Chicken Little

Chicken Little and the Recorded Music Crisis

PUBLISHED BY THE IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY 1540-7993/03/$17.00 © 2003 IEEE IEEE SECURITY & PRIVACY 73 F or the past few years, the recorded music industry has blamed the “falloff” in CD sales on piracy, and they have lobbied heavily against technologies like file-sharing and CD writers. Now, I am against piracy and in favor of artists being paid for their work, but before we start adding special-pu...

Access without Appropriateness: Chicken Little in Charge?

Health policy makers in Canada have swung between the twin poles of ensuring access and controlling costs. Recently, access has dominated. Reconciling these opposing ideals, rather than alternating between them, requires adding the concept of appropriateness, and recognizing that rapid access to unneeded care may do more harm than good. Several examples are given of resources wasted (and side e...

Little languages: little maintenance?

So-called little, or domain-specific languages (DSLs), have the potential to make software maintenance simpler: domain-experts can directly use the DSL to make required routine modifications. At the negative side, however, more substantial changes may become more difficult: such changes may involve altering the domain-specific language. This will require compiler technology knowledge, which not...

Chicken Little or Nero's Fiddle? A Perspective on Declining Amphibian Populations

Frobenius kernel and Wedderburn's little theorem

We give a new proof of the well known Wedderburn's little theorem (1905) that a finite‎ ‎division ring is commutative‎. ‎We apply the concept of Frobenius kernel in Frobenius representation theorem in finite group‎ ‎theory to build a proof‎.