The consultant still lost his job by doing his job. The "scanned" parties over reaction cost him money that he will never get back. So the judge ruled in his favor, still sucks to be him.
In the end be VERY careful what you do, because doing what is correct will not always protect you. When we do any security audit/analysis for a company we get a written agreement from them AND their connected networks. Some sysadmin's are pretty high strung.
As one sysadmin put it "I don't like my territory pissed in".
One thing that amazes me is that people want to junk perfectly good machines because it doesn't run the latest *whiz bang shoot em up* If it does what you want it to quickly, why must you junk it?
Computer manufacturers are pushing the limits of technology, and the shortened life span of a computer and the development cycle is necessary to keep the tremendous growth that these companies now expect. (nee and so does wall street) This is great for us gadget people that always like the latest and greatest. It's not so good for companies that are forced to retire a substantial investment in hardware because it won't run the lastest MS WORD 2K sp1rev5.
The affect these diminished "time to market" approaches has on quality of hardware and software is also readily apparent. (10 years ago how often did you need to flash the BIOS?)
Isn't that one of the great things about Linux? Many people are running firewalls from an old 486 with mimimal RAM. Sure is much cheaper and "enviromentally friendly" (*groan* hate that phrase) than buying a new NT machine that you can bring to it's knees with check point.
In the end if the equipment works for you, and if it's reliable then use it. The old atari's never crash, is it any wonder that it's in a mission critical application? Necessity is the mother of invention. Because that invention is old does not make the solution any less valid.
One of the more interesting solutions I have read is to cover the whole lot with sand. This would help prevent any more radioactive leakage. Currently the sarcofagus that surrounds the reactor that went blam is settling and could collapse. This could through tons of radioactive dust into the sky. To combat this they have isntalled sprinklers inside. I guess wet radioactive dust won't fly as easily.
So when do the big trucks move in and start covering this mess up so that the land can eventually be used again? Until the entire site is under a large amount of SOMETHING (sand, concrete or marshmellow puff) the site will continue to be a hazzard even if it isn't producing power.
Ted Nelson, who is generally acknowledged to have coined the term hypertext in his 1965 book, "Literary Machines."
Isn't BT in danger of losing it's patent? I mean if enough substantial information can be shown that "hyperlinks" existed before BT pateted them, then can't BT lose the patent? Not being familliar with English law, can Prodigy sue BT for bringing a "frivilous" lawsuit?
I guess in the end it's a gamble, and BT is going to take it. If it wins, then it gets MONEY, and more importantly sets a precedent. If it loses, it can always try again at a later date. I think somone needs to make this game that BT is playing untenable. How about a class action suit against BT by every person that has a web page? I'm not a lawyer so I can't think of any fancy charges to sue BT for (you can't sue for stupidity) but I'm sure somone can.
MS saw a "loophole" in the law and took full advatage of it. What do you expect? Is it any wonder that the quality of code has gone down. What do you think you would do if you were only hired for 364days? You also had to pay your own medical insurance while working for one of the most profitable companies in American History? I think I'd be opening e-mail with backdoors and publishing windows code.
Formula 1 traction control et all
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One of the big problems in Formula 1 has been the reviewing of engine management software. "Driver aids" had been outlawed, but it has been rumored that some teams were just able to cleverly hide these aids deep in the thousands of lines of code. You know what this means?
Annoucing the OPEN SOURCE engine management software foundation
Dedicated to getting your driver ahead the open source way. Let the competition see your engine management code, who cares. Our coders are so cryptic that they won't be able to do a thing. We can develop complex traction control systems (which are now legal) in weeks using the talents of thousands of coders from around the world that have never actually seen a real race car.
Cut your development time!!
Open source built simulators arae better than MS built simulators!!
Our drivers don't crash as often as the competition!
CHANGE AN IP ADDRESS (like the gateway) WHEN YOU HAVE 2 NICS : Reboot
I enjoy win2k, don't get me wrong, for a lot of situations it is an acceptable and worthy solution. BUT PLEASE Stop spreading FUD. It still requires a LOT of reboots. IT IS however very much improved over NT/98.
The ultimate advantage over NT. New kernel no reboot. That way you can compile a the kernel a couple of different ways and then test for performance advantages right then and there. Or is it, lets consider.....
Linux : built to your spec, optimize to your hearts content. Preserve uptime(ugh)
Windows : Change IP address reboot. Add protocol : reboot. Install program : reboot. Upgrade : reboot
MS has has won an important aspect in the ever lucrative server market. That is the "reboot" aspect. Reboots are becoming more and more popular. Reboots are now considered fun, they give sysadmins a good excuse for a traditional "coffee break". Reboots are familliar. What will sysadmins do without them? How will a sysadmin be able to wield his usual power. The phrase "We will be down for an upgrade!" no longer holds water! ACK what is Linux doing?? What are they thinking?? Are they putting us SYSADMINS out of business? Reducing our free time? I no longer strike fear into the hearts of lusers by saying "we have to upgrade the software on the server"
Do you realize just how difficult it is to write with my tongue so firmly stuck in my cheek?
Local ISP users get mail bounced because spam has put them over quota, UU net has to double capacity to keep up & Verizon can't deliver e-mail in a timely manner. Every one of these people has been denied service do to unsolicted commercial e-mail.
Everyone says "taking a spammer to court takes to much time", "not worth the effort", "To costly and to long", "you can't get blood from a stone", "It won't do any good". It seems to me that if you hurt spammers finacially, and hunt them down that eventually they start to go out of business. Make the risks TOO high for them, make the profits too low.
I know they can spam from bora bora (save those flames for somone else), but you I can put bora bora IP's in my router and be done with the whole mess. It makes it MUCH easier to force them into a corner, and then wall up that corner a la Count of Monte Crisco.
This adds to my bottom line, I can charge a lot for my time. Now my client can afford a stable platform that is easily trouble-shot remotely. As opposed to say hundreds or thousands of dollars spent on the operating system that may or may not be stable. Thus I make more, and the customer pays less.
I guess the probable source of a split would be if some Linux people take training to the MS extreme. i.e. memorize a hundred questions and here's your certificate that says your an "engineer". This by it's very nature brings people into the technical world as workers that our ill equipped to deal with real world problems. They also would not be equipped at all to deal with a Linux distro they are unfamiliar with.
A failure to understand the underlying principles or be able to THINK gives us a world where techs can only deal with what they know by rote. They are slow to adapt to new things, they are unable to read manuals and glean basic understanding from them. They make the job harder for those of us that know more than "point and click". These people would drive any Linux schism. Usually these people are also the MOST vehement defender of any one distribution simply because they don't know any thing else.
I have customers that change e-mail names approx once a year. What a pain in the arse, but trying to get yourself "removed" from a mailing list is a joke.
One of those customers apparently is being "followed". Every change he still ends up on the list. Perhaps he should sue?
Aren't there enough "stalkers" in the world without PAYING people to stalk me? As I read the Florida anti-stalker statute (which as we all know, FL law is "subjective") I should be able to press criminal charges against advertisers that "track" me. Check out the statue here and tell me what you think!
The more benchmarks I read, the more I steadfastly believe that you must test yourself. Benchmarks don't mean squat if the machine sucks running YOUR app. Get your vendor to supply 2 test machines, and then pick the better one for you. Oh, and this also solves that "other" problem. The vendors can only get you machines THAT THEY HAVE. Machines that aren't "really" avaialble to the rest of the public for another 6 months don't mean CRAP to the guy that needs his system now.
Hey dickhead, I paid and extra 100 dollars to get it first. Why the FUCK do you think I got 650 for it on e-bay when you can go out and buy it. Because I had one before ANYONE else.
You'd be funny if you weren't such a Moron.
Note to moderators : horrible, not socially acceptable, probably should moderate this down. Couldn't resist though. Sometimes you have can't let the little bastards get you down.
Most Europeon countries are pretty close to the International Copyright Laws. The only difference is what happens should a conflict arise. France's rule of law is based on the Napoleonic code. Most of the rest of Western Europe has a judicial system that is closer to the english system (without the funny wigs).
While people like to run amuck and scream the sky is falling when it comes to multi nationals. The real problem caused by such companies is rarely ever aired out. That problem is cultural domination, and cultural elimination.
Cultures are dieing, they are being systematically attacked by the huge marketing machine that is big business. And is American.
What happened to the "family farm" and the culture of the land? It is replaced by the culture of the "Corporate Farm"
What happened to little town America?
It is laughed at nightly on television, and if you come from a little town you'd better not admit it (bad for the career old boy).
What happened to the statesman?
They were run out of town by the politicians (it's politically expedient)
What is SO funny to me is the number of Time magazine articles about some small businesses success selling some small doo dad no one thought of. In each article it is painfully obvious to me that some person got sick of being fed mass produced crap, and decided to go his/her own way (snaple for instance). Time (and other popular media) are constantly amazed when someone "makes it" because they do something they want to do. Instead of something they are told to do (in adverts, on the TV, in shopping centers and WWF stadiums)
The culture of "GEEK" is sheik..... now. Wasn't long ago that "family values" were all the rage. Now family values are sneered at if you mention some values are important to you. It's as if you had contracted some disease. Remember this, a homogenous culture is much easier to sell to. A homogenous culture is easy to figure out and market to. Niche marketing is simply moving that niche to the mainstream, marginalizing it, and in the end destroying it.
Differences in culture makes for an interesting life, makes for different thought patterns and adds some spice (if I may so say, and I do)
Ah yeah, politics, pick your politician wisely, or else he will help pass laws to marginalize YOUR culture, and you will be part of the mainstream. Fear that!
This is yet one more of MANY examples that the old adage "Believe only what you can see, and seriously doubt that". In these modern times it's amazing just how fast really lousy information gets spread, AND get reported as truth. Even slashdot has been known to "publish" false information from time to time, and it is picked up and run with by other sources.
I remember once that there was this course called "Journalistic ethics". I wonder if it's still taught?
With Linux having a Bluetooth server, linux again makes inroads into the lucrative server market. With "mobile" and "wireless" becoming the new big bad buzzwords it's nice to see a Linux solution. Competitors and specifically MS should be worried if this takes off. That would mean that even CE devices don't have to be tied to an NT/2000/ME backend. Hopefully this means that large groups of mobile users will be tied to a Linux back end.
Here is somone doing what he loves. Better yet his source is open and available to all. Why is it that when somone does something good, AND gets paid the first post from slashdotters are nothing but bitches? Sounds like jealousy.
Instead of bitching, perhaps some of the "coders" out there should use their spare time to try and develop something that they love AND somone would pay THEM for. (Not likely because the pool of truly talented coders is slim) Sounds like Damian got a dream job, good luck to him!
And before we begin ladies and gentleman an inch is 2.54 centimeters long, thus a meter is 39.37 inches, or 3.28 feet. Please remember this the when planning a SOFT landing on the red planet. Robots generally don't like high impact velocities.
NASA has some great ideas, and these robots will pave the way for more exploration, but when are we going to put a man on mars? Heck when are we going to put a man back on the moon?
I've always wondered why nobody has ever actually used nuclear explosives in civil engineering projects....
The russians used nuclear detonations to help change the path of a river, and on some other civil engineering progects. Some years ago there was an article in either Nature, or New Scientist that detailed what the russians did, and what the result were years later.
Methane rain (That must smell nice), pools of liquid methane with other hydrocarbons on the surface. Sounds like Titan is natures on refueling station.
Slashdot Mirror
In the end be VERY careful what you do, because doing what is correct will not always protect you. When we do any security audit/analysis for a company we get a written agreement from them AND their connected networks. Some sysadmin's are pretty high strung.
As one sysadmin put it "I don't like my territory pissed in".
Funny that amiga is atop the list when a new OS was just announced!
Computer manufacturers are pushing the limits of technology, and the shortened life span of a computer and the development cycle is necessary to keep the tremendous growth that these companies now expect. (nee and so does wall street) This is great for us gadget people that always like the latest and greatest. It's not so good for companies that are forced to retire a substantial investment in hardware because it won't run the lastest MS WORD 2K sp1rev5.
The affect these diminished "time to market" approaches has on quality of hardware and software is also readily apparent. (10 years ago how often did you need to flash the BIOS?)
Isn't that one of the great things about Linux? Many people are running firewalls from an old 486 with mimimal RAM. Sure is much cheaper and "enviromentally friendly" (*groan* hate that phrase) than buying a new NT machine that you can bring to it's knees with check point.
In the end if the equipment works for you, and if it's reliable then use it. The old atari's never crash, is it any wonder that it's in a mission critical application? Necessity is the mother of invention. Because that invention is old does not make the solution any less valid.
So when do the big trucks move in and start covering this mess up so that the land can eventually be used again? Until the entire site is under a large amount of SOMETHING (sand, concrete or marshmellow puff) the site will continue to be a hazzard even if it isn't producing power.
Ted Nelson, who is generally acknowledged to have coined the term hypertext in his 1965 book, "Literary Machines."
Isn't BT in danger of losing it's patent? I mean if enough substantial information can be shown that "hyperlinks" existed before BT pateted them, then can't BT lose the patent? Not being familliar with English law, can Prodigy sue BT for bringing a "frivilous" lawsuit?
I guess in the end it's a gamble, and BT is going to take it. If it wins, then it gets MONEY, and more importantly sets a precedent. If it loses, it can always try again at a later date. I think somone needs to make this game that BT is playing untenable. How about a class action suit against BT by every person that has a web page? I'm not a lawyer so I can't think of any fancy charges to sue BT for (you can't sue for stupidity) but I'm sure somone can.
Annoucing the OPEN SOURCE engine management software foundation
Dedicated to getting your driver ahead the open source way. Let the competition see your engine management code, who cares. Our coders are so cryptic that they won't be able to do a thing. We can develop complex traction control systems (which are now legal) in weeks using the talents of thousands of coders from around the world that have never actually seen a real race car.
Add RAS : Reboot
change route in RAS through NAT : Reboot
CHANGE AN IP ADDRESS (like the gateway) WHEN YOU HAVE 2 NICS : Reboot
I enjoy win2k, don't get me wrong, for a lot of situations it is an acceptable and worthy solution. BUT PLEASE Stop spreading FUD. It still requires a LOT of reboots. IT IS however very much improved over NT/98.
Linux : built to your spec, optimize to your hearts content. Preserve uptime(ugh)
Windows : Change IP address reboot. Add protocol : reboot. Install program : reboot. Upgrade : reboot
MS has has won an important aspect in the ever lucrative server market. That is the "reboot" aspect. Reboots are becoming more and more popular. Reboots are now considered fun, they give sysadmins a good excuse for a traditional "coffee break". Reboots are familliar. What will sysadmins do without them? How will a sysadmin be able to wield his usual power. The phrase "We will be down for an upgrade!" no longer holds water! ACK what is Linux doing?? What are they thinking?? Are they putting us SYSADMINS out of business? Reducing our free time? I no longer strike fear into the hearts of lusers by saying "we have to upgrade the software on the server"
Do you realize just how difficult it is to write with my tongue so firmly stuck in my cheek?
Local ISP users get mail bounced because spam has put them over quota, UU net has to double capacity to keep up & Verizon can't deliver e-mail in a timely manner. Every one of these people has been denied service do to unsolicted commercial e-mail.
Everyone says "taking a spammer to court takes to much time", "not worth the effort", "To costly and to long", "you can't get blood from a stone", "It won't do any good". It seems to me that if you hurt spammers finacially, and hunt them down that eventually they start to go out of business. Make the risks TOO high for them, make the profits too low.
I know they can spam from bora bora (save those flames for somone else), but you I can put bora bora IP's in my router and be done with the whole mess. It makes it MUCH easier to force them into a corner, and then wall up that corner a la Count of Monte Crisco.
This adds to my bottom line, I can charge a lot for my time. Now my client can afford a stable platform that is easily trouble-shot remotely. As opposed to say hundreds or thousands of dollars spent on the operating system that may or may not be stable. Thus I make more, and the customer pays less.
I guess the probable source of a split would be if some Linux people take training to the MS extreme. i.e. memorize a hundred questions and here's your certificate that says your an "engineer". This by it's very nature brings people into the technical world as workers that our ill equipped to deal with real world problems. They also would not be equipped at all to deal with a Linux distro they are unfamiliar with.
A failure to understand the underlying principles or be able to THINK gives us a world where techs can only deal with what they know by rote. They are slow to adapt to new things, they are unable to read manuals and glean basic understanding from them. They make the job harder for those of us that know more than "point and click". These people would drive any Linux schism. Usually these people are also the MOST vehement defender of any one distribution simply because they don't know any thing else.
One of those customers apparently is being "followed". Every change he still ends up on the list. Perhaps he should sue?
Aren't there enough "stalkers" in the world without PAYING people to stalk me? As I read the Florida anti-stalker statute (which as we all know, FL law is "subjective") I should be able to press criminal charges against advertisers that "track" me. Check out the statue here and tell me what you think!
The more benchmarks I read, the more I steadfastly believe that you must test yourself. Benchmarks don't mean squat if the machine sucks running YOUR app. Get your vendor to supply 2 test machines, and then pick the better one for you. Oh, and this also solves that "other" problem. The vendors can only get you machines THAT THEY HAVE. Machines that aren't "really" avaialble to the rest of the public for another 6 months don't mean CRAP to the guy that needs his system now.
Hey dickhead, I paid and extra 100 dollars to get it first. Why the FUCK do you think I got 650 for it on e-bay when you can go out and buy it. Because I had one before ANYONE else.
You'd be funny if you weren't such a Moron.
Note to moderators : horrible, not socially acceptable, probably should moderate this down. Couldn't resist though. Sometimes you have can't let the little bastards get you down.
I guess your right......it provided me with a great dvd player.
Most Europeon countries are pretty close to the International Copyright Laws. The only difference is what happens should a conflict arise. France's rule of law is based on the Napoleonic code. Most of the rest of Western Europe has a judicial system that is closer to the english system (without the funny wigs).
And THe BIGGEST reason of all
Cultures are dieing, they are being systematically attacked by the huge marketing machine that is big business. And is American.
- What happened to the "family farm" and the culture of the land?
- What happened to little town America?
- What happened to the statesman?
What is SO funny to me is the number of Time magazine articles about some small businesses success selling some small doo dad no one thought of. In each article it is painfully obvious to me that some person got sick of being fed mass produced crap, and decided to go his/her own way (snaple for instance). Time (and other popular media) are constantly amazed when someone "makes it" because they do something they want to do. Instead of something they are told to do (in adverts, on the TV, in shopping centers and WWF stadiums)It is replaced by the culture of the "Corporate Farm"
It is laughed at nightly on television, and if you come from a little town you'd better not admit it (bad for the career old boy).
They were run out of town by the politicians (it's politically expedient)
The culture of "GEEK" is sheik..... now. Wasn't long ago that "family values" were all the rage. Now family values are sneered at if you mention some values are important to you. It's as if you had contracted some disease. Remember this, a homogenous culture is much easier to sell to. A homogenous culture is easy to figure out and market to. Niche marketing is simply moving that niche to the mainstream, marginalizing it, and in the end destroying it.
Differences in culture makes for an interesting life, makes for different thought patterns and adds some spice (if I may so say, and I do)
Ah yeah, politics, pick your politician wisely, or else he will help pass laws to marginalize YOUR culture, and you will be part of the mainstream. Fear that!
I remember once that there was this course called "Journalistic ethics". I wonder if it's still taught?
With Linux having a Bluetooth server, linux again makes inroads into the lucrative server market. With "mobile" and "wireless" becoming the new big bad buzzwords it's nice to see a Linux solution. Competitors and specifically MS should be worried if this takes off. That would mean that even CE devices don't have to be tied to an NT/2000/ME backend. Hopefully this means that large groups of mobile users will be tied to a Linux back end.
Instead of bitching, perhaps some of the "coders" out there should use their spare time to try and develop something that they love AND somone would pay THEM for. (Not likely because the pool of truly talented coders is slim) Sounds like Damian got a dream job, good luck to him!
NASA has some great ideas, and these robots will pave the way for more exploration, but when are we going to put a man on mars? Heck when are we going to put a man back on the moon?
The russians used nuclear detonations to help change the path of a river, and on some other civil engineering progects. Some years ago there was an article in either Nature, or New Scientist that detailed what the russians did, and what the result were years later.
Methane rain (That must smell nice), pools of liquid methane with other hydrocarbons on the surface. Sounds like Titan is natures on refueling station.
- How do you say splat in martian?
- If a NASA bouncer crashes on mars and no one is there does it still go splat?
- How do you stop a NASA martian explorer? Simple, invite the "SLAM dunk champ" from Regnas 5 to Mars and point him to the new ball!
I like it, now if they will simply let me work on my mouse trap powered rocket....