Oh great vasqzr, your library is most impressive as are your great deductive reasoning skills. I would never have come up with your summary of the article nor recomended the same books after reading that article. What a grasp you have on the following quotes:
If something like Windows plays any part at all in your system design, you should probably give up now. Despite being closed source, holes are discovered constantly. The Windows system is also far too massive, complex, and user unfriendly for human beings to have any hope in securing it.
It should be a crime to teach people C/C++. This isn't an attack on the language itself (although there are plenty). The problem is that people use it to write high level applications....High level languages like Ruby, Python, or even Java are strongly recommended for all new projects.
Actually, I think you are a troll. You read the article, know about the boycot on Amazon, and wrote the most infuriating and leat informative thing you could. Thanks.
For those of you just tuning in, I like C, but the author's got point about using it to write high level stuff.
... the same amount of work is being done by less people.
Who told you that? The same idiot trying to prove productivity is up by micromanaging your hours? Did they also tell you how last year was "the best year ever"? Work you do that no one noticed until it was not done will now be noticed.
I'm sorry, but this big dog lead downsizing at big companies is clueless and likely to get rid of talent first. The "deadwood" has been there forever, and likely to sue for age discrimination. The fact is that most of the fire decisions will be made based on things previously considered "minor" problems that were easy to document. It's especially stupid when it happens in stable sectors of the economy, but somehow it's a national obsession. It realy agrivates me to see companies spend arms and legs on "security" and more silly Windoze software, trumpet their "best year ever" then turn around and fire people so that there will be enough money for your and your boss's bonus.
here in 2001, Shoeboy told us that Open Source was dying and that Mozilla would never work and usability would never come from free software. Funy, I'm posting this from Mozilla on the most usable software I've ever owned, all free. So the advice was bad, but that's not the point. The point is that stocks are overvalued because there has been an incentive for them to look that way.
There are only two kinds of shareholders that count, large institutional shareholders and your boss. The first group are the ones "managing" your 401 plan and they have effectively co-opted your boss.
Your company puts big heaping hunks of your money into 401k investment firms. In turn, these institutions talk to your boss's boss's boss and tel l them about "market expectations". When your company does not make it's earnings goals, they treaten to unload stocks, which would sink the price and your company. Your boss, and you too, have their savings wiped out.
This is why I did not buy into my company's 401k plan. It's good when it's good, but I got in at a market peak. Did the US economy really grow five fold in the 90s? No, it did not, in fact manufacturing and other important segments contracted as we sold our souls to Chinese imports. John Kenedy senior got out of the market when a shoeboy gave him stock advice. The year was 1929. Today, shoeboy is a troll and his alterego, streetlawer, will be happy to give you stock advice. I wish those two would do something interesting, their advice is evidence that they are underutilized and that we are all have less than we think we do.
The 401k "managers" second guessing my company and creating incentives for my bosses to get rich quick with bonuses, unrealistic expectations, and other silly games has undone many great companies. Look forward to more accounting fraud, bankruptsies and other badness. The last place I worked had it's "grateful" people working 12 hour days to keep their jobs but they got fired anyway. Something really stinks about that.
Al Queda delcared it will not be going after ClubMed. "Let the hethens drink themselves to STDs and early graves," claimed a source that wished to remain anymous.
IEEE seems to be good at sharing infromation, with a few small problems. See their terms and conditions for yourself. I don't see an an exclusivity clause, which would prevent you from publishing your work elsewhere if you chose. In fact they seem to encourage you to publish on your own and get the nature of the internet, as you would expect. The only thing that bothers me is a unilateral termination clause, where the IEEE can bar any researcher for any reason. That's a bit extreem for what ammounts to a public place, though I imagine that any site administrator should be able to block any malicious site to protect itself.
I've never worked with IEEE. Give me some inside juice. The terms look beter than most on the surface.
Peer review is part of active research and should be thought of as part of any research position. It keeps you up to date and sharpens your brain, kind of like Slashdot but there are fewer trolls.
The burden of clerical work is a different and unrelated issue. You should have an expert at digital publishing who can take your plain text, raw data and notes on equations, and turn them into decent looking papers on the web and on paper trough Apache, LaTex, DX and any other useful system. Secrataries should be up to this task. Anything else is wasteful of real research time.
Peer reviewers, who perform the most valuable service of all, are not paid. They still have to pay to have their articles published and pay for coppies of that article.
What makes you think the folks as that "service" that charged $5/minute does not want pubmed shut down?
What's over the top here is that the government does not need the services of these "publishers." The government pays for all the bandwith it needs, organizes the research it funds, and could easily share these articles with everyone without anyone's help or additional costs. Next thing you know, the publishers will be asking Uncle Sam for base operating costs because no one wants to use their overpriced service. It would really burn me up is the "publishers" in question were getting their information from the govenment to begin with and they have restricted other's access to the same.
As the government has bowed out, it's up to researchers now to present their work themselves and form their own peer reviewed journals and librarians to organize it. The government has told these publishers that they may live by the sword of free competition. Let them die by it as well. If public libriarian can not aid the effort, let private school librarians do the work and share it. If "publishers" can get this information from the government, librarians should be able to as well. This is what researchers and librarians do for a living, right? Librarians don't just exist to collect comercial publications, they are supposed to collect ALL infromation available and present it in a usable manner. Researchers create the information.
It would only be scary if you published a recognizable image of someone without their consent. The disreputable state of your backyard, or you as you sunbathe there, can be seen by anyone in any small aircraft. Technology claimed that expectation of privacy long ago.
Make a foam enclosure for it, like this. I rigged that holder with a 9 volt battery, a flashing christmas tree light and a solenoid moved piece of music wire to push the button. Action Movie! (Yeah, yeah, my cameras put out crappy AVI files.)The camera used was very light and made of reasonable plastic so crashes like this did not ruin it. My second holder was built for a Sipix, which takes compact flash and has 2.1M pixels. I opened that up and soldered in an earplug jack which proved more reliable than the music wire, but was not too ugly. See how here.
You slashdotted your cable box, you bastard!
kill with a computer, rot in jail. MSNBC sucks.
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If we follow the link to findlaw, we find:
Hackers will face harsher penalties if they knowingly cause, or attempt to cause, death or serious bodily injury using the computer as an "instrumentality" for committing their crime. Although there is room for debate about how this provision will be implemented, it seems reasonably limited to distinguish garden-variety hackers from hacker-terrorists.
Society has always been sickened by those who posess tools, knowledge and position but chose to harm others. Without the text of the abomination before me I can't really judge it, but it looks like a provision to punish people who try to harm others with a computer. It's strange that the federal government would wish to add this federal crime on top of the normal state laws against murder, attempted murder, manslaughter, etc. regardless of tool used. Not too strange when you consider that government always seeks more power.
Consider the source for the accuracy of the statement, "... [the] bill would punish malicious computer hackers with life in prison." M$ would like to lock up people that interfere with their ability to extort money from the public. This is why they continue to use inflamatory terms like "pirate" to describe file copy without permission, and put negative conotations on terms like "hack". They only wish they could put "hackers" in jail and are doing everything possible to convince the public that it is morally correct to do so. It's foolish to even think in those terms, but trust M$ to help themselves by putting the words into your mind in that form. Some "news" is better left unread. The MSNBC article is obviously not a good one.
This isn't your 'internet' it's that of those who own the hardware. I find this false sense of ownership childish and tasteless.
I say, bullshit. The net is mostly built on public right of way. That makes it mine, yours too unfortunately. The order of slavery is enforced by brute repression. In any case, the net will be worthless without mass participation or it becomes a one way push fest like TV or something. Oh yeah, we own the airwaves too, I keep forgeting that.
Because Rupurt Murdoch promised Televangilists more time on his cable networks if they would stir up opposition to the satilite merger. Saw it in the Wall Street Journal, dead tree version. Link has the results, both of the little fishies will be eaten and shut down. So, for a temporary advantage, those fools enlarged the power of their enemies.
The truth only happens in a place where there are many publishers of equal weight. A place with one or two heavies is likely to have "news" that's more entertianment, spin and propaganda than information. An old Russian poverb, "There's no truth in the news and no news in the truth," was made fact by the Soviet Union which had only two news services in any media, Tass and Isvestia, meaning Truth and News (order may be incorrect). Both printed up the same nonsense. It can happen elswhere with far less repressive measures.
$40 is not too high a price for not being able to figure out some combination of tar, find, grep, and crypt, but there's no telling where these folks will go with their new "Market Driven" company:
...The investors who bought the company following Katz's death in 2000 bolstered the top management team. PKWare's technology hot shots,... are supported by experienced software executives. And the company has its first professional and disciplined sales force.
...When Katz was in charge, PKWare's programmers often would work on new features that they found interesting rather than targeting specific needs of potential customers, Kennedy said.
"In some cases what they did was successful, but in many cases what they did wasn't anywhere near successful," he said. "The company from this standpoint now is market driven."
The engineers are no longer in charge, money is. All the clueless and stupid "features" that corporate slave drivers can think of will become projects for the Brown Deer survivors. I can imagine them asking for central repositories of file lists, tables of "sensitive" files that can't be ziped, and other silly work arounds the serious lack of data control their w2k desktops have. I can also imagine that half of the "I wanna micro manage my staff to death" initiatives will directly contrardict the requirements for the other half. Sounds like hell if they really have remade the company that way, and sure the customer gets screwed along with the lusers. That's what happens when you put sales in front of engineering.
I could be wrong. Dr. Kelly could be a fine fellow and have no intentions of making this happen. It will be difficult for him to manage the monster he's making. Good luck and never trust M$, the folks that bought 5th Generation Software to kill Fastback and who have always seen backup utilities as a threat and aid to "pirates".
I was just ranting. I do that when I see stupid stuff like you wrote:
MSDN's documentation and source examples are free... msdn.microsoft.com has all of it. As a former MSDN subscriber, you get software and EXTRA downloads (ability to try new releases, etc), but the documentation is always freely available. FUD Alert!
You might just as well have said, "don't wait, buy one today." It was easy to point out that said documentation was incomplete and pointless. I did'nt bother you about the fact that pumping up the MSDN has nothing to do with anything being talked about. You now continue to pump up M$ garbage:
The programs that I wrote years ago still run perfectly fine in Windows 2000/XP as they did in Winnt 4.0 and Windows 98.
My programs, written for 95, continued to work on 98 and NT too, woo-hoo, we're so leet. I'm not sure if they worked on w2k or XP because I decided it was better not to write for M$ platforms anymore. Watching much bigger boys, such as IBM and Netscape get burnt after paying good money for way better documentation than I'd ever get, was enough to make me paranoid. I used the most primative APIs possible and stayed away from obvious screws like the M$FC. It was easy stuff, and there was hardly a reason to look things up on the MSDN. Then better and free software came along and M$ just looked like crap next to it. Wow, MSDN is free beer, how impressive a no cost advert is that? I've got a whole OS with tools and goodies that would cost me at least $500/year, to do the M$ way. Ah, but I'm diverging again. I'll bet you a nickle your programs either never tried to print or broke. Take that crap away from me please and save your flames for the Got Net boards.
Mr. Rosen, what's reasonable and non discriminatory mean in the release of APIs?
What programer would really want to copy M$s slow buggy internal workings when so many better models are free?
What has really changed? It looks like you have to pay big bucks to see useful documentation and M$ is free to break it tomorrow without notice via XP's forced "update", a much more powerful means of destroying competitors code than the older DLL Hell.
Why is it that this judgement is so broad and non specific? I thought judges, who are lawyers, were supposed to give specific guiadance on the law, judge not just the behavior of lawbreakers and judge the spirit in which they performed those things that broke the law. My expectations of a glorious future in which hardware makers are not coerced into making disposable M$ only junk, the internet remaining free and me continuing to own my computer are indeed large expectitions, but I expect my government to apply the law specifically and in the best interests of it's citezens. My expectations are not being met and Mr. Rosen's evasive and appologetic answers don't make me very happy.
At the same time, the court refused to require the disclosures of Microsoft's intellectual property that describes Windows' internal interfaces:
"Over-broad disclosure, such as that proposed by Plaintiffs, must also be avoided because it will likely enable wholesale copying or cloning of Windows without violating Microsoft's intellectual property rights. The cloning of Microsoft's technology carries the potential to hinder some aspects of competition and discourage innovation. As antitrust law does not exist for the protection of competitors, but for the protection of competition, the Court does not regard this end as a legitimate one." So that's why the court balanced copyright with antitrust.
MSDN? You're joking, right? MSDN's documentation remains incomplete, and it's extensiveness is a trap as are EXTRA downloads. It's not the 1,000 APIs you know that matter, it's the one you don't. That's the one that stays the same while one you know changes and breaks your program. Extensive but meaningless documentation is worse than usless because it wastes your time. Extra downloads will be had by all users of XP, like it or not. So tomorrow all the interfaces can change all the time without your notice. Your program will be slow and crash prone, M$'s will be as snappy and uncrash prone as M$ can make it (they get bit by their own convolutions all the time).
Nothing has changed, right down to Barktos like you trying to trumpet the MSDN's currently free beer garbage. Real information will still cost you money but will do you about as much good as it did Corel. For all we know, MSDN will start to cost money as well as bind you to silly terms.
I don't like the joke about the word "reasonable" employing lawers one bit. What we are talking about is the continued bilking of the unwarry and the continued sack of all those firms who put their resources into building Windows based software. The remedy, talking to a comitte to decide what's reasonable is worse than a joke, it's a death warrent for all firms that want to have anything to do with Microsoft. It's not a joke it's company survival, people's jobs and the continued intentional waste forced on all the rest of us dumb enough to use M$. When I see evidence that hardware makers and website designers are moving toward open standards I will feel like M$ has lost it's ability to leverage it's OS monopoly into other areas. In the mean time, I'm holding on to my Paladium free hardware and fulling expecting M$ to continue with it's plans to own computing by 2005. I can just imagine Cox deciding to change their contract to Paladium only hardware attaches to the network and offering free BIOS flashes.
The LD I got (used but in the orignial box!), came with a 150 Pentium and a CD ROM which you had to swap out the floppy to use. All hardware was recognized automatically by the vanilla kernel, and irronically it's one of the few machines I have with working audio. PCMCIA has got to be one of the coolest things ever. The only PC card I've ever had a problem with was a combined modem ehternet card that I could only see the ethernet on. A seperate modem card fixed that nicely. The IDE floppy might throw some for a loop until they realize its a/dev/hd_something. As a terminal, it's very nice. If I had wireless in house, it would be awsome.
does a fileserver really need http, ftp, and mail daemons running?
I have proftpd running on it to get files off easily when I go someplace that does not have an ftp server. I suppose that I could run NFS but the places I got that don't have ftp are likely not to have NFS either.
As for my 486 gateway, I'd love to run mail and http daemons on it. Exim, a nice little mail server IS running on it but COX blocks the inbound requests. One day they will block everthing but digital cable TV and call it convergence, but that is a different rant. There are several light http deamons that would do just fine for serving the few static pages I try to share over ftp. One day, I'll configure one to run on something besides port 80 to see if I can get around Cox.
Well, just pull up a console, kill all your services and boggie. It does make a difference. Your nasty math problems will be able to suck up all your memory and little will interrupt. You can go down from there if you wish. Boot up with grub to ye new Spartan kernel, and define a run level that's just like you want it and kick some ass. Spend a few more bucks to set up as many machines as you have projects. SSH into it to start your problem and then get your answer.
Pitty all OS are not so easy to configure. You want more, you got it. You want less, OK. You want to throw everything you got at one thing, go for it. A box that you have to leave your chair to mess with is a pain, and should be fixed with a new OS.
...a mint condition IBM ThinkPad 755C... On the resource side, I had 12 MB of memory and a 540-MB hard drive to work with...I planned to use the laptop for writing and for remote access to my more powerful desktop development system. Therefore, I needed a system with network support, a shell, a text editor like vi, CVS for versioning my documents, and SSH for secure remote access.
Huh? Those are really light requirements and with some additional RAM, that laptop could run X without a problem. Debinate it!
My 760LD has only 24M of RAM. It felt a little crammped with the 800 MB hard drive that came with it, but the only thing tedious about the installation of 2.2 potato was making the base install floppies. Once that was on, I could put the CD ROM in and zippy, no problem. The same har drive then worked with a much older Toshiba 468 with 8 or 16 MB or RAM. Yes, it does ssh. I got a bigger hard drive to feel less cramped and get more window managers. Using OLVWM I was able to make it display more than 256 colors, but it was stable with all the window managers I tried was stable with 256 colors. I probably boned up the ammount of RAM the card actually has, or missed some kind of shared memory thingy, shrug, it works.
For the lighter requirements this guy has, he should have loads of extra space and it should work just snappy. My 486 gateway runs a little ftp, ssh and most of the standard distro. It takes less than 150 MB of system files to do that, leaving 350 MB for temproary files.
Indeed, this fellows low expectations for his hardware should make the insalation much easier. I recenlty built a debian box on a 33MHz 486 with 8 or 12 MB RAM. It was painful, but you can just drop your hard disk into a nicer box and just put on the few things you want from a vanilla i386 binary install disk. If all you put on is i386, just put it all on in something with a little more RAM and pep, then drop it into your target. The kernel should adapt to it's new environment.
Apt-get upgrade was a little painful last time, with the new OpenSSH stuff but it did, finally, work. I had to manually dpkg the new packages and read the error messages and it took a day, grrrr! I should have left it alone, but I'm glad it's done.
Oh well, the man's effort is not wasted. His site is great for those who wish to really cut out the fluff and have a beautiful Spartan install. For the rest of you, I recomend the much easier Debian apt-get path.
Of course, (almost) everyone hates privately, but that's another matter.
Ah, so private hates are publically accepted and public speech is a lie. Thank you for proving the value of free speech. When speech is not free, it is not true and everyone can believe they are correct in the vilest nonsense.
Your memory is incorrect. 1984 describes hundreds of nukes dropped in Europe in the wars before the establishment of the final superpowers. After the establishment, those powers build and sit on those nukes but never use them because they know that invasion is impossible and unnecesary. Their goal in warfare is to waste resources.
The party goal was perpetual and absolute power maintianed by constant vigilence of thought word and deed of citizens, fear intimidation, hatred of the enemy, distrust of all but the party, and distruction of all emotion and loyalties exept towards the state. The Soviet Union came close to this ideal, but failed to develop the needed technology in time and failed to keep their subject from knowing that other societies had relatively better standards of living.
The remaining superpowers will take advantage of such technology as they can. Orwell bassed his predictions on carful study of human behavior exibited in India, UK, Spain and elsewhere. It is this nature he bassed his predictions on, not the technology. When the technology becomes available, it will be abused. That such abuses can openly be considered in the United States by high government officials and researchers is a tremendous blow to anyone who would argue that the US has special laws or attitudes that will protect us from human nature and Orwell's nighmare. The only thing that made the US any different was a relatively limitless frontier. Without such a frontier, the world will fall back to it's usual ways. With new technology, those ways will be more oppresive than you or I can really imagine.
Orwell also predicted that the superpowers would routinely bomb (non nuclear) their own population to maintain their hyseria. Indeed people do that kind of thing.
Think of it as a MS Access gui front-end tool over an XML source. It's focus is data entry not presentation, exactly the opposite of PDF.
If you think xdocs and acrobat are equivalent, then the same could be said about any word processor or html editor or desktop publishing tool, etc.
M$ will try to convince their lusers that XML is somehow open or free and get them to use it over pdf. They already do so much with Word.doc and rtf. So you are right, they would like you to use Word as your MSML (aka MSXML) editor for everything.
The clueless types of companies that still use M$ on their desktops when they could have software that writes pdf or ps for free already, will go this way. M$ convinces these fools that anything not M$ is an additional computer cost. They can't see through the fog and try to eliminate all non M$, even when TOC of alternate software is demonstrably lower. M$ builds it's case one application at a time, and makes sure the results are favorable. Next years licenssing prices then suck up the difference and then some, but SOME PEOPLE JUST DONT GET IT. They have been convinced of every silly lie that M$ has ever put out, that free software can never produce a practical operating system, that free software is never going to be user friendly, that free software will cost more money, that free software is full of bugs, blah blah blah. Suckers who think they are very clever. They are the same dumb asses that post word docs on the internet and email mail them as forms to be filled out. They will be happy to dump Adobe just as soon as M$ makes it harder to use and offers a second rate alternative.
You will be identifided by the crinkle you make as you walk. That and the airplanes you blind out of the sky.
The future is looking worse all the time. Someone will come up with realistic jamming I hope. Van De Graph generators for zapping them? EMPs to fry their little recievers? Firecrackers? Any good ideas? If they become pervasive, you won't know which ones are listening to your conversation from the ones that are reporting from your power meter. Will your new digital TV have feed back, ala 1984.
I thought it was bad at my last job when I found out that my new computer's internal microphone was on and imposible to disable, creepy. Ha Ha is not so funny when you start to consider all the closed source computers you have in your house that want to talk to the network.
I can imagine a story in the future where someone calls 911 about a bridge that looks about to collapse that is ignored because the sensors say the bridge is fine.
How many bridges collapsed last year? In the same period, how many electronic gadgets failed? Fail safe is false positive. It won't work till the sensors are monolithic and embeded within the structure itself, such as part of a composite build up layer. I've got little faith in conventional epoxy on steel strain gauges to report anything but false fails. Critters, frost, dew, corrosion and gremlins will break them.
The "Smart Dust" project refered to in another post and the goal of pervasive audio, visual, chemical and other monitoring is a much more disturbing notion, however. Combined with intelligent local filtering, such a network would enable personal tracking and monitoring of all "suspicious" people and conversations. It would be like a giant prison with robot gaurds to keep us all correct. Lierally, no place would be private and there would be no need for the embeded "ID tags" some fools seem to desire.
yes, big brother wants to watch, listen, smell...
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"I like to be conservative about things, but in a way [sensor networks] could be bigger than the internet. The net is relegated to a small screen and a keyboard. This will detect who you are and where you are. The whole analog world will interface with the net," says Clark Nguyen, a professor of electrical engineering on leave from theUniversity of Michigan to develop sensors for the U.S. Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
DARPA has made sensors a top priority, putting up $160 million of its own money and $500 million in matching funds from other U.S. government agencies....the data being sent (video, audio, chemical signature)
But don't worry, top heads are working on the implications.
...The implications of this are so huge that we need to get sociologists and legal people thinking about this early," says Roger T. Howe, the director of the Sensor &Actuator Center at the University of California at Berkeley.
I'm told that the University of California at Berkely has a copy of 1984 in the library. Someone there might have read about what happens when sensors are so pervasive that it's possible to listen to someone's every word and gesture. Orwell, however, did not imagine intelligent machines such as Carnivore, which could filter "suspicious" paterns and people from the noise. Double plus good purgewise.
People must bellyfeel crimethought. Double plus good kill terrorist and five unidentified accomplices, one US citezen without trial. When big brother knows, everything you do will be easier, safer and more fun.
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If something like Windows plays any part at all in your system design, you should probably give up now. Despite being closed source, holes are discovered constantly. The Windows system is also far too massive, complex, and user unfriendly for human beings to have any hope in securing it.
It should be a crime to teach people C/C++.
This isn't an attack on the language itself (although there are plenty). The problem is that people use it to write high level applications....High level languages like Ruby, Python, or even Java are strongly recommended for all new projects.
Actually, I think you are a troll. You read the article, know about the boycot on Amazon, and wrote the most infuriating and leat informative thing you could. Thanks.
For those of you just tuning in, I like C, but the author's got point about using it to write high level stuff.
Who told you that? The same idiot trying to prove productivity is up by micromanaging your hours? Did they also tell you how last year was "the best year ever"? Work you do that no one noticed until it was not done will now be noticed.
I'm sorry, but this big dog lead downsizing at big companies is clueless and likely to get rid of talent first. The "deadwood" has been there forever, and likely to sue for age discrimination. The fact is that most of the fire decisions will be made based on things previously considered "minor" problems that were easy to document. It's especially stupid when it happens in stable sectors of the economy, but somehow it's a national obsession. It realy agrivates me to see companies spend arms and legs on "security" and more silly Windoze software, trumpet their "best year ever" then turn around and fire people so that there will be enough money for your and your boss's bonus.
here in 2001, Shoeboy told us that Open Source was dying and that Mozilla would never work and usability would never come from free software. Funy, I'm posting this from Mozilla on the most usable software I've ever owned, all free. So the advice was bad, but that's not the point. The point is that stocks are overvalued because there has been an incentive for them to look that way.
Your company puts big heaping hunks of your money into 401k investment firms. In turn, these institutions talk to your boss's boss's boss and tel l them about "market expectations". When your company does not make it's earnings goals, they treaten to unload stocks, which would sink the price and your company. Your boss, and you too, have their savings wiped out.
This is why I did not buy into my company's 401k plan. It's good when it's good, but I got in at a market peak. Did the US economy really grow five fold in the 90s? No, it did not, in fact manufacturing and other important segments contracted as we sold our souls to Chinese imports. John Kenedy senior got out of the market when a shoeboy gave him stock advice. The year was 1929. Today, shoeboy is a troll and his alterego, streetlawer, will be happy to give you stock advice. I wish those two would do something interesting, their advice is evidence that they are underutilized and that we are all have less than we think we do.
The 401k "managers" second guessing my company and creating incentives for my bosses to get rich quick with bonuses, unrealistic expectations, and other silly games has undone many great companies. Look forward to more accounting fraud, bankruptsies and other badness. The last place I worked had it's "grateful" people working 12 hour days to keep their jobs but they got fired anyway. Something really stinks about that.
Al Queda delcared it will not be going after ClubMed. "Let the hethens drink themselves to STDs and early graves," claimed a source that wished to remain anymous.
I've never worked with IEEE. Give me some inside juice. The terms look beter than most on the surface.
Peer review is part of active research and should be thought of as part of any research position. It keeps you up to date and sharpens your brain, kind of like Slashdot but there are fewer trolls.
The burden of clerical work is a different and unrelated issue. You should have an expert at digital publishing who can take your plain text, raw data and notes on equations, and turn them into decent looking papers on the web and on paper trough Apache, LaTex, DX and any other useful system. Secrataries should be up to this task. Anything else is wasteful of real research time.
What makes you think the folks as that "service" that charged $5/minute does not want pubmed shut down?
What's over the top here is that the government does not need the services of these "publishers." The government pays for all the bandwith it needs, organizes the research it funds, and could easily share these articles with everyone without anyone's help or additional costs. Next thing you know, the publishers will be asking Uncle Sam for base operating costs because no one wants to use their overpriced service. It would really burn me up is the "publishers" in question were getting their information from the govenment to begin with and they have restricted other's access to the same.
As the government has bowed out, it's up to researchers now to present their work themselves and form their own peer reviewed journals and librarians to organize it. The government has told these publishers that they may live by the sword of free competition. Let them die by it as well. If public libriarian can not aid the effort, let private school librarians do the work and share it. If "publishers" can get this information from the government, librarians should be able to as well. This is what researchers and librarians do for a living, right? Librarians don't just exist to collect comercial publications, they are supposed to collect ALL infromation available and present it in a usable manner. Researchers create the information.
It would only be scary if you published a recognizable image of someone without their consent. The disreputable state of your backyard, or you as you sunbathe there, can be seen by anyone in any small aircraft. Technology claimed that expectation of privacy long ago.
You slashdotted your cable box, you bastard!
Hackers will face harsher penalties if they knowingly cause, or attempt to cause, death or serious bodily injury using the computer as an "instrumentality" for committing their crime. Although there is room for debate about how this provision will be implemented, it seems reasonably limited to distinguish garden-variety hackers from hacker-terrorists.
Society has always been sickened by those who posess tools, knowledge and position but chose to harm others. Without the text of the abomination before me I can't really judge it, but it looks like a provision to punish people who try to harm others with a computer. It's strange that the federal government would wish to add this federal crime on top of the normal state laws against murder, attempted murder, manslaughter, etc. regardless of tool used. Not too strange when you consider that government always seeks more power.
Consider the source for the accuracy of the statement, "... [the] bill would punish malicious computer hackers with life in prison." M$ would like to lock up people that interfere with their ability to extort money from the public. This is why they continue to use inflamatory terms like "pirate" to describe file copy without permission, and put negative conotations on terms like "hack". They only wish they could put "hackers" in jail and are doing everything possible to convince the public that it is morally correct to do so. It's foolish to even think in those terms, but trust M$ to help themselves by putting the words into your mind in that form. Some "news" is better left unread. The MSNBC article is obviously not a good one.
This isn't your 'internet' it's that of those who own the hardware. I find this false sense of ownership childish and tasteless.
I say, bullshit. The net is mostly built on public right of way. That makes it mine, yours too unfortunately. The order of slavery is enforced by brute repression. In any case, the net will be worthless without mass participation or it becomes a one way push fest like TV or something. Oh yeah, we own the airwaves too, I keep forgeting that.
Eggplant man, does that mean "eat me"?
The truth only happens in a place where there are many publishers of equal weight. A place with one or two heavies is likely to have "news" that's more entertianment, spin and propaganda than information. An old Russian poverb, "There's no truth in the news and no news in the truth," was made fact by the Soviet Union which had only two news services in any media, Tass and Isvestia, meaning Truth and News (order may be incorrect). Both printed up the same nonsense. It can happen elswhere with far less repressive measures.
...When Katz was in charge, PKWare's programmers often would work on new features that they found interesting rather than targeting specific needs of potential customers, Kennedy said.
"In some cases what they did was successful, but in many cases what they did wasn't anywhere near successful," he said. "The company from this standpoint now is market driven."
The engineers are no longer in charge, money is. All the clueless and stupid "features" that corporate slave drivers can think of will become projects for the Brown Deer survivors. I can imagine them asking for central repositories of file lists, tables of "sensitive" files that can't be ziped, and other silly work arounds the serious lack of data control their w2k desktops have. I can also imagine that half of the "I wanna micro manage my staff to death" initiatives will directly contrardict the requirements for the other half. Sounds like hell if they really have remade the company that way, and sure the customer gets screwed along with the lusers. That's what happens when you put sales in front of engineering.
I could be wrong. Dr. Kelly could be a fine fellow and have no intentions of making this happen. It will be difficult for him to manage the monster he's making. Good luck and never trust M$, the folks that bought 5th Generation Software to kill Fastback and who have always seen backup utilities as a threat and aid to "pirates".
MSDN's documentation and source examples are free ... msdn.microsoft.com has all of it. As a former MSDN subscriber, you get software and EXTRA downloads (ability to try new releases, etc), but the documentation is always freely available. FUD Alert!
You might just as well have said, "don't wait, buy one today." It was easy to point out that said documentation was incomplete and pointless. I did'nt bother you about the fact that pumping up the MSDN has nothing to do with anything being talked about. You now continue to pump up M$ garbage:
The programs that I wrote years ago still run perfectly fine in Windows 2000/XP as they did in Winnt 4.0 and Windows 98.
My programs, written for 95, continued to work on 98 and NT too, woo-hoo, we're so leet. I'm not sure if they worked on w2k or XP because I decided it was better not to write for M$ platforms anymore. Watching much bigger boys, such as IBM and Netscape get burnt after paying good money for way better documentation than I'd ever get, was enough to make me paranoid. I used the most primative APIs possible and stayed away from obvious screws like the M$FC. It was easy stuff, and there was hardly a reason to look things up on the MSDN. Then better and free software came along and M$ just looked like crap next to it. Wow, MSDN is free beer, how impressive a no cost advert is that? I've got a whole OS with tools and goodies that would cost me at least $500/year, to do the M$ way. Ah, but I'm diverging again. I'll bet you a nickle your programs either never tried to print or broke. Take that crap away from me please and save your flames for the Got Net boards.
What programer would really want to copy M$s slow buggy internal workings when so many better models are free?
What has really changed? It looks like you have to pay big bucks to see useful documentation and M$ is free to break it tomorrow without notice via XP's forced "update", a much more powerful means of destroying competitors code than the older DLL Hell.
Why is it that this judgement is so broad and non specific? I thought judges, who are lawyers, were supposed to give specific guiadance on the law, judge not just the behavior of lawbreakers and judge the spirit in which they performed those things that broke the law. My expectations of a glorious future in which hardware makers are not coerced into making disposable M$ only junk, the internet remaining free and me continuing to own my computer are indeed large expectitions, but I expect my government to apply the law specifically and in the best interests of it's citezens. My expectations are not being met and Mr. Rosen's evasive and appologetic answers don't make me very happy.
At the same time, the court refused to require the disclosures of Microsoft's intellectual property that describes Windows' internal interfaces:
"Over-broad disclosure, such as that proposed by Plaintiffs, must also be avoided because it will likely enable wholesale copying or cloning of Windows without violating Microsoft's intellectual property rights. The cloning of Microsoft's technology carries the potential to hinder some aspects of competition and discourage innovation. As antitrust law does not exist for the protection of competitors, but for the protection of competition, the Court does not regard this end as a legitimate one." So that's why the court balanced copyright with antitrust.
MSDN? You're joking, right? MSDN's documentation remains incomplete, and it's extensiveness is a trap as are EXTRA downloads. It's not the 1,000 APIs you know that matter, it's the one you don't. That's the one that stays the same while one you know changes and breaks your program. Extensive but meaningless documentation is worse than usless because it wastes your time. Extra downloads will be had by all users of XP, like it or not. So tomorrow all the interfaces can change all the time without your notice. Your program will be slow and crash prone, M$'s will be as snappy and uncrash prone as M$ can make it (they get bit by their own convolutions all the time).
Nothing has changed, right down to Barktos like you trying to trumpet the MSDN's currently free beer garbage. Real information will still cost you money but will do you about as much good as it did Corel. For all we know, MSDN will start to cost money as well as bind you to silly terms.
I don't like the joke about the word "reasonable" employing lawers one bit. What we are talking about is the continued bilking of the unwarry and the continued sack of all those firms who put their resources into building Windows based software. The remedy, talking to a comitte to decide what's reasonable is worse than a joke, it's a death warrent for all firms that want to have anything to do with Microsoft. It's not a joke it's company survival, people's jobs and the continued intentional waste forced on all the rest of us dumb enough to use M$. When I see evidence that hardware makers and website designers are moving toward open standards I will feel like M$ has lost it's ability to leverage it's OS monopoly into other areas. In the mean time, I'm holding on to my Paladium free hardware and fulling expecting M$ to continue with it's plans to own computing by 2005. I can just imagine Cox deciding to change their contract to Paladium only hardware attaches to the network and offering free BIOS flashes.
does a fileserver really need http, ftp, and mail daemons running?
I have proftpd running on it to get files off easily when I go someplace that does not have an ftp server. I suppose that I could run NFS but the places I got that don't have ftp are likely not to have NFS either.
As for my 486 gateway, I'd love to run mail and http daemons on it. Exim, a nice little mail server IS running on it but COX blocks the inbound requests. One day they will block everthing but digital cable TV and call it convergence, but that is a different rant. There are several light http deamons that would do just fine for serving the few static pages I try to share over ftp. One day, I'll configure one to run on something besides port 80 to see if I can get around Cox.
Well, just pull up a console, kill all your services and boggie. It does make a difference. Your nasty math problems will be able to suck up all your memory and little will interrupt. You can go down from there if you wish. Boot up with grub to ye new Spartan kernel, and define a run level that's just like you want it and kick some ass. Spend a few more bucks to set up as many machines as you have projects. SSH into it to start your problem and then get your answer.
Pitty all OS are not so easy to configure. You want more, you got it. You want less, OK. You want to throw everything you got at one thing, go for it. A box that you have to leave your chair to mess with is a pain, and should be fixed with a new OS.
Huh? Those are really light requirements and with some additional RAM, that laptop could run X without a problem. Debinate it!
My 760LD has only 24M of RAM. It felt a little crammped with the 800 MB hard drive that came with it, but the only thing tedious about the installation of 2.2 potato was making the base install floppies. Once that was on, I could put the CD ROM in and zippy, no problem. The same har drive then worked with a much older Toshiba 468 with 8 or 16 MB or RAM. Yes, it does ssh. I got a bigger hard drive to feel less cramped and get more window managers. Using OLVWM I was able to make it display more than 256 colors, but it was stable with all the window managers I tried was stable with 256 colors. I probably boned up the ammount of RAM the card actually has, or missed some kind of shared memory thingy, shrug, it works.
For the lighter requirements this guy has, he should have loads of extra space and it should work just snappy. My 486 gateway runs a little ftp, ssh and most of the standard distro. It takes less than 150 MB of system files to do that, leaving 350 MB for temproary files.
Indeed, this fellows low expectations for his hardware should make the insalation much easier. I recenlty built a debian box on a 33MHz 486 with 8 or 12 MB RAM. It was painful, but you can just drop your hard disk into a nicer box and just put on the few things you want from a vanilla i386 binary install disk. If all you put on is i386, just put it all on in something with a little more RAM and pep, then drop it into your target. The kernel should adapt to it's new environment.
Apt-get upgrade was a little painful last time, with the new OpenSSH stuff but it did, finally, work. I had to manually dpkg the new packages and read the error messages and it took a day, grrrr! I should have left it alone, but I'm glad it's done.
Oh well, the man's effort is not wasted. His site is great for those who wish to really cut out the fluff and have a beautiful Spartan install. For the rest of you, I recomend the much easier Debian apt-get path.
Ah, so private hates are publically accepted and public speech is a lie. Thank you for proving the value of free speech. When speech is not free, it is not true and everyone can believe they are correct in the vilest nonsense.
The party goal was perpetual and absolute power maintianed by constant vigilence of thought word and deed of citizens, fear intimidation, hatred of the enemy, distrust of all but the party, and distruction of all emotion and loyalties exept towards the state. The Soviet Union came close to this ideal, but failed to develop the needed technology in time and failed to keep their subject from knowing that other societies had relatively better standards of living.
The remaining superpowers will take advantage of such technology as they can. Orwell bassed his predictions on carful study of human behavior exibited in India, UK, Spain and elsewhere. It is this nature he bassed his predictions on, not the technology. When the technology becomes available, it will be abused. That such abuses can openly be considered in the United States by high government officials and researchers is a tremendous blow to anyone who would argue that the US has special laws or attitudes that will protect us from human nature and Orwell's nighmare. The only thing that made the US any different was a relatively limitless frontier. Without such a frontier, the world will fall back to it's usual ways. With new technology, those ways will be more oppresive than you or I can really imagine.
Orwell also predicted that the superpowers would routinely bomb (non nuclear) their own population to maintain their hyseria. Indeed people do that kind of thing.
If you think xdocs and acrobat are equivalent, then the same could be said about any word processor or html editor or desktop publishing tool, etc.
M$ will try to convince their lusers that XML is somehow open or free and get them to use it over pdf. They already do so much with Word.doc and rtf. So you are right, they would like you to use Word as your MSML (aka MSXML) editor for everything.
The clueless types of companies that still use M$ on their desktops when they could have software that writes pdf or ps for free already, will go this way. M$ convinces these fools that anything not M$ is an additional computer cost. They can't see through the fog and try to eliminate all non M$, even when TOC of alternate software is demonstrably lower. M$ builds it's case one application at a time, and makes sure the results are favorable. Next years licenssing prices then suck up the difference and then some, but SOME PEOPLE JUST DONT GET IT. They have been convinced of every silly lie that M$ has ever put out, that free software can never produce a practical operating system, that free software is never going to be user friendly, that free software will cost more money, that free software is full of bugs, blah blah blah. Suckers who think they are very clever. They are the same dumb asses that post word docs on the internet and email mail them as forms to be filled out. They will be happy to dump Adobe just as soon as M$ makes it harder to use and offers a second rate alternative.
The future is looking worse all the time. Someone will come up with realistic jamming I hope. Van De Graph generators for zapping them? EMPs to fry their little recievers? Firecrackers? Any good ideas? If they become pervasive, you won't know which ones are listening to your conversation from the ones that are reporting from your power meter. Will your new digital TV have feed back, ala 1984.
I thought it was bad at my last job when I found out that my new computer's internal microphone was on and imposible to disable, creepy. Ha Ha is not so funny when you start to consider all the closed source computers you have in your house that want to talk to the network.
How many bridges collapsed last year? In the same period, how many electronic gadgets failed? Fail safe is false positive. It won't work till the sensors are monolithic and embeded within the structure itself, such as part of a composite build up layer. I've got little faith in conventional epoxy on steel strain gauges to report anything but false fails. Critters, frost, dew, corrosion and gremlins will break them.
The "Smart Dust" project refered to in another post and the goal of pervasive audio, visual, chemical and other monitoring is a much more disturbing notion, however. Combined with intelligent local filtering, such a network would enable personal tracking and monitoring of all "suspicious" people and conversations. It would be like a giant prison with robot gaurds to keep us all correct. Lierally, no place would be private and there would be no need for the embeded "ID tags" some fools seem to desire.
DARPA has made sensors a top priority, putting up $160 million of its own money and $500 million in matching funds from other U.S. government agencies....the data being sent (video, audio, chemical signature)
But don't worry, top heads are working on the implications.
I'm told that the University of California at Berkely has a copy of 1984 in the library. Someone there might have read about what happens when sensors are so pervasive that it's possible to listen to someone's every word and gesture. Orwell, however, did not imagine intelligent machines such as Carnivore, which could filter "suspicious" paterns and people from the noise. Double plus good purgewise.
People must bellyfeel crimethought. Double plus good kill terrorist and five unidentified accomplices, one US citezen without trial. When big brother knows, everything you do will be easier, safer and more fun.