personally, i'd have to say that i picked up the good ol' unix arrogance after working with solaris (please don't flame, i love linux more!). after working with many talented, competent developers, but being forced to occassionally develop products for people who use an operating system where they press the start button to reboot the 'blurkstation,' i was never the same. when i see win32 users and hear NT admins and coder trolls talking, it's like eavesdropping on a bunch of illiterate children talking about how much they like shiny things. i can remember the exact moment when i got the arrogance. it was a summer afternoon, and i was taking off from work early. half an hour before i left, a cloud burst passed over our building, and just as i stepped out the door to go to car, lightning struck some sort of electrical edifice, temporarily cutting the power until our generators were turned on. when the power came back on (it was only off for about 30 seconds or so), all the internal security devices in the building were reset (duh), including the front door locks. to unlock the front doors, you had to push a button and swipe your badge on a plate on the wall. i guess this is when all the NT coders decided to leave, because there was soon a herd of people behind the doors, and none of them knew how to open them. after a few minutes, someone from my division came down, pushed the button, swiped his badge, and come out. the NT coders still just sat there, even though they had just seen how to open the doors.
A great play about the progression from classicism to romanticism (enlightenment) is Arcadia by Tom Stoppard, who also wrote "Shakespeare in Love." Go and read it, NOW.
i love all the kids that call themselves hackers because they've downloaded AOHell or one of those little win32 apps that writes a figlet to a chatroom. i think the average person doesn't have any real idea of what a hacker looks like, music listened too, etc... just that being a hacker is bad. people use the term like 'web','multimedia', and 'dynamic'; they have no idea what they're talking about, but it makes them sound smart to all of their idiot friends and co-workers.
this is why we need techies in congress. LINUX techies. does anyone else feel like they're not being adequately represented by their local mudslinger? anyway, despite the fact that taxing 'e-commerce' (to use the buzzword) is fair if done properly, this still sucks, because it would mean that i would have to pay more for all my cool geek junk. and isn't that really all that counts?:P
Oh no, the NSA and other law enforcement and security agencies will never be able to decrypt messages sent by technical laypersons using exported encryption software. I'm sure that even if this bill is passed with wording that allows strong encryption software to be exported out of the US, which this bill wouldn't allow anyway, my dear anonymous coward, there will in all likelyhood still be NSA/CIA meddling/tracking going on. Perhaps users of encryption software overseas will be wary of encryption technology exported from the US, thinking that the exported software will have backdoors which allow for a key to be easily reconstructed or a message to be easily decrypted with a special key. Many feel this way about the technology which is currently exported: the US won't give out its strong encryption because it wasn't to be able to spy on other countries. I wouldn't be surprised if that suspicion was extended to exported string encryption. In any case, only a moron, whether pedophile, terrorist, drug dealer, soccermom, or middle aged white male, assumes that a message he or she sends will be impossible to decrypt if intercepted, regardless of the software he or she is using.
What a shock... Microsoft denying the Linux is threatening their position in the market... Does this sound like old news to anyone else? I tihnk I've been reading that sam article on every news site all weekend.... getting old...
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the RIO skips like crazy at 128 kbps. in case you haven't noticed, solid state is also expensive as hell.
personally, i'd have to say that i picked up the good ol' unix arrogance after working with solaris (please don't flame, i love linux more!). after working with many talented, competent developers, but being forced to occassionally develop products for people who use an operating system where they press the start button to reboot the 'blurkstation,' i was never the same. when i see win32 users and hear NT admins and coder trolls talking, it's like eavesdropping on a bunch of illiterate children talking about how much they like shiny things.
i can remember the exact moment when i got the arrogance. it was a summer afternoon, and i was taking off from work early. half an hour before i left, a cloud burst passed over our building, and just as i stepped out the door to go to car, lightning struck some sort of electrical edifice, temporarily cutting the power until our generators were turned on. when the power came back on (it was only off for about 30 seconds or so), all the internal security devices in the building were reset (duh), including the front door locks. to unlock the front doors, you had to push a button and swipe your badge on a plate on the wall. i guess this is when all the NT coders decided to leave, because there was soon a herd of people behind the doors, and none of them knew how to open them. after a few minutes, someone from my division came down, pushed the button, swiped his badge, and come out. the NT coders still just sat there, even though they had just seen how to open the doors.
don't you feel like slapping them sometimes?
if it's more than a line long, you probably aint doin' it right.
paulzilla
that just plain sucks. but then again, we'll always have that moment from the movie:
"What do you suppose is in that mountain?"
"Pudding?"
A great play about the progression from classicism to romanticism (enlightenment) is Arcadia by Tom Stoppard, who also wrote "Shakespeare in Love." Go and read it, NOW.
i love all the kids that call themselves hackers because they've downloaded AOHell or one of those little win32 apps that writes a figlet to a chatroom. i think the average person doesn't have any real idea of what a hacker looks like, music listened too, etc... just that being a hacker is bad. people use the term like 'web','multimedia', and 'dynamic'; they have no idea what they're talking about, but it makes them sound smart to all of their idiot friends and co-workers.
'this warez site made with microsoft frontpage.'
this is why we need techies in congress. LINUX techies. does anyone else feel like they're not being adequately represented by their local mudslinger? anyway, despite the fact that taxing 'e-commerce' (to use the buzzword) is fair if done properly, this still sucks, because it would mean that i would have to pay more for all my cool geek junk. and isn't that really all that counts? :P
Oh no, the NSA and other law enforcement and security agencies will never be able to decrypt messages sent by technical laypersons using exported encryption software. I'm sure that even if this bill is passed with wording that allows strong encryption software to be exported out of the US, which this bill wouldn't allow anyway, my dear anonymous coward, there will in all likelyhood still be NSA/CIA meddling/tracking going on. Perhaps users of encryption software overseas will be wary of encryption technology exported from the US, thinking that the exported software will have backdoors which allow for a key to be easily reconstructed or a message to be easily decrypted with a special key. Many feel this way about the technology which is currently exported: the US won't give out its strong encryption because it wasn't to be able to spy on other countries. I wouldn't be surprised if that suspicion was extended to exported string encryption. In any case, only a moron, whether pedophile, terrorist, drug dealer, soccermom, or middle aged white male, assumes that a message he or she sends will be impossible to decrypt if intercepted, regardless of the software he or she is using.
What a shock... Microsoft denying the Linux is threatening their position in the market... Does this sound like old news to anyone else? I tihnk I've been reading that sam article on every news site all weekend.... getting old...
when is the algorithms book due out? sounds nifty to me....