SIGHUP would be George Bush's SIGnature of Unilateral Power
I think it might look better as SIGHUP would be George Bush's SIGnature of Holy Unilateral Power or maybe
George Bush's SIGnature of Halliburton's Unholy Power.
"In order for these applications to get access to data, they have to "logon" to the systems and applications that store the data, and since the credentials to logon are in the application, they are embedded in the code. Now since it is clearly impractical to rewrite applications on a regular basis, just to change the user ID and password, the result is that the user ID and password never changes. So what's the big deal you might ask? Well there are a number of things."
What applications is this guy talking about? Where I work for instance, passwords are not allowed to be stored in property files or code, they must be stored in a secured db. How do you get access to said secured db? With an id and password that expire every x days and must conform to certain rules. How does an application access said db? Through a datasource which has access to the id and an encrypted copy of the password - the same password that has to be changed every x days, etc.
It appears to me neither of you have any formal scientific training. While some of your episodes involve detailed calculations, and engineering with tight tolerances, your experiments are more entertaining than scientifically valid. Though it would be a shame to completely change the show from what is a very entertaining (and funny and scary and sometimes illuminating) hour, have you ever considered adding a scientific "addendum" to the myths you explore? Having done your best to bust/confirm a myth - go to a scientist and have them give a brief background of the science involved in the myth. This could add a new element to the show - sometimes confirming the results of your efforts, or maybe introducing an element of doubt into the results. Do you think it would make the show better to add a bit more science to your very entertaining efforts?
Wow - I know (well knew) this guy. He was a student at the college I went to and ended up working for. At the time his grand idea was a bearproof suit. Seems he has progressed with that and now branched out into physics. He was an interesting character, prone to outbursts - but full of dreams, and a belief in his dreams - no matter how outlandish.
Well not quite - but my last order with them was a real pain - they said it was shipped, charged my card, but the Canada Post tracking never left the "electronically submitted" status - meaing I never got it. An email and another 2 week wait - and about 6 weeksafter I placed my order, I got it. The irony is, I can order a CD from Germany (a fellow there who deals in fairly obscure electronica) and always have it within about 3 days.
Still, mnost of my dealings with Amazon, other than this one, have been very good - I just wish they had a bit wider selection of the less common music I like.
When I was a student studying Fish and Wildlfe Management, I had a summer job with the local Conservation Authority. One of my tasks was to perform a bio-inventory of a wetland they owned. One day I found a plant which was listed as rare in Ontario. I actually phoned the people who were responsible for maintaining the list, only to be told it was now upgraded to common. Seems they had been doing a lot of surveys of wetlands recently and were finding this plant more often than they expected. It was this lovely little orchid: http://cedarcreek.umn.edu/plants/newslides/11899.j pg (Ramshead Ladyslipper - Cypripedium arietinum).
Now, I am a major geek, well sort of...but I have a strong love of nature, and I do not find the two conflicting, in fact I like to call myself a technopagan - although I really only fit in with the last line as it is defined here on wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technopaganism
If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot?
Yes, yes it does.
Well, no, no it does not just lie there and rot. At least not in the (dwindling) temperate rainforests of the Pacific Northwest:
"Frequently more than half of the total mass in these forests is in the form of dead trees, either snags or logs. . . The great abundance of dead, woody material in such forests has led to the development of complex communities of organisms that depend on decomposing material . . . structural attributes characteristic of older forests are a wide range of tree sizes and ages, and a patchy, open canopy punctuated by gaps beneath which the forest understory is especially well developed."
from: Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast: Washington, Oregon, British Columbia, and Alaska
by Jim Pojar, Andy MacKinnon
The sciences of food and programming are not quite the same. Though I would hazard a guess that many good chefs do not understand the science of cooking, while on the other hand many programmers do not understand the art of coding.
I love Rittersport - its great chocoloate to take canoe camping - a bit of that and some gatorade on a long portage helps you get over the hills. Also nice to have after super with your favorite liqueur - say Benedictine, as you sit around the fire.
I was following an obviously drunk driver once, as we approached a fairly sizeable town (25,00 folks or so at the time) - I dialed 911 - as I watched the guy litteraly nodding off in the drivers seat at a stop light. 911 directed me to the provincial police (OPP). The OPP told me they had no one to respond - this guy was gonna kill someone if he ewas not taken off the road! I was furious! They directed me to the town's police who asked me if I could follow him and stay on the line, about 15 minutes later - on the other side of town, as this guy is almost verring into the ditch, I see a town cruiser come screaming up behind me and pull him over. A few minutes later the cop walked back to my car to thank me - saying the guy was so drunk he could hardly talk.
Just the same as workload increases in proportion to available time, and expenses for vices increase to match disposable income, so too processor cycles required scale as CPU speed increases.
Oh wait, 15 years ago I was not playing 3d massively multiplayer online games at 32 bit color depth, it was solitaire in 16 colors.
And there, at the end of your post, is the reason the American INS is so thorough with people coming from Canada.
Um, being a Canadian, the only time they "check" me is on the way back into Canada. I take it you are implying the INS is wary of all people entering the US from Canada due to Canadian Customs being "lax" in checking folks out? I mean you do understand that Canadian Customs does not even talk to you when you are leaving Canada? Actually that's a good thing, had INS checked us on the way out, we may have never gotten home with that single-barrell bourbon.
Doh! And here I thought I would get to read a juicy story about some aging senator who likes to get rip-roaring drunk on flights and pinch the stewerdesses' rears. Ends up being yet another story about how American "terrorist" paranoia knows no bounds.
On a somewhat related note, it took my girlfriend and I about 2 hours to cross into the States in late June. we were "pulled" aside - told to turn off our cell phones, remove all valuables from her car (but no camera's or recorders please!) and go into a building while they searched her car. After sitting there about an hour, a person who I assumed was the supervisor came over to us and said "Why are YOU here?" (being the only caucasian couple in "waiting"). We showed him the slip of paper they had given us - he wrinkled his nose, peered at us, went "hmmmmm" and handed the slip to a INS agent and went on his way. We were then very rudely "interviewed" by said agent. Even though my girlfriend drives a very nice 2000 model Grand Am - they wanted to know how much money we had on us - when I told them none, as we intended to use americna funds we would get from bank machines, they demanded to know how much money we had on our credit cards and in our bank accounts! Were they stupid enough to think we would leave the relative freedom of Canada to sneak into the States? Give me a break. I am happy to say that after that, our trip down to St. Louis and back was wonderful.
Oddly enough coming home, we got waved through Canadian Customs in about 30 seconds.
On another continent, the Mayans also had a number system with "zero" - from the article you linked:
"Perhaps we should note at this point that there was another civilisation which developed a place-value number system with a zero. This was the Maya people who lived in central America, occupying the area which today is southern Mexico, Guatemala, and northern Belize. This was an old civilisation but flourished particularly between 250 and 900. We know that by 665 they used a place-value number system to base 20 with a symbol for zero. However their use of zero goes back further than this and was in use before they introduced the place-valued number system. This is a remarkable achievement but sadly did not influence other peoples."
The Mayans (I believe) were also one of the first civilizations to calculate the length of the solar year (and were *very* close to correct). You can read about it on the same the same site:
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTop ic s/Mayan_mathematics.html
In way this makes sense - SCO should not have to show its source code to compare with the alleged infringing linux code. On the other hand, *if* they win and*if* the infringing code is removed from the linux source, a simplecomparison of the pre and post source will clearly show the infringing code.
I think the crux of the agrument to reveal this in closed court is to avoid SCO having to show its code in public. They should have the right to keep their source "closed".
Don't get me wrong - I think Darl and Co are all smoking crack -but they should be allowed to retain the rights to propietary source code.
I gotta vote for Wil Wheaton. They guy is almost as geeky as the character he played on TV. And when I was on the TNG mailinglist it was amazing to see the amount of nasty and negative remarks made about him when he appeared in an episode. Personally, I was always a fan of Wesley. Right from the Traveller episode;)
The issue is not the content of the picture, but the fact the picture was taken at all. The company I work for has a clearly worded policy which states that use of recording devices for non-management approved purposes is forbidden. So yes, if I walk down the hall of our secure headquarters, snapping photo's, and tell security its to send to my friends they could fire me.
It might be draconian, it may be a bit over-the-top, but its the rules.
I am quite sure MS is not embarassed that people know they have MAC's.
The fools! I want very much to find out if this is going to be available in Canada. Our "new" service - purecrap.com has about as much electronica as a folk festival.
Slashdot Mirror
I think it might look better as SIGHUP would be George Bush's SIGnature of Holy Unilateral Power or maybe George Bush's SIGnature of Halliburton's Unholy Power.
The article states:
"In order for these applications to get access to data, they have to "logon" to the systems and applications that store the data, and since the credentials to logon are in the application, they are embedded in the code. Now since it is clearly impractical to rewrite applications on a regular basis, just to change the user ID and password, the result is that the user ID and password never changes. So what's the big deal you might ask? Well there are a number of things."
What applications is this guy talking about? Where I work for instance, passwords are not allowed to be stored in property files or code, they must be stored in a secured db. How do you get access to said secured db? With an id and password that expire every x days and must conform to certain rules. How does an application access said db? Through a datasource which has access to the id and an encrypted copy of the password - the same password that has to be changed every x days, etc.
It appears to me neither of you have any formal scientific training. While some of your episodes involve detailed calculations, and engineering with tight tolerances, your experiments are more entertaining than scientifically valid. Though it would be a shame to completely change the show from what is a very entertaining (and funny and scary and sometimes illuminating) hour, have you ever considered adding a scientific "addendum" to the myths you explore? Having done your best to bust/confirm a myth - go to a scientist and have them give a brief background of the science involved in the myth. This could add a new element to the show - sometimes confirming the results of your efforts, or maybe introducing an element of doubt into the results. Do you think it would make the show better to add a bit more science to your very entertaining efforts?
Thanks.
Wow - I know (well knew) this guy. He was a student at the college I went to and ended up working for. At the time his grand idea was a bearproof suit. Seems he has progressed with that and now branched out into physics. He was an interesting character, prone to outbursts - but full of dreams, and a belief in his dreams - no matter how outlandish.
Well not quite - but my last order with them was a real pain - they said it was shipped, charged my card, but the Canada Post tracking never left the "electronically submitted" status - meaing I never got it. An email and another 2 week wait - and about 6 weeksafter I placed my order, I got it. The irony is, I can order a CD from Germany (a fellow there who deals in fairly obscure electronica) and always have it within about 3 days.
Still, mnost of my dealings with Amazon, other than this one, have been very good - I just wish they had a bit wider selection of the less common music I like.
I am curious - did you do it so you could read it in the mirror, or so someone looking at your chest could read it? What tool do you use? A ballpoint (or fountain) pen, or perhaps a nice chisel from Lee Valley - http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.aspx?c=1&p=4603 5&cat=1,41504 or maybe even a tool designed for leather - http://www.loonfeatherleather.com/Product.taf?_fun ction=detail&_ID=402 ???
When I was a student studying Fish and Wildlfe Management, I had a summer job with the local Conservation Authority. One of my tasks was to perform a bio-inventory of a wetland they owned. One day I found a plant which was listed as rare in Ontario. I actually phoned the people who were responsible for maintaining the list, only to be told it was now upgraded to common. Seems they had been doing a lot of surveys of wetlands recently and were finding this plant more often than they expected. It was this lovely little orchid: http://cedarcreek.umn.edu/plants/newslides/11899.j pg (Ramshead Ladyslipper - Cypripedium arietinum).
Now, I am a major geek, well sort of...but I have a strong love of nature, and I do not find the two conflicting, in fact I like to call myself a technopagan - although I really only fit in with the last line as it is defined here on wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technopaganism
If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot?
Yes, yes it does.
Well, no, no it does not just lie there and rot. At least not in the (dwindling) temperate rainforests of the Pacific Northwest:
"Frequently more than half of the total mass in these forests is in the form of dead trees, either snags or logs. . . The great abundance of dead, woody material in such forests has led to the development of complex communities of organisms that depend on decomposing material . . . structural attributes characteristic of older forests are a wide range of tree sizes and ages, and a patchy, open canopy punctuated by gaps beneath which the forest understory is especially well developed."
from: Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast: Washington, Oregon, British Columbia, and Alaska by Jim Pojar, Andy MacKinnon
The sciences of food and programming are not quite the same. Though I would hazard a guess that many good chefs do not understand the science of cooking, while on the other hand many programmers do not understand the art of coding.
Programming is a lot like cooking - a delicate combination of science and art.
I love Rittersport - its great chocoloate to take canoe camping - a bit of that and some gatorade on a long portage helps you get over the hills. Also nice to have after super with your favorite liqueur - say Benedictine, as you sit around the fire.
The "Unslashdotable Server".
I was following an obviously drunk driver once, as we approached a fairly sizeable town (25,00 folks or so at the time) - I dialed 911 - as I watched the guy litteraly nodding off in the drivers seat at a stop light. 911 directed me to the provincial police (OPP). The OPP told me they had no one to respond - this guy was gonna kill someone if he ewas not taken off the road! I was furious! They directed me to the town's police who asked me if I could follow him and stay on the line, about 15 minutes later - on the other side of town, as this guy is almost verring into the ditch, I see a town cruiser come screaming up behind me and pull him over. A few minutes later the cop walked back to my car to thank me - saying the guy was so drunk he could hardly talk.
Just the same as workload increases in proportion to available time, and expenses for vices increase to match disposable income, so too processor cycles required scale as CPU speed increases.
Oh wait, 15 years ago I was not playing 3d massively multiplayer online games at 32 bit color depth, it was solitaire in 16 colors.
And there, at the end of your post, is the reason the American INS is so thorough with people coming from Canada.
Um, being a Canadian, the only time they "check" me is on the way back into Canada. I take it you are implying the INS is wary of all people entering the US from Canada due to Canadian Customs being "lax" in checking folks out? I mean you do understand that Canadian Customs does not even talk to you when you are leaving Canada? Actually that's a good thing, had INS checked us on the way out, we may have never gotten home with that single-barrell bourbon.
Doh! And here I thought I would get to read a juicy story about some aging senator who likes to get rip-roaring drunk on flights and pinch the stewerdesses' rears. Ends up being yet another story about how American "terrorist" paranoia knows no bounds.
On a somewhat related note, it took my girlfriend and I about 2 hours to cross into the States in late June. we were "pulled" aside - told to turn off our cell phones, remove all valuables from her car (but no camera's or recorders please!) and go into a building while they searched her car. After sitting there about an hour, a person who I assumed was the supervisor came over to us and said "Why are YOU here?" (being the only caucasian couple in "waiting"). We showed him the slip of paper they had given us - he wrinkled his nose, peered at us, went "hmmmmm" and handed the slip to a INS agent and went on his way. We were then very rudely "interviewed" by said agent. Even though my girlfriend drives a very nice 2000 model Grand Am - they wanted to know how much money we had on us - when I told them none, as we intended to use americna funds we would get from bank machines, they demanded to know how much money we had on our credit cards and in our bank accounts! Were they stupid enough to think we would leave the relative freedom of Canada to sneak into the States? Give me a break. I am happy to say that after that, our trip down to St. Louis and back was wonderful.
Oddly enough coming home, we got waved through Canadian Customs in about 30 seconds.
On another continent, the Mayans also had a number system with "zero" - from the article you linked:
p ic s/Mayan_mathematics.html
"Perhaps we should note at this point that there was another civilisation which developed a place-value number system with a zero. This was the Maya people who lived in central America, occupying the area which today is southern Mexico, Guatemala, and northern Belize. This was an old civilisation but flourished particularly between 250 and 900. We know that by 665 they used a place-value number system to base 20 with a symbol for zero. However their use of zero goes back further than this and was in use before they introduced the place-valued number system. This is a remarkable achievement but sadly did not influence other peoples."
The Mayans (I believe) were also one of the first civilizations to calculate the length of the solar year (and were *very* close to correct). You can read about it on the same the same site:
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTo
I am changing my name to Winifred Dowes (the fact I am male is not relevant!). All my friends will now call me Win, please.
My new Domain is gonna be WinDowesHome.com
Will I get any games with my x-box?
I for one, welcome our new Glo Fish Overlords! Ought to keep the damned cat amused 'til it can figure out how to stage a coup.
There's Waldo! Wait, it actualy looks more like Osama's profile! No, no...its the Iraqi WMD!
In way this makes sense - SCO should not have to show its source code to compare with the alleged infringing linux code. On the other hand, *if* they win and*if* the infringing code is removed from the linux source, a simplecomparison of the pre and post source will clearly show the infringing code.
I think the crux of the agrument to reveal this in closed court is to avoid SCO having to show its code in public. They should have the right to keep their source "closed".
Don't get me wrong - I think Darl and Co are all smoking crack -but they should be allowed to retain the rights to propietary source code.
I gotta vote for Wil Wheaton. They guy is almost as geeky as the character he played on TV. And when I was on the TNG mailinglist it was amazing to see the amount of nasty and negative remarks made about him when he appeared in an episode. Personally, I was always a fan of Wesley. Right from the Traveller episode ;)
The issue is not the content of the picture, but the fact the picture was taken at all. The company I work for has a clearly worded policy which states that use of recording devices for non-management approved purposes is forbidden. So yes, if I walk down the hall of our secure headquarters, snapping photo's, and tell security its to send to my friends they could fire me.
It might be draconian, it may be a bit over-the-top, but its the rules.
I am quite sure MS is not embarassed that people know they have MAC's.
What about the poor puppies!
/holiday/2002/bushpets/iraq
Disallow:
what the bushpets did not get to go to Iraq in 2002? Poor things! Someone call the SPCA!
The fools! I want very much to find out if this is going to be available in Canada. Our "new" service - purecrap.com has about as much electronica as a folk festival.