In California if the Database Admin loses a bunch of customer data they have to contact the customers to let them know. That's great.
But if the database has security flaws the database vendor doesn't have to inform the Database Admin. For example, Microsoft has been going around saying how secure their new products are so a Database Admin might think he's being responsible. But the problem is that Microsoft doesn't have a full disclosure policy so they know about security problems but they're _still_ going on about how secure they are.
So basically the Database Admin is screwed.
If the Database Admin knew about all the problems he might have bought a different product. Letting the market decide doesn't work unless we have full disclosure laws so that people can make correct choices.
Full disclosure laws are very cheap. Debian discloses their vulnerabilities. If Debian can do it, Microsoft can do it. This is much better than lawsuits and fines.
I used to work in a grocery store in college and it surprised me what people would put up with from computers.
At the grocery store my job was to check that all the prices matched what was posted on the tags. But sometimes I noticed that you'd change the prices but then they would revert to incorrect prices. It was pretty clear that there was some kind of corruption going on but I didn't know what. Also about once a week everyone had to log out of the database for a two hours while it was "refactored". This was some kind of automated process I guess, like fscking a filesystem.
Another thing that concerned me was that the db vendors said we shouldn't have more than one person logged in to the database at a time. Nobody paid any attention to this rule because it was retarted from a practical standpoint to run a business with only one person allowed to use the database. What concerned me was that the vendor seemed to know that the db had race conditions and major bugs.
The managers were super smart people normally but when it came to computers they didn't have a clue. Their vendor told them that this kind minor corruption was normal for databases and that they shouldn't worry about it so they didn't for a long time.
The good news is that eventually they did get a different db, but I left that same week so I don't know if the new one was better.
1. It is good for a man not to touch a woman. 2. Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
In other words, being celibate is "good" but you shouldn't do it. Question: Out of the 2 choices, 1) becoming monks or nuns and 2) getting married, which one does Paul want them to do more?
3. Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. 4. The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife. 5a. Defraud ye not one the other
Married people should have sex often. Even if you don't want to, remember that your husband or wife might so keep that in mind. Fun fact: The Talmud specifies the minimum frequency that couples should have sex. It varies depending on how much time you spend at work.
5b. except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
If you both agree to not have sex that's OK but only for a short time. And even though you might feel that it helps your spirituality, remember that Satan can use it to tempt you. Also during those periods when you are not having sex, I think you shouldn't eat either, that would make you even more spiritual.
6. But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.
That last thing about periodically not having sex is something I would discourage. But since you seem insistent on not having sex then I'm going to allow it.
7. For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.
I wish that everyone was like me, but we're all different, that's why I think it's OK for you to not have sex even though I think you should get married and make lots of babies.
As a child I lived in that part of Zambia that is almost surrounded by the DR Congo and Angola. Both of those countries suffered at the hands of the CIA.
After the CIA assasinated Lumumba, it's easy for them to come out the next year and say, "We've learned our lesson we won't assisinate any more of your prime ministers." To me the bad thing was that the US supported Mobutu's regime for almost 40 years after that... Mobutu wouldn't have survived if he couldn't have hired a private army with US dollars.
The US did this because Zaire has strategic uranium reserves. (captain sarcasm interjects: "And also because they love freedom").
Lots of people have ideas. Imagine you're a VC and someone proposes an idea and you think it's pretty good. Obviously the first thing you are going to do is see who else is doing similar stuff to gauge the competition.
If it really is a good idea then there are always going to be a couple other startups doing exactly the same thing. So now the question is should you fund the first guy or not. Or maybe you should fund the competition?
What really counts is the team. Do they have what it takes to make the idea into a product and beat the competition? A great team can take any idea and adapt it into a profitable company.
Wars don't happen for one reason alone, but every war is partly or mostly a struggle for natural resources. In the Middle East every war is connected to oil. It takes a lot of cash to create an army or to support rebel factions so foriegn oil interests are in there making deals and writing contracts.
Take a situation like Darfur. The farmers and the nomads have been fighting for centuries, but once oil was discovered suddenly outsiders started handing out guns.
There are basically two types of people in the world, people who do stuff (coders) and people who talk about stuff (writers). And then somewhere below that there are people who make money off of writers (publishers).
I don't have anything against publishers per se but who really cares? I mean _really_ cares?
On the third one I just saw: skyline skyline bright yellow fire hydrant skyline skyline village skyline skyline skyline
At the top picture I notice the bright red car first and the gun second.
I absolutely agree with you that it's stupid and way too early to say "We tested with violent images so the people that zoomed in on the violent images are worriers."
It would be interesting to replace the violent images with anything recognizable. For example, they could use pictures of Sadam Hussein, the Statue of Liberty or Mickey Mouse.
Of course, this is related to doing a double take so violence and nudity do stand out. How it all fits in with being care free is harder to say.
Please moderate the AC post up. The whole vista stuff is way too suspicious.
Vista is a Redmond company so it would have been known by Microsoft. Of course, Microsoft would have checked to see who owned vista.com to see whether they violated the trademark.
Vista and SCO are connected somehow because SCO has given over a million dollars to Vista through various deals. It doesn't seem that SCO got anything in return.
Now Microsoft and Vista are connected. It's a weird coincidence.
Stats_for_all talks about the Vista SCO connection on the yahoo SCOX board.
It seems that there are a lot of puzzling things about Vista as a company.
The message that most alarmed me was a beta IM program that crashed and it sayed: "A background error has occured. Please email the author at (email address) telling what you were doing if you cannot contact the author in a faster way."
I was like, "Crud! It must be important if email is too slow."
>> Blockbuster doesn't have to respect your policies, but if you rent a movie from them you have to respect theirs.
Everyone should be decent to each other. It's easy enough for Blockbuster to call the collection agency. It's easy enough for Austerity Empowers to stop going there and for him to post his anti-blockbuster story so that other people don't go there.
We don't know the whole story here. How much was the late fee? There may have been special circumstances. Also Blockbuster recently lost a class action lawsuit because they claim to not charge late fees.
To me it's sad how dehumanizing everything has become. I try to be more human. At work I'm a person; I'm not just a role that could be done by someone else.
It's better to deal with people face to face. I go to a couple video stores. There is a Filipino place where the owner never charges me late fees but he does for other people. There is a place where the manager and I haggle all the time about late fees because the store policy is retarded. I mostly go to a block buster these days and I know all the people who work there and they know me. If there was an issue we could sort it out without turning into machines.
Why don't they say what buttons to press? Either the reporter: 1) Doesn't know what buttons to press, didn't wonder about it and didn't test it. 2) Thinks it should be kept a secret. 3) Thinks it's too complicated for CNN readership.
All of those reasons are pretty disrespectful for the readership. CNN is like porridge. It's fine for when you just wake up but there's nothing you can sink your teeth into.
Of course, there are a lot of things that programmers can do to make code easy to read, but I'm quite interested in the things that computers can do to make code easy to read.
For example lxr.linux.no is great but it would be even better if it was integrated into the editor. They say etags is the same, but I've never been able to make it work.
Another thing that would be great would be color coding for bugginess. There are a bunch of different static analysis tools that could generate a bugginess value for each line of code. Also really picky indent color coding would be nice.
Another thing would be better integration with the CVS. Something like this perhaps. It would be handy to know if a bug only affected 2.6 or if it went back to 2.4 as well.
The AYID=89CFE0A-424C-4240-Z8D0-9CR52623F70 was in the URL bar when you logged into the site. You could figure out the id=1234567 from hitting view source once you were logged in and searching for ID.
I look at that and I think, maybe they didn't make the URL clickable because of a bug in the system. These students basically just found a bug fix.
The problem is that MOG is really smart. She deliberately writes her stories so that all the facts are true or attributed to an anonymous source so you end up with the wrong conclusion.
PJ refutes one of MOGs stories but what PJ didn't notice is that every sentence in the article was true when taken by itself. The fact that they combined to give you a false impression that was the opposite of what happenned is a problem for the reader to deal with.
I don't disagree with you at all, but personally I think it's great that Microsoft is busting out the lawyers on people.
A while back, they sued someone in Zambia. They flew in a bunch of high powered lawyers and won the case in a big way. Since Microsoft licensing is a huge percent of the cost for computer projects, people are more and more looking at Linux.
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In California if the Database Admin loses a bunch of customer data they have to contact the customers to let them know. That's great.
But if the database has security flaws the database vendor doesn't have to inform the Database Admin. For example, Microsoft has been going around saying how secure their new products are so a Database Admin might think he's being responsible. But the problem is that Microsoft doesn't have a full disclosure policy so they know about security problems but they're _still_ going on about how secure they are.
So basically the Database Admin is screwed.
If the Database Admin knew about all the problems he might have bought a different product. Letting the market decide doesn't work unless we have full disclosure laws so that people can make correct choices.
Full disclosure laws are very cheap. Debian discloses their vulnerabilities. If Debian can do it, Microsoft can do it. This is much better than lawsuits and fines.
I used to work in a grocery store in college and it surprised me what people would put up with from computers.
At the grocery store my job was to check that all the prices matched what was posted on the tags. But sometimes I noticed that you'd change the prices but then they would revert to incorrect prices. It was pretty clear that there was some kind of corruption going on but I didn't know what. Also about once a week everyone had to log out of the database for a two hours while it was "refactored". This was some kind of automated process I guess, like fscking a filesystem.
Another thing that concerned me was that the db vendors said we shouldn't have more than one person logged in to the database at a time. Nobody paid any attention to this rule because it was retarted from a practical standpoint to run a business with only one person allowed to use the database. What concerned me was that the vendor seemed to know that the db had race conditions and major bugs.
The managers were super smart people normally but when it came to computers they didn't have a clue. Their vendor told them that this kind minor corruption was normal for databases and that they shouldn't worry about it so they didn't for a long time.
The good news is that eventually they did get a different db, but I left that same week so I don't know if the new one was better.
1. It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
2. Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
In other words, being celibate is "good" but you shouldn't do it. Question: Out of the 2 choices, 1) becoming monks or nuns and 2) getting married, which one does Paul want them to do more?
3. Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
4. The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
5a. Defraud ye not one the other
Married people should have sex often. Even if you don't want to, remember that your husband or wife might so keep that in mind. Fun fact: The Talmud specifies the minimum frequency that couples should have sex. It varies depending on how much time you spend at work.
5b. except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
If you both agree to not have sex that's OK but only for a short time. And even though you might feel that it helps your spirituality, remember that Satan can use it to tempt you. Also during those periods when you are not having sex, I think you shouldn't eat either, that would make you even more spiritual.
6. But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.
That last thing about periodically not having sex is something I would discourage. But since you seem insistent on not having sex then I'm going to allow it.
7. For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.
I wish that everyone was like me, but we're all different, that's why I think it's OK for you to not have sex even though I think you should get married and make lots of babies.
Slashdot is based in America.
It works like this: Americans wake up. Slashdot admins wake up. Stories about submitted and posted.
Americans go to sleep. Night shift at slashdot wake up.
Australians wake up. Asians wake up. Australians submit stuff.
Time passes.
Europe and Africa wake up.
A new day dawns.
As a child I lived in that part of Zambia that is almost surrounded by the DR Congo and Angola. Both of those countries suffered at the hands of the CIA.
After the CIA assasinated Lumumba, it's easy for them to come out the next year and say, "We've learned our lesson we won't assisinate any more of your prime ministers." To me the bad thing was that the US supported Mobutu's regime for almost 40 years after that... Mobutu wouldn't have survived if he couldn't have hired a private army with US dollars.
The US did this because Zaire has strategic uranium reserves. (captain sarcasm interjects: "And also because they love freedom").
Lots of people have ideas. Imagine you're a VC and someone proposes an idea and you think it's pretty good. Obviously the first thing you are going to do is see who else is doing similar stuff to gauge the competition.
If it really is a good idea then there are always going to be a couple other startups doing exactly the same thing. So now the question is should you fund the first guy or not. Or maybe you should fund the competition?
What really counts is the team. Do they have what it takes to make the idea into a product and beat the competition? A great team can take any idea and adapt it into a profitable company.
>>Wars over engery
Wars don't happen for one reason alone, but every war is partly or mostly a struggle for natural resources. In the Middle East every war is connected to oil. It takes a lot of cash to create an army or to support rebel factions so foriegn oil interests are in there making deals and writing contracts.
Take a situation like Darfur. The farmers and the nomads have been fighting for centuries, but once oil was discovered suddenly outsiders started handing out guns.
I don't really understand what the big deal is.
There are basically two types of people in the world, people who do stuff (coders) and people who talk about stuff (writers). And then somewhere below that there are people who make money off of writers (publishers).
I don't have anything against publishers per se but who really cares? I mean _really_ cares?
On the third one I just saw:
skyline
skyline
bright yellow fire hydrant
skyline
skyline
village
skyline
skyline
skyline
At the top picture I notice the bright red car first and the gun second.
I absolutely agree with you that it's stupid and way too early to say "We tested with violent images so the people that zoomed in on the violent images are worriers."
It would be interesting to replace the violent images with anything recognizable. For example, they could use pictures of Sadam Hussein, the Statue of Liberty or Mickey Mouse.
Of course, this is related to doing a double take so violence and nudity do stand out. How it all fits in with being care free is harder to say.
Please moderate the AC post up. The whole vista stuff is way too suspicious.
Vista is a Redmond company so it would have been known by Microsoft. Of course, Microsoft would have checked to see who owned vista.com to see whether they violated the trademark.
The stuff with SCO is completely bizarre as well.
Vista and SCO are connected somehow because SCO has given over a million dollars to Vista through various deals. It doesn't seem that SCO got anything in return.
Now Microsoft and Vista are connected. It's a weird coincidence.
Stats_for_all talks about the Vista SCO connection on the yahoo SCOX board.
It seems that there are a lot of puzzling things about Vista as a company.
c++ is compilers are OK these days. It's not slow and if you use c++ at that level you learn how it's being translated into assembly.
Of course, you wouldn't use virtual methods in os code unless you were a retard.
In England, the word "is" means a "bowl of fruit" and the word "fix" means "one who eats raman noodles."
The message that most alarmed me was a beta IM program that crashed and it sayed: "A background error has occured. Please email the author at (email address) telling what you were doing if you cannot contact the author in a faster way."
I was like, "Crud! It must be important if email is too slow."
>> Blockbuster doesn't have to respect your policies, but if you rent a movie from them you have to respect theirs.
Everyone should be decent to each other. It's easy enough for Blockbuster to call the collection agency. It's easy enough for Austerity Empowers to stop going there and for him to post his anti-blockbuster story so that other people don't go there.
We don't know the whole story here. How much was the late fee? There may have been special circumstances. Also Blockbuster recently lost a class action lawsuit because they claim to not charge late fees.
To me it's sad how dehumanizing everything has become. I try to be more human. At work I'm a person; I'm not just a role that could be done by someone else.
It's better to deal with people face to face. I go to a couple video stores. There is a Filipino place where the owner never charges me late fees but he does for other people. There is a place where the manager and I haggle all the time about late fees because the store policy is retarded. I mostly go to a block buster these days and I know all the people who work there and they know me. If there was an issue we could sort it out without turning into machines.
Ransom Love sold all his stock when the lawsuit started. link
Probably they will only enforce it on minorities and people they don't like.
Hope that helps.
> no healthcare for illegals
In Santa Clara county all children have health insurance from the county. Which is pretty cool.
Reporters are such morons.
Why don't they say what buttons to press? Either the reporter:
1) Doesn't know what buttons to press, didn't wonder about it and didn't test it.
2) Thinks it should be kept a secret.
3) Thinks it's too complicated for CNN readership.
All of those reasons are pretty disrespectful for the readership. CNN is like porridge. It's fine for when you just wake up but there's nothing you can sink your teeth into.
At one place where I worked, someone brought in a computer from home that wasn't usable because of some malware.
When we hooked it up and turned it on, it took down the _entire_ network for the building.
Pretty fun.
Of course, there are a lot of things that programmers can do to make code easy to read, but I'm quite interested in the things that computers can do to make code easy to read.
For example lxr.linux.no is great but it would be even better if it was integrated into the editor. They say etags is the same, but I've never been able to make it work.
Another thing that would be great would be color coding for bugginess. There are a bunch of different static analysis tools that could generate a bugginess value for each line of code. Also really picky indent color coding would be nice.
Another thing would be better integration with the CVS. Something like this perhaps. It would be handy to know if a bug only affected 2.6 or if it went back to 2.4 as well.
Those are some ideas. Gotto run.
The trick was you had to type in the following URL.
p pl icantDecision.asp?AYID=89CFE0A-424C-4240-Z8D0-9CR5 2623F70&mode=decision&id=1234567
https://app.applyyourself.com/AyApplicantMain/A
The AYID=89CFE0A-424C-4240-Z8D0-9CR52623F70 was in the URL bar when you logged into the site. You could figure out the id=1234567 from hitting view source once you were logged in and searching for ID.
I look at that and I think, maybe they didn't make the URL clickable because of a bug in the system. These students basically just found a bug fix.
The problem is that MOG is really smart. She deliberately writes her stories so that all the facts are true or attributed to an anonymous source so you end up with the wrong conclusion.
Look at this story on Groklaw.
PJ refutes one of MOGs stories but what PJ didn't notice is that every sentence in the article was true when taken by itself. The fact that they combined to give you a false impression that was the opposite of what happenned is a problem for the reader to deal with.
The statistics say that women get into fewer accidents than men. That's why insurance companies charge women less.
I don't disagree with you at all, but personally I think it's great that Microsoft is busting out the lawyers on people.
A while back, they sued someone in Zambia. They flew in a bunch of high powered lawyers and won the case in a big way. Since Microsoft licensing is a huge percent of the cost for computer projects, people are more and more looking at Linux.
Baby steps...