So, you are planning to protect youself by suing the company after it has gone out of business? I have a bridge you might like to buy... Namgge

There are two types of cyptography: one that allows the Government to use brute force to break the code, and one that requires the Government to use brute force to break you.

Searching a sorted array is O(log(N)) and can have appalling cache performance. Consider using a hash-table to store the values and then testing for presence/absence of a value is O(1). Namgge.

My digital meter has an led that flashes once per watt-hour. i.e. a 3kW kettle flashes it about once per second. This would be dead easy to interface with an Arduino, but it hardly seems worth the effort. If you want to save power: don't home-work, buy fewer gadgets, wear appropriate clothes, turn stuff off unless you are in the room using it.

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As you generate the datasets, you should seriously consider archiving the method (scripts, software, etc.) you used to generate them rather than the output.

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It is a myth that qualifying statements with "alleged", etc. will protect you from libel actions. Indeed, the fact that you did so can be used to argue that you doubted the truth of your statement but went ahead and made it anyway knowing it could be damaging and/or untrue. Even true statements, if they are made with the intention of causing damage to another's reputation can be libelous...

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I believe that scientists should publish their algorithms and methods, but publishing code may be counterproductive for several reasons. Firstly, another group trying to replicate and/or verify the method should start from scratch to ensure their work doesn't simply import flaws from the original. Secondy, I don't believe it is possible to debug science code to the point where it is defect free - people keep debugging only until the results agree with their intuition. Thirdly, scientists should not waste their lives sifting through thousands of line of Fortran written by long-gone grad students hoping to find errors, they should be creating and investigating new stuff. Namgge

Except in France.

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You'll obviously be very careful crossing roads in the UK. But do not neglect to be equally careful for the first few days when when you return to the US.

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It's not just 'possible', that's almost the whole point of sudo.

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Then have a go at a tiling problem and let us know when you've finished.

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This does seem important to me. At work, everybody uses network drives as a method of 'filesharing' (spreadsheets of the latest paperclip audit, the coffee club accounts, etc., but not music thanks to the BOFH's watchful scripts.). They also do this from home using the vpn. I'm sure if you asked any of them if they 'used filesharing software' they would reply 'yes'. However, the majority would have no idea what peer2peer sharing was.

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at last! My shares in buggy-whip manufacturers will finally come good.

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Firstly, you can absolutely forget about any system that requires users to name documents in a way that is descriptive, consistent, unique or anything else that a sane person would do.

Secondly, MacOS X Spotlight Server (as of version 10.5.7) doesn't work as one would expect/hope. Users' files stored on the server get indexed by the server but this index can only be read by users logged in to the server console (or via ssh), not clients that access the files my mounting them as shared volumes. If a client wishes to search the files, it must build its own index over the network. The workload on the server/network can cause severe performance issues until the clients have built their indexes, a process that will take hours and may take days to complete if you have a lot of files.

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This story should be tagged 'Child-Abuse'.

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