine. Plus the string class is more complicated than a char * and an int.
class javaprog
{
public static void main(String args[])
{
}
}
Always start with the fundamentals.
You should know what pointers are and what memory is before you learn what a class is.
A programmer needs to know why if he allocates 2 million empty string classes why his memory gets chewed up. To a C programmer the answer is obvious.
Fundamentals! Fundamentals! Fundamentals!
Seriously if I was the person managing the DoE budget and I saw something that say "dark energy research" I would think it was a practical joke.
I know it's called dark energy, but since when has astronomic phenomenon been within the realm of the Department of Energy. The DoE is responsible for energy policies. I could understand investment in potential energy producing technologies, but there is not one scientist who could tell me how to harness dark energy. Let NASA figure out what it is and when NASA says we can harness it then get the DoE involved.
Then they will use WPA2 using AES like the rest of us concerned about security. I doubt AES will be cracked anytime soon if ever except through brute force techniques. BTW, you can use rainbow tables on WPA2. Just don't use short passwords or generic SSIDs(salted with the SSID). Either would make you immune to rainbow table cracks.