If I was running the website that you were scraping and I saw a repetitive bandwidth spike to one location - yes these people do check - the you can bet an investigation, change or block would be forth coming and then your Boss would have no data at all.
The same applies to "load balancing" which is obviously stupid, short sighted and plain wrong.
My first option would be education of the (PH?) Boss with emphasis on what could go wrong, how easily and why.
Agreed, from my gut level appraisal I thought KDE4.1 was a lot faster - but I returned to 3.5 because it seemed more polished, completed and well rounded. Little things like how items were implemented, widgets all seemed to lack some finesse.
Having said that in another few months I will definitely make the switch - because I really liked what I saw and the direction it was heading in.
You expect more functionality to run slightly slower - that is if you assume the original implementation was part way optimal, but I guess it depends on what kind of functionality has been added.
This just reminds me of possibly one of the greatest cartoons of all time - in my humble opinion that is.
It was a Gary Larson (sorely missed, but much respected) daily shortly after the launch with a picture of a blurry UFO with two equally blurry aliens waving to the camera with the caption "Another fine photo from the Hubble Space Telescope" (or words to that effect).
Obviously the joke does not have to be explained to *this* crowd. Genius.
A satellite is the ultimate inaccessible device running SW. Any task that goes wrong has the chance of bricking a device that cost many many millions, so they *must* practice and check all commands sent to it when things go wrong.
Do they have several mock ups?
A complete computer model of the whole thing, emulated right down to hardware and software?
How are reboot/reprogram sequences like this handled/practiced/tested?
Even at design stage I imagine failure modes are extensively analyzed and multiple redundancy built in.
My company builds stuff that goes up masts and is generally quite inaccessible and we always attempt to prove these things first, but we had fast serial communication, low level boot loaders under all the SW and if the worst comes somebody can climb the mast.
I write embedded firmware for my job (predominantly C) - my code is tied to the hardware, I frequently code real-time stuff in assembler to get the maximum speed. I have no OS, and I write all the ISRs and schedulers myself.
On the other end of the spectrum is a friend of mine who is language and platform agnostic. Sways between a bunch of scripting languages on a number of operating systems and has probably never compiled an application in his life, interpreters are his tools.
My point - if there is one - is that each to their own, there will always be a requirement for different skill sets. In a way, software is software regardless of the language it is coded in. The same rules apply.
I love doing clever stuff with pointers (except when it goes wrong in style), and using neat mathematical tricks in assembler to speed up fixed divisions and run stuff faster - but as the same time when knocking up a test rig on a PC I can honestly appreciate stuff like a "foreach".
You wait until there is nigerianMalwareEliza V1 that can simultaneously hold several thousand online conversations whilst trawling for peoples information (think: dob, mothers maiden name, first school, pets name) or finding potential scam victims.
Talking to gullible teenagers is a depressing statement on modern life - hoovering out thousands of bank accounts or persuading people to part with money is a tad more serious.
I predict that soon everybody will need to watch their online chat alot more seriously.
So, I've provided one example, how else can chat bots take over the world (or at least your wallet), what are sinister uses for this technology?
"I had heard you could download versions of even the most popular games for free. This was a type of "warez"--pirated software."
"I realized it was a common occurrence and that it was called punting. Someone knocked me offline by hitting me with so much data that my connection was severed. These punters seemed to have a huge amount of power over others on AOL."
"I wanted to punt someone. Badly. That's when my real hunt for AOL hacking tools started."
"I slowly learned how things worked. I eventually began to modify the applications to meet my needs. This is how kiddies become hackers."
Jesus H Christ! People buy this crap?
One thing is for certain, the target audience is not to be found on/., though I predict we will all get a good laugh off it.
Best feature for me? New support for viewing a document as two pages side by side on the screen.
That alone for me is worth the upgrade for me, as I can now see two full size A4 pages on my monitor at home whilst typing. Thanks guys! that was a major annoyance with me.
OOXML *is* controversial and I expect a flame war - but they have read-only and I suspect it is a justified inclusion simply to keep abreast of current MS Office and help encourage adoption. I predict MS will be coming out with lots of new versions of this format, so lets see them keep pace....
What a load of crap. Sorry, but that my view point.
Its like reality TV, why would my daily business be sitting in an armchair watching other people go about their daily business?
I really do not understand why they think people are interested, surely the failure of second life should be an indicator here. The other poster with his comment about sitting in a basement spending your time vitually plastering the virtual walls in your virtual house in your virtual world nailed it perfectly.
This satirical take on virtual worlds was spot on if you ask me...
because its worked sooo well for the UK government.
honestly, CD are too easy. simply google for "lost cds uk" and see what a total balls up various government agencies have made of giving all our data away freely,
hell teeth, it should of been easy enough to encrypt it on the CD as a minimum, or VPN it without using a disk.
yes, they are easy to use - but too easy and too insecure in idiotic hands (though that goes for just about any storage medium I suppose).
but I agree with you totally, I'll not entrust a HDD to parcel force, its bad enough buying one on the 'net anyhow and they are professionally packaged.
and on a more serious note, what would a normal PC user use this for?
archiving video (see above)?
archiving MP3, I guess not many people have >100GB of MP3s?
an easy method of archiving an entire HDD in a few disks?
when you look into it only video/HD makes such a disk make sense.
and on a *much* more serious note, stop waxing lyrical about the storage capacity and start talking about the durability, its life span, its resistance to UV, its archival qualities. I would be much more interested in a 4GB disk that actually had a change of lasting >10 years in a normal environment (for me..? room temp, light sealed bag).
I immediately thought that you could use it to run an onboard storage device to keep you own personal medical records - then I realized that apart from being a privacy nightmare an inductively powered system made more sense like they shove into pets necks.
Then I thought "pace maker" - but realized that a long life battery (well its only got to outlast the patient that its in) it probably more reliable and less likely to trigger a lawsuit.
So then maybe I thought self-defence mechanism - but I realized that the amount of power that would need would be impractical.
Perhaps some dancing light that light you up on the dance floor the more you dance, the brighter you get?
I'm short of ideas on any practical application here, anybody got any nifty ideas?
I used to work in a CE firm that manufactured in China and sold across the world - reverse engineering was a particular problem and IP protection was the talk of the day.
And now they demand source code? Well I can assure you that it will *not* happen.
I hear Hungary and eastern Europe are offering particularly cheap factory sites - and this might persuade some firms to relocate.
Honestly you cannot make this stuff up. I suspect they will allow manufacturing in china of export goods with no access to source code (to protect their national growth and wealth), but only "approved" population control devices will be allowed to be sold inside China (to spy on their own citizens) - it's control freakery gone mad. This would allow them the best of both worlds, after all its no secret that China has various special economic zones (and they are huge) to allow export factorys to undercut everywhere else in the world - so they just make export rules different.
We really are a joke to them, I remember the hilarious conversations we used to have about IP in Shenzhen with the local engineers, they have no concept of it at all. Its all fair game if they can work out how we did it. Of course, that never stopped them abusing our own system by buying as many patents as they could and hitting us over the head with them on one side, whilst copying everything we did on the other. And now they will try and demand the source code as well? No matter what safeguards they pretend to employ corruption is a business tactic out there and the information will be just another market to exploit. I remember sitting at a conference table with out local contact (who we found out was also employed by the client) taking both sides of the argument as well as two pay checks, literally forwarding out confidential information to competitors because they paid him to do so. NDAs, contracts and so are meaningless.
Yes I am rather bitter and annoyed about it years later, and I accept that they are probably not all like that and things *might* of improved.
Even with lawyers donating their time and support from open source advocates this must of still cost him a lot in stress, time, money, reputation, hassle and general time lost.
For sticking to his guns and seeing this through he deserves a medal! or at least some public recognition over and above what he will get from/. and the net in general.
...is I could yank the SD out of my DSLR and view the pics easily, one screen for a photo album and the other for a view of the selected photo. but thats just me... a SD slot adds a whole new range of options to this toy. now, is there a decent SDK?
I'm confused, I don't use windows, but surely somebody could just change the desktop colors and then when a warning alert turned up in the old colors they would know it was a scam?
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If I was running the website that you were scraping and I saw a repetitive bandwidth spike to one location - yes these people do check - the you can bet an investigation, change or block would be forth coming and then your Boss would have no data at all.
The same applies to "load balancing" which is obviously stupid, short sighted and plain wrong.
My first option would be education of the (PH?) Boss with emphasis on what could go wrong, how easily and why.
Agreed, from my gut level appraisal I thought KDE4.1 was a lot faster - but I returned to 3.5 because it seemed more polished, completed and well rounded. Little things like how items were implemented, widgets all seemed to lack some finesse.
Having said that in another few months I will definitely make the switch - because I really liked what I saw and the direction it was heading in.
You expect more functionality to run slightly slower - that is if you assume the original implementation was part way optimal, but I guess it depends on what kind of functionality has been added.
This just reminds me of possibly one of the greatest cartoons of all time - in my humble opinion that is.
It was a Gary Larson (sorely missed, but much respected) daily shortly after the launch with a picture of a blurry UFO with two equally blurry aliens waving to the camera with the caption "Another fine photo from the Hubble Space Telescope" (or words to that effect).
Obviously the joke does not have to be explained to *this* crowd. Genius.
Can we expect to see thousands of people download a PHP blog script and host their own?
You can block Blogger, but in its place will grow thousands of pages, you cannot stop them all! (but you can easily identify the creators I suppose).
This seems like a very irrational decision, surely this will be appealed.
Hmm..
The scary thing is that the **AA would probably offer to police their networks for free, and recoup their costs via lawsuits.
Make that 37,965. My colleague surely has one growing in his tea cup.
yuck.
I'm curious, I presume somebody knows this.
.. or just look at this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_notable_software_bugs
A satellite is the ultimate inaccessible device running SW. Any task that goes wrong has the chance of bricking a device that cost many many millions, so they *must* practice and check all commands sent to it when things go wrong.
Do they have several mock ups?
A complete computer model of the whole thing, emulated right down to hardware and software?
How are reboot/reprogram sequences like this handled/practiced/tested?
Even at design stage I imagine failure modes are extensively analyzed and multiple redundancy built in.
My company builds stuff that goes up masts and is generally quite inaccessible and we always attempt to prove these things first, but we had fast serial communication, low level boot loaders under all the SW and if the worst comes somebody can climb the mast.
Anybody know how space tech is handled?
On a kind of related note, google for "expensive software errors" - most of the top ten are space related...
(1) those are *stunning* pictures
and
(2) did I not hear that this is linked to the lull in global warming recently, and as soon as the sun picks so does the heat? is this true....?
I write embedded firmware for my job (predominantly C) - my code is tied to the hardware, I frequently code real-time stuff in assembler to get the maximum speed. I have no OS, and I write all the ISRs and schedulers myself.
On the other end of the spectrum is a friend of mine who is language and platform agnostic. Sways between a bunch of scripting languages on a number of operating systems and has probably never compiled an application in his life, interpreters are his tools.
My point - if there is one - is that each to their own, there will always be a requirement for different skill sets. In a way, software is software regardless of the language it is coded in. The same rules apply.
I love doing clever stuff with pointers (except when it goes wrong in style), and using neat mathematical tricks in assembler to speed up fixed divisions and run stuff faster - but as the same time when knocking up a test rig on a PC I can honestly appreciate stuff like a "foreach".
Hey ho. Ramble Ramble.
I'm slightly nervous about all this.
People do not think of the ramifications.
You wait until there is nigerianMalwareEliza V1 that can simultaneously hold several thousand online conversations whilst trawling for peoples information (think: dob, mothers maiden name, first school, pets name) or finding potential scam victims.
Talking to gullible teenagers is a depressing statement on modern life - hoovering out thousands of bank accounts or persuading people to part with money is a tad more serious.
I predict that soon everybody will need to watch their online chat alot more seriously.
So, I've provided one example, how else can chat bots take over the world (or at least your wallet), what are sinister uses for this technology?
Love em, or hate em because of their proprietary leanings and nefarious practices - you have to admit that Apple makes *gorgeous* hardware.
Well, maybe I'll settle for some of the best looking hardware around.
If I could, then I would and extra 50 quid (that's great British pounds btw) for a bare PC in a nice milled metal aluminum case...
When everything is knocked up in China on a cost basis, you lose something in the way of aesthetics..
"I had heard you could download versions of even the most popular games for free. This was a type of "warez"--pirated software."
"I realized it was a common occurrence and that it was called punting. Someone knocked me offline by hitting me with so much data that my connection was severed. These punters seemed to have a huge amount of power over others on AOL."
"I wanted to punt someone. Badly. That's when my real hunt for AOL hacking tools started."
"I slowly learned how things worked. I eventually began to modify the applications to meet my needs. This is how kiddies become hackers."
Jesus H Christ! People buy this crap?
/., though I predict we will all get a good laugh off it.
One thing is for certain, the target audience is not to be found on
Best feature for me? New support for viewing a document as two pages side by side on the screen.
That alone for me is worth the upgrade for me, as I can now see two full size A4 pages on my monitor at home whilst typing. Thanks guys! that was a major annoyance with me.
OOXML *is* controversial and I expect a flame war - but they have read-only and I suspect it is a justified inclusion simply to keep abreast of current MS Office and help encourage adoption. I predict MS will be coming out with lots of new versions of this format, so lets see them keep pace....
You don't have permission to access /servlets/ContentHelmNoodle on this server.
Hmmm. Egg, Noodle. Add some bacon cubes and some HP Original Brown sauce and I'll convert.
Anybody in the know care to elaborate what a contentHelmNoodle is? Just curious... I love the names developers give things sometimes.
Yeah, yeah, I know - It's off topic, but kinda interesting.
What a load of crap. Sorry, but that my view point.
Its like reality TV, why would my daily business be sitting in an armchair watching other people go about their daily business?
I really do not understand why they think people are interested, surely the failure of second life should be an indicator here. The other poster with his comment about sitting in a basement spending your time vitually plastering the virtual walls in your virtual house in your virtual world nailed it perfectly.
This satirical take on virtual worlds was spot on if you ask me...
http://www.getafirstlife.com/
"Stop them Gromit! They're the wrong trousers and they've gone all wrong!"
My favorite mechanical trouser mayhem.
From one of my favorite short films ever!
Though I have no idea how well known it is out of the UK.
Now if only I could find my copy of 'Electronics for Dogs'.
because its worked sooo well for the UK government.
honestly, CD are too easy. simply google for "lost cds uk" and see what a total balls up various government agencies have made of giving all our data away freely,
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=uk+lost+cds&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=com.ubuntu:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-a
hell teeth, it should of been easy enough to encrypt it on the CD as a minimum, or VPN it without using a disk.
yes, they are easy to use - but too easy and too insecure in idiotic hands (though that goes for just about any storage medium I suppose).
but I agree with you totally, I'll not entrust a HDD to parcel force, its bad enough buying one on the 'net anyhow and they are professionally packaged.
"man thats a lot of porn!"
and on a more serious note, what would a normal PC user use this for?
archiving video (see above)?
archiving MP3, I guess not many people have >100GB of MP3s?
an easy method of archiving an entire HDD in a few disks?
when you look into it only video/HD makes such a disk make sense.
and on a *much* more serious note, stop waxing lyrical about the storage capacity and start talking about the durability, its life span, its resistance to UV, its archival qualities. I would be much more interested in a 4GB disk that actually had a change of lasting >10 years in a normal environment (for me..? room temp, light sealed bag).
I immediately thought that you could use it to run an onboard storage device to keep you own personal medical records - then I realized that apart from being a privacy nightmare an inductively powered system made more sense like they shove into pets necks.
Then I thought "pace maker" - but realized that a long life battery (well its only got to outlast the patient that its in) it probably more reliable and less likely to trigger a lawsuit.
So then maybe I thought self-defence mechanism - but I realized that the amount of power that would need would be impractical.
Perhaps some dancing light that light you up on the dance floor the more you dance, the brighter you get?
I'm short of ideas on any practical application here, anybody got any nifty ideas?
I used to work in a CE firm that manufactured in China and sold across the world - reverse engineering was a particular problem and IP protection was the talk of the day.
And now they demand source code? Well I can assure you that it will *not* happen.
I hear Hungary and eastern Europe are offering particularly cheap factory sites - and this might persuade some firms to relocate.
Honestly you cannot make this stuff up. I suspect they will allow manufacturing in china of export goods with no access to source code (to protect their national growth and wealth), but only "approved" population control devices will be allowed to be sold inside China (to spy on their own citizens) - it's control freakery gone mad. This would allow them the best of both worlds, after all its no secret that China has various special economic zones (and they are huge) to allow export factorys to undercut everywhere else in the world - so they just make export rules different.
We really are a joke to them, I remember the hilarious conversations we used to have about IP in Shenzhen with the local engineers, they have no concept of it at all. Its all fair game if they can work out how we did it. Of course, that never stopped them abusing our own system by buying as many patents as they could and hitting us over the head with them on one side, whilst copying everything we did on the other. And now they will try and demand the source code as well? No matter what safeguards they pretend to employ corruption is a business tactic out there and the information will be just another market to exploit. I remember sitting at a conference table with out local contact (who we found out was also employed by the client) taking both sides of the argument as well as two pay checks, literally forwarding out confidential information to competitors because they paid him to do so. NDAs, contracts and so are meaningless.
Yes I am rather bitter and annoyed about it years later, and I accept that they are probably not all like that and things *might* of improved.
Even with lawyers donating their time and support from open source advocates this must of still cost him a lot in stress, time, money, reputation, hassle and general time lost.
/. and the net in general.
For sticking to his guns and seeing this through he deserves a medal! or at least some public recognition over and above what he will get from
she might need some handles to hang onto?
well the average slashdotter is probably in with a chance then...
well. if they monitor the internet usage of the average slashdotter then they'll go blind, I'm sure.
honestly, did anybody seriously think this was *not* happening?
the first thing i thought of...
...is I could yank the SD out of my DSLR and view the pics easily, one screen for a photo album and the other for a view of the selected photo. but thats just me... a SD slot adds a whole new range of options to this toy. now, is there a decent SDK?
I'm confused, I don't use windows, but surely somebody could just change the desktop colors and then when a warning alert turned up in the old colors they would know it was a scam?
Is that too obvious?